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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1895-01-04
SCARED 1'HE MEXICANS
sF -------
Ar oscillatory Earthquake Shock
Struc}; the City of Mexico,
Causing Panic.
OPERA GOERs sTAMPEI
Waterpipes Burst and the Stree.
Were Flooded---Th Sheek
Was Prophesied.

MEXICO, Mex, Jan. AIT 1888
Sunday, an oscillatory earthquake
shock was felt in this and other parts
of the valley of Mexico. The move
ment was east and north but short.
The distur bance caused great alarm
from those who feared a repetition OF
the disastrous earthquakes of Nov. 2,
which killed IS people and destroyed
much property.
Panic in II Theater.
In the Arber theater, the only play
house now open in this capitol, as the
result of the damage sustained by the
other theaters by the previous shocks,
stampede occurred,
| Women leaped from the lower boxes
and the audience struggled for escape
| at the narrow exits, The manager APP
peared on the stage and tried to calm
the fear crazed people, and at last a de-
gree of quiet was restored but not un-
til most of the audience had taken,
refuge in the streets, which were fill
of frightened people, many of them in
their night clothes. The scene of Nov.
2 was repeated III a large part, and
thousands of penitents knelt in the open
streets and prayed and cried loudly Tor
deliverance from death. In Boiem
prison, where thousands of wretched
people are huddled together Yin the
wretched barracks, chaos reigned, and
the guards had hard work in prevent
ing them from breaking from their
quarters and fnging themselves over
the walls. The large supply pipes laaa-
ing to the city burst, flooding the
streets.
1t Was Eoretold.
Thes disturbance was foretold tvs
{ monthly ago by Juan Contreras 9
, Guanajuato, the accredited and locally
= famous seismic prognosticator, wht
. prophesied that between the 30th o
D December and Jan ?, this volcano
zone would be visited by another earth
quake.
Contreras is making his prophesie
: for three events in this line, and say
!, the disturbance will continue il
: greater OF less degree during 1895.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1895-01-04
WHAT MORTON WILL DO.
New Ynrl1's Governor Seeks to Make q
Record For Himself.

Record For Himself.
ALBANY, Jan. 2.-The state legisla-
trlre assemblies at noon. The candl-
dates for speakerships have been in the
city for the past week, canvassing the
early arrivals. 1t is expected that Gov
ernor Morton in his first message will
advocate the blanket ballot, without a
paster as is now i'll use in Massachu-
setts He will make suggestions look
ing to the esta blishment of an official
record for himself us financier and an
economist. He will ask for the aboli-
ton or combining of several state
offices the expenses Of which are
large; will call for more rigid set of
civil service laws, and may ask for a
revision of the excise laws Under the
new constitution many of the abuses
that now exist will have to be cured by
legislation, even if the Lexow commit
tee does not report in favor OF their
abolition. Nearly all the cities of the
state will ask legislation to perfect
their charters under the new constitu-
ton, and the canal men will ask for a
Jorge appropriation for the deepening
| of the Erie canal.
! Morton Inaugurated.
| ALBANY, Jan 2.-Levi P. Morton
/ was inaugurated as governor of New
l York at noon. The ceremonies were
| simple. The new governor and his ful
/ military staff, in carriages, We're escorted
! to the capitol by four companies OF thu
| national guard. In the executive cham
Der the governor-elect was greeted b.
| the retiring governor, who was sur
rounded by his military staff, afte
which all proceeded to the assembl.
| chamber. After prayer by Bishol
| Doane, Governor Flower extended
{ formal welcome to his successor il
Office. III brief reply, Governor Nor
ton nscompllmented his pred ecessor, bot
as a man and as an official There wa
nothing of a partisan nature in eithe
address. Subsequently Governor an
Mrs Morton and the Misses Morto
held public reception i'll the executiv
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1895-01-04
THREE CREMATED.
a Fatal Hotel Fire at Lancaster, Ken
tuciiy.

tuciy.
LANCASTER, Ky, Jan. 2.-The Miller
hotel burned between ) and 6 d. m
There We're four persons i'll the building
at the time, Z. y. Pascoe and wife,
his baby. about 2 years Old and his
mother .in-law, Mrs McMasters. The
wife only escaped.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1895-01-04
For the First Time in Twenty-Five
Years One Is Enaugurated at
New York.
REVOLT ON CORRUPTION
Was Responsible in Both Instances
Some Reforms Governor Morton
Will Undertake.

