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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1890
Page
10
Fragmentary text shows Partl case involving Desai drawing interest from officials. Local copies note case details and potential dates, but legibility limits specifics. Officials monitor developments as proceedings continue.
Friday lecture by Prof G E Bailey drew a small crowd due to rain. He covered Black Hills history geology education and industry including Harney Peak mines tin coal and the need for closer east west trade connections between Pierre Spearfish Rapid City and Deadwood with Miss Drexel and federal support cited.
Mr Wilde received a telegram from Chicago stating that his stepson W D Harbert died suddenly Saturday night while at a theater. Details were scarce as Mr and Mrs Wilde prepared to travel.
Sunday night's train for the city to attend the funeral. Mr. Harbert died suddenly after visiting family and friends here recently. He worked in Chicago for Wanamaker & Brown and was well regarded. Also noted are farm income forecasts, artesian well efforts, threshing plans, and large crop areas in Sioux City stockyards and Mitchell markets.
Agent McKinley of the Omaha company at Fulton drove into Mitchell with a sprightly team Thursday evening. While preparing to start home his whip struck a horse, the wagon lurched, and McKinley was thrown, his leg caught between a wheel spoke. A. B. Rowley and James Murphy stopped the team, McKinley dragged under the axle but escaped serious injury.
Mitchell South Dakota establishes fall term for 1890 with various courses. The Dakota University advertises two collegiate and two preparatory courses plus a normal program. Board and tuition range from 32 to 33 dollars per twelve weeks. Fall term runs Sept 23 to Dec 19. Public notices outline polling places and election officials for Mitchell city and township. J O Walrath joins the Poor Farm committee. Coal bids will be sought for winter.
The Republican slate includes Pickler Mellette Hoff man Dollard Ruth Smith ex union soldiers of the G A R. Gamble a lawyer. Ringsrud a merchant. Taylor of Spink a banker. Taylor of Hanson an editor. Salmon a farmer and teacher. A thunderbolt struck Tobin township burning a stack of wheat. the loser’s name was not learned.
A Washington report notes judge Tripp's visit and the party factions. It claims farmers alliance backing may shape the Senate race, while local independents refuse fusion with Democrats. It also mentions J D Wood allegedly switching to the Republican ticket.
An Iowa farmer writes to the Sioux City Journal noting sharp price drops since 1880 on items from a $55 cook stove to a $273 McCormick binder and a 55 cent lantern. He cites lower costs for wagons, plows, and kitchenware and suggests a full home and farm supply could be obtained with reduced expenditure.
Sioux Falls Press questions professor Bailey from Rapid City who touts the Black Hills in a state lecture tour. The piece accuses the Pierre advocate of disguising a political pitch as information and contrasts it with Huron funded campaigns.
The Republication reports average monthly shipments since May 1 by local merchants. Butter shipments average 17 800 pounds per month and eggs 5 832 dozen per month, figures reflecting trade with eastern markets and excluding home use and other shippers.
Wa Koch of the Highland House reports a likely party of six German farmers from northwestern Iowa will settle near Mitchell this fall. Anton Cra mer, spokesman for the group, visited recently and chose a site a few miles east of Mitchell based on his judgment.
Reverend Geo A Mackintosh, pastor of the Presbyterian church, returns from a month away in Ohio and Indiana and announces his decision to leave the pastorate to return to his former home in Indiana.
In Silver City New Mexico on September 9 two Murray children were killed in an explosion at Hinos Altos. The father John A. Murray is arrested on suspicion of murdering his sons to obtain a trust fund held for the crippled boy. Witness accounts describe a room adjoining the family sleeping area as the blast site.
Four Knights of Labor strikers are linked to a Castleton train wreck after John J. Reed, a East Albany brakeman, is arrested in Hudson. Reed reportedly confesses and names three others, with Pinkerton detectives and local police pursuing further arrests.
John Wolvertine a section foreman on the Northern Pacific was attacked by two intoxicated Indians as he walked a track near Spokane Falls Washington. One Indian named John Deer struck him with a club, leaving him unconscious and scalped. He crawled to a nearby saloon for help while the assailants fled.
Ed Reninger went to his mother in law Ramers home to fetch his wife. After she refused to return he fired three times at her and twice at her mother. Both women were shot in the head or arm and taken to Passavant hospital. Reninger was captured at Brookfield. He claims his wife was unfaithful.
In Ransomville, New York, 14-year-old Charles Grambo killed his 8 or 9 year old adopted sister Rose Grambo with a loaded shotgun. The boy claims the shooting was accidental, but authorities suspect jealousy over Rose’s bond with her adoptive parents. The incident occurred while the children's guardians were away.
A group of prisoners at the Fort Wayne county jail attacked the keeper in an afternoon bid to escape. James Bennett, just sentenced to two years, knocked down a guard and fled. Deputies and the sheriff recaptured the rest, but Bennett remains at large. Separately in San Francisco, a 200 delegate train to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen convention arrives, with elaborate plans to welcome visitors.
A severe cyclone swept through Leroy and Meadowville in Jackson County and Roan, W V, damaging farms. Homes and outbuildings were destroyed, cattle and sheep were killed or carried away, and nine people in one house were badly injured with four fatally. The storm also toppled hay stacks, fences, and timber, marking the most destructive event in years.
Denver dispatch reports Section No 2 of a double header freight train crashed into Section No 1 near Florence. Five laborers were killed outright as the rear section struck the slowed first section.
Advices from Forest City report the last rail on the Forest City and Sioux City railroad has been laid, linking Forest City with the Chicago and North Western network. Northwestern may extend service, and the Forest City line may survey from Gettysburg to Huron for fall grading.
In Portland and other Maine towns on Sept 9 with light voting, Republicans reported ahead in several wards and Reed predicted to win his district by about 1000 votes. Scratching and forgery notes marked the day as quiet with mixed results across cities like Lewiston Auburn Bath and Bangor.
A Kentucky constitutional convention opened in Frankfort with 100 delegates including state leaders to revise provisions from the 1849 pro slavery era. The assembly organized at noon as efforts intensify to remove sections deemed obnoxious and align with modern ideas.
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