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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1899
Page
7
A petition from all Germans in Samoa protests keeping Chief Justice Chambers under the Berlin treaty, accusing him of treaty violations. It warns of an armed rising unless the situation improves and notes plans to send reports to U S Ambassador White.
A blaze at the Patterson block at Seventeenth and Douglas in Omaha caused multiple injuries as women attending a Maccabees lodge meeting fled a single stairway. Mrs. Thomas Taylor and Mrs. Anna Schamel died, others suffered severe burns, broken bones, and lacerations, with several leaping from windows to escape the flames. The injured were treated at Clarkson hospital.
In Chicago March 24 the government court of inquiry concluded its Chicago session and heads to New York. Testimony from soldiers in Cuba and Porto Rico criticized canned and refrigerated beef for human consumption. Bell boy David Fleischmann recounted an alleged stockyard visit with an unknown man. Provisions expert W Clark Marshall offered no new light, reiterating canned beef is unfit for food.
A Washington dispatch reports Apostolic Delegate Martinelli believes the pope’s extreme age makes his end likely soon. A Vatican letter quotes the pope saying he will cause little fuss to doctors or nurses as his life ends like a lamp without oil. Church officials think he is nearer the end than people in the United States realize.
The Daily Mail announces a Sunday edition to coincide with The Daily Telegraph’s Sunday issue. It says the move is unnecessary but will proceed to avoid being left behind as Telegraph launches its own Sunday edition.
A Washington dispatch reports Attorney General Griggs will advise Secretary Alger to grant no concessions in Cuba. He is considering several questions about desired concessions but will decide them against the applicants.
Funeral services were held for Mrs. James S. Kirk in Evanston, and at the Leland residence for Mrs. Isabella Cobb Leland and her daughter Miss Helen Leland. The Chicago Hotel Mews association adopted condolences and attended in a body.
The London Globe reports that calcium, usually called a yellow metal, is shown by Moissan to be a brilliant white when pure. Crystallization occurs in six sided figures formed by dissolving calcium in liquid sodium at a low red heat and removing the sodium with absolute alcohol.
New York report says three bodies were recovered from the Windsor hotel ruins today. The charred remains are hard to identify. morgue tally reaches fifteen with fifteen known dead. Many missing remain, while injured patients at hospitals recover.
Wigntree, March 23. While John Dian and his wife were away from their Green farm residence, a fire broke out and burned the five children who were left at home to death.
Pekin March 23 Signor Martino the Italian minister has left Pekin and Sir Claude M Macdonald the British minister will leave Thursday on leave of absence. Count Orsini Italian minister at Tokio is appointed to succeed Signor Martino whose recall stems from the displeasure of his government over his handling of the San Munbay affair.
Big Ben of Westminster is credited with accuracy within a second per week. It is described as the largest and most powerful clock in the world. The mechanism requires five hours to wind a single weight, done twice weekly, and the dial spans 223 feet in diameter.
The Goodrich Transportation steamer Atlanta is stuck in ice a few miles south of Racine and will likely remain until wind shifts. Passengers were removed safely.
Madison Wisconsin March 23 Judge A Pinney who resigned from the supreme court months ago on account of ill health is seriously ill He is suffering from dropsy and there are rare doubts as to his recovery.
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