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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1890
Page
6
A Harvard Vandals case comes to light as seniors, a junior, and a sophomore from wealthy, prominent university families are accused of defacing St Paul Catholic Church with I B H graffiti. The church and police pursue justice. offenders face dismissal and repair charges with a Monday deadline to leave or be indicted.
A Sunday meeting in the circuit court room at Deadwood organized an auxiliary to the South Dakota enforcement league. Attorney W. Martin led the session with 26 enrolled members including women. saloonkeepers rejected participation. The group aims to raise funds and wage a prohibition campaign in Deadwood and Lawrence County.
A Newark pastor reveals a planned secret bond issuance by Union Pacific to raise 12.5 million for Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern bonds. Lee Higginson & Co. to manage, with bonds due 1899 and secured by Oregon Railway assets. President Adams says the Short Line can be made remunerative despite leases.
A Newark paper reports John D. Peddie, a millionaire trunk maker, born illigitimate. Rev W W Boyd admits telling a reporter of the claim, then says publication was premature yet true. Peddie may sue Boyd and the paper. church trustees dispute Peddie’s status and a family quarrel looms. Sensational developments expected as accusations ripple through the Peddie endowment church.
The house committee on Indian affairs reports the general Indian appropriation bill. It allocates 722000 for day and industrial schools, 100000 for new school buildings, and just under 58 million for overall appropriations. An extra 60000 supports practical farmers and agency supervision, with 50000 to carry out the 1887 act allotting lands in severalty on reservations.
A lightning strike hit Tracy & Avery powder house east of Mansfield, Ohio, igniting more than 5000 pounds of powder and causing a massive blast. Window panes shattered, china knocked from shelves, and houses nearby were wrecked. Two wooden houses across the street collapsed, one vacant, the other housing Henry Koost, his wife, and two children. a month-old baby died, the mother and other child thought fatally injured. Bricks and debris scattered up to a mile away. A special Baltimore & Ohio car carrying railroad officials was wrecked further along.
From Petersburg to Wheeling the train jumped a track and rolled twenty feet over a trestle, turning upside down. Several car occupants were badly hurt. Baltimore & Ohio officials injured include A. H. Johnson badly bruised with head injuries and a broken thigh, J. P. Levee with a broken arm and severe cuts, John Lock badly hurt, A. Walter badly hurt, A. J. Shimpleton badly bruised with a sprained ankle, and a porter slightly injured.
The cracker trust forms a western parallel to the eastern combine with a $10,000,000 capital. Major manufacturers join, the Kennedys sell out, and all establishments contribute goodwill value. Expenses will be centralized to cut costs, especially through a single traveling sales force and bulk purchase discounts. The overall aim is to widen margins by lowering production expenses without raising prices.
A drunken Indian party attacked a government survey camp in the upper Green river country after their liquor request was denied. Engineer Crittenden, chief of the third division, and chainbearers E W Timberlake, George Woods, and Harry Overmeyer were killed. Assistant engineer Jesse Lee was left for dead but reached a nearby ranch in a precarious condition.
Fatal day reports describe engineer Polk's 209 foot fall in Micado mines and a subsequent blast at Aticon mines injuring Thomas Hanigan and likely fatally injuring James O'Donnell. A West Memphis elevator fire kills contractor EE Adams aged 66. Sulphur Deposit bank cashier F. W. Mellyain goes missing along with wife Mrs Anattie Watkins. Coal mine gas incidents prompt safety efforts. Three black men hanged for murder in Texas, confessing before death. Sparks from wire and drownings reported. whaling ship Lancer lost in Japan Sea. Monastery in France blown up amid blackmail attempt. Tilden will dispute decided. Kansas City chosen as diocese see.
An English syndicate led by Charles A. Pillsbury gains control of eight Minneapolis flour mills with a daily capacity of 23,000 barrels through leases of Washburn Crosby mills A B and C, adding over 5 million dollars in cash to Minneapolis. The total city mill capacity reaches 38,570 barrels per day. Lease runs five years with roughly 8 percent annual valuation, pending stockholders vote at month end. Pillsbury to sail for Europe on June 18.
