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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1906
Page
1
M. Fallieres has been elected as chief executive of the republic in a formal voting process. The announcement confirms his leadership role and outlines the accession of power to him, signaling a new era for the government and its administration.
Paris reports M. Clement Armand Fallieres won the French presidency with 446 votes in a joint session at Versailles. He becomes the son of a magistrate's clerk and grandson of a blacksmith, with a long political career including ministerial posts and senatorial leadership. He will assume duties February 18.
The St Louis and San Francisco Railroad and the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad filed identical answers to the government’s rebate complaint. They admit a deal with Milwaukee Refrigerator Transit Co to pay a percentage of tariff rates for freight routed over their lines but deny violating the cited act of Congress.
Milford Delaware January 18. John Long the accused assailant of Miss Flora Roose was moved to Dover jail to avert a mob. A Delaware national guard company stood guard through the night as a crowd lingered outside the lockup until 3 am.
After a mob dispersed, the sheriff placed Long in a carriage and transported him to the Dover jail for confinement.
New York January 18 a Brooklyn murder case ends without verdict as the jury fails to agree in the Denton H Hopkins trial for killing his wife Elizabeth on October 7 192? the jury is discharged.
Lewis Nixon, who finished building ten torpedo boats at a Black Sea port for the Russian government, arrived in New York from Europe. He said all contracts are fulfilled and he expects no new ones until conditions in Russia calm. Nixon spent four months in St Petersburg and plans to return there, noting the revolution there did not match New Yorks general election in excitement.
Washington reports Immigrant Inspector Marcus Braun faults Hungarian and Italian governments for failing to meet promises of their immigrant laws. He states about 50 million dollars has been sent from the United States to Hungary by immigrants. The report claims Hungarians and Italians are urged to avoid naturalization and to maintain home country institutions.
Former Illinois state treasurer Henry Wulff and Justus Loeb of Continental Financing were sentenced by Judge Bethea to two months in the house of correction and fined $100 each for pleading guilty to using the mails to defraud. Wulff, long a Chicago political figure, reportedly broke down after the sentencing and refused to eat.
Annapolis Md Jan 18 noon the full brigade of midshipmen paraded for dinner formation when Midshipmen Pettersen Marzoni and Foster of the first class and Coffin of the third class were publicly dismissed from the United States Navy for hazing plebes. The secretary of the navy issued a brief order addressed to each officer.
Mgr Augustin Ravoux a 91 year old Catholic priest died in St Josephs hospital at 12 25 pm after a long life of service. He arrived in 1841 as a missionary and witnessed St Paul evolve from a frontier village to a metropolitan city of about 200 000.
Forty four indictments issued by the grand jury probing Shiawassee county affairs and the new courthouse construction. All but five target members of the board of supervisors with the investigation spanning several weeks.
The body of Marshall Field was transported to Chicago on a special train departing New York at 11 a.m. today. The consist includes five cars a baggage car two sleepers a dining car and an observation car.
New York January 17 Marshall Field the Chicago merchant died at 4 p m after a week long illness from pneumonia He was regarded as the greatest merchant of his generation and one of the world s richest men with an estimated estate between 100000000 and 200000000
In Washington on January 18 Senator Tillman sharply arraigned the president and Mr. Hale over Mrs Minor Morris's White House ejection. Tillman accused Roosevelt of press control and blamed inferior press actions while Hale rebuked him amid defences by Hopkins and Daniel. He pledged to offer an investigation resolution "as a senator and a man."
In the East River tunnel at Man o War Reef near Forty second Street two black workers suffocated and died from caisson disease after a compressed air pipe burst. Two others drowned and two more were seriously overcome. the white foreman and his assistant were rescued despite exposure to drowning and caisson illness. The shaft lies on a rock pile below river level, with a surrounding air tight crib to support the work.
Rev W N Cleveland, brother of former President Grover Cleveland, died in Columbus at age 73 from paralysis. He was a retired Presbyterian minister and died at his son W N Cleveland’s home. Former President Cleveland has been notified. funeral arrangements await word, with burial likely in Columbus.
John Franklin and Teddy Daly two life convicts being moved from Joplin to Carthage jail to testify in the Est H. Butler murder case escaped Monday. They broke handcuffs and exclaimed Here we go Teddy as Deputy Ezra Marquiss led them to the jail door.
The Philippine tariff bill cleared the House largely as drafted by the Ways and Means Committee. The measure imposes the Dingley rate on Philippine rice matching sugar and tobacco at 25 percent, with minor wording changes. A lengthy list of Republicans opposed the bill led by Adams, Babcock, Bishop and many others.
The secretary of war asks Congress to authorize post schools for children of enlisted men at remote posts lacking other education facilities. Previously these schools operated as branches under section 1231, Revised Statutes, and legislative sanction is sought via the 1907 army appropriation bill.
