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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1899
Page
7
Weekly Capital Mitchell reports Aguinaldo taking extreme measures to end hostilities. Twelve adherents of independence are condemned to death for advising surrender. Gen Lagarda visited Malolos to urge surrender. Aguinaldo ordered him executed for insubordination. General Lagarda was decapitated.
Mrs Martha Place became the first woman electrocuted at Sing Sing prison in New York. She walked to the chair calmly, murmured prayers, and died instantly with little struggle. She had previously been involved in a violent crime against her husband and stepdaughter in Brooklyn in 1808.
A riot at Laredo Texas broke out as health workers attempted to move smallpox patients to a pest house. Two people were killed and a State Rangers captain wounded in the confrontation with Mexican mobs. Police and troops were deployed as further clashes and arrests followed amid renewed rioting.
A Havana clash at a public ball ended in heavy gunfire and clubbing. Thirty to fifty people were wounded, including many women, as Cuban officers and American troops responded. Police Captain Estampes was severely injured. numerous arrests followed as reserves quelled the disturbance.
A cyclone near Birmingham on March 18 caused widespread havoc across Alabama Mississippi and Arkansas. Ten people died in a Leflin Edwardsville farmhouse collapse plus another unknown victim. Widespread damage halted trains and destroyed telegraph wires with Clebourne County and Dumas Ark among hardest hit. Farmland areas report numerous injuries and possible fatalities amid ruined towns and scattered deaths.
Mary A. Clarke aged 52 was beaten to death and her sister Annie Clarke 45 fatally hurt Sunday night in Bowie Maryland by 15 year old John Berry a negro boy. Berry confessed and was jailed in Marlboro later moved to Baltimore for safety amid fears of lynching. Sheriff Williams and deputies face grand jury after coroner at Hot Springs Arkansas ruled the deaths not justifiable homicide.
The State Department reports from Ciudad Juarez that George Wilson and Forest Smith, two American workers at the San Pedro mining camp, were held up and robbed by three Mexicans. Wilson was shot and killed resisting. Robbers escaped with about $309. the murderers have been captured and will be punished.
An east bound Rock Island passenger train jumped the track near Voland Kansas. The baggage car and the smoker tipped over, the combination baggage and mail car two coaches and a chair car burned. Baggageman Wm Freeman was killed and twenty six passengers injured two seriously. A relief train with doctors aided the wounded.
Officials in Washington decide to permit stockmen to graze cattle in the Creek Nation. The attorney general refuses to approve leases for parties not in possession until selections are recorded before the Dawes Commission. Citizens with approximate land shares and minor children may lease the land for grazing. The attorney general deems it safe to introduce cattle into the Creek Nation.
A deputy sheriff clashed with a man named Scott in Columbus Texas after Scott vowed to fight if armed. Ex-Sheriff Reese handed Scott a revolver and the shooting started, killing Reese in the first volley. By-stander Charles Boome also died and a boy named Williams was badly injured. Authorities had long warned of trouble. VWatal Explosions. Two explosions March 18 strike French ammunition plants. At Bourges shell filling shop three killed five wounded. At Marseilles a cartridge explosion injures three and damages buildings.
A Honolulu steamer reports the death of Princess Kaiulani on the sixth day from inflammatory rheumatism. Born October 16, 1875, she was part of the Charles Wright estate. An inventory of Charles B. Wright’s personal estate, late president of the Northern Pacific Railroad, valued at 8 050 921.56 dollars. An Alaskan battle story between American and Canadian miners is doubted as a hoax.
A roundup of commodity prices by city lists cattle hogs and sheep values for Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York with varied grades for wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and potatoes. Prices reflect range across shipping and common grades, with notable highs and lows across markets.
Peter Maher KO'd local favorite Charles Stevenson in Philadelphia in the second round of a scheduled six round bout. Stevenson was knocked down twice in the first round and again in the second before the referee stopped the fight.
