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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1889
Page
2
A Phoenix dispatch says Gen. Lewis Wolfley of Tucson was officially announced as Arizona governor by the legislature on Friday. Leading Republicans denounce the appointment and oppose him, claiming he is unfit to serve the territory.
General Noble urges rapid steps on appointing five commissioners to implement the Sioux reservation bill. Delegates Matthews and Kent backed by Indian Defense and Indian Rights groups position John H. King and Father George A. Willard to lead. The $28,000 appropriation to reimburse Red Cloud ponies lost in 1874 is cited to secure Indian agreement.
Washington March 18. Outside the regular congressional crowd the White House visitors were few. Kansas delegation led by Senators Ingalls and Plumb urged appointments for prominent Kansans to federal posts. Missouri delegation with Rep Wade met the president. George Bain of St Louis, a Glasgow consulate candidate, had a brief talk. Also seen were Senators Call Farwell Cullum Spooner Hampton ex Senator Mitchell Cannon Shuman Langley Gear Farquhar Hitt and Delegate Allen from Washington Territory.
Washington March 18 The cabinet discussed opening Oklahoma or part of its area for settlement under new law. The president may soon issue a proclamation adding about 8,000,000 acres to the public domain, as authorized by recent legislation.
Secretary Noble ordered Warner and Wiser of the Marshall land office to proceed with finalizing the consolidation of four Minnesota land offices as directed by Vilas and to bring Redwood Falls and Tracy into the merged office. Clarkson Sworn In as first assistant postmaster general in Washington. oath given by Judge Lawrenson.
Gen W A J Sparks says he will not seek Congress to succeed the late Richard Townshend. He denounces discussion before Townshend is buried and states he is too old to run.
Governor A. P. Swineford of Alaska returned to Seattle with his wife and daughter en route to Washington. He forwarded his resignation on February 15 to take effect April 1 and said he will not act as governor after that date regardless of acceptance.
In Washington on March 18 Col. William Canaday the Senate sergeant-at-arms who contracted a cold during inauguration day while shielding President Harrison with an umbrella is gravely ill and feared to be unrecoverable.
Sacramento March 18 river rising rapidly with high water near, levee breaches, and 500 men patrolling banks for miles. Storm the greatest in March, seen as boon for California crops this year. Also noting 17107 newspapers and periodicals in U S and Canada per American Newspaper Directory with gains over ten years.
The Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal company operates eleven collieries in the region resumed work this morning after idle since February. The reopening brings back nearly six thousand men and boys to employment.
In Milwaukee on March 18 Chinese officials pressed for restitution after riots damaged laundries. Sam Ring Kee reports the Chinese ambassador requested an estimate of losses including personal effects of Chinese residents who fled. He notes many affected owners are absent, complicating the bill.
General Manager D R Robertson of the Postal Telegraph Cable company arrives in Birmingham to arrange a line into Alabama and other state points. The firm will begin a through line from New York to New Orleans via Birmingham and extend lines to major southern cities.
Indianapolis March 18 The beef trust plans to test in court the state law requiring all beef mutton and pork to be inspected on foot before slaughter The East St Louis Dressed Beef company shipping over 100000 dollars worth of dressed beef to the city will continue operations pending a court ruling The Armour company of Chicago also seeks to overturn the law and has bought property here to open a competing branch.
In Fall River Massachusetts on March 18 state arbitrators met with the trades board and then the strikers committee. They proposed unconditional return to work with a pledge to submit the dispute to arbitration. The weavers mass meeting is to decide. Both sides remain firm as strike numbers rise. Arcade Railway scheme declared unconstitutional by New York Court of Appeals ending Broadway rapid transit plan.
Report from Toronto dated March 18 notes government caucus approval of railroad bonuses to open up the northwest. Roads will receive about 3000 dollars per mile, a measure greeted with rejoicing by country members.
Belleville Ont March 18 The exodus of farmers to the Western states this spring grows alarming with many Hight families and about forty people taking out papers at the consulate in four days. Most head to Port Huron then onward to western lands for new farms.
Albany March 18 Assemblyman Crosby introduced a bill to appoint a board of commissioners to study enlarging New York City by adding neighboring territory and to report findings. The city may spend $5 000 for commission expenses.
A Hollow Rock Tennessee residence owned by William Flowers burned last night killing Flowers his wife and two children. Neighbors witnessed the blaze but could not help. Bodies later recovered charred. Officials suspect robbery and murder followed by arson to conceal the crime.