Sanford B. Brown and Max M. Lentz, inmates of the Grand Island soldiers home, testified in the George G. Ware land fraud conspiracy case in U S district court. They described filing on homesteads and leasing to U B S Cattle Co with Ware as president.
The transcript notes Harry Welch referring to W Lambert and Lentz during testimony, indicating their roles or involvement in the case.
In Duluth the Head of the Lakes area faces a heavy snowstorm with blizzard conditions possible. Trains run late and streetcars stall while estimates put three feet of snow in the woods, hindering loggers’ hauls.
Des Moines reports D S S Clayman an ex convict was arrested at the senate chamber door in Des Moines after threatening Rep H E Teachout and Sen C C Dowell for not securing him a job. He was sent to the penitentiary from Adair county for wife murder twelve years ago and threatened to blow up the state house. Authorities deem him possibly insane.
In Terre Haute Indiana at a special council session the impeachment resolutions against Mayor Bidaman were adopted with two new charges added. Bidaman suggested he might miss the January 23 trial due to a recent illness.
In Washington on January 18 the house gave priority to pension committee bills with 166 on the calendar. Of the beneficiaries named in these bills forty-two are blind and sixty-eight suffer from paralysis.
Hugh S. Tuohy the oldest treasury clerk in Washington dies after forty four years of service. Germany’s 1905 exports to the United States total 125724321 dollars, up 14484096 from prior year. Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio engineers and firemen seek pay raises. Actor Joseph Brennan shot in Chicago in a quarrel, Walsh claims self defense. Dr Gustavus R Knabe, Knoxville music pioneer aged eighty nine, born in Leipzig, led the Second Ohio Heavy Artillery band during the Civil War.
Minneapolis market update dated January 17 shows Wheat May at 85 4 cents and July at 86 7 8 cents. Grain on track prices list No 1 hard at 83 1 2 cents, No 1 Northern at 83 cents, and No 2 Northern at 80 4 cents.
St Paul on January 17 reports cattle prices from good to choice steers at 4.50 to 6.50, cows and heifers 3.00 to 4.25, calves 2.00 to 5.25, hogs 5.00 to 5.25, yearling wethers 5.50 to 6.50, and good to choice lambs 6.50 to 7.00.
Wheat and flax prices listed with arriving and on track statuses. Wheat futures for No 1 Northern and No 2 Northern shown at 83 1/2 to 86 1/4 cents per bushel with May July bids. Flax futures included for May July Sept and Oct with prices ranging from 1.18 to 1.28 dollars.
Chicago market summary lists cattle values for cows and heifers stockers and Texans from 1.50 to 4.50, hogs with mixed and butchers from 5.20 to 5.52 percent, light and pigs from 4.90 to 5.45, and sheep and lambs at 4.00 to 7.85.
Futures for May and July wheat and corn note mixed gains and declines. Oats hold around 32 to 30 cents. Pork prices steady near 14 dollars May and 13.65 in January. Milk products show creamery butter and dairy butter around 18 to 19 cents. Eggs fall to 17 or 18 cents, poultry prices for turkeys 4 cents and chickens 10 cents.
Foreign relations soured as the French charge d affaires in Caracas faces removal after tensions with the Venezuelan government. Officials in Paris tell of a recall in response to diplomatic strains and mutual protests.
Willemstad reports that France severed diplomatic relations with Venezuela on January 10. M. Taigny, former French chargé, was denied landings at Porto Cabello and La Guayra and must proceed to Colon. Chiefs of the French cable offices at Caracas and La Guayra were expelled and await the first steamer. Cable links to Venezuela remain interrupted.
Berlin rejects a London dispatch claiming President Castro’s stance toward France stems from German plots. The foreign office says Germany did not interfere in France’s dispute with Venezuela and calls the assertion false.
Albany January 18 Former United States Senator David B Hill told the State Bar Association annual meeting he earned the $5000 retainer from Equitable Life Assurance a hearing was sought but adjourned due to his illness He said the appointment was unsolicited and that his thirty years in politics did not dim his business earnings He contrasted his stance with that of Root who also took retainers but was not asked to explain them.
Bodies of a young man and a young woman were found shot in a room at the St James hotel at Washington boulevard and Halstead street in Chicago. A revolver lay on the bed but investigators cannot tell which did the shooting. The man is listed as Ralph Rose from Algonquin, Illinois. the woman’s name is unknown.
Assemblyman Herman Ekern announced in La Crosse that the legislative committee will investigate fraternal as well as old line insurance. The probe aims to determine which fraternal companies operate on a safe permanent basis. Ekern, part of a subcommittee, plans to confer with the Armstrong committee in New York on procedures.
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