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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1906
Page
4
A local ad lists a wide toy and novelty selection including dolls, wagons, doll houses, trains, sewing outfits, and Teddy items. It promotes affordable prices on copyright books and a large range of kids and adults goods with emphasis on Christmas season shopping.
United States Supreme Court rules against Moyer Haywood and Pettibone in habeas corpus appeals. They remain jailed in Idaho on murder conspiracy charges tied to former Governor Steunenberg’s death, with jurisdiction and extradition questions upheld only to permit Idaho courts to proceed.
Under the Sherman act the city of Atlanta defeated Chattanooga Foundry and Pipe Works and South Pittsburg Pipe company. The suit claimed pipe makers fixed bids to force contracts to Anniston Pipe and Foundry, causing the city to pay $56 000 worth of pipe with $15 000 excess and seeking damages triple that amount. The court of appeals awarded $7 000.
Washington reports the War Department plans a congressional inquiry into the Twenty-fifth Infantry discharges. A Civil War era record notes a 1885 Fort Sturgis South Dakota incident where troops rampaged, resulting in a citizen’s death and later lynching the suspected killer.
Kuhn, Loeb & Co. announce purchase of 155,000 Chesapeake and Ohio shares held by Pennsylvania Railroad. Details of the transfer and control are not disclosed. The move signals a major reshuffle in the railroad's ownership structure.
Vice President Fairbanks brings in the senates first minute of the Fifty ninth congress as senators gather for the opening. Senator Dupont takes oath, Hale and Pettus join to notify the president, and Penrose moves a resolution seeking information on the dismissal of a battalion of negro troops at Fort Reno Oklahoma after the Brownsville incident. Cabinet nominations are sent in and the senate adjourns to executive session.
Speaker Cannon opens the session with a large attendance and swears in new members. Illinois’ Lowden reports the death of Robert Roberts Hitt and plans a tribute. Massachusetts’ Gillett recalls Rockwood Hoar and notes his late father George F. Hoar. Wisconsin’s Nelson announces Henry C. Adams’s death. A three member committee is formed to inform the president of the Houses’ readiness. The House adjourns.
The president forwarded several cabinet posts including Secretary of the Treasury George K Corteiyou Attorney General Charles J Lenajatie Postmaster General Geo von L Meyer Secretary of the Navy Victor H Metcalf Secretary of the Interior James R Garfield Secretary of Commerce and Labor Ose Staacs Associate Gasthe secret Jam H Moody. The nominations were referred to committees and not confirmed immediately as no message from the nominees had been received yet.
The message covers the Rio de Janeiro conference agenda and Panama canal report plans, the Algeciras Convention benefits, seal protection against pelagic sealing, Japan and Britain negotiations, and the Second Hague Conference. It emphasizes maintaining a strong navy, upgrading ships, expanding coast defenses, and improving training at West Point and Annapolis.
In McGregor harbor Wiarton Ontario the Cape Creeker reserve fishermen from Sc. L-Six Indians were ed Dec 1 when their boat capsized in a squall within sight of home shores.
Advert appears promising relief from awful psoriasis with years of skin patches and itching cured in thirty days at a cost of $4.75.
An elderly Kansas reader describes a 35 year skin infection that covered the body, including scalp, with raw red areas and thick crusts. After using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Treatment for several days the condition improved, and the writer claims permanent cure about five years earlier. The note mentions pain, heat in bed, and blood warmth accompanying flare ups.
In Findlay Ohio on December five the Ohio circuit court hears a motion by the state in its Buckeye Pipe Line case asking the court to compel production of all Standard Oil books and vouchers. The filing also requests the names of all directors of Standard and its subsidiaries and an accounting of ten years of oil shipments including recipients and payers.
In Milford Ohio on December 5 Ford Bennett, a Black man, was shot and mortally wounded by William Redman after a dispute over a $1 debt. Redman admits the shooting and a mob, led by Bennett’s father, sought Redman and attempted to storm Milford jail causing unrest.
New Ulm Minnesota December 5 Judge Webber long serving in this district for twenty four years ended his life by hanging in his barn hayloft. Despondency over his wife's illness and mounting expenses cited as cause though he was believed worth about one hundred thousand dollars. He was seventy four years old.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner E B Clark opened an inquiry in Pueblo aided by Attorneys Thomas and Marchand into alleged land frauds and rail carrier relations affecting coal and oil. Investigators will review coal land holdings of Fuel and Iron, Deny and Rio Grande, Colorado and Southern and Santa Fe railroads as part of the case. Cousins succeeds Hitt.
Speaker Cannon named Representative Robert G. Cousins to chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee after the death of Representative R. Hitt of Illinois. Frank O. Lowden of Mines was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by Hitt's death.
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