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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1902
Page
1
James Younger a member of the James Brothers notoriety shoots himself in St. Paul after being released from Stillwater Prison on parole. The event closes the long criminal figure’s life with a fatal self-inflicted gunshot.
James Younger, once part of the James gang, committed suicide at 8 am in St Paul after a life marked by health troubles and a failed romance involving a Boise Idaho woman. The Northfield raid of 1876 and subsequent events are recounted, including parole battles, pardons, and lingering family tensions with Cole Younger.
In Littleton Alabama a race riot leaves one white man missing presumed dead another fatally wounded and two black men seriously shot. The clash follows a white man being pushed from a railroad trestle by a black woman and escalates as both sides exchange heavy fire. Citizens call Sheriff for aid and fear theft of mine powder could spark further violence.
A Matos revolution leader in Curacao describes the La Victoria retreat as calculated. Castro refused to attack outside La Victoria, rebels diverted the city and cut the government retreat route, and a late ammunition train averted a government rout. Castro’s forces count 3,160. Matos's 9,000 remain in the field. The officer predicts rebels will be near Caracas in days.
In Gonaives Oct 19 Gen Lt Foix Colin commands government forces to keep order as many refugees remain at foreign consulates. The Killick family is at the German consulate while marine guards depart with foreign warships. US cruiser Cincinnari heads to Port de Paix and others move toward Port au Prince or Cape Haytien.
Northern Montana towns fear outbreak as Cree Indians on the Blackfeet reservation retreat to Canada or Havre. Major Monteath ordered Crees off, with reports of widespread illness and calls to quarantine the renegades until the disease is stamped out. No cases in Havre at present.
Fire at the Hamlet cotton compress owned by Seaboard Air Line destroyed property worth 225000 and killed J M Wilson of Clarksville Georgia the compress bookkeeper and nephew of George F Wilson of Charlotte. Fire destroyed Pee Dee ice plant 2400 bales of cotton burlaps and bagging. Wilson died as flames trapped him while attempting to escape after directing water onto the blaze.
Cheyenne reports the coroner’s jury found Charles H Sammons responsible for the death of Margaret Sammons at Brae ranch near Grant Wyoming. She had come from Oklahoma under false pretenses claiming her son was dying. The fatal shot was fired at close range. only Sammons and relatives witnessed the event.
A serious catastrophe was narrowly averted at the First Christian church in Omaha Nebraska today as a minister's quick actions prevented disaster during a tense moment. Worshippers witnessed a tense scene that ended without injury. The incident prompted church officials to review safety procedures.
Rev. Allen Wilson of Irvington Ind led a meeting as rotten timbers collapsed the floor twenty feet below. The audience evacuated quietly under Rev. Harry G. Hill’s warning. The floor settled five inches leaving the old church damaged beyond repair and likely to be rebuilt.
Baltimore obituary notes Richard B. McCoy aged 83 died at his Dublin home. He was a Maryland legislator in the 1861 extra session, a staunch abolitionist who opposed universal suffrage for Black citizens. He and others met with President Lincoln on negro suffrage the night before the assassination.
London residents in Hyde Park saw several thousand reservists from South Africa march to demand prompt payment of arrears and assistance to find work.
City Marshal Ben Hill was killed while attempting to quell a riot at a negro festival in Blossom Texas. Three other people were shot by the assailants, identified as brothers. The incident occurred last night with tensions running high.
Wilkes Barre Pa Oct 19 Delegates to the anthracite mine workers convention gather at Nesbit theater to decide on President Roosevelt s arbitration proposal and the return to work this week. President Mitchell is expected to chair with Universal support for ending the strike and resuming production.
North Yamhill Oregon October 19 three masked men attacked the Tillamook stage five miles from town forcing passengers to exit and surrender valuables. They secured 209 dollars then fled into the heavily timbered country where capture seems unlikely.
Nineteen prisoners arrived at San Quentin from Seattle aboard the City of Puebla on October 19. They were sent from McNeil's Island federal prison and placed in the northern penitentiary’s overcrowded conditions. One woman among the group is described as desperate. sentences range from 13 months to 10 years.
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