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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1904
Page
1
Tokio reports the cruiser Rurik was sunk on August 14 with the captain and all senior officers perishing. Twenty three officers were saved and forty four wounded sailors were taken to Sasebo naval hospital.
Tokio reports Major Yamaka of the Japanese staff went under a flag of truce to the Russian outposts delivering the offer to move non combatants and demanding Port Arthur s surrender. An answer was expected.
St. Petersburg reports the Vladivostok squadron including the Amur and Grobichal has not been heard from since a Sunday engagement with the Japanese squadron in the straits of Korea. Admiralty shows nervousness over their fate.
Six hundred one crew members of the Russian armored cruiser Rurik, sunk in the Sunday engagement with Admiral Kamimura’s Japanese squadron, were landed at Sasebo. One dead, 177 wounded, many seriously, with officers undistinguished among survivors who had stripped before the ship sank.
London reports Japan will not comply with Chinese demand to return the vessel to Chefoo. Japan argues Chefoo has functioned as a Russian base during the war with Chinese junks outfitted there for Port Arthur, and no response yet to Russia’s protest about the Ryeshitomi.
Chicago reports show September wheat at 1.09 and December at 1.10 on the Chicago board of trade, new high points amid alarming crop reports from the Northwest. Traders react frantically as buyers push prices higher, with notes of foreign orders and bearish crop conditions in North Dakota Minnesota and Manitoba.
The United States and Great Britain formally challenge Russia over foodstuffs as contraband and the sinking of neutral vessels. American protest, via Ambassador McCormick, cites flour on the Arabia and notes coal and naptha disputes. British note, delivered by Ambassador Hardinge, argues against Russia’s blanket contraband rule and seeks compensation and adherence to international law.
De Ryder, a little known rider, suffered fatal injuries when his head struck the wheel during his first attempt to loop the loop.
Marinette Wis August 18 The C M Betts company of Buffalo New York has closed a deal with Murphy Lumber of Green Bay to buy its entire season cut of lumber totaling over 15 000 000 feet. The consideration runs about 250 000 and is among the year's largest transactions.
Worcester Mass August 18 Senator George Frisbie Hoar is dying doctors and his son General Rockwood Hoar say he may not live more than three days. His illness began with lumbago and a relapse Tuesday left relatives hopeless about recovery.
Chicago reported Colonel Prentiss Ingraham a prolific writer of over 1,000 novels died at Beauvoir Mississippi aged fifty. Born in Natchee Tennessee he was son of Rev. Joseph H. Ingraham author of A Prince of the House of David. A former Confederate Army colonel he wrote stories after the war and left a widow and three children.
Three suburban electric cars collided with a Chicago Great Western passenger train at Forty eighth street and Colorado avenue in the afternoon. Four people were killed, four others were expected to die, and ten to fifteen more were seriously injured. The motorman allegedly did not hear the approaching train until too late.
Washington styled market report shows Minneapolis wheat quotes for Sept May and No 1 hard No 2 grades with prices ranging around 1.10 to 1.19 dollars per bushel. The listing includes Sept 1.10 percent May 1.11 and No 1 hard 1.14 Northern 1.19 No 2 Nadkee 1.74 4.4.
St Paul Union Stock Yards reports Aug 17 prices for cattle good to choice steers 5.15 to 5.65, cows and heifers 3.15 to 4.00, hogs 4.95 to 5.25, yearling wethers 3.35 to 3.75, native lambs 5.20 to 5.50, with ranges for other grades.
In Duluth on August 17 the morning grain report shows No. 1 Northern wheat at $1.19½, No. 2 Northern at $1.16. On track prices list No. 1 Northern $1.19½ and No. 2 Northern $1.164, with September at $1.13 and December at $1.08. Flax on track to arrive and for September at $1.24, with October Mov and December at $1.29.
Cattle prices range from good to prime steers at 4.00 to 4.90, cows 1.25 to 4.00, calves 2.50 to 6.00, and heifers 2.00 to 4.25. Hogs price bands show mixed 5.15 to 5.40, heavy 4.80 to 5.15, lights 5.29 to 5.50. Sheep listed at 3.60 to 4.00 for wethers and 4.00 to 6.00 for native lambs
Chicago spot and futures prices for grain and pork with reading on wheat corn oats and butter and eggs as of August 17 including Sept December and May contracts and cash futures for Southwest grain and live poultry products.
Brainerd Minnesota August 18 no further move will be taken to save William Chounard condemned to be hung August 30 at Walker for killing his wife at Cass Lake last winter Attorney A T Larson who defended him says he found no error and no appeal will be filed no further action is expected in the matter.
Judge J. Q. Farmer of Spring Valley Minn. died suddenly aboard a westbound Northern Pacific train near Billings Mont while en route to a national park. He was accompanied by his wife and was eighty one years old.
Clarence de Ryder, a cyclist, was killed at a Salt Lake City resort while attempting 19 loop-the-loops. The accident occurred as he reached the upper side of the loop during the act.
Washington reports Captain Tonner, assistant commissioner of Indian affairs, touring agencies and schools in Wisconsin and Minnesota. He will visit Wahpeton to select a site for an agricultural school costing 109000 dollars.
A farm house near Perth, Oklahoma, was struck by lightning early today, killing four members of the Dowling family. The dead are B. A. Dowling, Mrs. Dowling, Ben Dowling aged fourteen, and Fannie Dowling aged nine.
United States Steel Preferred led gains by seven eighths with the day’s movement to cover shorts. Southern Pacific and Amalgamated Copper added about a point, while Sloss Sheffield, Hocking Coal, Pacific Coast, and Virginia Carolina Chemical preferred rose 1 to 1.% The market closed roughly steady in New York.
Reports from St. Petersburg Aug 18 say cruisers Diana and Pallada may have reached Vladivostok. Private telegrams to officers’ families could have fueled the circulation of these rumors.
Report from Tientsin on August 18 states the absent ships of the Russian squadron did not come back to Port Arthur and is believed they may have reached another port or remained at sea, prompting continued concern over their fate.
Russian authorities agreed to disarm the cruiser Askold now at Shanghai. No confirmation was received of the reported arrival of the Russian cruisers Diana and Pallada at Vladivostok, with the Vladivostok dispatch omitting any mention of those ships.
Chicago August 18. Labor leaders abandon hope of immediate peace with packers and prepare for a prolonged struggle. Unions not already striking unlikely to join. Rioting erupts as mobs attack nonunion houses and strike breakers. An attorney for a packing company is menaced and two striking workers are injured in street clashes.
Chicago Aug 18 special agent T A Carroll of the labor and commerce department notes high activity around the strike dispute. He has been in close contact with both sides, fueling the impression that President Roosevelt may enter the situation or already has.
Fragmentary notes indicate a visit by a secretary treasurer of an international butchers organization to a strike leader in a Cay afternoon. Details on purpose and outcomes are missing or obscured in the damaged text.
Vienna reports hundreds of houses burned in villages each week as a prolonged drought provokes frequent fires. Officials warn property losses rise and urge prevention measures amid the widespread blazes.
Union workers nationwide may be asked to contribute to support striking packers. Cunard Line reportedly lowers fares across second cabin and steerage. Transatlantic steerage rates have driven the westbound war of rates. Anamosa Iowa notes convicts marching in lockstep. U.S. military tactics to be used in future reforms.
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