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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1899
Page
8
The column comments on wireless telegraphy feasibility potential messenger systems, a pending candy trust, stock market strains, and social notes. It jokes about Filipinos learning from Spaniards, French reforms, and political figures like Dewey and Roosevelt. It cites a bird feather law, debates about naval power, Carnegie articles, and vegetarian milk jokes.
In peace, European education outlay is only one-half to one-twelfth of armaments. Over thirty years Europe doubled spending yet nations remain relatively the same. Bankruptcy and repudiation loom under current policy even if war is avoided. Widespread poverty and disorganized industry threaten foreign markets for American goods as one nation’s suffering spreads through the modern commercial system.
Across the Middle States and South a winter slaughter of insect-eating birds supplies reed-birds for city markets. Robins bluebirds cedar-birds shore larks and other species are killed yearly. A Washington dealer shipped five thousand robins from North Carolina and sold them as reed-birds. The practice misleads consumers and endangers fruit trees crops and farms.
Our farmers gain the value of insect destroying birds from government science work in Washing ton and must protest cruel and ruinous traffic not for humanity but for agriculture. An unsympathetic judge thwarted citizen ship hopes at White Plains New York where Italians seeking naturalization were coached to answer Yes to arm against United States and to join anarchists and foreign powers.
The article argues the census requires a large, well organized force of at least fifty thousand enumerators led by three hundred supervisors to be accurate. It then analyzes Montreal’s grain elevator expansion and Canada’s Ottawa river canal project aimed at routing U.S. grain trade away from New York toward Montreal and Liverpool, reducing transport time and reshaping Atlantic commerce. It notes Canada’s canals may outmaneuver Erie and shift grain flows, with American ingenuity needed to respond. In a closing quip, it adds a light remark about birds and feather beds.
Cuban affairs hinge on Mme Rosalia Cespedes, widow of Cuba's first war president, whose Tavana salon hosts Gen Maximo Gomez and other elite. Reports say talks at her salon influence Cuba's path, with Gomez aligned to back Carlos Cespedes as the island's first president in a proposed republic.
About 1,000 people crowded to the Ute land office in Durango Colorado as lands opened at noon by presidential proclamation. Hopefuls surged along the Colorado and New Mexico lines, with many who had earlier secured places in line abandoning them to join the rush. Durango saw hundreds of mounted, armed men moving toward the front at daylight.
President Krueger of the Transvaal Republic replies to Britain’s demand to cancel the dynamite concession. He says the concession does not breach the London convention and asserts the Republic is entitled to its own judgment on what is best, warning that cancellation would breach faith with parties to the concession.
Two hundred fortune hunters face starvation on the Ashcroft trail as mail carrier Brinal travels from the Stickine River to Victoria to urge immediate government relief. Mules and dogs have sustained them for weeks. the note calls for aid.
Mrs. Brooke wife of the Governor General of Cuba presented to the Orphanage la Beneficienca $1000 representing contributions by friends in the United States. President McKinley Secretary of State Way and W K Vanderbilt each subscribed $100 to the fund.
Andrew Carnegie’s interest in Carnegie Steel Company has been purchased by his co-partners led by H C Frick. Purchase price reputedly exceeds $150,000,000. The new company will keep the Carnegie name and includes all steel plants, Frick Coke, Oliver Mining, railroads, gas lands, and ore interests. Output to be increased to relieve the steel famine and meet export demand.
Hali Adali the Turkish wrestler faced Jack Carkeek in Milwaukee. The agreed three-bout challenge included catch-as-catch-can Graeco-Roman and Cornish styles over ninety minutes. Adali won the first two bouts in brief exchanges, then failed to appear for the Cornish match, resulting in Carkeek’s victory.
Duluth in a suit by the American Loan and Trust Company assignee against Geo E Elder former vice president and general manager the court found he defrauded the firm of $66 000. The findings accuse him of taking large sums replacing them with worthless notes purchasing worthless collateral and loaning money to himself friends and associates without security.
Colorado Athletic Association manager Otto C. Floto reports Jeffries and Fitzsimmons reps Brady and Julian accept a $23,000 purse and fight in Denver. Articles mailed. amphitheater for 15,000 seats to be built. date not yet announced. Street railway in Terre Haute transferred to Boston men Webster and Stone with $400,000 first mortgage bonds and secured second mortgage funds. Tracks to be laid through Clay County to Brazil with local approval. The Terre Haute line, built by Russell B. Harrison, has been under a receiver.
