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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1892
Page
2
Mitchell South Dakota notice from Mitchell Printing Co. appears to reference a weekly capitar or capital matter. Limited readable context shows corporate ownership and location without clear dates or actions.
A massive fire at Rockaway Beach’s Seaside Museum destroyed the seaside avenue area and over 100 frame buildings. The blaze, fanned by a stiff wind, left about 140 acres in ruins. The main summer resort portion was wiped out. one person reportedly died, and many residents and boatmen fought the flames without saving most structures. Insurance costs cited near 4,000,000.
Police guard protects Moy Jin Mun the interpreter of the Federal Courts after a Francisca special headline declared a price on his head. Highbinders in Chinatown circulated a death threat amid Moy’s notice urging Mongolians to register before May or face deportation. A $1500 bounty for Moy’s removal and a boycott on Moy’s stake were reported as tensions rise.
New York reports no new cholera cases and quarantine measures on ships from Glasgow and Scandanavia. Passengers from several vessels are held as a precaution, with outbreaks on Swinburne Island noted. Also covered are boiler explosion near Toronto, irrigation land value gains, and Cincinnati brewers facing added taxes and possible court action.
Washington opinion declares the President may totally exclude vessels from cholera ports or other contagious regions. Madrid dispatch reports a Spanish gunboat aiming to rescue eleven crew from Moorish pirates after trading between Cape Juby and Rio de Oro. In Springfield Ohio a flour mill stoppage at Warder Bennett draws a large crowd as the power wheel is halted by three felled cels. Washington DC: Grand Army encampment plans involve a White House meeting after a conference with President on arrangements and stance.
The article notes the President will participate in inauguration exercises for the Corps reunion on Monday afternoon September 19. A grand parade follows on Tuesday with the President reviewing the procession, then a White House reception Wednesday, and a Thursday evening reception for delegates where he will deliver a welcome speech.
East Tennessee miners threaten renewed disruption prompting General S I Carnes to call for volunteers at Coal Creek. Colonel A R K Taylor received a telegram urging reinforcements to prevent prison riots and possible courthouse dynamite attacks. Enlistees would receive monthly state pay.
Archbishop Sutoli rector of the College of Noble Ecclesiastics and Mgr O Connell domestic prelate to the Pope travel to America to visit the diocese in the coming weeks. They will join the American Archbishops meeting in New York in October to discuss the school question and report to the Propaganda. The Faribault system is not to be investigated as settled by the Pope.
Crowds from Minnesota and Northeastern Iowa flock to Canton to view a Mary and child apparition in a church window. The pane, washed with acids, shows no signs of vanishing, and many report miraculous cures with canes and crutches left at the door. Photographing the glass captures the two figures, while removing the pane prevents support for the optical theory.
After four days at sea with no sustenance the crew of the British bark Hoyere were rescued by the schooner Amelia C and landed at this port. Boatswain William Rees and Able Seamen Authur F Joliffe and John Nicholas survived. Captain David Jenkins and others perished amid intense suffering. In Morelia Mexico an epidemic fever causes many deaths. officials doubt yellow fever due to high altitude. In Shelbyville Indiana a man choked to death eating breakfast. he previously attempted suicide. In Wheeling, West Virginia, officials deny rumors of Secretary Elkins being dead or ill.
In a front row Memphis wholesale firm storeroom, George Forrest nephew of Confederate general N B Forrest, fired three shots at clerk R L Dukes misidentifying him as Col J L Taylor. Dukes wounded fatally as Forrest is jailed after a struggle and arrest. Forrest vows further action.
St G Dun and Co reviews note cholera has landed but business in New York continues. Stocks sold heavily with about two dollars drop per share on active lists. Money ample, interior demand weak, large sums held for cheap buys. Record of 182 business failures in seven days contrasts with last year’s 239.
Weather Bureau bulletin from Huron notes past week warmth above average with frequent rains across central and eastern areas. Frosts occurred but caused little damage, corn maturation fair, wheat yields around 12 to 25 bushels per acre in some counties, barley good, oats above average, flax and millet promising, potatoes poor, threshing delayed by rains, fall plowing aided by current soil conditions, a dry warm week needed to thresh uncut millet and flax.
The State Board of Equalization reports the 1892 total assessment for South Dakota at 127,478,228 with real and personal property, and 348,283 for railroads and commpanies. It explains past three year trends, noting doubled farm land values and changes due to county returns and a 1891 revenue law.
Intelligence from Castalia reports the Missouri River steamer Castain on its first up trip amid strong local optimism. Neatly loaded at the landing are over 3,000 bushels of wheat bound for Sioux City and 300 head of fat hogs contracted to travel by boat. Local stock raisers including Watson Ham Onesium Turgdon Edwin Tucker Reeves & Co. Raper Ellsworth and B A Gucas back the plan to market county stock and farm produce by river. With such momentum and thousands of cattle hogs and sheep slated for market this fall and next spring the river trade is poised to expand to multiple boats in coming seasons.
The article notes broad public support in Capitola and the county for unified river transport to connect to rail and river steamboats. Citizens are urged to sacrifice small price concessions to avoid lodging costs and arduous drives, with the railroad urged to extend into the county to secure traffic from Charles Mix. Sioux City and Missouri River steamboats would benefit if the railroad builds in. The piece names the White Ribboners and mentions a Brookings WCTU meeting with sermons and a temperance mass at the Opera House, plus elected officers and resolutions. It also covers cattle shipments by the Chicago & Northwestern Railway from the Sioux Indian Reservation to Chicago, describing the scale of stock, time, and logistics. It ends with a tale of a elopement, discipline, and prohibition enforcement in Aberdeen, and notes progress on the Rapid City Railroad and a mining deal in the Hills.
Harvey fast express leaving Chicago at 10 40 p m crashed at Woodlawn Park Illinois plunging into a sandbank. Engineer John Finn and Italian laborer James Corea were killed. Thomas Leahy Frank Ritz and others were injured many with cuts and bruises. Cause believed to be soft tracks after heavy rains.
A desperate confrontation at Samson Flats near Fresno ends with four posse members dead or mortally wounded. United States Deputy Marshal McGinnis Dick Wilson and L Olsen die or near death, while George Witty suffers a neck wound. Evans and Sontag escape into the mountains as Apache scouts survive. The region braces for further pursuit as vows of fatal retaliation are issued.
The passages claim Livy finished his Annals at age fifty Homer wrote the Triad after sixty Sonomon compiled Proverbs at fifty Bryany gained fame at nineteen with Thanatopsis Thackeray published Vanity Fair at thirty six Lamartine’s poems appeared when he was thirty.
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