Thomas Mooney’s Body Found After Days of Search
Laboring workers discover the mangled remains of Thomas Mooney after several days of search. Police and local authorities investigate the death as a workplace incident and tragedy for the community.
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1902
Page
1
Laboring workers discover the mangled remains of Thomas Mooney after several days of search. Police and local authorities investigate the death as a workplace incident and tragedy for the community.
The body of Thomas Mooney, 40, a popular Butte Miners Union member, was recovered from the Granite mine after being trapped by rock for about 18 hours. He died of suffocation with multiple injuries as rescuers battled further collapses. The inquest is planned for tomorrow at 4 PM.
Missoula insurance man David Beck praises his 13 year old son Walter after a burglar intrusion at his father's home. Walter warned others and acted to protect his mother and property, prompting his father to advise arming and preparedness.
In the Cherokee nation near Collinsville Oklahoma four cattlemen clash over grazing land. Mayfield Skidmore and Johnson wounded, Skidmore later dies Phillips killed instantly. Authorities guard Collinsville after the confrontation between rival factions.
Washington April 21 Democrats in the house held a caucus to consider the Insular committee Philippine government bill. A unanimous resolution urged reconciling differences with senators to obtain agreement for a bill to be heard in both houses. The insular committee outlined four measures while the Senate's Republican bill favors a temporary civil government.
Civil government with a Philippine legislature aims at eventual independence. The house measure fixes July 4 1911 as the independence date. Resolutions adopted to reconcile the two democratic plans with speeches by Williams of Mississippi and Gaines of Tennessee supporting them.
Judge Clancy must show cause April 29 why the supreme court should not exercise supervisory control over his November order enjoining the Boston & Montana and its officers from recording or transferring stock or paying dividends to Amalgamated and from other actions. The hearing also covers appeals in the Bordeaux case and other related motions as the court sets dates for further proceedings and grants practice admission to S. W. Pennock.
Portland set for May 4 with the North Coast Limited joining three daily Portland St. Paul services. Puget Sound locals remain, four daily trains to Puget Sound points. Assistant GPA Charlton notes March to May settlers and homeseekers exceed 99 000.
General Mercier former minister of war was pelted with stones as he left a political meeting at La Verte Bernard in Sarthe. He sustained a head wound from the assault. Authority officials investigated the incident and security was tightened around political gatherings.
The steamer Tampican cleared today from New Orleans with a cargo of American mules bound for Cape Town.
The Hague and London reports say Queen Wilhelmina remains in a serious but non crisis state with typhoid fears touching her staff. Court bulletins note she slept and ate, while a second London dispatch argues public fears over her illness may be overstated amid national grief and political concern.
Thomas Crystal the bartender died at 6 30 PM after a February 11 affray in a Milwaukee beer hall. James Keerl fired three shots in a liquor fueled dispute over an earlier strike. Inquest pending with murder information expected. Keerl retained prominent attorneys and bail likely opposed. The case haunts both families and shocks the community.
Sheriff Hubbard responds to a Park City tip about an eight year old boy abducted by two men. One of the suspects is the child’s father Charles Goodall who refuses to surrender the boy, with the mother at the Searles home. The case hinges on possible habeas corpus action as jurisdiction is in Miles City.
Boston April 21 delegates to the central labor union call for government action against six meat and provision firms known as the beef trust urging the attorney general to stop the price hike and asking Congress to remove the tariff on fresh meats.
After two days of searching the death toll from the steamer City of Pittsburg disaster near Turner's Landing remains at 145 aboard when it burned. Only a few bodies recovered, many passengers still missing, and accounts describe heroic rescues by Captain Phillips, Mate Shriver, and others as the boat burned rapidly in early dawn.
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