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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1900
Page
11
Distinguished railroad officials arrive in Butte for a fact finding tour and meetings with local leaders, highlighting transportation developments and future rail projects in the region.
General Passenger Agent F I Whitney of the Great Northern and associates toured the region to assess rail traffic as the West shows strong prosperity. Other Great Northern and Oregon Short Line officials joined from Great Falls and Salt Lake. plans included a trip with Governor Roosevelt to Utah. John H. Cox, 49, died at 14 Center street Centerville. funeral arrangements to follow.
Tientsin reports British authorities are ordered to oppose the Russian occupation of the Shanghai kwan and Tientsin railway held by a British syndicate and leased to China. Russian northward movements are believed to include an expedition toward Shanghai kwan where imperial troops currently hold. Both Britain and the United States eye Shanghaikwan as a potential winter port amid rail damage.
Brigadier General Humphrey chief quartermaster of the US expeditionary force and Colonel Samuel S. Sumner arrived to command the second brigade as a British detachment to Shanghaikwan is deemed probable at an early date.
Official advices report a Russian column moving from Charbin uniting with General Orloff from Tsitsikor to clear 1380 versts of railway from the Nortschvik frontier to the Ussam frontier. Rail line workers start returning to duties along the line.
Reports from St. John's Newfoundland say 17 more ships ashore and 13 lives lost after last week's gale. Property damage along the seaboard is extensive, and hope fades for four other vessels with 25 crew members aboard.
Lima Peru Sept 18 After a stormy voyage the US Army sea going tug Slocum formerly Gypsum King arrived today at Callao. All on board are well. The Slocum which left New York July 12 will proceed tomorrow for San Francisco.
Three men in Salinas California are under arrest on suspicion of killing Sheriff Chaves in New Mexico. New Mexican authorities have been notified of the suspected crime.
A. C. Bartlett of Chicago donated 125000 dollars to the University of Chicago to build a physical culture hall in memory of his son Frank who died several years ago.
Berlin reports ninety two new coal mines opened this year boosting Prussia 1900 output by 2,500,000 tons.
Dennis O Connor a Victoria Texas cattleman and banker died today in San Antonio Texas He was widely known in the West
The Italian minister in Pekin Marquis Salvaggo Rage travels with his wife and son Paris. His wife, famed as La Bella Palavicini before marriage, resisted the China posting, fearing natives. She telegraphed anxiously upon hearing the appointment and joined him after his arrival and news of his father’s death.
Cleophas Chopain and a French-Canadian man argued in a saloon at 1837 South Montana Street between 10:30 and 11. Dove Willard stepped in and fired, striking Chopain in the right shoulder. Dr. Wells treated the wound. Willard was arrested at his home by Deputy Avare after midnight.
The piece notes French interest in the Indian walking technique called the flex icon march, citing Captain Aline of the 20th Infantry who says it resembles American Indian gait. It praises Indian scouts as the original teachers of modern military movement and questions the new method’s merit.
James Woodward, a sailor on the British steamer Belgenland, was submerged for 15 minutes in 80 feet of water at Washington avenue wharf. He was rescued by the Visitor tug crew, Police Surgeon Naylor, and Pennsylvania Hospital doctors after a fierce effort. though delirious and restrained, he is expected to recover from the incident.
The Northern Montana Office of the Standard is located in the Bach-Cory Hierk, Great Falls, opposite the Perk Hotel. Advertising rates are furnished on application.
Great Falls hosts the annual grand lodge meetings with Masons and Eastern Star members in town. Officers are installed for the Royal Arch Masons and Knight Templar Red Cross, with W. E. Chamberlain named as delegate to the Cincinnati General Grand Chapter. A later note mentions a marriage ceremony and various locals visiting or noted in attendance.
Dr. R. Peeler, a Kalispell banker, travels through Great Falls toward the Helena political convention. W. Taylor of Chateau and his wife also pass through en route, with Taylor listed as a delegate to the Democratic convention. George Gossip recently arrived from Salt Lake, accompanied by Miss.
London reports Laurence Marquez describing a pitched engagement between Kaal Maiden and Hectorspruit with heavy Boer casualties. Boers damaged locomotives near Waterhoven and Watervlander blocking six miles of Crocodile Port railway, destroying culverts and the Mhectorspruit bridge and burning Komati Poort. Heavy fighting continues as British forces advance toward Komati Poort.
Pretoria dispatch reports General Carew occupying Kaap Muiden about 20 miles east of Nelspruit and seizing locomotives and rolling stock.
Lourenco Marquez reports five hundred Boer refugees arrived this evening seeking foreign protection. Twenty are wounded in the group as tensions rise in the border area.
A grand scene unfolds at a California cafe located at the corner of Main and Broadway around September 20. Patrons describe a notable gathering centered on a ring event with local attention.
Six thousand more coal miners join the ranks of strikers in the Wyoming valley. Tensions flare as Likens and Waconisco factions threaten to drive out Williamstown workers before Saturday, with bad blood dating from a wage dispute. No mines resume work. Mocanqua of West End remains the only operating colliery in the district.
Three regions in Pennsylvania will see Led Coal and Navigation Company workers shift to a ten hour day starting tomorrow. The 5000 mine workers in Panther Creek Schuylkill Nesquehoning valleys are currently unorganized. This change raises their potential earnings.
The Texas Republican Green faction convention in San Antonio on September 18 nominated a full state ticket led by Governor W. J. Burkett and Lt Governor J. J. Clifford. T B. Stanley was chosen attorney general, Judge Lowden treasurer, George Zeigler land commissioner, J. B. Hornberger superintendent, Morgan Jones railroad commissioner, with E. H. R. Green serving as state executive committee chairman. The Hawley supporters also met and the convention adjourned sine die.
In Richmond Virginia on September ? the sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows elected officers including grand steward A Cable of Ohio deputy grand master John B Goodwin of Georgia grand secretary J Frank Grail of Baltimore grand treasurer M Richards Mackie of Pennsylvania A resolution approved granting 1500 dollars for Galveston disaster victims.
The Lilly of the North sailing from Halifax last summer with Pear Arctic expedition supplies is reported lost near Cape Breton. The crew were saved, but details beyond the loss are scarce as the information reached Halifax.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in Des Moines today spent the full session reviewing the committee on revision of the constitution.
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