A Mexican Army lieutenant Augustine de Iturbide faces a court martial for publishing letters in the Thimps newspaper that censured the president. Jurors will be summoned this week, with trial likely at Santiago de Pialtalatco military prison. Defense will be Augustin Verdugo. many expect a guilty verdict and executive clemency. Mrs. Iturbide, born in Washington, denies appealing for foreign minister aid.
The Emerald club of the Clan na Gael triangle faction met behind closed doors at its New York headquarters to discuss internal matters. Members refused to disclose proceedings or comment on a delegate election for an upcoming convention.
All persons acquitted of complicity in the Panitza trial except Matheff have been expelled from Bulgaria. Minister Stameruloff exposed a plot by Maj Panitza’s friends to seize Prince Ferdinand during a recent journey and hold him as a hostage for Pauitza’s release. Washington Quindan, a New York stock operator who vanished a month ago with short contracts, has returned and will settle the affair. Duke de Broglie states in a Paris letter that recent memoir extracts attributed to Prince Lalleyrand are not genuine.
Articles reveal consolidation of major cattle interests across Colorado Wyoming New Mexico and Texas under one Denver based Western Union beef company. Key figures include John L Routt G W Basler E I Wilson and others with G G Symes as attorney. The venture aims to dissolve existing corporations and the American cattle trust, unifying assets deeds lands cattle and leases valued at about 5 million dollars with extensive beef production potential.
Rev. T. C. Carter editor of the Methodist Advocate stands accused in a church trial in Marion county. The charges allege that Carter embraced and courted Mary Ann Ramsey now Nelson after a district conference at Pleasant Grove church and visited her room late at night. Witness tampering and subornation are also alleged as the trial proceeds.
The International Typographical Union passed resolutions endorsing the Chase-Breckinridge international copyright bill as introduced and urged Congress to enact it with the original setting and importation clauses. The secretary was instructed to notify the Senate president and House speaker. Separately, Mexican cattle tax tensions rise as authorities bar return of U S stock and threaten sale of cattle found across the border.
Twenty five witnesses watched as two reporters’ lights revealed Mrs. Cadwell as a fraudulent spiritualist. The exposed medium fled the cabinet, shed her “spiritual” disguise, and confessed in tears, with believers threatening legal action. Authorities and attendees weighed pursuing charges.
Talk runs high at the capitol as House members seek home duties and reelection bids while adjournment remains unlikely for several weeks. Republicans target June 25 for adjournment to claim a short session, but Speaker Reed says the House won t be ready before July 4. McKinley notes the tariff bill will delay the Senate’s work by at least a month, pushing adjournment toward mid July or possibly August 1.
C C Hale of Cleveland appeared in a Montreal superior court under arrest for shooting at his brother in law Eugene H Cowles son of the late Edwin Cowles of the Cleveland Leader A writ of habeas corpus was granted to compel the nuns to produce Mrs Cowles child a mail returnable at 3 o clock for merits argument Eugene H Cowles says the act was legal per advice of top lawyers in US and Canada The Death List at Bradshaw reports fatalities rising to fifteen with 300 affected households facing $250 000 loss and only about ten percent able to roof their homes A veteran pastor Rev J B Kneist 55 died in his Emanuel Re formed Lutheran church pew booth death followed a paralytic stroke he had served as vice president of the General synod of the Reformed Lutheran church of the United States
Sioux City live stock totals show hog receipts around 2,460 with prices from 3.45 to 4.55 per hundredweight and cattle receipts near 50 with dull trading. fat steers quoted 3.90 to 4.25, feeders 3.40 to 3.80, cows 2.75 to 3.00, and calves around 2.50 to 4.25. South Omaha and Chicago follow with hogs around 3.50 to 3.60, cattle bids mixed, and beef markets steady to quiet. Chicago grain and provisions list steady wheat, corn, oats prices, and pork and lard near quoted levels.
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