08 Jan 1886
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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1886
Page
1
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An advertisement states gas can be administered and teeth extracted without pain. It promotes plate work, prompt service, and lowest rates in Dakota. The ad asserts quality work, warranted results, and cites city references with office hours at First National block over Champeyn's store.
The Kansas City River Improvement convention passes resolutions urging Congress to fund Missouri and western waterway projects. They seek half of the Missouri Commission's request for 1887, seats for Missouri Valley members on the House harbors and rivers committee, and a light system from Kansas City to Fort Connor with federal aid. A two-member per state delegation is proposed to press Congress, plus a Kansas River clearance bill to remove obstructions and spend 180000 dollars for improved transit. They urge presidential focus on western waterway needs and highlight risks to the Missouri River bridge at Ft. Leavenworth.
An editorial review defends the Mitchell Printing Company, owner of the Daily Republican and Weekly Capital, as a growing Mitchell industry. It highlights jobs, circulation efforts, local advertising value, and plans to expand printing capacity and services in the Dakota town.
Mail reports from Panama recount a fatal boating accident near Talcahuano during the festival voyage of the Silva and Gonzales families. A sudden capsize after shifting sails left seven aboard dead or missing, with five drowned and bodies recovered later including multiple relatives and a Chinaman.
The Yankton Press reports a newly appointed Douglas County Democrat postmaster may face questions over implications of a contested claim by his mother. The outcome could affect his standing within the department if the claim is not clarified.
Medill recalls his youthful aim to lead the public toward virtue through a newspaper yet notes that reform papers fail to attract readers. He observes that many supporters advocate reform of others while neglecting their own business and cites examples of a shoe merchant and a dry goods dealer with flawed goods.
Elizabeth Knoch, mother of murdered Frank I Knoch, died Friday night amid suspicions of poisoning. Post mortem revealed a fractured skull with no external mark. The Knoch family has suffered four suspicious deaths including a father found dead from a possible horse kick, a missing brother later found with violence marks, and a fire killed another son with wife and two babies.
Washington dispatch reports Dakota Democrats favor admitting the territory in full. They back Boynton's enabling act calling a constitutional convention in Bismarck on the first Tuesday in December 1886, with delegates from each county and additional reps from populated areas based on this year’s census. The move aims to preempt separate statehood action by creating a unified plan.
The article discusses a bill seeking 25000 dollars to fund a convention expenses. If the enabling act passes at the upcoming Forty-ninth congress short session, Dakota's constitutional draft would go to Congress requiring majority approval in both houses to admit Dakota as a state. Democrats argue Black Hills and North Dakota allies would back the plan and that it could influence South Dakota’s admission and Fargo convention ties to admission politics.
The Opera House in Chamberlain hosted a crowded installation of Grand Army Post officers with many out-of-town guests. An elegant supper and dancing followed the ceremony, featuring Com. A. J. Guilford and officers C. M. Lockwood J. V. H. P. Fish C. F. Berry Thos Kilfeather E. C. Stevens S. G. Stoddard IT. A. Stevens J. F. Sisson.
Washington December 31 agents of the Sharon estate filed a deed dated November 4 1885 by which ex Senator Sharon transfers all property in the city and elsewhere to sons Fred G Sharon and Francis G New, in trust for named heirs. The document addresses Miss Sarah Althea Hill and asserts she is not Sharon’s wife, noting a recent circuit court decision adverse to her claim. Property in the city valued at about a quarter million dollars remains withdrawn pending trustees’ notification and future market listing. Much of the land was acquired to satisfy a trust deed to ex Senator Stewart and Judge Sunderland of the California syndicate which bought blocks in the northwest city in 1871.
A masked pair of boy burglars raided Theodore Wolf's home on Narrison Pike outside Cincinnati early Sunday. They threatened Mrs Wolf, ransacked the house, and fled. Mrs Wolf fell ill from the shock and the robbers remained at large with the event described in dramatic dime novel style.
To Mutual Advantage Ottawa reports the Grand Trunk and Canada Pacific Railway Companies have agreed to reduce expenses at locations where both operate with ticket agents, aiming to streamline operations and cut costs.
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