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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1900
Page
4
Hennessy’s Silk and Dress Goods opening is twice yearly with spring and fall events. The store proclaims itself Butte’s largest and finest shop, urging shoppers to compare rivals and join the regular customers drawn by reputation and value.
Hennessy’s advertises unmatched stock of fabrics in the west, boasting immense inventories, vast novelty selections, and dependable staple weaves. The copy highlights big business in Butte, promising superior variety and season’s richest styles to please the public.
The Labor Party of Silver Bow County reconvenes amid fusion talks with Democrats and Populists. A conference committee was appointed to negotiate terms for fusion while debates over control and officer concessions surfaced, leaving delegates undecided as evening session nears.
Raimonda Conterio files for divorce on desertion grounds after seventeen years of marriage begun in Italy on September 21 1884 and eight children aged from 17 months to 15 years. She claims separate property including a cow and two houses, alleges the husband clouded title and attempted sales to deprive her of support, cites earnings from mining work and sums due from three companies, seeks custody of the children permanent alimony of 60 per month costs of suit 25 attorney fees 75 and a restraining order against further assignments.
Manager Wharton of the Butte Street railway company completed the task the morning of figuring up the number of people carried out to Columbia Gardens during the season just brought to an end.
The company’s daily passenger tally from opening to May shows 263,659 riders, including paid and free passage. Over four months, Garden business was light until late May, averaging 65,664 monthly and just over 2,000 per day. Wharton expresses satisfaction with the Gardens’ inaugural year.
A smallpox case at the Barrett and Jackey block triggers alarm as lodgings evade inspection. George Cavanaugh, ill for over a week, was moved to a pest house while guards quarantined the block. A faith doctor faced calls for accountability as vaccination and fumigation proceed. the city considers action against the landlady and healer. Grand reopening noted for Silver Tow Academy of Modern Dancing.
A collection of local notes reports and ads covers dental offices moving permits and a building project in town. Dr German at 14 North Main Dr Forsyth relocating to Tand Owsley block and a wall paper sale at Butte Wall Paper Co. are listed along with a furniture dispute and a row over a debt ending with police involvement.
The Pooley murder trial finishes testimony with one witness this morning and no rebuttal. Jurors are expected to return tomorrow afternoon to deliberate after attorney Throser requested the fur brief be checked.
Tudge Lindsay will hold two court sessions tomorrow with the morning devoted to examining a man alleged insane. At 2 PM, demurrers will be heard in multiple cases including Bottego vs Dougherty Blakely et al and Caprice Commercial vs Cassidy et al, with additional orders to show cause in King vs Allen et al.
A bunk house beside the Northern Pacific tracks near Tron Street caught fire this afternoon. The Arizona Street station responded quickly and extinguished the blaze within minutes with chemical extinguishing agents. Authorities suspect arson, noting loiterers near the scene and a strong presumption that the fire was set by unknown individuals.
The county convention of the Peoples Party is scheduled for Thursday in September at 10 PM in the Auditorium, Butte, Montana. Phillips serves as chair, M G. O'Malley as secretary.
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