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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1902
Page
2
Glasgow April 6 The Ibrox park catastrophe at the England Scotland match left 21 dead and 250 injured with 150 in infirmaries. Many victims suffered broken limbs and crushed bodies as authorities faced criticism for allowing the game to continue amid distress.
Special Correspondence reports in Big Timber that the state’s case against John Willis of Nye City for poisoning water used by families of J. M. Dunbar and J. Hughes was dismissed for insufficient evidence. Dr. W A Moore testified to strychnine in sack contents and bottle near the spring. a paper stopper from the Yellowstone Leader bore Willis’s name.
Special correspondence reports ex policeman C A Deckson left for the West last night. Dave Peden sold five head of 2 year cattle at 28 and eight of 3 year olds at 38 to G F Ingersoll via J E Farnum. A H Frye returned from Forsyth with a fine team for summer sales wagon. A mail team departed from Bement's livery for Powderville. The Broughton boys who took the last mail are missing since Friday amid storm rumors. Sheriff Davis pursues two horse thieves McDonald and Lowry seen near Lodge Pole creek riding stolen Quinlan horses. Three Uncle Sam regulars O Dougherty Grandy Barkleare visit Fort Keogh before leaving east. They praise Keogh over Fort Yellowstone and note Keogh is closer and more populated.
In Great Falls on April 6 a large turnout of the colored population attended the funeral for Harry E. Stokes, killed Friday night by William Haywood. Services were held at the undertaker and at the African M E church under the auspices of the colored lodge of Masons of which Stokes was senior warden.
A $5,000 certified check to President Roosevelt was sent by Governor Yates's Chicago committee to aid Boer women and children in concentration camps. Secretary Hay confirms Roosevelt directed forwarding to the U S consul in Cape Town for expeditious distribution. The Illinois committee plans a broader drive to raise funds via $1 checks payable to Theodore Roosevelt for onward transmission.
An eastbound Grand Trunk passenger train derailed at Minetts Michigan after a switch switch points caught while the rear coach and Pullman sleeper went off the track. One man killed and five injured all taken to Detroit.
Announcement states Barnum and Bailey's circus will return from Europe next year and Buffalo Bill's Wild West show will follow. Dailey arranged the plan during a US trip, with details to be worked out after his May return. The Wild West will tour Arizona and western states then Pacific coast for the first time in 18 years, before a two year abroad sabbatical for both shows. Negotiations are under way for steamship transport.
Sixty of about 89 Episcopal bishops are expected for a two day session in Cincinnati on April 16 and 17. The gathering will include most foreign missionary bishops and will elect bishops for Salina Kansas Honolulu and Porto Rico. Bishop Dudley of Kentucky will preside due to Bishop Clark of Rhode Island’s weakness. The Mexican Episcopal church admission is to be considered.
The Senate's handling of the Chinese exclusion bill and the Philippine government measure dominates agenda as Democrats seek material amendments. Conflict centers on self government, friar lands, and public lands while Cuba reciprocity and oleomargarine bills prompt party leadership maneuvering ahead of final votes.
George G. Ward of New York vice president of the Commercial Cable Company arrives in San Francisco with Charles Curtiss to choose a landing site for the transpacific cable. Ward says construction will proceed regardless of Congress with the first link to Honolulu due by October and the cable shipped from England in July. Potential California landing sites include Monterey or San Francisco, likely the latter.
St Petersburg students face exile or imprisonment after riots. Four have already been sentenced to three years in Siberia, another to Central Asia, and a further student received a three months term for riot involvement. One student was injured resisting police and hospitalized.
President Diaz issues a decree amending the sanitary code in the federal district. It orders strict care to ensure the purity of milk dairy products bread and lard and stresses careful handling of milk.
Tomorrow at 3 30 p m the president and a party of friends will depart Washington by way of the Southern railway for a Charleston exposition visit. The party includes Mrs Roosevelt Attorney General and Mrs Knox Secretary Wilson Secretary Cortegou Assistant Secretary Loeb and Mrs Loeb Com W S Cowles and Mrs Cowles Dr John F Urie J K jrade Murat Halstead and M C Latta.
President Andrew Draper of the University of Illinois and Mrs. Draper were thrown from their carriage this afternoon. His left leg was broken above the knee, while Mrs. Draper escaped serious injury.
From Kronstadt Orange River Colony dated April 6 the view is that great distance between Transvaal mission members and Mr Steyn and General Delarey hampers progress toward ending the war. It is expected Schalkburger and colleagues will soon depart to a more convenient base for talks.
General Jacob H Smith arrives in Manila to testify in Major Waller’s case. He praises Gueverra as energetic and intelligent, notes the Samar armistice is being faithfully observed, reports satisfactory conditions in Batangas and Laguna, and cites 166 cholera cases with 119 deaths to date.
Le Samine the Montreal Catholic weekly informs clergy to warn parishioners that attendance at the Passion Play at the National theater is forbidden. The notice appears in its issue announcing the diocese’s stance.
An incident occurred as President Loubet rode toward the Elysee Palace when a man named Lejourne approached the carriage with a revolver and cried for justice. Lejourne was promptly arrested and deemed mentally unfit.
The United States cruiser Brooklyn sailed from Port Said today heading home with a planned stop at Gibraltar.
The Department of Agriculture reports foreign agriculture trade for 1901 shows exports valued at 952 million dollars, a 100 million rise from 1900, with imports at 39 million down 28 million. Exports exceed imports by 560 million, though Hawaii and Porto Rico trade data are excluded for exact comparisons. Cotton exports surpassed breadstuffs for the first time in years, with ten leading items accounting for 97 percent of total exports.
Belt April 5 report covers Mizpah circle of Women of Woodcraft ball, Belt church programmes, and visitors Mary Duncan Great Falls Miss Engham Great Falls, plus local dances and social events. Marriages of Frank Bond Sadie Milard and Billie O Neal Tillie Parker noted. May 25 Fort Shaw Indian band to entertain with music baseball dancing. town cleaning drives cited.
The chamber of mines, in its first war era gathering, credited General Botha for preventing widespread property destruction by holding the town’s commandant personally responsible. The president predicted by next July half the mining industry would be operating and full production would resume in coming months.
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