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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1901
Page
12
Frank L. Benepe of Bozeman says the town’s winter season is mild with construction booming yet his general merchandise stock lingers on shelves. He notes merchants fear losing winter sales unless a cold snap returns and prices are cut to move surplus stock.
Burglars entered John Tassell's store at No. 2% West Park street early yesterday, stealing goods valued at $19. The frame building on the south side of West Park street was entered through a window to force an old rickety door, with thieves ransacking the shop and escaping unapprehended.
Muskogee report says Crazy Snake used old Creek laws to incite rebellion against the Curtis act. Agents Schoenfeldt and Bixby found a Washington letter promising enforcement of treaties to the letter. In Choctaw nation Dan Hell says Choc tawas back old laws with federal backing.
Delegates at Indianapolis alter the miners organization constitution. The executive board size shifts from eight to eleven or thirteen depending on amendments. Debate splits votes 267 to 212 on the Lewis modification. The Mine Workers Journal will be English only. The convention plans to finish the constitution report tomorrow.
In St Paul on January 29 the Western Union Telegraph and Northwestern Telegraph companies jointly answered the United States and Northern Pacific Railway in the circuit court antitrust suit. The plaintiff sought to have the defendants gauge and curb alleged monopolistic practices.
The case holds that the Northern Pacific, after reorganization, operates as a railway with a distinct telegraph business. The telegraph companies claim the railroad has a separate telegraph line and must follow federal telegraph laws along its route.
Duluth and Helena dispatches report H W Pearson suing J J Hill and the Great Northern for 1 500 000 with coal lands in Montana valued at 14 000 000 tied to Pearson’s Floodwood theory. The case centers on discovery by Pearson and control of mining operations yielding 1 600 tons daily. Another note covers canal construction in Lewis and Clark county with a 30 000 acre reclamation project and a March start date. A London fashion column discusses Piccadilly tailors redefining evening dress with pinked waistcoats and frilled shirts, noting cross Atlantic interest.
A report recounts how Minnesota’s late Senator Cushman K Davis sought rare rest at a Staten Island hotel. Friends, a longtime pilot guest there, and hotel staff kept his visits discreet, avoiding inquiries and searches in New York. Davis preferred privacy amid taxing duties.
Prof Roxa Tyler of Chicago vice president of Illinois Woman's Alliance endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. She credits it with curing a severe winter cold that threatened pneumonia, noting its stomach-friendly taste and no opium content. The ad claims safety for children and quick relief for coughs colds and croup.
The report notes that Queen Victoria dictated funeral plans as hundreds attended. In London one hundred guests of the king were to be housed at Buckingham Palace hotel with twelve Prussian dragoon guards in the procession. King Edward was expected to return to London and then proceed to Windsor with Emperor William.
London observers report the inscription on Queen Victoria’s coffin, dated January 29, as read aloud during ceremonies. The wording memorializes the long reign and the late queen’s public services while noting the nation’s mourning.
King Edward leaves Cowes for London as funeral rehearsals begin. The Duke of York is ill and may miss Friday ceremonies. Wreath from Mrs Sydney Everett of Boston arrives. Coffin rehearsed with a sand filled dummy. Royal representatives and foreign princes named for the procession with extensive military display planned.
At a January meeting in New York, 68 United Irish American groups passed resolutions denouncing Queen Victoria. They claim Ireland’s population fell from over eight million to under four and a half million, with over a million Irish deaths and more than four million forced emigrations during her reign. They condemn depleting policies and call Victoria’s era one of bloodshed and cruelty, predicting England’s decline.
London crowds gather for royal funerals while British and continental police coordinate to shield royal figures. Sir Richard Bradford orders strict entry checks at residence doors and guards in plain clothes protect all princes and officers. Detectors watch Cowes approachers to prevent any danger to Emperor William amid anarchist protests.
The Vorwaertz reports the German emperor left Berlin for England to bid farewell to a dying grandmother and to settle a private debt with the Prince of Wales. It alleges a 24,000,000 mark loan financed the prince before his accession, a claim presented as fact by the socialist paper.
A Vorwaertz report alleges a plan to pay 24 000 000 marks from imperial savings of 50 000 000 marks left by Emperor William I. Count von Stelberg then minister of the imperial household allegedly opposed the payment and resigned. Official circles call the tale a gigantic hoax.
St Petersburg papers discuss Emperor William's field marshal appointment in Britain and how the Anglo-German alliance shapes balance of power in Asia Minor and the Far East. Critics view the move as injurious to Russia while others doubt the practicality of the alliance and Germany's aims with England.
London reports the Duke of Cornwall and York is ill with German measles delaying a visit to Emperor William and absent from the Crown Prince Frederick William investiture ceremony. Sir Francis Laking attends the duke. Duke Johan Albrecht of Meklinberg Schwerin also fell ill with measles ten days ago.
Manila dispatch reports General MacArthur halting all division duty except guard and field tasks for the funeral day. Seville will fire a national salute and 45 gun salute to the Union Jack, with single guns fired hourly from sunrise to sunset.
The governors of the New York Stock Exchange met and voted to suspend business on Saturday February 2, the day of Queen Victoria's funeral. This marks a rare market closure in honor of royalty and reflects the global impact of the event.
Columbus Ohio January 2 The list of toasts for the Jefferson Jackson Lincoln banquet to be held on Lincoln's birthday includes William J Bryan John I Altgeld Charles A Towne Senator elect Carmack Pettigrew DeArmond and others with lines on government by ballot box and not by the muse t
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