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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1899
Page
8
Frere Camp reports the bridge finished and trains crossing again. Lord Methuen’s railway restoration eases anxiety but highlights ongoing dangers. Belmon t and Modder river forces are cited with possible reinforcements. Ladysmith rumors claim Boer dissension, especially among Orange Free State troops, amid shifting commands.
A Berlin Boer agency dispatch places Prins Loos near Jacobsdal between Modder and Riet rivers and Cronje on the north bank of Modder with forts at Spytfontein. Deleire sits between Graf Pan and Honey Nest Kloopf, suggesting about 15,000 Boers surrounding Lord Methuen who commands 11,000. Kimberley with an armored train could harass Boers from the rear.
Carbonado Washington December 12 The shaft No 7 explosion in the Carbon Hill coal mines kills 382 of 76 men at work with 44 rescued and five in serious condition The cause is uncertain but believed due to tapping an old gas filled chamber and ignited by a miner lamp Governor Rogers orders a thorough inquest with State Mine Inspector Owens and a focus on ventilation The Pacific Improvement Company mine has operated nearly 20 years shipping 100 tons daily to Tacoma and beyond Most victims are Finns Poles and Welsh.
General Lawton with the Thirty-fifth Infantry and four Third Cavalry troops occupied San Miguel without a fight. General Pio del Pilar’s insurgent force divided into scattered bands. Two American wounded after cavalry brushes. A commissary train attack by seventy insurgents. drivers escaped with rations. Captain Sturgis’s troops surprised insurgents near Norsegarda. casualties and captures reported.
Reports from Pretoria and London indicate heavy fighting began at Modder River at dawn. The War Office notes no new news from General Methuen while Orange River station reports a blown rail culvert near Grafen Pan and cut telegraph lines as Boer forces threaten Methuen's line of communication. A Wisconsin farmer, James Goggin, was found murdered near Ellsworth with skull injuries.
Cheyenne Wyoming December 13. Ed Neptune former Pacific Express employee has been arrested and charged with robbing the local office. Neptune denies the charges and awaits further action.
The Canadian steamer Niagara, Captain Henry McClory, foundered about eight miles east of Long Point, Lake Erie, on Tuesday evening. Sixteen crew members are lost. Tug boats from Port Colborne and Buffalo recovered wreckage including deck parts and shingles marked Parry Sound.
The nitroglycerin magazine of the Pennsylvania Torpedo company near Bradford Pa exploded with a roar heard up to thirty miles away. The building was destroyed, bricks turned to powder, and there was widespread damage in Bradford and surrounding towns from flying glass and collapsed chimneys.
A fire started in a dry goods store in Augusta Georgia around 2 am and burned for four hours, destroying a solid block in the city’s business district. Estimated damage is about 1,000,000 with no casualties.
Fire swept the Green Tree hotel and stables and the Clifton House in Gloucester. David Young and his wife, both about 60, perished in the blaze.
At 9 45 a m the election certificate for William S Taylor was signed and he was declared governor elect of Kentucky The official vote totals filed with Secretary of State Finley show Taylor 193714 Goebel 191341 Taylor plurality 2383
The French government formally demands the degradation of Canton’s viceroy after the order to execute the Chinese magistrate in the Montao killings has not been carried out. The tsung li yamen will likely respond.
The advance guard under Major Spence reached Olangapo on December 9 after a hard march from Dinalusian. The enemy fled with little resistance and Subig was occupied a day later as Major Spence moved the force inland. The Baltimore and Oregon and a chartered transport arrived. Marines under Captain Myers take the navy yard at Olangapo and prepare it as a naval station.
In Berix on December 13 the Reichstag debated Emperor William’s naval programme. Count von Buelow argued for a large fleet, drawing strong approval and opposition. Radicals voiced disapproval as he stressed Germany’s intent to avoid aggression while defending its political and commercial interests.
Colonel James Graham and William P. Cuneen, prominent St. Marys politicians, drank from a bottle they believed held whisky but contained a disinfectant. Graham, a former lieutenant colonel of the Twenty second Kansas regiment in the Spanish war, and Cuneen are seriously ill and may die after the accidental mix up. Graham had bought both a disinfectant bottle and a whisky bottle to guard against smallpox.
John P. Reese national executive committee man of the United Mine Workers, jailed on contempt charges in Fort Scott Kansas, was released on habeas corpus by Judge Thayer in St Louis. Topeka bankers furnished the $3 000 bond enabling his release.
Two American commercial travelers report detention at Queens Town on suspicion of Boer espionage. They say the United States consul secured their release and is conducting a formal inquiry.
The first snow of the season fell across the Southwest and Northwest Missouri since early morning. Kansas reports light to moderate snow with melting, seen as beneficial to wheat crops.
Washington December 7. The senate session lasted two hours and forty minutes with the reading of the president's message occupying most of the time. The death of Senator-elect Munro Hayward of Nebraska was reported with regret and resolutions of sorrow were adopted by Senator Thurston before the senate adjourned.
Representative Tawney of Minnesota introduced a resolution for a seventeen member committee named the committee of insular affairs. It would have jurisdiction over affairs concerning insular territory acquired under the Spain treaty of 1895 including Tutuila Samoa. The committee would be privileged.
In Seattle a party of U S cavalry explorers led by Lieutenant J S Herron of the Eighth Cavalry is feared lost after ascending the Sushtina river last June on a Yukon voyage. Local authorities and families await news as cold weather and terrain hinder search efforts.
Mrs. Sarah A. Landsdown died at the home of her stepmother in Kansas City from forced starvation. She had lived in Stanbury Missouri where religious frenzy led her to refuse food and drink.
East Liverpool Ohio December 9 manufacturing potters from Wheeling Cincinnati Akron Steubenville and East Liverpool met and decided to advance prices by five percent with a total increase of ten percent in the last sixty days.
Riverside tally shows Republicans Carson 24 201 Haney 24 064 Fuller 24 690 while Fusionists Smith 17 970 Kennedy 18 085 Bennett 18 601. Pierre, 8. D., Dec. 9.
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