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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1894
Page
1
London notes diplomat Bayard and a roster of U S ministers as the armor-plats inquiry ends in Pittsburgh. Utah statehood moves forward while storms, floods, and labor unrest impact multiple states. Abolitionist Jewett dies. Carnot may not seek reelection. Police, court, and railway actions populate the day with diverse public affairs.
In the Senate on the 1108 resolutions favoring an international exhibition at Atlanta Georgia next year were presented and referred. Several private pension and bridge bills were passed. a Senate bill to renew late facilities in the army was discussed. progress on the chemical schedule noted. In the House much time was spent on district business with resignations and appropriation bills advancing.
A patchwork of brief items reports a judge citing a penitentiary charge in a piracy case, a tariff vote note, a seven inch snowstorm in Carlisle Kentucky, a Cripple Creek ore vein worth 150000 dollars a ton, seven deaths in a Newport News railroad crash, a Dalton gang threat near Stillwater Oklahoma, western Ellis County Texas storm deaths, a heavy Beavier snowstorm in Wisconsin, and New York shipping of 8.35 million dollars to Europe.
Four volunteer lifesavers drown off Port Ienox Michigan while attempting to rescue the crew of the schooner Schupe after it ran onto a sand reef. The crew of five aboard faced a heavy sea. only William Linn survived after clinging to a rope as the lifeboat capsized.
In Birmieg hare District Pratt mines, a mob of masked striking miners killed Walter Glover at his home. Deputies Massey and Hickman pursued the assailants in a running gun battle. three men Dom Sullivan Jerry Hillery Jobe Driver were arrested, all strikers, as others were sought. Locals held indignation meetings over the arrests.
Four more victims die in the Lake Michigan storm as young mechanics, last seen rowing on the lake, are identified. Victims Alfred Martin, Max Preen, and Max Werkt, ages 15, 24, and 26, lived on Amherst Street. Bodies unearthed fragments and none fully identified yet, rescue crews probe the wrecked craft.
May 21 report notes Mrs Meyer wife of Henry Meyer to be tried for complicity with a crime as testimony from Kirfel, a state’s witness, is expected to heavily influence the case. Assistant DA McIntyre says Kirfel will provide key testimony not yet disclosed. Also, news from Montana reports 50 deputy U S marshals capturing a band of industrials who seized a Northern Pacific train at Heron, Mont. The group had grown larger since the initial capture.
A seven day manhunt pursues William P. and George Taylor for the Meeks family murder near Browning Missouri. Armed farmers, a price on their heads, and false leads complicate pursuit as officials fear cross state escape toward New Boston and LaPlata.
Hillabore College in Hillstone was burned shortly before noon yesterday. The loss is estimated at 50 000 dollars with 10 000 dollars insured. Fire started from a defective flue.
A fierce gale off Lake Michigan causes multiple shipwrecks near Milwaukee and Carcage. The Evening Star and Jack Thompson are driven ashore with crew saved or lost, while lifeboats struggle to reach marooned sailors amid raging waves. Dozens of vessels endure breakwater overflows and cold exposure.
The Mississippi weather bulletin reports steady temperatures and sunshine with mixed rainfall across districts. crops show improvement though southern counties need rain. Strawberries, potatoes, corn and cotton benefit from recent showers and steady warmth. Local notices include obituaries for PF. S. Bove of Wesson and tributes to Capt W. T. Wyse. political moves include pardon petitions and a bankers convention in Jackson.
Two years after Don Walker was slain with an ax in his Knoxville area home, Matthew Smith, a colored man, was hanged for the murder and robbery. Jen Howell, his companion, was captured recently on a plantation in a cabin. Howell had remained hidden among his color peers, attending churches and dances, until a year after the hanging when carelessness revealed him to officers.
A review notes South gains in mining and manufacturing over the past decade while agriculture and population decline. Railroad mileage and cotton mills rise. coal protection and property values surge, indicating deep structural change in the regional economy.
Claims of a Tampa lynching suspect being alive or a case of mistaken identity unfold alongside reports of a Jomelin arrest, a burned girls’ institute in Amistam, a Mississippi banking history note, an incendiary fire in Portland Tennessee, and various obituaries and local items from across the South.
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