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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1913
Page
17
The funeral for the late Robert Ascey will be held at his home 32 Plunkett Wertislandway then move to Conception church for mass. Interment to follow at a Catholic cemetery. Also noted is the burial of George D. McCabe at 125 Rant Park Street.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions a May event and a police context with names unclear and places unreadable. The readable bits describe an arrest or inquiry connected to a local area and a bell or bellieres reference, but essential specifics are missing.
The nine month old Manea infant named Larry Duggan died early yesterday at the family residence on South Main. Funeral services were held this afternoon at a local mortuary where burial followed.
A promotional piece from the Anaconda Standard extols the value of advertising in the newspaper. It argues every line serves a purpose and that readers gain education and profit by engaging with ads in a live daily paper.
Father Ely Kappa priest at Porphyry and Idaho streets in Butte, wounded before Scutari, returned from frontline service in the Balkan states. He aided dying and served as a soldier, praising Montana volunteers and stating the war was for Christianity. He expects to resume charge of his church despite lingering wounds.
Miss Evelyn Sheehan returned yesterday from a visit at Three Forks The Newsboys Auxiliary will meet tonight in the office of J R Wharton
A gunman assaulted five women, presenting a weapon and demanding money while they fled. Victims include Miss May McNamara of 218 North Washington and Miss Irene McNamara of 21% North, plus Miss Ada Coombs and Mrs. E Kitt among others on West Woolman and Virginia streets. The assailant demanded money but none were harmed.
A drunken youth on North Washington Street threatened to shoot four women within 29 minutes. He accosted Mrs. Coombs, her daughter Ada, and Mrs. Kitt, then Miss May McNamara and her sister Irene, forcing them to surrender purses and leading May toward a mine shaft. Ada Coombs escaped when bystanders pursued, but the assailant fled after a dramatic encounter near the shaft house. Detectives White and Lynch pursued the suspect as witnesses described a 5 foot 7 inch, well dressed man wearing a soft Fedora.
A gunman stopped a streetcar scene in which a mother, her daughter, and Mrs. Kitt complied with demands. Miss Coombs, about twenty, stepped out as the robber ordered. The mother fled toward Quarts street signaling a passing car while the assailant jostled the daughter. He vanished into an alley for two minutes then reappeared north of the block and robbed the McNamara iris establishment.
Harrisonville Missouri October 6 Ida May Keller was found guilty of first degree murder for killing her husband Arthur Keller a railroad laborer and their 10 year old daughter Margaret in their beds on June 10. Neighbors were alerted by her screams and she claimed a strange man entered and killed them with an ax.
In Oakland California in 1912 William Walker, serving three months for vagrancy, escaped with 39 days left. He returns married and wealthy, surrenders at the central police station, says Alaska earnings and a lingering term forced him back. He asks to pay a fine and serve the remainder in city jail. Over the next 30 days he will be granted jail favors as a trusty. His wife may visit daily.
Edward Cooke, 28, a Navy deserter who previously surrendered at Bremerton Washington, posed as a lodger in a city jail and walked free. He had enlisted four years ago, was discharged early for bad conduct, re-enlisted under the name Cooke, and deserted again. If caught, he faced charges of desertion and enlisting under an assumed name.
George E. McCabe, aged, died yesterday of pneumonia at the family residence 443 South Arizona Street. Survived by a wife and child, three brothers and three sisters in Claire Wyoming and a brother in Omaha. He was a member of the bartenders union and the Order of Fagles.
Yuan Shi Kai was elected today president of the Chinese republic for a five year term by the united houses of parliament on the third ballot. He received 607 votes, Li Yuen Heng 179, with 700 in attendance. other ballots went to minor candidates. The result aroused enthusiasm. In Panama a village in the western republic reportedly destroyed by an earthquake, Tomosi with about 300 inhabitants.
Solicitor Joseph W. Folk of the State Department ruled that none of Harry K. Thaw’s treaty rights as an American citizen were violated when Canadian immigration authorities forcibly reported him weeks ago.
The Rev A Bartling and Rev E Wachsmuth from Great Falls attended St. Mark's twenty fifth anniversary in Billings officiating with a reception. A musical program followed a welcome by Rev Huddot and remarks by Bartling and Wachsmuth, then a banquet.
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