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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1895
Page
6
Washington dispatch reports returns arriving far ahead of schedule with 10 600 received by March 10 representing at least 1 500 000 inincome tax and projections show 20 000 000 by June end. Officials expect strong compliance as the year closes and anticipate Supreme Court support for key features of the law.
In New York a demurrer is argued in the U S Circuit Court in the United States vs Hand St Leonard alias Wellman Taylor and Tenny. The defense contends forged payee names on pension checks may invalidate millions of dollars in checks drawn on the Treasury and argues no offense unless signed by a pension agent authority. If sustained the ruling could nullify pension checks issued by clerks for pension agents in the southern district of New York.
London pressure against O Donavan Rossa is supported by ex detective Patrick McIntyre who claims Rossa did not take money but a British funded movement in New York received cash via Red Jim McDermott and others employed by the government. McDermott travels in the south of France enjoying luxuries.
Washington special reports Capt Lowgate is indicted on three counts for alleged frauds during his tenure as Disbursing Officer of the Signal Service. Accusations include forging a $4,000 account with the American Union Telegraph Company in 1889, embezzlement, and falsifying accounts. Burned wreck Tron Queen on the Ohio River near Pomeroy. one chambermaid killed, rest of crew and passengers escaped.
The Ila- Yana governor telegraphs that tranquility prevails in five Cuban provinces while insurrection remains confined to Santiago Province where rebels have withdrawn to the mountains awaiting reinforcements.
The St Louis Court of Appeals refused Attorney Rebeneck a writ of mandamus to force the School Board to admit his unvaccinated children. Judges unanimously affirm the board's authority to enforce the vaccination rule.
The upper house of the Prussian diet referred to a special committee the proposal for an international currency conference. Labor Men Urged to Strike in Brussels. The Labor party plans to placard the city urging the laboring men to join the strike advocated by Socialists and others. Poisoned by Eating Cheese in Elwood Ind. Duncan Brown his wife and little daughter were poisoned by cheese and may die. American Sailors Milled. The American schooner Isaac K Stetson has arrived from Brazil.
Capt Trask reports at St Catherines Brazil his crew were attacked by Brazilian soldiers while ashore. Two sailors died at once, one hospitalized with poor prognosis, another stabbed in the back. He notified the American Consul who alerted the American Minister in Rio. Brazil pledged action and reportedly arrested some soldiers.
Dispatches from Kentucky and Indiana report forest fires causing at least several deaths and extensive property losses. Otis Smith James Waters and Henry Eller homes burned, Eller died from burns, another farm hand died in bed, and Mrs Penny missing. total fatalities include three white men two Negroes and a woman with $20 000 to $200 000 losses. Farmers battle fires while officials warn reports may be exaggerated.
Paris Texas special reports hunters in the Choctaw Nation finding Nanawood Mountain a fifteen mile long high ridge with a hot fissure emitting sulphur odors and periodic detonations. An old Indian recalls similar events in 1882 and silver veins were found at the base prompting further exploration.
A St Louis morning paper reports a meeting of grain merchants and stockholders of the St Louis United Elevator Company addressing missing assets. They allege $35,000 to $40,000 in wheat cannot be accounted for and $100,000 in bonds of the elevators are unaccounted. President and GM Capt T P Slattery says the move aims to harass him amid disputes with other members over related ventures. He says he cannot explain the grain loss and explains the bonds were security for a loan with Continental National Bank and later disposed of, charges being booked to the company.
In Woburn Massachusetts a boiler explosion at the Connecticut Tannery killed five men and wounded six. The blast shattered the smokestack and chimney, workers raced to rescue the buried, and debris was cleared as the toll rose. Other dispatches note Italian officers pardoned in Paris, aid for Evanston widows, and a massive Memphis cotton shipment bound for Liverpool.
Faribault Minnesota reports Donald Grant W T Fisher and J A Bowman returned from Venezuela with a land concession at the Orinoco mouth 125 miles south and 15 to 50 miles wide offering minerals mahogany rosewood and dye woods plus rights to miner asphalt near Trinidad The deal could inflame the Venezuela Britain dispute and test Monroe Doctrine policy in Washington while Ambassador Bayard pushes arbitration and state leaders weigh support.
Six to seven members of a feared Alabama gang are jailed after Lee Harris’s confession links them to multiple murders and robberies. The group is tied to the December slayings of Birmingham grocer James F. Thornton and East Lake farmer E Y Daniels, plus other crimes including a North Birmingham distiller murder. Henry Kimberly is already imprisoned for related offenses.
