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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1900
Page
3
Washington informs Beijing to stamp out the Boxers and protect Americans. Conger coordinates with European envoys as Boxers grow strong in Pekin threatening life and property, with possible foreign intervention including warships or troops if needed.
Shanghai dispatch reports Boxers destroyed two villages in Szuchuan Hu Peh and massacred many converts at French missionary stations. German forces at Shi Nan Fu sent a regiment, ambush cost 26 German casualties. Reinforcements from Ichang dispatched.
Major Peyton C. March leads a Thirty third Infantry battalion and Colonel Luther R. Hare pursuers northeast of Pengued to track a band of Filipinos believed to be Aguinaldo. In a separate incident Sergeant Barry and four privates from the Twenty-seventh Regiment rescued the president of San Mateo’s daughter from Ladrones but were ambushed. Barry was killed.
Secretaries for CubcaGco and for all Methodist official publications were nominated and balloted at the Methodist Episcopal general conference. Election of officers for organized church benevolences drew close contests and filled the morning session with nominations and balloting.
The Vienna Artists' association of the Austrian Official Academy of Fine Arts elected numerous distinguished foreign artists as corresponding members. Among those named was George Hitchcock of Boston.
John W. Breidenthal of Topeka arrives in Kansas City to set up headquarters for the People's party national committee during the Democratic national convention. He says the committee will confer if invited, but will not seek talks with Democrats and declines to discuss Towne’s vice presidential nomination.
May 28 Indianapolis Governor Mount rejects Kentucky requisition for a man charged with petit larceny who fled across the state line. Advisers call it a ruse to praise another governor. papers deemed incorrectly drawn. Mount says Taylor and Finley remain safe in Indiana as long as they stay.
On May 28 a work train on the Akron and Cuyahoga Falls Rapid Transit line suffered brake failure on two gravel cars carrying about a dozen laborers. Nine workers leaped free and were seriously injured while three men who stayed aboard were killed at the bottom of a steep grade. The deceased were Jack McMahon, Michael Pend ers, and K Welker.
Karl Dunn mann and John Welsh and John Nolin were convicted by Chancellor Boyd and a jury of attempting to wreck lock 28 of the Welland canal with dynamite. They were sentenced to life imprisonment in Kingston penitentiary. The jury reached verdict in five minutes and offered no remarks. No motive evidence was produced.
In West Maywood near Chicago on May 28 Mrs. Elim Joseph Polock thrust herself before a Northwestern train traveling 57 mph to shield her 2 year old daughter. She died instantly, her daughter saved by telegraph operator Frank Belrose who jumped through his office window to reach the child.
Word from the navy department reports Lieutenant W. P. Elliott died at Manila of sunstroke. A native of Pennsylvania, he joined the navy in September 1887 and served over 23 years at sea, surpassing most officers on the active list in total time at sea.
Herbert Noyes a broker was shot on Euclid avenue and died without regaining consciousness. Police suspect a mystery surrounds the case and fa rther details indicate it may not be a simple footpad attack.
Miss Mattie Irish of Sparta won the state high school declamation contest as one of eleven speakers representing over 100 Wisconsin high schools.
Intelligence from Lord Roberts headquarters reports rapid British advance with General Hamilton linking to Roberts. Boers evacuating south of the Vaal river. 5,000 crossed to the north bank. Dispatch expected from field marshal. Kruger allegedly to retreat to Lydenburg as Johannesburg and Pretoria face attack.
London dispatch reports Botha's troops retreat from the Rhenoster to the Vaal influences military views that the war's end nears. Officials expect occupation of Pretoria by June 15 and Johannesburg soon after, with General Roberts’ forces able to seize defensive Boer positions.
London reports rising tension between British and French authorities on St. Heliers Isle of Jersey over pro Boer stance. Troops charged to halt demonstrators, thirty arrests recorded. French consul appeals to British foreign office, governor Sir George Hopton held responsible for maintaining order.
A subscription list of 29 000 names and 7 000 roubles funds a silver plate for General Cronje, the Boer leader at St Helena. The piece will be a punch bowl with 12 ladles and given after the war ends.
London May 28 The secretary of state for war the Marquis of Lansdowne announced 11 000 additional troops would be sent to the Cape during the next month to reinforce South Africa operations.
Hamburg papers publish Reuters report from Lourenzo Marquez stating the German South African liner Bundesrath departed for Hamburg carrying 30000 ounces of ore.
The Chicago board of trade announces on June 1 it will collect its own market quotations. The rule targets bucket shops, of which at least 25,000 are claimed to exist nationwide.
Wasa Hindon May 28 conferees on the naval appropriation bill report a disagreement over the senate armor plate amendment and the cadet terms and surveys clause. Agreement was reached on other portions of the bill.
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