The Mitchell capital., April 08, 1892, Image 1

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VOLUME XIII.
The recent rains have done great
deal of damage to unthrcslied wheat in
North Dakota.
Major Pickler says he will not
be switched off as a eandidate but
will make another run for congress.
The major's head is level.
Carl G. Sherwood of Clark, who ably
seconded Judge Moody in the anti-in
struction fight at Chamberlain, is said
to lie a candidate for the vacant l'cgis
tership in the Watertown land office.
The recent storm which devasted por
tions of Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa
was one of the worst in the history of
the west, and indicates that the season
may be an unusual one in this respect.
A man with the suggestive name of
A. Beveridge is talked of as the prohibi
tion candidate for mayor in Sioux Palls.
He will have to name his favorite bev
erage before he can hope for the nom
ination.
The enterprising town of Chamber
lain
continues to receive merited com
pliments upon the excellent manner
which she handled the recent conven
tion. Our Democratic friends might
do much worse than meet there them
selves. __________
The appointment of Hon. D. T. Hind
man as agent at the Sisseton Agency
has been confirmed by the senate, and
the alleged strained relations between
the president and the South Dakota del
egation in congress ought to relax—if
they ever really existed.
Senator Pettigrew has been made
South Dakota's member of the national
congressional committee, Representa
tive Pickler has been appointed on the
committee on Indian Affairs, while
Representative Jolley- has been men
tioned several times as a candidate for
governor. Our Washington delega
tion is bound to be kept at the front.
Gov. McKinley has come out decis
ively with the announcement that he
will not be a candidate for the presi
dency, and has gone even further by
declaring that if Mr. Harrison is a can
didate before the Minneapolis conven
tion he will be and ought to be renomi
nated. About four years hence, how
ever, there will be a McKinley boom
which cannot be headed off.
Senator Pettigrew is urging the pas
sage of the act which will give timber
culture claimants the right to prove up
after eight years, whether they Dare
been able to secure the required num
ber of trees or not. This is a measure
that ought to pass as it will aflord great
relief to many an honest settler who
has expended time and money on his
tree claim and yet had his stand of
trees destroyed by drouth or fire ]ust as
he had got ready to prove up.
S. E. Olson of Minneapolis is one of
the best known merchants in the north
west and a business man pure and sim
ple. The following remarks of his,
therefore, upon the McKinley law are
worthy of careful consideration. In ad
dressing the meeting of the Republican
state league in Minneapolis the other
day he said:
Not a single article that I have order
ed for next year has been raised in price
on account of this bill, and many are
lowered. The most beneficent results
of this bill are about to be realized. It
is the bridge that will carry the party
over the turbulent stream.
The Sioux Palls Gazette is struggling
valiantly to make believe that there is
a Boies boom. Meanwhile the Cleve
land wave continues to swell. The
Democratic party with its usual facility
for doing the wrong thing at the right
time—for the other party—seems fully
determined to nominate the man who is
better and therefore weaker than his
party. Its only logical candidate is
Hill, who represents all that is forceful
in Democracy, the ability to got office
by fair means or foul, and hold it re
gardless, but Hill's star has already set
because of the frankness of his utter
ances and the openness of his methods.
Clate R. Tinan of the Kimball Graphic
celebrates the tenth anniversary of
that paper's birth in his last issue and
points with justifiable pride to its
growth and present prosperity and
standing. The Graphic is the out
growth of the Kimball Enterprise, the
first numbers of which were printed in
the office of THE MITCHELL REPUBLI
CAN during the time of Stanbery A:
Wheelock. Prom being simply the
organ of some townsite speculators,
which the founders of the Enterprise
were, the paper since Tinan took hold
of it has become one of the best, most
original and thoroughly independent of
the country weeklies in the state. Ahd
being run on business principles it is a.
source of both pleasure and profit to its
owner and editor.
ANOTHER 1T\ ISTER.
The Knnsns Cyclone Came Along on
Schedule lime—Four Fatalities
at Clierrj vaio.
An Illinois Town Also Visited, but N«
One Was Killed—Showers
of Mud.
Unprecedented Floods ill Illinois and
Iowa Other Storm
News.
