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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1890
Page
8
A sweep through recent congressional activity notes Wyoming statehood moves sending a bill to the president, while the Senate pushes ahead with the silver bill conference report and a variety of fiscal items. Debates touch on foreign relations, land claims, and maritime subsidies as the two houses adjourn between sessions.
Rev. C. L. Haysen of the new Congregational church on High Street was arraigned before Justice Upchurch Ravine Wisconsin on a complaint by Mrs. Mary Albright alleging the minister used abusive language. Haysen pleaded not guilty and the case was adjourned for one week. The complainant says the pastor called her names on April 23 and on other occasions while Rev. Winson claims the charge is false and that she has been troublesome in the congregation leading to her expulsion last Sunday. He says she called him a day swindler and abused other ladies. Hansen is confident he can prove innocence.
A party of workmen excavating in Smithfield street Pittsburg were buried when sandy ground caved in Michael Eagan and two others were trapped rescuers freed them shortly after but Eagan was fatally injured and expected to die.
The Commercial and Industrial Company of the Congo launches a seven European expedition to map the Upper Congo. Departures span June to July with a rendezvous at Kinshasa Stanley Pool in September. They will travel by river to Lomami and overland toward Nyangwe, aiming to stay one year to eighteen months.
Short lived First New York precinct police raids failed to close bucket shops. A new Pacific slope mining stock room uses chalked quotes and a box of daily prices to create “deals” with a five point daily range. A separate Montreal incident uncovers forged drafts tied to a Chicago man named G. W. Young.
Depew arrives in London praising the Chicago World’s Fair and plans support. Henry M. Stanley enjoys healthful honeymoon days in Melcher Court. Detective Mahoney wounded by horse thieves near Lockbourne. Frank H. Holme dies by self inflicted gunshot after cigarette related illness. Central American tensions prompt US warship readiness. Large rail land sale completed in New Mexico. Monon Route collision near Smithville with fatalities. Valencia cholera rumors denied. British investors blocked in Chicago stock sale.
Financial panic wanes in Montevideo while surging in the Argentine Republic with gold at a 320 percent premium. In Payette County Georgia a white black riot leaves four black people dead as rioters remain armed. In Danbury Connecticut a daring jewelry heist yields diamonds valued at nine thousand dollars and seven hundred dollars in cash. A carriage collision in Binghamton New York kills Mrs Cleveland widow of Tioga County sheriff and injures two other women.
Reports from the Dakotas describe hot dry winds and scattering hail in Jamestown Aberdeen and Stutsman and Barnes counties. Wheat yields vary with experts predicting around twenty to thirty bushels per acre and harvest set in within one to two weeks in some areas.
The Signaal Service Bureau provides a weekly weather bulletin noting cooler than usual conditions east of the Mississippi and along the south Atlantic coast, with warmer extremes in the Gulf states and northern Rockies. Cotton crops advancing rapidly, and overall rainfall patterns show deficits east of the Rockies but excess in the Great Lakes and Pacific coast areas, with drought persisting in parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and Nebraska.
Wealthy San Francisco Chinese trader Wag Yin Wan and attorney Moury have purchased 15 million acres on the Tehauntepec isthmus with plans for large Chinese colonies. They will ship colonists from China, targeting coffee tobacco indigo and tea on the new tracts despite high heat.
Snow collapses across the Central Alps with ongoing heavy falls. Rivers from the southern Tyrolean Alps flood the Adige valley. The city of Trent, Austria with around 20 000 residents is partially submerged.
The market report shows live stock prices and receipts at Sioux City and South Omaha with hogs firm and higher, cattle steady, and sheep steady. Chicago hogs advance while cattle and sheep ease. grain futures note steady to mixed values with provisions and cash prices listed for September and current contracts.
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