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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1887
Page
8
Under W C T U auspices the Mitchell W C U will hold regular meetings on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month in the reading room. The legislature passed stringent amendments to the prohibitory liquor law including a chief of state police, local deputies, search and seizure provisions, and regulated liquor transportation by pharmacists to boost enforcement.
The 1887 letter from Leo XIII to Bishop Ireland praises the Catholic Total Abstinence Union's pledge to abstain from intoxicants. It urges priests to preach against intemperance, viewing it as a root of social ills, and grants apostolic benediction to the American effort. A second fragment notes a weather prophet A M Bethune predicting storms in Dakota and Minnesota.
The New Orleans Picayune reports a Meriden Mississippi porters’ liquor case ruled by Justice Senderson with a fine and hour in jail. Mississippi rail routes ban liquor sales in dry counties. Prohibition cited as economic move affecting races and travel. Rhode Island notes drops in drunkenness after six months. Kansas expands by granting women municipal voting and offices. A new temperance magazine Our Day is planned with editor Joseph Cook. Michigan Missouri Tennessee and West Virginia push statewide prohibition referenda.
A peculiar man entered the Pioneer Press office seeking the weather editor. Described as over fifty with red gray hair, a full beard, and bright eyes, he wore a flannel shirt overalls and cowhide boots. The scene hints at an odd encounter rather than weather details.
The Citizen of Parkston deplores a piece signed by Peter homesteader criticizing the U.S. government and praising a railroad company. The letter claims the author is the same man who stole a county clerk seal and forged free claim filings, fled territory, and faced an official removal. It brands the critique as dishonest and urges honest homesteaders to reject the land grabbers.
Two thirds of the Democratic state convention delegates have arrived in Cleveland since midnight. Donovan of Delaware, linked to 1884-85 legislature allegations, arrived last night prompting Senator Paine to skip local reception committee meetings. The convention plans rapid work with new rules and committee elections tonight.
Charles A Bradley vanished in Sharon Massachusetts just before his planned July 11 wedding to Bridget Finn a Sharon girl. Bans were read in a local church and lodging for the couple was arranged with the ring bought and fitted. Bradley a hatter from Orange New Jersey left on July 1 and has not returned.
Giles Luther, an elderly Warren resident, left his ailing wife to fetch a doctor. He collapsed into Ricky Mule river about four feet deep and could not escape. His body was recovered this morning while his wife died upon arrival at home.
Elizabeth Southwick, an elderly resident near Leicester in Worcester, suffered fatal burns last night when a farmhouse fire broke out. Neighbors arrived as flames spread and found her dead. the house was not entirely consumed.
A morning blaze at Coffatt & Robb tea store in Brooklyn caused $30,000 in damages. Within thirty minutes a second fire on North Second Street inflicted $12,500 in losses. Firemen Ryan and Rourke were severely injured after falling through the roof of the burning building.
In Staverstraw hall New York on July 19 Tom Farrell fought Jack Francis for a $500 purse Francis was knocked completely out in the second round Viandran people urge Mitchell to cooperate on a Duluth road after a letter received today by A E Htzhcoek.
Philadelphia Times recounts Trinity Church in New York as a vast, litigious holder of immense wealth with annual revenues over half a million dollars. It details historic conflicts, charitable works, and gothic interiors as readers are drawn to the graveyard and church symbolism amid a century of legal battles.
Australia thrives despite droughts as irrigation and tanks enable survival in waterless districts. Since 1860, fortunes rose through squatters adapting to climate, with immigration nearing 100,000 yearly. Beef and mutton prices stay low, timber forests abound, and Victoria’s eucalyptus amygdalina towers over California's Sequoia gigantea in height, according to the London Telegraph Australia corresp.
A colossal wine vault rises in Red Bluff with brick walls 30 inches thick and perforated double windows. The 275 by 300 foot building features 250 timber columns, arches, and a brick roof covered by sand cement and asphaltum, topped with a multi peak shingle roof needing 1,500,000 shingles. Storage capacity exceeds 90,000 square feet for massive wine casks.
Observations note brightness changes in Jupiter’s moons with dark transits across the planet. Two moons sometimes cross the disk as dark silhouettes while their illuminated sides face us. The third and fourth moons also show dark transits. the first appears brown at times, the second only as a bright disk. Months of data show many dark transits of the fourth moon and a few of the third, yet the cause remains unexplained.
