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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1899
Page
12
The fragment appears to be an OCR snippet for a weekly publication from Mitchell South Dakota. It references the Mitchell printing company and a weekly capital line, but the readable content is extremely limited and unspecific.
Gov Poynter announces funds are nearly complete to return the First Nebraska Regiment from San Francisco. D E Thompson loans $20,000 and Ed Cudahy provides $3,000, with further statewide subscriptions expected to cover the remaining $15,000. The governor calls for immediate checks to finish by Monday night at 6.
Geo. Coil, 21, shot and killed Tom Ryan during a lane quarrel near Crawford Dawes County Nebraska. Coil, a flockmaster, surrendered with his father and friends tempering sentiment. The shooting stemmed from a feud over trespassing stock with cattlemen and sheepmen.
Paris reports intelligence that Lieut. Klopp and Lieut. Mounier, sent to command a Sudan column, have been assassinated. The Figaro cites a story that rifles were fired by order of Capt. Voulet in revenge after Klopp aided Voulet’s recall during an inquiry into charges of barbarity.
Two hundred Navajo Springs laborers threaten to exterminate whites after a pay dispute. They shot and mutilated a gambler named Landroth. troops from Fort Wingate were ordered to Navajo Springs. London denies a colonial ultimatum on the South African Republic and Outlanders. Philippine-bound transports Siam and Garonne sail with mules and horses for Manila.
In Trinidad Colorado armed robbers tried to stop passenger train No. 1 of the Colorado and Southern between Folsom and Des Moines but failed to complete the hold up as the train moved on.
Cape Town reports Transvaal handed a reply to British agents at Pretoria. The reply reportedly does not fully accept the proposals, with fresh terms advanced. Large war material shipments to supporters raise Cape Colony and Orange Free State tensions. over seven tons landed at Port Elizabeth and sent along Cape lines to Allway. Five people drowned when schooner Hunter Savidge capsized near Point Aux Barques. wrecking party to scene.
From Skagway to Seattle steamer City of Topeka brings word of Dawson’s Aug 4 triple hanging two Indians Dawson Nantuck Jim Nan tuck and one white man Edward Henderson all convicted of murder. Private Soldier Killed and other brief news items follow in this roundup.
In Fulton Kentucky a mob hanged Squat Bolin a Black man on Sunday. Three weeks earlier Bolin and Henry Stewart robbed Gail Hamilton of 13 dollars and shot him. Stewart was captured and hanged by a mob the night after the murder. A different report notes three people drowned when a small boat capsized in the Delaware River Philadelphia Otto Kampf 37 his son Albert 8 and Christian Osterlaage 50 were victims.
Rennes police abandon clue to would be assassin of Labori at Asigue. Suspect gives satisfactory proofs of innocence.
Paris Sunday riot led by Sebastian Faure and Fabrot as anarchists clash with police at Place de la Republique. Windows smashed in St Ambrose and Fabourg Temple. Dozens injured, hundreds hospitalized, sixty police wounded, many arrests.
Philadelphia’s Jack McCormick knocked out Kid McCoy in about one minute in a six round match. McCormick predicted a simple affair and delivered a decisive punch that ended the bout quickly under Queensbury rules with one arm free.
A head on crash on the Norristown Chestnut Hill Roxborough Railway in Plymouth Township a few miles north of Philadelphia injured thirty with three killed. Report says the southbound car passengers accuse the motorman of not awaiting a switch arrival, causing the collision.
Basil Bell, a colored preacher living with Mary Winters, fatally beat her with an ax during a drunken frenzy in Huntington Pa. He also fatally wounded neighbor John Rumsport with the same weapon. Both victims are reported to die. National Firemen's Convention opens in Milwaukee with slim attendance as Mayor Rose welcomes guests.
Washington reports say Secretary Root and General Miles disagree on the Philippines campaign. Miles favors a more cautious, tactical approach and opposes November operations. Miles may be reassigned if he maintains his stance, while General Merritt’s Champlain visit fuels talk of a return to command.
Santo Domingo presidential hopeful Gen Juan Isidro Jiminiz left Cienfuegos on the Palaria for Santiago de Cuba after release from arrest. He denounced the action to friends, pledged peaceful mission, and predicted a vast welcome upon his return to the island.
Vernon Center Minnesota reports a lightning strike razed the roller mill. Miller Kimball and nearby residents salvaged portable goods on the first floor along with the engine boiler and water wheel. Estimated value 8000 to 9000 dollars with no insurance.
