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Newspaper

Oxford Eagle

Location

Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America

Date

Sep 19, 1889

Page

1

Various Global Events and Incidents Across Regions

Telegraph items report Empress Frederick visiting Italy planning Vatican contact, a tax petition against Brownian experiments in England, forest fires in Montana's St Regis district with fatalities, rioting in Rackerville, mass immigrant landing at Castle Garden, and notable deaths including Samuel Scully Cox. Other notes cover Berlin street lighting plans, Servia and Bulgaria tensions, French wheat yields, Irish prisoner treatment, Russian crackdown on judges, Persian Shah travel changes, German political appointments, Western Union dividend, a boat race in McKeesport, Texas storms, and a missing English minister Barfield amid political strife.

Subscriptions from Australia for London Strikers Reported

A 10th note reports Australian subscriptions for London strike relief. American workers sent sympathy but no monetary aid. The item contrasts with other brief notices including court actions in California, naval anniversaries, and regional political developments.

Late News Items From The Nation And Regions

Reports include troops from Harrodsburg and Lexington marching to Harlam Courthouse to preserve order during court. Notes on pension overpayment of 2100 dollars, relief fund distributions, and a 1 million dollar grant. A plan to fund rail and crop data with mixed results, plus a fatal fire in Louisville and a train wreck near Lynchburg.

Harrodsburg Lexington Pineville Harlam Courthouse Atter Jane Washington City Pension Agency

Millionaire Jeweler Shoots Rival in Business Row

New York editor details the killing of 41-year-old Gesswein by jewelers’ tools supplier Devhile on September 11. The dispute centered on a patented reflector. Devhile claimed robbery and ruin, saying he had no funds to continue in business or seek elder care.

Mim F. W. Geenwein John Street Civy Christian Dewi Deyhle Ciamel Lau Deyte Bie Deyhle Gesswein Hhe Joun Street Siwein Gosewein Devhie Cave Secon Severn Elerke Deuble Gesswhen Devile Gesschen Toral Gesewein Diublie Geswein Devhble Dorghsie Giesswein

Irrigation Investigation in Southwest Kansas Testimony

Senator Plumb joined the US Senate Irrigation Committee at Gaspeax City Kansas to hear testimony on the necessity of irrigation for Southwest Kansas. Delegations from ten counties attended as the committee weighing quickest means to achieve irrigation amid strong local interest. In Dexter Missouri armed white men expelled Black residents, threatening Williams and pledging to support regulators, signaling mounting tension and potential farmer, hardware merchant involvement.

Kansas Gaspeax Crrr Kan Senator Plumb United States Renate Committee Stewart Texas Coloniel RK Jones Arkansas Yesturiag Kameas Southwest Dexter Williams Aii Pear Wey Wiliam W Ho Fartner

McCoy Hatfield feud and Kentucky crime roundup

The Pike County murder case returns five prisoners from Pikeville for the McCoys feud. Allison Mounts faces hanging while Valentine Mat Gehl Alexander Messer and Dee and Pigman Mayhorn receive life terms. A perjury case against Joseph Starts ends with a ten year sentence. Castleberry, Pelham town marshal, dies after a riot arrest gone wrong. Steve Holcombe resigns from the Aston Gospel Mission to pursue evangelism.

Pike County Frankfort Pikeville Allison Mounts Valentine Mat- Gehl Alexander Messer Dee Pigman Mayhorn Itty West Virginia Kentucky

President Harrison to miss Piedmont Exposition visit

A Private Secretary letter to H W Grady Atlanta states President Harrison cannot attend the Piedmont Exposition due to his public duties and Congress work. The Louisiana Third district canvass shows Price 761 Minor 11 486 with Price majority 7 206 based on 3 256 total votes. William Brame killed Conductor James Lemon at Baker's Station Hopkinsville KY and fled. L&N Railroad offers a large reward for Brame's capture.

