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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1900
Page
3
A July Fourth warning notes higher casualties on that day, arguing statistics show more losses than on other days. The piece claims national risk rises as the holiday inflates incidents, reflecting concern over American behavior and public safety.
A U.S. editor notes October is among peculiarly dangerous months for stock speculation and lists all months as risky. The remark emphasizes caution across the calendar.
A Tien Tsin dispatch claims over 1000 allied casualties in three days of fighting and that Russians and French fought for the Chinese. It reports mass killings by Chinese to prevent capture and a panicked French rearguard from Annam. The city burned with thousands dead and a massacre referenced in Pekin.
Dense fog shrouded the Irish Channel as the Cunard steamer Campania struck the Liverpool bark Embleton near midships. Embleton sank in a minute. seven crew rescued, others including the captain believed drowned. Campania escaped with bow damage and late arrival at Liverpool.
Secretary Sir Halliday Macartney says communications with Pekin will reopen soon and ministers messages may arrive at any minute. He defends Li Hung Chang, notes small southern outbreaks, and cites rebel disruption of wires as the cause of the long silence while Shanghai reports court moves and rice shipments.
A World dispatch from Che Foo reports 300000 Chinese troops around Pekin and Boxers armed with modern weapons. After Tien Tsin was recaptured, shells allegedly set the city on fire. Boxers planned massacres of foreigners in treaty ports with rewards for white heads and loot promised to followers.
The Chinese emperor requests mediation by France with foreign powers. The telegram, sent via Shan Tung’s governor on July 19, was forwarded to M. Delcasse and will receive a reply from President Loubet through the Pekin legation after confirming the safety of the French minister there.
Shanghai cor respondent reports Chinese officials, terrified by Tien Tsin’s fall, seek negotiations to halt military actions. Secrets drive a vow of silence under threat of execution, with rumors of Prince Tuan’s abduction and Kang Yei’s Canton post. Allies deny fighting China, claim they oppose rebels.
Sioux Falls July 22 Colonel Melvin Grigsby of this city former head of the Third United States volunteer cavalry known as the cowboy regiment telegrammed President McKinley offering to reorganize the unit for China service. He claims the regiment could be ready to depart within 20 days with most officers and men eager to return to the front.
Canton reports troops occupying Bogue and outer forts with black flag units in the Tartar general's compound. Three thousand black flags and chiefs in entrenched camp with artillery. 10,000 more moved elsewhere. Canton itself remains quiet.
A Shanghai dispatch says sixty missionaries and one hundred native converts were massacred by Boxers at Tai Yuan. Tai Yuan is a fortified city in Shan See province on the Fuen Ho, 250 miles southwest of Pekin.
Frank Smith of Chicago, charged with the murder of John Barnum, was arrested by Milwaukee police. Smith says the shooting was in self defense and will return to Chicago without extradition papers.
The United States transport McClellan under Captain Nye arrived from Havana at New York on July 24 carrying 35 cabin passengers and 239 enlisted men of the Eighth United States Infantry.
A Mineral Ridge and Niles railroad street car with 40 passengers derailed and turned over injuring everyone on board. Local crews responded to assist as emergency services treated the injured at the scene. Local authorities investigated the cause of the derailment.
A collision outside Belfast Lough between the passenger steamers Dromedary and Alligator killed five passengers and seriously injured more than thirty. About 600 people were aboard both ships and many suffered amputations. Rescue efforts continued as fears of drownings grew.
At Stella Junction Wisconsin laborer Eli Swan removed overnight placed ties and rocks from the track five miles east of Three Lakes. His actions likely saved a passenger train and the 30 members of the Three Lakes Rod and Gun Club aboard from disaster.
Lord Roberts reports from Pretoria that on July 22 Boers attacked a railroad post 13 miles east of Heidelberg with three guns and a pompom. A sharp engagement followed but the attackers were driven back before reinforcements from Heidelberg могли arrived.
Cuiiaco, July 24. After months of idleness 30 cut stone contractors, many of them members of the building contractors' council, have signed an agreement with stone cutters union officials to resume work and submit all differences to a permanent arbitration committee of 10.
Lonpoy July 20 report says Europe endures torrid heat with 85 degree shade temperatures noted in the morning. Hospitals treat heat victims and nine deaths are reported. Workers halt daytime labor during peak heat hours.
The cruiser Philadelphia departed Bremerton naval station under secret orders presumed for China. The move was reported from Seattle on July 20.
An advertisement promotes Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as a digestant and tonic that relieves and cures dyspepsia indigestion heartburn flatulence sour stomach nausea and other digestion problems. It lists prices 50 cents and 1 dollar with a larger size offering double quantity and notes a free booklet by E C DeWitt & Co Chicago.
C H Longstaff announces a new drugstore in Dinneen Block two doors west of First National Bank offering drugs sundries paints oils and brushes. The shop features prescription compounding and a full line of patent medicines with ice cream sodas and other beverages for summer patrons.
A London dispatch reports active negotiations among powers on a coalition against China. England and the United States aim for a close partition accord and expect public declarations soon. Dispatches between Hay and Salisbury seek identical policies amid shifts in Russian diplomacy.
Secretary Long orders Admiral Remey to rescue Conger at all hazards. Remey is informed Conger was alive on the 18th and will likely make a desperate effort. News of his movements will be watched closely. Also, Kansas City men are being recruited for the Orient and sent to California to join regiments there.
Captain F S Whitman of the Twenty-ninth Infantry has arrived in San Francisco and tendered his resignation. He has been discharged for the good of the service by the direction of the president, to take effect July 31.
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