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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1903
Page
2
The Great Northern line concedes to every demand from conductors and trainmen finalizing wage increases effective March 1, 1903. Double-heading limited to 2.3 percent west of Minot and 0.5 percent east, with a new service agreement to be negotiated.
About thirty Yale undergraduates have joined the strike breakers hired by local trucking firms to replace the teamsters on strike. The students are driving heavy trucks around the city and deriving amusement from the task.
Sybil Sanderson, famed American soprano, died in Paris from pneumonia after a grippe. She had returned from Nice six weeks earlier and was to marry Cuban millionaire Antonio Terry before her death. Her career included major work at the Opera Comique and Dank MasSenet era fame in The Hague.
Nearly ten thousand workers are idle and about twenty business lines are tied up as the Building Trades Council decides not to order a walkout but refers the matter to authorities for action.
Minneapolis May 18 A. A. Ames former mayor is sentenced to six years hard labor in the state penitentiary after his appeal for mercy is heard. A $19,000 bond signed by Brewers and others secures release pending Supreme Court review. He has long been a Minnesota political figure with a varied party history.
In New York on May 18, Italian strikers fought with nonunion workers in the Bronx injuring several. Police dispersed rioters at Morris avenue and Wakefield as strikers gathered at grading sites. Frank Battalio, arrested Friday for revolver use, was beaten but later discharged by the magistrate who ruled he acted in self defense.
A dynamite blast destroyed the interior and front of the African Methodist church in Evanston at night. Motives cited include a sermon declaring this white man’s country and disagreement with a Chicago guest's stance against policy, fueling anger among congregants.
May 18 Constantinople reports disquiet among Turkish authorities over bands of Armenian revolutionists moving from Russia into Bayazid and Sasun Armenia. Reported Russian awareness in Kars but no interference. revival of Armenian committees linked to possible Macedonia crisis and European intervention motives.
London reports Mrs Pierre Lorillard robbed of about 50000 in jewels. two men followed the couple from Monte Carlo and vanished with valuables after waiting for a chance. Police lack a clue, though Mrs Lorillard recalls meeting the suspects at several points.
Havana May 18 President Palma told an Associated Press correspondent that understandings will be reached on all treaties with the United States and signing will follow shortly He will push for ratification in this session of Cuba's congress but senators reluctance until reciprocity is settled may delay naval station occupancy beyond a year.
The central labor union in Omaha proposes a plan of arbitration to resolve the strike. A court of eleven members, five from employers and five from labor, with the eleventh chosen by the ten, would hear the differences. Employers must accept or reject. The day was peaceful. Sixteen men arrested for interfering with strike breakers were arraigned and released on bond, pending a hearing next week.
South Norwalk May 18 Knox son of the U S Attorney General Walbridge Taft nephew of Judge Taft governor of the Philippines John E Barney of Cincinnati and Lawrence White of Lowell Mass students at a private school were discharged after it was proved they did not take part in the assault but tried to separate the fighters Taft and White cases continued.
Reports from Uskub say Turkish forces face heavy fighting at Peretsh Sfakiani and Babair villages near Ipek. Artillery used and the villages were destroyed. Thirty Albanians killed and many wounded.
Majority of those arrested for participation in the Kishineff anti Jewish outrages have been tried and sentenced to varying punishments. Prisoners protested innocence claiming they found plunder in the streets and were taking it to the police.
Henry Phipps multimillionaire and philanthropist, once Carnegie steel partner, arrives in San Francisco aboard the Siberia with his son and daughter after a world pleasure tour, en route to New York.
Chicago May 18 A strike by butchers clerks began as workers from several shops walked out to press for a ten hour workday. The action followed a union meeting last Thursday and affects about 600 men.
Pittsburg May 18. The Order of Railway Conductors of America plans for a home for permanently disabled members will not proceed this year. Delegates have not yet addressed the matter in convention, and the prevailing view favors helping disabled members through the relief fund as now administered.
A telegram from Ilenkoran, Baku government, reports a Russian frontier guard patrol ambushed by Persian robbers in a forest. A Russian captain and two noncommissioned officers were killed. The robbers plundered the village of Werawul that same evening.
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