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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1902
Page
5
Mike Harrington lies between life and death at Sisters' hospital after a self inflicted wound from a gunshot. Doctors say the left lung injury is serious and complications threaten recovery while officials seek a fuller explanation of the act. Eyewitnesses offer little information and Harrington remains reticent.
Fire department responded to a late night blaze in a Mainville shack caused by an exploding lamp. Damage estimated at about 150 dollars. Hinze not identified in the report.
In Seattle on March 4 heavy votes were cast with counting progress slow. Early returns indicate Mayor Humes trailing his ticket in residence districts, while Godwin and other Republican nominees lead in early tallies. By 11:50 p.m. Humes backers claim a 1000 vote edge but Godwin camp disputes, suggesting a tight race with Humes possibly winning.
In Chicago on March 4 Irish nationalists gathered to honor Robert Emmet and discuss the Irish struggle alongside the South African war. Ex-Congressman J J Lentz of Ohio delivered the main address, linking Irish patriotism to Boer grievances.
The new Mascagni opera Marie Antoinette is described as extremely realistic with a guillotine on stage and a decapitation dummy of the queen to a tragic musical score.
The Phil Sheridan club of Anaconda hosted a March 4 tribute to Irish patriot Robert Emmet at A. H. hall. About 75 members from the Robert Emmet Literary Association of Butte joined, with speeches by John O Me ar a Captain Kelly and others. musical and vocal performances followed, ending after extended remarks by John Maguire and several tributes.
The Board of Education approved purchase of the old picket ground at Main and Fifth for 7800 dollars, 130 by 200 feet, as the site for the new high school. Architect M D Kern will finalize plans in two weeks, bids will follow, and construction will start promptly with occupancy hoped for in August.
Social to night at A O H hall and Montana theater. visits from Caird, Burch, and others. Local shops Strain's and Verberkmoes advertise wares. K of P ball March 31. Ladies Aid meetings. theater actor John Maguire visits. corrections to city election judges list noting Hugh Mullen misprint.
In Havana on March 4 the ongoing trials into Cuban postal frauds heard Senor Lanuza state that of 86 duplicate checks, 30 were indorsed by Chief Clerk Bristow and six by Rathbone, with 25 of 80 checks drawn and indorsed by Bristow during Rathbone's absence. He added Bristow is not indicted.
New York March 4. The Commercial Advertiser reports European passenger rates have a united front among the steamship lines serving this port. Although White Star and Cunard are not signers, a prominent official denies an imminent rate war.
A Lippincott story recalls naval humor from decades past. An admiral aboard an off coast of Portugal meets a visiting king and playfully treats him as king rather than majesty. The tale highlights officers fondness for jokes at each other's expense.
The Washington House convened with the chaplain blessing and journal read when Speaker Henderson sought the urgent defic iency bill. Joseph Cannon was missing for about five minutes causing a scramble before he arrived late to the rostrum amid applause.
The Times Democrat discusses Dr Parkhurst on the soul and immortality, citing Haeckel's Riddle of the Universe to outline cosmological theorems. It notes external infinite cosmos, matter and energy, endless motion, biogenesis, and Earth's cooling before life arose, framing a view against personal continuation.
The text traces vertebrate dominance by mammals from lower amphibians, notes primates arose at the start of the tertiary period, and humans emerging near the end of the tertiary. It argues civilization’s brief span fits into a long evolutionary history and questions immortality as a concept tied to matter.
A New York Herald observer describes a second hand shop near Herald Square where a distressed woman visits for a bargain dress. She recalls selling her own gray street dress a year earlier for two dollars after financial reverses, and leaves in tears without buying.
Sealed proposals invited by the State Board for the Insane at Helena Montana for a two year period beginning April 15 1902. Proposals must follow state law and be addressed to the board and opened March 25 1902 at 2 PM. The board reserves the right to reject any or all proposals. Signed George M Hays secretary of state and board secretary.
Trustees invite bids for building a Wisdom to Bannack Montana telephone line. Green pine or fir poles 25 feet long, 32 poles per mile, three and one half feet set, tarred, No 9 galvanised wire, oak braces, standard insulators. Completion by July 1 1902 with instruments excluded. Bids due March 7 1902 at Jackson Montana office. Trustees reserve right to reject any or all bids.
Payee feed and sale stables listed in Anaconda directory under Warm Springs with prompt attention and contact J. H French at phone 6.
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