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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1898
Page
8
A report states Spain did not formally demand Consul General Lee's recall from Havana. Iain withdrew her request after it was clarified the issue was a courtesy objection over Lee's Cuba sympathies. The incident is described as settled with no action against Spain.
George Crall, labeled a clever pension swindler, was arrested in Kansas by a government inspector. He allegedly posed as a pension examiner, targeting elderly claimants across Iowa Missouri Nebraska and other states. Crall used forged aliases and extorted payments to “fix” cases in the pension office. Government investigators tracked him for more than six months.
The United States Supreme Court decided the Nebraska maximum freight rate case in favor of the railroads. The opinion affirmed the Eighth Circuit ruling that the Nebraska law allowing maximum freight rates for rail transportation within the state violated the Fourteenth Amendment by taking property without due process.
A London cable reports that six Irish political prisoners jailed in England for dynamite offenses will be released in June. The release follows a routine sentence review and medical clearance by Home Secretary Ridley. Also noted are a defense appropriations bill and a record-long telephone line project from San Diego to Nelson spanning about 2,225 miles.
A Teheran dispatch says Kviman governor routed insurgents in Persian Belluchistan and order will be restored soon. The Pepperell Laconia mills at Biddeford Maine suspended a strike. 8500 workers to resume under new rate promises. Norfolk and Western Railroad to ship 250000 bushels of nut coal from Pocahontas mines for the US Navy.
Adolph L. Luetgert was transported to Joliet Prison where he began serving his natural life term. He left Chicago in good spirits amid jail cheers, then grew quiet and tearful at Joliet as the gates closed and his transfer completed.
A Sunday night blaze in a ramshackle three story Pittsburg brick tenement trapped three families. One woman suffocated while five others were badly burned and may die. The fire started in Harry Levin's dining room and quickly consumed the building, but rescue work by firemen prevented a total loss.
Isabella Marsh and William Buzzell were sentenced to death for poisoning George Marsh, her husband, at Northfield Vermont. The Vermont Supreme Court upheld the county court, denying a new trial, and the couple were slated to be hanged at Windsor State Prison on February 8 1899 unless the legislature grants relief.
Kid McCoy defeated Burley in the second round at Hot Springs Arkansas Friday afternoon. The bout was fast with a left hook to the neck floor Burley and count.
Walter Green, a colored man, died in Troy near Piqua Ohio after drinking ten glasses of whisky in a staged wager. Allen Dunlap, a youth who recently inherited a fortune, funded the bet and supplied the drinks. Green drank ten glasses then collapsed at the bar.
A federal grand jury in San Francisco returned a true bill against eight wholesale and 500 retail coal dealers, members of a dissolved coal combine. They face charges of violating the trust act, a criminal offense under statute.
Luetgert of Chicago will oversee prison sausage production as his life task at Jeliet penitentiary, a plan officials say pleases him. Other items note Harvey Lane killed by Henry Burklow in Somerville County Texas, a Berlin-Warsaw dispatch on Milekiewicz centenary festivities banned, Singerly estate in Philadelphia valued at 25 000, Japan demanding Russia clarify Port Arthur occupation, and Judge Chase Vanderburgh of Minneapolis dies from blood poisoning.
Washington reports two new Spain moves: recalling Consul General Lee from Havana and urging relief supplies to Cuban reconcentrados aboard the Montgomery and Nashville. The U S rejects both proposals. A White House conference led to a statement that the president will not consider Lee's recall and that naval aid will be sent from Key West to Matanzas and Sagua this week.
The Spanish chargé Senor du Bosc informs the State Department that new evidence about the Dauntless spy voyage exists. He seeks apprehension of the vessel arguing its expeditionary character. The report claims a landing failed and Gen Agramonte landed by small boat then wandered inland without linking with insurgents.
Contractors building government fortifications at Marrowstone Point and Admiralty Head near Port Townsend have been offered bonuses to speed the work. An extra gun pit, not in the current year's estimates at Admiralty Head near the straits opposite Port Townsend, will begin soon.
