23 May 1900
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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1900
Page
1
Hennessys basement sale features Graniteware Tinware Woodenware and home hardware. White graniteware Homer Laughlinware showcased with low prices to entice shoppers. Six cups and saucers 50 cents, six inch plates 50 cents, jugs 10 15 and 20 cents, lampware and glassware at half price, plus numerous bargain tables and dozens of glassware items priced affordably.
Table glassware sale lists 75 Water Glasses 40 doz 1.00 Water Glasses 50c doz 1.25 Water Glasses 65c doz 1.50 Glass Goblets 75c doz Ice cream freezers White Mountain triple motion praised for quick cream congealing. Prices shown: 8-quart 2.60 4-quart 3.00 6-quart 3.50 8-quart 4.40 10-quart 6.00 Screens to keep flies out at 1.25 each Berens patent adjustable window screens 50c each.
Dispatches from Capetown to London describe General Warren occupying Douglas after heavy fighting with no British casualties, Boer retreats to North Kimberley, and about 800 Boers surrendering at Vryburg. British forces near Mafeking report relief completed, with Roberts advancing and garrison praise for Baden-Powell.
New York May 23 The Social Reform club examined injunctions against the clearmakers union over picketing factories with struck employees and forbidding strike benefits. The committee urged state and national action to limit injunctions to parties only, void them if they block highway use or free speech, grant jury trials on disobedience, and critiqued Justice Freedman’s injunction against the clearmakers as likely to be set aside.
Washington May 23 Secretary of the Treasury Gage issued letters directing depositories to transfer funds by June 5 to the assistant treasurer for credit to the US treasury as part of moving 5,000,000 from temporary balances to the sub-treasury. The transfers support redemption of 25,364,500 in funded loan bonds at 2 percent called by a June 18 circular. Bondholders may present bonds before August 19 for payment. interest ends then.
At the American Unitarian Association business meeting held in Boston on May 23 the following officers were chosen President Samuel A. Eliot of Cambridge Massachusetts and vice presidents Jos W Symonds of Portland Maine Samuel Hoar of Concord Massachusetts Willard Bartlett of New York Thomas J Morris of Baltimore George B Adams of Chicago Horace Davis of Sen.
Francisco secretary James E. St John Pittsburg reports contributions for current excuses exceeded 1899 by more than $17.00, gifts and bequests rising nearly $20,000. Treasurer George W Fox Boston shows total income $101,168 with $75,429 from societies and individuals and $16,615 from invested funds. Total expenditures reach $40,675 for home and foreign missions plus $9,070 for books and salaries. Gifts and bequests added $59,552 to funds.
In New York on May 2, members of the American and Foreign Bible Society suggest the organization will end its current exp erience within months. A committee will review finances and legality, with possible court action including a receiver or injunction. Rev Leighton Williams and colleagues discuss reform and limiting further Bible revisions.
Honolulu reports no bubonic plague cases for 46 days as of May 15 aboard the steamer Australia. Alexander Young, interior minister in Dole’s cabinet, arrives on private business while plantation agencies form a sugar sale committee for contracts over three to five years.
California capital funds a vast mining venture in Siberia and Manchuria with concessions from Russia and China. A syndicate representative hires seasoned California miners and orders 300000 dollars of modern mining equipment plus plans for a million dollars additional gear within a year. Some machinery already ships from San Francisco and New York. The placer mines will be developed on an extensive scale.
Germany plans a firm protest in Pekin over Li Ping Hang the ex governor of Shang Tung who China removed at German insistence. He has now been appointed governor of Shan Si a key post.
In Chatham county near Cum nock coal mines twenty two workers died in an explosion likely from a broken gauze in a safety lamp. About 40 to 50 men were underground. five survived in the east heading while others in other sections perished. White workers named include John Connelly and Joseph Glass. colored workers listed among those killed. Rescue from Sanford arrived, bodies recovered by daylight, funeral held today. The disaster marks a fourth such incident with roughly eighty five deaths in the area.
In Constantinople on May 22 the United States charged affairs delivered a new note to Tewfik Pasha pressing a prompt settlement of American indemnity claims. The note follows four weeks without a reply to the April 24 note and, while the Porte reacts with caution, observers believe the United States will not wait long for an answer.
In Indianapolis Indiana the gold Democrats held a conference to decide their stance for the national campaign. They say their plan to nominate a federal gold Democrat will be shaped by the Kansas City convention. They condemn McKinleyism and insist free silver remains an issue and a duty to oppose Bryan.
Berlin May 24 disquieting Samoa reports are dismissed as English intrigue. The Breliner Tage calls the claims mere evidence of English interference in Samoa while the Lokal Angeiger cites correspondence from Samoa describing the situation as satisfactory.
The Journal and Advertiser reports on May 23 that among 450 state convention delegates, 162 are pledged to insist on Bryan delegates to the national convention, 126 mostly from New York City remain unpledged, and the remaining delegates have not yet been chosen.
A special to the Gazette reports Lakeview Oregon a town of about 700 residents suffered the destruction of its business portion by a recent fire. The blaze left extensive damage and prompted emergency responses from local services. Authorities have begun assessing losses and cause remains under investigation.
Chicago dispatch reports Autlan in southern Jalisco suffered widespread destruction from a recent quake. Residents fled to the mountains as buildings collapsed and a lake near Zapotitan vanished in a fissure stretching miles. Smaller damage reported in Tuscasesco and Tonita. A tidal wave caused limited harm after the tremor.
Washington May The House adopted without division a resolution for adjournment June 6. A Ways and Means discussion on the war tax bill followed with De Armond criticizing the measure, while Clayton defended it as upholding Cuba’s freedom. The military affairs committee reported the canteen bill with amendments excluding liquor from the capital and public buildings, renaming the measure the Bowersock bill and broadening its scope to all premises owned by the United States.
The will of Benjamin H. Howell, sugar merchant, leaves an estate of 1.5 million dollars and directs 15 thousand dollars to Brooklyn charities. Arbitration between the Internal Foundry Men's Association of Employers and the Tron Moulders Union of North America ends wage dispute with a settlement announced last night and details withheld. Grand Chief Arthur is re-elected at the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers convention in Milwaukee.
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