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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1902
Page
12
Mrs Morrin identifies missing necklace and locket as hers taken from Attorney Thomas A Morrin’s home during a burglary. Fay Harman, wife of the alleged burglar, is accused of petit larceny for possessing the jewels and refuses to surrender them. Hearing set before Judge Danger next week to pursue burglary inquiries and recovery.
Special excursion train leaves Montana Union depot at 8 30 Sunday morning and runs to Alder returning at 6 00 p m Stage connections at Alder to Virginia City The round trip fares are 1 60 from Butte to Pipestone and back 1 45 from Butte to Whitehall and back 1 60 from Butte to Twin Bridges and back 2 00 from Butte to Sheridan and back 2 90 from Butte to Alder and back
Ernest Rader, treated at City hospital after three weeks with severe tetanus, is nearly ready for discharge thanks to a new treatment by a Wheeling physician. The therapy used tetanus antitoxin with tistreptococcus, previously tested only on animals, given in four daily injections. After three days the patient’s convulsions ceased, dropping from about 75 daily seizures.
Two lawsuits from Tiffin Ohio involve family ties. Mrs Anna Guss sues her husband Casper Guss and his daughter Mrs Charlotte Hoyt alleging mental distress led to her botched suicide attempt after Hoyt pressured him to cut off support. The suit asks for alimony and a support set aside. A second suit has Mrs Catherine Humber of Pleasant Township suing her son for 1248 dollars for house keeping services since 1884 at four dollars weekly.
C D Gillespie of Hendricks West Virginia fought six years for a liquor license but was refused. He bought five acres across the Cheat River opposite Hendricks and formed Brooklyn Heights with 12 tenement houses housing 108 people. He incorporated, elected a mayor and council, and secured a license to sell liquor. He built a saloon and started serving gratis. He plans a cable foot bridge across the Cheat River and has built a village lock-up.
Professor Triggs foresees a future where the state is replaced by an industrial corporation, with stockholders as citizens and a president acting as general manager of trusts. He argues patriotism and private ownership fade, taxes become sustenance, and Congress is replaced by storekeepers.
The body of Nellie Hughes was identified by her brother in law Hugh G Gordon after an inquest into her death. Miss Hughes vanished weeks earlier after visiting on West Harrison street and was last seen aboard a lake steamer. A black chatelaine bag pocketbook and notebook were found by Mrs Burney of Carpentersville, linking her to the steamer. Gordon suspects mental distress from a Toledo inheritance contributed to her death.
A 12 year old girl Victoria Flanders was bitten and squeezed by a newcomer giant python during an animal exhibit in Revere Beach Massachusetts. Spectators panicked as attendants beat the snake with forks and club. the child fainted but later received medical care and rested for the night.
The Butte Anaconda & Pacific Railway sets a cheaper rate from Butte to Gregson Springs and return at 80 cents. Tickets are valid from Saturday noon to Monday noon both ways.
Local records note a grading project on Park Street and an age referencing a move to the School of Mines. The item lists infrastructure work and related municipal actions with names not fully legible in the fragment.
West Park Street grade work to the School of Mines in Butte allows easier access by car. City crews labor three days at 48 dollars per day, total projected cost rising to about 500 dollars, far above the initial 100 dollar estimate. The project is temporary and may prompt further street work funded by property owners and city alike. Charles Joyce.
Transport listing shows trips from Butte to Pipestone Whitehall Lime Spur Twin Bridges Sheridan Alder Pony Bonita Deer Lodge and more with return legs. Ticket prices listed as 1.90 159 2.00 2.30 2.70 4.90 1.90 common. Schedule notes include weekend sales and Monday returns.
In Terre Haute Clinton Pierce 38 an iron puddler crazed by nervous strain confronted a Wagonload of officers after seizing two razors in a barber shop. He rushed police striking Patrolman Sanford Pierce seriously wounding him. Officers fired wounding and killing Pierce. A Louisville wife’s letter identified the dead man and two St Louis ironworkers aided police.
President Roosevelt and party including Arch ie Roosevelt faced off against Commandant W D Snyman and Joubert Reitz in a pistol and rifle contest at Oyster Bay. The president scored seven bull’s eyes in ten rifle shots and struck the pistol bull’s-eye five times, while Snyman failed to hit the bull’s-eye.
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