Massachusetts legislature harbors committee agrees to report a bill to incorporate Alexander Dow and associates with authority to construct a ship canal across Cape Cod from Barnstable to Buzzard's Bay. The project involves 6 million dollars. The company would use a one mile three furlongs section of a partly built canal and aims to finish the remaining six miles in two years.
J M Johnson head of the railway mail service in Los Angeles is detailed to Honolulu to supervise mail transfers for the Philippines Australia New Zealand and the Orient. The San Francisco dispatch will be expedited by three days. Jealousy said to have sparked a tragic double shooting in Chicago as Hugo Warden killed his wife and then himself.
The President appoints Albert S. Kenny as Paymaster General of the Navy succeeding Edwin Stuart who retired May 6. Kenny currently serves as general store keeper in New York city. Chilian War Vessel Wrecked in Straits of Magellan reported with no further details at this time.
Advices from Apia report Mataafa withdrawing his forces to a strip ten miles by six miles after ultimatums from Admiral Kautz and Capt. Stuart. Gaunt's brigade strengthens the area while a New Zealand steamer carries peace commissions. A consul meeting yielded no agreement, with the German consul dissenting.
In the League, the second chamber of the states general approved a credit for welcoming delegates to the peace conference by 74 to 4. Socialist leader Van Koi attacked the move, saying the conference originated with the Czar, whose regime persecutes and massacres people, and urged that Russia armaments and Finland’s rights be discussed openly, not in secret deliberations.
Prominent members of Congress believe the president will call Congress to meet in an extraordinary session in October to address wartime possessions, currency, the Nicaragua Canal, merchant marine and related laws. Georgia honors fallen heroes with Chickamauga monument dedication on May 5, attended by Gen. H. V. Boynton and Gov. Candler. The first of four treasury warrants paying the Spanish indemnity, $35,000,000, was delivered in New York May 5 to National City Bank. two more expected next week and the final $5,000,000 later.
Standard Oil trustees declare regular quarterly dividend of eight dollars per share and an extra nine dollars per share, payable June fifteenth, 1899. Stock rises twelve points to 498, a record high. Negro Hanged for Another's Death Embree, a negro, hanged at Thompson Georgia, for murder of Ellis Martin, about a year earlier. Embree fled and was captured in Augusta. motive for the killing unknown. American Missionary Killed Reverend Samuel H. Wellogg, an American Presbyterian missionary, died after falling from a precipice while cycling in the Himalayan Mountains a few days ago.
Market quotes show Chicago hogs at 4.00 to 5.75, cattle 5.00 to 5.75, sheep to 5.23, and grains including wheat No 2 red at 7t2e, corn No 2 at 38e to 86c. Indianapolis ranges with hogs 2.75 to 4.00, St Louis cattle 3.50 to 5.75, New York cattle 5 to 5.75 and butter 15c to 18c, eggs 12c to 14c.
Across the country on the first anniversary of Manila Bay victory, cities from Philadelphia to Chicago observed with banquets, lectures, and school events. Figures like Captain Coghlan and Secretary Long attended ceremonies while the nation honored Admiral Dewey and his fleet with cables of praise and patriotic displays.
The monthly public debt report to April 29 1890 shows total debt at 1 172 587 264 after treasury credits, up 29 081 701 from the prior month, due to a 20 million payment to Spain. Cash on hand totals 263 127 533 with 654 037 384 in demand liabilities, yielding a net treasury balance.
The report says Lieut. Gilmore and at least nine of the fourteen Yorktown crew survived and are in rebel hands. Col. Arguelles told Gen. Otis that sixteen American prisoners are held, with Gilmore among them, and MacArthur sent Maj. Shields and Lieut. Layne under a white flag with rations to the rebel lines. Rockefeller is believed captured.
High water on the Eagle Nest river in Wisconsin toppled four dams and scattered millions of feet of timber through the woods. Damages are pegged at 25 000 to 30 000 dollars as riverbanks were eroded and the stream widened by about twenty feet. Men labored to relieve the Crivitz dam by releasing water, while fear of inundation rose along the Menominee.
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