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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1898
Page
6
Romero, once a scout in Aranguren's brigade, betrayed the Cuban leader and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Spanish army. He chose to betray for $500, then guided Spanish forces to Aranguren's location, leaving the Cuban ally isolated.
Toledo Ohio enforces a strict Sunday closure order by Police Chief Ruaitz. saloons, candy and cigar shops, and newsstands must close. Band and theater managers were arrested after a crowd gathered near playhouses in the afternoon and evening.
Large orders for shipment to China are reported as pacific steamship lines in San Francisco note growing imports of beef and canned goods. English, Russian, French, and German agents have placed substantial orders with firms in Kansas City, Chicago, and Omaha, amid wartime naval activity.
Representative Parker of Cleveland proposes a bill to require marriage candidates to undergo medical exams and to make it mandatory for men of marriageable age to wed. Fines are favored for noncompliance, with a heavy annual tax eyed. A Washington report says the U S will not intervene in Nicaragua. the gunboat Newport is at Greytown and the Alert surveys Brite Harbor. Theodore W Schintz, ex banker and lawyer of Chicago, is found guilty of embezzlement and to serve time in the penitentiary. Rumors of a Klondike invasion by 5,000 Japanese laborers surface from San Francisco.
Adolph Sutro ex mayor of San Francisco and builder of the Sutro Tunnel has been declared mentally incompetent. The condition is attributed to advanced age and two strokes of apoplexy.
The aging Lakeport knitting mills reopen this Monday after a month’s closure, resuming full production. In other headlines, Prussia warns on horse imports amid influenza fears, while a suspect faces dual murder charges tied to a California ranch poisoning plot.
Autry, a farmer, killed his father and mother and 10 year old son during a religious dispute at their Mulberry Arkansas home. He also wounded his wife and three other children two seriously. Neighbors halted the raving killer after his clothing burned. The three victims lay beaten and burned in the wrecked scene.
The Kaiser declares that former German subjects now citizens of the United States who aided Prussia in the Franco Prussian war will not receive medals for their service. Milwaukee residents who applied for medals were informed they cannot be issued to current US citizens.
Word arrives of a pitched battle west of Glasgow near the Dakota line in Montana. Cowboys surprised the rustlers who held twenty head of stock. after a hot fight the thieves fled and one is reported dead. Winter thefts have harmed Montana herds as stock was driven across the line into Dakota.
A Kansas City jury in the J. W. Keith diphtheria reporting case failed to agree after seven hours, ending in descarner. The six to six deadlock followed Keith treating a child with diphtheria under Christian Science beliefs and not reporting or placarding the house.
The London Times reports France has no right to an outlet on the navigable Niger for Soudan and Dahomey, challenging Britain’s hold and asserting England must defend its possessions. Minter Brothers win $27,000 damages from Bradstreets Commercial Agency over false rating affecting Sedelia dealers. Wilson gears up to gather Agriculture Department data on fruit shipments to the German empire for possible legal action after prohibition scope is clarified.
Omaha dispatch reports Frank BR Johnson Win HH Johnson and A Shigo bank executives of the defunct Midland State Bank held for trial in district court on fraudulent banking charges. Each posted $2000 bail for appearance.
Archibeld McLaren was arrested in Cleveland on charges of misappropriating 15000 belonging to the Order of Scottish Clans for which he served as treasurer. The shortage emerged when John Hull of St. Louis was elected to replace him. Earthquake felt in Virginia with reports of a loud blast preceding the shake in Lynchburg and southwest Virginia.
A Friday night blaze completely destroyed the YMCA building in Scranton, wiping out two stores and the associated assembly hall. Losses are estimated as very heavy with extensive property damage.
Gentry Hicks and Key of Checotah with J P sold through C M Keys & Co to A Watkinson of Wagoner 00 head of steers from the Naval Stock Yards St Louis for delivery soon. The deal totaled 253 dollars.
A freight train collision near Saturday left seven dead and thirty-six injured. The engineer reportedly manned the freight car while five workers died or were fatally injured. Unclear further details and names due to damaged text.
Reports say Spain will convert the steamship Ciudad de Cadiz at Barcelona into a cruiser to escort a torpedo flotilla to Cuban waters. Congress views the move as portents of open rupture with the United States and urges a quick settlement of the Spanish Cuban dispute. De Lome denies knowledge of the transformation while Washington's navy yard works night and day to arm a potential ancillary fleet for war.
The Seventh Day Adventists run a penny a dish meals program for the poor in Kansas City. A hundred fifty cots fill a large second floor room with basement baths, showers, a clothing fumigation area, and a self-service laundry. Meals are vegetarian with no meat due to cost and cooking concerns.
The Lake Shore Railway was transferred Friday to the New York Central and Studson River Railroad Company. Central directors approved the merger plan uniting the two lines into a single system from New York to Chicago, with proxies in favor from absent directors.
