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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1901
Page
1
An advertisement extols S S S as a grand blood medicine curing rheumatism and related pains after other doctors failed. It asserts acids in blood cause rheumatic symptoms and promises a blood-purifying effect, offering a free medical book from The Swift Specific Company of Atlanta GA.
The text describes a forming combine aiming to control all bituminous coal production east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio and Potomac. It notes J. Pierpont Morgan is said to be fully committed to this plan, awaiting his return from Europe to pursue it.
Cleveland July 3 The Leader reports a planned merger of major coal companies into a single large organization to rival the United States Steel Corporation. Illinois, Pittsburg, Monongahela, Fairmount, Massillon and other coal interests will be unified with one general office and lake shipping center in Cleveland.
The Constitution lost to the Columbia by 48 seconds in a tense Newport race. A jib failure sidelined the Constitution for about 10 minutes, narrowing the gap to two minutes at the turn, while Columbia broke a main boom after finishing and required towing. The match was the first in a series designed to pit the two yachts against each other.
Three thousand Chicago woodworkers had threatened a strike but clerical fixture manufacturers agreed to a two year contract granting a 25 cent daily wage increase.
The new revenue collection district for North and South Dakota was established today with Herman Ellerman named collector. The district office is in Aberdeen, South Dakota.
The district 25 conference of coal miners and operators, including Leavenworth County Kansas, and all Missouri except Bates Barton and Vernon counties, adjourned without a wage scale agreement. National president John Mitchell left for Indianapolis and will return July 15 for another negotiation attempt after the May 29 start.
London July 2 General Count San Martino has challenged Signor Ferrara a Socialist deputy to a duel following Saturdays exchange in the Italian chamber over the Ferrara conflict between agricultural strikers and soldiers.
A notice reports the death of James 41 Kyle and notes a tor passage related event. Details are incomplete in the available text.
James H. Kyle United States senator from South Dakota dies at home in Aberdeen at 6 45 p m after a ten day illness marked by coma and a final rest. He leaves a wife and two children Ethelwyn and James Jr Kyle was educated at Illinois Oberlin Seminary and served as a minister before entering politics.
About 350 to 400 freight handlers at East St. Louis rail warehouses walked out demanding 15 cents an hour for regular truckers and 15 cents for pickers. The strike halted most transfer work between roads but officials expect the railroads to grant the raise and resume operations shortly.
Philadelphia and surrounding area endured the hottest day on record with a government thermometer on the post office tower marking 102 degrees. The prior mark was 101.5 on Sept 1, 1881. Heat-related deaths rose to fifteen and over a hundred people were treated for exhaustion as hospitals ran at capacity.
Baltimore led the nation in heat with a 5 am reading of 81 degrees rising to 102 by 3 pm. The day saw 14 deaths and 28 prostrations as workers halted due to the extreme temperatures.
South Carolina, via the governor and attorney general, petitions the commissioner of internal revenue to test if the state must pay wholesale and retail liquor taxes under its dispensary laws. A remand seeks a return of $4,916 already paid, raising a broad issue of whether U S internal revenue laws apply to the state liquor dispensary system.
Dispatch from Sian Fu reports the empress dowager will not return to Peking, signaling Kai Feng Fu in Ho Nan as the future capital. Prince Chun to arrive July 18 and sail July 23 aboard the Braemar for Bremen.
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