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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1894
Page
5
A speaker urges residents to endure hardship and stay, promising no famine and highlighting Dakota's history of sixteen consecutive good crops. He warns against returning east to seek better prospects and insists the locality can endure the current strain. He emphasizes telling eastern peers about Dakota’s past prosperity to deter emigration.
Neighborly mentions from Huron report Miss Zula Smith and Miss Elsie Lynch visiting Yankton to see Miss Julia Taylor at H. E. Brisbine's for several days. A special freight car carried Acting Supt. W. B. Cronk and E. C. Patterson with wives from Huron. they are in the city visiting friends. Attorney T. H. Nall of Huron, candidate for attorney general, said the populist outlook across the state looked bright.
Miss Irene Swift and Miss Eunice Swift hosted a large turnout of local youths at their Fourth street home in Yankton to honor Miss Julia Taylor Miss Zara Smith and Miss Elsie Lynch of Huron who were week‑long guests of Mrs H E Brisbine Thirty plus guests enjoyed an evening of music and camaraderie as Taylor prepares to move to St Louis Missouri inviting a safe journey and quick return.
The week was very warm with showers in east central areas and Black Hills on the 9th to 11th. Wheat oats and barley harvests largely complete though winds reduced yields. Corn as fodder, hay extremely light, potato vines drying. Black Hills may yield well if frosts stay away. rain on the 13th helps pastures and flax. lawn social at Depot Hotel Thursday evening. no weather delay.
The Great Northern Railway offers John L. Stoddard’s Our Country and Our Neighbors in 16 parts with 16 half tone engravings each. Parts delivered weekly at 10 cents. option to buy Graham’s Niagara Falls plate at one tenth price. W. E. Van Amburg displays Niagara and Part 1 in the Reading Room. call to see them. Readers gain patriotic insight through illustrated descriptions of notable places and scenes.
Default on February 27 1851 mortgage to Mary Jane McFarlane triggers foreclosure of Lot 6 Block 19 Second Railway addition Huron Beadle County. Sheriff to sell at Beadle County Courthouse front door September 14 1894 at 2 PM. Mortgagee Mary Jane McFarlane declares amount due 217.75 principal and interest plus 50 50s fees.
Four young excursionists drowned near Thornyhurst Ontario as bodies were later recovered. In Tenby Wales on August 14 during a regatta a small excursion steamer capsized in Caldy roads, drowning twenty people.
Four young people lost their lives in a drowning accident near Thornyhurst Sydenham Ontario when an old flat bottom boat capsized while crossing a river. No witnesses saw the incident and all bodies were recovered.
The bark Braekka from Hemeland for Rio Janeiro collided with the schooner Pilgrim from Port Madoc for Stettin near Anvil Point on Saturday morning. The Pilgrim sank and four crew members drowned, while the Braekka sustained significant damage.
About 40 feet of the Mullan tunnel roof failed on the Northern Pacific near Helena. Forty workmen narrowly escaped as they left to let an eastbound freight pass. The cave halted the eastbound express and repairs will take several weeks. passengers will be transported via alternative routes.
The steamer Puritan of the Chicago St Joseph and Benton Harbor Transportation Co. struck the tug Richmond near the wharves at Bexton Harbor Mich. The tug was cut in two and sank as the Puritan entered the harbor at high speed. The captain and crew escaped to the river bridge.
Tom Dickinson, a 12 year old boy, averted a possible disaster on the Big Four by quickly changing an open switch as a westbound passenger express and a fast freight rushed toward collision. The scene unfolded near Anderson Indiana as the lad acted decisively to prevent a deadly wreck.
Sheridan Wyoming August 14 Four men E H Gallagher N F Watts William Angove and John Hendrickson were killed when about 20 tons of rock rolled onto them after a blasting accident during a flume construction to float ties in Granite Canon on the Tongue River thirty five miles northwest of Sheridan.
The United States assay office in Helena reports gold bullion receipts of 120 088 74 dollars for the past week. It is the largest weekly total in the office’s history both in amount and number of bars melted, with 130 bars processed.
St Joseph Missouri reports Lauth C Challis once a Wall Street leader and daring speculator tied to New York. After twenty years as a prominent figure in St Joseph and Atchison he died at his Atchison home, reportedly near penniless despite periods worth a million.
Topeka August 14 Judge C G Foster of the United States district court has ordered the receivers of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad company to sell unimproved real estate and town lots in La Junta and elsewhere. Most property lies in Western Kansas and totals about 40 000 acres.
The Western Union reports from Shanghai dated August 14 that Chinese land lines to Corea are totally interrupted with no restoration seen. The Nagasaki route beyond Fusan is also disrupted, leaving Corea virtually cut off from telegraphic contact except for Fusan.
Superintendent Roger O Mara has ordered 15 top detectives from major cities to patrol Pittsburg for the G A R encampment. Bob Pinkerton will assist. Detectives will arrive days early to plan and will warn or remove thieves before the parade. O Mara expects minimal thieving during encampment week.
