Mitchell Printing Co issuer of Weekly Capital
Mitchell Printing Co publishes the Weekly Capital in S D with local notices and ads.
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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1897
Page
10
Mitchell Printing Co publishes the Weekly Capital in S D with local notices and ads.
In Burles case sugar trust witness, Judge Bradley orders acquittal. He finds senate committee questions unpertinent and beyond jurisdiction, freeing Searles. Edwards and Shriver cases postponed.
Divine healer Schrader fled a St. Louis suburb after a hostile crowd gathered near his hotel corner as he prepared to leave. He attempted to address the crowd, urged that opponents rejected God, and then fled on a bicycle south from the courthouse amid stones. He was struck in the neck by a missile but suffered no serious injury.
New York inventor William A. Eddy has secured the first double photograph in midair using a special apparatus after a year of study. The device can photograph the entire horizon from midair and may capture ships ten miles beyond the horizon, offering potential wartime advantages.
Thousands of reapers operate across central and northern Texas and the Panhandle. Wheat may yield 20 000 000 to 40 000 000 bushels with prices around 60 cents per bushel. Cotton crops and labor demand noted. Dispensary law challenged in Charleston. Credit Men convention to host 400 delegates in Kansas City June 9 to 11. Five children cremated in Waston West Virginia. Filibuster steamer Dauntless reportedly captured. Railroads under interstate commerce probe. International City Press Clubs to meet in New York. Prince Luigi Arrives in New York seeking duties at Mt Elias.
A 4 year old boy from Bill Griffin’s family near Selma was lured by a piece of hoe cake, placed in a hanging oat sack by his 70 year old grandmother Millie Griffin, burned alive when the sack ignited. An uncle later found the infant amid groans, neighbors objected to lynching the accused woman.
Pittsburgh police raided an anarchist picnic grove near Pittsburgh on Sunday arresting forty seven men. Charges include disorderly conduct and violating city ordinances prohibiting beer sales. Rifles and ammunition were seized amid claims of lotteries and a non erected shooting gallery. Bauer and Nold, released from the penitentiary after a riot at Homestead, are among those arrested and condemn the raid as an outrage.
Minnie Heidt, 22, of near Mt. Clemens Michigan, shot and killed her father Frederick Heidt after he attacked her with a razor in their home. Heidt, intoxicated and threatening, pursued the daughter, who wrested the blade and fired a loaded pistol, striking him in the temple and killing him instantly. Minnie was arrested.
Post office department clarifies that private mailing cards bearing written messages remain charged at letter rates. Despite inquiries in Washington, Congress has not authorized 1 cent private postal cards, and such cards are mailed under standard postage.
Isaac J. Hill, a Farmington farmer living with his elderly mother, was murdered Sunday night by burglars who bound the woman and violently attacked Hill before shooting him. No money was found, and no suspects or clues are identified.
Reports say a quake lasting about a minute rocked Washington and several cities from Ohio to Tennessee. No serious damage reported though chandeliers swayed and windows rattled in capitals and busy streets.
The Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bar Wisconsin will close for the summer after the movable floor of the dome, seventy five feet in diameter, fell forty five feet. The floor was suspended by iron cables one broke causing the fall crushing electrical equipment and possibly disturbing delicate telescope machinery.
Frank Schrader, 16, part of a high school picnic party, was shot in the lungs at Fairmont Park by Mrs. Walter McCowan after seeking needle and thread for torn trousers. The injury is fatal. A separate Johns Hopkins report notes a female leper isolated there after diagnosis, awaiting removal by health authorities.
Mildred Brewster shot Annie Wheeler and then wounded herself in a suspected jealousy tragedy at a Huntington Vermont farm. The case centers on alleged romantic jealousy and a potential double fatal outcome.
El Diario de la Marina in Havana criticizes Commissioner Calhoun indirectly by denouncing articles by Mr Pepper, alleging private insiders on the mixed commission details were disclosed. The piece accuses Pepper of bias against Spain and notes New York papers in Havana under U.S. consular influence.
A spring wagon with eight children traveling home from a friend's house was struck by a Denver and Rio Grande train. Four children died and the others were severely injured, with two in critical condition. Police allege the driver Henry Marsan was intoxicated and ignored signals.
Theodore Durrant will hang on June 11 for the murder of Blanche Lamont in San Francisco. Gov Budd told Warden Hale to place the death watch and then left for San Francisco, with secrecy kept on the governor's prepared statement. Johnstown flood anniversary observed with flowers on the unidentified victims' graves.
Regional quotes show cattle and hogs trading in narrow ranges from Chicago to New York. Grain prices vary by grade with No 2 red wheat around 69 to 90 cents, corn 23 to 30 cents, oats 17 to 28 cents, rye 34 to 38 cents, and specialty grains plus dairy and egg values mixed among markets.
Railroad commissioners in Sioux Falls prepare new schedules to cut South Dakota rates starting July 1. Hearings begin July 17 with public input invited. Three attorneys named to oppose railroads' resistance. Also reports show crops in good condition across many counties. A peculiar natural shaft discovery near Custer City is noted along with various legal and local news items.
A year after Fanny Durand reported obscene letters from Wessington Springs, Henry Haffy was thought drowned. Durand received a letter from Haffy in Nebraska offering $50 to withdraw. U S marshal pursues him for trial as authorities plan to place his letter writing under control.
Supreme court judge Carson on May 26 sustains legislature repeal of the prohibitory amendment, declaring article 24 no longer part of the state constitution. The report also covers Southern Dakota Baptist Association actions, a Vermillion murder prelim, a major mining deal near Lead City, Eastern Star officers elected, a Pierre fraud case, pioneer editor L D F Poore’s death, Redfield veterans encampment plans, and other regional notices.
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