Reekin Capital in Mitchell Printing Co venture
The Reekin Capital engages with Mitchell Printing Co in Mitchell South Dakota as a local business note.
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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1892
Page
2
The Reekin Capital engages with Mitchell Printing Co in Mitchell South Dakota as a local business note.
A Texas woman fought off and threw an intruder through a window after finding him in her Gilchrist House room. The man, Ben EB Hart, known for prior trouble, was not arrested. Other items include railroad labor strike plans and a Virginia murder incident.
Jackson special notes a Hazlehurst Lumber Co safe blown for 6000 and secretary Gould missing after hiring a detective in New Orleans. Lancaster report covers J J Miller from First National Bank Columbia under defalcation likely 89000 to 25000. Colorado Springs reports Charles H Spencer, bank president, killed by a train baggage truck. Washington notes cholera quarantine measures for Russia and other infected areas. Pittsburg item details Nortorious crook Charles Havers alias Hunter escaping from the Allegheny County Workhouse.
Havers serving third term used a saw from an old case knife to cut his cell door. He beat Keeper Eberhart with an iron bar and cut him with the saw knife. Havers threw the victim into his own cell, took keys, and unlocked the door to escape. Officers found the assault and escape only in the morning.
The St Louis Chicago Electric Railway project proceeds with securing most of its right of way and purchasing land at Edinburg Illinois for a power plant. The line aims to 262 miles in service by the world’s fall season with 100 mph speed once equipment is ready. Initial service will carry passengers mail and express with freight later.
Five youngsters ages four to twelve burned to death in Griffin Georgia after being locked inside a house by relatives who left for church. The blaze started around nine, flames raced through the structure before help arrived, and investigators suspect arson though the cause remains unknown.
A New York company rapidly developed a town at the soda lakes on the Sweet Water River sixty miles from the railroad. Johnstown houses a $75,000 calcining plant, 200 workers with homes, a brick schoolhouse, books for pupils, and salaries for teacher and doctor. Saloons are banned. company conducts all business. A branch survey may connect Johnstown with the Union Pacific.
A Wise County Va dispatch reports locals ready to rescue Talt Hall the outlaw and murderer under death sentence. Judge Skeen fears an attack on the jail with a dynamite assault planned this week. Caleb Jones leads Hall’s former followers with weapons including a gatling gun.
In Jackson Michigan a convict No 1705 Henry Blackman crushed contractor William Cuddy's skull with a nail hammer while Cuddy sat at his desk. Blackman, 43, a lifer from Pontiac, had murdered his mother and sister and set their house ablaze. He is described as homicidally insane by the prison physician. Relatives of Cuddy live in Toronto.
R G Dun and Co notes from New York say western reports hint better wheat and corn crops and cotton prospects improving though not to last year's level. Business shows improvement for fall trade with abundant supplies, strikes in New York Pennsylvania and Tennessee barely affecting activity. Rail traffic may be disrupted but stocks remain steady, money is abundant, and collections are generally satisfactory. Five-day failures total 172 versus 199 a year earlier.
Atlantic City reports five cat boats with fifteen aboard went to sea. four reached port while the Kenderton under Captain Loveland is missing. The Sallie and Eliza from Great Egg Harbor capsized near the harbor entrance. Captain Enoch Hackett drowned, companion Stephen Hackney survived. Three Somers Point parties were driven into the inlet by heavy waves. a fishing smack and the steamer Florence aided rescuers though several yachters were reported drowned.
Mrs. Joseph Horgan, 64, at her husband’s ranch four and a half miles east of Springle, killed a large rattlesnake after a fierce struggle. She bit, cut, and sucked the wound, drank whisky and aconite, and later received medical care from Dr. J. R. Spence. Despite swelling and venom, she recovered enough to reach Hill City for further nursing.
Fully seventy five druggists gathered at Germania hall Sioux Falls for the seventh annual meeting of the South Dakota Pharmaceutical Association. President Crain and Secretary I A Keith reported on finances and registration totals. A H Stites highlighted board activities with forty new pharmacists registered this year. Next year’s meeting will be in Yankton with Colton, Debland and White elected to leadership posts. A separate item notes a shooting scare at the Cataract House and a divorce case involving Mrs. Archie McKay in Sioux Falls.
Mrs. McKay fired three shots when Shepherd appeared in her bedroom door after she opened a connecting door. She claimed the act was to scare him and that she could have killed him, while an employee noted the bed clothes and mattress bore holes from the shooting. Separately, Gov. Mreterre praised South Dakota crop prospects and stated 50 million bushels of wheat are expected, boosting state wealth and World’s Fair prospects.
W Warren Perry of Illinois seeks a divorce in Mitchell arguing he was drugged at a March Springfield wedding when he married Minnie Bergen of Peru. He claims the girl bore a child and is of immoral character. Bergen says Perry promised to marry her after completing his studies. The ceremony occurred in Perry’s Elizabeth Illinois home.
May interest to Sioux Falls includes a packing house plant offer with a $30 000 bonus. Two hundred from the Sioux Reservation work harvesting in Walworth County. City officials plan $500 for entertaining neighboring towns during the State Fair.
Miners acting in Marion County Tennessee seized the Inman stockade, dispersed guards, and ordered 272 convicts to march to Victoria and then to Nashville. Telegraph service was cut as reports said guards and warden Burton were forced to retreat. Convicts arrived in Nashville and were escorted to the penitentiary, while authorities debated arresting participants and protecting company rights.
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