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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1904
Page
1
Col. Denby of Evansville Ind was United States minister to China under Cleveland and Harrison. He lectured here Tuesday night and died after midnight from heart failure, aged about seventy. At Georgia state capitol General John B Gordon lies in state with Confederate flags, honored as a hero.
A three year old child infected with rabies died after his kiss is believed to have infected three others under treatment at the Pasteur Institute. Harold Latta and Forrest Birdsall, both bitten in Madrid Oct 28, succumb or near death. W V Latta and Matilda Latta contracted the illness from kissing the boy.
A Southern Railway through freight crashed into an extra coal train on a siding at New Baden Ti, killing Fireman Mixon and badly injuring Engineer Stratton. Engineer William Knight of the coal train is also badly hurt and may die.
In Butte Montana on January 14 Thomas Eslick and Edwin Sampson died instantly when a dynamite charge exploded near their faces after a drill misfire. They were inspecting the hole to assess the drill’s motion when the blast occurred, leaving their faces badly mutilated and unrecognizable.
Former Congressman E H Driggs finished a one day prison term and paid a $1000 fine at the Raymond Street jail Brooklyn after accepting compensation for procuring a government contract.
Bristol Tenn Jan 14 Colonel George R McClellan a hero of three wars lay dead at his home near Bristol late Tuesday night He was the last field officer of the Mexican war and a noted veteran with service spanning three conflicts.
Washington Jan 16 Indian commission member Jones has prepared a favorable report on Representative Burke's bill to cede 400 950 acres of Rosebud grant land in Gregory County South Dakota part of the Rosebud reservation. Amendments are proposed and satisfactory to the South Dakota member. If passed Indians would receive 230 per acre. The opening of the Rosebud land arouses Northwest interest and efforts to pass the bill this winter continue.
From Seoul reports said the empress dowager of Korea died on the morning of January 2. The notice came via the American minister in Seoul and was relayed to the state department.
School notes report fifteen boys forming a hockey team with Leo Squires as captain and a plan to play a match against the College once practice begins. The article notes track and declamatory events, student enrollments, visitors, and school improvements including a remodeled front stairway for fire safety. It also mentions prizes, educational meetings, and a death in the Madison teaching community.
G F Winkler of Drakola died when a dynamite charge exploded in a well on Wednesday morning. He had attempted to fire a dynamite charge the day before and later moved the pipe with the cap, cleaning powder, and explosive under a stove before the fatal blast occurred. The pipe pierced the house, narrowly missing other family members.
The note extends the sincerest sympathy to Professor Walters amid his sore grief, expressing condolences and support from the community.
Excursion tickets to Portland Oregon and return offered January 6 to 9 with favorable return limits. Tickets sold via Chicago Northwest Railway agents on account of the National Live Stock Association convention.
Domestic life with few ruptures is rare but Dr King’s New Life Pills help ease stomach and liver troubles. They not only relieve but cure and cost 25 cents at Wheeler’s drug store.
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