CHICAGO, April 6.—Another heavj
storm, this time accompanied by floods
in some places, has cause damage tc
property, loss of life and injury to per
son, in the West, Northwest and South
west. The territory covered was almost
the same as that devastated by the hur
ricane of last Friday, and although the
effects were not so disautrous as thost
of the earlier gale enough has been
learned to show that the visitation was
heavy. As before, Kansas bore tht
brunt of it. At Cheiryvale there was a
genuine cyclone. A funnel-shaped
cloud in the afiternoon was seen ap
proaching the town from the South
west. It was accompanied by a deep,
roaring sound, and, as it drew near, it
could be seen turning and twisting
with terrible velocity. It traveled
with incredible speed and barely missed
the town, passing one mile to (he south
west. It demolished six houses in that
vicinity, killing two persons and fatally
injuring two others.
The dead are: Mrs. E. R. Lawson,
struck by lightning: Mrs. John .Reeves,
crushed with her dwelling.
Mrs. Perry Nixon and John Reeves
were fatally injured.
The house of John Reeves, a farmer,
was torn to pieces by the cyclone. Mrs.
Reeves was killed outright, and Mr.
Reeves was fatally injured. Mrs. Perry
Nixon, wife ot another farmer in the
vicinity, was fatally injured in the
demolition of their house. Mrs. E. B.
Lawson, of this city, was Btruck by
lightning during the storm and was
instantly killed. The damage to barns,
outhouses, fences, etc., is great.
Some lllff Hailstones.
At Burlington the disturbance took,
the form of a hailstorm. Hundreds of
window lights were broken and much
damage was done to fruit trees and
crops generally. The hailstones were
eight inches in circumference.
At Emporia hail also fell, the stones
measuring an inch and a half in diam
eter.
At Fort Scott tne storm was the
severest that ever visited the vicinity.
Many roofs were olown away, stables
demolished, and outhouses blown down.
There was no loss of life, although nar
row escapes were numerous..
Scared at Kanaan City.
In Kansas City the report got started
in some manner that a cyclone was due
at 2 o'clock. The report spread with
great rapidity and in a short time was
on every one's lips. Superintendent
Greenwood of the public schools hastily
called a meeting of the school board
and urged that the schools be dismissed
for the day to prevent any loss of life in
the event of buildings being blown
down. The order was issued and the
scholars were sent home in haste. At
o'clock the streets of the city were
nearly deserted, and hundreds of people
could be seen looking out of windows
scanning the sky for signs of the ap
proaching storm. The wind blew almost
a hurricane during the entire
afternoon,
but there was no cyclone and the
damage was very light.
Heavy Snows in the Northwest.
Specials from the Northwest tell of
big rain and snowstorms, the latter
prevailing with terrific force in the
Dakot-as, even approaching to a blizzard
in intensity in some sections. Devils
Lake reports a full fledged blizzard,
while at Huron the snow during the
day was scattered among a great deal
of rain, nearly three inches having
'fallen. But the blizzard seems to have
extended from the northern part of
South Dakota clear across North Da
kota. The snow extended along the
Missouri river and over into the Black
Hills.
Wiped Out Ilarnlilll.
In Illinois a cyclone struck the little
towh of Bai nhill at 4 o'clock p. m.
Every house in the place was wrecked
and only four or five were left on their
foundation. About ten houses were to
tally destroyed, and one woman, Mrs,
Harry, was seriously injured. The
heaviest rain in years fell. Elsewhere
throughout the state the greatest dam
age was by floods. At Jersey ville the
rain came down in sheets, causing Ma
coirin creek to overflow its banks.
llrldgflf*, FenceH aud Farm lluildlnKS
were swept away and cattle drowned.
At Clay City the almost constant down
pour of rain since Sunday morning
caused the Little Wabash river to rise
fourteen feet during the night, which is
faster than ever known before. It is
now out of its banks and is spreading
over the wide bottom lands. The Kas
kaskia river is out of its banks at Mas
coi'toh: the Sanp-amon. in the vic.inity
of Decatur, is a raging torrent ana the
Vermillion was never so high before at
this season of the year. The levees
which protect the Mission coal mines
from the latter stream are weakening,
and if they should give away and flood
the mines the damage will be very
keavy. At Clinton, Ills., the flood has
iwoolem the creeks to an extent unkown
for years.
Just the Same In Iowa.
Practically the same conditions pre
vailed in Iowa. In the southeastern part
of the state the storm was even heavier
than that of Friday. Bridges were
washed away,
wheat fields were drowned
out-, and the public roads rendered vast
quagmires. Fortunately no loss of life
occurred so far as known.
In other states the storm seems to
Iiave been general but not. so disastrous.
