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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1900
Page
7
A brief entry from the Weekly Capital column mentions Mitchell, S D and the Michell Printing Co with a pun linked to the publication. The note records a playful misprint or wordplay in the local printing scene.
A northern storm lashes Lake Erie and Ohio Valley with high winds and two days of rain. Lake levels surge hundreds of thousands in damage. ships and telegraph lines suffer. Ohio River floods threaten Cincinnati and Covington while reports claim a C and O train wreck with many presumed dead are denied by Chesapeake and Ohio officials.
Claudia Staples of Omaha travels to New York seeking her husband who allegedly deserted her leaving two children. A police found her 18 month old baby on Broadway in ragged clothes, both soaked from rain, wandering dazed four days without food. They were taken to Bellevue Hospital for care.
In Jacksonville Oregon on Monday night G W Traynor shot and killed J Hardenbrook then died by self infliction. Hardenbrook was engaged to marry Sarah L Beeson sister of Mrs Traynor. Beeson and Hardenbrook were present when a window muzzle flash killed Hardenbrook. Traynor’s body was found near the house with two bullet wounds. Henry W Bigler of Salt Lake City died at St George Utah at 75, famous for California gold discovery.
In Chicago a railway worker Nels O Peterson, drinking heavily, fatally wounds his wife and then shoots himself. A 12 year old daughter is slightly wounded by a stray bullet as he is taken to hospital. The incident occurred during a violent spree.
Berlin announces Emperor William will present Paris with a German imperial building as part of the exposition, a gesture reflecting the empire’s cultural showcase.
Frank H. Hamilton a Minneapolis newspaper man is jailed on murder charges after Leonard Day a 25 year old society leader was stabbed to death in the West Hotel billiard room following a quarrel over a woman. Coroner Nelson held an inquest with witnesses confirming Day fought Hamilton.
Washington dispatches report the Latin American congress nearly unanimously endorsing compulsory arbitration urged by Peru. The plan includes guarantees for faithful execution of tribunal conclusions, with Chile the sole dissent. The move signals shifting south American alignment amid Tacna Arica and Bolivian seacoast disputes and rising regional tensions.
The National Irrigation Congress will hold two sessions next year the first at Colorado Springs around the Trans Mississippi congress and the second at Buffalo in October during the Pan American Exposition. President Walsh urged farm size reduction and housing for workingmen. W H Darton spoke on Water Supply of the Great Plains.
Joseph Lesher's proposal to coin souvenir dollars from silver in Victor appears dropped after a government official said the plan violated law and the dies would be seized. In Toledo, Ohio couriers for the Western Oil Men's Association report the Nov 21 storm destroyed nearly 5,000 oil derricks in fields south and east of the city.
E J Johnson of Columbus writes to Governor Thomas of Colorado calling him a black-hearted demon and an anarchist. The governor answers that hostility is preferable to friendship and declines to praise the author’s character.
In Pagosa Springs Colorado a stranger using the alias Smith was found dead in the town hot spring. The water’s heat reportedly boiled the body leaving no identifiable clues. No money or identity could be found, and investigators believe the man chose the fatal method himself.
By the breaking of a dam the electric sawmill near Hobsonville Tillamook Ore valued at thousands of dollars was washed away and destroyed. The mill stood in a gulch and when the dam broke a flood rushed down covering the dynamo and powerhouse while the mill was carried a quarter of a mile and demolished.
Woolson Spice Company cuts roasted coffee by one cent per pound. Arbuckles follows with a fifteen point cut in refined sugar, while National Sugar Refining Company also reduces. American Sugar Refining Company has not acted yet. Ar buckle Bros. cut coffee prices by one cent per pound. Engine Crash injures four in Kansas City area. one engineer gravely ill. Prosecution in Havana to vigorous action over post office frauds. Horatio Rubens named to lead case. Oklahoma bank safe cracked. $1,700 stolen after nitro blast.
Sioux City reports cattle to 6.50 hogs 4.55 and grains with wheat around 64c corn 26 to 88c oats 20c. Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York list similar ranges for cattle hogs sheep and staples with No 2 wheat 68c to 72c and corn 34c to 45c varying by city.
A. L. Wilson, once principal of Hudson Public Schools, was driven from Hudson by the girl’s father and uncle after alleged threats to ruin the student if she informed. He, a married man, was beaten by the uncle and escorted four miles along the railroad track, then left at Sioux City with a swollen face. The 17 year old student was described as highly respected and popular.
Bob White was found guilty of holding up a boy at gunpoint in Mitchell last summer and stealing a bicycle. He was sentenced to ten years in prison. While jailed this summer he feigned insanity to avoid the sentence but abandoned the ruse when told he would still serve the term in Mitchell.
Beadle County welcomes new settlers despite winter as practical farmers move in. I P Philke and family from Chatfield Minnesota settle near Hitchcock, George Fisher and family take a half section north of Huron, and E R Hickox from Webster County Iowa will reside on the Judge Burtt farm northeast of Huron.
Aged couple Mr and Mrs Lilly were found injured after hay hauling near Geddes. Mr Lilly had three broken ribs after the wagon wheel crossed his chest while Mrs Lilly fell and dislocated bones. She carried him home and neighbors found them 24 hours later. Both face possible internal injuries but are under care.
A man weighing cars at the Deadwood Gas Hol ton Burlington switch was crushed between two rail cars and died shortly after at Sister's Hospital. He leaves a mother a brother and two sisters in Omaha whose remains were sent for burial.
Deadwood authorities have captured John Lee, wanted for six months on horse stealing charges. He is in jail awaiting the next grand jury action.
The Utah Supreme Court upholds newspaper freedom in two libel cases involving candidates for public office. In Myers vs Longstaff the court allows publication about a candidate’s finances if in good faith and with probable cause. In Boucher vs Clark Publishing the lower court decision is reversed in a similar ruling.
Final returns show South Dakota voters defeat the dispensary proposal by 14,724 with 45,038 opposed to 30,814 in a statewide vote on liquor control. Also covers smallpox doubts in Deadwood, a Talcott elopement, Yankton bonds, a Sioux Falls death, winter train suspension, Pythians in Lead, and Prof. Mather’s election as SD Music Teachers president.
The obituary recalls Robert Graham Dun of New York a leader of a mercantile agency with global reach born 1826 in Chillicothe Ohio. It covers his rise from a $2 a week clerk to head of the firm and notes other contemporaries including Yamagata Ito von Buelow and Ludlow, plus tax figures for New York City.
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