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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1904
Page
1
Japanese forces appear set to press directly on Russian positions at Liaoyang with planned offensives and increased activity around key front lines. Reports indicate coordination among units and a push to breach defensive lines as winter weather poses additional challenges.
Nervousness grows as Japanese forces occupy Wolf Hills near Port Arthur. Reports say the attackers command crucial high ground and could threaten Stoesel’s garrison. Kuropatkin’s position remains precarious with a new Japanese base at Newchwang easing provisioning.
St Petersburg August 11 The Russian answer to Britain over the Knight Commander sinkings states Russia will not abandon prize rules but reserves discussion after the war. It says extreme measures against neutral vessels won’t be used unless no prize court is possible and notes the nine year old regulations, with Britain only protesting after the war began.
Emperor Nicholas received Kuropatkin reports dated Aug 8 noting minor reconais sances with no significant shift on east or south fronts. Japanese posts nine miles north of Haicheng with outpost skirmishes continue. Kuropatkin notes varied bullet calibers indicate reserve troops are now in the line.
Airmissed fragment reports the Rus Man auxiliary armer Tiral bound for the Mediterranean from Tisbon Portugal on August 11, with details incomplete.
The ship has departed and is believed to be heading for the Mediterranean. It is suggested the Ural was the vessel that recently stopped the British steamer Monora off Cape Finisterre.
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers union urges a general strike against the beef trust with plants in New York affected. Union claims a complete walkout. packers say about 60 percent left and will be quickly replaced. United Dressed Beef stock rumors of a month of beef stored. Schwarzschild & Sulzberger nearly idle as workers quit.
The navy department received a cablegram announcing the Bancroft's arrival at Monte Cristi in San Domingo from San Juan to protect American interests, following a request by Mr. Dawson the American minister. Family almost wiped out.
A west bound Baltimore and Ohio local passenger train collided with a Chicago and Erie freight at Western avenue and West Thirty ninth street. A mother and her three children were killed, father C. C. Swartz survived but injured. The crash overturned coaches and a freight car breached a coach where victims sat. Swartz escaped unconscious with broken bones and bruises.
In Pueblo Colorado on August 11 reports recount the death toll from a catastrophe. Undertakers and livery firms struggle with hearses while many bodies are sent to other cities. Families endure painful scenes as searchers work at dawn for missing victims and officials tally seventy one identified dead with several unidentified and many unaccounted for.
New York reports that Mrs. Ogden Goelet recovered jewels worth 200000 found in a city safe. Detectives and Newport Chief Richards prompted the recovery, questions remain on why the detectives delayed and how the jewels returned to the safe.
Chicago reports say talks between the Retail Meat Dealers' Association of Chicago and the Market Wagon Drivers' Union will seek a settlement of the stock yards strike. Picket lines around markets may be extended, and plans were discussed to shut off ice and meat from more establishments. A new stock yards corporation may be formed to develop the Stickney tract, linked to former packers the Hately Bros. and Isaac Heitner, who plans to operate two killing plants near the tract. City officials began an inquiry into housing conditions of nonnon men and women at the yards, with findings to be reported to Mayor Harrison.
Chicago August 11 The executive board of the Garment Workers union agreed to endorse the cutters strike and will call out all members, men and women, leaving 6 000 to 7 000 tailors idle. The move follows a wage hours dispute and now threatens to tie up all shops in Chicago and stall fall trade.
Andrew Holm returned to Minneapolis recounting a spring voyage of fifty Scandinavian workers to Tennessee coal mines. He says pay dropped from 1.50 to 1 per day with board charged, meals poor, and guard by armed Negro bosses. escape was difficult. Holm fled to St Louis then Minneapolis and a Danish consul appeal in New York is planned for release of remaining workers.
Victor Colorado reports John Harper a former Victor Miners Union president and store manager was seized by masked men and driven from the district. His son Ritchie 21 was forced to accompany him but was returned an hour later.
King Edward departed London for Marienbad Bohemia to take his annual bath as Duke of Lancaster traveling incognito. His stay will be private except for the planned meeting with Emperor Joseph during his visit at the famed spa.
A mob of about 200, including packinghouse strikers and supporters, halted an incoming train at Riverside Kansas. They forced nonunion workers from the cars with clubs and threw their baggage into the Kaw River.
London reports the admiralty has invited shipbuilders to prepare two battleships of 16,500 tons and high speed. Officials aim to have tenders submitted by Sept 9, signaling a rush to start construction.
Foreign office in London denies a New Orleans report that a British minister was sent from Guatemala City to Managua to deliver an ultimatum over the Cayman fishing schooners seizure. Authorities say no force was proposed and expect a diplomatic settlement, with no port occupation planned.
Lincoln Nebraska August 11 report on Ohio tale shows the Democratic and Populist factions plan parallel ballots with shared state officers and legislature names. The strategy aims to keep Roosevelt favored while fusionists target a United States senate seat.
Dubuque Iowa mayor Berg named Miss Margaret Tredway sponsor for the gunboat Dubuque to be launched at Morris Heights New York on the 27th. The move ends a brief navy sponsor search that caused a stir in Dubuque and Iowa.
Former French premier Waldeck Rousseau died at Corbeil eleven miles from Paris at 2:35 PM after an operation to save his life. Surgeons Armour and Hanskper, aided by Cuneo and Maurice, conducted the two hour procedure as the liver failed and he weakened.
Consul General Gowdy found his private desk forced and papers ransacked at the American consulate in Paris. Petty cash and postage stamps worth hundreds of francs were stolen, and the large safe shows attempted forced entry. Police conduct full investigations into the crime.
Constantinople Aug 11 Minister Leishman has received a message from the porte promising a favorable communication in a day or two regarding the American representation in reference to the school question and other matters. Messina Aug 11 The American squadron bound for Smyrna consisting of the Olympia Baltimore and re passed through the straits.
In Esopus New York on August 11 Judge Alton B Parker was formally notified as the Democratic presidential candidate. Champ Clark delivered the address in a rain shower as Parker stood bareheaded, receiving the nomination letter on Rosemount grounds before a national and local audience.
United States Senator Nathan B. Scott of West Virginia fell ill at his desk in Republican headquarters in New York on August 11. His condition appeared serious with an acute indigestion attack similar to a year ago. He was moved to the Fifth Avenue hotel where a physician and nurse attended him. Mrs. Scott went to the hotel and said he was resting and not as grave as past episodes.
Two men were hit by a train in the Northern Pacific yards at Twentieth Avenue North and the Mississippi river area. James Macks suffered a leg amputation and severe pain, while Max Sin had a bad scalp wound. Both were taken to city hospital in precarious condition.
Information from the five big furnace companies in Birmingham shows mines will operate only to a small number of workers. They announced daytime openings for union and nonunion labor at a wage scale lower than previously in effect, resulting in only a handful of men reporting for work.
An elderly Fargo resident was swindled by a clairvoyant who vanished with his money. The victim allegedly handed the funds to the con artist in an envelope for a supposed device, with the loss discovered hours later. Joshua D. Brown identified the suspect and reported the incident.
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