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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1900
Page
10
A terse item noting Berly Capital Mitchell and the Hell Printing Co of Punisurre, South Dakota. The brief mentions the firms in connection with a local business matter or filing. No further details provided in the fragment.
The Supreme Court on the 22nd reversed a lower court ruling in the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad case against South Dakota railroad commissioners. It orders the lower court to investigate the railroad earnings to reach the equities of the case and determine the state maximum rate.
York reports Count Boni de Castellane and his wife arriving January 22 in France. They stayed at The Nigaro hotel and deny losing millions in speculation. He plans a formal denial upon returning and accuses The Parisian Figaro of a calumny.
Duke of Teck dies after an illness of several days in January. He had been in declining health since the death of his wife last year. Duchess Teck was Queen Victoria’s cousin.
Fort Scott Kansas reports George Silbee and Ed Meeks half brothers formerly from Kansas City were lynched by a mob in the county jail yard on the 20th inst. They had been convicted of first degree murder in the Leopold Edlinger case and implicated in a gang of thieves. Amos Phillips survived as a targeted witness and the mob battered doors and tore through the jail.
Ex-Congressman David G. Colson, former colonel of the Fourth Kentucky Regiment, is indicted on two counts of murder. The grand jury plans further testimony on the killing of bystander Charles Julian and Lieut. Ethelbert Scott. Noted lawyers Bailey Clayton Houck and others offer defense services.
Capt. Frederick J. Mills former Idaho lieutenant governor was acquitted Jan. 22 of murdering John C. O Melveny chief engineer of the Oregon Short Line in Salt Lake City. The defense rested on a plea that a husband may kill a wife's seducer and the wife confessed the affair.
Wireless dispatch from January twenty two notes a pack train of twenty ponies carrying rations between Santo Tomas and San Pablo in Laguna province was ambushed on the twentieth. Fifty men under Lieut. Ralston of the Thirtieth Infantry suffered casualties with two killed five wounded and nine missing. The party was lost and Ralston with thirty four men returned to Santo Tomas with the dead and wounded. An investigation is underway.
Boston catcher Martin Bergen slaughtered his wife and two children in North Brookfield Massachusetts then killed himself with an axe and razor. Neighbors found the family bodies, authorities suspect mental derangement may have driven the crime connected to past baseball manager issues.
In Pottsville Pennsylvania the body of William Galloway fire boss at the Dodson Coal Company Kaska William Mine was recovered January 21 after a December 17 entombment by coal fall. A sheet on a brattice door bore a note to wife Janie and children Guy and Willie, saying I think I am gone and good bye.
The Doric reports a fresh plague outbreak in Honolulu with six deaths since the China’s departure, bringing total deaths to twenty-eight and twenty-six cases in hand. Honolulu's Chinatown is being burned and efforts to stamp out the disease are underway.
A Manila report claims an American soldier fired at Gen Otis on the firing line but the shooter was not captured. In San Francisco the Chinese Six Companies, aided by Consul Ho Yow, pledge 17500 dollars reward to end Chinatown highbinder violence. Swiss authorities grant limited import rights for American dried and certain fresh fruits after inspection at Basle.
In Wellsville Pennsylvania William J. Thomas, a miners leader, shot and fatally wounded a sheriff posse member guarding a mine. Thomas fled to Roaring Branch and is pursued. In Kansas City Missouri former policeman John J. Kelly was shot and died in a saloon quarrel with bartender Worth Bailey, who was arrested en route to the station over a disputed bill.
Chicago cattle ranges from common to prime at 3.00 to 6.75 dollars, hogs 3.00 to 5.00, sheep 3.00 to 5.00, grains include No 2 red wheat 62 to 66 cents, corn 52 to 88 cents, oats 22 to 28 cents, rye 53 to 55 cents, butter 24 to 26 cents, eggs 16 to 18 cents, potatoes 40 to 50 cents per bushel. similar figures for Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York and other markets with varying grades and prices.
Black Hills citizens form Black Hills Monument Association to build a granite monument in Spearfish for six volunteer companies from the Spanish and Philippine wars. Fundraising shows Spearfish residents contributing $146 as the group plans two acres for a park with a 6 by 8 ½ foot base monument and a 6 foot high bronze soldier statue.
Tom Condon, a Sioux range cowboy, wed Miss Lillie Wilson at Pierre Jan le after parental opposition and a daring escape from gunfire. The couple faced license hurdles but secured marriage rights and escaped parental interference.
Sheriff Thompson seeks George and Harry Smith under a Nebraska requisition for grand larceny. Burlington brakeman F J Bradley fractured his back after being knocked from a box car near Dumont. Mrs. H G Fuller, wife of the supreme court judge, dies at Yankton hospital. Three new towns planned along the Charles Mix extension with auction next month in Armour. Parkston gains telephone service linking to the outside world. Buell and Newcomer likely kept as letter carriers without civil service exam at Huron. Mull and Son meat market Canton closes with debts about 1800 and assets around 500.
In a habeas corpus case before Judge Carson the court reversed the lower ruling, holding that the governor must personally examine and issue requisition papers. The opinion states that warrants signed by the governor’s secretary or others are invalid, and that extradition warrants require the governor’s direct action with possible AG advice, to protect citizen liberty.
In the Mankinton bank failure creditors are expected to recover no more than 50 cents on the dollar. A receiver is sought by non-attaching creditors with H Auld named by many, as liabilities top $31,000 against assets near $500. The examination committee filed its report.
The Senate discussed Philippine resolutions led by Mr. Bacon with Pettigrew opposing the administration. The House moved to consider urgent deficiency bills and a census measure, while debates touched on Gage, the gold standard, and foreign policies including British actions in the war and Transvaal questions.
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