Weekly Capital MITCHELL S D LL PRINTING
A brief notice from Mitchell South Dakota notes LL Printing Company. The fragment references a weekly capital related publication by the local printer. No further specifics are legible.
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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1898
Page
6
A brief notice from Mitchell South Dakota notes LL Printing Company. The fragment references a weekly capital related publication by the local printer. No further specifics are legible.
Navy officials monitor West Indian waters as Cervera and his squadron maneuver. Early expectations point to a decisive clash within hours or days, but timing remains uncertain. Sailors report reduced supplies after a Cape Verde voyage with only brief stops at Martinique Curacao and Santo Domingo for limited supplies.
Rumors swirl around the May 13 Topeka death of J S Collins as insurers push for a suicide finding while his family and lenders claim murder. Financial strain and alleged misrepresentation are cited as motives, with claims that the son checked on his father at night.
Madrid dispatch reports circles hint Admiral Cervera’s fleet roams Cuban coast to keep the U S fleet busy preventing damage. At a Sunday cabinet meeting Generals Correa and Aillon outlined war prep and means, council approves organization. Second squadron remains in Cadiz practicing until ordered to sail. Government to observe Cervera’s moves before acting.
Quincy dispatch reports Invak in the Crew levee breached Indian District flooding about 15000 acres of farmland three feet deep on some fields. An estimated 5000 to 6000 acres of wheat submerged. bridges washed out and streams exceed banks along Missouri side.
Edward Bellamy author of Looking Backward and reformer of The New Nation died in Chicopee Falls Massachusetts at age forty nine after a period of ill health. He moved to Denver for health reasons but deteriorated. Bellamy leaves a widow two children and two brothers Charles Bellamy Springfield and Frederick Bellamy Brooklyn. Funeral planned at his home with simplest ceremony.
A severe tornado passed through northwest Arkansas on Friday night causing extensive property damage and at least seven deaths. The storm plowed through Benton county and the White River valley, devastates Elm Springs Lowell Mudtown, with multiple homes destroyed and several people killed. Reports indicate additional fatalities and injuries as investigations continue, including damage near Springdale Fort Smith Rogers and Siloam Springs.
A passenger train on the Chattanooga Rome and Southern Railroad collided with the third section of the military train carrying the first Missouri volunteers near Rossville Georgia. One private was killed, two privates were severely injured, several others lightly hurt. Engineer Wheeler and Fireman Hanby were arrested and held for civil authorities as a trial and judicial inquiry were ordered.
A blast at Economical Smokeless Powder Company mill four and a half miles from Hammond Indiana kills one man and injures three others. The plant, only three days into operation, was about to begin a $35,000,000 cartridge government order. Cause of the explosion remains undetermined.
Evangelina Cisneros, the famous Cuban girl, will marry Carlos Carbonel, a former Cuban banker and ally of Carl Decker in the Havana prison rescue. Carbonel accompanied the bride to New York, their bond growing from shared crime and ordeal, with a wedding planned soon possibly before Carbonel goes to the field.
McCoy defeated Gus Ruhlin in a 20 round rough bout in Syracuse New York. Ruhlin absorbed heavy punishment but remained game to the end with a likely draw in sight. McCoy weighed 157 pounds Ruhlin 180 and referee was George Siler. After the decision Jim Corbett urged McCoy to fight but he declined.
E M Carr and F L Hawley of Seattle completed a 105 day journey from Rampart City Yukon down to the coast and Kodiak Island. Despite blizzards and eight days with minimal food they returned after a historic dog sled and small boat expedition aided by Indian guides and seven dogs.
A New York dispatch reports a man said to be a Spanish spy and US artillery deserter is jailed on Governor's Island. He allegedly tossed papers detailing New York harbor defenses to the bay, later recovered, with claims the notes were for the Spanish consul in Montreal and to be buried in the Abbey.
Prices show Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York markets for cattle hogs sheep and grains. Figures list ranges for wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and clover seed across multiple cities with no single outlier.
Special Correspondent notes Sioux Falls B and E cavalry leave for Chickamauga by Omaha, with 110 horses and seven cars. Regents and officers mustered include Col. Melvin Grigsby and Lt Col C F Floyd. Also reports on I O O F grand lodge, Eastern Star session at Redfield, government horse purchases, and local notices on traitor effigy and wheat crop prospects.
James Preston was killed and John Marion seriously injured by a premature blast at the Holy Terror mine near Deadwood. Preston, famed in the Black Hills and Ragged Top, leaves a large family. The First State Bank of Milbank will begin business soon led by F. B. Roberts and ex cashier Farmers' Bank and Postmaster Geo Middlebrook.
Gra y wolves on the Cheyenne River reservation cause heavy losses for stock owners. George La Plant organizes a roundup wagon with marksmen dogs and provisions to hunt wolves indefinitely, hoping to reduce the pest and protect profits.
The South Dakota Railroad Commission withdrew its answers in the Great Northern and St. Paul Minneapolis and Omaha injunction cases in Judge Carland’s court and filed a substitute. It seeks to test Milwaukee earnings in federal court and, if injunctions dissolve, enforce a new rate schedule to push competition on other Class A lines. Judge Carland is to hear arguments June 27.
The Senate opened debate on the war revenue bill while the House adopted a conference report on aid to Cubans with food and arms. Other actions included adjutant general office expansion, board of managers for disabled veterans, and a veto sustained over a court of claims retry case. The Senate moved on Seattle assay office and an Oklahoma Comanche Kiowa Apache settlement treaty.
A compact collection notes furs should not be brushed by amateurs and that mushrooms grow in temperate lands. It reports sea otter skins reaching $1000 each, Japan uses iron coins, Sian favors porcelain money, and a French paper mentions only Jules Lemaitre as a wheel rider among academicians.
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