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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1903
Page
6
A severe wreck near the Burlington depot in Sheridan occurred at 8 am when engine 3832 and ten way cars plus eight stock cars piled up after a runaway freight. switch actions diverted the cars onto a siding and a collision followed. Head Brakeman Paul Roberts was injured, others uninjured. Track and cars suffered extensive damage.
Mrs W B Carter and Mrs George Dart hosted a euchre afternoon at the Dart home last Saturday for a large guest list including Mesdames Jones Stolle Burfeind Pasmore and more. The event featured clematis decor pink carnations and sweet peas with prizes for top score and lone hand. Refreshments were served by the hostesses and two young assistants. Dysentery cure note unrelated line about Chamberlains remedy follows in ad form.
Miss Alice Lewis daughter of Rev. F. B. Lewis of Bozeman married Mr. I. K. Wisner of Bozeman at the parents home last Saturday Bishop Brewer officiated. Miss Lewis sister of Mary Lewis a State Normal graduate and known in Dillon from former summer school attendance.
A violent incident in Pony ends with Bert Crawford dead and Walter Alkire fatally wounded after a quarrel at a local saloon. Aleck Sheely, drunk, returned with a gun and killed Alkire then Crawford. Sheriff Hill from Virginia City arrives with deputies to guard Sheely as crowds threaten lynching. Crawford’s bride and Alkire’s wife endure deep grief. A separate Sheridan Rochester drilling contest ends in a brawl with prizes and disorder.
Butte notes the death of Major John E Dawson aged 63 a native of Ireland who lived in the city. Dawson served as general agent for the Great Northern railroad in Montana and his funeral led to the closing of all railway offices and stations in town yesterday afternoon.
An allegorical image contrasts costly cyclone cellar plans with neglecting to stock Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for family safety. The ad claims the remedy is the prompt, reliable treatment for bowel diseases, widely recognized and superior to dangers of neglect.
In Atlantic City on August 4 the Catholic societies held a solemn requiem mass at St Nicholas church for Leo XIII with Rt Rev Bishop Messmer of Green Bay officiating. President Roosevelt sent a regret letter as Mintani Hanska of the Sioux congress spoke in his native tongue, translated by Father P F Dillman at the Rosebud agency South Dakota.
The page blends health ads for Lane's Tea and Herbine with an obituary note on Calamity Jane and a travel promotion. It cites Mrs James Burke in Deadwood near Terry and Mount Moriah, plus testimonials from G L Caldwell and Riley's drug store. It promotes Colorado rail journeys by Rio Grande system with rate requests.
W C Deering of Chicago, arrived from the Orient on the Tacoma, claims insurgents in the Philippine islands are organizing and drilling. He says filibusters land arms on the coasts and schooners smuggle contraband cargoes. Deserters from U S Army and ex British and European soldiers join rebel service.
President Roosevelt sent $100 for Theodore Signet the McKeesport baby. The sum is deposited in a bank to the credit of the child, marking the twentieth birth for Mr and Mrs William H Signet.
The source recalls a proposal by Miss Welsh to her mother to let Thomas Carlyle live with them as a united household. Carlyle rejects the plan stating two households cannot merge and vows to have full ownership before enjoying his wife’s company. He adds that once master of a home he would bar intruders.
An advertisement asserts deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian tubes and catarrh. It claims constitutional remedies cure nine of ten cases, offering one hundred dollars for any deafness case caused by catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure, with circulars and Hall's Family Pills promoted.
An advertisement touts the Canyon of the Grand as a winter and summer scenic highlight on the Rio Grande line. It quotes Cy Warman praising the canyon and invites readers to request rates and folders from G. W. Frizarrato, General Agent in Butte Montana.
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