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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1896
Page
2
In Commons Sir Michael Hicks Beach announced a surplus of 4.21 million pounds for 1895-96 with current year expenditure around 100.41 million. He called the year remarkable for revenue, cited record debt reduction, and noted improved working-class conditions from tea tobacco and sugar consumption.
Winnipec April 18 reports great popular rejoicing in Manitoba over Ottawa withdrawing the remedial bill. Citizens believe coercive legislation will not be tried again and expect a storm of public disapproval when the question goes to a general election in a month or so.
A Tokar force with allied Arabs engaged Osman Digna's dervishes near Suakim. The clash left 35 of the enemy's cavalry and 50 infantry dead.
In the Chicago river four hundred vessels are laden and ready to sail once Mackinac signals clear. The cargoes total six million dollars.
In Maitland Hot County on April 17 three masked men looted the Farmers bank. They secured about $1,000 in silver dollars, dumping the loot into a wagon and driving away. Local authorities investigate.
The matron recalls illness from LaGrippe in 1893 and nervous debility in 1894. After using two bottles of Dr Miles Restorative Nervine she reports improved health and continues occasional use for nervous fatigue. Milwaukee address offered for contact.
Bradstreets reports favorable weather overall lifting demand for seasonable merchandise notably light summer clothing. Central Mississippi valley shows clear gains while Eastern centers lag except Baltimore and Pittsburg. Western cities including St. Louis Chicago Kansas City Omaha Milwaukee and Memphis see increased business. Pacific coast gains are weaker. Navigation opens at lake ports, freeing 10,000,000 bushels of Chicago grain. Tacoma ships flour lumber and cotton to the Pacific and South Africa.
A Havana dispatch describes General Maceo and his force attempting to breach Spain’s earthwork trocha from Mariel to Mojanga guarded by about 20,000 troops. The rebel leader is in Lechuza mountains, short of food and ammunition, as Spanish forces press toward renewed engagement. General Weyler concentrates on the crisis.
Three prisoners of war Gregorio Borges Estaban Hernandez and Jose Bacallao were executed at the Cabanas fortress in Havana on April 20.
John Stetson dies in Boston. Five children smothered in a Turners Falls tenement fire. Wisconsin beats Minnesota in the third annual university debate. Labor leaders deny a Boston strike on May 1 over the eight hour day. Ex Premier Sargasta seeks to annul Cuban elections citing rebel freedom limits. Judge Blair to serve as attorney for Union Pacific receivers in Idaho with HQ at Pocatello.
It is decided to move Secretary Gresham’s burial from Oakwoods to Arlington National Cemetery in the national capital. An application to the secretary of war will be filed immediately.
Cuicano April 20 Western roads set a single round trip fare for the Society of Christian Endeavor annual convention in Washington in July. The agreement aims to ease travel for attendees gathering in the capital this summer.
The Maine Republican state convention, a Reed affair, celebrated Joseph Manley as chair and featured Hannibal Hamlin commending the favorite son. The platform urged national support for the Reed record, protection under Lincoln’s policy, limited silver coinage, immigration restraint, pension reform, and a revived American shipping industry. Delegates Amos Allen, Charles Littlefield, Edward Burleigh, A. E. Thompson, Governor Cleaves, Llewellyn Powers, and Herbert Heath were elected.
In Louisville on April 18 the Republican state convention endorsed Governor Bradley for president with second instructions for McKinley. The fight between Bradley and McKinley factions led to party unity on the gold standard protection and reciprocity platform and four delegates elected at large to St Louis. McKinley camp secured recognition and broke Bradley’s slate with three Bradley delegates remaining.
In Springfield Illinois an A P A advisory circular denounces McKinley for Catholic appointments and criticizes managers Kerens and Elkins. A P A delegates pledged to McKinley face attempts to urge them to defy instructions at the upcoming Republican state convention.
In Milwaukee on April 18 Judge Seaman appointed W. G. Maxey of Oshkosh receiver for the Beaver Dam Waterworks company, taking charge of the Beaver Dam property.
