Bennard's Bid Faces Belmont In Close Scrimmage
Bennard eyes a tight matchup with Belmont in a late season scrimmage. The action features Bennard’s offense testing Belmont’s defense as teams prepare for upcoming league play.
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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1897
Page
8
Bennard eyes a tight matchup with Belmont in a late season scrimmage. The action features Bennard’s offense testing Belmont’s defense as teams prepare for upcoming league play.
A churchyard shooting during a Methodist service in Pleasant Valley Dallas left Augustus Garrison and Frank Jones dead and Thomas Jones wounded. The trio, from rival plantation families, opened fire as worship continued, then fled into the yard where Garrison and Jones died on the steps and Jones lay crippled with a pistol in hand.
The Indian government steamer sent to search reports the Aden wrecked off the island of Socotra at Africa's eastern coast. Thirty four passengers from China and Japan were aboard. many were lost, saved, or missing. Thirty five crew and officers were listed among the dead or unaccounted for.
Unknown assailants dynamited several homes in South Scranton causing injuries. Toon Olchotski owner of a two story block and other residents were hurt while attempting to rescue family members. The incident ties to local political and church disputes fueling tensions in the Polish Catholic community.
John L Sullivan to spar with Fitzsimmons in Brooklyn Ambrose Park on July 5 for a four or six round bout rain or shine. If Sullivan shows creditable ability a finish contest may be arranged. Sullivan to receive a share of the gate receipts and the bout is staged for the holder of the championship under manager Frank Dunn.
Old prospector T. Sutherland of Manitou reports a bona fide gold strike on the Phoenix property east slope of Pike's Peak. Ore runs 100 dollars per ton at an altitude of 10 095 feet. Backers James Russ of Harrisburg and Neal of Tyrone plan a tunnel 809 feet into the mountain near a crater linked to Cripple Creek rock.
A runaway horse-drawn carriage near Evanston north of Chicago injured eight picnickers and fatally hurt one after frightened by a girl in a white dress crossed the road. A second load of picnickers ahead then avoided a collision.
Queen Victoria bids farewell to public duties after Jubilee day in London and plans to retire from active state work. She will delegate official functions to the Prince and Princess of Wales and restrict her duties to Windsor Balmoral or Osborne in the years ahead. The queen believes she has done enough after sixty years of service and will rest while the heir bears ongoing responsibility.
A Sunday night bank burglary in Rogers & Son, Chagrin Falls, Ohio involved wiring to trolley and streetcar rails to form an arc light that melted the safe knob. The plan included a sand cushion to catch molten metal and avoid fire. no clue to the culprits.
The article credits C. A. Pillsbury of Minneapolis with controlling the visible July wheat supply in the United States, noting some long lines held by Chicago and St. Louis and other parties but not enough to refute the claim. It mentions wheat in transit and at Duluth and hints at a broader market influence.
Union iron mills, tin plate plants, and sheet mills across the country will close in June and stay shut until wage scales are resolved. Officials say no serious trouble is expected and the delay in adjusting schedules before year end does not mean a strike is planned.
The queen of England, via the press, expresses thanks for loyalty and affection shown by letter and telegraph from across the empire.
A Missouri City trestle collapse as the St. Louis express from Kansas City derailed after a heavy rain. Five mail clerks and a baggage master died. nineteen injured are reported, none critically, with Mrs. W. H. Wilkinson of Kansas City among the seriously hurt.
In the Senate on Saturday at 2 30 p m Senator Pettigrew Silver Republican of South Dakota halted mid speech as facial paralysis and loss of voice struck him. He was aided by colleagues and taken home with doctors noting a slight apoplexy but no immediate danger. He was advised to avoid excitement for a time.
Reports from Havana on Saturday claimed insurgent leader Gen. Maximo Gomez was killed near the Puerto Principe military line. By Sunday officials altered the claim to say he was seriously wounded, but outside circles few believe the report.
A section of the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus line carrying Goodrich Rubber, Diamond Rubber, and Akron India Rubber workers collided with a Baltimore and Ohio engine at Millersburg Ohio on Sunday. Multiple passengers were injured, some seriously, with three believed fatally hurt. The trip was to Hiawatha Park.
A severe rain and hail storm hit the Black Hills Thursday and Friday, sweeping away Ed A Webster near Redwater Creek, flooding a reservoir near Belle Fourche and damaging U S cavalry camps. Hail two miles wide and drifts three to four feet buried the region as fruit crops were ruined.
Five men attempted a Monday bank robbery at Clay Robinson & Co. in Belle Fourche. one man, Thomas A. Day, was jailed in Deadwood. The cashier A H Marble resisting, was forced to surrender after a misfired shot. A bystander, A Giles, warned the town as shots shattered windows. A pursuer captured a robber with nearly $400 on him, though not from the bank. $75 was seized from the others. Separate items note a Milwaukee conductor fined for ejecting a tramp, a tax debate over benevolent lodge property in Lead, a fatal boyhood kick, mutilated coins traced to Omaha via train boys, a potential state surveyor appointment, a regency case with a June hearing, and two lawyers admitted to the bar.
Joe Kirby was sentenced Friday in Sioux Falls to two years in the penitentiary with hard labor after a reluctant court address by Judge Carland. Kirby’s attorneys filed notice of appeal with bonds set at 3000 dollars and expect a U S Supreme Court decision next winter.
Lee Henegar county auditor elopes with Miss Tlattie Dent daughter of a cattleman from Chamberlain. They traveled to PuK wanna and boarded to Woodman Wisconsin to wed. Miss Dent about 16, marriage blocked in South Dakota, couple expected back in two weeks. Father temper likely to react strongly.
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