NEW YoEK, Jan. 2.-For the first
time i'll 20 years a mayor not OF the
Democratic faith is at tine head of the
city governments. William l., Strong,
who was inducted int to the office, rep
resents very much the same conditions
and social elements that asserted them
selves in 1872 in the elevation of Will.
lam F. Havemeyer to the mayorality.
In both instances there was revolt
against municipal corruption. On both
occasions public sentiment was crystal
lied through the medium of commit
tee Of 20, the main purpose in 1873
being to overthrow the Tweed regime
and in 1894 to correct abuses known OF
suspected, in the police and other de
partments of the city government.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1895-01-04

u itorm center was in the East as
EHaai- South Dakota simply got the
eiall eud Of The New York blizzard.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1895-01-04
THE STATE INSTITUTIONS.

rssssagree with the proposition that
~ expenditures must be kept
T.. measure of the states in
Eve in sympathy with the
IDS for economy in state
felieye there should be no
cows.st tax levy. In order to
SI Pic. .1positionssof economy a
Bulls u thinksit either nee
No. E 4y; 81 Yke astep that will
veals- $shed without the
NJ. r.. AZ q 55,erest. Our edu-
Calves and Yeaestablished and
No. Az. PrL unwise to close
S.: S.: SIS SIS s2:s5 rs the normals,
stockers and Feed; should be
No, AS ~ Priee F. k9 IF reducing
Hogs--Estimated q inscribed
Supplies abos,t eqv uld say
and at all markets, ne propo-
moaeraee.s a.a.l.f way, we would think
gssI scaling down of appropria,
gs%. where possible, would result in
feeping the expenditures within the
;tate.s incort,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1895-01-04
au Indiann Collision.

MUNcIE, Ind, Jon ,. There was a
collision at Yorktown at 1870 Il; m,
between the we9tbound freight, No
90, in charge Of Conductor Moorman
with ". A. Shull, engineer, and Henry
Hearst, fireman, and eastbound freight
No /, on the Big -Four road, i'll charge Il
of Conductor Jingle, with Charles A
Sutton, enginec : Joshua W.c1s'zs =
fireman. o., .qxe 2y,1a.l and Best ,229.
tally njpr Linen Led.ge, a.. s6ke ..4b. 2xey
u are ,evised to date. NE make
special discounts or good og of
Us. FIR CASH. % Miss
No' " dispose
I IhefAI Do Business In South
sca5lsI Are Centrally Locateit'
HiSEe Prepay Express, end reported
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kssnd for Our Catalogue the exeeuti,
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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1895-01-04

tatic party always shows
shen in the minority than
! ~ y,le majority.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1895-01-04
Only Beginning.

The exposure of the practice of levy
ing blackmail by the police, particu-
larly upon the criminal classes of So
ciety, who i'll consideration OF their
payments of money, were granted i'm
munity from arrest, was primarily the
work of the Society for the Prevention
of Vice, which procured the appoint
ment of the state senate committee
which has become famous, nnder the
name of its chairman, Mr.. Lexow.
The unearthing Of corruption in mu-
nicipal affairs is only a beginning OF
the work of reform, which is i'll con.
tenn plation, and which before a contin-
uance of such abuses can be guarded
against, requires, it is claimed, rad,
ical change in the state laws for the
government of cities. Without the en-
| largement Of the powers of the mayor,
it is argued, Mr.. Strong is as
| Helpless TO Conb bat Corruption.
in the department as his predecessors
in office have been. 1t is proposed te
enact a law giving the 1napor power Of
removal over heads of bureaus, and al
absolute control of the police depart
ment. Under the present system
while the mayor appoints members O
the police board and other department
chiefs, he may not remove them excep
through processes that PRACTICAL.
amount to deprivation of the power
The framing of new laws touching
these points promises to be as importan
work as any that is likely to come
before the state legislature and to brins
out as many conflicting theories.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-16
Senator Cockrelrs War Genius.

