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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1888
Page
5
Chicago bound delegates selected at South Carolina's May 2 Republican convention with 124 in attendance. Four delegates to be chosen. leaders favor an uncommitted slate to keep the state voting as a unit for best advantage.
Madison on May 2 reports a large Democratic convention with strong enthusiasm. The gathering favors carrying the election in November on revenue reform. President Cleveland will be endorsed and resolutions seek reduction of tariff taxes on life’s necessaries.
The platform adopted in Litre Rock Arkansas on May 2 endorses the national platform of February 1 on land and transportation and income tax by Chinese laborers. It demands reform urged by the Farmers National Alliance and Knights of Labor, taxes lands held for speculation, consolidates state and national elections, supports national education aid, and calls for subjection of trusts and railroads to state control and creation of a labor and agricultural bureau.
Hartford area delegates will be chosen Wednesday and pledged to Cleveland. A H Burr of Willimantic will head the delegation. The state party earlier adopted the tariff plank from the 1884 Democratic platform and will stand by it at the convention in St Louis.
Delegates to the Republican state convention arriving in large numbers. They will endorse Gresham strongly and present him to the country as the choice associated with President Lincoln’s legacy in Illinois.
California Republicans in Sacramento elect delegates to Chicago with no instructions likely. Wisconsin and Iowa GOPs report large crowds and prep for campaigns. Wisconsin delegates back Rusk first. Milwaukee’s John L. Mitchell chosen for national committee. Antigo bank robber arrested. stolen money unrecovered. National Park Bank faces minor loss due to a $65,000 defalcation. France's President Carnot returns and attends a grand reception in Paris.
An Irish and English meeting at Aldershot condemns the pope's decree and plans a branch of the home rule group while stopping contributions to Peters peace. Government offers an annual twenty shillings per horse to owners of over twenty horses for potential wartime purchase. One hundred men of the Sixtieth rifles arrive to arrest a priest.
Hon M W Fuller, newly appointed chief justice, was found at his office buried in correspondence. He spoke little but indicated he would wind up his present cases promptly and return to his bar practice. Morning letters and telegrams of congratulations flooded in as messengers and page boys stayed busy.
The Duluth board of trade reports 4.26 million dollars in improvements and cites mining advantages as a strong factor. Wheat receipts for the year reach 17,186,275 bushels, about 5 million less than 1886, while grain shipments set a record at 1,761,584 bushels of wheat and around 250,000 bushels of corn. Nearly all grain was shipped out by vessels, with only 60,000 bushels remaining inland.
Berlin reporters note renewed strife among physicians over Emperor’s treatment after Dr Bergmann withdraws from Charlottenberg. Extreme German organs attack Dr Mackenzie and call for the English physician’s removal after a minor relapse in the emperor’s condition.
At Valentine station on the Galveston road, Conductor Charles Server was killed and Sam Taylor, a drunken cowboy, fatally wounded after Taylor boarded the train, cursed, and attacked with a dirk. Server began firing, both men collapsed. Taylor shot three times, Server died within minutes.
In Buffalo on May 2, during jury selection in the Cullom case a sister of the accused burst into tears and was found violently insane. The trial already features a juror who went crazy, adding a new extraordinary turn to proceedings.
In Shelbyville Indiana on May 2 an explosion at a tile works boiler killed William Caldwell and Norman Conde instantly. Joseph Lakin died of his injuries and four others suffered serious injuries while eighteen miles from the city.
A locomotive collided with a hand car eighteen miles east of Elko Nevada overnight killing two section men and seriously wounding three others. The accident occurred while the engine was rounding a curve.
BELOIT Wis May 2 The long and dangerous drought has been broken by prolonged rains easing concerns for farmers and replenishing streams and wells across the region.
A petition to Governor Oglesby for the pardon of Anarchists Fielding Schwab and Neebe has been circulating among Socialists Anarchists and Laborites in Chicago. The text mirrors the petition circulated before the executions of Spies Fischer Parsons and Engel.
The president signed the bill opening the great Sioux reservation to settlement on Monday. The Montana bill was not yet signed. Both measures were sent to the interior department for review and returned last Thursday, with the president now poised to sign the Montana bill and notify the house. Dakotans express great pleasure at final approval.
May 2 Keithsburg report shows a citywide fire with no organized department. One entire block, including Murta & Co store, Economy dry goods, Burte's grocery, and the Magnet dry goods, consumed. Loss estimated at $75,000 as flames rage on.
A fire at 2:00 PM damaged The Des Moines Daily Leader building in the mailing department and spread to burn the bindery and Iowa Homestead office. The Leader and Homestead losses totaled about $35,000 with partial insurance. The building insured, post office nearby smoked. The Leader will publish from the Register office temporarily.
In Renona Pennsylvania mountains burn for days with twenty mile per hour winds hurling flames across slopes thousands of dollars in timber destroyed. Nearby fires threaten other timbered areas as residents brace for further spread.
London May 2 The Turkish government recalls its minister at Athens and demands Greece dismiss its consul at Monastir and other Greek officials in Macedonia. The Porte accuses the officials of fomenting political agitation aided by Russian agents. Greece refuses to remove the Monastir consul who denies the charge.
The Buffalo brewers vow to hold firm with bosses offering five days for workers to return. Officials foresee no major trouble as brewers stockpile beer for months. In other items, a Hong Kong bound steamer Afghan carrying 246 Chinese immigrants is barred from landing in San Francisco. A kerosene tank explosion in St. Paul injures a worker. Moving day dominates New York headlines with Harlem seeing the largest exodus yet. Senate committee approves public-building bills for several cities including Fort Dodge and Duluth.
A May 2 report from Ann Arbor, Michigan states Louisa Reed Stowell, famed writer on the meroscope, is seriously ill from hemorrhage of the stomach and recovery looks doubtful. The patient is known worldwide among scientists. The item also notes a Chicago dispatch about a new Postmaster resignation in Washington, with reports of tender and acceptance.
Funeral services for Mrs D O Mills were held at her state residence on Monday morning with a large attendance of prominent citizens. Also reports an earthquake shock felt in New York lasting a minute causing houses to sway and dishes to fall from shelves.
Special correspondence from New York argues women can dress nicely on 100 dollars a year with careful budgeting and DIY patterns. It lists pattern purchases, fabrics, and cost-saving tips, plus bonnet and hat making, color coordination, and simple styles, urging practicality and self-reliance.
The New York Press argues that a trust kept at home can be regulated by law through a protective tariff. If American commerce gates are opened wide, the country may fall under the control of foreign dealers beyond courts and legislatures. The trust's existence necessitates maintaining safeguards against its power.
The Indianapolis Journal notes the president struggled to win Indiana Democrats over to civil service reform. It accuses Grandpa Jones and others of reverting to the spoils system under the guise of reform, predicting the congressional investigating committee will disapprove.
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