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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1904
Page
7
A May 12 massacre near Malabang Mindanao slaughters 53 Filipinos including families of U S military government employees. Datto Alis and Moros from Rio Grande valley led the attack. chief and followers fled. Major General Wood in Mindanao since May 12. Manila Mindanao cables down.
The report claims ten Russians in disguise near Liaoyang with bandit control. Chinese authorities under General Ma and Tou lisan conspire with Japanese instructors to stockpile grain for coming Chinese armies. Russians struggle to feed, while Chinese forces guard rail lines andplan revolution with Ming and Yuan Shi Kai factions.
Word from Duluth reports wildfires burning in the Chippewa Pine Indian Reservation between Farris and Cass Lake and near Schley. Great damage to standing timber feared, with potential risk to settlements. ten sections of absolute forest reserve are threatened as forestry corps battle the blazes.
A party of seven crossed a flood swollen river northeast of Virden Manitoba when a sudden puff of wind capsized their small skiff. Five escaped while Mrs. Hugh McDougall and H Keffer, twenty four, died. Keffer was a popular Virden resident involved in athletics.
Roosevelt issues an executive directive to heads of all departments to enforce the district of Columbia anti smoke law. He requires installation of smoke consumers or other machinery upgrades in public buildings where dense smoke issues from chimneys. The order follows prior arrests of officials under the anti smoke law and insists the federal government abide by the law like any citizen.
In Morrisdale Pennsylvania near Elk Lick mines three Italian miners die after a feud over a dandelion dispute. Louie eenesa is shot by Dominick Bills after a jesting rebuke. An unknown Italian shoots Bills and Samuel Bills before escaping. Authorities pursue the suspect and coroner is notified.
Duluth grain merchants urge the Interstate Commerce Commission to intervene after a lengthy masters and pilots strike delays traffic on the Great Lakes. With millions of bushels awaiting shipment, they call for arbitration or license removal if the dispute remains unresolved.
Secret service chief Wilkie announced three months of investigation at the request of Assistant Secretary Armstrong ended with a midnight Sunday seizure of opium valued at $20,000 and the arrest of B. Jevens alias Tuttle W. S. Cree and Ifrel Lateon all of Seattle. Operative Frank Burke from the New York division led the probe.
Austrian escapee Joseph Pankuch, being returned to Sing Sing by New York officials, leapt from a Chicago and Northwestern Limited at full speed in Nevada Iowa and was killed instantly.
Basil Palmer, a sixteen year old runaway from Hart Michigan, died after falling from a Northern Pacific freight train at Northtown Junction while traveling to the Pacific coast. His legs were severed below the knees, his right arm was torn off at the shoulder, and three fingers on his right hand were torn away by train wheels.
In Findlay Ohio on May 24 an explosion in two drying rooms of the Lake Shore Novelty plant left seven dead and many injured. Ten severely injured may die from blood poisoning. The plant, spanning about ten acres, produced railroad torpedoes and Fourth of July explosives. a wallless ruin with losses estimated at $60,000.
The Bogatyr cruiser ran aground in fog off Vladivostok and was blown up after damage could not be repaired. Rear Admiral Jessen ordered destruction with her guns removed. no casualties were reported.
A St. Petersburg report says the emperor’s trip brought him closer to the people. Troop performance reassured him that the nation stands with him in the war. Monastic night and a village reception near Kremenchug showed peasants forming a devoted guard.
Cost his owner $150000 Ormonde the world famous horse is dead at the Menlo Park stock farm of W O D MacDonough He was foaled in 1883 and won every race he started earning 142325 in stakes He won the 2000 Guineas the Derby and the St Leger and was later sold for 150000 for breeding purposes
Beaver reports say Senator M. S. Quay shows no new complications after travels from Morganza to Beaver but remains very weak. He can take more nourishment yet does not gain strength and doctors doubt whether the improvement will last.
Chefoo reports Russian captain from Port Arthur says the Japanese fleet did not all return by May 15. Hatsuse and another large ship were damaged by mines. Russians sank a small gunboat and two torpedo boats. Port Arthur defenses, harbor entrances, and walls near completion. sea service expected by June 1.
