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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1895
Page
6
Washington report shows October deficit rising with expenditures for the month totaling about 10.17 million and the current year deficit reaching 20.04 million. Receipts from customs and internal revenue trail estimates, and rumors say Secretary Carlisle may back a beer tax increase to raise roughly 35 million annually.
Constantinople reports Said Pasha has accepted the European powers demanded Armenian reforms. The plan sets governors in Armenian cities who may be Christian or Muslim with a Christian governor or vice governor. taxes by local officials. judicial changes. abolition of torture. mixed Christian Turk police. strict enforcement of anti conversion laws. High commissioner to implement reform will be a Christian.
In Chicago stockholders elected Stuyvesant Fish Edward Harriman and John Jacob Astor as directors for four years. Directors then chose Stuyvesant Ish president John C Welling first vice president J Y Harriman second vice president A G Hackstaff secretary T Gibson treasurer B T Ayers general counsel James Fentress general solicitor. London report says Ambassador Bayard delivered a note to Premier Salisbury on the Venezuelan question with no reply yet and ongoing British consideration.
Jerome J Coulter deputy city treasurer of Omaha Neb arrested at a boarding house in New Orleans on a telegram from Omaha Chief of Police Seigvart. He had entered clubs here for weeks claiming no charges and seeking work. Only small sum found on him. He claims political malice.
A summer field survey in Alaska confirms the United States boundary in the Yukon River basin below Forty Mile Creek, including gold fields. England’s wider claim is disputed but surveys support U S lines, with Gen Duffield stating the area is American.
Tokyo dispatches report a Corea uprising linked to the queen’s dislike of new troops. Russian, US, and likely British marines have landed in Seoul, with Japanese forces maintaining order as a commission investigates the palace assault led by Ta Won Kun.
A Pittsburg streetcar on the Carnegie branch of the West End line derailed after braking failure on a steep grade. Car No. 56 plunged into McCarty Run, killing Fred Heisel and Geo Rothman and an unnamed woman, with seventeen injured. Rescue crews reached the wreck, and victims were sent to the morgue and hospital.
Washington reports show declines in principal crops except rye oats and barley due to drought. Potatoes suffer from low prices and rot, with weak profitability for digging in Wisconsin Minnesota and other states. Sweet potatoes also hurt by lack of rain. Pittsburg notes city treasury shakeup as mayor resigns after bank interest actions.
The Times Havana correspondent reports more than a hundred deaths from the flood after a recent hurricane in Vuelta Abajo. Rebels say they have orders not to fight but to disperse when attacked. London notes raise Sir Algermon Borthwick, Baron Henry de Worms, and Horace Curzon-Plunkett to the peerage.
Market quotes show Sioux City cattle 2.25 to 3.55, hogs 3.68 to 8.75, sheep dull. Chicago cattle 3.40 to 4.40, hogs 3.95 to, sheep 2.8 to 4.00, wheat No 2 red 60 to 62, corn 29 to 34, oats 18 to 25, rye 39 to 45, Minneapolis cattle 1.50 to 4.00, hogs 2.00 to 8.70, sheep 2.15 to 3.15. Kansas City cattle 2.50 to 3.83, hogs 3.75 to 4.00, sheep 2.25 to 3.16. South Omaha cattle 2.90 to 4.25, hogs 3.80 to 8.75, sheep steady. St Paul cattle 2.00 to 3.80, hogs 3.76 to 3.65, sheep 2.26 to 3.40.
Hawthorn to Huron city officials and city attorney were fined $100 each for contempt after accepting money on city warrants while the treasurer was enjoined from paying them. Mayor Myers absent. case could affect up to 20 others. Other notes report land funds distribution, asylum expansion, pardons, stock yards, hog cholera, and the death of John Clayton Shurts.
The circuit court at Wessington Springs adjourned after a three day session. State v Fred Fetterly and Sam Galley Jr ended in not guilty verdicts for alleged cattle stealing and the defendants were discharged. Milwaukee railroad men work to prevent a southern Minnesota division blockade. Dakota Rescue League papers filed at Pierre to establish a home for destitute women and children. James the Woman, P H H Lormey and wife arrested at Hecla for burglary. goods found on Lormey farm. man says the woman was to blame. Taylor Gets Two Years as supreme court upholds writ of error ruling in the Taylor case.
Lyman county plans a suit against the state to recover expenses spent on prosecuting Frank Phelps and Henry Schroeder for Mot Matson's murder. A venue change moved trial to Hanson county. partial reimbursement has occurred, with more to be pursued after the suit's end. The claim argues unorganization at the crime time.
Five Eureka children, oldest seven, arrive to live with their aunt near Scotland after their mother dies. Lennox burglars fail to steal from W B Wait’s safes, blowing the door but leaving valuables. A Northwest Aberdeen incident injures a man named Christian on a freight train. South Dakota stories include Goetschs’ Arkansas move and a legal writ of error filed in Harford.
Charles Ditzel was rescued after fifty four hours in a living tomb at Richardson colliery near Glen Carbon Pottsville. His helper August Brenner died from suffocation. Ditzel, barely able to move, was pulled free from a coal filled breast and treated for severe cold and dehydration.
In The Saturday Review the text recalls Catherine the Great’s generals Rumiantsof Kamienski Suvorof and others. It notes Suvorof’s short stature yet vast influence and eccentric, brutal methods including naked somersaults and savage massacres, claiming only Turenne London and Suvorof were the three great modern war generals.
A market list details per pound weights for eggs and annual yields by breed including Geese Polish bantams houdans La Mleche Hamburgs turkeys game fowl leghorns black Spanish Plymouth Rocks Langshans Brahmas guinea fowl ducks with respective prices per annum.
A handsome brunette aboard a Peaks Island ferry draws amused notice from young men as the magnetic compass reportedly follows her finger. The pilot discovers the effect when she sits to one side of the pilot house, causing brief navigation curiosity.
The Indianapolis Journal notes that teachers asked how sin entered the world and the new boy responds that preachers labeled as sins all activities people enjoy. This reflects early moral instruction and the framing of common pleasures as sin.
A breezy exchange quotes a New York World line about going sailing with playful taunts. The dialogue hints at facing whitecaps and windy conditions as a light moment in maritime chatter.
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