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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1901
Page
1
Helena March 1 Special Dispatch reports a day long filibuster over H. B. 87 granting Montana litigants jury trial rights. Speaker Corbett tempered disruptions as MacGinniss and allies used rule games to block progress while a crowded chamber sweltered and debated various motions.
John OBrien an 18 year old from Butte was found guilty of manslaughter for the January 15 stabbing death of Ole Thompson after a jury deliberated about 23 hours. The verdict carried a recommendation for leniency as Judge Clancy set sentencing for next Tuesday and the court room buzzed with the aunt’s emotional reaction.
Albert Shenkle, charged with criminal assault on Grace Diller, pleaded guilty in Carrollton after four militia companies protected him from a potential lynching. Judge Owen Thompson sentenced him to the Chester penitentiary. Shenkle expressed relief at avoiding execution, citing mob danger and drunken remorse.
A 30 man crew fails to reach entombed miners as heat escalates in No 6 level. Fire confined between rooms 45 and 46. officials seal the level and plan resumed efforts at dawn hoping to locate 18 bodies near rooms 47 and 48.
W. T. Bond, a former member of the first Colorado volunteers who served in the Philippines, took poison during Episcopalian church services in Leadville. Bond, recently named sexton, was despondent due to ill health.
Tomorrow's Standard will feature two pages of remarkable interest with facsimile copies of the confession and the last will and testament attributed to Oliver Dotson. Authorities doubt the documents as forgeries designed to imitate Dotson's crude penmanship and spelling. The edition will also reproduce in facsimile letters Dotson is known to have written, including several signatures, plus illustrated pages and special news features.
Washington March 1 The House concurred with Senate amendments to the army appropriation bill by a 159 to 154 vote ending risk of an extra session. The bill now goes to the president. Debate touched Philippine and Cuban amendments and tied party lines amid tempers stoked by remarks about Philippine development ventures and opposition to government subsidies for expositions.
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