Butte School Board Tackles Discipline and Curriculum
The school board debated student conduct and court action over rude behavior toward girls and teachers. They also heard a complaint about arithmetic methods and promoted several teachers while approving substitute changes. Enrollment totals and payroll figures were reported, with bids for the new West Side schoolhouse pending land closure and contractor submissions.
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Butte
Ressor
West Side
Grant School
Speers
Harry Myers
Charles Gallagher
Fergus Fay
Lincoln
Trials of wife beaters. Peter Skelly released on own recognizance
Peter Skelly tested for wife beating was released on his own recognizance by Police Magistrate Sullivan to appear for trial Friday. Police note Skelly is a miner and hardworking. The Skellys occupy a fine furnished house in Butte. William Connors, also arrested for wife beating, failed to post 50 dollar bail and remains in jail awaiting Friday.
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Peter Skelly
Sullivan
Skelly
Skellys
Butte
William Connors
Morrissey Missed His Watch Arrest for Theft
Mike Shea was arrested by Officer Ferns on a complaint by P. Morrissey of 14 East Granite Street alleging the theft of a silver watch from Morrissey’s person. Witness James Daugherty listed. Morrissey works at the Homestake mine Park Canyon. Shea says the watch was kept overnight for safekeeping.
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Mike Shea
Oficer Ferns
P. Morrissey
East
Granite Street
Morrissey
James Daugherty
Homestake
Park Canyon
Shea
Most Deadly of Weapons Foretold French Cavalry Lance
Army and Navy Journal reports General Leroy in La France Militaire arguing the lance remains the queen of weapons for cavalry. He claims speed and moral effect trump shock, noting infantry panic and the lance’s lethal grip, with Germans embracing mounted lance tactics alongside carbine use.
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Leroy
Mar- Mont
Militar Woederblatt
Army and Navy Journal
la France Militaire
Napoleon
Tarantula and Toad Duel in Texas Panhandle
A witness recounts a rare clash between a large tarantula and a horned toad amid an ant bed in northern Texas. The battle features repeated leaps, limb loss, and a final fatal bite as the tarantula pierces the toad’s lip and grasps its lower lip to kill it.
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Texas
Panhandle
Dr. Tanner
Delmonco’s
Fatal Mistake Ends Political Ambitions By Baseball Umpire
In a Washington Star reminiscence a man recalls his downfall after umpiring a school baseball game. He describes social pretensions and attempting to please all factions, admitting ignorance of many subjects. His onfield antics angered players, they fired him after one inning, ending his political prospects.
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Washington Star
Siack
United States
Fossil fish found in blue valley shells and names
In blue valleys a few Mortelli specimens are found, first gannid-like vertebrates with interior skeleton and outer plates. The fossils show shining honey scales of an ancient species, per geologists. Parson remarks on marble playing, warning a boy about Sunday mischief and another boy’s marble win.
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Mortelli
National Democratic Club Convention Opens in Tomlinson Hall
Indianapolis hosts 500 to 1000 visitors for the national convention of democratic clubs opening tomorrow at 2 pm. W R Hearst National Chairman James K Jones Mayor Jones ex Congressman James Hamilton Lewis Renton McMillin will speak. Distinguished guests include Bourke Cockran and W J Bryan with plans for parades and multiple speakers through Thursday.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Tomlinson Hall
Wodnezday
W. R. Hearst
James K. Jones
Jones
Toledo
James Hamilton Lewis
Washington
Renton McMillin
Tennessee
J. BR. Sovereign
Knights of Labor
Patrick O'Farrel
Washington, D.C
Igmund
Chicago
Lewis G. Stevenson
Tlinois
Augustus Thomas
New York
M. L. Lockwood
Pennsylvania
National Anti League
P. W. Dove
George B. McClelland
J. Slayden
Texas
W. J. Bryan
A. &. Stevenson
Bourke Cockran
New Yor
Cockran
Stevenson
Bloomington
Duckwerth Club
Cincinnati
Cook County
Goulds Hold Power Fight Delays St Louis Railroad Vote
Stockholders sue to stop Edwin Gould and allies from steering the annual directors election of the St Louis Southwestern Railroad, alleging proxy control by Jay Gould’s estate. Hearing adjourned to allow consented injunction proceedings. meeting postponement expected. Also reports from Washington on Yellow Fever deaths including Major Cartwright and Surgeon Lasar.
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New York
Edwin Gould
St. Louis Southwestern Railroad Company
Andrew Haes
London
Jay Gould
Sai
Gould
St. Loui S
Washington
Wood Cables
Cuba
Columbia Barracks
George C. Cartwright
United States Volunteers
Jesse W. Lasar
John Tager
Seventh Cavalry
Willam S. Mark
Lasinamas Hospital
A. R. Kilbourne
Second Artillery
Robert L. Thum
Princess Hatzfeldt Not Endangered by $1 Million Trust
New York dispatch reports Princess Hatzfeldt daughter of Collis P Huntington remains secure in the $1,000,000 trust from the Southern Pacific fortune. A search for adoption papers is underway after Huntington failed to locate documents in New York, but the will specifies the trust for the princess regardless of adoption.
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New York
Hatzfeldt
Collis P. Huntington
Southern Pacific
San Francisco
H. BE. Huntington
The
Southern Pacific Today
Princess not adopted by Huntington family as child
No adoption papers exist and none were sought. Charles H. Tweed says the princess, as a girl, was taken into Mr. Huntington's family as a daughter with full privileges, though she was the daughter of Mrs. Prentiss, sister of Huntington's first wife.
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Charles H. Tweed
The
Southern Pacific
Mr. Huntington
Familly
Honest-faced fisherman tempted by public lies on streetcar
A Boston Globe piece portrays a young man returning from fishing as streetcar passengers mock frauds about fish. A string of self-justifying liars exposes the perils of bragging while the honest man departs, and a passerby finds the discarded fish left behind.
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Boston Globe
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Ee Li Honey
Mney Vou
Ola
ORLA
Kibs
Park
Offery
Newbro Drug Company
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Silver Bow County
Boston & Mantanz Consolidated Copper and Saver Fining Co
C S. Batterman
Davenport
Granite
Bette
aiFih
Chung
Gaiena St
Bulte
Tnto South Africa
H. L. Dodd
Ohio
W. E. Dodd
W. Park Street
Orton Bros
N. Main Street
Cockrell
Sam Cockrell
Park and
E. F. Mayer
West Park
Even O. Williams
QO. Williams
Tarantula
Toad
New Jersey
Fossila
Party
Cor. Park and Main Sts., Butte
Universal Steel
Butte Steel
Monstana Steel
Standard Steel
Universal Cook
Charter Oak
Universal Heaters
St. Clair
Royal Oak
Lander Furniture and Carpet Company
East Broadway
P.0
Butic, Moat
E. H. Sherman
East Park Street
Anaconda Copper Mining Co
OF Butte
Garner Main and
Quartz
Howse
Or” Butte
Vontana
Mark E. Swan
Brown
Gpland
Butte, Montana
Iorton
Brothers Rexford
Jack Symonds
Symonds-Hughes-Rastus
Ed Fox
Fred Schmitt
Hank Goodman
Charles van
J. Iarve Briggs
Gorton and
Lee
Crescent City
Gorton
Selo
Tess Street
Montana Electric Co
Svend Carlson
Tom Moore
S. Main, Butte
BIG Blackfoot Milling Company
Bonner
Mont
Butta
Buite
Anacunda
Missoula
Hamilton
Cor
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Alamo
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