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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1886
Page
1
Testimonial from Judson B. Chapel of Peabody Massachusetts praising Ayer’s Hair Vigor for making hair softer and more pliant. He says it restored a thinning head of hair after other products failed and two bottles produced new growth.
Barbara Elizabeth Gund aged 16 died from hydrophobia after being bitten by a two month old pup. The wound was minor but symptoms appeared eight days before her death after medical efforts failed. The dog had stayed at home since birth and never mixed with other animals.
Kansas City reports Sylvester Granda alias Gainder under arrest for Haddock murder with a confession saying Arensdorf fired the shot and Granda fled on a river flat boat. Other items note births in Decatur Illinois and an abduction case of Ella Hays, Kinney meeting at Yankton, and a Northern Pacific fare cut to five cents per mile after January 1.
The week chronicles Berlin and Paris armor push, Welsh unrest, and stock market vigor. It notes pension bills passed in the house, shipbroker failures in Glasgow, a Campbell divorce cost estimate, and Belfast riot sentences. Also reported are bullion withdrawals to America, coal shipments, and political notes from Washington, London, and Dublin.
In Parowan Utah deputy William Thompson killed Ed Dalton an indicted criminal who resisted capture. Dalton died within an hour and Thompson and Orton face murder charges as crowds react. In New York the St Louis Browns challenge the New York Giants for ten thousand dollars with a seven game series. Lincoln Nebraska the M E University site is set for Lincoln with fifty thousand dollars and land worth twenty four thousand three hundred dollars. In Arkansas two of four murderers are killed by a mob at the scene while two others are jailed awaiting trial.
In Sydney Nova Scotia the executive commuted three of nine youths sentenced for assault to life imprisonment, while six others were to be hanged. In San Francisco it was confirmed thirty eight on the Atlantic went ashore with eleven survivors and twenty seven drowned.
Former New York alderman McQuade was sentenced this morning to two years’ imprisonment and a $25,000 fine.
Little Roox December 18 reports Searcy county towns aglow with silver excitement as several mines have just been discovered.
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