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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1899
Page
4
Ladies shop window season offers a wide range of novelties including Fancy Slippers Fancy Vesting Top and Plain Oxfords in varied styles. Agents for John Foster Co Wright Peters Keippandormt and other makers feature a large children and misses line, claimed as the west’s largest and most complete.
Cleveland Ohio June 20 amid a street railway strike a special city council committee met union and company reps to seek settlement. Crowds attacked Wade Park avenue cars with stones injuring conductors and motormen. police were overwhelmed. A 2000 person crowd later gathered at Central and Wilden avenues with stones and bricks, while the Hollenden avenue police barracks saw little success guarding lines. Akron reports show power shut off on Rapid Transit lines and talks of arbitration continuing into night with possible naval bureau reforms.
Secretary Long plans a reform in the naval bureau system by substituting a board of admirals for the present board of construction. The aim is to end bickering over battleship design by having disputes referred to the Board of Inspection and Survey led by Rear Admiral Rogers with Rear Admiral Schley as a member.
Chicago business leaders and physicians formed the Illinois Society for the Prevention of Consumption with Mayor Harrison presiding. They aim to eradicate TB bacteria from livestock and dairy, seek state funding of 50 000 dollars first year, 20 000 second, 320 000 third, and support tuberculine testing with possible cattle condemnation and compensation. John McLaren elected president.
Henry Watterson told a New York reporter he did not come to discuss gold or oil Democrats or any conference. He plans only to prepare for a meeting of Money Democrats and knows nothing of any planned conference. He predicts Tryin and the 96 platform will be revised in Chicago and foresees the eastern Democrats failing to control the 1900 campaign as in 1896.
Chicago dispatch reports fifty hospital ambulances shipped to Tampa over a year ago by army officials, intended for Cuban use by U S troops, have gone missing. General Anderson is notified by Washington of the failed inquiry, and Chicago officials join the hunt, routing a railroad car journey to recover the ambulances.
San Francisco dispatch June 21 reports the coast and geodetic survey steamer Patterson bound for St Miewneis to survey the Tenngsea area on the route to the Alaska gold fields. A year of systematic work in the region continues with seaward surveys to map the Yukon coast and data channels through the great bank toward deep water.
The Northern Pacific will set an open round trip fare of 59.90 for an N E A meeting in Los Angeles. Tickets go on sale July 3 to 7 with a return limit of September 11.
The regular meeting of the stockholders of the Golden Treasure Mining and Milling company will be held at room 5 Bennett block corner Park and Arizona streets Butte Montana at 7 p m June 29 1899 for election of directors and any other business that may properly come before the meeting E M Crumrine Secretary Dr Wix offers $20 sets of teeth for $10
Chicago June 21 Mayors and reformers discuss the rise of trusts and the path to collective ownership. The speaker argues for leveraging trusts for public good, organizing government to employ the labor saving power of large associations, and moving toward municipal ownership and cooperative commonwealth. The aim is public ownership, equal opportunity, and the people reclaiming private property through cooperative enterprise.
The board of effects appointed by General Brooke to investigate and make recommendations on army rations has prepared its report and forwarded it to the War Department. No change is recommended in the ration itself, though a slight mollification in how men may use the rations is suggested.
Consul at Manila June 21 reports the Spanish government has appointed Benor Tuig Marinas as consul general for the Philippines. He will oversee all Philippine affairs while based in Manila and previously served as Spanish consul in Baltimore Savannah Key West and New Orleans. The dispatch notes a broader set of appointments to major posts in Cuba Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
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