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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1904
Page
2
Train times show arrivals from the east and west including No. 15 Accommodation and the Chicago Express with daily and weekly patterns. Southbound No. 25 Mail and Express runs daily except Sunday, with connections via Sioux Valley Junction at Redfield.
Four bodies recovered after night floods in Cheyenne Wyoming with many missing. A cloudburst at 4 o clock sent a six foot wall of water down Crow Creek sweeping ranches and delivering wide property damage. Lowland residents were un warned as lines and traffic were disrupted.
Estimates put flood damage in the Cache la Poudre valley at over 1 million dollars with head gates and miles of embankments washed away. Six bridges between Livermore and Fort Collins damaged, traffic halted, and one life reported lost with a Russian body found. Nearby Windsor and New Windsor report a possible additional million dollars in losses as reservoir No. 2 breaks.
St. Petersburg reports General Stoessel led a successful Port Arthur sortie and defeated the Japanese with over 1000 killed or wounded. Russian losses were 116. The maneuver used a supply train and wireless communications, with the Japanese blocking the line before the Russians routed them and returned to Port Arthur.
Report from Superior Wisconsin notes multiple fast moving fires in the Brule river valley endangering settlers in Douglas county. One blaze northeast of Hawthorne covers a long stretch of ground. another south of Hawthorne damages timber. A third fire lies east of Lake Nebagamon. Help is on standby and others may be sent if needed.
A Denver and Rio Grande narrow gauge passenger train No. 115 derailed between Salida and Alamosa on a rain-softened roadbed at Cumbershill. Engineer Frank Evanston died. forty-one passengers were injured, with all aboard sustaining some injury.
Omaha reports Bone steel in Gregory county South Dakota has expanded from a 309 resident village to a city of about 3000 in under a month. The town sits near the Rosebud reservation along the edge of the railway terminus for the Chicago and Northwestern.
Simultaneous raids on twenty two poolrooms and poolroom exchanges were conducted by police under orders from Police Commissioner Mc Adoo Axes hammers and crowbars were used to break doors Seventy prisoners were taken and many telephone and telegraph instruments were confiscated.
The general staff reports a failed Russian landing near Kerr Bay after Japanese opposition and mines. It anticipates another stubborn engagement at Kinchou while flank landings by Japanese forces face shallow Talienwan waters. Regional intel says northwest of Fenghuancheng is clear and reinforcements reach Liaoyang daily.
Tokio dispatch reports Vice Admiral Togo’s force reconnoitered Port Arthur with gunboats and torpedo boats, facing heavy fort fire but sustaining no casualties.
The minister of the interior says a slight disturbance occurred at Gori in Transcaucasia during which two Armenians were wounded by police. He denies rumors of serious disorders in Warsaw Lodz and Vilna.
Reports from St. James Gazette claim the Russian cruiser Bogatyr ran aground near Vladivostok and was later exploded by Russians to prevent capture by Japan. The vessel, 6750 tons, built in 1902, displaced 416% feet long with 54% feet beam and 20% feet draft, reportedly tops 22 knots and carries 1100 tons of coal with a crew of 580.
Seoul reports the first clash between Russian and Korean troops at Kankow Hamheung. Russian detachments attacked the city castle at 7 pm May 19, firing for two hours. Korean garrison of 300 men suffered one killed. Russians presumed to withdraw northwest. Telegraph lines reached 80 miles north of Gensan.
General Stoessel reports a clash north of Kinchou on Monday as three Russian regiments faced two Japanese divisions with four artillery batteries. Russians suffered 160 dead or wounded, including an officer killed and Brigadier General Nadein wounded.
Dr J R Day of Syracuse University was elected bishop on the fourteenth ballot at the Methodist General Conference in Los Angeles receiving 474 of 690 votes. The seven other bishops named include Joseph Berry Chicago Henry Spelhnerer Newark N J William MacDowell New York James Bashford Nebraska C William Burt Rome Italy Luther Wilson Baltimore and Thomas Neely Philadelphia. American League scores and standings show Boston New York Philadelphia Chicago Cleveland St Louis Detroit and Washington with varying records. American Association results list Milwaukee Toledo Minneapolis Louisville Kansas City St Paul Columbus with current standings.
The Stony Brook plant of United Box Board and Paper company near Morristown, New Jersey, was nearly destroyed by a daytime fire. Building and machinery valued at about 250000 dollars. plant capacity was fifty tons of finished product daily.
In Aitkin Minnesota on May 23 George Coti was found guilty of second degree murder and sentenced by Judge McClenan to life in state prison. He killed Christ Hanson a woodsman north of McGregor in January claiming self defense though Hanson was mostly wounded in the back of the head. The evidence was circumstantial but strong. Coll is a nineteen year old French Canadian who had been in the county only a few months.
Philadelphia tapestry carpet manufacturers announce after June 1 they will revert to a sixty hour weekly basis. J A Parker of Kentucky, Populist party national chairman, says Hearst will gain Populist support in Kentucky and beyond. European steamship lines cut steerage rates to ten dollars to match Cunard reductions. Alice Victoria Murphy, daughter of the late Captain Francis J Murphy, dies by gas asphyxiation in San Francisco.
National League results include Chicago 3 New York 2 at Chicago Pittsburg 8 Boston 2 at Pittsburg St Louis 4 Brooklyn 0 at St Louis Philadelphia 0 at Philadelphia. Standings show Chicago .667 Cincinnati .655 New York .654 St Louis .538 Brooklyn .444 Pittsburg .123 Boston .384 Philadelphia trailing.
Wheat prices quoted for May 21 with May at 97 cents and July at 95 1/2 cents and September at 82 1/2 cents On track No 1 hard 99 1/2 cents No 1 Northern 98 1/2 cents No 2 Northern 96 1/2 cents
St Paul May 21 cattle markets show good to choice steers 4.50 to 5.00, common to fair 3.50 to 4.25. Cows and heifers 3.25 to 4.25. Yeals 2.50 to 4.25. Hogs 4.30 to 4.50. Sheep yearling wethers 4.75 to 5.15, lambs 5.10 to 5.65.
In Duluth on May 21 prices for wheat show in store No 1 hard at 99 cents No 1 Northern 97 3 4 cents and No 2 Northern 95 cents To arrive No 1 hard 98 3 4 cents No 1 Northern 97 3 4 cents No 2 Northern 95 cents On track No 1 Northern 95 99 3 4 cents May 97 cents July 95 cents Sept 82 cents Flax in store and to arrive May 1.07 July 1.084 Sept 1.09 Oct 1.09
Chicago May 21 cattle ranged from good to prime steers at 5.20 to 5.90, cows 1.50 to 4.65, calves 2.50 to 4.75. Hogs sold mixed with good to choice heavies at 4.70 to 4.80, light 4.60 to 4.70. Sheep showed good to choice wethers 5.00 to 5.60 and western lambs 5.00 to 5.60, with western sheep 4.75 to 5.60.
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