In Athens Louisiana Eli Gilchrist with David Easton John Whitehurst and Thomas Scantlin attacked Fred Smpkey's dance. John Windland and George Rickstraw were shot with Rickstraw fatally. Gilchrist held for murder along with Easton Whitehart and Scantlin as accessories. In Texarkana Arkansas Vinson Graviano was killed and S Graviano and Pete Darigo wounded in a street battle among barbers in Swampoodle.
Negotiations closed for McVicker's Chicago theater lease. Jacob Litt of New York will take possession May 1. Parties declined to disclose lease figures.
Advices from Alaska describe a fearsome outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis spreading through Skaguay. The disease tears through Klondike camps near Summit as cold blasts and changing weather hit prospectors, with fifteen deaths reported last Thursday. Many victims fall unconscious quickly and are buried in Skaguay cemetery. several casualties followed outbreaks along the trail toward the summit. Reports from Dawson and Juneau indicate widespread scurvy as well, with four deaths already and dozens laid up for winter.
Chicago officers Burke and Duffy shot Dr. Francis Brooks after he attacked them with a large carving knife at his home. The incident occurred as family members had summoned police due to the physician's distressed state from overwork. The left arm and side wounds may prove fatal.
A group of 75 to 100 Minnehaha County farmers met at Cottonville on February 26 to form the Sioux Falls and Aberdeen railway. They subscribed funds and land to build an air line from Sioux Falls through Madison to Aberdeen, shortening the distance and serving the Big Sioux valley.
Brookings Agriculture college reports 375 students with improving courses and praised faculty. Dr Heston hopes for 500 students within a year. South Dakota Farmers’ Institute, led by Heston and professors Burnett Chilcoot Shepard, claims a record event in Sioux Falls. River ice on the Missouri at Pierre thawing, enabling small boat crossings soon. Canton Gun Club announces its annual spring shoot May 17 and 18 with strong expected turnout.
Joseph Wolfe son of a Sioux Falls minister was arrested in Sioux City charged with cattle rustling. He was found with the stolen cattle and jailed awaiting court action.
The State Supreme Court grants the writ of mandamus for removal and assigns the office to Governor Lee’s appointee Thomas H. Ayers. The ruling states governors may remove or replace commissioners under legislative creation, placing the office under the governor’s control. A 30 day stay for rehearing was denied. Kipp will decide on a possible rehearing.
A man found dead near Castlewood last September was identified by Mrs. Charles Leroy from a suit of clothes and a letter fragment found in a culvert. The inquest ruled death by a revolver shot while sleeping, with body moved by a vehicle seven or eight days prior. Leroy had been known as steady and industrious.
O M Parkinson and son backed by eastern capital plan to reopen the stock yards near the Sioux Falls packing house. They will fatten cattle and hogs for shipment to Chicago and bring in high bred young cattle for farmers to improve regional stock. The firm pledges broad operation based on solid finances.
A coroner inquest ruled Joseph Schaller died by suicide with morphine in Deadwood. Bland Herring sold ranches and stock to Corbin Morse of Rapid City for $30,000. Pierre Board of Trade reorganized with an executive committee. Clay County real estate transfers topped $18,000. Vermillion adds two implement firms. Anticipated wheat seeding amid good ground. Hot Springs seeks national soldier's asylum. SD senators back bill. Scotland Creamery expands with 369 cows for a new separator. Beet sugar factory plan at Volin hinges on 6,000 acres of beets. Deadwood & Delaware shaft at Ruby Basin hits 260 feet. Subilia case: Conductor whipped and shot at Redfield amid a dispute. Subilia faces slander charges. Sheriff Plunkett returns from Wyoming with a misidentified suspect. SisSETON agency staffer promoted at Lower Brule. Portland Consolidated Mining property foreclosed. Hallock W. Seaman bids $888,798 to acquire it.
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