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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1896
Page
1
The passage argues that true attractiveness comes from womanliness and health. It claims a healthy woman is bright eyed, rosy, vivacious, and capable of maternity. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a remedy for all feminine disorders, sold by druggists.
A fire in Cripple Creek Colorado, aided by dynamite and giants powder, destroyed eight blocks of buildings including 150 businesses, the post office and a bank. Estimates of damage range from 1 to 2 million dollars with 5 to 6 hundred people left homeless. Water supply was unreliable at 10 000 feet and wind helped the spread.
Union workers at the Duluth Mesaba and Northern ore docks quit work demanding exclusive employment for union men as ore boats arrived. Nonunion crews finished the shift with no immediate trouble, but the strike could widen with more ships.
The whaleback barge 104 built for the American Steel Barge company and valued at 75000 collided with the steamer Philip Minch on the Detroit River near Lake St. Clair and sank just east of the lightship.
John M. Kerr, a building and insurance agent in Chicago, speaks about a six year struggle with his wife’s illness marked by chronic diarrhea and grave health fears. He promotes concern for blood purity and health awareness especially for women and the ill.
In New York, prominent men gathered for the Grant Banquet Association ninth annual event at the Waldorf hotel. General Grenville M. Dodge presided as Governor Hastings of Pennsylvania and William L. Wilson spoke. Hastings addressed Grant and the Republican Party, while Wilson spoke on Grant the Pacificator.
The Middlesex club held a Grant birthday dinner at the Brunswick Boston April 29 with members and prominent citizens in attendance. Guests included General James Longstreet Senator-elect Joseph B Foraker James B Hoyt Senator Thurston and Lieutenant Governor Wolcott. Speeches were delivered by Governor Wolcott General Longstreet Senator-elect Foraker and Senator Thurston.
The Union League held its annual banquet in Philadelphia on April 29 to honor General Grant’s birthday. Colonel Fred D. Grant attended and received a warm reception. Representative Cousins of Iowa gave the principal toast on The Memory of Grant and delivered a speech that stirred unprecedented enthusiasm at the event.
Senator Cushman K. Davis of Minnesota, Congressman J. P. Dolliver of Iowa and Congressman Quigg of New York attended the tenth annual banquet of the Americas Republican club in Pittsburg April 29. The event commemorated General Grant and was fully seated with coverage for 400 guests.
At Gatena Illinois on April 29 the Grant birthday observance began at 8:30 a m with the historic cannon donated by the United States government in Helena being unveiled. The day featured the first reunion of the Twelfth Illinois infantry held at the courthouse amid formal ceremonies.
A Grant memorial dinner was held last night in RockHester New York under the Young Men’s Republican club. Prominent local Republicans attended along with guests from various parts of the state.
A cyclone swept through Faulkner county damaging a church and a cotton gin while demolishing numerous farms, barns, and buildings. Many livestock perished including an entire flock of sheep and several lives are feared lost. Details remain incomplete.
George and Walter Roberts, young unmarried men, tried to ford Valley river at Gilbert plains with a team of horses. Floodwater eight feet deep from rain and snow melted, the team and men drowned. bodies not recovered.
Washington April 29 Justice Brewer of the United States supreme court declined to interfere with the Carroll county circuit court judgment. Bill Taylor is sentenced to be hanged April 30 for the murder of the Meeks family. The sole remaining hope is a possible gubernatorial respite from Governor Stone.
Washington reports in April that General Grosvenor claims 444 delegates for McKinley with 456 needed for nomination, while Manley estimates 161 for Reed and 250 for McKinley. Both claims are uncertain as about 200 delegates remain to be elected, leaving the first ballot nomination possible but not assured.
Special efforts are under way to secure large attendance from Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota and the Dakotas at the St Paul encampment. General R A Becker of St Paul leads the drive contacting posts across the Northwest. Michigan delegates led by Adjutant General Pond and Quartermaster General Foote have set up department headquarters and expect about a thousand Michigan veterans to join.
Report from Hindon April 29 notes Congress and the administration view the Washington gathering on international arbitration as ill timed. Critics say it aids Lord Salisbury against U S demands in the Venezuelan dispute while Britain accelerates fortifications at Esquimault and in the West Indies and Canada.
In Wasu Hinoton on April 29 the rules committee rule for a vote on the Pickler pension bill drew sharp exchanges. Crisp charged leaders with overruling pensions committee. Henderson mocked Crisp's past role. The rule to limit debate passed 119 to 88 as the senate spent the day on the naval appropriation bill.
