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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1888
Page
1
A fragmentary notice mentions ER and LOTHEY with ages and locations, indicating a local event or record. The readable text may reference a person named Teste and a Mont location, suggesting a civil or community notice. Further context is limited in the surviving OCR.
The Aberdeen correspondent notes the Dakota opening will shape settlement, arguing productive soil, improved markets, roads, and schools will attract settlers. It contrasts eastern and central regions, predicting slow initial growth but eventual prosperous farming communities with land bought near $500 to $31,000 per 160 acres. It also mentions a Mitchell marriage and local temperance actions.
Proceeds from the incident totalled $90 and will be divided among six victims who are convalescing after the blaze.
A compiled roster of patent recipients includes Alice F Wickland Jeffery Moran Azariah Austin David St Griffith Hanna Austin Arch M Borland Wm S Combs Delana J Crow Sylveria D Catlow Freeland Shultis Hermano Lucas William Adlesperger Peter Nening James Murray Henry T B Morris Peter Hartman Anthony Keenan Charles F Smith Michael Bechtel Herbert P Bachelder A E A Fuller Henry Gardinier Joel M Post Joseph W Putnam Alice J Leaning John J Gleason A 11 Beam Geo J Easterly GeorY Parmelee Oscar EB Cassem James Carnes Catherine Smith Samuel H Melcher William O Irwin Asa Dodd Sherman C Twogood James Shannon John Schlepnetz John J Schick Adline Johnson Arthur J L Whiting John O Bard James E Bard Melville J Crisman Thomas A Shepherd Wm G James Smedley Hf McMaster and others. The list indicates patents are ready for delivery to named inventors or executors as recorded.
Will Healey presents the Republican a copy of The Kinderhook Rough Notes from his Valatie New York home dated March 16. The issue features a large snowstorm devastation report under prominent headline displays.
The piece chronicles a historic blizzard in Valatie with fifty hours of nonstop snowfall. It notes a 23 foot drift on James Van Slyck’s street, roofs buried, and engines stranded. Residents recall the storm as unprecedented, with cattle and telegraph lines buried and travel halted.
The ad argues women avoid doctors due to delicacy, claiming Favorite Prescription offers safe relief for female disorders. It asserts the medicine helps with ailments unique to women and guarantees satisfaction or refunds if not. The copy emphasizes modesty and a physician-free solution.
Beggs Cherry Cough Syrup is advertised as the only medicine that acts on the lungs blood and bowels to relieve a cough instantly and provide a lasting cure claims druggist H ScaLuin.
Kansas farmers and stock raisers plan a nationwide trust to regulate shipments and prevent price ruin. A Topeka convention on May 1 will organize central agencies in Chicago Cincinnati Kansas City Indianapolis Omaha St Louis Cedar Rapids St Paul Milwaukee and Louisville with eight districts and an executive board to control shipments.
Jamestown resolves a long running dispute over funds from the 1884 First National Bank failure. The county commissioners settle the judgment against Mansfield bondsmen at about 50 cents on the dollar, totaling 46000 dollars. In Madison, Wis, Col William F Vilas is highlighted as a leading potential successor to Chief Justice Waite amid obituary discussions.
President pro tem Ingalls appoints Senators Sherman Hoar Wilson Pugh and George to represent the senate at Chief Justice Waite's funeral. The speaker names members Kelly Senoy Grosvenor Breckenridge Stewart Carlton Shannon Anderson and Russel to join with the senate committee for funeral arrangements.
Chicago dispatch reports 150 Burlington switchmen walked off at midnight joining engineers in a citywide strike. Locomotives near Sixteenth and Canal streets halted as unions bar non union workers, with Knights of Labor influence noted among the new engineers and firemen.
Reports from Chicago yards say the switchmen strike may pull in Knights of Labor support for Burlington engineers to win back strikers. Brakemen in Chicago and other cities threaten to walk as sympathy grows and several yard crews quit or refuse orders. The ripple extends to Erie and Santa Fe yards with similar walkouts amid broader labor unrest across Dakota and Wisconsin. public notices hint at concurrent civic events and distributions of funds.
In Durand Wisconsin on March 26 the heirs of J. F. Hardy report a favorable breakthrough after discovery of real estate documents establishing a claim to valuable property in West St. Paul. The matter is under review by the heirs.
Sioux Falls hosts a grand celebration on April 26 to mark the sixty ninth anniversary of American Odd Fellowship. An expected crowd of at least 1,000 visiting Odd Fellows and their ladies will attend in Sioux Falls.
New York woman Minnie Liebuchner poisons her three children with Rough on Rats rather than lose them to homes arranged by Bloomingdale aid society. She calmly describes torturing them for twelve hours before death, then expresses that she was sane under medical examination.
Otto Reichel was arrested on misappropriation charges at the Socialistic Publishing company. He threatened to expose secret anarchist meetings in Chicago and their plans. Reports say anarchists are reorganizing in the city and renewing plots against citizens' life and property.
In Winnipeg March 206 a secretary government member alleged extensive fraud by factions of the late Nortista administration. The license commissioner's office reports a deficit of $1000 as investigators press the case. Clerk I Whitehead was sent to St Paul recently.
In Columbus the jury in tally sheet forgery cases disagreed and was discharged. First ballot 7 to 105 for conviction on the second ballot 10 to 2. Ganty received a suspended sentence for drunkenness and abandoning the defendant’s friends for two days. Both Goats are Undoubtailys Loat. New York pilots report no word from missing pilot boats Machautress and Psantom foundering in gale. The Enchantress crew included pilots. The Phantom carried five men.
In Wilmandie holdings affairs, a long pending financial climax ended with a significant misappropriation case. A roughly $150,000 flow to transactions linked to Hank’s failed, details unclear due to garbled OCR text.
In Sioux City Iowa on March 26 the weather is warm and pleasant yet the river ice remains. Water levels rise slowly but gorges above and below stay frozen. The ferry operated in the open area in front of the city for the first time on Friday.
A blaze at W J Gilmore's theatre on Walnut Street caused total destruction and losses near 100000 dollars. The Theatre Comique in the rear was also damaged with losses around 25900 dollars.
The piece reports workers at tare and dry sods houses to wear black sash uniforms for consistency and appeal at the expense of the firms. It notes a new bill in Congress for land to Lions Indians and Henry Bergh being elected president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. It also mentions the Danger Long Distance Telephone Company incorporation in Chicago with a claimed $18,600,000 capital and enhanced sound technology.
Jamestown reports a group of carpenters left for La Moure to work on a creamery project. North Dakota lists butter factories planned at Jamestown Ellendale La Moure Valley City Bismarck and Grand Forks. Real estate sales in Yankton on Thursday reach a record $90000 amid strong market activity and Manitoba prospects from Sioux Falls. Pat Killen withdraws from a potential Cardiff match posting a $500 forfeit.
The Northern Pacific and Oregon Navigation face friction as the local board refuses to ratify the proposed lease. A delegation travels to New York to consult with directors from both companies, amid concerns the deal harms corporate and state interests.
Erie switchmen strike near Elmira. Burlington sues Rock Island to force freight handling. Soo Line resists adjusting rates. Canada-US periodical mail rules updated. Ohio liquor tax cut and Concord NJ saloons closed. Moorhead election tickets and other local notes fill pages.
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