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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1896
Page
2
The president appeals to Congress urging a swift peaceful settlement between Spain and Cuban insurgents, warns against prolonged conflict, and proposes home-rule autonomy as a pathway. He also calls for decisive currency reform to retire greenbacks and stabilize finances, urging strict economy and fiscal prudence.
A digest from Boston to Hawaii reports Whitten Burdette Co failing cash balance 224 million and gold reserve 131 million. Amusa Ely shoots self in Philadelphia home. Halting note on Andrew White as secretary of state mentioned. Various political and industrial items touch on immigration rifle bans Alaska and engineering deaths.
A compilation of brief items notes fisheries planting in eastern waters, a mine accident in Victor Colorado, a Denver railroad dividend, a snow slide fatality in Utah, and various political military and social items. Also, a fire at Vineland New Jersey, a poisoning case, a royal visit denial, union politics in Germany, a street robbery in St. Louis, and a rare Book of Common Prayer sale in Boston.
A roundup of chiefly obituaries and political items. Dr. Benjamin Tappan dies at 81 in Bangor. Mrs. Sarah BE Mink, head of GAR Auxiliary, dies. Kansas City bank receiver Thomas P. Wallace named after bank collapse. Royalties, elections, and court actions span Delaware to Idaho with lawmakers’ positions on the Dingley bill and Raines law discussed.
A wide set of items including treason appeals in France, village burnings in Mamouret-U-Azziz, a fatal raid on moonshiners in Ashboro North Carolina, a fraud order against Standard Shoe Nashville, a London fat stock show opening, a bridge fall death in Lake Geneva Wisconsin, oil discovery at Newport Michigan, a new general manager for Philadelphia Traction, amateur handball date change, Bran usage at a Kimball roller mill, a Denver Humane Society case of a chained insane daughter, wholesale grocers seek higher sugar rates, cyclone floods in the West Indies and Jamaica Estates wiped out with Trinidad and Barbados flooded.
The report spans diverse items including Thomas Canary near death in a Chicago hotel and a committee seeking more time on free alcohol for the arts. George Deacon murders his wife and drowns himself while John Rech in Atlantic City confesses. A. L. Pearson suffers paralysis, and a pension bill of 141 million is before Congress. Harry Payne Whitney buys a Newport cottage for 250000. Berlin editors face sensational testimony in a notable trial, and Indiana moves to ban cigarettes. Delaware’s Henry A. Dupont may enter McKinley cabinet race. W. L. Lee faces assault charges in Nebraska, while Barney Barnato and Rothschilds eye Ontario gold. Other notes include Mrs McKinley patronessing a New York fair, Annie Frazier in Bellevue Hospital, and William Ivison’s estate contested by heirs.
A list of scattered incidents from various locales reports a dead outlaw at Blackwell Oklahoma identified as Dynamite Dick, a mine shut at Pence Wisconsin, Milwaukee bans on pool rooms, a county jail poisoning in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, multiple murders in Paxton Illinois, and other sensational events including suicides, fires, and robberies.
In Exporia Kansas on December 9 postal inspector Paul Williams of St. Louis assumed control of the local post office. The change places Williams in charge of post office operations and staff.
The U S Senate began its second session of the Fifty fourth Congress with crowded galleries and a formal start. The reading of the president's message was the day’s feature while foreign diplomats observed, and no major business followed after the initial hour.
Washington December 8 bonds of ceremony marked the House as it opened with the chaplain’s blessing and the president’s annual message read by Mr. Cleveland. A death notice for ex Speaker Crisp cast a somber tone as the body adjourned after resolutions honoring him.
The House approved three postal bills and the regular pension bill on December 9. Proposals included private mailing cards with 1 cent stamps, $10 indemnity for lost registered mail, and a private carrier service in non–free-delivery towns. The pension bill totals about $141.3 million, roughly $75,000,000 less than last year. Silver Republican senators avoided the caucus prompting speculation on their tariff stance and independence.
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