Telegraphic communication is again
interrupted in many districts, and no
doubt as detailed reports are received
the list of damages will become greater.
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Shower* of Mud.
KANSAS CITY, April (5. —The through
express on the Union Pacific road,
which reached this city at 7 o'clock a.
in., had a most remarkable appearance,
being covered with, mud to the depth of
fully an inch. The headlight was com
pletely covered and the engine and
coach windows were so plastered over
that they were dark. The trainmen say
that at Rossville, Kan,, the train ran
into a shower of mud, which came down
for some time from the clouds. It is
supposed to have been taken up by a
waterspout.
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Trains Abandoned,
EFFINGHAM, Ills., April 6.—During a
severe thunder storm here Leo Dale was
instantly killed by lightning and his
brother probably ftally injured. The
storm has caused seven washouts on the
Vandalia line between here and Terre
Haute, and all trains are temporarily
abandoned.
Three MCM Drowned.
CLINTON, la., April 6. —Three men,
Yelta Ottens and Lubbe Greede, mar
ried, and a young unmarried man
named Lohman, who had been here in
search of work and had started for
their home at Fulton, Ills., in a skiff
when the boat upset and all were
drowned.
Railroad Washout*
FORT MADISON, la., April 6.—The
storm has washed out 600 feet of track,
of the St. Louis, Kansas City and North
western railway two miles north of this
town and buried it four feet under the
mud. Travel will be delayed about
forty-eight hours.
Colorado Suow iflockadel
HOLYOKE, Colo., April 6.—The Bur
lington road is blockaded here with
snow. Plows are working both ways
but no trains can get through from
either direction. The blizzard was rag
ing with great fierceness during the
night.
Floods In Illinois. r-
CLINTON, Ills., April 0.—A flood from
the recent rains has swoolen tne creeks
to an extent unknown here for years,
Charles Frey was drowned on his farm
south of here while trying to clear a
stream of drift. ...
MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1892.—TWELVE PAGES. NUMBER 80.
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND
Our Grand Opening
Of New Spring Millinery.
Tuesday and Wednesday, April 5 and 6.
The occasion will be one of rare interest. A magnificent display
will be made of the Latest Novelties foim the millinery centers of the
United States. Our entire store will be put in gala day attire in honor
of the event. We have recently enlarged our Millinery Stock to about
twice its former size, remodeled the department and made it more
attractive than ever. Our manager, Madam Gortright, is a lady of
wide experience and superior taste. The department is bound to be
even more popular than ever under her able management.
NINE ANNIHILATED.
Vive Tons of Gun Cotton In a B*i«slaa
Gun Factory Exploded.
ST. PETERSBURG, April 6.—Thi.i city
was thrown into a state of the most
intense excitement during the night by
a most terrific explosion. So much has
been heard lately of the fiendish work
ot anarchists that for a time every
one believed that they had attempted
to destroy some of the public streets.
It was soon learned, however, that the
explosion was due to an accident at
the state factory for the manu
factnre of smokeless powder, where, in
some -unknown manner, five tons of gnn
cotton had exploded. Nine workmen
were in the building when the explosion
took place, and every one of them was
blown to pieces.
Gave Mlas Robert-* .S5,000.
OSKALOOSA, IN., April 0.—Tne jury in
the celebrated Roberts case returned a
verdict giving the plaintiff. Miss Nannie
Roberts, judgment for $5,000, one-halt
the amount sued for. The judgment is
against her father and brother-in-law,
whom she charged with attempting to
have her incarcerated in an insane asy
lum to cheat her out of her rightful in
heritance. The jury was out forty-one
hours before an agreement was reached.
The understanding is that they stood
nine to three in favor of the full amount
claimed.
Watching Saloons and Churches.
DECATUR, Ills.. April 4. —The mem­
bers of the Decatur Young Men's
Christian association had sentinels at
all of the Protestant churches Sunday
night. Thoy reported that 807 men
were at church, of whom (578 were
young men and 139 old men. Saturday
night during one hour the same senti
nels stood at the doors of twenty-eight
saloons in this city and counted 1,835
persons who had entered the saloons.
Of that number 160 were old men and
83 were women.
Marie a ConfeMtunu.
HOUSTON, Tex., April 4.—Walter E.
Shaw, who was arrested charged with
the murder of his mother and aunt, has
broken down and made a confession to
the sheriff. He said he had killed them
both by cutting their throats with a
razor. It was done for $40 that he
wanted to get to continue a spree. At
the hearing it is believed he will' plead
guilty. The funeral of his victims was
attended by several hundred children
from the public schools.
