25 Sep 1902
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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1902
Page
1
A young man staying with his mother and fiancée gets entangled with Adelia Washer under an apple tree. He helps pull four apples for her, provoking his fiancée’s jealousy. The other woman severs the match, but the pair confess love as they share one final apple. The scene blends romance and temptation against a rural setting.
District Attorney Reeves of Los Angeles relays a joke about an Irish immigrant who boasts of Ireland and compares bees to hives in America. When asked how bees enter their hives the Irishman replies that it is their own dom lookout, a pun illustrating homesickness.
A courtroom exchange turns on a wordplay joke about Cupid. The poet seeks rhyme for Cupid and faces a prompt reply from the judge, noting the humorous clash of language in a legal setting.
Governor decides against an extraordinary session after polls show only 55 members favor amending the valued policy law to exempt personal property. He notes limited support for repealing the law and insurance reluctance to blanket policies for cotton only. A realty valuation surge is projected, with eighteen counties reporting a net gain of 6.16 million dollars, possibly totaling around 15 to 18 million statewide. Natchez vies with Memphis to host a proposed bridge across the Mississippi River, arguing its advantage due to adjacent Missouri Pacific lines and forthcoming connections.
Pension Clerk Simonton reports rising pensioner counts with higher rolls for November, but non-preferred classes may receive as little as sixteen dollars. Weather and crop bulletin notes cooler mean temperatures, mixed rainfall, and ongoing cotton, corn, and grain yields across counties. Mississippi University enters year fifty three with abundant enrollment and new dorms. The secretary of state archive reveals the original Mississippi Constitution manuscript, well preserved and legible after nearly a century.
Mississippi veterans push to set June 3 as the cornerstone date for the new capitol, seeking action from capitol commissioners after a strong joint request from both houses. Maj. Dean and Col. Stovall favor the date if the building is ready, while the Agricultural and Mechanical College reports record first day enrollment. The People’s Bank of Sumner is organized with 50,000 capital and 15,000 paid in, with Jennings as president and Murphey as vice president.
President Roosevelt will meet governors and state commissions at the World’s Fair grounds on October 1. A 350 guest dinner, a 9 p.m public reception, and a 16,000 seat address are planned at the Mercantile club and Coliseum. Site allotments begin September 30 with formal ceremonies for each state.
The Illinois World’s Fair commission, meeting at the Southern hotel, formed a subcommittee to confer with Director of Works Taylor on the Illinois state site allotment ceremonies for September 30 to October 2. Illinois will spend about 50 000 dollars on its 8000 square foot state building.
J Charles Collins a once famous New York artist was found dead Sunday in his boarding house room. The coroner ruled accidental gas jet leakage caused his death while he slept. He was 70 and had two notable works Lookout and Spring. His eyesight failing led to poverty in later years.
The Old Ladies' Home Association in Mississippi, formed for indigent and homeless women, solicits site donations and anticipates sharp competition among leading towns. Funds are fairly well collected as efforts proceed.
More than 1 000 leading residents of the islands including merchants planters and householders petition the Danish mystery to expedite the transfer of the islands to the United States, according to a Herald correspondent at St Thomas D W I.
The Adams County board of supervisors adopted a resolution protecting deer for three years making hunting trapping or killing any deer buck doe or fawn a misdemeanor. Punishment is 25 dollars and up to thirty days in county jail, with mandatory action by the justice of the peace.
Je rre Carter, a Black man, was hanged in the Lakeville jail yard on Friday. The conviction rested on circumstantial testimony as presented at the trial.
Copenhagen reports the official results of landsthing elections as a sign the United States will purchase the Danish West Indies, indicating a major shift in Danish policy and expected transfer of territory.
Chicago on Sept 21 the Bremner bakery controlled by the National Biscuit Co reached a settlement with striking workers ending a 200 cracker packers walkout.
At Shiloh Negro Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama a crowd stampede after a fire alarm killed seventy eight and injured many more as Booker T Washington spoke. Women dominated the death toll. officials say most victims fainted or were crushed with no blood visible. City Mayor W M Drennen noted many victims were strangers to the city.
New York reports that Annie Pulitzer was killed in a West Fifty-eighth Street flat and her body later found in the Morris canal near Jersey City. Police identify Hooper Young, a former Hoboken Crusader employee, as the possible murderer who fled with a trunk and is not yet arrested. Detectives trace the evidence from a Hoboken livery stable strap and sinker to a Hoboken buggy hire on Wednesday night. The husband says she left Tuesday night and investigators link a life troubled by bad choices to the killing after learning Young returned with the trunk Thursday and carried it up the flat stairs. Young, about 35, with dark hair, is said to be connected to a Seattle origin and Brigham Young ancestry via his father John W. Young.
Ten thousand listeners gathered in Dexter Missouri for Hon. William J Bryan's first southeast Missouri talk. People from Cairo Illinois and surrounding regions filled the venue to hear his address Friday.
A severe quake in Adelaide on Friday evening caused panic across the city with damage to buildings including churches and multiple narrow escapes from death reported.
Mrs. Katharine F. Hallett wife of US Judge Moses Hallett of Denver died at her home Friday aged 67. She was born in Galena Illinois and lived in this city. funeral arrangements were not announced.
Pittsburg on September 20 reports a massive blaze at the barbed wire department of the Oliver plant owned by the American Steel and Wire Co on the South side. The fire wiped out the department with estimated losses around 150000 dollars.
Philadelphia with Sept 20 report says anthracite coal sold at 14 per ton in open market as inspectors contracted 75 tons of ordinary stove size for the county prison.
The Jefferson circuit court injunction stopping the McGovern Corbett featherweight title fight in Louisville was upheld by the court of appeals. Manager R C Gray of the Southern Athletic club lamented the ruling and said no Kentucky bout will occur. Roosevelt sails to New York for western trip starting from Oyster Bay with Mrs Roosevelt and Secretary Cortelyou aboard the Sylph.
New York on September 20 collector Stranahan issued a statement urging travelers to aid the treasury and customs administration in enforcing the Dingley law at piers. The plan includes removing nine inspectors dismissed after investigation to reduce tips and increase revenue.
Chicago dispatch reports Speaker David B. Henderson will not seek renomination and will serve out his term as Speaker. He confirms Roosevelt tariff alignment and rejects resigning, saying the party will endure changes as others step in. He travels to Atlantic City to join his wife after Chicago stop.
Colorado Springs reports uncertainty over a potential heir contest to the Stratton will declared to be worth 10 million dollars or more for a home for the sick. Lt Stratton reportedly claimed a larger sum before his father’s death, but no contest has been announced or authorized.
On Sunday in Birmingham celebrations were held as 38 victims of the Shiloh church panic were buried in Black cemeteries. The death toll reached 105 with 100 identified. police say at least five more were taken to private hospitals, swelling the count to about 110. Funds of around 500 dollars were raised at most white churches to aid the grieving negro families.
Goldfield Sept 22 Gus Hale a night watchman was shot and killed during a burglary at Stowe's drug store early Sunday. Two shots pierced his heart one entered his mouth and another shattered his left hand. Burglars escaped.
Minneapolis flour millers voted Sunday to grant mills until Thursday to implement an eight hour day and warned of a strike if the demand is not met.
Information reaches Washington that Maj. J. W. Powell director of the Smithsonian bureau of ethnology is in critical condition at his summer home in Haren Me.
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Gould aboard the steam yacht Helenita off Oyster Bay New York on September 21. Mrs. Gould is Helen Kelly granddaughter of banker Eugene Kelly.
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