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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1910
Page
7
An explosion at 9 last night trapped 40 workers in the Mulga mine of the Birmingham Railway Coal Company in Mulga Alabama. Rescue efforts failed as cages were damaged and flames rose 400 feet. Fifteen white and twenty-five Black laborers are believed dead with no survivors found.
New York on April 19 reports a sharp fall in potato prices with farmers selling old potatoes for as low as 20 cents a bushel. Other foods become cheaper due to investigations, signaling broad relief for household staples.
Residents from Dillon to Butte and Anaconda woke in fright as a quake struck around 1:30 AM. Shocks rattled windows doors and chandeliers with no damage reported. Other towns Helena Pony Livingston recorded similar brief tremors with no injuries.
District court opens Monday under Judge Poindexter for the May term. Civil and water right actions fill the calendar, including W. S. Tash et al v J C Harrison. Wood Live Stock Co v Bonniview Reservoir. Birchdale Stock Farm v H B Selway. and many other debt, damages, and divorce filings.
The Los Angeles county hospital inaugurated an oral medical department claiming novelty for a county institution. It supplied John Schilheimer of Long Beach with part of a calf’s lower jaw to replace destroyed maxillary bones after he was gored by a Jersey bull last November.
Des Moines report shows Secretary Wesley Greene of the Iowa state horticultural department estimating that the freezing weather will have destroyed fruit and vegetables in Iowa amounting to between five and ten million dollars. The figure reflects extensive damage across the state's horticultural sectors.
Shanghai reports rioters destroyed the Wesleyan China Inland Mission at Chang Sha the capital of Hunan province. Missionaries sought refuge in the Yamen as rioters attacked it. No casualties reported.
Arthur Stewart of Salmon Idaho attempted to shoot himself in the right ear with a 32 calibre revolver on a city street. Physicians were summoned and may save his life. He was despondent over financial trouble after borrowing funds from a Salmon bank to build a news stand business.
Boulder council last night introduced an ordinance banning long dresses that trail on sidewalks to prevent dust and public nuisance. The measure urged by the women's club aims to curb attire deemed harmful to public health and decency.
A father offers bread and butter to Anne who refuses. He eats it himself and she watches eagerly. After the bread vanishes Anne asks if it tickled, expecting a tickle but learns a long hair was on it. The dialogue also shows clipped exchanges about a wife and a man named Harry.
President Taft attends two banquets and delivers two speeches while avoiding any feast. He voices that one term as president is enough, though in Pickwickian humor. Psi Upsilon president Bridgeman touts a recipe for 25 terms, which Taft playful rejects as excessive.
John D. Rockefeller faced a close call when a touring car swerved onto the curb seconds after he stepped from a curb at 57th Street and Fifth Avenue. His son John D. Rockefeller Jr. grabbed his hand and pulled him back, saving him from the vehicle.
Washington reports a dramatic rise in farm wealth over 20 years. Department of Agriculture figures show wealth produced on U S farms grew from 2.46 billion in 1889 to 4.717 billion by 1899 and 8.75 billion in the latest year, a total increase of about 6.3 billion.
Six firemen were cremated alive during the partial destruction of New Haven county jail as metal doors and barred windows trapped them while three others were saved by comrades. An explosion of a gasoline tank caused a back draft and slammed doors between the cell room and workshop.
Female protesters in Washington parade to Capitol Hill with banners and finery as 400000 individual demands for votes for women are presented to Congress. The mammoth petition is divided into small bundles each tied with yellow ribbon for easy carrying by suffragettes.
Washington dispatch reports William Randolph Hearst, former Democratic hopeful, issuing a signed statement endorsing Taft. He harshly criticizes Roosevelt's administration and warns against renewing Roosevelt's political influence.
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