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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1902
Page
5
The Principal Branch Office of the Standard is at 21 East Broadway. Butte Telephone 422. Advertising rates furnished on application.
Many customers arrive discouraged after poor prior tests. After a few tests our optician demonstrates rare expertise, earning trust as an expert of the highest rank. Examinations are free.
A sweep of names shows visitors and residents in town. Notables include J C Robey in Helena, J G tes and Ed J Lyon from Chicago, M W Ensign from Lincoln, L R Prince of Boston, J D Keller of Canton, Ohio, and many others staying or visiting in Butte, Finlen and Thornton hotels. Local business and services advertise piano parts, watch cleaning, and a move by Sherman to Bidway with continued sewing machine and piano work.
The Presbyterian church featured excellent choir music yesterday. Performers included Mr. Jack Thomas Mrs. Barry Hamilton Mrs. Coupe and Mr. Thomas.
The funeral will be held today at 9 40 a m from Sherman Reed's funeral chapel to St Patrick's church for Mass.
W A Whites Elite company opened its Butte engagement at the Family theater with He Forgave Her a romantic drama praised by audiences. The cast led by Coulter Howard Jack Diamond J Lee Morris Louise Carter Maud Sutton Corrine Walton delivered strong performances. The run extended through the week amid local labor news including union votes and wage disputes.
Review notes the faithful portrayal of Russia's political life in For Her Sake at Sutton's Broadway theater. Walwin Woods as Prince Valanc TM and Mrs. Jessie Cunningham as Olga Petoski earn strong notices for their performances while the audience responds with enthusiasm for the continued engagement and upcoming showings. Premiums at the Great Atlantic Tea company, 63 West Broadway, phone S88.
At the regular weekly Silver Bow Trades and Labor Assembly meeting last evening, considerable labor matters were handled. The seven musicians expelled from the local union had their case postponed for one week to allow review by the Musicians' union.
John Sullivan Mike Downey and John Donavan aged 12 to 14 remain jailed on incorrigibility charges. Police say the youths form a gang that has troubled the city, including a barrel of beer theft. Downey and Donavan were caught leaving the California saloon early last night. all three to be sent to the county jail for reform.
Capt W C Dutton lectured at Immanuel Presbyterian Church last evening and a new lodge of Good Templars was formed. The lodge will be formally organized at a meeting at the church this evening with officers to be elected. Dutton will open a series of courthouse meetings in Der Lodge on Tuesday evening.
J. F. Fariss & Co. offer loans at 9 and 10 percent on approved real estate security. Located at 119 Hamilton Street, corner West Granite.
Mrs. Hanson of the beach settlement died after months of illness. Funeral services were held at the Nason church and interment followed. Mrs. Shackengast suffers a severe rheumatic attack. A gypsum mill in Monarch appears less likely as the project left only an open hole in Whittaker bluff. Belt River runs higher due to recent warm weather. Grippe epidemic in the area has mostly subsided.
Madrid reports a rise in exchange on Paris and weak customs revenue as likely to force the government to use the Bank of Spain to pay the next coupon on the exterior debt.
An incomplete casualties list from the February 24 Boer attack on a British convoy near Vondenop southwest of Klerksdorp reports 5 officers and 45 men killed and 6 officers with 116 men wounded.
Large Mountain View church gathering heard Rev A H Henry's sermon and Edward C Hall, new organist from Grand Rapids, perform a short programme after benediction. Hall showcased technique and the Duncan Berceuse and Buck pieces amid a grand chorus in A major and other selections.
Washington dispatch reports the House and Senate conferees reach an agreement on the Philippine tariff bill after one session. The House accepts all but one Senate amendment, keeping a 25 percent duty reduction. The unresolved sedition clause remains with a two witness or open court confession standard, and the family exemption from treason information duties is dropped.
General Kitchener reports to the war office Boer casualties in recent engagements at 800 killed or captured. Detailed losses: 59 killed, 10 wounded, 759 unwounded and captured. More than a hundred Boers were said to be carried off after the bed 24 attack. unverified and not included in the total of 819. British casualties apart from New Zealanders: one officer killed and four men wounded.
Frank Sherman of Des Moines Iowa an attorney and son and nephew of notable figures died from a paralytic stroke suffered five weeks earlier while visiting his wife's grave at Woodlawn cemetery.
Philadelphia reports the death of John W. Bailey president of the Record Publishing Co. He served with William M. Singerley since the paper’s founding, first as foreman of the composing room and later as managing editor.
Colorado Springs March 1. O'Donovan Rossa, son of the Fenian agitator, died today in St. Francis hospital from blood poisoning.
James Purves formerly manager of the Carnegie works at Pittsburg died today at his home in Olvig Midlothian Scotland. The death occurred in March and marks the loss of a noted industrial figure connected to the Carnegie Steel Company.
A heavy southeast storm crossed San Francisco causing extensive damage to telephone and telegraph lines. Communication to interior points was cut off for hours. Strong winds felled poles and the bay roughness halted ferry service to Oakland until morning. Shipping firms prepared for possible damage.
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