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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1906
Page
3
Daily and weekly freight and express services listed with departures at 2:15 p m and 7:20 p m. Specific trains include mail and express and accommodation services with daily or Sunday exclusions noted.
In Cincinnati on January 1 nine hours a day with free beer won over a demand for an eight-hour day from nearly forty breweries. Workers voted, with several unanimous tallies, to accept nine hours with free beer after employers agreed to drop free beer if the day was eight hours. The brewery workers union plans to ratify at its next meeting.
Mayor McClellan announces Brigadier General Theodore A. Bingham ret U S A as police commissioner replacing William McAdoo. Also names two year incumbents Patrick Keenan John J Delaney Francis J Lantry John McGaw Woodbury Thomas Darling ton and Edmund J Butler in key posts. None described as organization men or Tammany Hall leaders.
Detroit January 1 state supreme court denied the application for a new trial of ex Coroner John T Hoffmann of Detroit convicted of malfeasance in office and illegal collection of fees. Hoffmann was sentenced to four years in prison. Prosecuting Attorney Hunt said Coroner Otto E Toeper will be tried a third time after prior hung juries.
In Dresden a laborer arrested at a Socialist street demonstration opposing the diet election law was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for riot provocation to assault insulting officials and carrying a dagger. Others detained faced lesser terms as authorities prepared for renewed demonstrations and military dispositions.
In San Francisco on January 1 Robert Fitzsimmons received a sympathetic note from President Roosevelt after his defeat by Jack O'Brien. Fitzsimmons telegraphed gratitude, thanking the president and wishing season's greetings.
William G. Crawford, found guilty of conspiring with August W. Machen and George E. Lorenz to defraud the United States in a post office satchels contract scheme, is sentenced to two years in the penitentiary with no fine.
Mrs. H. A. Soule lies in a Battle Creek hospital after a hip wound from a shooting. Her husband is detained as authorities investigate. The woman accuses him of the shooting. he denies the allegation.
The alien act, passed last session, comes into force allowing immigration officers to bar landing at ports without their consent. Twenty four of forty two initially arriving from Germany were refused entry. Grounds include lack of means, insanity, disease, crime, or prior expulsion, with exceptions for political offenders seeking asylum.
Washington reports an accord between Secretary Root and British Ambassador Durand to form a commission that drafts uniform laws for Great Lakes fish preservation and culture. Federal enforcement will replace state jurisdiction for five years with possible revisions after. Declining lake catches have pushed up market prices.
A dynamite blast struck the Giovanni Fazzi macaroni factory at 228 Franklin Avenue at 1 15 a m wrecking the front and part of the store room. The adjoining Arlington hotel suffered heavy damage. Fazzi has received three letters since Oct 6 signed The Iron Head demanding 1000 under threat of death, which he ignored and did not notify police. The blast hits the city center.
In Oelwein Iowa a husband Lou Carr was shot dead in a hotel room. His wife lies critically ill with two bullets in her heart area. A 15 year old boy from a former marriage is cited as the cause of domestic troubles. Authorities investigate who fired the fatal shots. Carr was a barber who moved to the city from Des Moines two years ago.
A towering wave at Vineyard Sound swept the five masted schooner Henry CO. Barrett. Captain Joshua Norton of Rockland Maine and his mate James Conley of St John New Brunswick were swept overboard and killed. The wave jammed the helmsman against the wheel, smashed the yawl and davits, tore sails, and carried away the deck house.
Four columns of troops move toward Mitau and Riga as insurgents in held towns set up a Social Democratic administration. In Frankenburg a seventy year old woman and two girls sit on the new city council.
Austin Texas January 2 The former Texas friends of Albert T Patrick the condemned murderer now in Sing Sing have started a movement to have his death sentence commuted Petitions are being circulated in Austin and other places in the state asking the governor of New York to extend executive clemency to Patrick.
New York December 29 call money opened at 20 and jumped to 125 percent as Russell Sage reportedly loaned 6 million at 90 to 100 percent. Brokers paid high prices for cash to carry stocks while most offerings came from out of town banks and local correspondents. Some stocks, mainly industrials, were sold during the morning hours amid year end money demand.
Sheriff of Beadle County announces a public auction of property in Huron South Dakota to satisfy a judgment with costs. The levy dated October 19 1905 secures debt of three hundred eighteen dollars and eighty two cents plus accruing costs since December 1 1906. Auction to be held at details provided by the attorney.
A chemist can analyze impoverished soil to prescribe fertilizer for different crops. If blood is poor, a doctor may suggest a tonic or concentrated fat food to restore rich red corpuscles, as fat is often the lacking element and there is no fat food so easily digested.
Advertisement extols Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil as nourishing and strengthening when dairy products fail. It claims consistent quality and palatability for both children and adults, especially during bodily wasting from any cause.
Office of the City Treasurer for Euron issues a notice on sewer tax due dates and assessment details for individual lots and parcels within the city. The notice references tax amounts and parcel boundaries applicable from January 1 and outlines the assessment on each lot or part thereof.
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