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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1905
Page
5
Chamberlain June 17 The 366 foot draw boat for the Milwaukee Road crossing was launched before about 2,500 people. The boat will be finished in water as piling drivers begin work from the east bank. Tons of ties arrived and tracks will be laid rapidly for trains to cross by early August.
The Royal Arch Masons elected officers at the Aberdeen gathering ending tomorrow for the Kommandery of South Dakota. Grand high priest Eneweky Redfield and vice grand high priest Cy Biernatski Salem are named among others with John E. Hipple Pierre as grand treasurer. The Grand Lodge also elected leaders including Ed Brookman Vermillion as Grandmaster and R H McCaughey Mellette as dep grandmaster with George Mateus Sioux Falls as grand secretary.
The manager of Val Blate Brewing company in Sioux Falls, Mr Whitney, vanished less than two months after arriving to handle agents. About $1200 is missing from his accounts. Company had recently replaced two agents tied to shortages and Whitney vanished, heightening concerns.
The old Brown County Court House in North Aberdeen is being demolished. Built when Brown County and Aberdeen fought over the county seat, the structure was later ceded to the city after a new $120,000 zone court house was built. The block will become a park.
June 17. James Mcrae aged eighty years took his own life at his home in Hughes County. He used a shotgun placed in his mouth and shot both barrels, dying from the injuries. Despondency due to continual ill health is given as the cause.
Washington reports the weekly weather bureau bulletin summarizes crop conditions through June 19. Most eastern districts had ample heat, rainfall was uneven with good rains in parts of the central valleys and mid Atlantic and south, while Missouri valley had low temperatures. Corn and other crops show progress though certain areas need dry spells. Winter wheat harvest advances in Kansas Missouri and southern Illinois with Indiana Maryland beginning. oats suffer from moisture in Wisconsin Minnesota and southern Iowa with harvest underway into Missouri.
Des Moines reports a week of above normal temperatures and abundant sunshine aiding corn growth. Most fields cleared of weeds with four fifths planted fairly well cultured, but stands are below normal and growth uneven due to replanting. Wheat oats rust limited. clover heavy. meadows good. potatoes and garden crops thriving. strawberry yields well above average.
The weekly crop bulletin for South Dakota reports cooler than usual weather with sufficient rainfall. Corn is generally backward, weediness and thin stands noted in northern counties, but southern areas show better progress. Hail caused local crop injury. grass grows well and livestock ranges improve.
The Nebraska weather and crop bureau reports a near normal week with temperatures about one degree above in eastern counties and one degree below in the west. Rain was light, spring wheat and corn look healthy, Hessian fly damage limited, and apples are dropping with a light crop expected.
Topeka Kansas June 20 railroads that sought to abolish the commodity rate from Missouri river points have withdrawn their applications. The move likely ends the agitation and the push to end the commodity rate.
President Roosevelt exonerates Francis Loomis and dismisses Herbert Bowen in the Bowen Loomis affair. Bowen’s conduct is condemned as unfit and the allegations against Loomis are declared groundless while Taft’s report notes Loomis faced cruel slander and cautions ministers against personal investments abroad.
A great Indian convention is scheduled for October on the Devil's Lake reservation led by Congregational and Presbyterian congregations from Fort Totten. Delegates from major reservations across the United States, about 1500 attendees, will gather under a large tent to foster intertribal ties and religious unity with Indian leadership guiding the event.
Patrick Mellody, tied to the 1867 Fenian rescue in Manchester, attempted to drown himself in Madison Square Fountain. Dragged from the water, he was taken to Bellevue Hospital with starvation, unable to speak clearly, and detained on a charge of attempting death by own action.
Rome reports a new microphonic telephone by Signor Mayo Roma, brother of the finance minister, tested between Paris and Rome with excellent results. Messages sent from London to Rome also showed good success despite submarine and rapid cable transmission. An English syndicate has formed to exploit the invention.
Sessions in both chambers of the riksdag opened with large crowds outside the parliament. President Swarth ing stated that Sweden’s hope in the union had vanished and Norway’s negation had been achieved, making renegotiation unlikely. He urged responsibility and honest desires for Sweden’s future.
In Christiania June 22 the storthing replies to King Ottar’s June 18 letter to President Berner, upholding the decision to dissolve the union. Swedish residents in Norway urged peaceful settlement and amicable relations, noting Norways good treatment of Swedes. The riksdag may act to prevent rupture and authorize negotiations for a mutual dissolution basis.
