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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1901
Page
8
The Sternan Co presents chafing dishes and related pieces ideal for bachelor or home use. Dishes start at $6.50 with trays priced at $2.00 to $3.75, mixing spoons $2.00, alcohol flagons $5.00 plus, hot water kettles $5.90 and up, plus other useful items.
Last night at the Saucer bicycle track, riders faced spills and close finishes in two-thirds mile pros, two-mile amateurs, and five-mile pro events. Burris won the five-mile, with Neiderhofer chasing lap money. Hennessy night and $110 amateur prizes loom Tuesday. The Butte Athletic club debuts tonight with Jack Donnelly vs Jack Wade in a 20 round lightweight title bout and undercard clashes including Lavelle versus McCarthy and Foley versus Thomas.
All Woodmen of the World and Ladies of Woodcraft are invited to attend free entertainment at hall Aug. and at 9 p m. Each member bring friend.
Willie Wade age 19 crawled into his locked home through a window when the family was away. Detective Jerry Murphy and Sergeant Dawson responded to a call and, mistaking Wade for a dangerous burglar, tried to capture him. After a tense confrontation Wade and the officers both realized they had mistaken identities.
Helena visitors and Montana towns populate this brief with names such as Sanders Dillon Poindexter Isdell and Meagher. Notables J F Johnson J Woolman and Maj N J Isdell appear alongside wedding plans for Lyda Gaddis and Gray.
Weeks visits with Mrs Miles nephew Walter H Brooks while Mrs E Byrne and daughter Mrs T C Farrell of Stone Montana attend the funeral of Lester McBride. State Damp Warden W F Scott heads to Deer Lodge for Indian game law trial. John G Lonsdale of Hot Springs Arkansas, VP of the Little Rock and Hot Springs Western railway, visits Butte returning from the coast and joins James H Lynch. He tours Pipe Stone Springs to see Dr R O Blaydes, longtime Hot Springs associate.
May Collins and companions arrived at the city jail in municipal transport after Harry Davis claimed a scarf pin valued at 75 dollars was stolen during a dance in Pleasant alley. Davis said he visited a crib with a friend before the alleged incident.
Manila Aug 4 The towns of Calapan and Pola on Mindoro coast were occupied by a company of the 18th volunteer infantry and Maccabebe scouts after slight resistance. Insurgents about 250 retreated inland. Adjutant General Corbin, back in Manila after a 11 day islands tour, praises Taft and Chaffee and notes their co operation. Civil commission plans a northern islands voyage to establish civil government in about 10 days.
The Times Vienna correspondent reports General Frederick D. Grant believes rapid pacification is possible though guerrilla warfare remains difficult. He cites humane military conduct aiding native sentiment and favors avoiding severity for broader political gains as he heads to Manila.
In an interview with Figaro Kruger reiterates that Transvaal seeks independence and will pay any price except renewed peace terms with Britain. London reports say South African troops plan to concentrate natives into camps and destroy kraals to cut off food to Boers.
Bloemfontein reports Commandant Haermanus Steyn, cousin of President Steyn, was killed August 1 while fighting at Ficksburg. Boers and rebels are said to be re entering the Barkley West district of the Cape Colony. Dr Leyds in St Petersburg denies any Kruger visit to Russia.
Two Boers approached British lines under a flag of truce with a letter from former President Steyn, delivering a message amid ongoing exchanges near Kroonstadt in the Orange River Colony.
Reports from McKeesport and Wellsville describe rising strike momentum as Amalgamated workers and AF of L affiliates prepare for a broad walkout. Officials anticipate possible injunctions and widespread idle periods for 8 000 to 16 000 workers, with union leaders seeking federation support.
San Francisco August 4. Directors of the Employers' association plan a final decision on concessions, with union leaders threatening extreme measures if none are offered. Andrew Furuseth says unions will not yield rights or abandon solidarity. Only two ships remain in port, Conemaugh bound for Alaska and Santa Rosa for Southern California.
City leaders move to create a Building Material Trades council uniting 14 000 skilled workers from 28 local unions to ensure world’s fair buildings use only union materials. Metal Trades council and Amalgamated Woodworkers meet and back the plan with Woodworkers to seek executive approval.
WashingtonAug 4 President Shaffer and Amalgamated workers officials met with AFL leaders to assess support for the ongoing steel strike. They traveled to Washington following a New York announcement that they failed to reach an agreement with United States Steel officials.
Crescent lodge and Amalgamated Association organize the first militia in Wheeling to protect employers and property in a potential general strike. About 3,000 independent mill workers and 17,000 in the Wheeling district may be drawn into labor military action, with trust mills fully organized and others partially organized.
Milwaukee Aug 4 President Shaffer's plan for a general strike could spell the annihilation of the Amalgamated association and even a Homestead incident. Superintendent George L. Reis of Illinois Steel says he cannot predict a mill strike and calls the move misguided by sentiment, warning it may wreck the union.
Representatives of coal mine operators and workers from Ohio Indiana Pennsylvania and Illinois gather in Indianapolis for a conference. O L Garrison of Illinois Coal Operators Association cites uncertainty while noting possible mine workers action if President Mitchell calls a strike. Indiana operators fear a sympathetic strike amid steel strike tensions and an unsettled anthracite and bituminous fields. The miners executive board meets tomorrow, with outcomes watched closely.
In Tampa guards protect numerous homes of leaders in the anti-resistencia strike movement. Officials expect an eclipse in the strike situation this week as tensions rise and authorities tighten security.
The National Miners federation sent a communication to members proposing a general strike in France on November 1 unless mining companies grant eight hours work per day and a pension of 2 francs per day after 95 years of work.
Reports claimed the Amalgamated association strike would spread to Republic Iron and Steel mills in Youngstown and elsewhere, but such claims are without foundation as absolute scale agreements have been signed for one year.
In New York on August 4 prominent steel executives were missing from the scene and no plans were available. Despite the silence, decisive action in the looming clash was broadly anticipated.
C M M Schwab president of United States Steel spends a short vacation at Loretto Pennsylvania after arriving in Pittsburg.
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