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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1898
Page
8
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Washington April 18 the house concurred in the senate Cuban resolutions with an amendment striking out recognition of the Cuban republic independence. The vote 179 to 166 with a Republican majority applauding. Conference ordered as both chambers narrow toward war resolution finality. Final tally near 3 am showed 81 yes and six no amid cross party shifts.
Stanley W. Turner reports the Alaskan relief expedition arrived at Taiya to find two thirds of the population gone elsewhere. Supplies were turned over to the army post there and the $200,000 appropriation for Klondike relief is seen as hardly warranted since relief has extended to no one in Alaska.
Fighting flares in Pinar del Rio as insurgents clash with Spanish troops near Espajavosa. Rebels reportedly forced back Spanish units and entered the town, looting and burning tobacco warehouses. Spanish accounts confirm four guards killed and nine wounded at the fort.
A Caracas dispatch to the New York Evening World reports President Joaquin Crespo of Venezuela was killed in a battle with rebel leader lhenandiz. Other items note the Howard Baker feud in Clay County Kentucky, a deadly flare with ten killed and three injured, and various stock and war preparations updates including rubber company consolidations and coal shipments for warships.
Mary A. Kettering of Denver collected nineteen thousand dollars from Covenant Mutual Life for her late husband’s policy and sought another sum from Northwestern Masonic in Chicago. Four years earlier her husband was murdered in Oklahoma. she was convicted, sentenced to death, won a supreme court appeal for a new trial, and was acquitted last week. The trial alleges she killed for insurance. she spent over three years in jail and lost all property.
The battleship Alabama to slide from the ways on May 18 at Cramp's shipyards Philadelphia. Miss Morgan daughter of Senator Morgan to christen. Alabama first of three big ships contracted October 1896. Wisconsin and Illinois under construction at San Francisco and Newport News respectively.
A revolutionary report from the New York Presbytery's temperance committee urges the church to counter the liquor trade by offering attractive alternatives to saloons. The document also notes a higher moral tone among college students than in the past, challenging prior condemnations of drinking.
Serious anti American disturbances struck Malaga Spain on Saturday as crowds paraded and a mob attacked the US consulate. Stones were thrown and a ladder was used to tear down a shield bearing the arms of the United States. The prefect appealed for order and gendarmes patrolled. Interior Minister Capdevu has ordered the prefect to arrest the ringleaders and give the consul satisfaction.
Negotiations dating from the January furniture season in Grand Rapids Michigan aim to form a trust or combination of chamber suit and case goods manufacturers. Meetings with reps from Cincinnati Chicago Holland and other cities have occurred. An incorporation plan for the American Furniture Company under New Jersey law is nearly done. Over 80 percent of chamber suit makers and nine tenths of case goods output are joining the plan akin to the late nail trust.
The North Montana Round-up Association will announce its next annual meeting at Chinook on Monday, April 25, following last year’s arrangements. Meanwhile, L V Bogg as administrator will offer the O’Hanlon Cattle Company estate in Chinook, about 1 000 head of cattle, for sale. Fifty-mile bike records were lowered by Abernathy and Eppeson, with Wright setting a new single wheel mark.
Two farmers, J. R. Miller and J. R. Strenger, argued over boundary lines northwest of Vandalia Lil. A surveyor was summoned and during renewed contention Miller swung a fence piece at Strenger, who collapsed and died at 62. Also noted are the unveiling of Jel Davis Memorial Window in Richmond Vermont and other brief items.
In case of war the hills will be guarded as Fort Meade troops may be moved to Spain. The War Department says Black Hills guards will replace them, either by the state National Guard or a locally raised regiment. The story notes unease in the Black Hills over potential troop redeployments.
In Pennington County Judge Carland orders the treasurer to accept delinquent taxes before 189 without penalties or interest, after earlier actions releasing penalties on pre 1896 personal property. Rapid City hosts the Western South Dakota Cattle Growers' Association annual meeting with officers elected and reports favorable amid no winter losses.
State board of charities and corrections, on Superintendent Mead's recommendation, elected Dr G A Chilgrin of St Peter Minnesota as first assistant physician at the state insane hospital to replace Dr Searle who recently resigned. The Huron Horsemen's Association has leased Ward training track and buildings and will announce a trotting meet there once preparations are complete.
The South Dakota Democratic Central Committee chose Aberdeen to host the state convention on June 22, alongside the Populists. Mitchell saw about twenty-five counties represented, with a plan to cooperate with allied silver forces or field a separate Democratic ticket if needed. Also noted were calls for a joint convention by free silver Republicans and a Black Hills Baptist Young People's Union session at Deadwood with new officers elected.
Springfield votes to license saloons under state liquor law and improves enforcement. Also reported are a failed safe robbery at Groton, U S Court sessions in Sioux Falls, prairie fire charges near Miller, and multiple South Dakota notes from Aberdeen to Lead detailing officials, appointments, taxes, and regional events.
War Department orders near total mobilization of regulars from all posts to the Gulf. Units shift to Chickamauga New Orleans Mobile and Tampa with detailed regimental assignments for infantry cavalry and artillery, signaling gravity of the current crisis and plans toward Cuba.
The Whys and Means Committee proposed war time revenue measures to support Spain conflict. They expect over 100 million dollars in annual revenue from beer, bank stamps, coffee and tea taxes, internal taxes, and bond issues up to 500 million dollars. Treasury certificates would cover shortfalls, all as emergency war measures if war begins.
The government has expended about $9.06 million to add forty-eight vessels since war preparations began. Vessels range from harbor torpedo boats to cruisers New Orleans and Albany, plus steam yachts tugs colliers ambulance ship and revenue cutter and lighthouse tenders. Roughly thirty ships were purchased outright, with about one fifth ready for front-line service.
A war order bans sharing vessel movements with outsiders. A circular directs all clerks in the bureau of navigation to withhold information from newspaper men. Minor news notes report diphtheria in Waverly Missouri and a fatal fire in Commercial Kentucky. The torpedo boat Rowan was launched at Seattle amid superstition. Army artillery officers on college details are ordered back to duty. Private capital funds a 22 mile canal diverting the Colorado near Yuma to reclaim 80 000 acres.
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