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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1892
Page
4
New York, Feb 6 Henry Villard president of the Edison General Electric Light company confirmed reports of talks to merge with the Thomson Houston company of Boston. Details not yet complete and a speedy conclusion is anticipated.
A El Reno dispatch reports Secretary Noble’s ruling canceling Major Forman’s homestead entry triggered a mob rushing for best parcels. Law and order falter as county officers flee. Governor Seay orders arrests and protection for improved titles amid fraud claims. Three fires in San Diego incite incendiary suspicion and a provocative Croker exoneration claim surfaces in New York.
RaLeicu Feb 10 In The Gazette editor John H Williamson colored announces his candidacy for congress. His platform seeks compensation for ex slaves as Lincoln proposed, paying 300 dollars each to liberate them and end the war. He cites letters from across the country praising his views.
Twenty vagrants appeared in Campaign Illinois stopping people to beg then robbed suspects captured by police face highway robbery charges. Other items include embezzlement case in Hastings England and a prominent Wisconsin pioneer George E. Cabanis who knew Lincoln. Marble quarry found near Bona parte Iowa and a rapid city South Dakota cashier Lincoln bound over for grand jury. Heavy snow in Ishpeming Michigan blocks streetcars and slows travel.
Seventeen bodies recovered from the burned Royal Hotel in Memphis as workers press on through the ruins. Early finds include a severely burned clothless woman, a man missing limbs, and a second heavily scorched, well formed woman. A naked body with limbs burned was unearthed, with odor of decay signaling more remains nearby.
A six story Cruz-Berne Hat Company building at 230 Main Street burned from 9:30 p.m. until midnight as flames destroyed adjacent Langstaff Hardware, a trunk factory, and other properties. No deaths reported though losses likely exceed one million dollars. Luehrman’s Hotel and Ruby Saloon also damaged. Firefighters fought unabated for hours with limited success.
At 10 15 between Wayne Junction and Vicetown on the Bound Brook track of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad engine 159 blew up while pushing freight train 504 up a steep grade. Three men were killed and four injured two of whom will die. Killed were George Reardon and Harry Moore and an unknown man. Injured were Hugh Dougherty John J Moore John Buck and Jerome D Miller. The engine turned over and iron blocks flew through the air.
The Osage company's mine here is on fire and two miners, Robert Thompson and James Smith, are believed dead. Smoke rose rapidly as workers attempted escape. companions carried them some distance before abandoning them to save themselves. Water poured into the mine, but the blaze shows no abatement. The Osage company owns the Krebs mine where a recent disaster occurred.
Catarina E. Garza, Mexican revolutionary leader, sends a letter dated January 31 1892 from La Sierrieta Tamau lapas Mexico to President Harrison. He defends actions as not violating neutrality laws, explains traveling through U S territory as a Texas resident aiding insurrection, and forwards the letter for publication. The missive does not reveal movement progress.
New York reports Captain James Monahan a Canarsie resident with thirty years at sea plans a perilous crossing in a sixteen foot cedar boat built by himself. Provisions for 100 days, voyage expected in sixty days, canvassed cabin to shield from seas.
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