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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1899
Page
7
A boy in a stable writes a composition with slate and pencil after being asked why he does not write in the library. The father questions the choice and the boy explains the teacher instructed him to write a composition on a horse.
Dr Laureans Villanueva ex president of Venezuela says South American alliance against the United States might be justified by imperial policy. He asserts the US seeks Europe and the Indies beyond the Philippines and notes widespread fear among South American republics. The ex president speaks through an interpreter in New York.
A New York statement from Adriano Grullon ties the Heueraux assassination to a planned uprising, denying revenge for Caceres' death. He portrays Heureaux’s rule as tyrannic, citing mass arrests and executions, and says Caceres and Vasquez acted openly to trigger change with broad support for a new government.
Rebels in the mountains about 20 miles from Moca clash as Senor de Corde, ex minister, raises forces against them. The acting president suspends paper currency to ease commerce. Suspect Jiminez near Quebras. U S gunboat Machias arrives at Santo Domingo amid calmer reports from Moca and Santiago.
In Ironwood Michigan the Norrie and East Norrie mines management granted a about ten percent raise to about two thousand workers effective August first. The settlement satisfies both sides and ends the wage dispute.
At Tailors' league headquarters in New York on August 5, 50 settlements were reached that day, totaling 150 overall and allowing about 2,000 men to return to work. Vestmakers remain on strike.
The Republican state convention in Des Moines nominated Leslie M. Shaw for governor and J. C. Milliman for lieutenant governor by acclamation. John C. Sherwin won the supreme judge nomination after ballots, with Barrett and Dawson also nominated by acclamation. The platform backs McKinley policies, Dingley tariff, gold standard, and criticizes trusts as harmful, while praising Henderson for the speakership.
Reports from Florida corridor say Carrabelle and surrounding coast suffer severe damage. Docks, wharves, and lumber stocks collapsed. multiple lumber vessels wrecked. few huts remain and a colored woman is reported killed. Wires down, relief trains run, towns Mintyre and Curtic Milla destroyed. Dog Island fishermen unaccounted.
A storm of unprecedented violence swept Westmoreland Stafford and King George counties. Crops damaged trees blown down huts destroyed and livestock killed by lightning. No details yet and no human losses reported.
Denver reports a cloudburst in a canyon near Morrison Colorado resulting in multiple fatalities. Newsdesk confirms losses and ongoing assessment of damage.
The Maryland Democratic state convention at Ford's Opera House nominated Governor John Walter Smith of Worcester county attorney general Isidor Rayner of Baltimore and controller Joshua W. Hering of Carroll county by acclamation. All candidates support the gold standard.
The U S hospital ship Relief reached San Francisco on August 4 carrying 820 sick and disabled soldiers from the Philippines. Northwestern regiments aboard include Iowa 19, Minnesota 21, Montana 10, Nebraska 14, North Dakota 2, and South Dakota 25.
The Call reports Oregon volunteers in the Philippines oppose settlers and native citizenship. They say land is scarce and mainly owned by church authorities, making wheat cultivation unlikely and the climate unsuitable for poor men seeking improvement.
The Tenth Pennsylvania volunteers landed from the Senator and were escorted by Nebraska troops to the Presidio where they will camp until muster out. Large crowds lined the streets in San Francisco as the Keystone state soldiers were greeted like Oregon and Utah units who had preceded them home.
An old advertisement proclaims Is My Blood Pure It urges readers to take Hood's Sarsaparilla to purify the blood and restore health and also promotes Hood's Pills for nausea headache biliousness and liver complaints with a 25 cent price.
Governor Theodore Roosevelt spoke at the Ocean Grove summer school on Practical Politics and Decent Politics before about 10,000 listeners. The audience cheered so vigorously that Roosevelt asked them to moderate their excitement.
Thousands of Texas goats have been marketed in Kansas City over recent weeks. The meat from the goats has been slaughtered in Kansas City and the Times reports that all of it has been placed on the market as meat.
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