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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1898
Page
5
Evelyn Rayne dreams of a brighter life as she helps her aunt in Liverpool. Will Caryll earns a theatre night to impress a milliner, planning a grand evening that ends with Evelyn's hopeful anticipation and a kiss of fate in a grim, crowded city.
A London story follows Will Caryll and cousin Eve as they plan a future together after a dreamy theater night and a hinted Mount Eden inheritance. Jealous aunt Miss Rayne and cashier Mr Gamble press Will on accounting while Eve wonders about expense and propriety in their rapidly forming bond.
A humorous collation notes a man named Colonel Curtrizit in Atlanta who survives multiple lightning strikes in a single sequence. The tale recounts storms in 1892, a poplar tree shelter, a bolt shattering a house, and wood splinters raining into his wagon before a final house roof is torn off.
A fragmentary exchange shows a customer asking for postage stamps and trading checks while a clerk confirms. The dialogue hints at a neighbor’s bothersome behavior described as a nuisance in a stray line.
The steamer City of Duluth, operated on the St Joseph to Chicago route, struck a harbor bar near St Joseph and broke in two. Lifesaving crews and a breeches buoy saved passengers and crew. cargo included 29,000 bushels of corn and 150 tons of flour. Loss estimated at $65,000. ship valued at $50,000 twenty four years ago.
The interstate joint convention of coal operators and miners in Chicago closed after ten days with miners securing a 10 cent per ton advance for mining screened coal and an eight hour day for all districts. A 72 by 1.25 inch diamond wire screen is adopted for run mine grading, with uniform day wages and state references for price and condition differences.
Chicago police corruption hearings reveal an irregular blackmail network at opium dens. Sing Tim offers to testify if protected by Gov Tanner or Mayor Harrison. Police warned dens against testifying. Sam Moy jailed for talking too much and Mam Soy expelled. Moy Tai notes ten dollar weekly protection payments, with Alderman Coughlin named as beneficiary.
Lieut. Col. Benedicto with the Spanish Reina battalion surprised the insurgent Brig. Gen Nestor Aranguren's camp killing Aranguren and four privates. Five insurgents captured and others wounded as the body was sent to Havana for identification and morgue. The general was reportedly visiting a young woman on the Pita farm when killed. her father, a dynamiter, was among prisoners.
Daily consignments of $100 silver certificates arrive at the Treasury in Washington yet counterfeit notes remain scarce with only eighteen reports so far. A petition from 100 Ventura County sugar beet raisers protests Hawaii annexation and is sent to Washington. A nationwide track association forms to oppose the National Cycle Track Association.
An urgent appeal to Congress supports Hubbard Missouri bill to impose death or hard labor for wrecking and robbing trains. Across eight years 208 train robberies left 78 dead and 67 injured, with yearly hold ups rising to 49 in 1895 and 1937.
Telegraphic items report Mrs Augusta Nack, the confessed murderer of William Guldensuppe, housed in Auburn prison New York. The Missouri militia plans to raise funds for Cuba victims via an appointed committee. A house boat near Louisville Kentucky sank and all aboard—George Atkins and his two young daughters—perished after the craft capsized.
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