Maid lie Would Suicide.
NEW YORK, April 6. —A dispatch
from Washington printed in morning
papers, stated that Lieutenant George
B. Backus, First United States
cavalry, had notified the war de
partment that he intended to
commit suicide. It was also
said that Backus was missing. It was
stated at the Sturtevant house in this
city that Lieutenant Backus slept at the
hotel and went out abuut 0 o'clock iu
the morning. Nothing uuusual in his
appearance or actions was noticed.
WON'T GO BEGGING.
Plenty of Applicant* for the Watertown
Land O
(lice.
WASHINGTON, April 4.—A successor
to the late Churles G. Williams, in the
Watertown land office, will be ap
pointed befoie the 10th of this month,
when the SiBseton agency will be opened
for settlement. Governor Meilette has
strongly recommended Frank Phillips
and there are about one hundred appli
cations by telegraph in the interior de
partment for the position. This will be
a fat office for the next two or three
years until the Sisseton lands are dis
posed of, and consequently, the rush for
the place. The South Dakota delega
tion will try to find a man for the posi
tion, and it is safe to say that it will not
agree upon Mellette's man, and it is a
question as to whether Mellette or the
delegation will be turned down. The
desire i3 to get a man who will not in
any way be personally interested in the
SiBseton lands.
GARZA IN SAN ANTONIO.
The Hero of the Cliupparal Denies That
He Was Ever a KevolutlonlHt.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex.. April 4.—The dis­
covery has been made that Garza, the
alleged Mexican revolutionist, is in this
city, and can be produced with but
little trouble. It is said that he has
privately stated that nearly all of the
matter telegraphed about the alleged
uprising was "faked" by special cor
respondents and frontier sensationalists,
and that the dispatches were wholly so,
as fur as they related to him personally,
The facts a? now gleaned are that Garza
has been at the head of a gang of smug
glers on the border, but left them
year ago, and that he has never been in
command of a revolutionary army or
the leader of a political party.
.. DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.
Four Persons Blown to Pieces at Bes»e«
mer, Ala.
BIRMINGHAM, April 4.—The Sterling
dynamite factory at Bessemer, near
this city, was blown up dnring the af
ternoon. Three men and a boy were
instantly killed. The cause of the ex
plosion is unknown, but th3 presump
tion is that a man who was engaged in
packing, struck too hard a blow. In
place of the packing room now is a hole
six feet deep and fifteen feet wide. Only
a toot ot one ot the men was found to
be identified, although scores of- pieces
of flesh were discovered within a radius
of a quarter of a mile. The dynamite
weighed several tons, and the explosion
shook Birmingham and houses twelve
and fifteen miles away.
^Robbed a Cable Conductor.
KANSAS CITY, April 4.—At 9:80 p. m.
highwayman held up the conductor of
a North street cable car as he was regis
tering in a small shanty at the eastern
end of the road, The robi^r compelled
him to give up his money at the point
of a revolver, and just as he was finish
ing the work the gripman, George Phil
lips, entered the house for the purpose:
of getting a drink. The robber fired
point blank at him without warning,
and then escaped in the darkness. Phil
lips was shot through the thigh and so
severely injured that it is thought he
will die.
Want. Hill to Speak Out..
WASHINGTON, April 4.—Senator Mor
gan is not alone in his crusade against
Hill and Hillism. The Georgia Demo
crats here have held a caucus and noti
fied Senator Hill that he must, declare
his position on the silver question be
fore he can have a delegate from Geor
gia. Senator Hill has found that his
scene of operations has changed, and
that here in Washington there are
strong men who will not be bossed, but
are disposed unitedly to boss the boss.
Hill must declare liimself.
Hare a majority for Cloture.
WASHINGTON, April 4.—It is asserted
by an employe on the floor of the house
that the tree silver men have obtained
signatures to their petition for the
cloture rule to warrant Speaker Crisp in
bringing that desired rule but on
account of party policy they are holding
back that 'niportant document until
after the election next week Rhode
Island, believing that the passage
of a free silver bill at this time would
prove disastrous to Democratic pros
pects in the approaching election.
Poor Health the Cause.
KASSON, Minn., April 4.—Horace An
thony, cashier of the First National
bank here, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in the head. Poor health is
supposed to have been the cause, as he
was an exemplary young man and had
hosts of friends.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—V S. Gov't Report, Aug. 17,1889.
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