Information from Lethbridge indicates the dominion government has ordered every mounted police officer to be ready to proceed to the Yukon at a moment’s notice for temporary duty. The move follows reports of serious trouble between Canadian and United States authorities in Alaska over duty-free provisions meant for Yukon relief but suspected of being sold to the highest bidder.
An order cuts Union Pacific shop forces 10 percent from Omaha to Ogden. Two hundred seventy workers are dismissed from Omaha, Grand Island, North Platte, Sidney, Cheyenne, Laramie and Ogden, including one hundred from Omaha. Officials decline to state duration of the cut despite a 1,000-man, forty-hour week in Omaha shops.
A Michigan Central freight train from Detroit struck a sleigh near Saginaw Sunday afternoon. The sleigh carried a man and three women. the man and two women died, the remaining woman was badly injured. No crossing gate or flagman was present and the driver could not stop in time.
A St. John N F dispatch reports sixteen fishermen adrift for thirty six hours on an ice floe in Trinity Bay escaped with frostbite and serious injuries due to no fire food or proper clothing.
Congressman Henry 8 Boutell of Illinois Sixth district, who was elected to fill the unexpired term of the late Edward Cook, has been renominated by the Republican Party to seek another term.
A cow derailed a Texas special on the Iron Mountain road near St. Louis Sunday morning, killing Engineer Francey and Fireman Childs, with two passengers slightly injured. The War Department sent Congress an estimate of 225000 dollars for the Deep Waterway project from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic.
A four story Vulcan Iron Works plant in Chicago burned Sunday night, causing an estimated loss of 375,000 funded by insurance.
Commissioner Hermann in Washington ruled on the Arch bishop Ireland of St Paul involving 8000 to 30000 acres bought from the Chicago St Paul Minneapolis and Omaha road. He found the first contract invalid for 5000 acres but upheld rights under the second. Settlers in the first case are protected while the archbishop’s schools on the property are noted.
Cevenuin arrived from Oporto with nine crew members of the wrecked American bark Serene, wrecked December 31 near Lexices, outside Oporto as reported earlier. Captain Dalling stayed aboard to protect owner interests. Worden reprieved again as California Governor Budd extends until June 17 for mental health review.
Three periodicals United including Judge Leslie's Weekly and Demorest's Family Magazine form a single entity under Arkel Publishing Company with W. J. Arkell as president. Publication remains at the Judge building 110 Fifth Avenue New York.
Senator Allen's amendment to the Indian appropriation bill would fund a congress of Indian tribes at the Omaha exposition. The senate committee on Indian affairs favorably reports the measure, proposing a $45,000 appropriation for the service.
Trade prices span Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York and more. Cattle generally 2.50 to 5.50 dollars, hogs 2.00 to 4.50, sheep 2.50 to 5.00, wheat No 2 around 95 cents to 97 cents, corn 26 to 30 cents, oats 22 to 27 cents, rye 40 to 50 cents. butter 15 to 19 cents. eggs 11 to 17 cents. various seed and produce figures included.
Aberdeen dispatch reports Jim Patterson of Minneapolis leading a scheme backed by wealthy Americans to raise 6000 men for a July 4 landing in Cuba. They claim steamers from New Orleans will transport all to Cuba with protection from Spanish interference.
City council urged to curb dog muzzling amid several weeks of hydrophobia like illness in dogs and deaths among stock. Reports say other dogs and cattle are bitten and the situation may worsen.
Peter Ryan of Ienry died by his own action in Watertown jail after pleading guilty to burglary. He and William Gannon of Henry had been sentenced to eighteen months in the penitentiary, with the jail expected to take them there. A miner named James Lintz was killed at the Holy Terror mine in Neystone while coming up. his head struck a projecting beam. He leaves a widow and two children.
The Tyndall post office was burgled about 3 30 in the morning using dynamite to blow open the safe. The break in yielded 200 dollars in cash and 600 dollars in stamps. Tools from local blacksmith shops were stolen. Three arrests were made but released due to lack of evidence.
Lower Brule and Rosebud chiefs meet Indian Commissioner Jones in Washington to discuss moving a portion of the tribes to the Rosebud reserve. Rosebuds seek 1.25 per acre for land given up, Brules want division of annuities funds. No decision yet. another conference and interview with Secretary Bliss planned.
In a circular, Bishop O Gorman admonishes all parish clergy that hosting entertainments or accepting money from dances will lead to suspension. Decree 280 of Baltimore plenary council bans dances as a means to raise church funds.
It was found in recent auditing that B Alderson, treasurer of Highland Township in Land County, is short five hundred dollars. He has disappeared, telling friends he planned to go to Alaska.
South Dakota briefs report Rowena seeking a new bank, Hot Springs sold land to G N Miner, and Deadwood hosts federal court with Judge Amidon. Huron plans a top cornet band, Lead City librarian Mrs. Percy Ford resigns for New York, and J B Bertrand with son Charley head to Akron Iowa for a merchantile venture.
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