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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1898
Page
8
Partial OCR text shows garbled lines about property and legal action. Readable fragments mention a notice concerning a title or deed and possible public sale or court filing, with names and dates not clearly legible.
A garbled OCR excerpt mentions Russia and political themes with scattered phrases about campaigns and trains. Core names or clear events do not emerge. context is highly incomplete and uncertain.
Breckly Capital announces a printing project led by Mitchell in S D for Lu Printing. Details are sparse in the fragment, with limited readable context on the involved entities or scope.
The Maine court of inquiry concludes the Maine wreck was caused by a submarine mine, not officer fault. The president’s message to Congress stresses no assigned responsibility and urges justice and friendly relations with Spain. The report details structural damage patterns and a two-part explosion, with the forward magazines affected.
Judge E P Gates of Kansas City rules boards of trade may expel members who refuse to abide by bylaws after a dispute between the F A Farmer Commission Co and Perrine Bros Commission Co over 2272 50. A restraining order was lifted as the board's authority to enforce bylaws was upheld.
Dr Connaway of Fort Worth conducts trials under the Missouri sanitary board on cattle from Texas to curb southern or splenetic fever. Findings indicate ticks spread the disease, and lab hatched ticks can transmit it, with three dips needed to render southern cattle safe for northern shipment.
Bradstreets Weekly Review notes favorable trading in the western and northwestern distributive sectors despite heavy rains and Ohio valley flooding that hinder shipments. Coarse cotton goods printers decline further, prompting factory curtailment. woolen mills have booked decent orders, but overall activity lags behind expectations. Raw wool prices remain steadier than manufactured goods despite softer output.
The Louisiana constitutional convention in New Orleans voted 95 to 28 with 11 absent to adopt a plan granting educational and property qualifications and a poll tax. It seeks to disfranchise Black voters while expanding access for whites by exempting naturalized voters and those who voted in 1867 along with their descendants.
U S investigators uncover the nation’s largest pension fraud in Providence R I with two arrests and fifteen warrants. Claim agents face charges of perjury and forging checks or vouchers. The total fraud runs into thousands, with a single case totaling about $15 000.
Sir Thomas Smith, surgeon to the queen, confirmed Mr. Gladstone's intense pain and ill condition after a doctor’s examination. Gladstone reportedly begged secrecy unless the queen requested information.
A report from Otos southwest of Wichita Kansas says twenty women raided and burned a saloon a mile south of Otos long blamed as a Sunday resort for lawless characters. Rev A C Fairchild Baptist minister was shot and severely wounded returning home.
Capt Sigsbee sails from Havana on the Olivette after a emotional farewell scene in which Consul General Lee and newspaper men present a ship shaped floral tribute. Sigsbee praises Havana press and govt representation by Fitzhugh Lee while thanking donors and friends.
The naval board of inquiry concludes the Maine’s destruction came from an outside blast, likely a floating submarine mine, with two explosions noted. It declines to assign responsibility or determine the explosive’s exact nature, and reports were reviewed with cabinet officials but no further statement issued before Congress. The Washington rumor of intercepting the Spanish torpedo flotilla could not be verified, amid tense relations with Spain.
Firemen found the bodies of white store owner W. Briley and his wife along with Robert Wilkinson, a Black man, in a burning 75 Lumphreys Street shop. They were mutilated with hatchets and a meat knife on the floor. Briley was slain from behind, Mrs. Briley head wounds and throat cut, Wilkinson’s head crushed. Robbery is believed motive.
Cotton buyers and brokers in Texas report severe disruption as war rumors halt export insurance from Galveston and New Orleans. Firms advise shipping on British vessels, worsening marketing for a third of Texas cotton still to be moved amid the scare.
Thomas Walsh of Joliet Illinois was found murdered after two weeks of coroner jury deliberation. He disappeared from a barber shop near his brother Robert Walsh’s wholesale grocery and was found in a Plainfield ditch beside the Elgin Joliet and Eastern tracks ten miles from Joliet. The jury rejected death by suicide and the Walsh family supported the ruling, while police felt otherwise. Window glass plants in Indiana face shutdowns with Anderson Frankton and others affected as strikes spread.
Dispatch from Otto Wyoming reports a seed grain shortage in the Big Horn basin this spring that could curb planting, especially of wheat, as ranchers sold seed at high prices last fall and now lack stock.
Dispatch from St. Johns N F reports the sealing steamer Greenland arrived with 25 dead 23 missing and 66 frostbitten many to lose limbs after days among ice floes in search of seals the colony horrified by the disaster. Jackson seeks another bout with Jeffries and a possible Maher match April at the Olympic Club. Kentucky governor vetoes Walker anti cigarette bill backed by W C T U and opposed by tobacco interests. Indictments brought against Lamon Gains and Sharpe for murder of Ed Chalmers and wife near Wybhark by a mob.
Three hundred fifty La Fayette students staged an anti Spanish demonstration in Easton Pennsylvania. They marched through streets and offered President McKinney their service in war. They later learned a banner claiming to represent Spain.
Chicago and other cities report bid ranges for cattle hogs and sheep, with grain prices for wheat corn oats rye and butter eggs and potatoes across Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York. Notable figures include Chicago cattle 3.00 to 5.75 and New York butter 16 to 20 cents per pound with various No 2 grades and regional prices.
Old Henry known as Old Henry disappeared last fall near Castalia. His body was found in a gulch near the Missouri River. Bert Jones was arrested by Sheriff Hay on suspicion of killing him. Jones had partnered with Henry in wood traffic and claimed ownership after Henry’s disappearance. The body was found by a boy who noticed a rope and uncovered a wrapped corpse.
A large blaze in Hudson on March 23 destroyed four elevators and a coal house, with flames leaping from a barn beside Terwilliger Dwight's elevator near the Milwaukee tracks. Winds shifted, sparing Fitch Castle lumber yard, as the volunteer crew battled the fire for an hour and a half. authorities blamed tramps for starting it.
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