Some people say, remarks ex-Congress-
man Champ Clark of Missouri, that Stone
wall Jackson was the one Puritan soldier
of our civil war. They speak without
knowledge. Stonewall was a puritan in
deed, worthy to have charged with mighty
Oliver at Naseby, Marston Moor and Dun
bar, shouting, God with u.s." but so was
Francis Marion Cockreu. He fought and
prayed, and prayed and fought, and ii re-
mains TO this day mooted question
whether he fought more than he prayed
or prayed more than he fought. If Jack
son was the superintendent of Sunday
school at Lexington, Va, Cockrell was en-
gagged in the same way at MarrenSburg,
Mo. He started as a private in April, 1861 (;
he surrendered as a major general during
the very last days of the war He was a
volunteer without military training, and
that fact ex necessitate deprived him of
any particular favor in the confederate
war department where the delusion pre-
vailed that no man could be great soldier
unless he had graduated from West Point,
which delusion seems to have prevailed
also in the federal war office. Neverthe-
less, events appear TO indicate that even
with this handicap. had the war lasted
four years longer Gen. Cockrell would have
risen to the highest command.
Gen. Cockrell, being a volunteer, evolved
some original theories on war which are
calculated to stun the typical martinets.
For instance. after the first battle in
which he fought, green as he was in things
martial he would never permit an army
engineer TO select his line of battle for
him. He said that as the duty of defend
ing the line devolved on him he knew bet
ter than any engineer what was defen-
sible line and what was not. This may
have seem presumptuous in a raw recruit,
but his military history furnishes his
justification.
Another thing that he sticks TO to this
day, and which will give the souls of the
professionals a rude shock, is that the
most effective weapon with which infan-
try can be armed is a double-barreled shot
gun. He claims that it will discount all
the new-fangled rifles ever made. His logic
runs as follows, and to civilian appears
absolutely convincing. One wounded man
on the battlefield IS ever so much more
trouble than so many dead men. The
double barreled shotgun is unequaled as a
producer of wounded men, therefore, il is
the best thing to arm troops with. As a
clincher he states that in a certain battle
in which he was engaged when he was a
colonel. two companies of his regiment
were armed with d6uble-barrelled shot
guns, the other eight with Enfield rifles,
and that when the fighting was over there
were more dead and wounded men in front
of the two companies with shotguns than
in front of the eight armed with rifles.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-16
Reform in Moody GuIch.

He wore a buckskin suit and wide-brim-
med hat, says the Chicago Times-H erald.
The revolyers at his belt looked as If they
had seen considerable use, but he was
quiet when the stranger In the smoking
car drew him into conversation
Hes. I've been pretty tough. he said.
81 guess we all have out IN Bloody Gulch,
but we have got over a. Got religion, you
know A fellow came through there last
week with gospel cart, and he got all the
boys out, and talked TO 'em good and hard
He said a lot about how a Teller should
be known BY his deeds and not by the BLUM
he puts up. He said his work was what
counted and not the gun. So We all got
thinking about what tough critters WE
were, and We made up our minds 70 try
new way"
ITO be good?" asked the stranger.
That's It; that's the stuff exactly" said
the man with the big revolvers. We were
going TO be good and start regular old
reform wave shooting around the gulch.
There's been a lot of lynching out there
you know, and we took that in hand first;
made up our minds that il had got TO stop,
and stop quick. The boys don't stand no
foOlin' when they get ready TO move;
somethin' going to happen. So when We
heard about the eastern cities and their
reform committees and their civic feder-
ations. and all that sort of stuff, we got
together and organized a little committee
OF our own. 1t YRS a hot one too. / tell
you. All the boys belong to il that are
any good. and they swore they'd stop
lynching inside of twenty-four hours, and
they done it,"
organized an anlt-lyncntng league, i
take It," said the stranger.
That's what 1t was and it was hum
mer. We just waited our chances 10
ketch some of the tough fellers that was
taking the law into their own hands, and
we got It. We heard of a lynching that was
coming off that very night. We organized
our reform committee Some of the fellers
from the other end of the gulch had To-
Gated a horse thief. and they were going
out TO string him up. Well, stranger. a
horse thief is a pretty burned mean sort
of a critter. and / amt got much use for
EN- myself but religion is religion, and II
a feller's got il, ] reckon he's got TO stick
to il. So we went out after the lads that
was going to lynch the boss thief, and We
caught EN- about a mile up the gulch. We
saved the boss thief. stranger, and we
labored with the lynchers good and hard
just like the gospel Teller said we should"
Were you successful?'
You bet we was. They amt been a
lynching in the gulch since that night
When we want reform you bet we get It,
and got 1t quick. and every body knows
we mean business. There can't be no mis-
take about that.
What did You do with the lynchers?"
I'VE lynched en-"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-16
Generous Irishmen.

