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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1897
Page
8
The advertisement touts Syrup of Figs as the best laxative from the California Fig Syrup Co. It claims widespread family use and health benefits from gentle, non-debilitating action, urging readers to buy genuine product through reputable druggists.
The crown prince of Japan is not dead, responding to a circulating report. Cecil Rhodes has begun his return journey to South Africa. Johannes Brahms, famed Austrian composer, has died at age 67. Lady Lascelles wife of Sir Franklin D Lascelles British ambassador to Germany is dead. An iron ore pool formed for Gogebic and other ranges excludes Mesaba.
United States Consul Little telegraphs from Tegucigalpa that a revolution has broken out in Honduras and the republic is now under martial law.
A B Evans register of the land office at Des Moines resigns to resume law practice. High water on portions of the Missouri River has disappeared mysteriously with scientists saying it drains into the great artesian basin.
A terse ad promises a quick cold cure using Laxative Bromo Quinuine Tablets with a money back guarantee if it fails. The brief offer notes the price as two cents and targets general druggists.
A Logan county tornado razed the state institution for the feeble minded near Lincoln. Twenty six refugees buried in debris, four Chicago boy pupils died, five injured including the farm superintendent likely to die. Roofs blown, vast property damage across central and southern Logan county. Storm also hit Kentucky and Indiana.
A severe wind storm hit Louisville between 5 and 6 a.m. causing extensive property damage but no overall fatalities in the city. Across Central and Eastern Kentucky crops suffered, wheat fields were laid low, and farms damaged. In Indiana, the Jeffersonville and New Albany areas reported property losses totaling thousands while a farmer’s son was killed by a fallen timber and a servant girl died from injuries.
Sepalia Missouri June 21 a severe storm struck at night with lightning damaging the Sedalia Electric Railway and Power company powerhouse leaving the city without lights. all six streetcar lines were halted and several buildings twisted from foundations.
Eastern Indiana faced a severe storm at noon with damage to factories and homes totaling about 30 000 to 40 000 dollars. No confirmed fatalities. rumors of deaths circulated. Eaton and Albany reported the principal damage.
Dispatches report a cloudburst west of Calgary with serious floods in the Rocky mountains. Calgary suburbs are submerged, 50 families left homeless and several bridges washed away. No loss of life reported, but property damage will be heavy.
A small cyclone swept over Roseville near Orrumwa Iowa in the afternoon. The ground was touched in several places just outside the town with damage limited to trees and outbuildings.
During a Semon Bros. circus street parade in Black River Falls Wisconsin a balcony over a sidewalk giving way hurled about 15 feet to the walk. Twenty people were on the sidewalk including several children badly hurt and one fatality Carrie Hanson. Several Indians sustained dangerous injuries from falling timbers.
An official report to Captain Sanford notes the Big Muddy is running upstream at a tremendous rate twenty miles below Bismarck. The reporting officer appears unsure how this feat was accomplished.
Rev. Lorenzo D. McCabe D D LL D longtime Ohio Wesleyan University professor and noted Methodist theologian died at age 80 in Delaware Ohio on June 21. He served fifty years in academia and authored influential theological works.
Lincoln Nebraska June 22 Nearly 100 Illinois moneyed men across the state are defendants in a major bank suit. Receiver Hayden seeks return of $500000 in dividends paid by the defunct Capital National Bank of Lincoln. The bank reportedly never earned that money, the suit argues.
The British Columbia Development association plans 36 miles of railway to Central Alaska with a saw mill and a townsite at Skagawa bay. The project aims to redirect Yukon and Klondike immigration from Chilcoot Pass to Skagawa bay, noting the pass is 2000 feet lower and easier to access. Early efforts by about a dozen men found theSkagawa route practical and superior to Chilcoot Pass.
Chattanooga prepares for the Baptist Young People's Union of America convention from July 15 to 19. About 15,000 visitors are expected with homes canvassed citywide and a 500-voice chorus under Professor Porter of Baltimore rehearsing. After adjournment, visitors travel to Nashville for a centennial observance.
In Doylestown Pa on June 22 the Jewish National Farm School near the town was dedicated before a large crowd including clergy laity and public officials. Ex Governor Robert E Pattison presided as the school aims to reclaim Jewish youth for agricultural life once common in their history and will be supported by contributions.
Senator Hanna returns to Ohio for the Republican state convention and says the senate is broadly in favor of the Hawaiian treaty but doubts its passage this session due to a possible adjournment tied to tariff action. He warns opposition could delay debate and make ratification unlikely.
In Newcastle Pennsylvania on June 22 the union secret meeting of the five great railway orders drew members from across the country. Resolutions adopt arbitration as the method to settle differences between the unions and their employees.
Deputy Attorney General Elkin reports a $3,500,000 shortfall in Pennsylvania state funds. He notes years of appropriations exceeding net revenues, accounting for the deficit in HarrissurG. Pa. on June 22.
A Japanese man-of-war named the High sails toward San Francisco to receive orders from the Japanese government and may be sent to Hawaii. Monitors Monterey and Monadnock will greet the ship and head north only after its arrival.
A cyclone struck Newport News on June 22 causing destruction to several houses and crops. Significant damage also occurred to small craft moored at anchor in the James River.
The October 1896 and ensuing numbers offer new works by Du Maurier Stockton Howells Twain Page Davis Wilkins and Bangs with fiction short stories and a science series by Henry Williams plus essays by Wilson Lummis and Wilson on psychology and physiology. Includes Africa and the East features by Bigelow Bonsal and Smith with Woodrow Wilson MacMaster Barnes on American history and a coronation story by Davis. Harper’s Magazine price four dollars post free in the United States Canada and Mexico.
The North Western Line runs personally conducted excursions to San Francisco and Los Angeles every Thursday with modern sleeping cars and attentive conductors. Daily tourist sleeping car service operates between Council Bluffs and California. Fall rates and details are available from Chicago & North Western Railway agents. Bring in magazines for a cheap find.
Harper's Bazar enters its thirtieth volume in 1897 offering Paris fashion letters by Katharine De Forest and New York Fashions with pattern sheets. It showcases stories by Mary E Wilkins Spofford and others, reviews, embroidery, etiquette, music, and etiquette guidance. Subscriptions priced at four dollars per year.
Harper's Weekly announces a new year with cartoons and serials. Miss Mary E Wilkins writes a New England Story in January and E F Benson offers a Greek uprising tale. John Kendrick Bangs contributes a sequel to The House Boat on the Styx with Peter Newell illustration. The paper pledges ongoing world and American news plus noted departments.
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