Parents at Wade Leigh high school allege teachers used their positions to extract private tutoring fees amounting to hundreds of dollars weekly at two dollars per hour. They claim marks were tampered with to deem students backward. School authorities deny the charges.
Rome June 22 The pope issues an encyclical urging Catholics to take part in public affairs while preserving liberty of action on temporal matters. Clergy are advised to avoid party strife as the aim is to mobilize Catholics as a counter to socialism.
Officers of the Edgar County National Bank report a seven thousand dollar shortage after experts examined the bank building wrecked by dynamite in Paris Illinois. They also say money shipments to grain commission houses by bookkeeper W. W. Juntgen total about twelve thousand dollars instead of eight thousand as initially reported.
Writ of habeas corpus granted in Brattleboro on behalf of Mrs Mary Rogers delaying her execution for murder. Officials may produce her in Windsor at 2 p.m. Wednesday to prove legal restraint. Attorney T W Maloney confirms the writ returnable in Windsor on Wednesday.
In Poplar Bluff Missouri on June 22 a quarrel among a fishing party on the Dan river left three men dead Charles Booth Charles Vanderpool and Cleveland Parrett. Booth opened fire at Vanderpool who fired back Parrett was killed while trying to mediate. Mrs Booth and another woman were present.
The Modern Woodmen of America head camp opened its fourteenth biennial convention in Milwaukee with 600 to 700 delegates. Reports show insurance in force at 1.136 billion dollars, 7,061 death claims totaling 12.66 million, benefit fund receipts of 12.57 million, and a general fund balance of 289,994.
Sullivan urges revision of fraternal insurance rates as Modern Woodmen of America holds its head camp convention in Milwaukee. Officers installed and retiring president Hoyt honored with gold watch while Copeland receives a silver loving cup. Foresters’ drills show top camp averages and cities vie to host the 1907 head camp BIennial meeting with Buffalo Cincinnati and Peoria leading.
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange warns members not to negotiate certificates bearing Benjamin H. Gaskill’s name after Miller & Co. unearthed forged and raised stock certificates worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Gaskill’s death came three weeks earlier. A customer account with 100 shares of Philadelphia Traction was raised from one share, triggering a wider sensation of similar spurious deals and a bank loan of about $225,000 on raised certificates.
Chicago June 22 Edward Rickett a Dominion teamster for National Express was beaten by four alleged strike sympathizers in front of the teamsters union headquarters. He was knocked down and three fingers of his right hand were broken and his finger nails pulled out. He was found unconscious in the street by a policeman. Railroad express companies resumed produce deliveries to South Water Street merchants today as commission wagon drivers made no protests.
Chicago fare collector John W. Sweeney aged 35 of 2736 Forty-second street collapsed and died on an Eileton avenue electric car at Halsted Street and Grand avenue. Heart disease cited. Body taken to Hayes undertaking rooms at 186 North Sangamon Street.
Miss Bertha Quaintance of Mishawaka aged 29 was found unconscious after a confrontation with two burglars who fled with watches money and jewelry. She wrestled with one robber seizing the loot and was later located with a watch in each hand as doctors work to restore her.
In Paris the Chamber of Deputies adjourned after Premier Rouvier urged delay, as a move to bring Franco-German negotiations up for debate.
St Louis report notes Governor Folk's anti betting order applied to principals and accessories but no arrests occurred at Delmar race track on June 22 as six bookmakers operated without apparent disruption.
In Kenosha Wisconsin two Italian youths Vincenzo and Antonio Petrucci died after touching a live electric wire. The younger brother was killed first and the other died while trying to show onlookers how the accident happened.
Springfield headline notes Governor Deneneen commuted George Godfrey sentence to expire July 1. Godfrey, sentenced in 1900 to fourteen years for murder in a jail delivery at Belleville, was not involved in the sheriff Herman Barnyole attack in St. Clair county.
In Bluffton Indiana Herbert Ochsenrider, 21, died by his own hand after composing his obituary, choosing pallbearers, burial wishes, and requesting two songs and a preacher for his funeral. Other items recount peculiar court evidence, a Brooklyn man recovering from severe injuries, a New York stagecoach tale, a Des Moines fatality from a smokestack fall, and Iowa stories of a driver’s teeth lost on the road.
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