04 Oct 1888
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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1888
Page
1
A compact digest from the New York Sun and other sources highlights political fund contributions, military appointments, and international incidents. Reports include General Harrison’s campaign support, naval confirmations for Winfield Scott Schley, and unrest in Ireland and Austria, with notes on weather and local fires.
The Senate advanced a homestead entry bill and an appropriation for a Burgoyne monument, while the General Deficiency Bill was amended and passed. The House approved bridge construction at La Crosse and extended Sundry Civil appropriations to Oct 15, with numerous pension and private bills also enacted. The day featured talks on U S Canada relations, boundary settlements, and a large mix of public land, health, and postal measures.
The notice compiles various items: Lord Chumley benefit sent $90.25 to Jacksonville sufferers. Eriham Weis suspended amid advertising losses. Florida nurses requested for Fernandina. two yellow fever deaths in Live Oak on the 26th. Prohibition candidate Heoses spoke at Valparaiso amid hoots and rotten eggs threats. a 93-year-old pensioner dies in Warren New Hampshire. rowing match in Sydney Tasmania ends Milson behind Matterson. a Romanian king killer was a detective. Egyptian crops praised. Canton Dak. fire destroys a block. Brussels monument unveiling. Tipton Indiana regiment reunion. Dakota prairie fires devastate farms. a wreck fire near Decatur Illinois. Spain barracks milita anxiety. Wexford MP jailed briefly. ship wreck off Point Fermin. Stahnecker vindicated in Library of Congress case. French and German political notes.
Reports from Manchester miners urge a general strike on October 9 unless wages rise ten percent. Other items note two Austrian officers lost on Mangart Mountain, a Romeo Wisconsin fire, and a Louisville tannery blaze. Various political, military, and social events fill the page with scattered international and local news.
A mosaic of brief items reports on political nominees in Texas and Philadelphia philanthropy, a violent incident in Charlottesville, Ark. funding for a county courthouse, a frost in Chattanooga, stock-range damage in Montana and Idaho, a miners strike in Arkansas ending, Phillips county fair plans, a Canadian court sentence for a bank teller, Dakota wheat yield projections, a Texas ranch sale to satisfy mortgages, a Columbus and Western Railroad wreck near Wildcat Creek with fatalities and injuries, and new postmasters appointed in Tennessee and Mississippi.
The Utah Commission's majority report urges delaying statehood until the Mormon people abandon polygamy and adopt a Prohibitory amendment. It supports gubernatorial appointment of county officers, school control shifts, and continued energetic enforcement of anti polygamy laws with several indictments and convictions recorded.
In St Louis the Court of Criminal Correction heard a surge of naturalization requests with 2500 processed last week and 149 awaiting today, raising fraud concerns as a registrar rejected a man over residency rules. Separately the City of New York faced a stormy Atlantic crossing with severe gales. two passengers injured and one passenger restrained after a breakdown.
Reports from Marietta Georgia claim two men dug for buried treasure allegedly left by a Federal soldier during the war, near a barn behind a Meinert house later owned by John K Winters, but they had not found anything. Other notes include a murder conviction in Chatta noc a, a fatal train accident near Moskozee, and various local incidents across the south.
A vivid Provincetown sketch portrays a fishing town built on sand reefs where the fish fuels daily life and local trades. The piece moves to a contrasting section on wealth, noting Jay Gould Vanderbilt Mackay Rothschild Jones and others as the world’s richest, tracing Rothschild origins and English banking power.
A London Lancet letter notes a five month old died after the mother gave four drops of laudanum during infancy. It cites misused soothing opiates, calls for tighter sale restrictions, and warns that infant mortality from such poisons remains high. It also contrasts past and present photographic growth in the United States.
An 19th century report describes oil dispersal by rockets with an oil cylinder inside a shell and blasting powder. The device is balanced with a lead ballast and fired to release oil across the water surface after ignition through a bottom vent. Tests showed it works.
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