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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1904
Page
2
Passenger and freight schedules listed for the Chicago Express and various trains. Key connections noted at Sioux Valley Junction and Redfield with departures from Huron and routes east and west. Includes daily and weekly patterns with some times and services indicated.
Tiaoyang June 7 reports Port Arthur squadron led by torpedo boat destroyers made a dawn sortie and found the Japanese fleet unprepared. Four Japanese ships were sunk during the attack.
On the seventy-ninth ballot at Springfield Illinois Governor Yates withdrew to back Charles S Deneen who was nominated after a morning adjournment. Lowden Warner and Yates had small showings before the final ballot produced Deneen with unanimous support.
The Devils Lake Indian reservation in South Dakota spans about 83 000 acres with roughly 550 homestead entries. Registration opens at Devils Lake and Grand Forks on August 8 and runs to August 20, with a drawing at Devils Lake starting August 24. Entries at the Devils Lake land office begin September 6 at 8 o'clock and continue for sixty days.
William H. Miller head of the A. O. U. W. died at a Battle Creek sanitarium after several weeks illness from kidney trouble. A St. Louis native, he joined the order in Kansas City twenty years ago while with the Kansas City Journal. Survived by his wife and several supreme officers. remains to be taken to St. Louis.
Stated to be forty miles south of Liaoyang Kuropatkin's headquarters staff shifts toward Haicheng and Dashuszaio. Main Russian army holds at Liaoyang while a limited force of up to ten thousand men advances to impede Japanese operations portending possible northern Liaotung battles. Kuropatkin travels aboard a special train as rumors swirl and Port Arthur tensions rise amid reports of a torpedoed Russian gunboat off Port Arthur.
The Russian gunboat of the Giliak type reportedly exploded and sank near Chentaoshan on June 4 at 7 40 p m while a destroyer and other vessels watched Port Arthur from the east. Vice Admiral Togo suspects a Japanese torpedo caused the blast. The gunboat’s name remains unnamed in reports.
Walter Travis, the American golf champion, defeated E. D. Blackwell of the Royal and Ancient Club by 4 up and 3 to play on the Sandwich links to claim the amateur championship of Great Britain.
J C Maynard of Grand Rapids testified before the Interstate Commerce Commission that a representative of Armour Car Co warned commission merchants they would “get the hot end of the stick” if they testified about an alleged monopoly contract between Armour and the railroads in the Michigan fruit belt. The warning was attributed to F E Wolcott.
A meeting of the three anthracite district boards is set for Monday in Lansford to inaugurate a general strike of about 5,000 Lehigh Coal and Navigation company employees in the Panther Creek valley. Miners allege discrimination against union men while the company asserts its right to hire or fire as it pleases.
Consolidated Superior of Sault Ste. Marie announces a major deal with Grand Trunk Pacific to supply rails for a transcontinental route across Canada. The mill will restart to produce 500 tons daily, employing over a thousand workers, marking the first revival for the former Consolidated Lake Superior company.
Reports from Greenville Mississippi detail the lynching of a negro named Van Horn after two white men, planter John Simms and his manager William Cato, were killed by two armed blacks. A posse killed Mayfield, mistaken for Clark, as part of volatile postcrime tensions.
Paris reports a renewed hope over Tangier as Mohammed El Torres, the sultan's envoy, devises a new plan to secure the release of Messrs Perdicaris and Varley. The proposed approach is believed acceptable to both the sultan and Raisuli, the brigand chief.
The proclamation opening to settlement the ceded lands on the Devils Lake Indian reservation in North Dakota has been signed by President Ransevelt.
From Tientsin dated June 7 heavy firing was heard at Newchwang coming from Liao yang. Russians evacuated Sinmintang thirty miles west of Mukden and its vicinity. Troops from Sinmintung are joining the march toward Mukden. Japanese movements remain unknown at Newchwang.
A Harbin dispatch reports ongoing Chinese unease with the situation in Manchuria. Women and children are fleeing the city while Russian troops retain their combat spirit. Wounded from the Yalu engagement have recovered and moved away.
Chefoo reports the Russian consul has received news that a large Japanese vessel was sunk by a mine off Talienwan. The news has not been confirmed. It is believed casualties are unknown.
The Fayal mine at Eveleth Minnesota saw an assault on deputies by workers from the Drake and Stratton works. Two miners were wounded as the confrontation escalated prompting a response from law enforcement and possible investigations into motives and proper conduct.
The Senico Triestino ship yard has secured a contract with the Russian government to build five protected cruisers of 8,000 tons displacement at 18 knots. After obtaining Austrian consent, the yard is to rush the work, aiming for commissioning within a year.
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