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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1903
Page
1
A market report notes a major drop in wheat prices impacting farmers and traders. Unclear bounds of the decline and its regional scope are described, with attention to potential effects on futures and storage decisions.
Chicago reports a sharp May wheat decline led by foreign decay and heavy selling. J Ogden Armour unloaded seven to fifteen million bushels as prices fell to 78% cents, with estimated profits around $600,000 from the day’s trades.
Berlin reports President Castro proposes 30 percent of La Guayra and Puerto Cabello customs as guarantee for debt payments. Officials question adequacy since other nations’ claims ride with blockade participants, and allies weigh whether nonparticipants may share naval gains.
The German embassy in London issued a statement denying any discord with England over Venezuela. Both governments insist on harmony and will lift the blockade at the earliest visible moment. They dispute press reports of an embarrassing alliance and await a final agreement with Mr Bowen.
Suffering little damage at Fort San Carlos at the entrance to Lake Maracaibo, the fort remains able to repel German attacks. General Bello confirms the fort's resilience. a foreign observer corroborates the assessment. A lost gold brooch with a pearl is reported, with a plea for return to Mrs Geo W Terling.
Dr. C. J. Sorenson of Northern Michigan General Hospital heads the Finnish Central Relief Committee in Calumet and seeks Chicago Swedish and Finnish support. He warns up to 400,000 Finns are starving today, a crisis not seen since the 1867 famine that killed 100,000.
William Owen Smith, head of Hawaii commercial bodies, arrives in San Francisco en route to Washington. He will protest before the Senate committee on Hawaiian affairs against federal land laws in Hawaii and against turning Molokai leprosy settlement into a national leper asylum.
London readers report that the death sentence on Colonel Arthur Lynch for treason has been commuted to penal servitude for life. The verdict was returned last Friday and the new punishment was ordered today.
New York January 28 Mrs Elizabeth B Fajardo widow and administratrix of Theodore H Fajardo winner of a supreme court verdict for 40000 against the railroad in the Grand Central tunnel accident of January 2 1902. She sued for 60000.
A separating plant at the powder works exploded in Marquette Michigan causing widespread damage to the plant and nearby buildings. A ton of powder detonated but no lives were lost as night shift had ended. Windows shattered in town and shocks were felt as far as Houghton. The blast was attributed to an earth movement.
London reports that Colonel Arthur Lynch, found guilty of high treason last Friday, is expected to have the death sentence commuted to life penal servitude with possible review after a leave term.
Duluth January 28 It was announced J J Hill acquired a three fifths interest in the Laura and Winnifred mines in the Hibbing district. The deal, valued around 160000, placed ownership under a new company with L W Hill as president and J O Eden as vice president. The agreement was completed in St Paul several days ago.
Manila reports a sharp drop in silver values forcing the government to set a new official rate of 2.61 dollars in silver per 1 dollar in gold, the lowest ever. The change heavy hits the insular treasury and commercial houses warn of possible disaster amid discord in Congress on currency policy.
Nordhausen Saxony January 28 Prince Wolffgang Zu Stolberg Stolberg was found shot in the park of his castle at Rottleborode with his rifle nearby. It is not known if the death was murder or an accident. The prince's father died a few days earlier.
Stockholm January 28 Crown Prince Gustaf assumes the regency of Sweden and Norway at a council meeting. He plans to travel to Christiania on January 30 to continue duties for both kingdoms.
Residents seven miles from Tron Mountain report ground collapse in Norway with the Nelson block tilting and tenants vacating. The post office is sinking and large cracks appear in the building as locals blame the Aragon mine beneath the city for the dangerous subsidence.
Durango Colorado January 28 reports from white residents describe Navajo Indians on a New Mexico reservation sixty to seventy miles away as starving. A correspondent notes hundreds suffer cold with children in calico shirts or naked and several instances of three to five inches of snow.
Stratford Iowa residents attacked a Northwestern coal train when it halted for water, seizing fuel as a mob of about 500 descended. Several cars were broken into and only a few tons remained. arrests followed and bail was granted for all. The event coincides with a weeks long coal famine and rising timber land activity in Duluth.
Edmonton reports Fort Rae records forty eight deaths and Providence burial of twelve schoolchildren and thirty six Indians over a few weeks as a strange epidemic sweeps Canadian tribes.
The U S land department transfers fraud probe to the Duluth land district after Special Agent M A O Conner reports. Twenty three timber and stone claims are suspended on grounds the lands were taken for Swal low Hopkins Lumber company, pending further action.
At Sheffield eight miles east of Huron on the Great Northern line John Blair’s elevator was totally destroyed. It contained 11,000 bushels of wheat and other grain.
The Royal Mail steamer Esk brought 400 excursionists to St Pierre Martinique and returned to Castries after Mont Pelee erupted at 5 pm. More than 200 ashore faced alarm as volunteers from aboard aided rescues. About 800 feet of the cone reportedly blew away as smoke clouds drifted nearby.
A romance unfolds on a stoop as a lover asks for one last moment with his partner. A mother peers from a window warns that midnight nears and her daughter’s father may come down. The lover leaves with a heavy heart.
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