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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1901
Page
11
Fragmentary text references elections and political figures, potential candidacy and appointments. Mentions a legislature, building projects, and procedural steps. Key names and places are garbled, but imply a midcentury public notice or political update with plans and deadlines.
South Dakota Adjutant General Conklin fills twelve companies in the First Regiment within thirty days and nine are added for the Second. Regiments race for uniforms, rifles, and federal $8000 aid to secure enrollment by June 20. Captains will head companies from Eureka Sioux Falls Mitchell Redfield and more as Beadle and other counties push to organize a grand division encampment.
In Manila 56 Solano street Aguinaldo tells AP he is doing all he can to assist pacification and may favor American sovereignty. He urges insurgents to surrender, predicts leaders like Tinio and Malvar may yield, and hopes Guam prisoners will be released after peace. He supports a civil government under American auspices.
Six people die when the Commercial Hotel in St Marys West Virginia is destroyed by a gas explosion. The deceased include Cunningham Roxford PA George Butler OH Slater and another unknown man. The blaze is attributed to a gas explosion. Also reported Philip Gunn dies in St Louis after a stabbing and emergency heart surgery.
Multiple U S market briefs from Sioux City Chicago and Kansas City detail hog cattle and sheep prices and receipts. Hogs fall a touch in South Omaha and Kansas City while Chicago shows steady to higher tendencies on some grades. Cash grain and futures quotes for wheat corn oats and rye appear from Minneapolis and Chicago markets.
Four masked men halted the Choctaw line about midnight near Bridge Junction Arkansas. Porter Sidney Drew was shot and badly beaten. Express Messenger Meader was assaulted but intact. Robbers looted the local safe of more than 3000 dollars while the engine and cars were manipulated into a short chase before canebrake dispatch. Bloodhounds and rewards are sought as authorities pursue the bandits.
In Joplin Missouri on April 25 Policeman Charles G Sweeney was shot and killed and Officer Bert Brannon fatally wounded during an attempt to arrest a gang of five rhamp s found in a box car Four escaped and James Roby of St Louis turned himself in Saloonkeeper William Lee was shot by robbers during the same incident with no money taken.
Frederick P Fish will assume the presidency of the American Bell Telegraph and the American Telephone and Telegraph companies on July 1, with a yearly salary of 100000 dollars. The 47 year old Boston lawyer and patent expert will oversee the merged system across Illinois Iowa Indiana and Ohio, as W Jackson retires. John M Clark of Chicago will retire within ten days, to be succeeded by Sabin of San Francisco who will head Central Union Telephone.
James Callahan appeared in Omaha on April 23 as the alleged abductor of Edward Cudahy. He faced trial on a robbery charge involving $25,000 paid by Cudahy for his boy's return. The morning session aimed to seat a full jury.
Winfred April 25 The business district was almost wiped out by fire this morning destroying a drug store two groceries two dry goods stores post office and Woomenu's hall one wing of a building was damaged an oil house started the blaze.
Peking April 24 General Veyron says 10 000 French soldiers will depart China next May. Li Hung Chang notes Chinese troops under Liu appear to have withdrawn beyond the Von Waldersee boundary. Foreign officials discuss appointments and safety as protests rise over Hu Pei governor shift and anti foreign sentiment.
A St Petersburg dispatch reports renewed activity in Manchuria with Chinese forces fortified around Mukden. Bands near Turchausen and Kulo total thousands of troops under Boxer and former Mukden leaders, while Russian Admiral Alexieff organizes a Cossack expedition from Zerkinsky to strike three points. The initial April assault at Kule captured the ex-governor of Mukden. Russian losses totaled thirteen killed and twenty two wounded.
Father Mullen of the Church of the Sacred Heart at High Bridge has withdrawn the $10,000 reward for the return of Willie McCormick and the arrest of his kidnappers. He says threats and demands from mountebanks clairvoyants and cranks have overwhelmed him and prevented him from performing his duties. He may renew the offer if news emerges within a week that shows real progress.
From Tacoma dated April 24 Hong Kong reports Viceroy at Canton orders a sweeping drive against piracy in the two Kwang provinces. He aims to kill at least 3000 robbers in the summer by summarily arresting and executing those named as bad characters after local lists are submitted. Informers receive rewards and robbers aiding justice may be pardoned for aiding three others.
A blaze started in the Dampier Hotel laundry in Harvey North Carolina yesterday evening causing an estimated $75,000 in damages. Fire crews fought the flames through the night but the hotel and restaurant suffered extensive destruction.
The Cincinnati report notes the Ohio River flood subsiding with water receding below city limits. However, high levels persist upriver, threatening Portsmouth and Lawrenceburg while Marietta suffers drowning and extensive property loss. Human casualties are limited to three in Marietta.
Reports from Pittsburg and western Pennsylvania describe renewed rainfall and melting snow increasing flood danger. Allegheny River levels near twenty-one feet threaten factories, rail lines bound losses estimated between one and two million dollars. About 25,000 workers face two days of idle time costing roughly 200,000 in wages.
Reports from Elmira to Knoxville describe rising rivers and extensive flood damage. Rail service resumes after closures, crops and outbuildings damaged, with widespread cellar inundation and snow affecting routes and temperatures remaining unusually low in parts of the south.
The court affirmed a state ruling allowing quarantine and bans on cattle shipments, in Smith versus St Louis & Railway. The decision upholds police power to protect against infectious disease, permitting some commerce disruption. Justice Brown wrote a dissent. Justices Harlan and White also dissented.
Washington April 24 The Supreme Court denied Captain Oberlin M Carter's bail request with a brief announcement by Chief Justice Fuller. The court adjourned until May 27 and recessed until May 18 as officials anticipated a decision in the insular case may come soon.
A Tolstoi letter urges peaceful reform, denounces tyranny by officials, and calls for equal rights and religious freedom. The report notes Sophia Tolstoy’s mediation with St Petersburg church authorities and their response, including a synod statement on Tolstoy’s heterodoxy and burial arrangements.
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