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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1900
Page
7
A reflective line suggests Adam sought the apple not for its taste but for the act of transgression. It posits the real fault lay in forbidding the serpent, implying a satire on desire, temptation, and moral framing.
A fragment warns that July Fourth sees higher casualty rates, claiming statistics show more fools die on this day than all year. It argues the nation has become reckless, with the quote suggesting a fourth of July is dangerously inadequate for the country.
October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months for stock speculation with July January September August December February April March June November and May listed as risky months. The note warns traders to beware volatility and potential losses during this period.
U S expedition under General Kobbe occupies Sorsogon Consola Bullan Logaspi and Virac on Catandunes island. Heavy hemp losses and American casualties reported after clashes with insurgents. Nashville and Venus shell fortifications before dispersing enemy forces.
General Otis reports Kobbe's troops occupy hemp ports at Sorsogon Daniel Busan Albay Le Gaspi Virac Catanduanos in Southeastern Luzon and expect to reach Calbayog Cabalgan and Tacloban on Samar and Leyte by evening. The ports hold large hemp supplies and will open on the 30th.
From the Philippines the bodies of 199 dead soldiers arrived aboard the Peking from Manila and were moved to the Presidio awaiting burial by relatives. The list includes Minnesota Company A Privates Payson Colwell Currier, Wood, Carlton, Garrett, Morley Schwartz. North Dakota Company C Privates Beckley Upham Morgan Harden Lakkan. South Dakota officers Lien Morrison Adams and others with multiple privates and musicians. Three unknown dead.
Official notice from the Diamond and Goodyear Rubber companies reports an agreement with Theodore A. Dodge of New York, owner of stage tube tire patents. The deal will raise tire prices by about 50 percent.
Milwaukee January 29 Judge Johnson signed an order allowing Assignee Henry Herman to pay a five percent dividend to all creditors of the Plankinton Bank with two exceptions the American Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago and the National Bank of the Republic of New York.
At the Superior mine west of Hurley the timbers gave way on the eighth level. Fred Lind Victor Frederick son and Walter Grazesky were killed. Charles Nidterbach and Joseph Enamo were injured and the latter may die.
El Paso reports Mrs. John D. Rich, a Chicago woman, has surrendered to Mexican authorities to face trial for the murder of her husband in Juarez last May.
Commander-in-chief and national pension committee of the G A R presented to the president a plan for a Washington based board of judges to hear pension appeals. The proposal aims to replace clerical decisions by the interior department with a high standing legal tribunal, and the president favored the idea for careful bill drafting. Webster Davis heads to Pretoria with a message of friendship to McKinley.
The second day in the House over the Roberts case drew crowded galleries and sharp rhetoric. Indiana's Landis accused Utah’s admission via a Mormon conspiracy and alleged apostles violated polygamy laws, while other speakers backed various majority and minority resolutions and expulsion options. The chair remains hopeful of passage on a vote.
The Senate approved Pettigrew's resolution requesting information from the president about the Sulu treaty. Earlier he denounced the administration for an agreement he claimed allowed slavery. The session included a lengthy census administration bill conference debate, with the committee preserving its position and sending the measure back to conference.
The Colorado Editorial Association adopted resolutions pressing Congress to repeal the tariff on wood pulp and related white print paper materials. They vow to oppose any incumbent in Congress who fails to back immediate repeal and call for a national publishers conference in New Orleans on February 26.
North reports confirm a large Dawson fire on January 11 that destroyed buildings and merchandise valued at $400,000. Telegraphic news from Dawson to Skaguay carried the details.
A CB&Q freight wreck at Ferryville thirty miles south of La Crosse blocks traffic as an engine hits a large boulder tumbling from a bluff, leaving sixteen freight cars piled up.
In Frankfort on January 26 many witnesses testified about the gubernatorial contest. Evidence focused on alleged tissue ballots in Democratic counties and on militia use in Louisville.
Berlin Jan 26 report says the Afghan ameer, per a St Peters burg dispatch, ordered all roads from Herat closed to less guarded routes and simultaneously reinforced garrisons.
London reports that a private car is sending Webster Davis from Lourenco Marques to Pretoria prompting speculation whether he has an official mission for President McKinley. Washington denies any government purpose though Continental papers question the trip’s intent. Davis reportedly gave up a Transvaal visit to avoid misinterpretation.
A Washington dispatch states Webster Davis, assistant secretary of the interior, is on a purely personal trip to South Africa and is not charged with any government mission to the Transvaal. He left the Interior Department weeks ago after a dispute with Secretary Hitchcock and Pension Commissioner Evans and will likely not return, having been granted three months leave.
A large crowd filled the Grand Opera House in Washington on January 23 to voice strong support for the Boer cause against Great Britain. The event featured prominent lawmakers from both parties, including Senators Mason of Illinois Allen of Nebraska Tillman of South Carolina and Representatives Clark DeArmond Cochran Bailey Carmack Cox Rhea Jones Lamb Shafroth Covener Meyer Sulzer and Lentz. Sulzer chaired the proceedings with Mason Allen and several representatives delivering speeches affirming Boer independence as reminiscent of 1776.
London reports the Duke of Marlborough has departed for South Africa in a staff capacity. The Duchess and Mrs. Belmont accompany as far as Southampton, but she will not join him at the Cape. The duke travels with only a valet likely to be replaced by officers' striker once in camp.
The Rev Charles M Sheldon author of In His Steps will edit the Topeka Capital News starting March 13 with absolute control of every department including editorial and advertising for one week.
C Morta Vicuna the Chilean minister to the United States and Japan arrived from Tokio aboard the Doric. He is expected to go to Washington after his stop in San Francisco. In Tokio he is said to have discussed with the Japanese foreign office a plan to settle Japanese colonists in Chile and to establish a steamship line.
Frankfort date reports a grand jury has indicted Colonel David G. Colson for the wilful murder of Ethelbert Scott and L. W. Demaree.
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