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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1891
Page
5
A damaged OCR item mentions a bowl list and city points with a time near 9 30. It reads as a fragmented sports brief lacking clear names or events.
At Ibboken a stabbing spree kills Angelo Gaboth and wounds others after he and his wife visit her parents. He murders the mother and wounds her father before being killed by a son, while the wife is wounded and another son fights the attacker. Two more are seriously hurt.
Rioters in the coke districts at Lessenring Kyle and Leith expose weak civil authority as Sheriff McCormick appeals to Gov Pattison for military aid. A Leith mob frees a detainee after beating deputies, while a Lake Shore route wreck near Kipton kills six postal workers and injures none of the passengers. Scattered evictions disrupt Scottdale works sparking fears of broader clashes. At Hoboken a double tragedy ends in murder suicide aboard a steamer. Knights of Labor leader Pow derly blasts New York arbitration, while coke stikeouts near Scottdale grow tense and women lead small nightly riots.
John G C Cosgrove and James R McElligott found guilty in Chicago for forging a rich widow Mrs Jerome s will. Cosgrove sentenced to nine years and McElligott to three. The case involved a will witnessed by the pair and left fortunes to Cosgrove s minor sons, with relatives contesting the document.
A gold discovery in the Cherokee outlet draws a 500 strong crowd to Arkansas City as A T Buchanan shows sand rich with gold. A committee will verify the quartz before the crowd enters the claim strip. In North Dakota James Honeyman pleads guilty to using cancelled stamps, fined $150. Oklahoma land allotments for Pottawattamie Indians proceed after four years, with about 243,000 acres set aside and 300,000 acres remaining. Miss Mary Carhart, heiress near Los Angeles, elopes with a German foreman, while Chicago Mayor canvass objections are dropped and Hempstead Washburne urged elected.
Juper Love and B G C Burrey, two Chickasaw commissioners, traveled to Washington for a $747,000 land sale, but funds await presidential approval since the title must be joint with the Choctaws. The president is away for a month, delaying action. Funeral for Mrs. Haromp, wife of E W Halford, occurs after chronic bronchitis, with burial in Indianapolis. Captain Henry Catley granted retirement after thirty years amid court martial and strained relations. Secretary Tracy orders civil service reform in navy yards, setting vacancies after June 1 and a May 11 examination for foremen and master mechanics in New York.
Foreign Jottings notes Charles Parnell's manifesto urging Irish nationalist solidarity in Britain, disowning Anglo-Irish ties after desertions. Berlin reports suggest Bismarck may win a second ballot with liberal abstention. Italian diplomat Marquis Imperiali to be recalled over the New Orleans affair.
A Tennessee to Texas family was poisoned while camping when a centipede accidentally boiled in their coffee. The mother and two young children died, the father and another child were seriously ill, according to the report from the Cuban sugar region.
According to the British consul-general at Havana the Cuban sugar crop for 1890 totaled 645,094 tons, up from 426,439 tons in 1889. Molasses output reached 111,422 tons, vs 101,059 tons. Exports to Europe from January to July 1890 were 701 hogsheads and 66,960 hogsheads, totaling 49,305 tons, while U S exports stood at 41 boxes and 570,843 hogsheads, totaling 395,012 tons.
The Interstate Commerce Commission decided the case of John P. Squire & Co. against Michigan Central New York Central and Boston and Albany railroads. It held live animals and dressed meat products as competitive commodities, requiring relatively reasonable transportation rates proportioned to service costs. Also notes Panama Canal work near resumption and mentions a Chicago mob attack on Officer McGinnis by around twenty Italians, with unclear motive.
Miscreants removed fish plates on the Alabama and Great Southern line near Springville, Alabama, causing rails to spread and a passenger train wreck. The engineer and fireman were scalded to death while no passengers were injured. The culprits are unknown. Also noted is a Baltimore interview in which Joan A. Kasson criticizes U.S. policy on Italy.
The condemned man William Murscor alias Jordan, a Black man, was hanged in Charlottesville Virginia early this week for killing a policeman there about three years ago.
The report notes Secretary Rusk has canceled his order moving the cattle quarantine line south to the 86th parallel. Also cited are a missing man Ezra Cummins of Aluka Indiana who vanished April 8 after claiming in a letter he left for good and left his property to his wife. Official Chicago election canvass shows Hempstead Washburne leading with 389 votes. Mayor Cregier concedes but backs Democratic effort for 1892. Market summaries follow for Omaha, Chicago, and New York commodity rows.
The Sioux Falls case ends with Judge Aikens ruling Governor Mellette’s executive writ defective, freeing Prof Foster. The outcome prompts cross state contention as Kentucky officers depart in disgust while Minnie No.3 praises the “husband.” Separate items cover damages claims against Crow Creek Winnebago settlers, Manitoba exodus failure, a tin stamp mill planned at Hill City, and South Dakota notes on schools, industry, and law enforcement.
Blaine sends a caustic yet dignified reply to Italy's Rudini dispatchs, denouncing demand overreach and noting language and posture differences. The exchange sharpens tensions while suggesting Italy bears blame for bluster and jingoism amid New Orleans riots and policy aims.
The passage argues life resembles war where fewest mistakes do not define the best, but the one who wins most splendid victories by learning from errors. It urges balancing focus on work with confidence and not fearing or denying one’s duties.
A Georgia editor with twenty seven children refuses to sue over an advertisement seeking help. Two young men in Morgantown West Virginia walked outdoors when one slipped and was impaled on a cane placed by the other and died shortly after.
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