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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1899
Page
4
A list of sale prices and items including Maple Syrup gallon gold Crown Whole Cod Fish 18 pounds Orange Peel Cinnamon Mustard Breakfast Cocoa 2 pounds Bankers Coffee Cats Quarts California Grapes White Potatoes New Orleans Table Molasses Flour and Bread Flour offered per sack Laundry Soap quantities noted with prices, reflecting a generic grocery sale sheet.
London and New York papers warn of Menelik emperor of Abyssinia using current tensions over the Abyssinia Nile frontier to press against Britain. They note arms stockpiling, military plans, and potential mobilization, with estimates of Abyssinian forces and war-readiness amid a Cape to Cairo empire ambition.
New York dispatch from Havana reports General J H Wilson, commander of Matanzas and Santa Clara, will not ask to be relieved despite General Wood's appointment. He says he will serve as long as needed and expects Cuba's military departments to be reduced or consolidated soon. Wood's reception is scheduled for tomorrow.
American military and civil officials will travel by sea to meet General Wood. Cuban factions have harmonized differences to join in the welcome. General Brooke plans to depart Saturday via Florida and will be hosted at a Thursday banquet by leading Cubans. A suggested solution to Chaffee's assignment is sending him to the Philippines to replace General Lawton.
Leonard C Van Noppen, member of the Universal Netherlands union, arrived in New York on the Stadenham with an appeal to the nations at The Hague peace conference. It asks England to submit the South African question to arbitration and end the Transvaal war. Signatures are being gathered across Europe and the appeal will circulate in America. The appeal criticizes England’s actions and calls for arbitration in the spirit of Gladstone and peace with the Rothschild and gold-market references noted. Van Noonen says sentiment in Holland and France is against England, and he collaborates with committees in America to spread the appeal.
An ad in Rochester papers invites young men to seek service with Britain in South Africa. N Beverill says some men seek to enlist in Canada and will not enlist for war. Stull sent Peverill to a hearing set for Monday.
Nestor Ponce de Leon, a great grandson of Ponce de Leon and a Cuban independence figure, died in Havana on Monday at age 3 years. He had fled from Cuba during the uprising and his plantations in Havana and Pinar del Rio were worth an estimated 2 million dollars before confiscation by Spanish authorities. He served as treasurer of the Cuban junta and as custodian of archives in Havana as well as director of the city museum of natural history.
Chicago druggists joined the national association of petty druggists to fight robbers who sell to rate cutters. At a large Masonic temple meeting President Simon N. Jones and executive members outlined a campaign to eradicate the problem, with the Chicago group ordering cooperation with the national board. T. V. Wooten stated the movement aims to educate the wholesale trade to safeguard retailers.
New York December 20 Gus Rublin of Akron Ohio defeated Stockings Conroy of Troy New York in seven rounds at Broadway Athletic Club last night. Conroy fought hard but was unable to withstand Rublin’s cuts and jabs and was stopped by the referee near the end of the seventh. A large crowd backed Rublin and betting favored him at about 100 to 40.
A Washington dispatch reports the Navy Department will ask Congress for 1 million dollars to build two 3,000 ton first class tracing ships with both sail and steam propulsion. The plan aims to replace aging vessels now in use and train new crews, amid concerns over crew shortages and deployment of inexperienced sailors on warships.
A delegation led by Senator Shoup will tour Arizona and New Mexico to study conditions for statehood. Included are Senator Mark, Chairman Hull, Commissioner Herrman, Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn, Governor Murphy, and General Olero. They plan to return around January 1.
At the request of Sen. M A Hanna the Little Consolidated Street railroad will distribute 800 among its employees Saturday night as a Christmas gift. The senator telegrammed the directors to show appreciation for the workers during the late strike on the Big Consolidated line.
An advertisement touts Newbro's Herpicide as the only product that can permanently kill the dandruff germ and prevent falling hair. It argues other remedies merely soothe the scalp and that destroying the germ will stop dandruff and allow hair to regrow.
ChicagoPost reports a persistent loud fan at the Wisconsin Michigan game who shouted constant advice and warnings to players. A bystander complained, and in a bitter exchange the recipient offered a tin horn, sarcastically thanking the youth for amplifying noise as his purpose at the game.
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