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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1905
Page
7
The Missouri legislature selected a man from Kansas City to succeed Senator Cockrell. The decision follows legislative procedures and assigns the seat to the chosen candidate.
Jefferson City Mo March 20 William Warner of Kansas City elected United States senator for Missouri on the seventh ballot in the joint session. The sixty seventh ballot produced Warner 91 Cockrell 83 Niedringhaus 1 total 175. Kerens urged supporters to back Warner as Democrats fought adjournment amid disorder.
The senate closed at 3:39 p m without ratifying the Santo Domingo treaty. Senator Teller offered a information request to the president about Santo Domingo affairs, implying future data would be provided to consider the treaty. The measure was sent to the Foreign Relations Committee and the body adjourned after executive session.
Francis F. Leupp presented a delegation of Uintah Ute Indians. They protested the opening of their Utah reservation. The president said the reservation would open and rights would be protected. Appa asked to relocate in a forest reserve but the request could not be granted.
J Cordeva the unfrocked minister from New Brunswick New Jersey was sentenced to four years in prison for abandoning his wife and three children and assaulting his wife. The sentence equals the maximum for the offenses and adds nearly a year in costs. An appeal for a writ of error may stay the sentence until a Supreme Court decision in June or November.
Paris reports Count de Segon Zac, sent by the Moroccan Commission to study Morocco’s commercial conditions, has been captured by Arab forces. The incident resembles the Perdicaris affair in scale and tension.
Tokyo reports suggest 20 000 Russian prisoners may have been captured amid ongoing retirement of Russian forces along the Manchurian railway. Observers debate whether Japanese will push toward Harbin or extend operations to the Kirin line as harsh terrain complicates movement.
Warsaw March 20 directors of the Vistula railroad requested troops to guard the bridges between Siedlce and Malkin after letters threatened their destruction. Lodz district sees renewed strike agitation with clashes at Pabianice mills where a leader was killed and several others were wounded.
Report from Yinkow Manchuria dated March 20 says Russian rear guard is engaged in heavy fighting near Kaiyuan, about twenty miles from the front. The report notes continued Russian resistance as daytime operations unfold in the region.
The March 20 report says the $120,000 Samoan claims provoke friction between the United States and Great Britain. Officials note delays long beyond the amount, with indigent sufferers bearing the impact. An unofficial view says the claims prepared by an American lawyer exceed the actual losses. Germany has not proposed terms, but might take half if offered.
Passengers aboard the French steamer Montreal at Horta in the Azores revolt after the ship returns 600 miles from port short of coal and provisions. They refuse to proceed to New York, clash with officers, and an armed force is used. A Portuguese gunboat was asked for aid as tensions rise amid rifle weather and scarcity of fresh provisions.
New York dispatch reports bubonic plague in Pisagua Chile reducing city population from 20,000 to under 500. Only one doctor remains as two others fall ill. The hospital lists 156 cases with twelve new infections in a day and five deaths.
Caracas reports say the Venezuelan superior court on March 15 held that the New York and Bermudez Asphalt company aided the Matos revolution. Damages will be set by the high federal court, with final judgment possibly months away. This action is separate from moves to rescind the concession.
Chicago on March 20. Frank Vokoun a tailor fired two shots through a closed door in an attempt to kill his wife then killed himself. Mrs Vokoun was unharmed. The couple had separated and his actions followed failed efforts to reconcile.
Secretary of State Hay, taken ill at the White Star dock, was wheeled aboard the steamer Cretic for a six week rest in Southern Europe. He weak but not considered alarmed, with Mrs. Hay and others accompanying him. The voyage began on schedule as Hay rested at landing and boarded in a wheeled chair.
General Joseph R. Hawley longtime United States senator from Connecticut died at his Washington residence at seventy eight. He passed away peacefully after a prolonged stupor with his wife three daughters and Major Hooks at his bedside. Hawley left the senate in 1902 due to ill health and Congress afterward placed him on the retired list as a brigadier general joining Osterhaus as the only U.S. citizens retired without prior regular army service.
President Roosevelt conferred with Senators Cullom and Hopkins and Speaker Cannon to name C C Kohlsaat as circuit judge for the Seventh Circuit Solomon H Bethea, U S district attorney for the Northern district of Illinois, is named United States judge for that district and Kenesaw M Landis added as United States judge for the same district The nominations were sent to the Senate Landis is brother to Congressmen Charles B Landis and Frederick Landis of Indianapolis.
In Vincennes Indiana on March 20 ex-councilman A J Taylor was shot and fatally wounded by attorney Louis A Meyer during a street altercation in front of the post office. Onlookers reported Meyer drew a revolver and fired three times, two bullets striking Taylor who died later.
Former Michigan governor Cyrus G. Luce died at his Coldwater home at age eighty after a three year illness. Luce served two terms as governor from January 1, 1887, to January 4, 1891.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt arrived at Pennsylvania Station at 7 20 a m and were driven to the White House. The New York trip was without noteworthy incident.
Advices from Unga Alaska dated March 10 via Valdez March 17 report the schooner Pearl left San Francisco December 7 for Sanak Alaska and has not arrived. Wreckage and lumber drifted ashore at Sanak and it is feared the vessel with 36 on board struck a rock and was lost.
Lieutenant Governor Jesse F McDonald is sworn in as Colorado governor following James H Peabody’s resignation. Peabody, who had not run the state, left office as factions settled the contest with McDonald’s ascent, while Senator Arthur Cornforth becomes acting lieutenant governor.
A large seizure from a city raid exposed a vast gambling operation. Police removed dozens of trucks carrying roulette wheels, chips, cards, layouts, dice, and other paraphernalia. Items included between fifty and sixty roulette wheels, hundreds of thousands of chips, and numerous gaming devices drawing from many popular games.
Cleveland March 20 John Wagar who killed his brother wounded a policeman and defied a posse from his barricaded Lakewood home two months ago has been sentenced to twenty five years in the penitentiary Wagar is a member of a large wealthy Rent family of Lakewood.
Guests from Washington state and the nation’s capital attend the launching of the armored cruiser Washington by New York Shipbuilding in Camden New Jersey. Miss Helen Stewart Wilson christened the vessel as a sister ship to the Tennessee with 9 inch turret armor and 20 plus knot speed.
From Aden March 20 it is reported that Sanaa the capital of Yemen with a 5000 man garrison has fallen to Arab insurgents. The governor had offered surrender terms that were rejected by the besiegers.
A delegation of anthracite coal miners led by John Mitchell, UMWA president, met the president and invited him to address miners during his planned Wilkesbarre visit next summer. The president accepted the invitation.
West bound Santa Fe passenger train No. 9 derailed near Hutchinson Kansas after a broken rail. Henry Winston of Pittsburg Pennsylvania suffered a fractured knee and nine others were injured. Two sleepers a chair car and the smoker left the track.
The king of Siam issues a decree authorizing a five million dollar foreign loan. Naples reports repeated earthquake shocks felt across many Italian towns. Former Wisconsin Senator J W Quarles and Mrs Quarles sail to Europe aboard the Cretic. Henry Pfinsterer of St Louis dies from hydrophobia linked to a cat bite nine months earlier. Mrs Mary Fox Vardaman dies in the Jackson executive mansion at about sixty five. A fire damages the National Academy of Design in New York destroying paintings statues and instructional items.
London March 16 Baron Hayashi the Japanese minister said in an interview that all suggestions Japan had officially or unofficially put forward feelers toward peace were completely unfounded.
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