Senator Shelby Cullom contends he has written no withdrawal letter and remains in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. He arrived in Springfield and faced crowds eager for clarification on his status and plans.
A Santa Eulalia mine collapse in Chihuahua left seven miners dead and 13 wounded. Forty four miners remain trapped underground. The report is filed from El Paso, Texas via the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
W G Dy gert of Greenwood Illinois arrived in Tampa from Cuba where he has just been released after two months' confinement.
Milwaukee April 29 The decree of sale under the Farmers Loan and Trust mortgage on the Northern Pacific railroad will be signed by Judge Jenkins and sale conducted by Special Master Alfred Cary at West Superior Wisconsin. The property will be sold in three parcels for bids totaling at least 12 500 000. All interests accept the decree and payments by receivers are sanctioned.
Ottawa reports Sir Mackenzie Bowell resigns from the premier post. A ministers meeting followed as Lord Aberdeen plans to appoint Sir Charles Tupper to form a new cabinet. Bowell and Sanford Fleming will sail in May to England for the Pacific cable conference with Sir Donald Smith joining as high commissioner.
The Rev. George P. Knapp, an American missionary expelled from Bitlis by Turkish authorities on charges of inciting Armenian rebellion, has surrendered to the U S consul at Alexandria after a US warship was telegraphed for. Details indicate the surrender occurred Saturday.
Carrollton, Mo. April 29. A report says George Taylor the escaped murderer was seen last Friday in the northern Carroll county area with one member of the first Taylor jury. A reputable local farmer says he feared to raise alarm at the time.
Pretoria reports American mining engineer John Hays Hammond pleaded guilty to high treason in the Johannesburg reform committee trial. Hammond joined other leaders who had already entered pleas. he was absent earlier due to illness.
After weeks of sensational testimony the jury in ex City Treasurer Bolin's case was discharged unable to reach a verdict. Nine jurors favored conviction while three favored acquittal. Bolin faced charges of misappropriating 115000 dollars of Omaha funds.
The Canadian Pacific eastbound express struck a washout at Nepigon in the morning. Driver McNeill was killed and no other injuries were reported.
The Senate adopted a Cockrell compromise striking out the ban on sectarian school funding and sets a policy to avoid appropriations after July 1, 1898, allowing two years for abandonment. The Indian bill was not finished as the session adjourned.
The house began debate on the general pension bill from the invalid pension committee. It aims to amend the pension law in key ways. Chair Pickler spoke three hours in support, and Mr Goodwin took Cobb’s seat in the Fifth Alabama district.
Commerce committee expects to conclude its river and harbor bill within a day or two. The additions raise total outlay by about 10 million dollars, including a 1.5 million dollar canal project between Lake Huron and Washington and 100 thousand dollars for next year.
Washington April 27 The Money of Mississippi and Hall of Missouri clashed in the house with a naval affairs room confrontation. Both congressmen returned to their duties and friends expect an amicable understanding to be reached after expressions of regret.
In Ames Iowa on April 27 detectives in plain clothes guarded the gate at the quiet wedding of W. O. Pryor and Miss Helen B Wheeler of Syracuse. They prevented an alleged plan to kill the bride elect by James Wordsworth a cousin who had pressed her to marry him.
A cyclone with hail and heavy rain struck Salem Virginia seven miles west of Roanoke on April 27. It demolished two houses occupied by colored people and collapsed several barns and roofs. Jane Harris and her five year old son died in the ruins. four others were badly injured. Property damage occurred across Roanoke county with no further fatalities reported.
In Eve, Pa, Simon Hasselbach, 70, and his son William, 30, quarrel drunkenly during the moving. The son seized an axe and tried to strike his father. the father then shot him in the temple and turned the revolver on himself. Both men likely died.
Maprio April 24 reports Premier Canovas del Castillo denies any negotiations with Washington on granting home rule to Cuba. Reforms will be applied only when circumstances favor them and only if Weyler requests them, he says. The Heraldo notes Castillo denies peace talks with Cuban rebels.
A 10,000 man glass industry strike begins at once after a Hartford City employee, a local union preceptor, is discharged. The worker’s reinstatement was refused, prompting the union to vote for a strike at a meeting in Anderson Ind.
The battleship Oregon recently completed at Union Ironworks was placed in dry dock for scraping in preparation for the navy department’s final speed test. The Oregon is expected to be the most formidable battleship in the American navy when delivered to the government.
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