13 Oct 1892
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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1892
Page
1
Reports from the era cover a wide range: funeral notices, treasury figures, and royal congratulatory events. Scientific claims include Mars lakes discovery and planet measurements. Maritime and rail contracts, canal projects, and shipping incidents are noted along with political moves and public health notes in Budapest and Montreal.
Reports from United States Fish Commissioner Alexander warn the Behring sea case may be settled as seals disappear from Pribilof Islands. Other items note a St Louis drummers contest winners, Missouri river works halted by injunction, and global dispatches on politics, crime, and culture.
Cascissatt Oct 6 The famous suit for control of the Wesleyan a was decided yesterday morning Judgement in favor of a beaten trustees which gives possession to the Rust The case will be appealed to the upper courts on error The case grew out of the demand of Rev W K Brown and wife for an extension of their lease which expired September 1 The main reason for refusal given by the trustees was that the institution bed becaee managed by the Brows family. Wiped Out as the Result of a Most Daring Ball on the Hawke at Coffeyville Kae Th was Done However at Fearful Cost Three Citizens Including the City Mar shal Being Killed in the Matter and several Others Wounded One of Whom Died timely
Short dispatches report escapes from a county jail in Racems North Carolina and a habeas corpus grant in Atlanta Georgia. References note population shifts in Oxlahboma City and recent coastal storms in Mexico causing fatalities and property loss. Other items cover cattle duties on stray cows, a Cleveland to California tramp, US weekly business failures, post office receipts and expenditures, a fatal coal oil tragedy in Coatesville Indiana, grasshopper plagues in Kansas, a university move to Birmingham, yellow fever at Santos Brazil, and cholera comparisons Europe.
Four armed negro robbers struck homes along the county last night, forcing open safes and stealing cash and a gold watch. They shot at Joe Davis, wounding him, and fled toward Vicksbare with four stolen horses. Suspects Harrington alias Walker and others are detained in Hazelhurst jail. authorities seek further arrests. Joe Davis, a respected citizen, dies from his injuries.
The Tar Yeiebusha Baptist Association met at Cofeerille in annual session. A Coxrenemary Veterans camp organized at Hickory Flat enrolled eighty five veterans. An old Choctaw Indian was robbed of 8 on a public highway near Jackson by three negroes. Confederate veteran camp formed at Greenwold after a veterans barbecue. Rev Geowen Ison suffered nervous prostration while preaching at Winona. Lefiore County stock law advisory meeting held at Greenwool with sentiment largely against a stock law. petition to county board may call an election. Jack Alles knocked down near Vaiden. he pleaded guilty to a later town visit. Short armed with a razor attacked Allen, but was stopped by a passerby. Short at large. A McVitie area posse searched Harpers’ store. fugitives fled into a swamp after a gunfight. Joe Riley shot in the leg. Columbus council completed assessment role increasing tax base. levy reduced to 84 mills. U S marshals captured ten prisoners in Neshoba County on illicit distilling tied to a deputy marshal murder case.
In Green County Virginia the outlaw hatlow Gentry, who killed four men and escaped arrest, was fatally shot by Sheriff Byers and two deputies in the Allegheny Mountains near Covington Kentucky after a pursuit by a teen posse. His wife and child accompanied him as the officers closed in. The incident ends a long manhunt for Gentry, tied to the Duke Palmer murder and other crimes.
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