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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1899
Page
3
Kentucky's Democratic Party announces William Goebel as their candidate for governor. The decision follows intra party deliberations and positions Goebel as the party’s standard bearer for the upcoming election.
A bloody conflict in Alabama concluded with a deadly toll as three Black men died in the confrontation. Authorities adjourned proceedings amid ongoing investigations and public concern over the incident.
William Goebel secured the Democratic nomination for governor on the 26th ballot at the Kentucky state convention after a bitter, protracted fight. The final scene featured celebratory demonstrations as Goebel supporters claimed victory and urged unity to win the state. Elsewhere in Alabama, a riot at Cardiff mines left three black workers dead and a fourth seriously wounded amid clashes with white miners. Sheriff OBrien dispatched 100 armed men to restore order as authorities sought to quell the unrest.
WasHington June 29 Senator Thurston of Nebraska says he is not a vice presidential candidate and intends to retire to his profession at the end of his current term, following Western press speculation.
The cruiser Chicago sailed from Tamatave Madagascar for Delagoa but will be detained near the Cape of Good Hope due to unrest in the Transvaal. It is to protect American residents miners and capital tied to the region, with many Americans employed in mining ventures.
In Futon Kentucky on June 29 Henry Stewart a black man who robbed and shot Gail Hamilton and robbed M Choate a section foreman was seized from jail by a mixed black and white mob and lynched.
Secretary John Williams of the Amalgamated association says lodges failed to agree on the tin plate wage scale. Special meetings will be needed to decide action, delaying a new conference by at least two weeks. If settlement slips two weeks, workers face over 1,000,000 dollars in lost wages, mainly from Western Pennsylvania plants.
Mrs. Norval Douglass of San Francisco reports her son Harry Douglass and 25 California miners died from hunger and cold in Siberia. The men left June 2 of last year under contract to a New York company and were to be away three years.
Five hundred inmates at the Anamosa Iowa penitentiary stage a work stoppage over alleged inadequate and inferior food. The protest began in the quarry where about 100 workers quit, guards failed to compel return to work, and by morning the strike spread to the entire facility.
Rioters clash in Spain as shops close after anti-budget protests. Troops fired in the Plaza de la Instruction, fatality reported and two more seriously wounded. Separate dispatch notes Itasca Lumber plans a 12 mile St Louis logging road extension toward Turtle Lake with rumors of Canada linkage.
The United States transport Valencia sailed from San Francisco destined for Manila carrying the headquarters band Troops B and M Fourth cavalry and Companies H and E Twenty-fifth infantry.
London reports United States Ambassador Choate held a second conference with the Marquis of Salisbury at the foreign office in the afternoon regarding the Alaska boundary dispute.
Cleveland reports no new developments as street car workers strike but operate on the Euclid avenue line with police protection. Cars run 7 AM to 6 PM, with expected attempts to resume other lines and possible trouble the next day. Meanwhile in Valparaiso Chile the US collier Abarenda arrives from Old Point Virginia with structural materials and 2,400 tons of coal for Pago Pago coaling station.
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