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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1902
Page
8
About 100 sport lovers in Butte witnessed two strong cocking mains under western rules. The Montana birds won both mains, first with Jim against Con, then the hennie beating the Jersey quill despite a blind eye and a broken gaff.
Special Dispatch from The Standard San Francisco March 2 lists the Call selections for six races. First race entries include John Welch Rasp and Helen Smith. Second race features Doreen Pariozade and Senator Bruce among others. Third race lists Orosius Delsegno and Guida. Fourth race names All Green Dorian and Lodestar. Fifth race includes Maresa True Blue and Lightball. Sixth race lists Sea Lion Clarendo Panamint.
Anaconda Gun Club retains the silver cup by two points over Butte Club at the Anaconda grounds yesterday afternoon. Katie Goddard led with 25 targets, Kipetko 24 for Anaconda, as crowds applauded. A 15-target practice then followed, with sweepstakes and old vs new shooters events.
The Meaderville Gun Club held its regular weekly shoot on the fields amid snow and cloudy skies. Scores were low due to poor visibility but participants enjoyed a pleasant afternoon despite the conditions.
The Butte gym hosts a wrestling card tonight featuring W. J. Adams attempting to throw Andy Hagstrom The Terrible Swede and Fred Kerth twice each within an hour in catch-as-catch-can bouts. Hagstrom and Kerth are noted amateur wrestlers and Adams is said to be fully capable despite a perceived disadvantage.
William Peters welterweight wrestler delivered decisive wins at the Fairy Palace on the Flats. He defeated Jack O Connor with two falls and then beat Oville Dupuis, as Peters trains for a June Great Falls match against Jack Curran who weighs 152 pounds. Curran enjoys strong support in Great Falls and Butte as a potential challenger.
In Bay City Michigan on March 2 a party of 35 men and a team of horses escaped a large ice floe in Saginaw Bay for Big Creek. A woman living on the ice all winter, dressed in male attire, revealed her sex during the shore landing. She had fished for money and enjoyed isolation in her hut.
Amid cannon and bells the presidential train reached Ciudad Porfirio Diaz. President Diaz met widow Mrs Miranda sister of Mrs Diaz, with Judge Santiago Suter welcoming him. Mrs Diaz and suite left for San Antonio to join Mrs Miranda while the president remained.
First race seven furlongs selling Casdale 119 Golden Light 107 Helen Smith 105 Courtier 107 Rasp 107 Harry Thatcher 110 John Welch 110 Kellen 110 Talma 110 Interada 105 State 195. Second race eleven sixteenths selling Larrit Wilt 117 Doreen 112 Senator Bruce 117 Parisade 112 Jerry
Asheville reports five lives lost in Marshall during the storm. Property damage ranges from five hundred to seventy one thousand dollars.
In 1816 a catastrophic flood followed a fire in Paterson, washing away the oldest Susquehanna crossing. The Pennsylvania Railroad steel bridge at Rockville is endangered while Steelton and South Harrisburg mills have closed. South Harrisburg is underwater and many families live in upper story rooms. Last night 260 people sought safety in Lohiel schoolhouse as water receded since noon.
Floods along the New York Central Hudson River line cripple traffic with bridges down and tracks washed between Hudson and Albany. No through trains to the West dispatched. only the 3:35 p m Albany train ran to Hudson. Major delays reported along the Albany to Buffalo main line.
Susquehanna and Chenango rivers have overflowed for 46 hours flooding a large city section. Rowboats patrol streets while about a thousand families face displacement as water reaches a record high not seen in 46 years.
Fort Plains March 2 water and fire swept through Sprakers six miles east of here. The hamlet of 50 families has been under water for two days as ice floes struck houses, toppling stoves and igniting dwellings.
Wheeling West Virginia on March 2 endures the worst flood since 1884 with many factories flooded fires out and about 20 000 workers idle for a day or two Wheeling Island two thirds submerged and 700 families living on upper floors as residents salvage belongings amid a slow flood rise.
Heavy rain spread across Saratoga and downstream regions, swelling rivers and inundating valleys in the lower Adirondacks and western New York, with extensive surface water threatening lowlands today.
Reports from Wheeling to Ripley show the river rising tonight and surpassing danger thresholds at all intermediate points in the Upper Ohio valley.
In Middletown New York on March 2 water levels in the streams rise to record highs causing multiple bridges to be destroyed and roads to flood. The flood disrupts travel and local utilities as residents brace for worsening conditions.
High water in streams tributary to the upper Potomac in Maryland Virginia and West Virginia reached two feet above normal in Washington today the highest since the 1889 flood. The level is now falling and no significant damage has been reported.
In Mattoon NL on March 2 the police stopped an attempted store robbery by three youths who fired on officers. Chief Lyons was wounded in the arm. Aged 17 Sid Nnapp was seriously hurt and two Heath brothers were also shot as the trio fled.
The Ithaca area reports continuing flooding with the Lehigh Valley railroad tracks submerged. No southbound trains have run since Friday and traffic over the line is not expected to resume for several days.
March 2 report from Elmira New York notes extensive hardship among many families forced from their homes by rising waters. The article describes evacuation efforts and ongoing relief needs as flood conditions persist.
Henry Bishop Perkins, a leading Warren philanthropist and president of the First National Bank, killed himself in his office. The death of his Yale graduate son a year earlier is believed to have driven him to insanity. Perkins was a significant figure in railroads and Ohio state affairs, with an estimated worth of three to four million dollars.
Palestine Texas March 2 Ex Senator John Reagan spent a restless night and was not so well today with friends and medical attention nearby officials report this morning.
A gas explosion at 10 PM collapses the four story Lichtin music store in Reading killing three people including the owner’s friend and a janitor. The adjacent umbrella factory owned by Mrs. Mary Roland also collapses. Several injured and nearby buildings damaged.
A party of shipwrecked sailors from the schooner B. R. Woodside were landed at Palm Beach by the steamer El Cid after a three day ordeal in heavy seas. Captain A Brown First Mate Martin and eight crew survived the gale that blew the vessel off course from Fernandina to St John Porto Rico and left it waterlogged before rescue.
In Manila on March 2 the American Spanish British and German merchants and the local press united to remonstrate against a prohibitive tariff they say cripples the archipelago’s industries and resources.
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