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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1888
Page
5
The October 11 report describes a light championship bout between McAuliffe and Billy Dacey for the Police Gazette belt. Eleven intense rounds lasted forty-two minutes with McAuliffe securing victory by knockout in the final round.
A long report from a special committee accuses New York and other states of corrupt practices, claiming federal officials used official power to aid political campaigns and primary elections. It argues such interference violated law and harmed public service integrity. The document notes promises by the president contrasted with findings of manipulation.
A letter from Surgeon General Hamilton details a planned government supervised fumigation of Jacksonville Florida. The plan includes destroying furniture clothing and bedding deemed necessary and burning mattresses and pillows to disinfect. Houses adapted for fumigation will be built and condemned items branded to allow uninterrupted work. A house inspection will start soon.
Market quotations from St. Paul and Chicago show wheat, corn, oats, and other commodities trading with bids and asked prices for October and November. Separate note on hogs, cattle, and sheep futures in Chicago, alongside commentary on England's poor crops and looming impact of free trade.
Chicago faced widespread disruption as West Side street car workers struck after failed wage talks with Mr. Yerkes. North side men returned with varied rates, and a broad West Side walkout threatened 600000 inconveniences while police planned to keep peace amid potential arbitration.
Chicago reports that expansion of the streetcar strike to the West division isolates about 600 000 residents from the business section. North side service resumes at 7 with cars from Larrabee Limits barns, but few riders use them. Police brace for potential unrest recalling four year riot, while most pedestrians walk to work.
May bring an end to pending West Side and North Side labor actions as committees from the strikers and city officials arrange talks. Yerkes will meet with actual street carmen representatives, agreeing to remove private detectives and rely on city Poles for crowd control.
The five hour meeting between President Yerkes, his employees, and the mayor adjourned at 1:30 a m without results. A West Side drivers and conductors committee promptly ordered a strike tying up the west division lines.
Over sixty special police officers were sworn in at police headquarters. They will patrol boats while regular officers are reassigned to the North and West sides during the car strike. A note of haste in the words from Landov.
A Bar Harbor story claims an elderly Irish washer woman owns land worth 150000 dollars and will not part with it. She uses the land as a drying blue for her laundry and states she has always earned her living by work and intends to continue.
New York Oct 9 Andrew Carnegie arrived from Europe and spoke on trusts. He warned that trusts ruin those who join them, predict bubbles and price collapses, and urged public displays denying any steel rail trust. He denied arranging an international steel rail pact and said competition cannot be suppressed without harming the public.
The Utah Supreme Court issues final judgment dissolving the Mormon church, ordering personal property forfeiture to the government and real estate to the receiver. The new church entity may not claim properties used for worship and polygamy supports voiding any trust. The case advances to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Blaine told 6,000 workers in Hartman Hall Grand Rapids that Michigan will remain Republican and that Harrison and Morton will win the presidency. He declined to speak, urging citizens after a torchlight demonstration in his honor.
A Chicago Herald note alleges a man profits by stealing silver from photographic paper used by photographers. He visits photo galleries, obtains the paper, processes it, refines ashes to recover silver, and takes about 20 percent of the recovered silver, sometimes earning over $100 in a few weeks.
White Swan Crow Eagle Spotted Elk and other Sioux chiefs travel with interpreters to Pierre to meet with President and a Chicago delegation. They insist on 1.25 dollars per acre for lands or 50 cents per acre upfront as the only other acceptable option, delaying treaty signing until payment terms are clear.
Oshkosh Wisconsin reports the J L Clark Carriage Works has made an assignment as the largest Northwest firm in its line. Assets around 200000 dollars Liabilities about 110000 dollars. Workers paid last week. Plant may become stock company to straighten affairs.
New York Oct 10 Mr Hewitt accepted Citizens and county democracy renomination for mayor.
The Cincinnati Freie Presse argues that naturalized citizens since the last election will back Harrison and Morton, praising protective tariffs. It contends free trade would lower wages, asserting these voters favor pro tariff policies over Democrats.
A Grant County Wisconsin Herald note from A L Rankin of Lancaster reviews a Dakota fair exhibit. It describes steam powered machinery halls, hundreds of livestock entries from Shetland ponies to 3000 pound mares, and judging by stock rather than exhibitor. It praises cattle, hogs, sheep, poultry, the Dakota Agricultural Station displays, huge squash and corn yields, and a strong educational exhibit. The piece also covers the influence of Warner’s Log Cabin remedies and a nod to Corday’s historical impact.
A historical meditation on Charlotte Corday's act against Marat, the drive of the French Revolution, and the deadly reach of power. The author links Corday's deed to themes of authority, mass suffering, and the dangers of fanatic zeal, noting history's many grim deaths and the age’s gradual improvement.
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