Four Japanese men posing as naval cadets were arrested in St. Petersburg after an investigation into attempts to destroy Baltic fleet vessels at Cronstadt. They allegedly accessed ships and may have started a magazine fire and opened sea valves on the Ores, with authorities linking them to anarchists.
Japanese column nearing Mukden after skirmishes with Cossack cavalry. Reports say General Kuropatkin rushes reinforcements from Liaoyang as Kuroki and Okun near the main Russian force await word to advance, risking a major engagement.
An explosion at Joseph Scalona's fireworks factory near Camden results in one man and two boys dead and six men and two girls seriously wounded. Proprietor Joseph Scalona is arrested and held as investigators probe the mixing room blast cause.
A group of about fifty Jewish youths staged an antiwar protest in Gomel Russia on May 24. They carried a red banner reading Drewn with the war and scattered a fiery proclamation. Police intervened but no injuries occurred as shots were fired in the air and the demonstrators dispersed. One Jew was arrested.
Duluth May 24 In overhauling Pittsburg Steamship company boats before the season opening, officers cabins were found looted of silverware and china. The steamer Lafayette suffered the heaviest loss, valued at about $2,000.
The Russian general staff cites a shifted balance of power after Japanese naval losses last week. Kuropatkin had planned to abandon Newchwang due to Japanese sea control, but Togo's fleet losses reduce Japanese transport safety around the Liaotung peninsula amid risk from Rear Admiral Wittsoeft.
The admiralty reports the battleship Orel, which sank at Cronstadt after valves opened, has not sustained injuries after being raised. Investigation into the accident’s cause continues.
Japanese forces report two scouting engagements near Takushan on May 24. Ten Russians were killed in the first clash, ten captured, and in a second encounter an officer and a man were captured while reconnoitering behind General Kuroki's army.
Forty Hurs'ans who left Dalny Sunday arrived here. They report Japanese troops met a reverse at Kinchow on the 15th, but Russian forces did not regain control of the railway. Civilians are fleeing as daily expectations rise.
The three masted schooner Fanny Adele laden with oil and merchandise for Cape Nome caught fire after an explosion at the Sixteenth street wharf. The blaze spread to the wharf but was soon controlled with no further damage reported.
Frank White, found guilty of murder in the third degree for the April 24 shooting of Jerome Manaige, a bowery bartender, was sentenced by Judge W A Cant to the maximum Minnesota penalty of thirty years imprisonment.
Reports reaching the Russian headquarters from Chinese sources claim Japan made a land attack on Port Arthur and were repulsed with heavy losses. The veracity of these reports is questioned in St. Petersburg.
About 300 sick and slightly wounded soldiers of General Ku Toki’s army reached the military hospital in Tokio with several guns wagons and ambulances seized at the Yalu river to be presented to the emperor.
Columbus May 24 leaders in conference prep for Democratic state convention expected this week. Hearst men who once pressed endorsements now avoid endorsing any candidate to keep district delegates and avoid unit rule impact. Kilbourne and Harmon factions may contest without a presidential endorsement.
Paris reports a full recall of M Nisard the French ambassador to the Vatican after talks with Foreign Minister Casare and Cardinal Merry del Val. France abandons plans to grant indefinite leave and will not return de Navenne as minister leaving Sartiges as second secretary to handle routine Vatican embassy business.
In Los Angeles on May 24 Dr James R Day declines the episcopal post after resigning from the New York see. The conference votes to indefinitely postpone electing a successor and cease balloting for a eighth bishop. Day says he must return to Christian education work and feels called to a different task.
The special committee on marriage and divorce recommended the General Assembly authorize ministers to refuse marriage to divorced persons except where the divorce is recognized by church standards. They urged unity with Christian churches and advised ministers to deny union where church law forbids such marriage in their church.
In Trenton on May 24 the Northern Securities case resumed before Judge f6 regarding the suit by H Harriman and Winslow Pie to restrain distribution of assets of the ties company. John Johnson opened arguments for the North Securities company.
New York May 24 dispatch reports Philippine r ish monks arrested as they prepared to leave under government orders. They stated they would depart only when their superior approves. Authorities moved to detain them at once.
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