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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1891
Page
1
The Ruralist notes Pierre's discontent with railroad ties to the outside world while asserting no split occurred on the sub treasury vote. Delegates were reportedly kept from entering the council chamber as harmony in banking profits and Davison county school statistics are mentioned amid a charge of calamitous rhetoric and demagogy.
Report from Washington suggests a small group of third party lawmakers in Congress have divided on the sub-treasury proposal. The Indianapolis conference had portrayed the Independent party as solidly unified, shaping the whole effort.
The Minneapolis Tribune printed the President’s message in full, while the Minneapolis Journal offered only a brief synopsis. The Journal retorts that many papers favor back-number coverage, arguing most papers nationwide devote little space to full documents.
A Washington special notes that northern Democrats boasted of a northern majority in the house yet have not allowed a northern candidate to become speaker. The lone northern candidate faced charges of sectionalism for suggesting party dominance should govern House elections.
The senate first day report notes Mr Peffer offered a resolution directing the finance committee to inquire and report as to actual expenses in money lending by bankers and others in the United States. The remark cites familiar figures used by calamity shooters in the west and local figures by Loucks.
The Independent Aber deen Star notes a recent New York City incident where a tramp threw a dynamite bomb into a gambling den. The blast killed the bomb thrower and several attendants, injuring the proprietor Russell Sage, who is described as a millionaire receiving sympathy.
A Washington special reports Democratic senators refused to consider Peffer for recognition on committees. Most smiled at his plea as a new southern Democrat denounced him for anti-Democratic speeches and actions. The caucus agreed by unanimous consent to keep Peffer hanging.
The Argus Leader condemns President Harrison's message while contrasting his claim of widespread prosperity with critics who note ongoing sorrow and want. It highlights the paper's view that prosperity rhetoric clashes with the current global and domestic hardships despite signals of gold inflow and improving outlook.
Edward M. Field senior partner of the defunct Field Lindley Wiechers & Co is arrested on a first degree larceny charge after a grand jury finds an indictment for misappropriating 50000 in Union Pacific bonds. He was taken from a private insane asylum to General Sessions Court amid questions of insanity as a defense.
New York report states Henry L. Norcross, a Boston note broker, is identified at the morgue as the bomb thrower by his parents. Coroner Messner accepts the identification and will use their sworn statements at the inquest. They recalled last seeing him Thursday afternoon and found a letter promising $1,200,000 with a plan to return or kill himself.
In Winnitze on Dec 16 the full court quashed Manitoba’s act abolishing separate schools, ruling it illegal on grounds of church funding and control. The ruling mirrors a prior Catholic case, with the government likely to appeal to higher courts, while Mrs Delia Stewart Parnell departed Liverpool for Dublin with her son John, voicing hope for the Parnellite cause.
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