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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1899
Page
7
Reports from Ladysmith detail a crushing Boer victory over Gen White's 12 000 strong British force led by 12 000 troops. Three regiments were surrounded and eight cannon captured amid heavy losses and chaotic withdrawal.
Admiral Dewey announces engagement to Mrs Mildred Hazen widow of General William Hazen. He has moved into a new home and friends expect a swift marriage. Mrs Hazen is daughter of Mrs Washington McLean and sister of John R McLean Democratic Ohio governor candidate.
A collision in New York Harbor sank the Pennsylvania Railway Company's ferry Chicago, on the Cortland Street route to the Jersey depot. Two men drowned in the incident, as rescue efforts and investigations begin into the cause and safety procedures aboard the ferry.
A historic notice reports a famine in about 350000 square miles of northern and central Punjab affecting roughly 30 million people. It notes a repeat crisis three years after a previous Indian famine and cites two main causes for the calamity.
A Savannah Line steamship City of Augusta struck the Chicago ferryboat as it crossed to the east shore of the North River around 1 am. The Chicago sank in seventy five feet of water before it could reach its slip, with estimated 50 to 100 passengers aboard. One man, John Bryson, drowned and body recovered.
A fire engulfed the Webster house at St. James and Cathedral in Montreal Tuesday morning. Several people were burned or suffocated and three bodies were recovered. The report also notes Frank Croker, son of Richard Croker of New York, has become a political secretary to his father.
Telegraphic briefs note a gas explosion in Wheeling West Virginia killing Frank Martin. Other items include labor organizing pleas by Gompers and ta bor leaders, racial expulsion in Billings, a Hoboken man buried under coal, jewelry theft in Danbury, a suicide linked to a drunken son, a Wichita murder suicide, a sugar trust claim in New York, fire in Epworth Heights and a women led burning leaves.
James J. Jeffries defeated Sharkey on points in the twenty fifth round at Coney Island to retain the world heavyweight title. Sharkey's rough tactics and repeated clinching drew demerits, while Jeffries showed a wilder start but superior stamina sealing the win before the bell.
Six thousand Spaniards have arrived in Cuba in six months with 1175 aboard the Alfonso XIIII reaching Havana. The Madrid Government reportedly aids those who wish to settle in Cuba. Most newcomers are poor and seek work, crowding Havana and raising fever risks while Spanish merchants and societies push for relocation to country districts.
News from Victoria via steamer Miowera reports a October 10 earthquake on Ceram in the Molucca group. About 4,000 Malays and Papuans died as rocks toppled, burying settlements and entombing interior inhabitants on Sirang Ceram.
The Boers of the South African Republic are depicted as using the Mannlicher rifle, weighing about eight pounds with a 30 inch barrel and a .30 caliber. It delivers a killing range up to 4000 yards and can penetrate ash at that distance. Bullets are full mantled with copper or nickel and at 1000 yards or less can pierce bone without splintering.
Harvard has a brass band and a rifle lab. Five hundred plus students compose the 1908 Harvard class. Tufts begins Robinson Hall for a new scientific school. Yale divinity school attendance falls with higher standards. Dartmouth receives a $300,000 bequest from Edward Tuck in memory of his father.
The unanimous report handed to President McKinley urges continued American occupation of the Philippines, argues natives are not ready for self government, and portrays Aguinaldo as treacherous. It stresses honor, order, and eventual closer American ties as the path forward, signed by Schurman Dewey Denby and Worcester.
Professor Schurman of the Philippine commission says US treaty with the Sulu Sultan mirrors Spanish era terms and warns that US attempts to intervene in Sulu rights and practices would provoke a long bloody war. He notes polygamy and feudal bondage exist and that Sulus see death in defense of religion as noble.
Trustees accept resignation of Prof. George Herron from Town College Goone amid protests from Radical Lecturer Terran and pressure over the 835000 endowment bequest from Mrs. Rawl of Burlington. Endowment decision remains unaffected by Herron’s departure.
The text warns only those willing to endure great hardships should think of going to Kimberley South Africa. The town sits in a treeless county with no hills above an anthill on the horizon. Eight months yearly bring little rain and temperatures can stay near 100 degrees. Dust storms further worsen daily life.
British fault lines over Ladysmith defeat focus on Gen White and Col Carleton. Critics claim White failed to maintain contact with Carleton and to extricate his column. Carleton is blamed for delaying retreat after losing artillery and mule stampede. Some allege Cape mule drivers aided the Boer cause. The narrative centers on the stampede that crippled ammunition and gun equipment as Boers attacked.
Report notes Gens White and Hunter used a captive balloon at Ladysmith for reconnoitering Boers, returning safely. It contrasts with a 1898 Suantiate incident when the balloon mainly bore down Spanish fire. Illustrations show a balloon in England and an officer observing from aloft.
A long string of items covers church leaders and clergy across America and abroad, including Old Christ Church Philadelphia plans costly memorial windows, White Plains NY fights Sunday post office hours, Grace Episcopal New York buys a neighboring saloon to close it, and various bishops rabbis and ministers involved in revival movements education and missions. The report lists interdenominational actions, lectures, and appointments from Canterbury to Oxford with shifting views on revivalism and church influence in civil society.
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