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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1906
Page
5
London reports hundreds of women suffragists pressed into the House of Commons outer lobby during reopening. Police removed demonstrators one by one. several militants resisted, two officers needed to carry out removals. Women were gathered in the palace yard after expulsion, hats and finery dropped in the fray.
Mrs. Caroline F. Corbin, Illinois anti suffrage leader, writes to Chicago charter convention chair Lessing Rosenthal condemning woman suffrage as a gateway to revolutionary socialism. She argues economic equality harms home life and motherhood and asks protection of women from socialist influence.
Secretary Shaw announced that deposits will be allowed to support gold imports and that $18,000,000 in national bank circulation will be boosted by accepting approved securities other than government bonds. Banks may retire the new circulation between March 15 and August 10, 1907, to demonstrate elastic currency benefits.
Vice President Fairbanks rode a special train through Indian Territory on October 25 delivering speeches in a dozen different cities from the rear platform.
Chicago magistrates ruled the will of the late Thomas H. Wickes, former Pullman Company vice president, valid after a jury verdict. The contested will disputed by Wickes’ first marriage widow and family members was upheld.
White House disclosed proposed cabinet changes dated October 23 1906 with plans to move Moody to retirement and Shaw to follow. Bonaparte to attorney general Metcalf to navy Straus to commerce and labor Meyer to postmaster general Cortelyou to treasury. Straus first Hebrew cabinet member. Meyer previously ambassador to Russia.
New York report cites trade magazine figures showing 1905 U.S. spending on alcoholic drinks at 1.324 billion dollars and non alcoholic drinks at 222 million. Breakdown lists cocoa eight million, tea fifty two million, coffee one hundred sixty two million, wines ninety six million, whiskey four hundred fifty seven million, beer seven hundred seventy one million. Estimated consumptions include coffee 1.652 million gallons and beer 1.588 million, tea four billion gallons total.
The president proclaims Thursday November 28 as a day of Thanksgiving and supplication. He notes unprecedented prosperity, urges gratitude and responsible use of blessings, and calls the nation to worship and prayer in homes and churches.
Smithville Missouri Jesse T L Webb is arrested on homicide charges after his wife, 19, died from multiple gunshot wounds a week after their nuptials. Webb allegedly claimed they made a death pact due to his tuberculosis, and that she fired first, then killed herself. Authorities doubt the wife could have shot herself four times. Webb's condition improved from earlier injuries.
Interstate Commerce Commission hearings in Kansas City reveal alleged favoritism at the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line, a 1904 price fixing combine among Kansas City board of trade members, and boycotts against farmers selling to nonmembers. Witnesses describe embargoes at New Orleans and widespread efforts to steer shipments through favored elevators.
Guthrie Oklahoma October wedding unites Nellie Catherine Bun yan society editor of the Guthrie Daily Leader with Frank Jennings Lawton ex outlaw and train robber. The ceremony took place at John R Abernathy home with U S marshal present. Jennings once led a Chickasha hold up and was released from Fort Leavenworth. his brother Al Jennings later pardoned after life sentence. The bride’s father John Bunyan was a Pond Creek city marshal and Democrat leader. Jennings runs a Lawton real estate business and may publish a memoir titled Our Lives.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt, in Norfolk with horses for the show, dismisses gossip about wealthy families. He asserts rich men love their families as deeply as laborers do, and notes that while they quarrel, publicity in their affairs is far more severe than in poorer households.
District Attorney John R. Moran, running for governor on three nominations, says he would pursue the presidency if elected. He told rallies he would align with Bryan and Hearst as an aggressive opponent, denying any current alliance with them.
Prime mercantile paper at 66 percent. Sterling exchange firm at 4.89.80 and 4.85.85 on demand. $4.80.60 to 4.80.65 for sixty days. Money rates about 4 1/4 percent.
Patrick J. Powers of Providence Rhode Island was elected president of the Eastern League of Professional Baseball clubs during a meeting held today in New York.
A London financier dies by his own hand as his business collapses. Two new suspensions are announced on the New York Stock Exchange, though current conditions are reported as better.
London reports rising concern over the British steamer Arabistan carrying six million dollars in gold. The vessel sailed from Buenos Ayres on September 23 and is believed to be in the hurricane-affected area of the West Indies.
London reports P MacFayden head of MacFayden and Co bankers committed suicide within an hour of the suspension notice. He walked into a tunnel under the City and South London railway and was struck by an approaching train. The body was identified as MacFayden.
Vermillion South Dakota October 24. Marsh Getman a pioneer resident made an unsuccessful attempt to end his life last night. Two bullets from a 22 caliber revolver lodged at the back of his head. Getman swore he would yet accomplish his purpose.
Vermillion South Dakota October 24 in a crazed state Mrs Isbel Bumsted took poison and died. She was here seeking a divorce from T M Bumsted a traveling man of Baltimore Maryland but had recently stopped proceedings. The husband and a brother are coming to look after the remains.
In Cole Camp Missouri a widow Mrs Alice Winemiller sitting with five children was killed when shots pierced the window. Her 14 year old son was wounded. Felix Crawford died later after hearing the firing. His son in law J A Long is charged with the shooting.
New Orleans Oct 24 Madame 3ezus a renowned American cook for fifty years died last night at age 75. Her tiny restaurant seated fewer than forty guests but drew many famous names from recent United States history on its guest register.
Harland Sullivan was accidentally shot during a charivari at the home of Charles Dear in Missouri Valley on October 2. The injury is not expected to be fatal.
A garbled Philadelphia item recalls Willie Green the Manayunk policeman almost choking in a restaurant. a doctor saved him and Green paid the bill. The column then shifts through assorted notes from Logansport Indiana to Atlantic City, including burglarry headlines, jail mutinies, a blind magazine plan, Roosevelt civil service curbs, and a plant wizard apple.
Lexington reports a Clay family member Mrs Stele Chenault Clay died in a Chicago hospital leaving a child. a fortune of 25000 dollars may go to the infant if the report proves true. Relatives seek confirmation amid uncertainty.
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