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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1903
Page
1
A grand display of fall styles arrives in Huron and South Dakota with a wide range of sizes from short and stout to slim and tall. Showcased are imported and domestic patterns fabrics and ready to wear tailored clothing using the Stein Bloch system praised by judges of good clothes.
Speyer Co. plans to auction the Consolidated Lake Superior company assets held as collateral for a loan exceeding 5 million dollars. Details of the sale are not yet public, and stockholder efforts to salvage investments are mentioned but not explained. Formal notice of date and conditions will follow.
New York Sept 23 The directors of the Consolidated Lake Superior company after a two hour meeting abandoned efforts to find a plan to save the properties held by Speyer & Co as collateral for a 5 050 000 loan. The stockholders are said to be at the mercy of the banking house which could sell the assets.
The article notes that stockholders intend to liquidate the operating companies in the Consolidated Lake Superior company at their discretion. They say plans to finance the firm to a sound position were blocked at every turn by powerful financial interests backing rival steel companies in the United States.
Col. B F Morley manager of the Buena Vista smelter and Mary Murphy mine and Adolph Aberson superintendent were killed by foul air during a mine inspection. Archie Ackerson was revived after becoming unconscious. The air likely tainted by powder gas. no other workers were present. Morley, about fifty, arrived in 1894 and led local smelter and mine interests.
The state department had no dispatches by noon from Minister Beaupre or from Colombia’s charge Herran, and no expectation of a decision before midnight. reports suggest Bogota seeks a compromise empowering President Marroquin to negotiate directly with the United States, with a proposal likely to be submitted soon.
A complex boundary issue tied to a $6 million Pennsylvania funded project along the San Juan de Nicaragua corridor sparks tensions. Honduras President Bonilla asserts rights at Cape Gracias demanding concessions while Nicaragua’s Zelaya moves troops. US involvement looms to protect American investor interests.
Prince Ching, head of the foreign office, conferred with United States Minister Conger in Peking. Officials say the talks centered on finalizing the commercial treaty with Manchuria also touched upon. China is not expected to comply with Russia's latest demands.
Private dispatch from Prague reports the death of Brother Karl once Prince Edwin Schoenburg of the Austrian emperor's guard. He joined the Benedictine order at thirty five after riding from the parade ground to seek admission. He donated a large fortune and spent his days helping the poor.
Election results in Belgrade on September 23 show unexpected victories for radical parties in the Servian skupshtina. The outcome signals a shift in political power with major gains for the extreme factions.
The assembly consists of 78 Radicals, 15 Liberals and 2 Socialists with sixty one elected radicals. All party leaders won seats. The skupshtina will convene September 27 in an extraordinary session as the ministry resigns. General Gruises is likely to become the next premier.
A freight engine near Helena station had its head light and front end blown off by dynamite. Authorities suspect the same gang that stole dynamite from a local warehouse last Friday night carried out the act.
Chicago born in Barre Vermont in 1825, Alson Smith Sherman was chosen mayor in the city's eighth year. He died at his Waukegan home during the day at age ninety two after an active public career.
Flour loaders at the Minneapolis mills and around 2,000 workers in related roles threaten a strike within 24 hours. Leaders demand an eight-hour day for $2 instead of ten hours. Notice was served after a Sunday conference. millers gave no reply, suggesting refusal.
South Dakota and Iowa farmers revise corn damage estimates after recent frosts, stating injury likely under 20 percent and possibly less. Reports from railways and threshing indicate corn and wheat losses are not as severe as first feared, with northern Northwest wheat looking better after harvest.
Niagara Falls N Y Sept 23 The Farmers National Congress opens its twenty third annual session with about 300 delegates from thirty eight states in attendance Governor Odell gives welcome address Mayor Hancock speaks for the city and Harrie Jordan of Georgia for the farmers The president's address is read and the morning session closes Pro reciprocity treaties good roads labor questions and public utilities ownership listed among topics</s>
Minneapolis news reports the Catholic orphan asylum placed under quarantine due to a diphtheria outbreak. An infected child introduced the disease and seventy two of eighty children have been attacked. all have received antitoxin and no deaths are noted.
Senator Nathan B. Scott of West Virginia, felled by illness in Denver, sat up for an hour at his sister's Colorado Springs home and doctors expect he could be out within a week. Mrs. Scott is with him during the recovery in this city.
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