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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1891
Page
7
The Mitchell Printing Co announces subscription rates for one year six months and three months with club rates for leading publications across the country. Subscribers must give both old and new addresses when changing location and correspondence should be at the office by Monday morning.
TO ADVERTISERS Advertising rates given upon application and reasonably low Business Cards not exceeding six lines five dollars and sixty cents per year Each additional line one dollar Business Locals five cents per line Legal Advertisements at statute rates Cards of Thanks ten cents per line Marriage and Death Notices published free of charge Obituaries Resolutions of Respect and Weddings five cents per line
The piece surveys varied issues from the sub-treasury push and Ohio electoral votes to reforms in Yankton Hospital management. It notes Wanamaker’s western tour and pledge to expand postal services, cites a supreme court revenue ruling, and critiques press harmonization with tariff debates and Nebraska case rumors while warning against rushed decisions and partisan gain.
The Minneapolis Evening Tribune claims a Northwest plan to back fusion electoral and state tickets in 1892. The scheme reportedly arose in Pierre last winter during Hughes Mast of Yankton’s remarks at Senator Kyle’s election celebration.
Republican papers across the state discuss party prospects for next year urging unity over factional aims. Editors say mutual consideration and reduced personal ambition can make the party invincible in the upcoming campaign. The central question remains how to achieve this cohesion.
The New York Sun notes President Harrison smothered internal factions amid a 10 000 mile Southwest and West tour. It sees Republican unity improving and predicts a Cincinnati convention may back a third party ticket, while conservative elements resist. The paper believes leadership will position the GOP to win in 1892.
The volunteer state convention meets Yankton on the 27th to devise ways and means for South Dakota’s proper representation at the World’s Fair. Mitchell has not yet taken steps to be represented. The plan calls for two delegates per town over 2,000, plus one per Commercial Club or Board of Trade and one county delegate. Davison county commissioners declined to appoint. The piece urges individual enterprise without guaranteed reimbursement, noting inequitable burdens in such arrangements.
Editor Ayres confronts U S lottery law creating a political martyr image for his Vermillion paper. The Plain Talk faced post office sanction. Ayres resisted, lost in court, yet profited from the publicity and his constituency’s credulity. Ayres’ head may not be as peaked as it once seemed.
Report from Washington notes Governor Mellette pulled out as a bondman for S H Elrod who disbursed funds owed to Sisseton Indians. Interior department ruled money legally due to Indians and distributable from Sisseton reservation. Mellette’s account of the asylum matter and bond withdrawal awaited by officials.
The Mitchell Journal urges continued scrutiny of the third party and Dem Independent union, denying fear of political shifts in South Dakota before 1892. It argues Republicanism remains active year round and aims to illuminate relations between opposition forces.
Edwin Van Cise denies making the criticisms on the Republican attitude toward Senator Kyle that were reported. The Pierre reporter’s accuracy is questioned, though the denial may not resolve the dispute about what was printed.
Pierre Journal notes that aggressive editorial exchanges among state Republican papers suggest the claimed 25,000 Republican majority may be overstated. The piece implies the Journal’s own pages have influenced its view over recent months.
The New York Press reports thousands of urban men without work while New England farmers struggle to hire at sixteen to twenty five dollars a month with board on farms. The Yankton Telegram attacks THE REPUBLICAN, accusing it of misrepresentation, while the paper defends itself and calls for a temperate, fact based record of a reform meeting.
The piece reports Kansas Senator Peffer facing sharp opposition from third party advocates who argue officials should heed popular opinion rather than dictate the conference on forming a new party. It laments a budding bossism spreading across old and new factions, warning against a small, aggressive leadership.
Miss Mary M. McNamara told Howe and Hummel that Oscar Clapp induced her to marry him two years ago after inciting her with a tale of affection. She produced a regular marriage certificate and seeks annulment. Clapp allegedly admitted stealing from Annan & Co. over years, totaling thousands, while detectives shadowed him.
At 8 a m Gay W Foster was released from prison after a six year sentence for grand larceny. He plans to decorate church interiors and has painted the Catholic chapel walls with biblical scenes, completing eighteen works in two years including a Last Supper. Also reports on Saghalien female convicts, Delaware constitutional election results, North Dakota sheep quarantine, South Dakota veterans encampment, Simla Manipur killings, and Northern Pacific Junction bonds approval.
May 1 report from Saint Sti and Marin Mich describes wildfires sweeping Sugar Island. Several families burned out as a sailboat party arrived with word of devastation. Smoke and flames visible to noon. unconfirmed deaths reported. Residents face destitution as winter wood supply and homes are lost.
Dispatches describe the destruction of the village of Amburg on the Milwaukee and Northern line. Most residents fled by train to Iron Mountain as fires raged. nearby Garth Wisconsin is engulfed and residents fight flames all day. Other notes cover New Jersey fires near Carmon town and Richland, plus a cave-in in Providence killing four Italians.
A general rainfall across Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and the Dakotas eases drought, quells northern forest fires, and lifts farmer and business sentiment in the Northwest. In Sturgis, indictments are returned in the Few Tails murder case. suspects await fall term. Cedar Rapids cites consolidation of local rail lines with a $400,000 capital, naming a seven-member board and officers.
A Milwaukee special committee report to the council urges impeaching Commissioner Dunck for accepting gratuities and benefits from city contractors and suppliers. It also censures Traeumer and O Connor for a technical legal violation, while exonerating Mayor Somers from counter charges. North Dakota signal stations established to aid the U S signal office will report crop growth to Officer Green weekly.
BisMARCK May 21 Two steam excavators five trains and a large force of men are filling the trestle at the west end of the Northern Pacific bridge over the Missouri. About 400 car loads of dirt are dumped daily and the work is to be completed before snowfall.
Dr. Thatcher Graves will appear before Judge Graham in the morning. His counsel pledges to reveal family skeletons one by one, aiming to discount the Willington case with expected evidence.
New York May 21 a report from a committee on revision of the Presbyterian confessions outlines revisions likely to be sent to presbyteries for consideration. The tweaks address the Holy Spirit, universal offer of the gospel, and the eternal decrees while preserving core Calvinistic doctrine. Roman Catholics are reclassified as Adherents of False Religions. L. V. Lake was arrested in Des Moines for counterfeit nickels, linked to a gang. A Paris-based alleged Portuguese securities syndicate maneuvers to secure a loan were reported in London.
Cuticura Resolvent sold nationwide with Cuticura soap priced at 45c and Resolvent at $1. Prepared by the Potter Drug and Chemical Corporation Boston. 17 Send for How to Cure Blood Diseases.
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