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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1902
Page
4
Publishers and Proprietors announce subscription prices in advance for daily and Sunday issues. Rates listed include one year ten dollars, six months six dollars, three months seven, and one month counts. Main office in Standard Block Anaconda with business and editorial contact lines.
The Standard states branch offices are at Butte Missoula and Great Falls where advertising rates will be furnished on application.
Readable fragment lists addresses and offices with names such as J. Morton in charge, noting locations at 150 Nassau Street and 39 6s 87 Washington Street. No clear event or outcome.
The Standard lists newsstands in Chicago at Postoffice and Auditorium Annex San Francisco at Palace Hotel Denver at 806 Seventeenth street Salt Lake at 51 W Second South street and Salt Lake News Co All general business letters and correspondence should be addressed to The Standard Publishing Company Anaconda Montana.
Authentic news confirms the release of Miss Ellen Stone and her companion Mme Tsilka from a brigand captivity in Salonica where they were held for ransom since Sept. 30. Ransom priced at 25 000 was finally settled at 72 500 paid Feb. 6 by M. Gargiulo and W. W. Pelet.
The piece notes growing dangers of frontier life with severe winter conditions on Greenland and India’s coast. It cites harsher weather across eastern states including Maryland and references depredations reported by the Philadelphia North American.
A farmer near Hagerstown faced multiple coveys of partridges that pursued him to his doorstep as heavy snow turned fowl into a marauding threat. Residents in the danger zone arm themselves. incidents of human attacks are described as extremely rare by the North American, with hunters advised to stay alert and well protected.
The article criticizes a telegraphic recap of a senate altercation between McGovern and Sullivan, praising a more vivid Tillman McLaurin fight description and urging AP to employ lively, up-to-date reporting. It weighs parenthood debates and a Forsyth mothers meeting shifting to parents to include fathers.
The piece argues that a brief royal tour should show Prince Henry both American cities and notable figures while tolerating some flunkies. It asserts the prince can distinguish pretenders from genuine talent and cautions against snobbery, urging courteous reception of a monarchy within American civility norms.
The National Congress of Mothers, in its sixth annual session in Washington, expects about 509 delegates. Founded by Mrs. Theodore Birney at Chautauqua in 1895, the organization now includes nearly twenty states. A model nursery by Mrs. Dubois of Idaho will be showcased as proof of the movement’s value.
The obituary recalls Albert Bierstadt born in Düsseldorf, who painted Yellowstone and the Rocky Mountains, shaping wider views of Montana and Wyoming. It notes his Dusseldorf school influence, the canyon canvases, and where his works reside, including Washington, Lenox, Albany, and abroad.
The piece notes lingering disputes after the Tillman McLaurin clash and Santiago fight era. It mentions Billy West's $300000 legacy as evidence that his jokes kept value. It asks which nations stand as friends to Spain in 1902.
The German prince, a guest of honor aboard the Olympia, faced a etiquette dispute over toast order with Admiral Dewey. After a frank discussion, Dewey forgave the lapse and praised the prince, signaling strengthened Franco American relations and mutual respect.
Prince Henry dined tonight on the imperial yacht Hohenzollern with a long list of guests including Rear Admiral von Tirpitz General von Plessen and officials from the German and American sides. After a reception by the Deutscher Verein at their clubhouse in New York City, he departed by carriage and ferry to Jersey City.
Prince Henry and party reached Jersey City at 12 10 a m amid a 50 police guard under Chief Murphy. The eight car train, with the Columbia as the royal car, departed at 1 a m as the prince waved to cheering crowds from the rear platform. Assistants joined him, with Captain Titus and Chief Wilkie present.
Emperor William learns from New York cable that Kronprinz nears port and Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia is well. Berlin breaks Sunday quiet with a newspaper extra announcing the Kronprinz’s arrival.
German London editors publish satirical pieces on Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia. They note the democratic nation’s warm reception and compare his role to both velvet glove and mailed fist in equal measure.
Charles Woods confessed to joining Peter Jackson in killing Charlie Yim, a Superior laundryman, on Christmas night with a gas pipe for seven dollars and fifty cents. The pair fled after discovering only seven fifty while Yim had one hundred twenty five dollars hidden. Jackson was captured in Superior yesterday.
George Childrose shot and killed Henry Meyerer and wounded Emma Meyerer after his demand for a dowry was refused. He then killed himself with a pistol shot, fatally wounding himself at the doorway of his beloved's room as the family fled to the street.
William Wild a young Englishman arrived in New York on the Kronprinz Wilhelm and surrendered to police admitting he robbed Walsh Leavitt Co of jewelry valued at 5000 dollars. He fled to London then to the United States and was found with 18 large diamond rings other jewelry 251 dollars in American currency and some sovereigns. He said his loneliness in America drove him to the crime.
Richard Gilliam, returning from church in Mt Vernon Newfoundland, was attacked by two men. One struck him with a beer bottle and the other fired a revolver at his head, killing him instantly. Henry Stuart George Hatfield and Walter T Young were arrested charged with the crime. Investigators say the assault appeared unprovoked and the men had been drinking at a blind tiger.
Mr and Mrs Daniel Kennedy of Cleansville Chile drowned after ice broke on the Ohio river near Sistersville W Va They visited relatives and started for home around 3 pm Mrs Kennedy fell into the river and Mr Kennedy tried to rescue her but also fell through Both bodies were recovered Kennedy described as a prominent old man.
In Peoria county on February 28 a woman named Jenkinson attacked her sleeping husband with an axe then shot herself in the temple, dying instantly. The couple, farm assistants, left three young children as witnesses to the tragedy.
A 1:30 a.m. telegram from Hartsville reports a fire that wiped out the entire south side of Main Street in Nashville Tennessee in the business district. Loss is listed as 0.40 with the fire now under control.
Richard Carey a Diamond mine worker living at 423 South Main Street was badly cut in a fight at James Kane’s saloon near Main and Broadway. Carey, who was stabbed with glass and struck with a bottle, was stitched by Dr. Leggat and jailed for disturbing the peace. Kane denies involvement and police say the assault source remains unclear.
Philadelphia and Wilmington wires were repaired after a fierce sleet storm, restoring telegraphic contact with New York and Washington. A special Prince Henry train will travel to Washington with a pilot engine on the route, as crews plan to fully restore all routes.
William J. Bryan spoke in Wick Toledo on his way to Columbus to meet Ohio Democratic leaders. He said the Manhattan club must support the Democratic ticket before influencing party policy and noted its 1896 band march to the Republican headquarters. He added platform issues depend on developments and would be drafted by loyal party adherents.
Washington Feb 23 An enthusiastic Boer sympathy meeting at Lafayette Square theater adopted resolutions urging President Roosevelt and Congress to stop exporting horses and mules to England for use in South Africa. A large collection aided Boer widows and orphans as Commandant Krige spoke urging neutrality and calling for no hatred between nations.
Coroners probe the deaths of Paul Fremy a 50 year old Frenchman and Jennie Paixons who was with him when he died of morphine poisoning in Cincinnati both had lived lavishly for years and reportedly received regular large remittances from France Paixons is said to be gravely ill from a morphine overdose and denies an attempted suicide.
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