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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1901
Page
5
The ad lists water tumblers whiskey and champagne glass styles with per dozen prices ranging from five to thirty five dollars. It also details claret wine sherry saucer champagne goblets and sherbet glass options with prices from eight to thirty eight dollars per dozen.
Butte notes cover piano rentals from Orton Bros and Montana Music Co, dental and medical services, new and moved businesses, travel by train and carriages, weddings and engagements, a burglary case against James Murphy, regional visits by officials, and local residents traveling to New York, Seattle, or Alaska.
The tenth annual Montana State Pharmaceutical association met in Butte with a banquet at Columbia Gardens. Sid J. Coffee was elected president as members celebrated sport and social events, while new officers and five names for the governor's board were announced.
A burned edged card served as a unique Latin language banquet menu. Each plate held a bottle of amber Humulus Jupulus beer as speeches unfolded ex temporaneously. Witty toasts and responses drew marked amusement from attendees.
In a full city courtroom Judge Boyle presided over a routine session with numerous lawyers present. Cases included John Sullivan fined five dollars for a minor disturbance, Annie Smith fined twenty five dollars for residing in a house of ill repute, and several charges dismissed or resolved including Insulting Women on the Street, nuisance violations, and a hand-to-hand dispute at an oyster house with conflicting defenses.
Two masked men robbed M. Cantlon & Sons saloon at 110 East Copper Street early this morning. They held the bartender at gunpoint and took all the money in the drawer before making good their escape. No total was given.
Policeman Moore was arrested on a third degree assault warrant from Judge O Connor of Walker ville after a saloon fight turned into a disturbance. Ryan filed the complaint, Constable Tim Shea took Moore to county jail, bonds set at 500 dollars, cash required for release, Acting Mayor Tom Bryant offered to post bond. Captain Everts reported the events.
A local resident condemns the arrest as a spiteful act aimed at humiliating the officer who merely did his duty in stopping the disturbance in which Ryan was implicated. The speaker insists the officer should not have been jailed overnight.
A large two story frame house at 1240 West Granite street owned by John W. Lusk and occupied by him and his wife was destroyed by a fire around 12:30 this morning. Firefighters could not save it due to distance from a hydrant. Mrs. Lusk escaped in hysterics and neighbors saved a few belongings. total loss to the couple. The blaze appeared severe from downtown and started in the rear, exact cause unknown. The alarm came from a boat policeman patrolling Jackson and Granite streets. The house stood on Granite street north of the School of Mines.
A popular young man died unexpectedly in a bathtub in a case not yet explained by authorities. Friends recall his lively manner and community involvement as investigators review circumstances surrounding the death.
H E Martlay, about 33, a clerk for Hall & Harper and Larsen near the B A P railroad depot, was found dead in a bath tub in the Olsen block last night. Coroner Johnson will hold an inquest at the National undertaking parlors at 7 30 this evening. A copper wire lay with an incandescent line, reaching the tub filled with water, leading to the suspected improvised device. Friends say suicide by electric shock is unlikely. no relatives in the state. He was unmarried and had a sister in South Dakota.
At Glen Falls New York August 13 Raymond M driven by Cassiday defeated Stacker Taylor in a tight 2:09 pace second heat. Raymond M also won the 2:08 class Brooklyn purse while Hal McEwen took two heats and Stacker Taylor the first. Other races at Saratoga and Chicago results follow with multiple heats and times.
In St Louis on August 13 Delmar Park carded six races. Hunter Raine won the first race at five and a half furlongs with Colonel Stone second and Lary Wilt third in 1 09. St Rogue captured the second at a mile and two yards with Kate Freeman second and Druden third in 1 45 4. Mound City Won took the third at six furlongs with Tickful second and Warren Point third in 1 15 4. Nearest won the seventh furlongs race with Utero second and Ben Frost third in 1 28 ? 1 28 ? . Menace was first in the six furlongs purse event with Tenny Belle second and Kagan third in 1 15. Zaza won the mile and an eighth selling with LaSparta second and Outburst third in 1 56.
In St Petersburg on Aug 13 Yang Yu the Japanese minister rejoined the scene after an accident and illness cut short the Russo-Chinese talks on Manchuria. He arrived yesterday signaling renewed government involvement in the negotiations.
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