The Mitchell Bicycle Race and Proclamation Items
Five mile handicap bicycle race drew a large crowd on Main and First streets with Bowdle winning first prize a bicycle lamp Pollard second and Baumgardner third. Bowdle led late with Pollard second Baum gardner praised for fast hills and good time. A proclamation from Governor Mellette sets a November 3 1891 special election to fill a U.S. House vacancy in South Dakota following John Gamboe’s death with election procedures and deadlines defined.
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Main
Vhirst
Baumgardner
Dodson
Pollard
Phillips
Rowley
Lowe
Harker
Bowdle
Balls
Nichols, Healey and
Layton
Herb Hitchcock
Joe Platt
Chalkstope House
A Dodson
Bawngardner
Lowe's
Dotson
Walter Harker
Rowley and
Gormally & Jeffrey
Chicago
Smith & Conges
L. O. Gale
Mitchell Dry Goods Company
Messrs. Dodson
Baum
Gardner
J. H. Rew
South Dakota
House of Representatives
John R. Gamble
Yankton
Arthur C. Mellette
Congress
National
Congresss
United States
Secretary of State
Capitol
Pierre
A. O. Ringsrud
Excursions to Shenandoah Valley from Midwest and Midwest rail links
Advertises rail excursions to the Shenandoah Valley from Chicago Cincinnati and the Northwest Line with dates September 15 and 29 1891. Includes fare details from Chicago to Winchester Middle town Woodstock Harrisonburg and Staunton Va and from Cincinnati to Cincinnati routes and ticket agents contact. Also promotes home-seeker trips and Brandreth's Pills and a political note on Ralph W Wheelock as editor in South Dakota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Maryland
Shenandoah Valley
Virginia
Chicago
Ill
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Ohio River
Cincinnati
Baltimore & Ohio South-Western Railroad
Ohio & Mississippi Railway
Winchester
Middletown
Woodstock
Harrisonburg
Staunton
O. P. McCarty
W. B. Shattuc
M. R.y
L. S. Allen
Northwestern Line
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Omaha
St. James, Minn
Minnesota
South Dakota
Iowa
LeMars
Atchison, Leavenworth
Kansas City
Kansas
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
Black Hills
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Texas
Tennessee
Mississippi
Alabama
Louisiana
T. W. Teasdale
Mic Reembarks in Mitchell Mercantile Venture
Alexandria Journal notes P. T. McGovern, known for insurance, will reenter business in Mitchell to run mercantile operations. Patricius likely to offer insurance as a premium on a dry goods bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexandria
P. T. McGovern
Mitchell
Patricius
Quiet Reigns as Chilean Affairs Return to Prewar State
A Santiago cable states Chili's situation has settled toward quiet order amid Junta rule. No election date set. Junta to administer. Banks face confiscation of large balances. Balmaceda notes to be recognized. Egan credited with preserving US credit and lives. U.S. and German envoys protect refugees while Washington instructs recognition of the new government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Herald
Santiago
Chili
Brazil
Peru
Congressional Party
Junta
Balmaceda
Tresendine Telegraph Company
Valparaiso
Buenos Ayres
Europe
United States
Galveston
Senor Montt
Walker
Martinez
Edwards
Mr. Egan
Senor Godoy
Minister to Hayti Raises U S Presence in Haiti
Jay S. Durham is named minister resident and consul general at Hayti, moving from his post as consul at San Domingo. A Philadelphia native educated at the University of Pennsylvania and a journalist, he is to act amid current upheavals in the Black Republic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jay S. Durham
United States
Black Republic
Hayti
Durham
St. Domingo
Mr. Durham
Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Bulletin
San Domingo
Embargo Removal on Pork Fails to Move Market
New York reports that Germany lifting its embargo on American pork caused little market upheaval. Investors await larger effects, with Armour predicting eventual benefits while Dougherty links it to rising speculation and firmer pork prices before a quiet close. In Boston a notice says Brigadier General Edward A Wild has died in Medellin after a career from Harvard to the Turkish army and the Civil War, aged 66.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
New York
H. O. Armour
E. H. Dougherty
General Wild
Boston
Edward Augustus Wild
Brooklyn
Mass
Medellin
Colombia
South America
Wild
Harvard
Harvard Law School
Jefferson Medical College
Pennsylvania
Gresham Denies Political Conference Report
Judge Walter Q. Gresham told a reporter that rumors of a New York political conference involving his friends are false. He was in New York recently and says there was no political action planned and that he is out of politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gresham
CubaGap
Walter Q. Gresham
New York
Fairbanks
Indiana
Dan Houser
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Three Soldiers Drowned In Lake Coeur d Alene
Four soldiers from Company M Fourth Infantry were boating on Lake Coeur d Alene when a lost hat caused the craft to capsize. O Keefe Offerson and Brown drowned, Hogan survived by clinging to the boat and was rescued next morning in exhaustion.
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Spokane
Wash
J. O’keefe
Corporal Offerson
J. Brown
Patrick Hogan
Company M
Fourth Infantry
Lake Coeur d’Alene
O'Keefe
Offerson
Brown
Hogan
Militia to sue state for pay over King county riots
Tacoma sept 7 Colonel Haines of the national guards says papers are being prepared for a suit against the state to compel payment of pay rolls for militia service during the late mining riots in King county. Expenses in the field totaled about 15000 dollars with the attorney general asserting King county should pay. Additional items: big find of bessemer ore at Sampson mine near Plummer Wis with ore assays of 60 percent. Elkins rumored to succeed Proctor as War Secretary Oct 1. an American arrested in Berlin as a spy named Carleton Graves. horse thieves operate near Richland S D with threats of rope.
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Tacoma
Wash
Haines
The
National Guards
King County
Bessemer
Ashland
Wis
Sampson
Plummer
Dow
Benlin
Carleton Graves
Columbia
Maynece
Graves
S. C
District of Columbia
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sioux City
Mitchell Capital
Will Furlong
V. V. Pletcher
Fletcher
Menno
Hutchinson County
K. P. Hall
Mashek
Doah Valley
Brandreth
Buffalo Co
Ralph W. Wheelock
Republican
Mitchell Republican
Washington
Mic
Egan
Eiffel Tower
Paris
Antico
Westland
Eland Junction
Wittenberg
Blaine
Augusta
Hattie
James G. Blaine
Bar Harbor
State Street
Sidney Olds
Samuel Owens
Detroit
England
Alexander
Redfield
S. D
Redfield College
R. H. Davis
North Conway
N. H
D. Beaton
J. T. Arnold
Grinnell
Miss Hyde
Cornell University
L. A. Geary
Dakota Conservatory of Music
Elkins
Proctor
Harrison
Stephen B. Elkins
War Office
Elk Point
Richland
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