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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1888
Page
5
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Wheat prices surged with December options trading between $1.14% and $1.17 as activity intensified. The market closed around $1.15 for December and May, with traders fervent and many firms reporting heavy sales. Across Ayr and North Dakota, frost and prairie fires devastated grain, destroying stock and grain worth up to 310,000 in places, leaving farmers and brokers fearing losses.
The Minne sotai conference of the Minnesota Episcipal church opened at Central Methodist church in Ainoona Minn with a large attendance expected to exceed 1300. Bishop Hurst presides and bishops Tay of Africa and Habura are listed among visiting divines. Proceedings will cover statewide matters and be read with interest.
A wind driven tornado swept over rural areas near Ashland and Spooner Wisconsin killing valuable pine timber. Damage extent unknown but the swath crosses several sections. few settlements remain in the district and no casualties are reported yet.
Seville Wis Oct 4 A jury verdict in the Grace case awards Grace five thousand dollars from the priest and others faulted him. The report also notes a separate boxing match in which Fell failed to KO Donner amid clinches and roughhousing. Local items include a factory fire impact in Taukee and a large labor festival crowd in ECty as well as burglaries and a drowning near Berand.
The North Side grip carmen delay a strike until Saturday after reconsidering a 10 am vote. If Yerkes does not meet terms, both grip and horse car men will strike. West Side workers await Yerkes’ decision within 24 hours. South Side funds pledge support. The executive committee will notify Yerkes at 10 o'clock.
James Conley, the Zion church sexton in McMinnville Tennessee, was released by Police Judge Hadden who ruled the shooting of W. W. Yastman and J. D. Smith justifiable. Conley fired from a window when the intoxicated men tried to break into his home to seize his mule.
Both Guy and Byrd claim a majority in the Chickasaw election and have taken oath as principal chief. The Indian department says it will not decide the outcome. Chickasaw courts must rule while urging peace. The acting commissioner directs courts to handle any further relief requests and to keep the department informed.
A Detroit sensation follows the discovery of forged deeds and mortgages covering three lots owned by John S. Baisch. Cornelius Sohmers and a second impersonator profited about 12000 from the ruse. In Philadelphia, Charles H. Litchman sues John W. Hayes to recover two boxes of Knights of Labor papers, now held by Hayes.
Police discovered a decomposed female trunk on the Thames embankment. The head arms and legs were missing, body bound in rough cloth with a strong cord. Arms found at Pimlico and Hambeth may belong to this body, uniting two cases as one.
Wichita Falls Texas sheriff posse surprised and captured the Campbell brothers after they murdered Deputy Sheriff Cogburn while resisting arrest for train robbery on the Southern Pacific and bank robbery at Cisco Texas. In New York Shipman Barlow Larocque Choate repaid 112644 to Farmers Loan and Trust forgeries by their clerk Bedell in bogus mortgage case.
An order by President Mayemeyer of the Sugar Trust closes the Decastro & Donner refin- eries at Williamsburg Long Island. The plants employ about 1,000 men and the shutdown is for an indefinite period. Workers are greatly excited by the move.
Judge Hoffman of the U S district court refuses to issue any more writs of habeas corpus to Chinese arriving on the City of New York. At this port 30 776 return certificates remain outstanding. Chinese arriving on the Belgic will not be allowed to land.
The Democratic National Committee found that Thomas A. Hendricks was left off the vice presidential list in the campaign book due to a clerical error. The mistake affected thousands of copies and cannot be corrected.
IsHPEMING Mich Oct 4 The snow storm swept the peninsula causing serious train delays in the Eastern district due to heavy and slipping snow on the tracks.
The Hamburg examination of Professor Gesicken has closed and the prisoner has been handed to a high court of justice at Leipsic for trial or further proceedings.
Footwear makers tout a new leather variant called Kordofan made from rear skin segments of wild horses from South America and zebra and quagga from Asia. Promoted as comfortable and durable, the supply is not yet endangered by demand according to New York commentary.
A 19th century portrait of Boston savings banks shows a bustling scene with depositors of all ages. Officers note many women prefer safe, modest returns, while elderly men frequently reach deposit limits. Children, widows, and executors use banks for education funds, estates, and charitable accounts amid a 4.06 percent average rate.
