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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1904
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR shows timetable entries with times 8:45 p.m 6:00 p.m 8:10 a.m and route references to Minnesota and Dakota. It includes notes on freight and accommodation service and a 0.508 passenger figure, but many words are garbled.
Readable pieces show times such as 906 p m and 6:40 a m with directions GOING NORTH and GOING SOUTH. Mentions Redfield and Valencia valley routes, but many words are garbled. The text appears to be a transit timetable fragment with destination cues and partial station notes.
Chicago July 25 A fruitless conference between strike leaders and Swift & Co representatives ended without agreement. An ultimatum demanded reinstatement within ten days for most workers and forty eight hours for those reopening activities. Packers refused, stating adherence to the old contract and naming Samuel McLain as arbitrator. The labor leaders warned of a broader sympathetic strike if demands are not met.
At South St. Paul July 25 the strike showed a quiet scene with 600 plus workers entering the plant by 7 a.m. Office staff and other departments followed, disrupting the picket system. Many previously blocked workers are now at work, marking a shift in the labor action.
In St Joseph Missouri fifty special policemen were sworn to preserve order in the packing house district while nearly one hundred deputy sheriffs patrol the area. Plants operate as during the first strike period amid tense conditions and efforts to protect life.
A Wednesday session approved a new life insurance rate schedule for new members starting at 85 cents per 1000 at age eighteen and rising to 2.75 at fifty. Present members can switch to the new rate or stay on current terms until fifty then pay 3 per month. Term plan premiums rise to 3 after age fifty five. Disability benefits remain for existing members who stay on the current plan to fifty, then pay 3 per month.
Yale and Harvard defeated Oxford and Cambridge in six of nine events at the Queen's Club West Kensington. The crowd cheered as flags flew and the Stars and Stripes were raised. Ambassador Choate and Secretary White attended the event amid warm weather and light rain.
Friends of Charles F. Murphy indicate a direct conference between Judge Parker and Murphy to shape Tammany Hall strategy. No talks will involve Parker’s current representatives. The plan aims to secure Parker’s backing for the governorship and Tammany’s influence in the forthcoming convention.
New York July 25 Judge Parker has fixed August 10 as the date for ceremonies notifying him of his nomination by the party for the presidency. The Rosemount event will follow precedents for similar occasions. He is expected to speak briefly and defer campaign issues to the acceptance letter to be issued later.
Over a hundred Porto Rican teachers at Cornell University’s summer session in Ithaca N Y fell ill in the evening from tainted meat. Several American inspectors were among the seriously affected. The group dined at the campus tavern where meat hash was served. Physicians diagnosed ptomaine poisoning and none are in serious condition.
Pittsburg July 25. Jones and Laughlin to resume full operation of its extensive steel plant after current 65 percent capacity. The move will affect between 3,500 and 4,000 workers as orders come in, with officials confident of a complete restart.
The Japanese defending Kaichou are reduced to two trenches and entrenched, while other forces were moved toward Port Arthur. The capture of Port Arthur looms as crucial, as Kuropatkin prepares to strike and the navy base there becomes pivotal to future Japanese operations.
General Kuropatkin reports a Russian detachment led by Col Tsybulsky engaged the Japanese at Sybel pass on July 17. Russians retreated with 1 officer and 46 men killed and 4 officers and 182 men wounded. July 19 on the Mukden road dismounted Cossacks resisted. 1 killed and 13 wounded as Japanese took considerable losses.
Reports from Chinese sources say Sigow pass ten miles northwest of Sai matsza is held by more than 56 000 Japanese infantry and artillery. The column has clashed with a Russian force from Sai matsza while reserves move to reinforce Ligon pass. Heavy cannonading was heard July 18 with rumors of 20 000 Japanese at Huaiyen ship later discredited as likely propaganda.
Rain has poured for two days in Tatchekino delaying actions on both Russian and Japanese fronts. The rainy season appears to have begun while eastern matters remain quiet.
The St owner reports sending a telegram to the Russian admiralty for orders but set sail without an answer, leaving the pilot to secure a reply at a rendezvous at sea.
Tokio reports a Vladivostok squadron seen at noon sailing south from eighty of Hitachi province.
In New York a man is dead and another seriously wounded after a melee over Mary Whalen. John Martin, a driver, died from a gunshot wound while Dennis Healy and Frank O'Brien were injured. Miller, 22, says he acted to avenge insults after four men allegedly struck Whalen. Kempsey escaped unharmed.
The Panama republic completed the first of a series of large loans in New York. John W. Ferguson obtained 250000 dollars for a mortgage on the Mercantile building. The loan runs five years at 4 percent interest.
A rumor from Sichuan near Linganfu says a French bishop a priest and two converts were killed another priest taken prisoner and three chapels burned. Two hundred soldiers have been dispatched from Ichang to the scene of the outrage.
Portland Mine at Victor Colorado resumes work with new engineers and firemen after arrest of 40 men by military authorities over a factory walkout plot. Ten workers ordered out of the district while the rest are released.
The Ceylon arriving from Yokohama and Penang reports that the cruiser St. Petersburg of the Russian volunteer squadron signalled her July 18 while twenty hours from Suez asking her origin and destination. she was allowed to proceed while the St. Petersburg convoyed a German merchant ship.
St. Petersburg reports informal Russia Britain agreement to halt prize seizures in the Red Sea upon receipt of orders. If ships are stopped again, they will be released unless captains refuse manifests, with Malacca as a precedent.
Scandia arrived under the Russian flag with a Russian naval crew and officer aboard. Hamburg-American officials call the seizure inexplicable citing manifests showed no war material for Japan. carriers report a ammunition consignment aimed for Singapore for German stations in the South Sea.
Count Bencken dorff reports two more British ships seized in the Red Sea. Britain plans to defend commerce with Venus and torpedo boats sent to Port Said. Russia asserts no immediate naval moves yet hints at Dardanelles rights and transforming volunteer ships into cruisers. Steam yacht takes fire.
The steam yacht Castanet carrying 150 excursionists from Kingston Ont to Clayton N Y caught fire midstream. Captain Barney Nunn beached the vessel on Cedar Island and passengers were ferried to Nokomis with no loss of life. Engineer Charles Wood and his son Raymond were badly burned but expected to recover.
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