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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1902
Page
2
After 48 hours of heavy rain, five blocks in downtown Brunswick Georgia sit under water with 1 to 16 inches in stores. The city fire station jail and traffic are flooded from Bay to Union streets. The Brunswick Electrical Supply Company is out of business and railroad traffic is disrupted by washouts.
Berlin reports surprise and regret over the small American attendance at the international tuberculosis congress. Dr William Enger attended from Naples with the only U S link, while Dr Charles Denison of Denver contributed an abstract on TB research directions.
Paris hosts a meeting of French airmen to pool effort for the St Louis exposition aeronaut’s prize of 100000 dollars. Emile Marceau promotes Le Papillon with 30 foot wings, proposes a national fund and sharing the prize among contributors. delegates decide to set an executive committee but delay final action.
In Berlin on Oct 26 the stock market saw a raid on Hamburg America and North German Lloyd shares dropping below par for years. Hamburg America faced heavy selling amid freight market fears and British competition, while Ballin’s illness was clarified as not serious.
Washington October 26 All is in readiness for tomorrow afternoon’s meeting of the anthracite coal strike commission. Members are in the city and operators representatives have arrived. No testimony will be taken tomorrow and hearings for non direct stake holders may be considered. Five operators’ representatives including George F Baer FE B Thomas John H Merr David Wilcox and Alfred Waller are in Washington awaiting the commission’s decision on procedure and testimony.
Omaha details how a two week old boy left at Mrs. Martin Cannon's doorstep sparked a frontier chase. The infant’s mother, 19 year old Mrs. Wiley McCram, says her husband forced her at gunpoint to abandon the child, then disappeared. She plans divorce proceedings.
London observers report money rates remain subdued after last week’s £200,000 treasury bill financing. Banks show no rush for large loans and 4 percent lending has not lifted market prices. Subdued New York fears ease as American shares gain modest momentum in a generally dull market.
Walla Walla Washington, October 26. John Marcy was crushed to death by a falling log at Big Meadows roughly 25 miles east of town in what authorities describe as a fatal accident from the previous day. No further details are available.
London October 26 King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra attended a thanksgiving service at St Pauls Cathedral with the Prince of Wales and cabinet members. Rainy weather did not dampen the spectacle as open carriages and uniformed officials created a blaze of color. The bishop of London delivered the sermon praising the king's recovery from illness before Te Deum.
The schooner Bonanza and the whaler Alice Knowles bring early season reports from Point Barrow and Fox Island. The Alice Knowles describes an Aug quake near the Kuriles, boiler burns on June 5, and captures 1 540 barrels of oil with 2009 pounds of bone from captured whales. The Bonanza notes whale bone and bearskins from several stations while warning of a la grippe epidemic among natives.
Helena reports Montana mined 442,569 tons of coal in 1901, down from 697,349 tons in 1900, due largely to Canadian mine shipments feeding the Great Northern line. Eight large properties supplied most tonnage. Cascade county fell by 354,770 tons while Carbon county rose by 92,178 tons. Wages totaled 1,610,266 dollars, about 1.12 dollars per ton.
Fragmentary note shows a timetable or meeting time of three thirty stated as departure or end time. No clear event or participants identified due to incomplete OCR.
Advertisement for Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets noting a refund if not curing and E. W. Grove’s signature on each box, price 25 cents.
Special Correspondence of the Standard Dillon October 26 reports Guy Glass, a 27 year old blacksmith who arrived in Dillon three weeks ago. After one shift he fell ill with typhoid fever and died Friday. His remains were shipped yesterday to his home in Granger Town.
The Hiercynia arrived in Kingston from Colon. Officers describe ongoing fighting in Colombia as revolutionists exploit troop withdrawals. Fever devastates Savanilla garrison as dead soldiers lie on the pier. Crew assist with cargo due to local worker shortages. The isthmus situation remains unchanged.
President Roosevelt's permit for foreign vessels to coastwise trade through the Philippines is expected to relieve the insular freight situation and lower rice costs. The civil commission will act promptly to prevent suffering among the poor. British German Japanese and Chinese vessels will enter the coastwise trade amid high Manila rates. Locusts threaten crops as war cholera and silver price declines dampen business prospects.
Manila notes the cholera foothold strengthens on Mindanao with expected spread. Tlolo and Panay report ongoing outbreaks while Manila shows disappearance. Total cases reported exceed 100000 to date.
The National and American league all star teams met in Denver with the Nationals defeating the Americans 4 to 0. Donovan Dexter powered the Nationals batteries while Bernhardt Sullivan held the American side in check.
United States Consul Alonzo Garrett at Lando Mexico returned to the consulate in Huntington after 20 days with a party of friends wandering in the Sierra Madre mountains. They mostly lacked food and were water bound during the hunting trip.
Catholic prelates from across the country attended the dedication of Dallas Texas new cathedral of the Sacred Heart. The edifice is described as one of the finest Catholic churches in the South.
Twenty seven thousand dollars has been realized from the sale of food supplies in Batangas Laguna Luzon and Mindoro. The effort was led by General Bell and the proceeds turned over to the insular government for expenditure by the civil commission among the people of Batangas Laguna and Mindoro.
Berlin October 26 news says Germany will fill the long vacant military attache post at its Washington embassy after a period without an official attache.
New York October 26 Reverend J Wilbur Chapman resigns as pastor of Fourth Presbyterian Church to devote time to hosting conferences and evangelistic work.
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