Irishmen in this country do not seem to
get tired of contributing money to assist
the cause of Ireland About every de-
mand made upon them meets with lib
eral response. In our dispatches yesterday
it was stated that liberal contributions are
being made in New York, Boston, Balti-
more and other cities to the fund for the
support of the Irish party in Ireland
1t would seem that in view of the fact
of the discussions among the Irish lead
ers, and the improbability of anything be-
ing accomplished as long as these dissen-
sions exist, there would be a disposition
among Irishmen in America to give moth
ing TO assist the Irish party. These dis
sensions have now reached a point that
Justihes the conclusion that unless they
are healed there is no probability of the
Irish party accomplishing anything, in the
direction of home rule, in the parliament
that is now being elected.
1t is not likely that either of the parties
will do anything TO bring about a more sat
isfactory condition of affairs in Ireland IN
less 1t is forged to do so, and the only way
1t can be forced to do so. is by the pressure
of solid Irish party If the Irish leaders
persist in lighting among themselves Irish
men will have very little influences in the
next parliament.
But how can the Irish leaders be made
TO act in harmony? That is a very diff
cult question to answer. If Irishmen in
this country should refuse to give any
thing more to help the cause of Ireland
unless the Irish leaders get together and
settle their differences and give some sort
of guarantee that they will act together
in Ireland's cause there would be likely a
movement towards harmony at once.
Without money the cause of Ireland is not
likely to make much progress. Indeed.
some of the members of the Irish party
would not be able to accept a position in
parliament If they were not assured that
they would be given an income sufficient
for their actual living expenses. The cut
ting off Of their incomes would likely have
the effect of making them see the impor-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-16
A Congressman's Trouble.

"My uncle" said Representative John
Allen of Tupelo, Miss, to a group of lis
teners according TO the Washington Star,
us one of the best-informed men in my
district / think a great deal of the old
gentleman. During a campaign / go every
where in my district. After being nomi-
mated the second time l resolved on a
searching, what one might call a pains
taking, campaign. Being scheduled for
a speech over in the far end of my district
and remembering that my uncle abode in
that vicinity, l determined TO visit the old
gentleman. We were just sitting down to
supper and the old man was purveying
me a fried chicken on the tines of his fork,
when he remarked in his mellow. amiable
'Whar have you been at lately, John?''
at told him I'd been in Washington for
In Washington he repeated in tones
of establishment. Why, whatever in the
name of Peter be you dom in Washing
ton?'
:" I'm representative from this district.
1 replied I was elected two years ago and
have been at the capitol almost constantly
since, looking after the interests of you
and my other constituents
Well. | shorely wonderr observed my
uncle, laying down his knife and fork and
looking at me. Don't that beat snakes
amazin'! Why, I never knowed that
heered how you went down to Teaxs about
three years ago to visit your Uncle Bill,
and not noticin' you around none since,
and not hearin' of you, 1 sort O. reckoned
you'd stayedr "
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-16
Personal.

More widely read in Scandinavia than
either lbSen or Bjornsen is Jonas lie, the
novelist. He is nearly 62 years OF age ana
is surprised at the attention which his
books are attracting in America and Eng
land at this late day.
BUT one retired justice Of the supreme
court of the United States IS living. He
is William Strong Of Pennsylvania, who
Is now in his eighty-sixth year. Judge
Strong Is the Oldest public man of ma
tional prominence in the United States
and Is as hale and hearty as either BIS
marck or Gladstone.
G. X. Gilbert of the United States
Geological survey, has discovered three
valuable deposits of freclay In Pueblo
county, Col. The find is likely to prove
of great Importance to Colorado as the
furnaces connected with the smelling of
silver ore and the making of iron require
large annual supply of this substance.
Mile Gluck, the great granddaughter
Of the composer, was convicted recently
Of stealing a jacket from a concierge who
had sheltered her. She is a school teacher
and unable to find work. She was sen
fenced to two months imprisonment, but
as 1t was a first offense, under the Beren-
ger law, the sentence was not enforced.
A man who asked for volume OF
"two-cent literature" in a Boston book
store the other day was given a life of
Toussaint iOuverture by the discerning
clerk. Another Boston bookstore oddity,
says the New York World, was a note from
Harvard student, who wanted IAN ad
valorem Shakespeare"
--Guerrita, the bull fighter. established
record for a days work recently. He
began ar o'clock at San Francisco, near
Cadiz, killing three bulls and putting the
banderillas In the other three. He then
took train to Heres and did the same
thing there between II and and wound
up the day by reaching Seville in time
for another fight at $50 In this last fight
the bulls were unusually fierce, killing
nineteen horses before they were dis
Matched
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-16
The Ebb of the Silver Tide.
From the Rome (Ga.l Tribune Dem J.

