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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1892
Page
8
Pears Soap emphasizes that soap should wash skin without damage and contain no alkali. The copy claims Pears is pure with no free alkali and highlights trust in a soap free of biting alkali. It notes availability in many stores, especially druggists, and broad user appeal.
The whaler Helen Mar sailed December 24 under Captain BE. O. Thaxter and was lost after striking an ice floe in early October near 71° north. Thirty three crew perished, one survivor arrived in Onalaska, eight vessels lost in Black Sea gales, and Atlantic storms threaten larger steamers like the Arizona.
The U S Supreme Court issued multiple opinions but did not rule on the Chicago lake front case. Justice Shiras wrote his first decision in the Philadelphia custom house appraisal cases and the high court upheld the district method of selecting electors in Michigan as constitutional. In Chicago unrest coverage, 3500 people honored the Haymarket martyrs in Waldheim cemetery despite rain, with orderly demonstrations and wreaths. A Kansas wreck near Mazie station killed Engineer Tom Stanton and injured two crewmen after a cow caused a derailment on the Missouri Kansas and Texas line. In Breckenridge Minnesota, a thresher was shot by robbers on a bridge between here and Wahpeton during a failed hold-up.
In Ausany New York on November 8 court of sessions Judge Clute said no decision would be given in the case of labor commissioner Charles F. Peck and his stenographer Ma Rogers until next Monday.
President Miller of Milwaukee informs Superintendent White of the railway service of a plan to build a postoffice department exhibit at the world’s fair. The model railway postoffice car will be one sixth the regular sixty-foot length and will be fully equipped with light heat and all fixtures.
A Montana article recounts Colonel John Doyle and partners discovering a vast alum deposit in the Beaverhead range. They planned to flood the market for a $700,000 gain, but a heavy rain collapsed the shaft trapping Doyle who crawled out injured. Despite two days of searching, the mine vanished under renewed flood and sediment, leaving no trace of the discovery.
The St Louis Globe Democrat notes Yucatan hosts the largest mosquitoes known. Introduced from the United States, these giants swarm marshy lows and rival house flies in size, forcing people to use netting during the rainy season to protect stock and people from painful bites.
Edward Walford recounts a scene in Greater London where Frederick Prince of Wales visits Alexander Pope at his villa. Pope teases that his affection for princes conflicts with his anti king stance, and the prince retorts about liking princes and kings. Pope quips he prefers the lion before its claws.
A Remarkable Bible possesses forty two folio volumes illustrated with biblical plates and includes Madonnas, engravings, drawings, and prints. The collection is described as a history of Scriptural art with originals from Raphael and Albrecht Durer. Also noted is debate on stage life as refuge for youths seeking freedom, ease, and attractive appearance. A death from a lightning strike records a man burned hair, nose bleed, chest skin impression of an inverted tree, torn cap, and brain injury.
Sixteen smallpox cases reported in Seattle city limits with more expected. Health board hires extra physicians and quarantines lodging house as authorities plan a new quarantine house to combat the alarming, virulent spread.
TALEQUAH November 7 Ned Christie the notorious outlaw is dead after officers dynamited his fortified cabin and burned the ruins. Christie fled the floor and was shot while resisting orders as Wolf’s wounded body burned. Gang member Charlie Hare captured. Officer Field killed earlier. Christie had killed deputies and Indians and wounded others over six years.
Ella Pierce, awaiting trial on burglary charges in Wayne County, escaped Wooster jail by sawing bars, climbing the porch roof, and leaping eighteen feet. escape unnoticed for over an hour before discovery. In Rome, a Pall Mall Gazette dispatch says the pope is very ill and forbidden to work after a recent collapse and revival by physicians.
Congressman Edward I. McDonald of New Jersey dies at his Harrison residence after a ten day illness from pneumonia. The Democratic incumbent for the Fifth district faced reelection, and his death likely boosts the Republican candidate. He first won election to Congress in 1889.
Allotment of lands to 869 Chippewa Indians at Devils Lake North Dakota approved by the secretary of the interior. The allotment confers citizenship rights on the tribe, with eligible male members to vote in the upcoming election.
At the eve of a big run at Lafayette in November, Nusa Napoli, conductor on the Vandalia road and elder statesman of the line, died as his train pulled into Union Station at an unknown hour. He was brother to H W Hibbard, general freight agent, and served as president of railway officials. He was four years old.
Senator Hill and Colonel J H McEwan were greeted by about 400 Democrats in Cortland N Y despite heavy rain. A brass band escorted the party from the station to the hotel and at 1 PM an opera house address by Senator Hill followed. The Novo Vremya reports that Germanys military bill shifts the burden to Europe and increases Russia’s army on a peace footing.
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