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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1903
Page
5
Local notes list residents traveling to Fargo Sully County and Twin Cities. Officials and visitors inspect city matters while teachers praise Huron High School and its students. A wedding, new library books and a copper cable for school use are noted along with student humor on Zeus.
The Huron football team returned from Aberdeen with a 17 to 0 victory over Aberdeen Normal. They prepare for an upcoming game versus the Aberdeen high school. Reception for the Huron contingent followed the game with toasts by Capt. Hatch. The Pierre faculty of music held a recital with state officials present. Secretary Hubbard visited Artesian to promote the college. He spoke on The American Teacher in the Philippines. The dorm girls hosted a reception for the victorious team, enjoying a very pleasant evening.
Prof Voigt of Highmore has received letters from Sioux City St Paul and apolis asking him to appraise old violins seen as valuable. The assessors seek expert opinion on potential quality and value of the instruments.
Chase-Lister Co the touring entert ainers will present Ouidas Under Two Flags at the opera house next Tuesday November 3 with a full cast, specialty acts vaudeville between scenes and a complete picture machine. Admission 25 35 and 50 cents ladies free the first night.
Washington October 28 The first regular session of the thirty first annual American Public Health Association opened with remarks by Dr Walter Wyman and retired Surgeon General George M Sternberg on disease control. They urged persistent effort to stamp out typhoid fever tuberculosis and other infectious diseases while noting leprosy is less transmissible than tuberculosis yet can trigger disruption if introduced to public transport.
Constantinople reports a plan for two year oversight of disturbed Macedonian districts by Austrian and Russian assessors attached to Hilmi Pasha. A European general would command gendarmerie with Austrian and Russian officers. Proposals also seek communal autonomy and redrawn boundaries to homogenize populations.
Paris October 26. Report says the Russian Austrian note on Macedonia reforms creates a commission of control with only Austrian and Russian reps. The sultan may delay acceptance to gauge Britain France and other powers. Observers doubt the plan without wider representation.
Halifax Chronicle urged Canada to buy Greenland or issue a clear imperial warning analogous to a Monroe doctrine. It warned that failure to act could let the United States extend influence to the east, echoing fears of Nordic and British possession and stressing prompt action.
Ottawa report says Sir Wilfrid Laurier urged Canada in the house of commons to secure independent treaty making authority from Great Britain. He warned continued dependence limits rights and called for broader powers to confront future Alaska-type issues. He proposed an all northward railway to the Yukon fields.
A Bogota message from United States Minister Beaupre indicates Colombian congress will not advance canal legislation before adjourning October 31. The special committee report on declaring the Panama Canal Company franchise invalid is ambiguous and open to multiple readings, effectively leaving the issue undecided.
Delegates from numerous national organizations will gather in Chicago on October 29 and 30 to form a national employers association aimed at addressing labor problems. A drafting committee will prepare a constitution and bylaws, with plans for a bureau of education, an official organ, and nationwide expansion into regions with active labor unions.
An American traveler in Berlin reports Russia plans permanent stays in Manchuria with about 200 000 troops and Dalny barracks for two more regiments while fortifying the Yalu west bank Japan expands control in Korea by large land acquisitions and Japanese village building. The informant doubts imminent war, saying Russia is content to stay in Manchuria.
Perry S. Heath secretary of the Republican national committee says a meeting in Washington will be called for December 9 or 10 to set the venue and time for the 1904 nominating convention. He expects the convention to occur mid June near the middle of next year.
Representative Littauer of New York and his counsel John G Milburn of Buffalo met President Roosevelt in Washington on October 29. After the discussion Littauer declined to discuss the visit but indicates he wants the president to consider charges raised last summer about army glove contracts on their merits.
Fifteen hundred sausagemakers at the Union stock yards struck, halting all sausage departments in Chicago packinghouses. The union plans to extend the action to nine national centers, but the strike remained peaceful with no violence, no nonunion crews used, and no picketing.
A close corporation with a $100000 capital, named the Santa Barbara Cattle company, formed in Santa Barbara. It leases 350000 acres of grazing land in Mexico near Arizona and plans extensive stocking. Founders include L. F. Swift of Chicago, R. Cameron Rogers, A. H. McKay, C. F. Ealand, and Charles Fernald of Santa Barbara. Fernald is Swift’s son in law.
Roby Indiana October 29 officials deny seven workers were blown to atoms in a dynamite blast at the Uli tvs Steel plant Monday night. Other residents insist the tragedy occurred. The premises are under strict guard while investigators probe the claim.
Paris dispatch reports Jacques Lebaudy the self styled emperor of Sahara may be banished from France after his yacht Frasquita visited the Moroccan coast. The government prosecutes him under a penal code section ordering banishment for exposing French citizens to foreign reprisals by un approved acts.
A two car Kings county elevated train derailed at a curve near the Brooklyn end of the bridge. It caught fire from the third rail and burned part of the flooring. Fifty passengers were injured as they fled to the tracks avoiding the live rail.
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