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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1898
Page
2
The readable lines suggest a shipping note or cargo record mentioning vessels, routes, and freight fees. Specifics are unclear due to missing text, but references to boats, places, and trades indicate a brief port or voyage update.
Mrs N 5 Hammer entertained 16 ladies on Tuesday afternoon from 2 to 5 in honor of Mrs Geo H Wells of Butte. The event featured Bishop Oxford conundrums answered with body parts terms, music, and refreshments. Each guest received a corsage bouquet of carnations. Attending were Mesdames Morse Chapman Paul Hall Thompson White Davidson Hodgens Wells Weller Dart French Conger Stone Melton and Miss Myrtle Powers.
Beginning Tuesday February 1 1898 and weekly thereafter Rock Island Personally Conducted tourist cars will depart Portland bound for Denver Chicago and Boston. Cars are modern sleepers with experienced conductors and a Pullman porter. Route via O R N O R L B G W D RG OR ES PB L 8 2M 8 NY O R R B AR R. Special care for ladies and children traveling alone. Through to Chicago and Boston without change. For particulars see agent.
Mesdames Hammer and Weller hosted the Tremolo club on Monday evening at the latter’s home. Readings featured Mrs. E J Conger Miss Carrie White Miss Lucy Grannis Miss Mae Reinhardt Mr Arthur Judges Miss Lamont Mrs G H Wells Mesdames Hammer and Weller also performed a royal duet. Mrs Wells of Butte praised for a contralto voice. Elaborate refreshments followed the program. Next meeting set for Miss Bishop’s home.
U S buyers purchase about two million boxes yearly with expectations of rising to three million before New Year. Oascarets are touted as the year round bowel regulator and are available in 100 250 and 500 box sizes with guaranteed satisfaction. Misses Tillotson Thorpe Innes and Lamont hosted a 25 guest Tour party starting at Tillotson’s home and visiting Klondike and Esquimo villa for a late repast.
A promotional piece argues that overworked men need medicine before bicycling. It touts Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery to restore appetite, blood quality, and energy, claiming it strengthens nerves, liver, and digestion and dispels bilious impurities.
The speaker, returning from Cuba, says the war will continue long and Spain will not grant liberty. He notes severe suffering among Cuban women and children, with greater distress as the war prolongs, though some cities are less affected.
Detective Nicholas Beidel who abducted baseball magnate Chris Von Der Ahe in St Louis last evening is to arrive in Pittsburg with his prisoner late tonight. W A Nimick, former Pittsburg baseball club president, prompted the arrest by posting bond for Von Der Ahe after a charge by pitcher Mark Baldwin. If the bondsman is surrendered in Pittsburg and fails to pay the verdict with interest and costs he may be jailed for 60 days before seeking release under the insolvent law, at the court’s discretion.
A county court committee from the Commercial club wins approval for 19000 toward Missouri's exhibit at the Transmississippi Exposition in Omaha. The Kansas City Pittsburg and Gulf railway will build a 6000 transport structure on the exposition grounds to display cotton lumber fruits cereals minerals and other local products along its route.
Mrs. James O West of New York visiting at Frank G Norton’s home had $7000 worth of onyan and jewelry stolen by sneak thieves during a dinner. The guest, aunt of Mrs. Norton, is a Waldorf-Astoria figure in New York society. Source notes the items were collected worldwide and cannot be duplicated for many times their value.
The Chicago and Northwestern Union Pacific and Burlington lines field new fast trains from Chicago to Omaha and Denver. Trains left together at 10 am Sunday and reached Omaha at 1 50 am with a 14 1 2 hour Denver run. Newspaper reps from Iowa rode the trains through Boone and Outcaco as guests.
Omcano Feb 9 report notes a possible Rock Island fast train Chicago to Colorado Springs to meet Burlington and Northwestern competition to Denver. The plan is speculative but could materialize if railroad talks fail to deliver a definite agreement. If not, Atchison may lower rates, escalating the Colorado traffic battle.
President Dole and party arrived at Union Station at 4 46 this morning from Buffalo aboard the private car Corona. The train was routed to a sidetrack and the party did not rise for breakfast. Later Mr and Mrs Dole went to the home of Mr and Mrs Charles Cate on Bertram Street where Mrs Dole and Mr Cate are siblings.
Fragmentary text reports President Dole and a matter tied to a Washington stance. The excerpt suggests he claimed no knowledge of the issue after leaving Washington.
Five laborers beginning a shoreward crossing from the Cleveland waterworks crib five miles offshore found themselves on a drifting ice floe. They cried for help until a skater alerted the shore and the fire boat Clevelander. After a strenuous struggle through heavy ice, the rescue succeeded.
A fire at the Victor jail in Colorado during the early hours killed three detainees Thomas Quinn known as Shorty Haley and James Connors, with another inmate McAuliffe severely injured. The four men had been arrested overnight for disturbance as screams drew a large, helpless crowd.
In New York on February 9 a naked body was recovered from the East River with extensive injuries. Half the head, both legs from the hips and shoulders, and both arms were missing, prompting detectives to suspect a fresh murder case resembling the Gulden case.
President Dole and party arrived in Buffalo from Washington this morning aboard a car Corona. Accompanied by Captain J. M. Brinker, president of the Pan-American Exhibition Company, they were met at the train and escorted to their hotel by the escort.
Captain Luetz aboard the Alert cabled the navy department that marines have landed at Sanduan del Sur in Nicaragua to guard the American consulate as a revolution erupts.
A farmer named Olson stabbed a neighbor during a fatal cutting affray near Vermillion on February 8. Local officials report the incident occurred at a rural farming area and police are investigating the motive and circumstances.
Francis Grable speaks from Louis about William J. Quinlan Jr resigning as cashier of the Chemical National Bank of New York after a loan of 898000. Grable asserts Quinlan’s integrity, outlines his own large investments in railroad expansion from Alliance to Deadwood, irrigation canals, mines near Deadwood and Homestake, and plans for further development across 43 towns and several mills and smelters.
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