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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1897
Page
10
The weekly issue reports a severe earthquake damaging Tehuantepec in Old Mexico with heavy telegraph disruptions to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. President Diaz’s commission travels to inspect the disaster as townspeople flee to tents and open areas amid widespread ruin.
Explorer Andree, the Arctic balloonist from Gothenburg, plans a perilous voyage to the North Pole within days. The party will carry pigeons for daily checks and is urging northern residents to aid if a landing occurs, amid cautious, hazardous expectations by polar veterans.
Agitation begins in Kansas to pass a strong anti butterine bill after packers announce large scale production for states where sale is legal. Kansas City firms chartered move to re manufacture from Chicago by June 1, with farmers solicited to join the anti buttering effort.
A tornado swept Logan County Illinois Friday afternoon demolishing a state farm cow barn and burying twenty six refuge seekers. Four Chicago boy pupils died and five were injured including the farm superintendent who may die. Other cyclones and windstorms caused scattered damage in Iowa Keokuk and Oskaloosa, with no further deaths reported. Authorities noted substantial property losses in Indiana and Kentucky but no fatalities.
A poorly built scaffold toppled against the Baptist church in Ottawa NL on Saturday, sending nearly 200 La Salle County graduates tumbling into the crowd as they posed for a group photo after receiving diplomas from Assistant State Superintendent Freeman. Dozens were injured, three severely, as parents, teachers, and directors watched in shock.
The British steamship Scott brought the body of Barney Barnato to Southampton on Saturday. Coroners officers conducted an inquest. a jury found death by drowning while temporarily insane. Passengers donated £100 to Mr Clifford, the rescuer aboard the voyage from Cape Town.
Bishop Huntington authorizes Episcopal readers in central New York to include a new prayer for Queen Victoria and England in services on the first Sunday after Trinity, following the national prayer for the president of the United States.
The senate civil service committee resumed hearings on Saturday. A letter from W E Prescott president of the International Typographical Union stated the body did not favor applying civil service rules to the government printing office as best results were not attained under it. Four personal crisis reports. Four more bodies presumed suicides have been found in the Thames in London bringing the total to twenty one in three weeks. The monsoon has burst in India with heavy continual rain. Germany imported cotton last year valued at 217000000 marks and wool imports at 6000000 marks. lunar ray heat on earth is miniscule. The Imperial Library in Paris holds thirty six books printed on white silk.
Earthquake damage reported in California with no casualties so far as news of a jubilee opens. Queen Victoria begins celebration across the empire with private St George’s chapel services, the royal family and Knights of Windsor present, the scene orderly and solemn.
Charles W. Spaulding former Globe Savings Bank of Chicago official and University of Illinois treasurer was acquitted Friday of embezzling 7000 dollars in bonds from Pittsfield and Lincoln schools in Pike County. Bonds hypothecated with Metropolitan National Bank of Chicago to secure a 6759 dollar loan. Jurors acquitted on the word intent and 27 indictments remain for trial.
A strong earthquake struck Sollister California near noon Saturday, causing extensive damage to brick buildings and interiors. No casualties were reported though narrow escapes were noted. The McMahon House fire wall collapsed onto adjacent structures and many windows shattered, with plaster losses in the courthouse.
Judge Cantrill at Frankfort voids a state statute authorizing 590000 bonds for state purposes as illegal. The decision, in a test case, will be appealed to the court of appeals. If sustained, the revenue legislation of the 1893 legislature may be defective. Paris Times correspondent notes Emperor William fears US intervention in Europe.
A London formed consolidation of weldless bicycle tubing interests names Hi A Lesier of Cleveland as head. English investors led by Arthur Pilkington contribute 8 million dollars. Three factories in Toledo Ohio Ellwood City Pennsylvania and Greenville Pennsylvania are included. A separate fire report notes a window glass factory burn near Muncie Indiana. The United Glass Company operates Orestec Ottawa Streator plants with 400 workers and an estimated 100000 dollars loss. town lacks fire protection.
A recent Assam province earthquake caused more than 6000 deaths and disturbances. A condolence message from Queen Victoria was received, expressing sympathy and mourning for the disaster.
