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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1894
Page
8
Huron notes list L G Hanson seriously ill and numerous visits to the city by E F Conklin from Clark and others. The Iroquois creamery construction begins, irrigation conventions, court sessions, and weddings fill the week as officials, clergy, and residents travel to Pierre Chicago and Brookings for duties and events.
A large audience attended a Monday night sermon by Rev A Z McGagney at the Methodist church on the questions Who Art Thou From Whence Cometh Thou Where Goeth Thou. An after meeting engaged many first timers in Christian work and the following Tuesday gathered a full house for Rev J P Stiles of the Baptist church with a service and strong responses.
Fragmentary report from London dated March 7 notes Judge Aspinas presiding as evidence is presented in a case involving anarchists. The text is garbled but indicates ongoing judicial examination and official proceedings.
Yesterday two special immigrant trains left Cherokee Iowa via the Illinois Central heading toward South Dakota and northwestern Iowa. Agent Sheehan reported twenty six cars in the two trains and that each day several immigrant cars reach points near Sioux Falls. Eight families arrived in the city over the Milwaukee line yesterday and will settle in this county.
Citizens have raised a guaranty fund of 50 dollars to support a three days session of the Brown county farmers institute next June. The best talent in the state will attend and a profitable meeting is promised. Woodward hall is engaged and speakers will be entertained. W. E. Hicks.
Traveling salesman H. C. Lord is missing in St. Louis. He arrived about a week ago and began drinking heavily. After taking chloral to sleep on Thursday night he grew agitated and has not been seen since, despite searches.
A promotion extols a Jersey cow as the top producer of milk butter and cheese at low cost. It claims high profitability and mortgage lifting potential, urging buyers to Losey’s for bull calves from the St Lambert General Rioter line and registered cows at low prices. Orders encouraged.
A Charleston dispatch reports the Eagle crisis passed quietly with two more arrests. Sheriff Hinman adds a patrol, and Walker Wyant and W C Shults are back from Fayetteville with a guard. Rumors swirl of a strike attack on the Fayetteville jail as Gatling guns and ammunition head to Eagle.
A Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe express near Pauls Valley Oklahoma was wrecked by two piles of ties set on the track. A freight train collided with the makeshift obstruction and plunged down a 40 foot embankment. United States marshals pursue the suspected Dalton gang members.
In a dispatch of early naval news the battleship Indiana begins her preliminary trial trip. Other items note Frank Ribak of Omaha shot by a robber, labor unrest in Lebanon and Youngstown, and political moves including a wagon bridge bill over the Mississippi at Red Wing.
C M Mitchell of Sr. Croup has bought and will merge the Douglass County News and Alexandria Post into the Alexandria Post News. Mitchell, formerly city editor of the St. Cloud Journal Press, will lead the merged paper.
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