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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1892
Page
4
Osan reports the Union Pacific Overland Express struck a broken Alda switch near Grand Island Nebraska, colliding with a standing freight train. Two engineers, a conductor, and a fireman were killed, with one fireman and a mail clerk injured.
Sioux City Nov 23 A Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul train left a caboose and fifteen loaded cars on a steep grade near Hartley Iowa while the engine crew switched. Winds rolled the unbraked cars back. The wreck buried the engine and two coal cars caught fire. Daly Stephenson died. J Stephenson burned and crushed and expected to die. Other crew injured but likely to recover.
A Pleasant Valley family Hiram Danahaur his wife and their 10 year old daughter died in a house fire started by an overheated furnace in a basement greenhouse. The house burned to the ground and bodies were found among the ruins. Danahaur is described as a timer and well connected. Nearby Pittsburg report notes Carnegie Company planning to require non union agreements from all workers.
Twelve hundred women students at Ohio State University walked out at noon to protest the poor sanitary conditions in their reception study and lunch rooms adjoining laboratories. President Scott plans swift remedies within days and says students will return. Margeret Mather confesses marriage to Gustave Pabst and plans retirement from the stage December 10.
At Willow street canal in New Orleans a crowd watched about twenty men plunge into the river to escape arrest after a craps game on a schooner ended when police arrived. One man died and two were dying from the plunge while bystanders observed the scene.
Washington reports that General Raum's forthcoming pensions commissioner's estimate cites about 180 million dollars requested for the next fiscal year. Past years show rising costs from new disability and pension laws, with first payments and back arrears driving large outlays in 1890 to 1892.
In St Louis on November 24 the Knights of Labor reelected Powderly as grand master workman after he initially urged the group not to choose him. The tally showed 102 votes for Powderly with 6 scattering. Hugh Cavanaugh and John W. Hayes were elected general worthy foreman as nearly unanimous choices. Executive board members named were A. W. Wright, John D. Collins, J. D. Davis and Morgan Maguire with the first three re-elected. The committee on schedules and legislation will report next.
Hogs 5 cents higher with price range 9.35 to 9.45. Cattle steady with good demand for stockers and feeders. prime steers around 2.10 to 2.25, common cows 1.00 to 1.75, veal calves 3.40 to 5.35. Sheep week but steady near 3.00 to 4.00 for ewes and lambs 4.0 to 4.0. Receipts hogs 1,600 cattle 50 calves 40 sheep 700. Also Minn apolis grain and Chicago grain prices with various open close figures.
The Midland Pacific transcontinental line from Sioux Falls to Seattle could boost Mitchell if the town mounts a public push. A Pierre Free Press report describes a prospectus with a $80 million capital, 1649 miles of track, and connections to Illinois Central, promising a cheaper Chicago to Puget Sound passage.
Notice of foreclosure under a 1884 mortgage executed by Jackson L Clink and Jane B Clink. The sale of the northeast quarter of section 10, township 104, range 62, Mitchell South Dakota will occur January 3, 1693 at 2 PM at the courthouse front door. Mortgagee attorneys Seyz Ormsby and O.0. Stanchfield sign.
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