A Sunday early morning blaze in White Wright Texas damaged five brick buildings causing an estimated loss of 57 000 dollars with 34 000 insured. Seven people sustained varying injuries in the incident.
Bradstreets Weekly Review notes encouraging trade signals with rising orders for staple goods for fall delivery, especially clothing in Chicago and Baltimore. Steel and iron manufacturers look for demand revival, cotton prices rise, and print cloths climb, tied to tariff settlement prospects. Prices show mixed movement with tea, coffee, flour, wheat, oats down.
The Prince of Wales, president of the imperial institute, presided at a Friday London banquet for colonial premiers. He proposed The Health of the Queen and spoke of the upcoming jubilee with confidence that the toast would be well received. Prolonged cheering and waving handkerchiefs followed as the company stood and shouted God bless you.
Cuban insurgents derail a train near Jaruco in Wavana province blowing it with dynamite and seizing $250,000 meant for Spanish troops in Matanzas. Spaniards face a severe loss as the government strains for funds. Gen Weyler reportedly said killing 200 soldiers would have been worse than losing the money.
During a Lemon Bros. street parade in River Falls Wisconsin a balcony over a sidewalk collapsed sending about twenty spectators to the walk below. Many were injured including several children and Carrie Anson believed badly hurt. Indians also suffered injuries from falling timbers.
Captain General Weyler told Consul General Lee that on the 16th he revoked previous directives that had forced American planter Joseph Duenas near Quintana to abandon his estate, signaling a reversal in the enforcement of the order.
Fully 10,000 blackberry pickers have already arrived at Liberty Missouri. The crop is estimated at 69,000 crates the largest ever known there. Never in the history of blackberry picking in that section has there been such a crush of humanity there. Pavers State Ownership of Railroads The state council has declared in favor of acquiring the railroads of Switzerland.
Market quotations from Chicago to New York list cattle hogs and sheep prices, along with grain and dairy values. Cities include Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York with ranges for Wheat Corn Oats Rye Butter Eggs and Clover seed.
Prof Lugger state entomologist of Minnesota studies the grasshopper swell in South Dakota near Aberdeen. He says the hoppers are the notorious swarm that left Nebraska on August 5, 1596 and now eggs hatch in fields bailed earlier. Deep plowing required. partial tilling spreads damage. Circulars go to farmers. scare may be brief if farmers act.
Mrs McNickle and her husband found a promising mine plot near Custer after she dreamed the site as she picked berries with their children. Initial skepticism gave way to action when samples were assayed at Custer showing 22.75 dollars per ton in gold. The husband bought the claim and plans to mine the site.
Kirby found guilty in Sioux Falls federal court of receiving stolen government stamps and converting them to his own use. The jury initially acquitted on knowledge, but the court ordered a retrial and a final verdict of guilt followed. Also notes School of Mines vacation and reassessments, Hammill confinement, Chicago homeseekers delegates, and postoffice robberies guilty verdicts.
C. W. Witmer, an early resident of Beadie County, was buried Saturday with military honors. The sermon was by Dr. Clark, and exercises were under the direction of the Grand Army Post of IHIuron, to which the deceased belonged. Boss Farmer. J. B. Fralick of Castalia, recently named to the position of boss farmer at the Blackfoot Indian Agency in Montana, has assumed duties there.
The weekly climate bulletin notes generally favorable weather for crops across much of the nation with too much rain in New England and parts of the Middle Atlantic. It cites improvements in corn in Nebraska and the upper Mississippi valley, general cotton progress in the cotton belt, and harvest underway for winter wheat in Kansas Missouri and Illinois.
President McKinley has found a summer retreat seven miles southwest of Washington behind Fort Myer. The property, named Cherry Valley, is owned by ex-Senator John B Henderson of Missouri. President and Mrs. McKinley will spend heated months there with Secretary and Mrs Porter, in a secluded forested area away from the public road.
A secluded summer cottage sits miles from the capital, reachable only by a narrow lane off the main road near Ballston. The queen’s jubilee procession plan angers Liberals for omitting civil and industrial facets of her reign, per the Daily Chronicle. In Brooklyn, Albert Benson and Thomas Olsen wrestled, Olsen lifting Benson and causing a fatal neck break as Olsen then attempted a restraining hold.
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