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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1908
Page
13
An April birth stone feature markets a rose diamond ring for a baby at $2 and a brilliant cut option in polished or Roman gold for $6. It lists single stone rings from $25 to $75 and ranges up to $600 in easy stages.
Notes report a son born to Mr and Mrs John Northen and various relocations and visits. Drs Cole Tait Hall Allan Johnston move and return, Otto Stoelker office shift, Prof Riedelsberger in town, plus travel to New York Baltimore and Denver. Also Mrs Anna McAndrews dies in Butte. funeral at Sacred Heart church.
The 12 year old son of William J Macauley a National Cash Register sales agent in Butte suffered a crowbar injury at the family home on 115 South Washington Street yesterday afternoon. The bar struck his toe, breaking bone and lacerating flesh. Dr P H McCarthy treated the boy and amputation may be necessary.
Washington April 12 Senator Cul lom chairman of the senate committee on foreign relations said the Venezuelan correspondence would be taken up at the earliest convenience He had no idea what action would follow but on general principles he believed President Castro should have a good spanking.
In Pawtucket and Central Falls J and P Coats limited mills have reduced operating days to five per week, affecting 2,500 workers across the four thread mills.
In a lodging house at 127 East Park street detective White found in R. Lopovich’s room a window shade stick fragment matching one used in the prior robbery. Lopovich, a miner, confessed, saying Me no thief, me no thief, as officers searched. He is jailed on burglary charges with other stolen items tied to the case.
Charles H Hall at Lothrop a receipt to T C Deer and signed by Montana Fuel with H V initials. A rent pocket book left by Butte Electric Supply contains two gold plated watchchains. Lopovich allegedly lodged in East Park 300 block before a room at 127. Officers found items behind a dresser as he shouted a news item. Since arrest he claims total innocence and refuses questions.
Helena April 12 residents of Big Timber told by the Northern Pacific Railway that they will receive 50 cents on the dollar for fire losses. The blaze, sparked by a Northern Pacific locomotive, left hundreds homeless. The board of directors acts voluntarily, not due to civil suits.
Leona Mahoney seven is hospitalized after rocks hurled by boys struck her forehead near the left temple while playing with peers near Columbia Gardens. She recovered enough to tell her mother of the accident as the reporters note the danger of rolling stones on the hillside.
John Hanley awoke to find Richard Connors dead in his bunk at the Broadway cabin near Anaconda mines. An inquest is planned at Duggan's undertaking rooms at 7 pm. Connors, 31, unmarried, had visited his mother in Wharton New Jersey and recently returned seeking work. No violence or poison is evident.
Mrs. Goff of 185 Wells street Centerville attempted suicide by lysol on Saturday evening amid domestic troubles. Three doctors reported she survived the night and had greatly improved by morning, with neighbors offering aid as the miner husband and two small children await safer conditions for the family.
Billings prepares for a grand dollar dinner at the Coliseum rink on April 23 as boosters push for a new era of settlement and industry. Real estate interest surges with inquiries about Lake Basin lands, and plans to subdivide 120,000 acres into about 1,000 farms. The chamber of commerce collaborates with manufacturers while the Big Horn Valley Ditch bids for an irrigating canal project in the Crow reservation area.
Deputy sheriffs arrested Thomas Barnes in a restaurant near the B A P railroad station in Butte on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses in Wallace Idaho. Habeas corpus battles and prior escapes marked his run of detentions as Sheriff Bailey heads to Butte with papers.
William Eddy 43 a Centerville resident and Mountain View mine shift boss died of consumption at his home 103 Wells St He leaves a wife and one son Eddy was a prominent lodge member of Peace and Harmony Sons of St George Washington lodge I O O F and Woodmen of the World He was highly respected by many friends Also noting an ad for Wein's the only cut price sale of men s suits in Butte with season s clothing on sale at reduced price.
Mayer’s at 22 West Park, Butte, advertises a full range of solid gold 14 and 18 carat rings and makes rings to order from original designs. The store promises lowest prices with a money refund guarantee and highlights extensive stock in plated tableware, sterling silver, glass, china, electroliers, bric a brac, watches, and jewelry.
Frank Shovlin, 9, son of Police Officer Con Shovlin, was injured near his Chicago Avenue home when a fuse exploded a powder cap in his eye. Doctors P H McCarthy and T A Grigg treat him. outcome unclear. His family and friends express sympathy.
Henry Gruber, accomplice in the Welch’s spur Northern Pacific holdup, was brought into Butte last night in custody of Jefferson County Sheriff Manning. He will be taken to Deer Lodge at 8 this morning to begin a three year sentence handed down by Judge Callaway in Boulder.
The 34 year old William Burns who died in Butte on Saturday will have his funeral from his home at 8 30 this morning to St Patrick’s church for high mass at 9 o clock. Survived by his wife brothers in law John Dennis Leary and Thomas Moriarity and sister in law Mrs P J McConnell.
In North Bend a prisoner wounded in the fight with deputies has admitted being with four men who shot and killed Marshal Harry Miller at Kent Thursday night. He is named Michael Belgice and is being taken to Seattle by Deputy Sheriff McGuire.
G W Thomas cashier of the First State Bank of Newport Washington killed himself at the Colonial hotel in Spokane by taking strychnine. Domestic troubles and failing health are given as the prompting causes.
The Deutscher Krieger Verein surprised Mr. and Mrs. Julius Kussmann of 632 Colorado Street with a silver loving cup at their 25th wedding anniversary. A motor ride to the Pythian castle led friends to an afternoon program of music, readings, and German hospitality, followed by dancing and a German lunch.
Washington April 12 The George Gray league formed at a Hotel Walton meeting in Philadelphia urges nominating and electing George Gray to the presidency. John Caldalader is president and former Harrisburg mayor McCormick chairs the executive board. The circular attacks Republican special privileges and czarist centralization, arguing Gray is best qualified among nominees and not seeking the nomination.
Madrid reports in the official gazette that a new ex tradition treaty between the United States and Spain has been announced after months of negotiations.
Gen Byron M Cutcheon longtime congressman from Manistee Michigan died in Ypsilanti at age 72 after four terms in office.
The United States hospital ship Relief departed San Francisco today for Magdalena Bay, signaling aid mission deployment.
Lord Salvesen noted in a court of session judgment a bricklayer with seven dependents who lived on 27 shillings weekly yet amassed nearly £400 in movable property and owned his cottage. He worked into his eighties, supporting a large family with exemplary thrift and industry.
A European ruler credits his success as a monarch largely to bad marksmanship after a thoughtful pause in a quoted interview. The remark appears in a Washington Star feature highlighting personal traits of world leaders.
Contempt proceedings against David M. Watt rise again as the Watt bribery case returns to Judge Lynch with 12 calendar matters. The prosecution seeks statements from Watt or risk dismissal if key witness Amon Donery refuses to testify.
George Lapp, chief of the mine fire department, was released from Murray's hospital after 13 weeks confined by a leg wound from a New Year shooting accident. A loaded gun discharged during a turkey shoot caused the injury. the bullet has been removed and he will walk on crutches.
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