With all its hurrah and buster, enthu-
siasm oyer the convention OF free silver
advocates at Griffin is on the wane. Many
prominent democrats who at first indorsed
and approved the movement have become
disguised and will have nothing to do with
II. II Is said that two of the original
six who called the convention have de-
cided to back out and have nothing to do
with 1t. From all over the state come re-
ports OF the lack of enthusiasm, and it
small affair. In Floyd county an over
whelming majority of the leading demo-
Gratis look with disfavor upon the pro
posed convention. In another column will
be found a dozen or so interviews on this
line with men who are prominent in the
party. Hundreds like them could be
given Whether they be for sound money
or free silver they stand together on the
democratic platform and are opposed to
any movement that tends to disrupt the
party As Judge Maddox says: the DEM
lose -
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-16
bismarck Had His way.

Bismarck's nerve and determination
never failed him, says an exchange. One
evening at a social function Baron Pro-
kesch, the Australian minister, who was
something of a bully. took vigorous ex-
ceptions to Bismarck S criticisms of GER
tain evasive and equivocal Austrian pro-
tocol Becoming angry the baron ex-
claimed:
IF that were not true, then I, in the
name of my imperial master, should have
been guilty of 1yingw
Quietly returning his gaze, the chancel-
lor replied with polite, but cold bow:
Precisely so, your eXcellency."
The group surrounding the two states
men were struck dumb Prokesch moved
away; but later, al the supper table, he
came over to Bismarck with a glass OF
champagne and said:
well, let us make peace"
"Assuredly," said Bismarck, "but the
protocol must be altered"
And it was.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-16
Silver Dollars Are Legal Tender.
From the Louisville Courier Journal Dem)


Silver dollars are already a legal tender
to any amount. There are already in
existence ten times more silver dollars
than the people can or do handle-forty
times more than bad been in existence
prior to the act of 1873, disseminating the
coinage of silver dollars. The walls of the
treasury are fairly bursting with silver dol
lars and silver bullion the people do not
want and cannot use, yet whose keep
costs the tax payers millions of money. If
the schema, to melt down the refuse silver
of christendom could be adopted 1t would
not only convert America into a dumping
ground for all the tramp silver in the
world, but 1t would drive out gold and
paper as good as gold, and relegate us to
a silver recommendation, with the value of
the dollar unit reduced one-half. 1t would
not increase the volume of the currency
1t would diminish it. 1t would not relieve
any honest debtor of his indebtedness It
would, on the contrary, collapse American
credit abroad and destroy business conf
dence at home. 1t would whilst disgrace
ing the national honor strike a blow at
the national prosperity, from which it
would not recover in half a century.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-16
She Couldn't Abide silver.

A young lady with a touch of tonsilitis
was consulting the family physician, says
the San Francisco Post.
THAT is nothing serious" said he "I'I
touch it up with little nitrate of silver
and you will be all right"
The young lady looked bit doubtful.
''Oh, 1t won't hurt" remarked the doc
tor. reassuringly.
Il wasn't thinking of that. Papa might
object"
why, what possible objection can he
have?"
Il heard him tell mamma the other
evening that he was opposed to silver.
Couldn't you use nitrate of gold? Silver
Is so common and cheap, YOU know. and I
am sure papa wouldn't object them.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-16

The cruiser Columbia is a 100000 ship
Had she been ruined by the carelessness
Of the people who locked her at South
ampton the other day, there would have
been just cause for q pretty considerable
row. 1t is little queer to people on this
side of the water that the commander
Of the Columbia should have run her into
dock without being absolutely sure that
the dock was properly prepared for her
reception. The captain of merchant
vessel would hardly do such a
thing, and If he were to. the chances are
that he would not long thereafter remain
a captain.