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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1903
Page
5
Judge Whiting dissolves the Kass Whorton partnership in favor of creditors and wharton. Frank A. Morris named receiver with $10,000 bond to liquidate assets, pay taxes, debts, and a $4,988 judgment to Wharton, with remaining proceeds split between plaintiffs.
Uncalled letters at Huron post office for the week ending Saturday September 19 1903 include Criswell Gilphin Dean A Fobes M Hart W E Haworth J Leslie Hildreth Mrs John MacRae John B Miller Mrs Frances Morton Miss Nellye Patterson Mrs Mayme Percival Joseph A Perry Miss Odessa Preston Frank Risenbark Rev Quayne D D Charley care of Mr Don elly s Schuyler Chas bridge gang No 3 Shaw Herb Williams Geo Warren James.
The third day stake race at the Huron fair was declared void after only two horses started. Milo Booth owned the winning horse. the purse was 500 dollars with five to enter and three to start. The National Trotting Association advised the start violated conditions and that no purse should be paid.
Reduced excursion tickets on the North-Western Line from Sept 19 to 26 with return allowed until Sept 28. Tickets available at Chicago and North-Western Railway agents. Brookings South Dakota street fair and carnival advertised.
London reports indicate Austen Chamberlain may become chancellor of the exchequer with Charles T. Ritchie in line for succession. Arnold Foster and Brodrick are discussed for war roles, Milner may take colonial secretaryship, and Selborne could stay at the admiralty to push reforms. No official confirmations yet.
Washington dispatch reports a Turkish atrocity alert has prompted calls for US action yet State Department remains reticent. Officials say reports from Turkey describe daily deeds shocking civilization and stirring American concern, with no decision on Beirut squadron withdrawal or president's stance.
Washington reports within a day of the Panama canal treaty’s ratification deadline no request from Colombia for an extension. The State Department describes the situation as hopeless, with Acting Secretary Atlee noting no new propositions from Bogota and no reply to Dr Herran’s note requesting continued negotiations if the current treaty fails.
Nathan Swift son of Louis F. Swift died after a polo ball struck his temple at Onwentsia Field. He was riding with Frederick Mc Laughlin W. W. Rathbone Walter Farwell Sidney Love Walter Keith R. R. McCormick and Charles Garfield King. Initial injury seemed trifling but dizziness and delirium followed, and he died at home.
London on September twenty second reports Lord Balfour of Burleigh secretary for Scotland and Arthur Ralph Douglass Elliot financial secretary to the treasury have resigned and their resignations accepted by the king. Elliot was not in the cabinet. The two resignations increase the number of vacant cabinet posts to four and one secretary ship at Mr. Balfour's disposal.
Constantinople September 22 the Servian government replies to the porte stating measures to bar bands from entering Macedonia and that a strong band prepared to cross the frontier has been dispersed. It warns that continued Christian persecution and Turkish excesses may force Serbia to lose restraint.
Fugitives arriving at Rila from Djoumaia report a clash at Pekin near Melnik sixty five miles from Salonica. Turks suffered about 500 killed including two colonels. insurgents hold most villages in Melnik district, many villages in flames.
Washington says immigration bureau, acting on war department guidance, instructed agents in San Francisco Tacoma and Seattle to admit Filipino laborers aboard the Sherman without head tax and to dispatch the 52 natives and 5000 tons of freight to St Louis to speed the exhibit’s preparation.
From Constantinople orders arrive in Salonica to promote all sergeant majors to sub lieutenants due to officer shortages amid the complete mobilization of the Turkish army in European Turkey.
Paris reports an unconfirmed dispatch claiming Boris Sarafoff the Macedonian leader was severely harmed recently near Monastir by Turkish troops.
In Manila on Sept 10 a detachment of the Twenty-eighth Infantry aboard Koata fought a fanatical Moro band on Toros lake Tanao. Private O. L. Barnett died. A Moro priest leading the attackers was slain. Ladrones raided Taisan Batangas seizing town guns, then fled. San Francisco Ananao was attacked but repulsed. one policeman died.
A blast at Fort Sao Gabastiano in Mozambique on September 22 caused many deaths and injuries and left the fort badly wrecked with fears of further explosions.
A Missouri Pacific passenger train was wrecked near Independence Kansas early today. A rail on each side was pried loose and a fish plate inserted, but the engine and cars stayed upright and no injuries were reported.
The slander suit by Thomas Robinson against former Postmaster General John Wanamaker ended in a defense victory. A sealed verdict was read in Beaver Pennsylvania with eleven jurors present due to illness. Judge J Sharp Wilson required a signed attorney statement of satisfaction before the verdict was opened.
Prince Ferdinand hosted a dinner at the Sofia palace in honor of J. B. Jackson the first American diplomatic agent to Bulgaria. Jackson presented credentials in the afternoon and Ferdinand proposed Roosevelt's health in English while the court band played American airs. Officials and merchants praised the new alliance and diplomatic relations.
Robert P. Skinner, the American consul general at Marseilles, will lead a Marine guarded mission into Abyssinia to negotiate a commercial treaty with the Abyssinian king. The aim is to secure advantages for American trade through the agreement.
President Palma and entourage reached Guantanamo from Santiago and were met by a warm nationalist reception. In a speech he endorsed groups seeking to preserve Cuba’s freedom and the people’s liberties and morality.
Brownsville Pa Sept 22 Two men were instantly killed in a freight wreck on the Monongahela railroad at Bridgeport. The victims are flagman Samuel E Miller and brakeman William Gately. Authorities suggest the accident arose from the crew not signaling as the engine took water.
James L. Ferriere, longtime editor of the Paris edition of the New York Herald and later a senior AP staffer, died in Paris after a paralytic stroke. His wife, distraught, later killed herself. Ferriere had served in journalism since 1897 in the Paris office.
A burst of speed reached 114 miles per hour on the Zossen electric line near Berlin on Saturday. The exact distance covered was not disclosed, though the line reportedly runs for eighteen miles. Guards kept the entire line under watch and unprivileged observers were barred from approaching.
Berlin reports German metal manufacturers act to end a 3,000 worker strike by locking out the remaining 7,000 employees until the initial group returns to work. Authorities halted production across 173 factories as part of the industrial action.
William T. Wilkins died suddenly in Austin Minnesota on September 22 just before turning seventy five. He lived in the city for nearly fifty years and served as president of the former Mower County Bank and as a state senator in 1883. He was active in Masonic circles including Fidelity lodge St Bernard commandery Knights Templar.
London Sept 22 Attorney General Finlay continued his argument for Canada at the Alaskan boundary commission citing American officials utterances and sections of the American case which he claimed supported the Canadian position.
In Beadle County Court a petition to issue letters of administration for the estate of Clarissa Squires has been filed by Alida O Connor. The hearing is set for October 10 1903 at 10:00 am at the county judge office in Huron South Dakota.
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