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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1892
Page
1
A garbled report touches on chelera in Denmark, a snake bite fatality near New Athens, and mining town tensions. It mentions a riot in Lieven, a U.S. minister abroad, a German embassy matter, and various political and labor notes. The text is highly disjointed and contains many unclear name fragments and places.
A wide array of reports detail storms, cholera outbreaks, prison and banking scandals, and strikes. Notable items include a New York banking raid arrests at 10 Wall Street, cholera cases in Antwerp Hamburg and Buffalo, a coal price increase in New York, and the end of a major switchmen strike in Buffalo. Also noted are military actions in Dahmim and Porto Novo, and a dramatic bridge collapse injuring several in an earlier Pittsburgh incident.
The Weekly Review notes improvement in several sectors including wholesale trade, iron and shipbuilding, and energy while acknowledging factory shuts and business failures. New York and Philadelphia show varied results with crops, wheat, and pork prices mentioned alongside steel and copper markets, with Pittsburgh wages and materials demand rising.
The executive committee of the International Conference of Health Officials met to approve measures against cholera importation. A quarantine inspection commission was created with members from multiple regions and to meet in Toronto on August 7. The group seeks cooperation with the US Marine Hospital Service to coordinate sanitary actions and prevent spread through ships, railcar discharges, and immigrant excreta.
Near Wilmington two farmer’s horses were attacked by anthrax. one died and the other was shot, burial in an eight foot pit with lime, precautions to prevent spread. Other items: Tarascon Mills in Shippingport Ky burned. Kentucky’s first industrial plant once a cement mill. Northwest wheat damaged by cold rain. Sugar cane in Florida swamps eyed by investors. A New Mexico company plans a large dam for intercountry irrigation. Petition for Mrs Maybrick’s release presented to Queen Victoria. Knights of Pythias encampment set for Washington City. Little Rock Ark fights opium smoking by Celestials. court challenges constitution rights. Texas bridge work halted by strikes. contracts about five million dollars. Gretna Green in Aberdeen Ohio for eloping Kentuckians. Esquire Massie Beasley available for nuptials. Humphrey Best shot by John Campbell. two children killed by stray bullets.
A Treasury Department special agent audited tin and terne plate production for the year. The report notes 20 million pounds expected, with 62 percent from American black plate and 70 percent overall. It lists five firms in the year and predicts eight new names by quarter end.
Private Charles Delehanty of Company D twelfth regiment was injured yesterday morning when a freight train backing down struck him as he dozed on the track. He was thrown, sustaining head and shoulder injuries and was taken to Emergency hospital. In a separate incident convict Joseph Paradis escaped East Cambridge House of Correction then a deputy fired, wounding the knee.
A Fall River dispatch says a New York World interview about Lizzie and Emma Borden in Matron Regan's presence is false. Lizzie Emma and their lawyers deny the tale as sensational fabrication. A separate note reports the wreck of the steam yacht Wapiti on Georgian bay with multiple fatalities.
Prof Johan B. Hamilton ex-surgeon general warns health officers against over alarm about cholera. He says vigilance is needed but panic harms trade and industry, and that sanitary measures are strong enough to prevent an epidemic landing in the country.
New York authorities warn on cholera defense directing inspectors to tenement coniferies and repairs. Steamship firms ordered to destroy suspected germ contaminated clothing. In Hamburg cholera grows with 140 deaths and 100 new cases as Koch reports rising plague and officials close baths markets schools and public gatherings.
Detective Thea Jackson obtained requisition papers from Governor Stome to bring Hopgood back from Louisiana to Mississippi for trial on a murder charge in Marten County dated November 100. Critics question motive, arguing Louisiana train robbery conviction would carry less punishment. Debates center on identity of the slain man and Hopgood’s lack of relatives, with personal effects valued at two dollars and no cash on hand.
The Fifteenth Mississippi Confederate Regiment to hold a Water Valley reunion on September 14 with preparations by the arrangements committee. All Confederates invited to attend and exservicemen travel from across Lowndes County amid reports of cotton worm damage in prairie and sandy soils.
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