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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1909
Page
3
A local sale advertises fleece-lined stockings for women and children at 25 cents a pair, marked down from 35 cents. The notice urges shoppers to hurry to take advantage of the offer, noting it as the best deal seen.
York county farmer Harry Keener confessed that a girl's tale of killing a man on his Seven Valleys farm last July is true though the victim’s identity remains unknown. The 15 year old Lorenza Tanser claimed Keener buried the body in the orchard and helped dismember it, with parts buried at multiple farm sites and the cellar. In Flushing, the jury in Thornton Jenkins Hains murder trial continued deliberations as Justice Crane urged careful, patient verdicts.
California floods from a statewide rainstorm push rivers Sacramento American Feather Yuba San Joaquin Sings Salinas toward flood stage. Folsom American at danger point as a dredger valued 130 dollars is wrecked by high water. Linden and Porterville flood with levee breaches. a woman and child reported drowned.
A 42 year old Polish German, Jacob Brentic, was found wounded west of Lombard after an assault by Tony Holly. Brentic said Holly shot him at Brewer while they walked from Toston after working for Clemas Ditch Co. One bullet shattered his head and another pierced his arm. Brentic fled four miles before discovery.
Washington January 14 reports say Bishop John P Carroll of Helena is likely to be named rector of the Catholic University in Washington if he accepts. Rumors also place him as potential coadjutor bishop of Baltimore with future succession to archbishop, shaping the archdiocese leadership.
Sacramento January 14 reports 160 feet of the Southern Pacific main line bridge washed away cutting Roseville ice lines from all overland routes. The disruption affects the central Sacramento area with Southern Pacific main line service halted across the state segment.
St Petersburg reports the death of Vice Admiral Rojestvensky aged about sixty due to heart neuralgia. He commanded the Russian fleet at the 1905 Sea of Japan battle and later served as chief of naval headquarters staff and head of the navy's intelligence. The account notes the Tsushima battle losses and his wartime captivity and postwar retirement proceedings.
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