11 Oct 1888
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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1888
Page
1
Summary of dispersed news items including appointments and inaugurations in Vermont and broader U S regions, political moves in Congress and state legislatures, international diplomacy notes on Germany France and Russia, civic incidents in New York and Chicago, natural disasters, and local economic shifts such as bank money holdings and sugar trust actions.
The record covers Congress activities including multiple resolutions and bills in the Senate and House. Topics include the Benet circular on employment discrimination, investigations into public buildings in Brooklyn and Chicago, the Chinese Exclusion bill, the Lincoln land district in New Mexico, Pensacola and Memphis Railroad public lands, and the Nicaragua Maritime Canal Company. It notes House and Senate actions on the Deficiency bill, postmasters, and private pension bills, plus a Washington aqueduct inquiry and a sunset note on the Senate not meeting on a date.
The Consolidated report spans Milwaukee firm failures after a devastating factory fire. It notes naval promotions, a U S Consul General nomination, and various government actions. It lists political moves, lawsuits, maritime dangers, weather events, and international tensions affecting economic and social life.
A batch of brief items covers legislation in Mississippi and Arkansas, Wheat trades in New York hit record volumes, a yellow fever care bill moves, Farmers Alliance actions in Flam Church, tax directors postpone a Panola fair, a Little Rock grocery firm closure shocks merchants, a Pike County guano factory fire, a cadet appointment at West Point, Sunday law probes in Morgue City Louisiana, Arkansas Industrial vs Union Compress dispute, an Archist secret order in Kansas, Genoa train robbery suspect dies in jail, Mississippi jail escape, and tobacco crop losses in West Virginia's Putnam Cabell Lincolns.
A major New York brokerage scam unfolds with W H Ingham & Co at No Broadway closed after a phantom syndicate touted huge profits. Victims face losses running deep, while Ingham vanishes leaving only locked offices and a flood of undelivered mail. Meanwhile a fatal county fair accident and a note on electoral college timing round out the page.
A sprawling crime roundup reports the Memphis sexton James Conley killing two men in self defense and being acquitted by the city court, plus multiple frontier incidents including suicides, accidents, frost damage to crops, and a political shift in Georgia.
A Tamil Telugu tale describes a gold plate found at the Dasi Viswanath temple in Benares. It prophesies God as ruler of Hindustan from November 1888, global justice, rising sun events in 1899, and longevity to 125 years. It adds a note on Australia as the world’s largest island and continent with vast area.
A compilation of quotes and aphorisms on virtue, time, speech, and human folly from sources such as Bosios Courier, Hotel Maal, and the Merchant Traveler. Notable ideas include patience in the domestic circle, the limits of self knowledge, and caution about endorsements of nostrums.
A man orders economical seaside day trips with his wife, skipping a country vacation. He tallies a long absurd expense account from a single week of outings, then plans another short jaunt to Jonesville claiming last year’s two weeks cost forty dollars and a few more cheap trips won’t break him.
The Amazon rises in the Peruvian Andes near the Pacific, flows 4000 miles to the Atlantic, and is navigable 2200 miles from its mouth. Its basin covers about 2 million square miles and its estuary is 150 miles wide. Fresh water reaches the sea about 200 miles from shore. the Missouri and Lower Mississippi together might exceed the Amazon by 300 miles.
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