Omanga Aut 11 two hundred more deputy sheriffs joined guards at the packing houses armed with buggy spokes no firearms allowed. Strikers blocked picket lines while special police escorted new workers. Pickets warned leaders as crowds gathered. Packers threaten shut down for an indefinite period citing lack of protection. After a 10 hour conference governors ordered troops with Omaha Guards Thurston Rifles and other state units to scene.
Two Nebraska militia companies the Thurston Rifles and Omaha Guards were sent to South Omaha at 4 a m to guard packing houses. Strikers, in an ugly mood, did not resort to violence and withdrew to a distance awaiting the coming troops.
Willmar Minn August 11 the corner stone of the Methodist church is laid. The brick structure will be large and centrally located and is the first Methodist church in Willmar. It is expected to be well supported and is the ninth church in town and the third begun that year.
Henry Crawford Oliver a well known St Paul railroad man was drowned in White Bear lake under circumstances that led to the belief he committed death by own action. Oliver had been in health for some time.
Thomas Holt, janitor of the Church of the Atonement at Fifth Avenue and Seventeenth Street, shot his wife three times at their home and cut her throat with a razor. She died shortly after.
A Rock Island line wreck five miles south of Lincoln Nebraska leaves remains of eight confirmed dead with the death toll expected to rise to twelve. The Fort Worth accommodation train derailed on Salt Creek trestle igniting coaches. ten men were in the smoker car, six identified, with several passengers among the injured. Rescue efforts were hampered by flames and scattered debris as witnesses described a landscape of burning cars and sobering screams.
The Chronicle reports the United States may file suit in state courts to collect the 15 million dollar claim against the Leland Stanford estate well before January 1895. Mrs. Stanford has proposed a friendly suit through District Attorney Charles A. Garter. The government contemplates no delay until the due date of January 6, 1895.
A wildfire within about a dozen miles of Pittispury Minnesota destroyed about 100 tons of hay. The long drought ended with a heavy shower and the late potatoes and corn are expected to benefit from the moisture.
A mine under Scranton collapses for three blocks causing $250,000 in property damage. Pillar robbing in the Delaware Lackawanna and Western diamond breaker weakened supports, triggering a sudden roof fall that wrecked twenty eight houses and sent residents into panic though no workers were present at the time.
In Hazelton Pa on August 11 twenty five people were injured when two electric railway cars collided on the Elm Street road near Oakdale. The open car occupants leaped for safety as the high speed crash sent survivors to the rocks and splintered the fronts. Doctors came from Ebervale to treat the wounded.
From Phillips report 43 dwellings are under construction in Ashland Wisconsin. An ordinance creates fire limits as several brick blocks rise. H L Drake Co operates a portable saw mill to supply lumber for rebuilding the world’s largest tannery.
Le Sueur Minnesota August 11 E R Smith of the old Bank of Le Sueur has been convicted and sentenced to 90 days in jail. Mr Smith appealed and was immediately arrested again on complaint by Truman Glass.
The Wiggins Ferry and Belt Line company has withdrawn its reduced freight rates from 144 and 2 cents per hundred to 1 cent per hundred between St. Louis and East St Louis. No reason is given for the reversal.
State Treasurer Bobleter reports the actual debt of Minnesota at 1,892,183.18 dollars as of August 11, a drop of 79,123.71 dollars from August 1 of last year.
Early in the morning a burglar entered Postmaster H. M. Serkland’s home in St James Minnesota by removing a bedroom window screen. Two gold watches and chains and about 3 dollars in cash were taken.
Deputy U S Marshal Agnew came to BraAZIL with warrants for A N Smith president of the local ARU John Comer and John Fay and James Mackafee. Fay and Mackafee were away. Smith and Comer were taken to Indianapolis.
Willmar Minnesota reports farmer Martin Bredson three miles east of town was kicked and dragged to death after tying the horse halter to his arm the animal shied and pulled him across fields hitting two barbed wire fences before medical help arrived.
In Mandan North Dakota on August 11 a drunken cowboy named Collins attacked Father Wilhelm at the priest’s Glen Allen home. The priest shot Collins in the right shoulder to stop the assault after Collins attempted to strike him with a cartridge belt.
In New Um Minnesota on August 11 a drunken row among tramps left Jim Tarney badly stabbed in the side with a dirk. The assailant escaped before officers arrived and Tarney may die.
At Danuba near the Tulare county line two ranchers named Ray and Norton quarreled over money and pulled revolvers. Both men fired, Ray was killed instantly and Norton died a few minutes later.
Queenstown August 11. A number of passengers who landed from the White Star steamer Brittannic, arriving from New York Wednesday night, were fined for tobacco smuggling. John Slattery, whose clothing yielded cigars, was fined 12 pounds.
In St Joseph Missouri on August 11 the temperature reached 105 degrees amid a prolonged dry spell. No rain has fallen for weeks and the corn crop is badly damaged in many areas, rain unlikely to save it.
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