Butte News Fought Bleed and Swore at Helena Riot
Chief of Police Travis of Helena recounts rough confrontations with seven alleged bad men who were brought back to the city and photographed. The melee included Harry Hall strapped over a barrel and forced into uncomfortable poses, while others endured searches and hidden money found on their persons leading to held-for-trial determinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Travis
Helena
Teddy Roosevelt
Pekin
Elysian Fields
Harry Hall
Harry
W. N. Foster
Foster
Jor Sherwood
Polo
N. P. Lea
Gunshot Wounds Survive Remarkable Philippine Battles
Dr. Ernest F. Robinson, former head surgeon, recounts extraordinary gunshot wounds from the Philippines. He notes soldiers’ courage and fatalistic belief in luck, describing a corporal who absorbed four wounds yet walked back to the dressing station and recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Kansas City Journal
Ernest F. Robinson
Second Reserve Hospital
Kansas City
Robinson
Philippines
Zanote River
Recalled siege of Pekin and rescue of foreign prisoners
The account recounts the 1860 Taiping crisis in China with British and French forces marching on Pekin. Prisoners including Consul Parkes Capt. Anderson and others faced brutal treatment. After the ally forces captured Pekin the prisoners were released and a peace convention signed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Pekin
Parkes
Anderson and Brabazon
Anderson
Parkes and Loch
Sir Hope Grant
Summer Palace
Bloodhounds and slave catchers shaped by slavery era
The piece recalls how bloodhounds bred for slave catching dominated South Carolina, tracing fierce packs from Cuba and local kennels to hunt runaways. It notes master oversight, strict laws against abuse, a famous 60 year old case in Waltherboro, and the decline of such dogs after slavery ended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Tyler
Virginia
South Carolina
Cuba
South
Walterboro
Charleston
Natal Volunteers' Home-Going Indefinitely Postponed
Boers captured a convoy between Cedars Drift and Blood River, burned wagons and took the escort delaying the Natal volunteers return. The postponement causes a painful impression across the colony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durban
Natal
Cejars’ Drift
Blood River
Four Section Men Injured in Spokane Train Collision
Four section men on a hand car collided with a freight train near Deer Park on the Spokane Falls and Northern. The engine derailed and the hand car was demolished. James Ross the section foreman suffered a skull fracture and may not recover. Another worker was crushed and disappeared into the woods prompting searching parties to hunt for him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Wash
Deer Park
Spokane Falls & Northern
James Ross
Also Mentioned on This Page
Butte News
Teddy
Peter Dunn
Kansas
Montanas
Golden Gate
God’s
36Th
United States Volunteer Infantry
Funston
Fifth Artillery
Chaffee
Pantan Bridge
Far East
ISC
Jewel
Mrae & Solveson
Butte, Mont
Transvaal
Joahe Cfeafe Ates
Royal
Butte
Alaska
Astrachan
Coney Muffis
Skinner
Chinchilla
Coney, Astrachan, Krimmer Jackets
Coney Jackets
Reveres Skinner
Krimmer
Capes
Eton
Pricele
Park St. Butte, Mont
Prie
W. Park St. Butte, Mont
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