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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1888
Page
5
New York dispatches report Gen. Benjamin Harrison securing a sweeping electoral win. Brice concedes the Democratic loss while Republicans claim New York and Indiana. Harrison to surpass the 25 year vote record. West Virginia remains in doubt as results solidify nationwide.
The latest returns show the candidate winning safe majorities in Indiana Wisconsin California and New York not voting for him. This indicates a nationwide Democratic defeat and cements his presidential election victory despite New York’s absence from his tally.
New York reports a range of forecasts for the Fifty-first Congress. Tribune and World project competing majorities for the House. Sun and Times note uncertainty in doubtful districts. Press cites 17-seat Democratic edge. Herald lists 168 Democrats 161 Republicans and one Labor member.
New York Herald dispatch reports President addresses a question in Washington interview noting a settlement of issues rather than personal matters. The exchange occurred yesterday afternoon.
A Columbus dispatch quotes Thurman blaming the national committee for not heeding Brice Townsend and his advice and for diverting funds. He says Cincinnati could not be organized due to lack of means and asserts Harrison is elected. Whitney criticizes tariff education as cause of New York loss. Congratulatory telegrams from Chicago and New York praise Harrison and mark the era.
A general business revival is predicted across the territory following Republican success in the Dakota election. Real estate prices have risen, and several Watertown residents who planned to leave Dakota now intend to stay. The Republican victory is seen as worth millions to Dakota’s economy.
Chicago reports Indiana elects a Democratic wave with gains in multiple districts. Names include Parratt O Neall Brown Holman Cooper Bynum Brookshire Cheadle Owen Martin McClellan Hoyne and others. Election supervisors meet in counties to canvass returns, with statewide totals possibly available late tonight.
Returns from 80 counties show a 7 025 net Republican gain and a 3 500 national and state majority. Democrats gain congressmen in three districts and win majorities in both legislative branches. Jewett concedes Indiana to Republicans by about 2 000.
Advices from New York report Mrs Jay Gould is dying and death is momentarily expected. The same bulletin notes Kansas suffers a record early snowstorm with heavy driving snow starting at 3 o clock in Kansas City and continuing.
London dispatch reports another brutal Whitechapel murder in Dorset street. A woman's mutilated body described as frightful, with ears and nose severed and organs missing, lies found at 114 m. Inquest to follow. bloodhounds used but ineffective. Victim believed to be Lizzie Fisher aka Mary Jane, a discharged resident with a porter husband.
At Livingston Kentucky a political quarrel led to a fifteen minute shootout in which five men were reported killed including Samon Ward a legislator and John Califord a railroad agent. Another account from Louisville called the report a hoax spread by a local Republican ticket in a telegraph hoax.
On Wednesday morning local blacks burned the house of the Democratic county committee chairman in Raleigh North Carolina. The next day vandals entered a railway warehouse and seized several dynamite cartridges. Authorities fear escalating unrest with the military now in control of the city.
A Dresden Ontario woman, described as insane, killed her husband after he came home drunk and abusive, striking him with an axe or club as he slept in their suburban township residence last night.
Brief items report the death of Dr Henri de Bamberger in Australia. Other notes include a Melbourne dispatch on a Broken Hill fire destroying a block with heavy losses, and appointments and injuries involving governors and a czar. General J Lowman Sweitzer dies in Pittsburgh after a brief illness, noted as a war veteran and high court attorney.
Market quotations show Wheat futures for November December January and May with prices around 1.14 to 1.18 plus other commodity bids. St Paul quotes list No 1 hard and Northern wheats with bids and various corn oats hay potatoes eggs prices. Chicago live stock notes report hogs cattle and sheep receipts and price ranges. The German Army drills outline three formations double column deep column and broad column with the company column as base. Siam government training reports include four women among fifteen students to England.
A visit to a Swiss Cuisines populaires reveals a worker oriented meal program selling soup bread and meat at fixed low prices. The operation is run as a joint stock with checks instead of cash and feeds about 1800 people daily. It funds schools, distributes leftovers to the poor, and employs a small staff led by a board of directors.
Reports describe efforts to control marching grasshoppers near Algiers using two devices the melnafas a rough cloth trap and the mapparells cypriotes muslin sheets stretched on frames laid along the path of the invaders. Additional measures include blank artillery fire cavalry stamping the insects and reducing rations to encourage locust consumption as a national dish.
Cleveland mayor Babcock reports his Montreal visit to gather information from Axworthy produced no meeting. He remains hopeful a conversation could benefit Cleveland. In Boston, Methodist Episcopal bishops held their semi annual session with eighteen members and over two million communicants represented.
Albany reports the strike by New York Central switchmen ended after they secured the wage advance they demanded. Freight blockades are being rapidly raised as workers return to duties.
Nov 10 report from RociEster states three char ged remains were taken from the Steam Gauge and Lantern company works this morning, adding to five bodies recovered last night. No identifications have been made yet.
A severe snow and rain storm sweeps western Iowa eastern Nebraska and northwestern Missouri. Wires are down and Omaha is cut off from telegraph communication with Chicago.
Late last evening the body of Fred Goff was recovered. He had been blasting Monday at the North Star mine on Solomon mountain when a snow slide swept him away and hurled him over a high precipice. The mountain is heavily laden with snow and the mine is closed for winter.
New York dispatch reports all Winchester rifles purchasable in the city sent to Southampton county where whites fear black violence. A collision occurred there today. Southampton is remembered for Nat Turner’s insurrection.
Steve Brodie leaped from the bridge into the Hudson River in New York City breaking three ribs in the fall. Authorities report he was rescued and taken to a hospital for treatment.
New York reports that C. P. Huntington is finally recognized as the owner of the Star. It remains unclear if he will convert it into a Republican newspaper or keep it for a patron.
Sanford and Son's carpet mills at Amsterdam, shut down recently, will resume operations Monday. About two thousand persons are employed at the mills, with work expected to restart across the plant facilities.
In San Francisco Judge Sawyer of the United States circuit court rules that two Chinese born in the United States are citizens and not subject to the exclusion act on Chinese laborers. The decision holds their American birth grants them citizenship and immunity from the Chinese laborer ban.
Three hundred miners who struck at Congressman W L Scott's coal works on the Ham panel railway yesterday face winter job loss after Scott decides to close the mine. River mines may drop to 74 cents a ton due to his action.
Indiana Governor Gray says the defeat was complete and tied to two causes. He cites loyal party democracy and a shift in view of President Cleveland, plus lingering distrust from 1880s Republican influence and state pride affecting voters. He notes reports about Vice President Mendricks may have hurt the party.
Sioux City Journal calls for sweeping political reform in Dakota as statehood nears. It urges rooting out disgraceful personal politics and starting reforms promptly to ensure a cleaner new era.
A Pioneer Press commentary laments the sorrows of a poor old Democrat amid a Republican president and gains in the Senate after territorial admissions. It contrasts party fortunes with the new political balance.
Henry N. Corp explains a revived 4 bill package before Congress. The measures would allow abandoners to refile on up to a quarter section and permit additional contiguous land up to 160 acres with residency and cultivation rules. Provisions include leave of absence for settlers facing hardship and price adjustments for railroad grant lands.
Advertisement claims catarrh stems from impure blood and that Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies blood and cures catarrh. It notes numerous testimonials from users who found relief when other remedies failed and offers a cure book for two cents.
Parents urged to avoid dangerous medicines for children and trust Beggs' Cherry Cough Syrup as a safer remedy for coughs and lung troubles. Sold by 8. H. Scallin.
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