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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1899
Page
2
Government microscopist Miss M A Armstrong lauds Paine's celery compound after extensive testing. The remedy is said to cure rheumatism and other diseases, purify blood, regulate organs, and rejuvenate nervous systems, with endorsements from physicians and thousands of letters of relief.
Burrao New York May 12 The labor dispute between grain shovelers and contractor Connors shows signs of nearing settlement amid talks at Bishop Quigley's residence. Lake Carriers association proposes a general superintendent to oversee unloading with costs borne by the association. Connors would draw commission through year end. Leadership signals willingness to compromise though shovelers fear deviating from their terms. Western Elevating reports 12,600,000 bushels received this season, 7,750,000 elevated, 4,850,000 afloat.
Duluth faces a severe strike with mobs attacking streetcars, dynamite damaging a car between Twenty third and Twenty fourth avenues west. Ten passengers aboard escaped unharmed. a non union motorman was fired at. Police overwhelmed. Mayor Truelsen adds guards as militia talks surface.
Situation unchanged as cars run on all lines but service is hampered and strikers press bosses. Mayor Zruelson, overwhelmed, doubles police amid nightly rioting. Grand jury probes dynamite on tracks with mayor and police chief among witnesses.
Buffallo New York May 11 The strike situation remains unchanged after a quiet day with hope for settlement. Grain shovelers insist only abolition of contractors and middlemen will satisfy them and claim bonds can guarantee their control of all grain moved by the Lake Carriers association. Lake Carriers association and contractor consuls reportedly open to radical concessions to scoopers.
Harvey D. Goulder Thomas Wilson and James Corrigan of the Laxe Carriers association returned to Cleveland from Buffalo where they went to aid in settling the grain shovelers strike. Corrigan reported little progress toward a settlement.
In Guthrie Oklahoma a sheriff and deputies halted two Atchison freights and a passenger train at Newman chained engines to tracks and stopped traffic to collect $7,000 in 1898 taxes owed by Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe. The company paid all but a mill school tax, which sparked the dispute.
Kansas City May 12 The Catholic Knights of America met with broad state representation and debated admitting women as members. The majority supported admission but the final tally 274 for and 178 against fell short of the two thirds required, defeating the proposed amendment after a lengthy discussion.
The British ship Locksley, Captain Nicol, sailing from Clyde to Adelaide and Melbourne, was wrecked on Kangaroo Island on April 24. Five passengers and 25 crew members drowned. Four survivors escaped the wreck but three remain wandering in the bush.
Six members of the Sioux City Commercial association arrived to confer with presidents of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul and the Chicago and Northwestern railroads about improving rail facilities in Sioux City.
Washington May 12 Secretary Hitchcock signs a decision ruling Minnesota has no claim to sections 16 and 26 on ceded Indian reservations. Courts will be asked to render a final decision.
Kansas City May 12 Foreman James G McNellis of No 4 truck company was killed when he touched a live electrical wire carried down from a building roof during a fire. The fatal contact occurred instantly at the scene.
The cruiser Boston now at Manila will sail to San Francisco crossing the Pacific and be extensively overhauled and altered at the Mare Island navy yard.
Charleston, May 11 The cruiser Raleigh ran aground while entering port and was pulled off by tugs at high tide. Officers said a superficial hull check found no injuries and the ship proceeded to her anchorage under her own power.
Professor Wheeler Ide of Cornell University stated he is not a candidate for the presidency of the University of California. The remark was made in Icamca New York on May 11.
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