One hundred pounds of giant powder exploded in the Mescal Mining and Milling Company mine nine miles from Prescott. Five men worked the drift. three were rescued badly injured and foreman James Newlin was seriously hurt. A cave of rock followed the blast burying others, with details unavailable as couriers sought medical aid.
The United States Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of American Israelites held its second convention in Maennerchor Hall New York. Delegates from thirty lodges attended this Jewish fraternal benefit society born from an independent movement against the Benevolent Society of the Sons of Benjamin. The order operates under article 2 of the insurance laws.
W C Kiser bondsman reports W H Taylor located in Chili, South America, amid a $2,000,000 suit against Homestake Mining. Officials are noncommittal, saying Taylor’s extradition prospects are uncertain and detectives lag by about thirty days.
Soldiers may be needed as 50 000 acres of Yankton Reservation lands face attempted seizure by South Dakota. Squatters refuse to vacate, protests reach the President, and Yankton leaders seek federal action. Interior officials report limited police force to remove intruders as troops in Omaha would take 24 hours to arrive.
The South Dakota scene shifts as Orville S. Basford, chair of the Republican State Central Committee, appears before a Methodist board and seeks reinstatement to ministry, echoing a past forecast by a Populist candidate. Nearby, irrigation talks in Hot Springs, emigration plans from Sioux Falls to Mississippi, Allerton v Homestake case dismissed, Prof Herbert Haynes’ insanity, seed distributions to Land Offices, and Yankton Reservation proclamation signing noted.
Squatters flood border areas as troops consider removal while 25 board cabins rise. F M Ziebach, former U S Land Office Receiver, says the General Land Office won t back state filings on 50 000 acres and notes article 8 of the Indian treaty bars disposal outside homestead laws. Preparations for the Fourth District Veteran Encampment in Huron July 3 4 5 underway with speakers and attractions. City council and citizens push to make it the state s largest old soldiers gathering with delegates from twelve counties and guests from Minnesota Iowa and Nebraska.
Judge Dundy at Deadwood sentences Straight Head chief of police of the Cheyenne River Agency and First Lieutenant to one year and one day in Sioux Falls Penitentiary for killing Fielder two years ago. Jury found guilty of an attempted great bodily injury. pardon recommendations will be sent to President Cleveland. Also notes rising cattle prices as Dakota dealers failed to buy in the southwest.
Judge A J Edgerton has returned home and ordered the drawing of a jury for the April term of the federal court at Sioux Falls. The criminal calendar is brief and the term is expected to end within three weeks as officers render accounts in Deadwood to Judge Dundy of Omaha. Ranch cattle demand rises with inquiries from Omaha Sioux City Chicago and St Paul about beef from Sioux Reservation ranches. Spring shipments are lighter due to feed scarcity after last fall's heavy shipping of young stock. Attorney General Crawford has asked a Pinkerton detective via a sealed letter for court handles to be granted as the state’s authorized agent in the Taylor matter, a clue likely pointing to Valparaiso Chile.
State Firemen's tournament entry will be sent to President Ferguson at Canton, with a Board of Control meeting to set dates and details. Dispatches about Taylor's alleged location in Valparaiso, Chile appear unfounded. Indians at Cheyenne Agency to receive about $35,000 from government lands soon. Vermillion feed mill and warehouse destroyed in a fire causing about $1,000 loss. Robbers steal $250 in Wakonda from Jacobson & Thrane. A Boehr child dies in a shotgun accident near Bijou Hills. Iowa Loan and Trust Company files in South Dakota with A. B. Wilcox named as legal rep in Yankton. First artesian well at Pierre taps natural gas. South Dakota militia may disband. Seed corn offered for distress price in Jerauld County. Mexican-American Mining Company incorporates in Pierre with offices at Sioux Falls and Juerez, Mexico, capital stock 3,090,000. Ice on the Missouri River breaks, sinking a ferry at Running Water. Captain Leach to prepare transfers when ice clears.
Enthusiastic crowds in Friedrichsruhe honor Prince Bismarck on his eightieth birthday with thousands arriving from Hamburg and across Germany. Emotions run high as telegrams and letters pour in from around the world while public processions, music, and student groups fill the celebration.
The passage describes thirty universities presenting Prince Bismarck with a marble iron silver and gold shaft as a birthday gift. Bismarck admires the monument on a terrace and replies with a twenty minute speech amid cheers and sword clashes. It also notes Richard Vaux's death and his claim as the only American to dance with Queen Victoria.
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