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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1903
Page
2
Advertisement notes Mrs Winston's Soothing Syrup for teething children claims to soothe gums ease pain cure wind colic and diarrhoea at twenty five cents a bottle. Also promotes low excursion rates to a Mason ic Meeting in Deadwood South Dakota via the North Western line with limited return by June 26.
Low rates to California and return via the North Western Line. First class round trips on sale July 1 to 10 to San Francisco and Los Angeles. The Overland Limited leaves Chicago daily at 8 p m with stops and luxuries. Three trains daily to the coast, includes drawing room and compartment cars, observation cars, dining cars, buffet library cars, electric lighting. Tourist car excursions to California Washington and Oregon offered. For details apply to ticket agents Chicago & West.
Through trains on Nickel Plate road run three daily with vestibuled sleeping cars and American club meals in dining cars. Tickets go on sale June 25 26 27 with open return until June 28 and extended return via deposit at Hooston July 1 2 3 4 for a 50 cent fee. Stopovers at Niagara Falls allowed without extra charge. Reservation details via John Y Calahan general agent 113 Adams St Room 248 Chicago.
Beginning June 1 excursion tickets will be sold to Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Salt Lake City Hot Springs Deadwood Lead and Custer good to return until October 31 A splendid vacation trip Several trains via the North Western line daily Apply to agents Chicago and Western Excursionist to the Northwest West Southwest and Colonists Low Rates West Excur sion tickets at greatly reduced rates to the indicated territory Standard and tourist sleeping cars free reclining chair cars and the best of everything For full particulars apply to agents Chicago and North Western railway
About a dozen sows weighing 200 pounds or more offered at Lake Dale Farm on the north side of Lake Bryan. Bred from a top Jersey boar, these sows have produced 92 pigs with 72 still alive. Price is 15 dollars each. John H. Krxe invites quick purchase.
Kansas flood wreaks havoc along a 200 mile stretch from Brookville to Kansas City. Runoff from multiple rivers floods towns, submerges homes and crops, and leaves about 50 people dead or missing near Manhattan. City residents move to hills as rails and bridges hold.
Kansas City faces a total shutdown with rail, streetcar, and telegraph services out. Floodwaters fill the lowlands, eight feet in Union Depot, a vast floating wreckage lake covers the terrain, and rescuers ferry residents from Milwaukee Bridge and Fourteenth Genesee hotel area.
Montgomery reports expose the enforced servitude of Black people in Alabama with deaths from brutal punishment. A government probe leads to arrests of two planters and a slave trader as grand jury testimony describes whippings, chained labor, and a woman dying two days after torture.
Bullets sprayed a crowded Mattoon courtroom in a neighborhood quarrel incident. Spectators hid under seats as the judge ducked behind the bench. One bullet pierced a woman shielding her husband and is expected to prove fatal. Court officers acted quickly to prevent a riot.
The jurors found John Tanko guilty of murder in the second degree for the April 9 killing of George Bollick in Chisholm after a quarrel. The sentence is life imprisonment with no alternative. Tanko returned home, obtained a gun, and shot Bollick.
Chicago June 1 robbers entered a drugstore at Peoria and Randolph streets at night and held Dr John Forbes and the clerk with revolvers. Dr Forbes attempted a dash for a weapon and was shot dead as the criminals fled.
A La Crosse jury returned a not guilty verdict for Jerry L. Van Wormer in the embezzlement case against Finley, Barrell & Co. of Chicago. Van Wormer served as La Crosse manager for the Chicago brokers and faced charges of embezzling 11009 dollars.
A Kenosha report says John Mutton, an eighty year old farmer from Bristol Township, shot and killed his wife at their home. The dispute stemmed from property affairs.
Transportation committee of Modern Woodmen of America reports railway lines will offer concessions for the head camp in Indianapolis June 15 to 20. Most lines will sell tickets with a thirty day limit and stopover privileges.
Waukesha Wisconsin June 1 Daniel H Sumner a prominent attorney and former congressman died in the afternoon aged sixty six death was due to paralysis.
Des Moines faces a catastrophic flood as four feet of water inundates the business district. Nineteen thousand residents are displaced or cut off, with six thousand homeless and many in frigid, rain soaked conditions awaiting relief. Bridges, rail service, and power are disrupted while several hundred buildings submerge.
North Topeka Kansas, an isolated river island of 7 000 residents, reached by boat only, with water rising past first floor levels. Three deserted business houses collapsed the Lacy drug store Hanley Bros and Moss Meyers grocers. Jay Thomas planing mill burned from a live wire as utilities shut off and water surged down Kansas avenue.
Beatrice Nebraska June 1 the Blue river rose over thirty six hours surpassing last year’s high mark by twenty inches. Water covered Court street isolating south and west town areas. Roofs appear above water in some sections as residents evacuate, some escaping from second story windows.
In Chicago on June 1 officials said all Santa Fe trains were held pending Kansas floods with eastbound trains at Newton and westbound trains at Emporia. Wires across the line failed early, delaying details.
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