14 Jun 1900
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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1900
Page
1
Hennessy announces a bed and mattress sale featuring 20 Tron Beds with heavy plate brass knobs and fancy headboards, valued at 86.00. Each 100 percent cotton top mattress is offered at 8.00. Woven wire springs are priced at 3.00, highlighting a weeklong offer for this week.
Today only the furniture department on the third floor showcases Bix solid oak open bookcases with four shelves. These fold and stack to fit in three inches of space when not in use, offered at $8.50 for bookcases and $3.50 each.
Our entire stock of parlor and banquet lamps with B H burner are offered at half price. Egyptian bronze lamps hammered Drags golf plated wrought iron and hand decorated china vases with globes to match are included. Baccarat globes decorated by French artists in Oriental and antique designs priced from six to eight dollars at half price.
Twenty pieces from last year's patterns offered at half price. Berry bowls valued at 99.00, oven dishes from 400 to 5.00, water bottles priced at 4.25 5. and 7.50 each. The sale emphasizes no visible difference to new pieces.
Bargain sale offers half price on Cameo plaques German breque subjects 60 designs including Hero and Leander Queen Louise The Hunt and The Crescent with white or tinted backgrounds. Also shoe toothpick holders wable tumblers glass bottles salts and peppers way pans best cover egg beaters wash tubs fine wringers fifty pound flour cans and more household items priced from 5c to 1.95 each.
A Shanghai dispatch reports 30 000 Chinese troops outside Pekin with guns trained on foreign zones while the United States, Britain and Japan seek 2 000 troops each. US gunboats Yorktown and Castine head to Tong Tu as Admiral Kempff sends 2 500 troops toward Pekin including 100 Americans. News from Tien Tsin, Lang Fang, and Taku details rail damage, Boxer activity, and mounting international tensions as figures like Salisbury and Balfour loom in Britain.
A sub committee in Philadelphia failed to resolve disputes between protesting Delaware delegations. Adicks signaled willingness to accept a reasonable compromise. The panel later ruled for J R Deveraux over L M Pleasant in the First Georgia district and for Jones and Chase in the District of Columbia case.
Chicago reports a fatal incident on an Indiana avenue streetcar where motorman H. A. Morgan died from heart disease after the car, crowded with passengers, surged forward across railroad tracks near Fereth street just ahead of a freight train. Passengers only realized the danger after the car was halted.
A conductor warned of an approaching train as gates failed to stop a car. The watchman lifted the gates to aid the crossing, and the car narrowly passed before the locomotive. The motorman died, and a panic erupted among passengers as the car cleared the rails.
The Republican congressional committee sought voluntary extra salary contributions from congressional employees after adjournment. Most gave little or nothing, with totals likely between 5 and 10 dollars per giver, not the hoped for thousands. Schrader denied requests for fixed sums, stating no coercion and voluntary gifts only.
Senator Cushman K. Davis of Minnesota spoke on foreign relations defending Washington’s non entangling policy. He argued the United States should preserve its isolation, avoid European entanglements, and leverage latent power while ensuring peace through selective influence after Manila and Santiago. He also asserted U S influence in China would dominate commerce in the Orient.
San Francisco reports grave fears for the schooner Americana en route from nitre ports to this port for 103 days. A new steel schooner built in Scotland this is her first voyage. The voyage delay exceeds normal by fifty days. Ten percent re-insurance has been offered. Another vessel, the Fingal, from Calcutta, is also reported overdue and unspoken.
Omaha June 14 Nebraska proposes to be heard in the matter of electing a candidate for vice president at the Philadelphia convention. Hon William F Guerley chairman of the Nebraska delegation writes in the Omaha Bee urging Baldwin of Council Bluffs for nomination.
London reports the death of Mrs Gladstone widow of former prime minister William E. Gladstone. She died at 5 40 p m today bringing to a close a long public life intertwined with political circles in Britain.
London dated dispatches reveal General Roberts and Lord Roberts coordinating offensives as Walkerstroom submits. Bouer positions retreat eastward from Laing's Nek toward Volksrust, while Pretoria remains contested and Milner pursues a new cabinet with Sprigg. Suffering among troops and horses rises as DeWet destroys supplies near Pretoria.
A Washington dispatch notes Cuba's Saturday municipal elections will shape the timing of a constitutional convention. Voter eligibility hinges on birth, parentage, literacy, property, and a prior Cuban army discharge, with costs covered by the Cuban treasury. Census shows 417 95% voting-age locals, 118 278 literate voters, 25 095 of whom are colored. Military observers anticipate outcomes affecting civil administration and the path to suffrage.
The report notes a rapid Cuban troop withdrawal as units are reassigned. Many services will be needed elsewhere within months after the volunteer army in the Philippines disbands. Two Battalions of the Sixth Cavalry are already ordered to the Philippines, with more units following.
Secretary Long finalizes a circular for five battleships. Three will use copper wood sheathing per old rules. two will be unsheathed, reducing displacement to 14 600 tons and likely increasing speed and range. Bids will set costs with or without sheathing. Names floated include Pennsylvania New Jersey Georgia Virginia Washington.
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