A visitor asks what a convict is in for and learns he is an ex policeman jailed for stealing. He pleads for help and requests a pint of peanuts to save his life, noting he cannot live without them after long service on the force.
In Jackson Mississippi destitution rises amid yellow fever panic as Howard association efforts near exhaustion. The National Government is appealed to and Surgeon General Hamilton pledges to secure aid. Residents warned not to return while the city remains infected. no new cases reported, one suspicious case watched.
The Veiled Prophets parade in St Louis drew more than 250000 spectators. Floats depicted Mother Goose and Alsop’s fables and were lit by over 60000 gas and electric lights along the march. A grand dress ball at Merchants hall followed, described as brilliantly staged.
Oil circles seized on a reported compromise between Logan Emery and Wever refiners and the Pennsylvania company in a $200,000 suit. Dissolution of the firm six months ago and inability to verify details cloud the rumor while related larger claims remain unsettled. A second item notes a Honolulu Advertiser letter from Samoa describing tensions and possible German reprisals if German gunfire targets revolutionaries.
In OtrAwa Nova Scotia Attorney General Longley met Liberal leaders to push closer US Canada trade. He predicts annexation within five years as the likely outcome of the talks. In Mandan North Dakota a man named Burke or Byrne was found dead on the railroad yard after a probable collision. In Ashland Wisconsin Mickey Shea the prize fighter was killed by an ore train with fatal head and body injuries.
Michael Schmitt’s brewery burned Monday night causing an estimated loss of 15000 with coverage of 35000. Authorities have yet to determine a cause and consider the origin a mystery.
Briefer notes report a cracker factory owned by Chittenden and Herrick in Cadillac Michigan burned Monday night with losses around 5000 dollars and 3000 dollars insured. The report also lists political nominations and a railway rate dispute with dates for rate changes and a freight committee meeting.
Wheat bids include No 1 hard at 1.15 and No 1 Northern at 1.12 while No 2 Northern opens at 1.07. Corn shows No 2 at 40c bid and No 3 at 40c asked. oats No 2 mixed 280 bid. blue 27c asked. No 2 white 280 bid with October 30c asked. Hay No 1 at 6 dollars, upland prairie 6 dollars. Flax seed 1.20 bid. Timothy seed 1.46 bid. potatoes 25e bid. eggs 15e bid.
Grain and pork prices listed for wheat corn oats and hogs with futures for October November December and May. Live stock details show hogs cattle cattle by class and regional ranges across packing rough and shipping markets.
At the florists convention in New York the growth of the florists trade is noted. Isaac McKenna, in 1840, was among the few florists selling on Wall Street for about two dollars daily. Now about 80 000 buds are sold yearly in New York and thousands of stores support flower sales.
A New York Sun correspondent visits Dantown near New Canaan to describe basket makers living in decaying homes. They struggle to earn three dollars weekly while sustaining large families, drink rye whiskey, and weave baskets in kitchens and parlors using hickory and ash. Competition has driven prices down from fifteen dollars a dozen twenty years ago to three fifty, with production targets about two dozen baskets weekly.
A prominent Englishwoman argues that American women suffer nasal voices and false teeth due to a dry atmosphere and catarrhal troubles. She blames deranged stomach action from imprudent eating and lack of exercise, touting Warner's Log Cabin remedies as cures and urging regular use to prevent catarrh and pneumonia.
A Pioneer Press critique notes that Bismarck reports on the Indian commission and tribal aims may not be entirely literal. It argues poetical license in Indian stories and cautions the city news center cannot capture all intelligence west of the Missouri River. The piece warns against overstatement and exaggeration.
An afternoon party in London featured a bevy of female servants dressed in black gowns white waist coats and white caps trimmed with black ribbons. The guests were served efficiently and neatly by the all female staff, praised over male servants in accounts in The Argonaut.
On the authority of a Dominion cabinet member the Hudson Bay Railway company will not receive a government bond guarantee or further aid. The government has granted a land subsidy but views the project as impracticable for commercial purposes.
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