A Black man in Texas was fatally struck by lightning. Investigators found two horseshoe magnets, two melted copper cents, a partly melted nickel fused to a watch, and a melted nickel rim around a money purse, suggesting unusual heat effects at the scene.
Leslie recalls Queen Victoria's pet spaniel Dash waiting at the palace. On coronation day the kingly routine paused as Victoria heard the dog bark in the hall and hurried to bath him. The scene moved many observers, the queen appearing almost childlike in her robes.
A special term of the district court convened in Day and Marshall counties to try William M. Evans ex-treasurer of Grant county on embezzlement charges from 1881 to 1884. The court excluded 1881 82 evidence for statute of limitations. Gov. L K Church visited Ryan en route to Bismarck and criticized Barrett Warnock while defending his democracy.
In Bismarck on July 20, reports say ex governor Pierce has not accepted the Grand Forks University presidency and may not. trustees urge him, yet he doubts he can devote required time. He is not likely to take the role. Also note an arrest in Minot for stealing 300 from a conductor, with sheriff Mountain handling the prisoner.
Louis Hanitch of Winchester Hanitch firm is named district attorney by county commissioners to fill the vacancy from George P. Flannery's removal. Hanitch, 25, is a Democrat from Minneapolis.
In Yankton on July 19 excitement grows over the petition count before the county commissioners for a prohibition election with many names rejected as illegal voters.
Gen Tyner will resign this week from the North Dakota civil service commission. The state holds its first meeting in Fargo on August 20. Postmaster Judd is expected to fill the vacancy.
In Grand Forks on July 18 the Fargo Grand Forks exhibition ended 5 to 4 in favor of Grand Forks. The game was the closest played in town yet. A second game is scheduled for tomorrow. In Webster Dakota the Webster Andover clash finished 15 to 13 with Webster prevailing. In Watertown Henry fell 12 to 2.
R B Tripp described as the only young man in Yankton married in Sioux City to Maude Fellows formerly a Yankton high school assistant. The notice comes from a Yankton source familiar with the couple’s background. The second item reports Prof Forbes warning in Springfield Illinois that chinch bugs have spread northward threatening the 1888 wheat crop unless weather moderates.
Hogarth's Chiswick home is in neglect while Gen Buckner once edited in New Orleans. Theodore Roosevelt shows Texas ranch interest. James Russell Lowell ages rapidly. Joseph H Choate occupies a Stockbridge antique house. Captain Hussey, famed rescuer at Castle Garden, cannot read. Stanford's vineyard spans 5000 acres, the world's largest. Will M Carleton becomes Hillsdale trustee. Patrick Collins sails to Europe for two months. John Donaghue sculpts a life size John L Sullivan.
A collection of home advice on bathing, nails, odors, ironing, and wall cleaning. It also lists brief biographical notes on Rev Walpole Warren, Prof Henry Drummond, General Stephen Thomas, the Ossory bishop, and Mr Edison. Additional items mention Newmanstown blacksmith astronomer Lawrence Ibach, G W McCormic of Thomasville, Joaquin Miller, John Vance Cheney, Jon P Trish, and Baseball matters involving Sneed, Fields, Leary, Troy, Kelly, King, Hudson, and Senator Gorman.
A San Francisco firm presses bricks from coal ashes claiming strength without baking or burning. A fringe theory on earth’s fate suggests polar ice wedges the globe and triggers a fiery explosion. Piano tunings could drift due to air dryness affecting sounding boards, not wood expansion.
A rosebush near Murraysville Pennsylvania bears over 800 fully open blossoms with many more buds. A New Lisbon Ohio florist reports a graft of Canterbury bells atop foxglove, the flowers perfect. An elder named Ward in Iowa Mich shows a curious full orange with a lemon segment grown on one side. A Burlington New Jersey tree felled after 150 years measured twenty feet in circumference. A silver maple in Middletown Illinois reached sixteen feet around from a twig planted by a traveler in 1840.
A Mitchell visitor reports rapid town growth with new business blocks on the main street and a 120 foot deep three story corner building. Homes for Seaman Bracy and Edgerton rise as other residences and industrial firms expand aided by the St Paul Minneapolis Omaha railroad. Water comes from a 500 foot artesian well while local editors and clergy share news and support Yankton College.
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