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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1896
Page
5
Reported walkout by workers in a major express company threatens 10 000 employees as wage disputes trigger job action across warehouses and facilities. Bonded handlers and foremen faced salary cuts and bond requirements as tensions mount in New York and Washington amid labor unrest.
Fragmented OCR text shows a garbled notice mentioning tickets, fees, and schedules with unclear names and places. It reads like a dated public note or timetable fragment with references to hours, dollars, and assorted letters, lacking coherent context or complete details.
The United States Ambassador Edwin F. Uhl met the German Emperor in the Kaiserhof after a driving rain, with J B Jackson delivering credentials and the Empress and court officials present. The ceremony lasted about 35 minutes as Uhl was welcomed and entertained by the Empress.
Reports from Cuba say Gen. Calixto Garcia’s insurgents, with 1,500 men, surprised Gen. Munoz’s 2,509 Spanish troops near Zanja on the Cauto River, many drowned or killed. Gunboats saved the remainder, while Gomez advances toward Matanzas with 1,200 men and seven guns. Weyler rushes troops to defend the trocha as Gomez and Maceo prepare a joint east west assault.
R G Dun and Co reports slower-than-expected improvement as season advances. Prices for commodities and manufactured goods are about 1 percent lower than April 1, with the October to April decline at 16.7 percent. Wheat falls 4.4 cents cash, wool weakens, woolen goods demand stagnant, coal prices up 25 cents a ton, and weekly business failures rise to 2338 in the US and 31 in Canada.
The Boston Standard reports New York Leg Company opens in Boston to challenge San Francisco Six Companies in a bid to control most U S laundries. A 16 percent price cut is already in place with promises of steeper reductions to come amid cross country rivalry. Ah Sing of the Chinese mission warns the fight may demoralize the laundry trade. The Cuban War note says bicycles may see first military use as insurgents anticipate the rainy season tests. A shipment of wheels destined for Cuba was cleared from New York aboard the Arbandhu.
Sioux City and Chicago market quotes show beef steers in the 3.15 to 4.15 range, hogs from 8.10 to 3.72, grain values for wheat and corn fluctuating with No 2 spring around 62 cents and 2 bushel and oats near 12 to 14 cents. Kansas City and Minneapolis listings include cattle 2.75 to 3.90 and grain futures for spring wheat and barley noted on track.
The Shah Nasr ed Din of Persia was shot in the inner court of Shah Abdul Azim shrine near Teheran and died about four o clock. An arrest was made in connection with the killing which may be linked to a Bahai secret society. European capitals fear diplomatic fallout and potential Russian Persian tensions.
A portrait of Richard Parks Bland of Missouri as a presidential hopeful backed by the Silver Democrats. The piece traces his life from near Hartford Indiana to Missouri and California, his long Congress tenure, and his push for free coinage of silver, while noting his post political life on a Missouri farm. It also surveys other brief items: a dramatic skin graft case in Kansas, a Kentucky political figure's forthcoming marriage, a fatal shooting in South Carolina, and a Boston club dinner honoring Rev Minot J Savage.
A condensed review of congressional action detailing House debate and passage of the Pickler general pension bill with Confederate service proviso, Senate naval appropriations and tariff clash, bankruptcy bill advances and drops, Alaska delegate defeat, and party divisions across Illinois and other states. Gorman and Chandler figures feature in ongoing battles over ship totals and naval funding.
A selection of historical curiosities includes details on sunflowers turned to paper, Cherokee population figures for North Carolina, blotting paper from cotton rags, the valued Russian crown, one half penny notes of the Bank of England, crocodile eggs size, Himalayas seen at twenty two miles, Norway rail travel cost, Brazil languages, Bermuda annual settlements on June 30, a Scottish commander in Morocco, marching steps per minute, breathing rates, a clock that winds once every century, a Stevens Point census grandchild age, timber lands and yield in the Southern States, and J C Kissinger fathering thirty four children across two marriages.
London Times reports that telegrams and documents show Rhodes Bell Harris and others privy to anti Johannesburg actions. Jameson raid crosses frontier with possible Rhodes approval. President Kruger reportedly curbed death sentence. Cleveland cable referenced Hamilton.
The Mississippi and Vermont conventions endorse free silver and sound money respectively, while Georgia and Alabama factions shift toward regional alliances. New York appeals court grants Maria Barberi a new trial amid a murder-attraction case, and a gas well fire in Kokomo, Indiana requires dynamite to suppress two days of blaze.
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