Halfort H. W. Grady Atlanta Harrison Congress State Bown of Louisiana Price Minor William Brame Hopkinsville James Lemon Baker's Louieville & Nashville Railroad Company

Morganton Jail Break Spurs Lynching Pursuit

A mob of Ameb and about a hundred men broke open the Morganton jail in North Carolina freeing Franklin Stack a white man and David Boone a Black man. Stack ambushed Robert Zerker a student who killed Stack s brother and Boone shot and killed a man at a camp meeting. Morganton residents vow to ferret out the lynchers and punish them.

Ameb Morganton N. C Franklin Stack David Boone Stack Robert Zerker Cul’ga Boone

Mrs Sadler Reported Missing Near Mankinsons Ferry

Nearly seventy year old Mrs Sadler, mother of Mr David Sadler, a planter on the Big Black river near Mankinsons Ferry in Warres County Mississippi, vanished recently. The family first believed she had visited a neighbor and felt no alarm for several days.

Sadler David Sadler Big Black River Mankinson’s Ferry Warres County Miss

Regulators murder two near Lafayette on Abbeyville Road

A brutal double murder near Lafayette Louisiana at a roadside cabin ends with Rosemond Comler and his daughter Roselle aged fifteen found mutilated. Regulators who whipped Cormier two months earlier allegedly forced his exile and later killed his family. Four Birmingham Mineral railroad depots were broken into and robbed of cash tickets express packages and light freight with thieves moving from Village Springs toward Palmers Greens and Mount Pierson.

Lafayette Abbeyville Road Rosemond Comler Roselle Cormier Birmingham Aln Village Springs Palmers, Greens Mount Pierson

Reowood Cotton Mills Burn Near Lowell North Carolina

The Reowood Cotton-mills near Lowell North Carolina burned recently after the watchman found flames in the card room. The building, shut for a week, was a sheet of flame in twenty five minutes and ruined. The mill contained 600 spindles with a total loss of 65000 dollars insured for 50000. No cause is yet known.

Reowood Lowell N. C

Georgia Governor offers reward in White Caps killing

The man Reuben Mitchell, a negro, was shot to death in Mitchell County on a Culpepper plantation. He fled into Willis Bird's house where three white men pursued him and opened fire, injuring him near the backbone. A coroner's jury found death by pistol shot of unknown assailants.

Gordon Georgia Mitchell County Reuben Mitchell Willis Bird B. A. Culpepper Bird Mitchell J. T. Owen

York County Tragedy Ties Wife's Disappearance to Suicide

In York County South Carolina W. B. Boyd killed his wife then took his own life, dying about an hour later. He had moved to Arkansas with his wife years earlier and returned alone claiming divorce. The fate of the second wife raises suspicion he may have killed the first wife.

York County S.C W. B. Boyd Boyd Arkansas

Jackson County citizens back $400000 cotton mill project

Jackson and Madison County residents raise funds to build a cotton factory in Jackson. The mill would use 10,000 to 15,000 bales of cotton each year and produce about $1,000,000 worth of manufactured goods annually. It would employ 1,000 workers.

Jackson Madison County Teen Tn Jackson

Miscellaneous Civilizational Observations From A Dated Ledger

A long compilation notes European and Asian affairs, colonial power comparisons, economics, social trends, and moral reflections. It cites English and Russian policies, Dutch colonial reach, Chinese bank lore, and the Mount Morgan mine's wealth, interspersed with maxims on duty and knowledge. The piece blends trivia, proverbs, and social commentary from a 19th century perspective.

First Memory Tales From a Summer Pier

A group recalls their earliest memories in a light anecdotal piece from Youth's Companion. Jack recounts his childhood fright as his father searched with a willow whip while he lay, foot asleep, on a vine shaded piazza. The account blends humor and memory across several speakers.

Charles Dickens Jack

The Musical Overstrain in Piano Practice

The article argues long piano studies exhaust the body and nerves. It warns excessive daily practice harms health, especially in youths with weak nervous tone, and urges rest and varied mental tasks to sustain progress without misery.

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