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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1900
Page
6
Readable fragments describe a local business or group titled CAPITAL HELL within a hunting context. The brief notes reference the organization HUNTING CO and place names resembling ENNA or Seineines, with no clear event date or outcome stated.
Report notes Gen Frederick Funston executed two Filipino scouts without trial after a skirmish near San Isidro. Critics decry summary justice, citing mutilation and harsher methods as provocation sparking incensed reactions among American troops and insurgents alike.
Two men broke into Mrs. Lee Warrack’s home near Vaville Ohio late Monday night. They bound three occupants including her granddaughter and grandson Clarence Warrack. Warrack ordered them to leave. a scuffle ensued and he was shot. The burglars escaped with only six cents. neighbors alerted authorities the next day.
Captain Louis Ostheim of First States Artillery was found dead in bed at the Auditorium annex on Monday morning, a bullet wound to his temple and a revolver nearby suggesting suicide. He had planned to marry Eva Bruce on Monday at her uncle Walter B. Jicter’s home in Cheago after returning from service in the Philippines. Ostheim, born in Pennsylvania and educated at West Point, had recently returned to celebrate his wedding.
The agricultural appropriation bill reported to the House proposes over 4.0 million dollars with a 390,778 increase for the coming year. It adds two scientists, expands seed distribution funding, and allocates 60,000 for weather towers and 38,000 for an animal quarantine station in New York plus 204,000 for a Washington laboratory.
A dispatch from New York states General Neocon A Miles intends to seek the Democratic nomination. He met with Wim C Whitney to discuss support, but Whitney warned that gold Democrats oppose the bid and did not commit. Other items note a piano and organ factory fire causing about 50000 in damage, likely from spontaneous combustion.
Nineteen non-union workmen were assaulted by about thirty union pickets on the seventh at a building on Ogden Avenue. Two seriously hurt, including a gray-haired man. several others beaten. Contractor Hancox and others attacked. police arrested five assailants. a picket followed a carpenter onto a crowded Ashland Avenue car and was tackled by the motorman until police arrived.
Former President Grover Cleveland sternly denies giving any interview about Admiral Dewey's candidacy. He calls published remarks outrageous and false and says he declined to comment when approached by reporters. If he speaks later it will be clearly authentic.
Fire and water left Joseph Horne & Co department store with stock valued at 1,000,000 almost completely lost. Building damage estimated at at least 250,050. The structure, though badly damaged, is insured and the firm aims to resume operations in ten to fifteen days.
J. J. Swofford as chairman of the Kansas City arrangements sends a telegram to the Democratic national committee chair in Washington. He guarantees the new convention hall will be ready for occupancy by July 4, claiming contracts for structural steel are closed and President Evans confirms completion on schedule.
In Frankfort Kentucky on Saturday night two soldiers at the state house were arrested for drunkenness by police and their comrades rescued them. Chief Williams led the police to the state house but Beckham military authorities blocked an attempted capture. Soldiers aligned with the opposing administration were stood ready, and the confrontation was narrowly averted.
In Pretoria on April 8 General De Wet attacked and defeated a large British cavalry force at Le Wet's Corp southeast of Bloemfontein. Eleven officers and 362 men were captured along with 11 guns and several wagons. Federal losses were two killed and four wounded.
Unprecedented rains flood Austin and central Texas. A swollen river breaks a dam, flooding valleys, damaging the light and power plant, drowning workers, and prompting massive property and livestock losses across Williamson and Pastro counties. Estimated statewide losses exceed 3 million dollars.
A fragmented market summary lists cattle hogs sheep and grain prices by city including Sioux City Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York with ranges for wheat corn oats rye barley butter eggs and pork. Prices show varied grades and regional quality notes across markets.
Week’s happenings recount a toll dispute on public school land near Keystone that escalated to a murder. Charles Norton and Sidney Lisle allegedly attacked Fitszimmons and his wood haulers as they crossed the land, leading to a fatal shooting and Lisle’s arrest.
A prairie fire north of Mitchell was halted by a new technique using a 100 foot barbed wire with two horses on opposite ends and 12 to 15 wet grain sacks in the center. A wagon with water barrels followed to douse the sacks as they dried, while several men with brooms cleaned remaining embers.
A. W. Gill, brakeman on an Omaha train crew, was crushed between engine and rear of a passenger car during a Norwegian switch near Mitchell. His foot and eight inches of his leg were crushed, he remained trapped for about thirty minutes before rescuers pried the engine and car apart. His leg was amputated below the knee.
Mitchell council votes to call in 3000 of outstanding bonds, capping bond payments for five years. Refunding at lower rates leaves city bonded debt at 59000 not including school bonds, with 17000 paid off in four years. Also notes famine relief efforts, prison population in Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls post office receipts surpassing 30000, Yankton State Fair dates, and a new pontoon bridge project from Sioux City businessman.
H. T. Blair of the Sioux Falls Cooperative Saving and Loan Association returned from the Black Hills where Henry Jacobs of Lead was found short about $2,000 in accounts. Jacobs’ relatives have made good the shortage to avoid prosecution. Aberdeen adopts Registered Letter System by carriers.
Three hundred tons of mica were shipped from Custer in the southern Black Hills to Chicago last week. The Chicago Mica Company plans to buy waste dumps and process small pieces into sheets for markets in Valparaiso, Ind. Production could reach 100 to 300 tons per month, with prices ranging from 40 per ton at Custer to 10 15 per pound for larger sheets.
E. J. Taber special administrator of the McClellan estate secured his liberty on April 2 by transferring the estate and paying a $50 fine for contempt of court. The move ends his connection with the case after an attempt to secure bail and a dispute over transferring the estate to Wm. Van Eps.
Senate completed debate on the Porto Rican tariff with 40 to 31 vote and considered Hawaiian territorial legislation amid pointed House debates on Kentucky politics and Philippine issues. Measures passed include open lands for Alabama education, Okla land division, and a sheriff post in Wyoming.
A.W. Brown a peaceful Nebraska border farmer near the Rosebud Indian Agency was acquitted of selling intoxicating liquor to Indians. It is believed several Indians lied to shield themselves from punishment. Dakota Mino Kills Himself. John Brown of Butler Day County shot himself in the head, with ill health and despondency cited as the cause.
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