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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1904
Page
2
Train listings from Huron show daily and Sunday exceptions for multiple routes. Notes include arrivals from the east at 6 00 p m 7500 m and from the west at 7 40 p m 712 p m plus northbound and southbound services with various numbers and connections at Sioux Valley Junction and Redfield.
Boston May 9 The fifteen member committee appointed by the 1991 San Francisco convention to study changing the denomina tions legal name reports that a change now is inexpedient Three appendices signed by minority members accompany the report The general convention will meet in October The panel split mainly along party lines on the supplementary statement and the Protestant Episcopal title page change remains contested
Vice Admiral Togo reports Port Arthur entrance blocked to most vessels. Japanese losses limited to life, no ships sunk according to the May 3 third blockade. several steamers damaged or sunk near the harbor mouth with crew rescues continuing.
St. Petersburg May 9 report says General Kuropatkin chose not to engage at Fenghuan cheng. Russians retreated, Japanese occupied the town, and pursued the retreat with light losses on both sides. Japanese forces also destroyed the Port Adams railway by blowing bridges.
In Washington on May 9 President Roosevelt conferred with Admiral Walker about regulations for the canal zone and canal commission operations. A decision on the regulations’ scope isn’t final but expected soon. Labor on the isthmus totals 700 to 800 workers, mainly Jamaica Negroes, with payments around 50 cents a day in U.S. currency.
Los Angeles May 9. Very little progress at the Methodist general conference as matters are being shaped and centralized for smooth work. First committee meetings were held at several churches and started business. The resignation of Senior Bishop Stephen M. Merrill of Chicago was referred to the committee on episcopacy with instructions to report with resolutions praising his fifty nine years of service.
Des Moines officials announce a new recruitment preference for clerks who are married and have larger families. Post master McKay says the order from the Washington post office department follows a Roosevelt administration idea prioritizing large families.
During a revival at the Christian Holiness tabernacle in Wabash Indiana on May 9 two unknown persons hurled a large bottle of chloroform over the crowd. Many attendees were overcome and had to be dragged to the doors before regaining consciousness.
Pittsburg May 9. The Gerber Carriage Company plant on Sixth Street suffered a fire damaging about 100000. An explosion of a gas engine caused the blaze. Several employees on the fourth floor were rescued with difficulty.
President Roosevelt appoints Colonel A. L. Mills commandant of West Point as brigadier general. Mills received the commission directly from the president at the White House in a public ceremony.
St Petersburg reports calm acceptance of Port Arthur's isolation as a fortress on Liaotung peninsula. The entrenched camp from Kinchau to the southern coast, massive fortifications, and a railway system claim impregnable defenses, while analysts say the Japanese face a Herculean task to reduce the fortress.
London reports quiet confidence that Japan will execute its Liaotung peninsula campaign as planned. Russia may avoid strong resistance at Port Arthur, while General Stoessel prepares a steadfast defense with about twenty two thousand troops and extensive siege preparations.
May 9 report from St Petersburg says the Russian capital has been revived in Port Arthur for almost two days with a suspected rail and telegraph cut near Port Adams opposite Pitsewo. No other landings reported on the Liaotung peninsula.
Judge Wakefield overruled a new trial motion in the Charles Rocker murder case. The court set June 1905 for execution and Rocker was moved to the Anamosa penitentiary for confinement until that date.
In Strathcona Alberta on May 9 Rev G Poeniger a German Lutheran minister was fatally shot by his friend Rev Henson while duck shooting. Poeniger was with women at the scene according to reports.
Reports from St. Petersburg indicate rising anti Russian sentiment in Manchuria after a Russian land reversal. Railway guards near Tyndstatoun were reinforced as brigands attacked a unit two miles north of the town. One Russian was killed and Lieutenant Korableff with four men were seriously wounded.
Consul Greener in Vladivostok telegraphs the United States that the British steamship Ettrickdale departed with 326 Japanese refugees from Sakhalin for a Japanese port during the day.
Austin Texas May 9 a sensational killing occurred at Lueling eighty miles southeast of Austin. 8. L. Nixon a wealthy planter and member of the state Democratic executive committee shot and killed R. W. Malone and Colonel Veasy two prominent citizens of Lueling. The shooting is believed to stem from an old family feud.
The government aims to concentrate a huge reserve army at Harbin by August, ready to meet any Japanese force. The czar would visit to inspire resolve to drive the Japanese into the sea. Until assembled, experts say Russia may abandon nearly all Southern Manchuria except Port Arthur.
The Daily Mail reports 800 Tibetans from Shigatse attacked the British mission at Gyangtso at dawn on April 5 but were repulsed with heavy casualties. two British sepoys were wounded. An official update says the May 5 Tibetan assault at Gyangtse lasted two hours and left 950 Tibetans killed or wounded, while Britain sustained two wounded.
Rome May 9 the chamber of deputies unanimously ruled that Signor Nasi former minister of public instruction must be judged by ordinary criminal courts not the senate as a high court of justice. The chambers authorized his arrest but Nasi has fled abroad likely to Switzerland.
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