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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1897
Page
3
Local figures and visitors move through Huron including Matt Sterling, Col Frost, Julia Taylor, and Mrs A D Hill. Churches, rail traffic, cattle trade, and new businesses mark a bustling week as residents attend lectures, attend to legal notices, and celebrate community milestones.
Bucklens Arnica Salve marketed as the best salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands corns and skin eruptions. It claims to cure piles or no pay required and offers a money refund. Box price 22 cents sold by H Wheeler.
An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption and all coughs and colds with guaranteed results. It claims safety for all ages and recommends pairing with New Life Pills to aid digestion. Free trials at Holland drugstore. regular bottle $1.00.
Beadle county circuit court convenes on Tuesday under Judge Campbell. Criminal list includes State of South Dakota versus multiple defendants such as Jno W Menzie, Wm Sherman, Maurice Dinneen, A W Page, Frank Blume, John Spong, Horace Flower, Wm McClure, Frank Hurst, Wm E Whitcomb, Chas Hook and Frank Adams. Civil docket lists many suits including Albright versus Chamberlain, Bank of Volga versus First Nat l Bank of Huron, Ewell versus City of Huron, and partnerships in Jencks Johnson Co and others.
A westbound train sparked a prairie fire Friday afternoon near Tommy Murphy's place. Winds fanned flames seven miles north before containment. Farmers Henry Grant Iver Lorentzen and Chris Hanson suffered hay and grain losses. Railroad liable for damages. Kingsbury county inmates ordered returned to Huron. safety concerns cited for keeping them at De Smet.
List of letters remaining unclaimed in the Huron South Dakota post office for the week ending September 4 1897. Names include Geo Boone Miss Ella Daley F P Hayes C A Little Geo L Oscar C A Richardson G Wilbur LG Wilbur Mrs L Wilson Albert E. Callers must say advertised in the HuronITE and provide publication date and pay one cent at the stamp window. Postmaster J B Ceagan.
Worthington editor praises Electric Bitters as a valuable prescription for constipation and sick headache. Mrs. Annie Stehle of Chicago, weakened by digestive failure and backache, recovered after six bottles, purchased at H. Wheeler's Drug Store.
Bring in your magazines and have them tound We will do them cheap.
The Trades Union Congress in Birmingham passed a resolution to fund and aid striking engineers and to promote a national federation of all trades. The body suspended standing orders to debate a plan by the National Plate Glass Builders union and urged issuing a circular calling for unified cooperation among organized workers across Great Britain.
CuicaGo Sept 12 reports September wheat touched a dollar briefly in the morning then closed at 98.15 cents as scarce offerings kept bids high. December rose to 98.5 cents on strong foreign markets and heavy exports, with overall market firmness fading into the close.
Four thousand laborers on the new underground trolley line along Madison and Fourth avenues laid down their tools today. They began the strike after not receiving pay for three weeks, leaving the project halted in New York.
The financial situation at Johannesburg is critical and local authorities urge government relief. Mary Anderson Navarro denies a London concert. she will perform one charity concert in a village near her home. The London published text covers the Britain Mexico boundary treaty with British Honduras.
LATE MARKET REPORT MILWAUKEE Sept 10 WHEAT No 1 Northern 1.0144 No 2 spring 98c December 973c CORN No 8 31c OATS No 2 white 22 23c BARLEY No 2 46c sample on track to 45c
WHEAT prices shown for Duluth on September 10 with Cash No 1 hard at 1.0244 dollars per unit and No 1 Northern around 1.014 dollars. New No 1 Northern and new No 2 Northern quotes include small fractions and seasonal expectations for arrival dates in September and October.
Chicago style market notes show Minneapolis grain prices on September 10 with September wheat at 9 61 cents per bushel and December at 98 ¼ cents. Hard No 1 and Northern No 1 bids referenced with minor variations across grades.
Live poultry prices steady with turkeys 9 to 10 cents, chickens 8 to 9 cents, spring chickens 9 to 9 1/2 cents, ducks 7 to 7 1/2 cents. Butter firm. creameries 12 to 17 cents, dairies 9 to 10 cents. Eggs firm and fresh at 12 cents.
South St. Paul stock market notes hogs five cents lower after Eastern decline. Hogs range 5.40 to 4.9. Cattle market slow with yards full of common cattle. Stockers 3.00 to 3.70, steers 3.50, cows 2.25 to 3.65, calves 1.15 to 4.50. Sheep market steady with muttons 3.10 and lambs 5.50 to 4.10.
Chicago market summary lists futures for Wheat September and December at 8 and 4 cents, Corn September 31 cents, October 31 5 cents, December 34 cents, May 36 4 cents, Oats September 2 cents, October 20 inches, December 21 4 cents, May 24 cents. Pork September price 83.33 cents per pound.
London dispatch to The World confirms Ireland faces near total harvest failure. Widespread distress cuts across prosperous districts like County Wexford, with cries for government action rising. The Irish government has yet to adopt measures to address the looming famine.
News from Guatemala reports a severe financial and political crisis with multiple firm failures. Listed losses total about 7 million Central American currency, largely from coffee exporters and importers, with many smaller defaults pushing the total toward 8 million.
The interior secretary issued an opinion on the Needles to Mojave land grant dispute between the Atlantic and Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads. The ruling upholds the Southern Pacific claim to lands spanning 242 miles along the Atlantic and Pacific route, covering 20 miles on each side of the line.
Mr Lincoln Nelson of Marshfield Missouri reports six years of neck gland scrofula with gland enlargement resistant to doctors in Washington Springfield and St Louis. After six months of S S S treatment the gland shrank started to vanish and the patient urges others to use the vegetable blood remedy to reach the root of the disease and avoid the knife.
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