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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1893
Page
7
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The issue lists advertising charges for various lines and notices with free marriage and death notices. It notes Pierre's artesian well producing 1 000 gallons per minute and cites other regional items including Yankton student issues and Chicago directory figures. It mentions South Dakota crop headlines from St Paul and bank safety for the Agricultural College funds. Senator Petter is criticized for Pop Party gains.
The June Art Amateur highlights World’s Fair exhibits in art and sculpture, women’s work in the fine arts, and British and Swedish paintings with descriptive critique. It also carries continuing practical pieces on miniature painting and painting on glass, July wildflowers, and design designs for wood carving china painting and embroidery. Omega by Slammarion appears in The Cosmopolitan July issue, praised as a masterwork with philosophical aims, likely to become a classic, while The House of the Dragons drew wide criticism in a Cosmopolitan issue.
Two young men drowned in the Jim River within ten miles northeast of town after attempting to swim across. Karl Bills, about 20, from Davenport, Iowa, attempted the crossing and sank after crying for help. His body was recovered after an hour of dragging. A second man, Joseph Herzog, 30, of the area, slipped into a deep hole while retrieving fishing line and drowned. Henry Swindler tried to save him and nearly perished himself before Koch and others aided in recovering Herzog, who was laid to rest after a 3 pm ceremony. A telegram to Bills’s widowed mother prompted her planned Tuesday arrival.
A daughter of Bishop Potter replies on life problems and the other side of the question in the July number. The issue features Murat Halstead on the City of Brooklyn, Chas. Lummis on New Mexican Indians games, Margaret Manton Merrill on Sorosis, Capt. Thos. Selfridge recounting the Cumberland and Merrimac fight, a piece on The Deserted Homes of New England, a Brussels Monetary Conference account, Opie Read’s southwest tale, and a contribution by Mr. Howells among many papers.
Washington July 6 Hon Thomas W Palmer president of the World's Columbian commission has resigned due to interference and querulousness from the local fair directory his resignation now rests with the secretary of the treasury.
At the Chicago World’s Fair on July 4 night a panic broke out as crowds surged onto the platform after fireworks. Elevators halted entry, causing a stampede that trampled about 100 people. Ambulances carried 15 to hospitals, with nine in serious condition. Downtown streets remained clogged as hundreds slept on building steps.
A Chicago postoffice bulletin reports thousands of misdirected letters piled in the basement, with about two tons awaiting destination tracing. The surge stems from lodging houses and flats labeling themselves hotels, making street addresses essential for delivery. Also noted: ten Six Nations Indians arrive at Wamps Fair Grounds, including Solomon Obail, a descendant of Corn Planter.
Venezuela dedicates its exposition building with ceremonies on the anniversary of independence. The event marks a milestone in national progress at the fair grounds with formal exercises and patriotic proceedings.
Grassland stock barns at Sandy Hill New York burned destroying sixteen horses and fixtures. Owner George Conklin, a noted horseman, faces an estimated seventy five thousand dollar loss with minimal insurance coverage. The blaze joins a string of fires impacting Eastern New York farms.
The Sun's New York special reports Justice Blatchford near death in Newport with only liquid nourishment and a prognosis of about a week to ten days as his condition worsens.
On the racecourse a horse left the track and struck the survey of M. M. Madgen, county attorney, cutting it in two. The attorney and his wife, riding in a conveyance, were unhurt.
July 6 report from New York states Speaker Crisp was somewhat ill at the Hoffman House in the morning. To recuperate for a few days he plans to go to Long Branch. Also notes the Belgic steamer from the Orient via Honolulu arrived off shore five miles out at 11 o'clock a.m.
Fay Go advertises ladies shoes at 2.50 and 2.00 in black and tan, plus high grade shoes and new ready made tea gowns and wrappers. Shoppers are urged to come early to choose before the assortment is broken.
A lightning bolt struck a Joe Cross farm house near Gagetown Michigan at 3 a.m. during a severe storm. Ten people were inside. five were killed or burned, one survivor likely fatally injured, and Mrs. Roberts severely injured. The dead include Mr. Babcock and his wife and child from Silverwood, Mr. Frost of Fostoria, and the five year old son of Mr. Roberts.
Fred Denny his wife and two children drowned when a whirl wind capsized their boat while crossing the Minnesota river near Belle Prairie five miles west of the city. A brother who witnessed the accident failed to salvage them. Denny worked at Riverside mill in town and came to spend the Fourth with his parents.
In St Paul on July 6, little Mary Chapel died at 1 am following hours of agony from injuries sustained on July Fourth. Medical efforts were exhausted as doctors fought to ease her pain though initial hope for recovery dimmed under the severe shock to her frail system. Her death marks the final consequence of the accident.
Fresno California July 5 John Sontag the bandit died in jail here from injuries received in the fight with officers.
An afternoon paper carries a letter from a French-Canadian tourist with Abbe Morin describing June 30 landslide deaths. Twenty Finns working on the Canadian Pacific line near Schrieber, twenty miles west, were killed.
The British battleship Camperdown, which sank the Victoria near Tripoli during maneuvers with the Mediterranean squadron, has reached Valetta Malta. The extent of damage from the collision was not made public.
The state Chautauqua at Devils Lake North Dakota proves a great success. It sits on the lake shore attracting visitors who are enraptured by the beauty and attractions. Large numbers arrive by train and stay in tents or hotels.
In Hauser Junction, Spokane, on July 5 at 8 o'clock pm, Dennis Collins a discharged Northern Pacific section hand shot section foreman M M Coleman probably fatally. Intervening bystander Jack Dugin was shot and killed. Collins was intoxicated.
Washinaron July reports that Secretary Mortons plans a 25 percent reduction of the Bureau of Animal Industry expenses and may abolish meat inspection, potentially saving about 150000 dollars yearly. Paris July 5 E J Phelps for the United States continued his closing address before the Beringsed tribunal, examining Russia's 1799 and 1821 rights and related US protests and treaties.
Hx Speaker Crisp came to Washington from Atlanta and went directly to the treasury department for an interview with Secretary Carlisle. The discussion lasted about 20 minutes as he traveled north on the suggestion of Carlisle.
ChicaGo July 1 John Berry the cowboy who led the wild west show arrival from ChardonNebraska has been formally awarded the first prize of 1000 dollars by the committee
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