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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1886
Page
2
The Warner Weekly Sun reports Chicago packers have slaughtered and salted 2,680,000 hogs from March 1 to date, compared with 1,304,000 in the same period last year.
The South Carolina Supreme Court upheld the provision that railroad companies pay the salaries of railroad commissioners. The ruling rejects railroad challenges to this cost provision and enforces salary payments by the railroads.
Census data show Wisconsin attracting Swedes Norwegians and Germans as major immigrant groups. German born residents rose from about 200000 in 1880 to 265756 last year while Scandinavians grew from under 50000 to 90057. Foreign-born residents climbed from 405600 in 1880 to about 500000 recently.
A 1885 New York law imposes a 5 percent tax on public bequests. The Tilden estate would owe about 200 000 dollars if public bequests total 4 million. The county treasurer would take 5 percent of the tax as a collection fee, amounting to 10 000 dollars, leaving 210 000 dollars to be distributed to charitable bequests.
A Washington dispatch reports the Philadelphia mint works sixteen hours daily amid a large silver coin supply in Treasury storage. It notes a scarcity of silver change in daily commerce and describes mint output of 20,000 dollars weekly in small coins with many dimes, plus 28,000,000 silver dollars produced monthly using 20,000,000 dollars worth of silver.
A Boston paper questions so called millionaires noting many held assets far below claimed fortunes. Over the last decade only one wealthy Bostonian’s estate exceeded his credited wealth, and many estimates underestimate debts by about a third, casting doubt on reported fortunes.
Treasury Department report shows total U S expenditures on malt liquors spirits and tobacco rising in the last fiscal year. Beer up by 1 524 980 barrels and whisky by 1 606 108 gallons bringing total 70 763 010 gallons equal to 11 19 per capita.
In a St Paul hotel a quarrel between Frank Farnsworth and Frank J. Mead escalates as Mead fires a revolver striking Farnsworth in the abdomen. Eyewitnesses and hospitals assess recovery chances while Warren tackles Mead to seize the weapon. Farnsworth, a Mandan resident, pleads for help as Mead defends longstanding friendship amid drinking remarks.
The shoe dealers Cloutman and Bingham announced a failure in Boston causing a stir in the trade. Liabilities are believed to reach $600,000 with an assignment to Francis B. R. Sears of the Third National Bank. The firm, based in Boston and Farmington New Hampshire, did manufacturing and general jobbing and was tied to several large factories.
The American Mayflower defeated the British cutter Galatea in the opening America's Cup race. The light, fair conditions favored well-sailed craft as a large fleet of steam and sailing yachts gathered in New York to witness the event.
The president and Mrs. Cleveland breakfasted with the party and traveled forty miles through Wilmington notch and along the Ausable river. They viewed the 100 foot Au sable falls and White Face mountain area. Crowds in Keene gathered as the party paused to rest before proceeding toward Adirondack lodge, then redirected to the Stevens house for the night.
About 40,000 of Charleston's 60,000 residents fled homes and slept in the open as aid pours in. A depot distributes supplies and transport for needy families reaches as far as Baltimore. Donations, totaling around 95 thousand dollars, are expected to reach 500 thousand.
Captain Clark H. Jewett of the schooner George H. Cushing reports feeling the earthquake he linked to the Charleston event near Lehave banks. He recalls a sudden black wall rising on calm seas, a towering wave lifting the vessel, then a second crest, followed by a terrible gale and a climactic clash with breakers ahead.
Col Batchelder U S A arrived to assess Charleston stating residents have essentials at home. He notes damage mainly to real estate and business districts with many brick structures gone and chimneys fallen. No interior deaths. fatalities occurred in streets and warehouses. relief comes to waste workers via higher wages.
In a final settlement at St Louis the aged General William Harney concedes the life estate to his children and a former wife. He will receive $500 monthly for life and the estate assumes a debt near $100,000 to a life insurance firm. The wife receives a portion under the agreement.
The report lists delegates at the Twelfth annual convention of the United States Railway Service Mutual Benefit Association in Washington. It covers appointments to Mexican and consul posts, post office openings and commissions in Iowa Minnesota and Dakota, Geronimo and related policy on his trial, Bulgarian and Turkish tidings, the murder of a Catholic missionary in British Burma, counterfeit ten dollar notes, and political shifts in Ireland and France with financial implications for Prince Alexander and Paris.
Frank Farnsworth of Mandan died after being shot on Thursday evening. Family members arrived in St Paul and Minneapolis as he lingered. The probable killer Mead faced murder charges after Farnsworth gave a dying statement and relatives said their goodbyes.
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