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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1894
Page
7
The Mitchell Capital lists annual and short term rates with in advance payments and address changes. Advertising options include business cards locals legal notices and free marriage or death notices while obituaries or resolutions cost per line. The issue dated Friday February 23 1894 covers national political commentary and regional society notes including McKinley and Grow in Pennsylvania and a dispute over press dispatches.
The next valuable public lands to be opened in the Northwest are Yankton Indian reservation lands in South Dakota. Located in a dense, productive section, they fall under the Mitchell land district. Inquiries should be directed to The Daily Republican which is preparing a circular with up to date facts.
In Congress the majority plans to arrest ill Republicans to secure a quorum for roll calls. Ex-Czar Reed sits, urging the opposition with a minstrel style line: Youve got a quorum now.
The piece mocks unproven charges against Gov. Sheldon over public property at Sisseton. It argues Republican claims on factory closures due to tariffs are contradicted by the Wilson bill passage and renewed production. The Argus-Leader urges Republicans to revise their facts after tariff expectations prove false.
The ad notes a ten part photo portfolio of sixteen pictures per part, $1 prepaid through any Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul station agent. Subscriptions ship free by mail after payment. Also brief local notices cover Phelps trial rescheduled to March 19, a potential new trial, and remarks on Democratic officials at the Mitchell land office.
London Feb 22 Mr Gladstone faces criticism from ministers and radicals over his handling of the house of Lords. A cabinet council is set for Friday with possible government action. The Chronicle rails at his speech calling it a painful, undignified sendoff for a great movement and questions leadership age and vigor.
A Des Moines restaurant owner and his wife died after they ingested morphine twice and the husband shot himself. The tragedy follows a separate report from Spring Valley of a college prank story, then a detailed account of a new iron pig iron plant in Bring Valley Wisconsin. The Eagle Iron Company demonstrated conversion of brown hematite ore into pig iron with a daily 150 ton capacity and an annual output near 25,000 tons, employing 500 workers at full operation.
In Fond du Lac Wisconsin a sermon labeled prohibition triggers a formal complaint against Rev William Clark of Division Street Methodist Episcopal church. Presiding Elder Walker travels from the western district to join nine ministers as a jury to hear charges including false pretenses lying quarrelling and disseminating false doctrines with a possible suspension for Clark.
Chicago Fire Underwriters Association votes a 25 percent rate increase on mercantile risks. Estimated premiums affected total 1,500,000 with about 375,000 extra to be collected, to be shared among 130 companies. Fort Hunter report notes six mountaineers led by Coyote Bill head toward Rattlesnake to search for Bonner Newton buried after an avalanche or fall.
The 28th annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, department of New York, begins sessions at 10 o clock in Washington rink as veterans gather in Rochester New York on February 22. A separate dispatch from Yankton South Dakota notes an earlier story about a white wife desertion by Indian Chaska dating back a year.
Des Moines reports the Eagle Tron Company begins furnaces at Spring Valley Wisconsin turning Hemanzs ore into pig iron for the first time in the West. Five hundred men will be employed when fully operational. A mixed bag of other items follows including a double suicide in Des Moines and a deadly chlorine-gas incident at Cornell Freshmen’s Banquet in Ithaca.
Five woodchoppers were caught in a mountain snowslide five miles from Verdi Nevada. Ed Ede was found after 24 hours pinned by a nail between timbers and is hoped to recover. The other four are believed dead. A rescue party searches the snow as two near-cabin workers escaped. Authorities condemn the cabin occupants for not investigating sooner.
St Paul militia officers halted the Company C national boxing contest amid strong interest. The events were declared off after a disruption caused by spilled actions and knocked senselessness, leaving the program abruptly ended and participants unsettled.
Twenty five delegates from the National Woman's Suffrage convention appeared before the House judiciary committee in Washington to argue for woman suffrage after a week of meetings.
A U S Supreme Court case questions whether a French court ruling for about 400000 against Hilton Hughes & Co. can be enforced in the United States. The issue could affect Prince and Princess Colonna custody disputes as well as other international litigation. The decision may set a precedent on honoring foreign decrees here and abroad.
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