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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1916
Page
5
A Chicago convention report notes the progressive committee split over delaying nominations to seek joint action with Republicans. Leaders discuss meeting schedules, possible Roosevelt nomination, and the risk of delegation restlessness while aiming to keep options open in Chicago.
Distorted lists declare a high Canadian toll amid heavy fighting with many officers named including Gen Victor died and missing. Col H C Baker and Col A E Shaw listed among killed. Gen Sam Hughes referenced. Also notes on a Montana probate and railway stockholders meeting.
Secretary of Labor William Wilson urged intervention as unions and the Silver Bow Employers' Association clash over a labor dispute in Butte. Telephones falter as electricians, tinmen, plumbers and painters walk out, curtailing repairs and threatening wider outages with a severe storm looming.
Reports from am and Vienna claim the long anticipated Russian offensive has begun along a vast front from the Pripet area east of Brest Litovsk to the Ukrainian border about 250 miles. Petrograd says Russians report many successes including thousands of prisoners and destroyed Teuton positions. Meanwhile fighting continues around Verdun with heavy bombardments and trench warfare. In Italy Austrian forces advance near Asiago while Italians retreat in the Cengio area, and in Albania Austrian artillery troubles Italian detachments.
A crowded Anaconda brief lists sales and services from Kuriko and Thoraxinetic club to Dancing tonight at Washoe park and the Lone Jordan and Joy Love travelers. Names of people, places, and businesses appear in rapid, fragmentary notices across the page with various events.
A Cadillac touring car owned by Ralph Farnum of East Second was stolen from carnival grounds near Selock last evening. Police nationwide pursued a lead after detectives followed the thieves in a touring car, but the suspects departed with two women friends. The owner reported the loss to the Butte police who later traced a cigarette butt to a Florence hotel bed that morning. the fire in Florence soon followed, and the loss was deemed small.
Chicago June six history for women was in the making tonight as the woman's party was launched under the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Maude Younger of California led as temporary chair and declared the party would seek the federal amendment for equal suffrage, aiming to influence progressives and Republicans alike. The move marks a new force in national politics with voting women a factor in the presidential election and no candidate or platform beyond enfranchisement. Committees were named for permanent organization and other duties.
The readable fragments mention individuals including Kerr in Colorado Minnafargaret Lee Utah Mrs J H Morrow Montana and Caroline Spenser with McManus and Mabel Mra Avery Coontey in Illinois Nevada. The text suggests hearing coverage but provides no clear events or outcomes.
Reports from the convention cite Roosevelt as a strong second ballot possibility and a source of potential three party splits. Leaders say progressives back Roosevelt while some Republicans favor Hughes or Root, hoping for party harmony despite shocks to the nominating process.
John Deardsley a 13 year old boy left a Sheridan Montana cinema when a masked shooter on a charger opened fire. He ducked behind a telegraph pole and was shot in the hip. doctors at Murray hospital located the bullet. The assailant vanished. Brownfield Canty’s ad for a sewing machine follows.
London reports the British destroyer Acasta, claimed sunk by Germans, arrived at a northeast coast port under tow. The Shell disabled her engines after 40 minutes of heavy fighting. five men died in the explosion and crew members describe being under fire and fearing sinking before luck saved them.
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