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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1900
Page
1
Reports from RG Den & Co on neckpieces and shipments in the US and Canada. Dispatches describe gifts to Empress, naval movements in Europe, and trade talks between Russia Prussia and rail freight shifts. Notes include societal events, auctions, and a Rome study opening with colleges represented.
A jumble of world notes reports Russian crop estimates below average. Brazil’s Campos Salles and Argentina’s Bors depart Buenos Aires after visits. A Chinese telegram notes Price Tuan heading toward Mongolia and plans to join a Lamas event. Paris society verdicts scold Mme Castellace. Prince Arenberg gets 13 years for a murder in southwest Africa. October government receipts total 5.628 million with 47.99 million expenditures. Currency notes show rising circulation. Rice’s valet Charles Folowers confesses to poisoning murder. his suicide attempt follows. Albany bank cashiers go missing amid defalcation rumors. Public debt shrinks by month end. A Fire at Wheatley Kentucky kills an elderly resident and injures others. Akron preacher Davis convicted of burglary. Yankton pioneer John Sanborn dies. Secretary Hay sends Rockhill to Pekin to aid Conger. Marysville juror objections prompt a retrial bid. German chancellor Von Buelow receives Anghenerman accord telegram. Tipton arrested for forging checks in Colorado Springs. Alvord Jr. remanded after bank theft charges. Weehawken principal Kiernan faces trial for assaulting a female pupil. Former New York mayor William L Strong dies at 73.
A New Orleans or Jacksonville sourced item reports on a southern exhibition plan spanning textiles agriculture and arts, census figures for southern states, a fatal hatchet murder by a widow, a deadly kissing bug bite, and Sunday barbers facing indictment in Savannah. Mississippi soldiers receive back pay and verification requests go out for regiments.
A long Mississippi dispatch covers state finances, commemorations, and civic events. It cites Secretary of State Jerk-Popslatios, Meridian figures, Tallahatchie County rituals, and a Tallahatchie ceremony with Judge Bailey presiding. It notes receipts and fundraising totals, rail and ship visitors, and changes in the Branive News ownership. The piece also mentions editor Delsey and Hooper Hobson’s role with the Vicksburg Fair Association and local political discourse in Jackson, including public sentiment on capital expenditures.
Public sale advertisement references a land and personal property auction near Seméreek court, with details on terms, items listed, and involved parties. It notes the presence of Beards and Freese as bidders and identifies the sale's alignment with the local court proceedings and county districts.
The article notes a special collection at the British Museum featuring misprints and oddities such as moths with wings on one side and butterflies with abnormal wings. It contrasts modern life as easier and healthier with claims about neurotic tendencies and notes aging and disease in horses described as lying with legs folded, alongside mentions of short limbed animals.
A colored preacher in West Tennessee spoke to a Sunday congregation about salvation being free. He attempted to explain the differences between salvation and something else during a passing collection.
A historic note details a push to remove the Empress Dowager and replace the system with indemnity funded by customs revenue. It outlines retirement recalls, reforms, and a new governance structure while proposing compensation and pension terms for officials and a moved authority from the imperial cabinet to a reconstructed regime. The piece mentions potential changes in taxation and the removal of the existing countername system.
Primitive notices report plans to lease large tracts of land to private contractors and settlers, touching Indian reservations, with government involvement and protests noted. Also covered are bank robbery, a royal scandal rumor, and local political shifts in late 19th century contexts.
The report covers regular mail service costs for foreign and domestic service. It details total expenditures, mileage, special rates, post office counts, and rate structures, noting a projected annual total and adjustments for publishers and delivery concerns.
The report describes a defector labeled a traitor who fled a caged confinement amid a review of wartime disruptions. Details note charges, a court case, and a conviction timeline linking to rebel forces and treason accusations in a war context.
A garbled montage of 19th century events is summarized with scattered references to Moors, a Washington state trial, and a murder involving Myrtle Sechrest. It also mentions a gift to a Chicago medical college, social unrest in Chicago, a lawsuit by Andrew Forsythe, socialist arrests in New York, famine rumors in Russia, and South African affairs. The text blends disparate items without a clear single narrative.
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