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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1903
Page
7
Reading fragmented text from a Chicago era page, the note hints at regional transport routes and road management affecting continental business. The exact entities and dates are unclear due to damaged OCR.
Dowie and Grand Trunk team up to create an ocean line network in New York. The initiative aims to place vessels in service to compete for ocean trade.
San Francisco reports Grand Trunk to deploy three modern steamers bound for Australia, sailing from Tacoma in competition with Oceanic and Canadian Pacific. The Australian and Puget Sound Steamship company formation links Hill lines for traffic and Tacoma Chicago connections, though Grand Trunk says no immediate Australia line.
Chicago reports a general strike by Pacific Express company workers crippling Wabash service with no express messenger or parcels on the 7:15 from St. Louis. Brotherhood leaders vow support including switchmen and conductors. In Dallas and Texas, nonunion staff are filling roles as strike spreads.
John C Burke and T H Pfell workers at Washburn Crosby mill were assaulted by four men as they walked home after a shift. The incident follows a rising tension as mill owners report stronger productivity with former employees returning to work.
Duke F. Wilson announces a meeting of Texas cattlemen to discuss an independent packinghouse project. Eighteen states are already aboard and a Denver gathering will decide the first plant location. Texas cattlemen are asked to subscribe $1 per head, aiming for $9 million, with an expected $2 increase in value per head.
The official yellow fever bulletin reports 27 new cases and 1 death on Tuesday and 16 cases with 1 death on Wednesday at Nuevo Laredo. Total cases rise to 327 with 17 total deaths. United States Consul Alonzo Garrett remains in precarious condition.
Reports from Yokohama state the Russian squadron has returned to Port Arthur and prepared defenses against a potential assault. A boom of heavy logs blocks the harbor entrance as ninety three warships lie in port awaiting possible attack.
In Boston on a Thursday session of the superior court Moody Merrill was not present when his case on embezzlement charges was called and his $10,000 bonds were defaulted.
Tom Hall alias Douglas a negro was hanged from a tree in the jail yard after being taken from the Wickliffe jail by 199 men. He was accused of shooting Crockett Childress a white boy last Sunday at Kevil and blamed Jim Rivers another negro. Fears of a race riot prompted many negroes to leave Kevil.
The man who shot Amelia Garret a stenographer at Edgewood Pennsylvania and then killed himself died at the Homeopathic Hospital early today. Miss Garret has regained consciousness but remains in critical condition.
President acts on attorney general recommendation by removing Mar shaI Fred A Field of Vermont district for dereliction of duty after three deportees escaped Providence R I while in his custody. The marshal left the boat to supper and returned to find two men and five prisoners missing. The deputy and railroad agent disputed the marshal's account, decrying negligence in the deportation process.
Four men hit the Farmers State bank in Berwick Illinois at dawn. They forced the safe combination, loaded $2800 into a buggy, and fled east while residents were frightened away. No trace of the robbers was found.
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