New Jersey Republicans hold a state convention in Trenton on April 18 and unanimously elect W J Sewell Garrett Hobart John Kean Jr and Franklin Murphy as delegates at large to the St Louis convention. The platform favors Hobart for vice president and upholds the gold standard while opposing free coinage of silver.
Elkins home county in Elkins West Virginia on April 18 sent an instructed Republican delegation to state and district conventions to back delegates pledged to support S B Elkins for president. If he declines or cannot be a candidate the delegation will support McKinley through the national convention delegates.
Harrison county district court ruled the Dunlap school board faced no proper adjournment and allowed the old treasurer J. H. Patten to continue serving despite a successor being elected. The decision affects similar Iowa cases.
CuicaGco April 18 Professors H P Pratt and Hugh Wightman announce that diphtheria and typhoid germs are absolutely killed by Roentgen rays. The last germs exposed to the rays showed no life under gas, remaining idle in a tissue imitation.
The Times of Johannesburg notes President Kruger's strategy to deter England from force in South Africa while the Transvaal district readies itself for possible conflict, arming heavily to resist external pressure.
The Senate in executive session ratified the Bering Sea arbitration treaty to establish a commission to settle claims by English citizens against the United States over fur seal seizures before the Paris award. The measure was amended only as to wording and passed without dissent. Senators Sherman Gray Cullom explained it while Hoar and Chandler criticized phrasing.
In Ayogka Minnesota on April 17 a world record price for potatoes is noted with choice white potatoes selling at 11 1/2 cents a bushel. Starch factories are running and many potatoes are being brought in with good prices paid at factories.
Auditor and treasurer detailed exhibit lists receipts and disbursements in Beadle County South Dakota for the quarter ending March 31 1896. It shows fund balances in the treasury and locations of deposits. The document records amounts received and paid to various offices and accounts, reflecting municipal financial activity of the period.
A document is subscribed and sworn before a notary public on April 11 1896 with a seal and notary acknowledgement. The text records a formal verification instance before F G Wrape as Notary Public.
Beadle County official sworn April 11 1896 verifies the Treasurer’s exhibit as true and correct and the Auditor’s exhibit as true and correct for all warrants drawn during the quarter. Morgan Rogers sworn before Notary Public F G Wripr.
Congressman Heatwole presented his boundary report to the house along with a substitute resolution. A $75,000 appropriation is proposed to fund a joint commission with Britain to determine the true boundary from the St Lawrence river to Lake of the Woods at all necessary points.
Mr. Hill says the US Supreme Court has ruled consolidation illegal and no changes are expected. He notes the company will rely on Northern Pacific security holders to run the road and meet obligations rather than have operations split by conflicting court jurisdictions.
New York on April 18 reports deposits of Northern Pacific first mortgage bonds by voting holders exceed 8 million dollars. The large assent and conversion of these holdings are seen as crucial to the plan’s success and will cut the new company’s charges.
Frank Ives won the closing game and the championship in the second series, defeating Schaefer 300 to 284. Schaefer was the favorite with most spectators disappointed by the defeat.
Ottawa Ont April 20. The general elections will occur in the third week of June with nomination day likely on June 11 and polling day on June 18. Parliament will reconvene in July most likely July 23.
A Boston dated April 17 report states the A P A advisory board secretary issued a circular detailing charges against McKinley. It claims he discriminated in appointments as Ohio governor favoring Romanists over American Protestants. It says other candidates meet the order’s Americanism.
Secretary of the Treasury J G Carlisle spoke at the Auditorium in Curiaco before a full audience of laboring men. Nearly three quarters of the crowd were workingmen as he delivered a partisan free talk on the currency issue and declined to discuss Kentucky politics. The address drew loud applause and satisfaction among listeners.
Chicago capitalists lease the Grand Pacific property from Northwestern University for 99 years with provisions to tear down the hotel immediately. Illinois Trust and Savings Bank will occupy the replacement bank building modeled after the Bank of England and touted as the finest banking house in the United States.
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