Edward McMahon returned home to 199 County Street River Mass at 5 p m after two hours away and found his house filled with smoke. He located his wife Maria aged 55 dead beneath the bed with her clothes burned away. The cause of the clothing ignition is unknown.
During a severe storm in Santa Monica Bay a fishing sloop capsized and two men drowned. The wreckage washed ashore, leaving no identifying details to the vessel.
A Chicago family aboard the Cienfuegos, traveling with Dr. Ashford to Nassau for a sick child, faced malignant diphtheria. Quarantined at Nassau, Annie Smith and her parents were set adrift on a small sail boat to Athal Island, a barren coral reef used as a pest hospital, where four days of suffering culminated in Annie’s death.
An San Francisco interview claims a secret tripartite agreement among Germany England and France to partition the Pacific. Germany would gain the Samoan islands France New Caledonia and England the Hawaiian islands for a cable station advantage. The piece notes the arrangement as alleged and unconfirmed.
Information reached Fort Situ Arkansas March 18 reporting Deputy U S Marshal W A Moody slain while attempting to arrest two men Bonnner and Hill in Indian Territory Moody, the sixteenth deputy killed in Indian Territory in the past year. Junction City Kentucky March 18 reports temperance lecturer J E Powell died here Friday from delirium tremens after two weeks of intoxication. Powell formerly edited The Philadelphia Star and resigned the Kansas City Savings Bank cashiership to lecture on temperance.
New York March 18 jury returned a not guilty verdict in the Kerr doodle case at 0 15 pm. Chauncey Kerr Hugh J Connell and Lawrence Quinn were fined 25 dollars each for applauding in court when the Kerr acquittal was read by Judge Daniels in the court of oyer and terminer.
The Police Gazette reports Jem Smith England champion and Charley Mitchell will fight for £100 and the England championship in a ten round glove contest. The bout is set for March 23 in London following completed arrangements.
John L. Sullivan stays home all day and shaves his mustache admitting shame over excesses as he plans to resume training for the Kilrain bout. In London, Lord Salisbury Earl Carnarvon and Sir William Vernon Harcourt are summoned as witnesses before the Parnell commission by Charles Russell, counsel for Mr Parnell.
Jamestown California March 18 The new board of trustees organized selecting W A Friedley of Steele as president and Blackwell of Jamestown as secretary. Officials report everything changed hands harmoniously though a row was expected.
The grand jury returned twenty two indictments including Clara Blatz alias Mrs Doherty for the murder of John W Doherty. Disastrous floods sweep many towns in Gallicia with widespread submersion.
Dun and Co weekly trade review notes a quiet week with mostly negative news. No war, no copper upheaval, no wheat famine signals, and stock prices easing. Rates fall, rail prospects weaken, but interior business shows some improvement amid lower commodity prices and modest trade activity.
Waterloo reports that local implement dealers back a new harvesting machine claimed to cut grain in long swaths like a cradle and join two swaths before loading, eliminating the need for binder twine. The inventor says the National Farmers Alliance endorsed it and a Des Moines visit may lead to regional manufacture.
Gabriel Dumont, key rebel leader with Louis Riel, arrived in Gretna Manitoba from Neche North Dakota en route to Winnipeg, provoking anger and fears of lynching among Manitobans. reports say he was responsible for deaths of Canadian troops during the rebellion. Seven incendiary fires shock Centreville Iowa on Fire Monday, with alarms across the city between noon and 9 pm. A religious zealot near Gridgewater fasting for forty days ended with a large supper, drawing local interest.
Washington reports plans to let contracts within months for eight new vessels adding about 15 000 tons to the navy. The fleet will include three 2 000 ton gunboats two 3 000 ton cruisers a 7 500 ton ironclad a 5 400 ton protected cruiser and an 800 ton gunboat with top speed of twenty knots and heavy ordnance.
Four of the prisoners who escaped near Ashland have been captured near Hayward. The remaining fugitive Richie, a murderer, is still at large, with a $400 reward offered for his arrest.
Secretary Tracy will soon accept the new gun boat Yorktown. Her trial trip was satisfactory and the ship will join the navy after the electric light dynamos are installed. The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius may undergo further trials before acceptance.
Joy spreads in Shamokin as six miners trapped at Jack Diamond colliery are rescued unharmed. Air flow through the gangway sustained their survival until rescue crews reached them. In Pennsylvania, engineer Malen Crunk is acquitted in the Mud Run trial with the jury returning a not guilty verdict and county to pay costs.
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