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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1908
Page
13
A deranged priest is led to the scaffold in Canon City as authorities execute a grim public punishment. A witness says the crowd watched in tense silence while guards moved the condemned man toward the gallows.
Giuseppe Alia, convicted of murdering Father Leo Heinrichs, was executed at 8 3 tonight after hearing the death warrant. He divided his last meal into five parts for his wife and three children, proclaimed no sorrow for the crime, and shouted invective against the Roman priesthood while crying long live Italy and long live the Protestants.
Shippers and railroads report little progress amid stalled talks and pending agreements. Officials seek faster resolution to balance freight demand with rate disputes and service reliability.
Helena July 15. The Montana railroad commission heard testimony on tentative ore rate cuts from 25 to 40 percent. Traffic manager F G Woodworth of the Northern Pacific opposed the reduction, arguing for careful consideration of effects elsewhere and noting Montana ores already carry low rates. The burden of proof was deemed on carriers and settlement talks failed to reach agreement. The hearing is expected to continue tomorrow.
Mr and Mrs Nicholas Longworth arrive by Burlington train from Denver and proceed to Mammoth Hot Springs after overnighting in Livingston. They travel en route to Yellowstone National Park.
Visalia Cal July 15 Grace Barnett UC Berkeley high school art head died after plunging from a King's River canyon precipice during a Sierra club summer outing. A companion escaped. the rescue party faced perilous climbs to recover the body. Kenneth Archibald, missing since three weeks, is also presumed dead in the same mountains.
Articles of incorporation filed in Yellowstone County establish the New Holland Christian church located 16 miles northeast of Billings on the Billings bench. The Billings Land and Irrigation company donated 160 acres of land and will provide crop proceeds to expand church land. Members are Hollanders who settled in the county about a year ago.
Julius Pendleton, a Black man charged with stealing $40 from sheep herder Patrick Moran, was jailed for four months. Placed in a dark cell at arraignment, he attempted suicide by hanging with a shirt, was cut down, and declared he would rather die than stay in the dark jail cell.
In Pottsville Pennsylvania seven mine workers were killed and ten injured in a gas explosion at the Williamstown colliery of Summit Branch Mining Company in the lower anthracite fields. The No 1 shaft wrecked, a fire started, and rescues began as volunteers rushed to the hazard filled mine.
A large group of eastern newspaper men left Salt Lake City to inspect federal forest reserves and government irrigation enterprises. C. J. Blanchard of the U S reclamation service accompanies them, with plans to study the Truckee Carson canal and Los Angeles irrigation works among others. return to Denver is weeks away.
Surveyors lay out a townsite at Roachview in the Broadview district along the Billings and Northern railroad about 35 miles north of Billings. About 50 families live nearby with many more taking land there as an application for a post office is filed with the department.
Dallas, July 15. The Elks grand lodge held an annual session devoted to the Lodge of Sorrow with tributes to deceased members. Judge Henry A. Melvin of Alameda spoke among others, and Percy Clay of Denver reported on the elk destruction issue. no final action was taken.
President Thomas H. Lewis of the United Mine Workers and officials meet Western Federation of Miners delegates in Denver to seek closer ties. They discuss contract practices and plan a joint meeting to forge a working agreement while Adams is acquitted in Grand Junction.
Obadiah Gardner of Rockland was unanimously nominated by Maine Democrats at Bangor. The platform calls for resubmission of the prohibitory law repeal of the Sturgis law abolition of the state liquor agency system a 58 hour work week for women and children and prohibition of child labor in factories.
In Elko a dispute over grave care at the Odd Fellows cemetery leads Jack Dolan to shoot Frank Whittaker three times. Whittaker dies while watering a grave. Dolan is jailed on a murder charge.
The directors of Amalgamated Copper company announced a regular quarterly dividend of 6.50 dollars per share. The decision was made in New York on July 15.
Fairview Nebraska July 15 Politicians were absent as William J Bryan spent a quiet day. He is considering an extended campaign tour but has not finalized plans. He will travel to Chicago on the 24th for a conference with the sub committee and may deliver speeches later. Bryan favors elevating the vice president to greater council and cabinet involvement.
In El Paso Texas United States Commissioner Oliver held five alleged Mexican revolutionists for grand jury proceedings. The preliminary hearing featured a letter by Locardio Trevino to Nepomuseno Rios mentioning 200 bombs and partners and plans to attack Sonora and Chihuahua.
A fragmented note references water men and a pre prohibition convention with calls to open dialogue. No clear date or location provided.
The prohibition national convention in Columbus, Ohio, adjourned without a permanent officers report as committees prepare the platform. Key planks call for woman suffrage, direct senatorial elections, repeal of license laws, and a graduated income and inheritance tax, with a federal liquor prohibition amend ment to be put to the people.
Davenport Iowa July 11 The Davenport glucose works will resume work August 1 after a layoff of three months re employing 700 men.
Lisbon reports the bubente plague has appeared on Terceira Island in the Azores group. The brief advisory notes the new outbreak locations and calls for monitoring by local authorities.
Santa Barbara July 15. Two Union Oil workers N L Stevens and Frank Curtin died in a Santa Maria oil field blaze at Orcutt as four 35 000 barrel tanks burned. The fire started from a shack near tanks after suspected crossed electric wires, endangering the town but hope remained to save it.
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