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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1906
Page
5
Havana Aug 29 The Cuban government suspends enlistment of volunteers until the impact of President Palma's amnesty offer is known. Palace confidence grows that rebels enticed by a chance to rejoin lawful life will abandon the doomed effort and avoid risking freedom by backing the uprising.
Havana reports that near Cienfuegos General Guzman’s insurgent force was defeated overnight with heavy losses. Colonel Valle led rural guards and volunteers against the band, killing seventeen insurgents and wounding many, with one government casualty.
Washington states the Platt amendment aims to prevent civil war in Cuba and allows U S intervention to maintain peace. A state department official equates civil conflict with pestilence and unsanitary conditions, saying both are equally offensive.
Havana reports Colonel Guerra plans to seize all towns on Cuba's north coast with detachments he has sent. After completing that sweep he will invade Havana province in alliance with General Guzman of Santa Clara and Captain Albert now operating there.
A major fire leveled the American Can company plant at 51 57 Fillmore Avenue Heinz Pickle company on Fillmore and Custer and a two story frame flat. Loss totaled 350000. Night watchman Andrew Sharon alerted authorities as flames jumped from a pickle shed to the can plants aided by strong winds. The east wall collapsed trapping and burning the flat as the ruins burned.
Rev. Daniel Bassett Leach of Bone Gap requests his own funeral benediction via a graphophone recording. At eighty nine he has long served as a Methodist minister since age eighteen and is famed for lengthy prayers. He plans the final ceremony to feature his own composed benediction.
James Farley the strikebreaker plans a San Francisco mission with 800 tin cups and 8 000 beer bottles prepared to feed and quell thirst. Trains will carry cooked food and a special Jersey City ferry will move workers from Twenty third Street, while delays are to be minimized and crews notified late.
Hermen M. Personious of Valley City police was fatally shot in the Northern Pacific yards while pursuing suspects after armed men boarded a Sanborn bound freight caboose. Police engaged four desperadoes, four shots rang out, and Personious died from a mouth and chest wound.
In New York a woman named Mrs Annie Moore was found murdered in a room at No 6 Second street. She was severely mutilated with deep throat wounds and disembowelment. James Moore, who pretends to be her husband, was detained on suspicion after notifying police of the crime. He claimed they lived together seven years and that she was the widow of his brother.
In Moscow on August 29 the Monarchiel party issued an address to the emperor calling for a dictatorship to end army demoralization and the suppression of state power culminating in unlimited autocracy. The emperor to retain parliament accepts elections with a reform excluding Jews from suffrage.
Police and troops closed in on a lodging house on Stolma street in Riga after bombs were found. Revoltists inside fired on officers and hurled bullets from windows. Two men and a woman were killed and others wounded.
Judge in Fond du Lac awards Otto B. Schulz six thousand dollars in a suit against about eighty members of the trades and labor council for boycotting his Racine business two years ago after he refused to place the union label on his products. The ruling was handed down in Fond du Lac circuit court.
A buyer states willingness to purchase hogs any day of the week at the highest market price. He mentions a man, R. W. Charx, living at the yards who always handles the hogs transfer.
Advertisement from John Wakp offering services at his Huron stables. One of the largest jacks available for service at 15 dollars and a high quality black Percheron stallion, a grandson of Old Brilliant, for 10 dollars to insure colt.
Wanted: several trustworthy men in various localities to represent North American Land Co. and sell properties to buyers we supply. Must be familiar with territory and able to show lands. Good salary and commission. Apply at 651 Andrus Building, Minneapolis.
Excursion tickets offered September 12 to 15 to Toronto with favorable return limits. Apply to Chicago and North Western Railway agents for I. C. O. F. Grand Lodge event.
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