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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1899
Page
6
In Deadwood South Dakota two masked gunmen attempted a 4 am hold up at M R Russell’s saloon on Main Street. Russell fought the robber, a customer escaped, and the bandits fled with about eight dollars. Police organized a posse. $5,000 lay in the front safe and hundreds of dollars on the counter became visible during the chaos.
The Pennsylvania ferry between Jersey City and New York was split in two by the City of Augusta at 12 15 am on the New York side of North River. Thirty to forty aboard, four women among them, with several believed drowned though not proven. Most escaped with life preservers. few could not and swam ashore as the City of Augusta halted. No small boats were launched due to the brief time before sinking.
In Fayette Missouri Tom Hayden a 24 year old Black man was dragged from officers holding him after arrest for the murder of Andrew Woods a white man and was hanged from a tree eight miles west of town The killing followed a craps game fight at a Black festival during which Woods slapped Ben Hayden Who did not retaliate but Tom Hayden then fired killing Woods The sheriff and officers were overpowered by a mob Hayden had a bad reputation and was being transported to Fayette when the lynching occurred
Fire broke out under the gallery stairs of the Columbia Theater in Chicago just before the first act of Sis Excellency the Governor. Prompt action by theater staff and police contained the blaze. the house was crowded but no one injured and the performance resumed an hour later.
New York social reformer Miss Helen Miller Gould donated 6000 dollars to the League for Social Service to launch a nationwide crusade against Mormonism led by Brigham H. Roberts. One million pamphlets and blank petitions will be mailed to 60000 clergy and numerous clubs urging sermons and fundraising with separate district petitions for each congressman.
Santiago de Cuba reports five days of rain before a southeast hurricane. Twelve houses wrecked and others damaged. telegraph wires down. harbor entry blocked. US transport Burnside stationed outside. fleet safety feared. Kingston crews confirm widespread damage from heavy rains and floods across Jamaica with railways and roads out.
In St Paul the Minnesota Supreme Court upheld the Grindeland law requiring production and commission men to obtain licenses and post bonds with the state railroad and warehouse commission. Two test cases were decided together, sustaining the law on all raised points. Justice Collins notes the ruling centers on class legislation and confirms dealers in farm produce and grain may be placed in a distinct class.
Desk makers across the United States agreed to a 10 percent price increase to reflect higher material and labor costs. The new scale takes effect immediately, with a revised price list to be issued by the association on November 5. Charl Leopold of Burlington Iowa chaired the meeting and L. N. Hodges of Grand Rapids Michigan served as secretary.
Springfield report: Forsythe Alex ander Kesse, aged 70, divorced from Dora Garrett aged 15. Wife’s maiden name restored and she received four thousand dollars alimony. Couple lived together about a week. Kesse known as king of Taney County by carpetbaggers. Discouraged man Kills Himself in Denver
Market quotations from Chicago to New York show cattle prices mostly $2.50 to $6.75, hogs $2.75 to $5.00, and sheep $2.50 to $5.50 with grain quotes including wheat No 2 red 67c to 73c, corn No 2 31c to 84c, oats No 2 22c to 28c. Prices vary by city and grade across markets such as Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo and New York with butter eggs and rye values also listed.
A sprawling column details arrests in St Lawrence to quell intimidation and conspiracy over a parsonage dispute with Miller. It notes the parsonage’s move, a Supreme Court test case, and various local figures from King to Butterfield. Other items celebrate a Manila graft gift gavel, soldier refunds, insane asylum funding, Crow Dog’s transport, range improvements, and local civic notes from Elk Point to Canton weddings.
Judge J. N. Burns known as the Indian judge has returned from a Pine Ridge Agency trip and says Indian chiefs discussed the hide matter but foresee no outbreak due to government action. Barns Burned: William Jolley of eight miles north of DeSmet lost his barn after a lantern upset in a recent blaze.
The general land office reports 8832 acres patented to South Dakota to aid educational institutions. The South Dakota surveyor general seeks 6700 dollars for fiscal 1901 surveys, noting many unsurveyed lands near the Black Hills Forest Reserve hold mining and agricultural potential. He cites settlers seeking title and explains a 1899 act on forest reserves allows homestead entries by metes and bounds when standard subdivisions cannot cover improvements.
A Watertown youth Bert McDowell 13 or 14 frets for fame after flagging a train with a lantern to avert obstructions. He confessed to placing the obstructions and was frightened, later bound over to the circuit court. Officials pursue details and capture his account.
A Blunt special reports a large artesian well on the 6000 acre Onida ranch showing strong pressure and a flow of forty gallons per minute from a 2 inch well 1620 feet deep reaching granite. It claims to be Sully County's first flowing well. Rev Norwell case recounts: initial charge dismissed then rearrested on a new charge.
President McKinley proclaims Thanksgiving on November 30 and urges nationwide observance on this continent and in newly acquired islands. He highlights national prosperity, restored peace with foreign powers, Cuba aid, Porto Rico relief, Luzon activity resumption, and calls churches to conduct services and labor to pause to aid the sick and poor.
By Baker Griffin and Philpot factions escalating hostilities leave five more men dead in four days across Clay County. Judge Eversole flees the county seat as Governor is urged to dispatch troops. Jim Bob Travis slain at Hamlet post office. body found in a well. Parker and Whittemore ambushed near Manchester. Parker survives. Clashes on Sextons creek leave two dead. Carlo Lytle named special judge as factions muster armed bands.
William Lafler, returning to Tacoma from Alaska, tells of N. C. Daily and two unnamed Frenchmen who died in a northern Alaska blizzard while gold prospecting on the Bonanza river. Separated from Lafler and a partner, they wandered with little food and clothing. wolves later scalp the bones while gold dust and belts remain. A camp stove was found, and the kettle held rawhide snowshoe thongs used in a failed boil for food.
Dawson the northernmost city and famed for its age promises a company of 100 expert riflemen for service in South Africa. They will be equipped and maintained from departure from the Klondike until muster out. Prof. WW Clark resigns from Washington and Lee University chair of law and Fle is cited as America’s top authority on contracts.
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