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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1899
Page
2
An advertisement touts Paine's celery compound as a superior spring medicine. It claims it builds blood and nerve tissue, strengthens the body, and outperforms rival cures, with physicians endorsing it for run-down nerves and purifying the blood during spring.
A cloudy disaster description reports about fifty Cyclone events affecting parts of the city. The incident caused significant damage to homes and streets, with emergency crews responding to the scene and assessments underway.
A cyclone devastated Kirkville Missouri on April 29 leaving 400 buildings leveled. Twenty five bodies were recovered with up to 60 feared dead and about 1,000 injured. The storm also hit nearby areas and a separate Memorial Day observance in Savannah featured regular U.S. troops firing a Confederate monument salute.
A Havana dispatch reports Governor General Brooke will apply U S immigration rules to Cuba. The move is welcomed, as it will curb Chinese laborers from truck gardening and reduce the influx of shiftless negroes from Jamaica Haiti and San Domingo seeking work in Santiago and eastern Cuba.
A Chillicothe special reports a tornado probably from Kirksville that struck Newton in Sullivan county causing vast destruction. About 15 Killed in Newton and many more in surrounding countryside. Buildings blown down and heavy rain worsened damage. Newton station agent lists victims including Sherman Rester, Lapon Evans, and two Moore children among others.
A detachment of 75 marines and sailors from the gunboat Nashville joined Confederate Decoration day ceremonies in Vicksburg Mississippi. They marched behind Civil War veterans, received cheers from camp 82 U C V, and several gunboat officers participated in the exercises.
The graves of Confederate dead were decorated in Augusta Georgia on April 28. The Memorial Day parade was led by the Third Nebraska regiment band loaned by Colonel Vifuquain.
Secretary of War Alger and General Miles met the president in Washington. Alger joined the president first, Miles waited 15 minutes, then Miles was admitted and stayed 10 minutes. Miles has not discussed the visit, the first in six weeks.
London Sun reports Big Ben as the largest and most powerful clock in the world. One weight winds in five hours twice weekly, and it will run for 81 percent of days. The dial spans 2293 feet in diameter.
Special masters A B Dunham and Arthur L Spanner filed their first report in the United States circuit court showing Baltimore and Ohio railway indebtedness totaling 120 million 488 thousand 132 29. Colonel Duncan Wood ill with appendicitis in Havana en route to join his regiment in Cuba. A Washington cabinet decision reportedly rejects Wheeler assignment to the Philippines with Generals Young Grant and Bates to duty under General Otis.
MILWAUKEE April 28 The William Becker Leather company owners of a large local tannery have joined the leather trust. So far this is the only mill tannery to join the combination.
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