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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1902
Page
7
The Principal Branch Office of the Standard is at 21 East Broadway Butte Telephone 422 Advertising rates furnished on application.
This store advertises free examinations and immediate service with lenses ground and frames fitted the same day. It claims to be faster than the usual one to three week wait found elsewhere and promotes personalized lens and frame fitting.
Multiple short items: rental pianos from Orton Bros in Anaconda and piano tuners listed. various visitors and residents in Butte from Helena Missoula Spokane and beyond. Local business ads include West Side Paper Co. and Montana Hardware ceiling project. county offices report April fees and wage withholds. ongoing timber hearing with H J Faust testifying. social notes include marriages and travel plans.
The 15 month old Mary C Murphy daughter of Mr and Mrs Dan Murphy died yesterday at the family home 14 Clear Grit. The funeral will be held this afternoon at 2 o clock.
David Berlin, a shoemaker, was found unconscious in room 36 of the Paumie block on West Galena street and died at the city jail after taking poison in a personal crisis. A dying letter to his wife Minnie Berlin accused her of drunkenness and infidelity and contained a curse for the future.
Hoisting and portable engineers, plate and tile roofers, and the hodcarriers are noted in the weekly labor notices with wage and jurisdiction focus. The listing highlights crafts affected by local negotiations and construction sector activity.
In Portland Oregon labor unrest widens with unions across trades striking or threatening action. About 300 laundry workers remain out since Monday while 200 workers at Portland Lumber and 200 planing mill men join the walkout demanding a nine hour day and union recognition. The city faces potential wider strikes if grievances are not addressed.
Copenhagen reports dock laborers and seamen joining a wider action against Steamship Owners Federation vessels. The stoppage, begun April 1 in Copenhagen, spread to all Danish ports except Esbjerg as over 400 workers protested at multiple harbors.
Dispatch from Copenhagen reports widespread revolt of labor population between Moscow and Vladimir. Numerous encounters with troops have left many dead or wounded. An Ukrainian regiment under Colonel Moroseff refused to suppress the workers.
In Buffalo New York on May L it is estimated that more than 200 skilled laborers are on strike. Most are carpenters with some structural iron workers and plumbers. Fourteen contractors employing about carpenters have agreed to the wage increase while most contractors have met the iron workers demands. a few small contractors still hold out.
In Durango Colorado on May 1 about 0 miners in the coal district walked off the job after operators refused the union scale. The union demands Sunday underground work ban and 2.50 a day for outside labor.
The truck teamsters strike in Chicago ended as J C Pennerer Teaming Company agreed to 25 cents per hour overtime for the 6 000 workers.
More than ten thousand workers from diverse trades walked out in Toronto seeking higher pay. Compositors and machine operators on the local newspapers join the stoppage if pay demands are not met.
In Hudson county New Jersey 1200 machinists and tenchmen from twelve large sheet and molding mills walked out today demanding a uniform wage of 2.50 dollars for an eight hour day.
In Youngstown Ohio on May 1 two thousand construction workers walked out demanding an eight hour workday and higher wages. Some smaller contractors granted the requested increases.
In Rome on May 1 the May Day demonstrations remained orderly as about 15,000 workers gathered at a central meeting in the capital.
About 590 steel workers employed by the American Bridge company at various Ohio points went on strike today.
About 300 drivers of coal wagons, members of the Drivers' union, walked out in Rochester on May 1 demanding higher pay and shorter hours.
Pufahl's new art store in the Clark building next to Park and Academy streets draws thousands. The store features bric-a-brac, cut glass, Persian rugs, colonial furniture, English clocks, royal Bonn china, tapestries, and elaborate floral decor. An art glass and china display centers on a grand chandelier while an orchestra provides music in the afternoons and evenings.
Opened for summer in bad weather Columba Gardens drew a small crowd. A dance at the pavilion lasted late with choice music and the cafe serving dinners despite cold slopes and unraised May pole.
The Sutton Broadway theater hosted a strong presentation of Clyde Fitchs Nathan Hale last night with Howard Kyle leading a capable company. Florence Smyth shared top honors as Alice Adams beside Kyle, and the ensemble included Bell Ockenden Frederick Weber Howard Russell John Miles George A Johnson and Nan Hewins. Curtain calls were frequent and audiences praised the performance with repeats slated for tonight a Saturday matinee and tomorrow night.
Nine organized building trades in the Pittsburg district began a wage dispute with 12,000 men ordered out. By day’s end many employers had settled and about 6,000 may remain idle tomorrow as building operations slow across the city. Trades involved include structural ironworkers bricklayers carpenters electric wire men lathers and sheet metal workers.
Investors are told a company formed to develop the Jenny Dell and October claims has secured the area west to join the Eveline claim which has yielded $500,000 at 300 feet. The firm intends to open a paying mine with a small investment. It is capitalized at 200,000 shares, 50,000 offered at $1 for exploration. Details at No. 47 East Broadway, Butte, Montana.
P W Murray, an old resident and pioneer businessman of Butte and member of the 1899 Montana legislature, is in the city for the summer. He moved his family to Seattle a year ago and has spent most time in Seattle and Tonopah since, staying here to dispose of ongoing mining litigation while his family remains in Seattle.
Three hundred carpenters in St Paul walked out demanding an eight hour day and higher wages. The strike began on May 1 with workers assembled at local shops and union halls to press the labor action.
Mrs John I Kingsbury wife of the Superior laundry foreman poisoned her two children aged 1 and 8 and herself this afternoon at their Denver home Despondency is named as the cause The poisons were chloroform laudanum and carbolic acid All were dead when found
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