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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1903
Page
1
Devastating hurricane sweeps Jamaica destroying plantations and ruining hundreds of fruit growers. Many vessels are lost along the coast as the island struggles to cope with widespread damage and economic loss.
Kingston reports severe hurricane damage across Jamaica. Port Antonio and Port Maria heavily destroyed with five United Fruit steamers wrecked or ashore. Dozens of deaths mostly seamen, widespread homelessness, nearly complete banana crop destruction. Eastern end laid waste, commerce halted as storm threat persists.
K E Johnson, 28 year old bookkeeper for the Commercial Banking Company of Duluth, is held on warrants for embezzling $45 000. He admits guilt stating theft spanned eight months and funded stock speculation. Bank president Charles F. Leland says the loss ruins years of work.
The Montana conference of the Methodist church convenes in Livingston with about 100 ministers expected to attend by tomorrow. A praise service opens the sessions led by J. A. Mickel, followed by anniversary addresses. Officials discuss forming an Eastern Montana Yellowstone mission including Carbon, Yellowstone and Rosebud counties. Ministers from Missoula Helena Butte Townsend and other towns attend along with many pastors and spouses.
In Paris on Aug 12 witnesses formally identified Romain and Emile d'Aurignac as the men who posed as the American millionaires in the Humbert case. Crawford brothers’ signatures were traced to the d'Aurignacs, with court clerks and notaries confirming the deception.
The Silver Spray, an American fishing boat from Erie, was shelled by the Canadian revenue cutter Petrel after a pursuit across the lake. Captain Chris Chau escaped back to the U.S. side. he plans to report the incident to Washington and recover nets drifting toward Canada.
Dr Delahoyde, in Red Lodge for a ranch sale, declares that cattlemen and sheepmen will clash within a week in Sage Creek after being ambushed last Sunday. He sold his holdings to Harvey Kind of Rock Springs and plans to leave the country amid mounting range tensions and armed guards.
United States Senator Weldon Brinton Heyburn of Idaho married Miss Gheratien Y Yeatman of Westchester County in a Friends Society ceremony at the Yeatman homestead in Kennett township. After a wedding dinner the couple left for a honeymoon trip aboard a Pullman car, with only close relatives in attendance.
In Marshalltown Iowa on August 12 Isaac Markley a wealthy farmer previously held on $10000 bail for the murder of his wife died by hanging an apparent suicide authorities report the death ends the case without trial the victim's name is Mrs Markley.
Salt Lake City Aug 12 The supreme court denied a rehearing in the Nick Haworth murder case. Haworth sentenced to death for killing night watchman Thomas Sandall at Layton Utah four years ago. The case goes to Judge Rosopp to set the execution date.
Kendall stage coach overturned about a mile and a half from town this morning causing serious injuries to inside passenger Ed Magan who was trapped under a couch. He suffered a broken leg and wrist with head bruises. others escaped serious harm. The overload on top and seating on one side caused the roll.
New York August 12 Most Rev John M Farley archbishop of the New York diocese was invested with the pallium by Mgr Falconio apostolic delegate to the United States in a ceremony at St Patrick's Cathedral.
A brutal clash on a moving freight train leaves a tramp and a farmhand with fatal injuries after harvester workers armed with rocks beat them. Both likely to die from their wounds as a robbery attempt is foiled and suspects flee toward the Dakotas.
A posse chases three robbery suspects after a dawn ambush on a freight train near Glendive. Two harvest hands, Tom McGowan and William Mensing, are critically wounded. a third man dies at Wibaux. Coroner reports unidentified victim. one robber still at large.
Special dispatch from Helena reports tightening the case against Joseph Jarves, the suspect in the Yellowstone bridge explosion at Livingston and a freight attack near Bozeman. Police trace his movements, compare photos, and seek powder sources while pursuing a second suspect Liadtz.
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