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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1898
Page
1
A compact fragment lists SAN FRANCISCO LOUISVILLE and NEW YORK in a brief news snippet. No events or details accompany the place names.
The session opens with cordial welcome from Speake Reed while Joe Wheeler receives a standing ovation. The crowd responds warmly as the House begins its proceedings without overt rancor.
The December opening session in Wasnixeton featured a crowded gallery with foreign officials and social leaders. Speaker Reed received a warm welcome while Major General Wheeler of Alabama drew the era's strongest ovation as members waited for the president's message to be read. The proceedings were dull aside from the message reading which lasted over two hours.
The War Department orders six regiments to replace volunteers in Manila. The Twentieth at Fort Leavenworth, Third at Fort Snelling, Twelfth at Jefferson Barracks and Fort Riley, Seventeenth at Columbus Barracks, Fourth at Fort Sheridan, and Twenty second at Fort Cook proceed as transport becomes available. Twenty fourth and Twenty fifth may join later. Volunteers to be retired by arrival order.
Washington December 7 The Fifty fifth congress closing session opened with a grand scene in the chamber as public and private galleries filled. The president's message took over two hours to read and was carefully received for an hour before senators retired to cloak rooms and committee rooms to study the printed copies.
The British foreign office reports that Lieutenants Keating and Gale and 12 native soldiers were killed in October while negotiating with tribesmen in the Niger Territory between Jobba and Ilo.
American soldiers in Havana were greeted with overwhelming warmth as Cuban crowds embraced them and women wept with joy, expressing a deep grateful response to the arrival. The scenes reflected a rare moment of mutual relief and friendship during a tense period.
The First North Carolina regiment landed on Sunday aboard the Roumanian and marched to camp at Marianao, drawing hundreds of locals who wept with joy and shouted greetings. Meanwhile the Two Hundred Second New York marched to the railway station. The crowds signaled varying loyalties as the troops head to Pinar del Rio province.
The First Kentucky after four months service arrived home from Ponce Porto Rico. Union station drew 6000 people with bands and old army men. A jubilee program of three days will fete the soldiers.
The written resignation of Colonel W. J. Bryan of the Third Nebraska reached the war department during the afternoon and was immediately accepted. Notice of the action was telegraphed to Colonel Bryan.
The 18th annual American Federation of Labor convention opened at Strope's hall in Kansas City with about 150 delegates from the U S and two guests from London William Thorne and William Inskip of the British Trades Union Congress. Inskip seeks closer US Britain industrial and political ties. President Samuel Gompers delivered the opening address as President Evans of the Kansas City Commercial Club welcomed attendees.
In Havana on December 14 three Cubans were killed and one officer and two Cubans wounded after an affray between Spanish officers on duty and citizens and Cubans defending the closure of the Tacon theatre following General Calixto Garcia’s death. Sixty perished or wounded were reported, with fourteen in private homes. General Greene affirmed Cuban safety but Spanish authority prevailed. Sanguilly and other prominent Cubans were escorted by Spanish aides to the railway station bound for Marianao.
Secretary Alger designates General Ludlow as first military governor of Havana city with full powers to handle local affairs. He will depart soon for his post as General Greene remains at Havana until Ludlow arrives and then returns home to retire.
The grand jury in Hot Springs Idaho area returns 32 indictments for manslaughter over the shooting of John Rickman a sheepman who refused to move his flock from the range. All defendants are in custody and plead not guilty.
In Havana on December 14 Captain General Castellanos was struck by debris when his bedroom roof collapsed. He sustained wounds to both shoulders the chest and face while his orderly also suffered facial injuries.
The executive committee of the anti imperialist league reports growing support from Central and Western newspapers. A correspondence committee has received many letters offering services in opposing annexation. Distribution networks for literature have been set up in eighty states.
In Lexington Kentucky on December 12 authorities report a carload or more of government property lost from Camp Hamilton hospital quartermaster's department. Nobody seems to know where it is.
Henry Mortimer Platt aged 76 died at his New York home. Fifty years ago he established in New York the first gold and silver refinery in the United States. His work helped pioneer modern refining in the industry.
Paris, Dec 18 treaty signed at 8 45 pm creating 17 articles. Americans pay for repatriation of troops from colonies. Spaniards return prisoners but keep captured ships and munitions in the Philippines. Reopening of commercial treaties and a 600 page protocol mark the historic end.
In Yokoyama on December 10 the government presented a diet bill to raise land tax by 14 000 yen toward an estimated 30 000 000 yen total. The measure aims to cover the capital need for the project.
Mary L. Cummings of North Brookfield Massachusetts describes a year of stomach catarrh with fluctuating appetite and severe pain. After taking Hood's Sarsaparilla she reports gradual relief, regained strength, and strong endorsement of the remedy. Sold by druggists at 1 dollar, six for 5 dollars.
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