Joseph Medill veteran Chicago newspaper man and former mayor of Chicago died in his San Antonio winter home at 76 after a long decline. He helped build the Chicago Tribune from near bankruptcy to profitability and control. Born 1828 in New Brunswick, he rose from schoolteacher and lawyer to journalism, shaping a major American paper.
Herbert Putnam of Boston, head of the Boston Public Library since 1895, appointed congressional librarian by President Mel Kinley. A lawyer and cultured man, Putnam began as custodian of books in Minneapolis in 1884, built the Athenaeum Library from 12 000 to 50 000 volumes, and is not yet 40.
A mob of masked white men attacked a small jail house in Palmetto Georgia early Thursday, striking nine Black detainees. Four died and five were badly hurt as officials called for troops. fourteenth local businesses were set ablaze in connected incendiary fires. Nine Black suspects were seized and held at Johnsons warehouse before trial.
The article notes Lord Salisbury as the first English premier to visit Australia. It highlights Gen Sir Arthur Cotton’s long life at 96, Prince of Wales breakfasts, Prof Blumentritt’s philippine studies and European influence, Don Carlos using post card campaigns, the Boni de Castellane lease of Chateau de Marius for three years with a three million dollar estate restoration plan, Queen Victoria’s two old watches with silver dials, and comments on Mr Hall Caine and Mrs Caine’s dress sense.
State Superintendent E. E. Collins outlines district meetings for county superintendents and institute conductors to pre plan summer institutes. He cites legal provision for gatherings and expects conventions in Yankton Sioux Falls Aberdeen Watertown and either Mitchell or Huron with districts formed by neighboring counties.
Yankton grain buyers B S Williams and J R Wilcox were arrested by Deputy U S Marshal George Ludlow on a charge of violating internal revenue laws. Deputy collector W J Howland reports about 1000 unstamped grain checks dated back to last September issued to farmers. The defendants deny intent to violate the law and ask dismissal, offering to stamp the checks, arguing the items are receipts not payment orders. The law holds the cashing party equally liable with the issuer.
A former Rapid City editor J W Connella was lynched by a masked mob in Everett Washington after a man was shot in his printing office. Connella had returned to town after being told to leave, claiming he would stay. The case ties to earlier murder trial and local editor ties in Rapid City.
The arrest targets Paul Dikker former MHutchinson County auditor accused in 1895 of forging names to a $825 mortgage on the permanent school fund. Disappeared after warrant issued in 1897. Sheriff Davis and deputy J B Ashley, Olivet. Also notes lost boys searches and storm fatalities. Calabouse fire injures and Mason City man Garfield jailed for arson. South Dakota Congregational churches allocate $1000 to 150 churches.
Senator Pettigrew, questioned on Fort Meade barracks, reports from Washington that plans for stone barracks for two troops are nearly finished and will be sent out for bids. The first building appropriation calls for eighty thousand dollars.
The Bard Methodist Church Society has purchased the Spisco al Society building in Alexandria and plans to move it to their home town, signaling a wave of development for the church community.
Interior Department finds Indian Agent John W. Harding of the Yankton Agency acted lawfully in impounding cattle. An Indian inspector examined charges that he impounded cattle unlawfully and excess of authority, but the secretary’s report upholds his actions and urges stricter protection of allotted lands from settler trespass.
Stock owners west of Pierre send outhouse wagons to serve as mobile headquarters for men over the range. Sheepmen lead in adopting the practice, with some cattlemen following, including A Mullen of New Ulm who plans to live and work across the range all summer to manage cattle interests.
Citizens of Deadwood protest a reduced appropriation of 100000 for a government building after ex congressman Freeman Knowles says the bill was favorably reported but not filed promptly by Mercer. Other notes cover a fire in Custer, a fatal neck injury near Dalton, Armour Creamery expanding to Harrison, Bohrl admitted to practice in state Supreme Court, and rush for wolf scalp funds totaling 5000.
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