London reports a deadly explosion at the Liest colliery in Glamorganshire Wales killing twenty five workers. The incident adds to a grim tally of mining tragedies as authorities investigate the cause and warn of dangers underground.
About 300 delegates from across the state met in Huron to plan bringing the First South Dakota Regiment home from San Francisco with funds from private subscriptions. A 16 member finance committee was formed to raise 325000, with a hospital fund of 3000. A reception committee to San Francisco also named, including the Governor and state officials, plus lawmakers and officers from cities with regiment companies. Transportation committee listed. R W Stewart presided. George Schlosser and E T Sheldon served as secretaries.
The reorganized State Board of Embalmers met in Sioux Falls on August 15 to enforce a new public protection law. It declared prior meetings and licenses illegal, adopted cross state license recognition, and ordered embalmers certificates exams for September 7 in Sioux Falls and Lead.
South Dakota Marshal Ferguson killed a drunken harvest hand in Elkton after a failed arrest leading to a fatal gunshot. The other man was jailed as witnesses framed the incident as justified. Meanwhile Chinese residents in Lead and Deadwood faced investigations and deportation proceedings under U S Marshal Carlton and a U S Commissioner ruling.
Local Grand View Township officials advertise bids to build a cistern at each schoolhouse to improve water supply. The town already uses cyclone cellars at schools for storm refuges as tornado season nears.
Two local fighters battled a twenty minute round in Deadwood for 2.50 a side. One boxer repeatedly broke rules and nearly assaulted the referee over breaks. No arrests have been made.
Lawrence County bonds totaling 112000 were sold to American National Bank Deadwood. The issue runs twenty years with a ten year call option.
Baron Speck von Sternberg and Morgan accompany Thn Bartlett Tripp as he arrives back in Yankton. The U S member says the Samoa commission achieved results and expects no further trouble from Malietoa or any factions.
A tornado on August 17 damaged the Burden Sherman residence near Faulkton killing John Sherman, the farmer's son, with crops reported damaged by the storm and house and barn affected.
Post office inspectors in South Dakota, led by Wood, press the arrest of a robber gang active for weeks. The Artesian heist on the seventh reveals money sealed for shipment, with authorities knowing the exact bills stolen, complicating the gang’s ability to unload funds without detection.
A. H. Highfield while threshing for Fred Welch near Alpena with a steam outfit started a prairie fire. A spark ignited the straw stack and much grain burned. James Grace on the stack narrowly escaped as flames consumed the stack and spread across the prairie.
W. W. Havens of Mitchell was ordained a Baptist minister after serving as a scout with Custer. A former soldier and lifelong West resident, he joined the Methodist Church four years ago and began ministry under an ex horter license until seeking Baptist fellowship due to age limits.
During a recent rain storm lightning struck a Parkston house badly damaging one end and burning a grain stack for Christian Winter. It also struck a large frame barn owned by J N Phillips and burned it to the ground, destroying a team of horses, two sets of harness, one seeder, two buggies, one binder, and many other minor machine pieces belonging to James Long, a renter.
Train crew on a freight near Her mosa fought half a dozen tramps attempting to board. A hobo drew a gun on a brakeman. the crew nabbed the group at the depot, one tramp escaping through a window leaving cuts from broken glass. Burglary spree hits Waubay hides.
The Dakota conference of the Methodist Church plans to elect provisional lay delegates this fall to use the prospective lay delegate law set to be enacted at the 1900 Chicago general conference and effective 1904, hoping provisional delegates will be seated. Many state ministers support appointing a bishop for each state.
The Pierre land office announces the record has cleared to lands relinquished by the State on the Crow Creek Reservation and are now open to settlement. About 65000 acres in Hyde and Hand Counties within the Huron district may join the list of lands open for settlement.
George Smith and James Putnam, trusted Homestake amalgamators, were arrested for taking amalgam from a mill. Officers found about two pounds valued at roughly 600 dollars during a Putnam home search. Burglars loot Robsohn Grover store. cash jewelry notes mortgages stolen. Private William Bartlett of the First South Dakota Volunteers was buried at Milbank after dying on the Manila patrol.
Thomas M. Vincent of Vermillion died in a Milwaukee Railroad sleeping car while en route home from a Chicago hospital to bid farewell to his family. Tuberculosis of the bowels was the illness. The conductor found him dead about 4:50 a.m. Relatives were notified and city officials in Sioux City prepared the body for burial.
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