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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1904
Page
2
A Chicago audience of about 1,300 crowded the Iroquois Theater for Mr. Blue Beard when an asbestos curtain failed. A balcony doorway crush killed many women and children, with 588 fatalities reported as rescuers struggled to reach victims amid flames and chaos.
The January Chicago disaster overwhelmed cemeteries as undertakers rushed burials to free hearses for new services. Night shifts dug graves at Rose Hill and other cemeteries, while Mayor Harrison kept theaters closed and prepared meetings with theater managers. The dead count rose to 588 with Leroy Rainbold among the victims. among the identified at the county morgue were Mrs. Mary A. Fair Sadie Ludwig Dorothy Lemanger Emma Reynolds. Police sought John Schmidt the stage hand linked to the accident.
Reports from Shanghai and London describe pressure for immediate war with Russia. Chinese cruisers prepare for active service and take on ammunition while Tokyo foresees delivering Kasuga and Niasin to Japan. Chinese troops may be deployed with Japanese officers to seize the Liao Tung peninsula if war breaks out.
Rescuers pulled gasping victims from a waterlogged mass as gas suffocation rained terror. Bodies crowded aisles from first to upper balconies with injuries described in grim detail. Survivors and mourners faced a harrowing, fatal aftermath.
A citywide strike declared by all workers in the shipping interests halts trade and commerce in Barcelona on January 4, leaving the port and related activities at a standstill.
In St Petersburg diplomats expect Russia to submit its reply to Japan’s proposals via Baron de Rosen within days. Conciliatory government stances fuel belief that negotiations may advance toward pacific settlement, while press worries over American stance in the eastern crisis and the Philippines Formosa proximity.
In foreign legations at Peking the prevailing view is that war between Japan and Russia is inevitable. The belief follows Tokyo dispatches and the belief that Japan must have a voice in Manchuria settlement. Russia has denied that right, and an ultimatum from Japan is expected if Russia does not relent.
Rome reports Prince Frederick of Schoenberg-Waldenberg has enlisted a lawyer to petition the pope for annulment of his marriage to Princess Alice daughter of Don Carlos. The motion claims the princess was unfaithful. As a New Year gesture Frederick sent a gold watch to the pope, who declines it and will continue using a nickel watch bought as a parish priest.
A fire at the Louvre hotel on Lake Avenue in Chicago last night killed three guests and injured four others. Nearly 100 guests were in the three story brick building when smoke filled the upper floors, blocking exits and prompting a panic as guests escaped via a plank and improvised window descent. The fire began in the first floor dining room and the hotel suffered about 40000 dollars in losses.
Chief Justice Fuller writes that Porto Rico citizens are not aliens and may enter the United States. The ruling in Gonzales holds Porto Ricans owe allegiance to the United States, not any other government, affecting a 1902 admission case in New York.
John A. Benson jailed for inability to post 10 000 bail after arrest on bribery charges at the request of secret service officers who feared he might flee New York. He was indicted in Washington with Frederick A. Hyde of San Francisco for unlawfully obtaining titles to public lands in California and Oregon known as school lands.
Philadelphia Jan. 5 Samuel Randall, son of a former speaker, was nominated by Democrats of the Third district to succeed the late Henry Burke. The district, now reapportioned, is overwhelmingly Republican.
Trading summary shows wheat from May to July advancing after early weakness driven by foreign markets and port clearances. May wheat closed at 6?e, corn around 46% to 46%4c, oats near 38% to 38l4c, with pork and lard prices listed. Cash quotes reflect No 2 red and other wheat and corn grades, plus oats rates. Cattle hogs and sheep receipts and price ranges are provided for the Chicago market on Jan 4.
Cattle receipts 9,500 steady to 10e lower with ranges for export and dressed beef steers 4.15 to 5.80 and western fed steers 3.20 to 4.15. Hogs receipts 7,000 up 10 to 20 cents with tops at 4.90 and most sales 4.65 to 4.85. Sheep receipts 3,500 steady with native lambs 5.00 to 5.65 and western lambs 4.00 to 5.25. stockers and feeders 2.30 to 4.50.
Cattle receipts 3000 with steady in native steers 3.25 to 5.25, cows and heifers 2.50 to 3.80, canners 2.00 to 2.50, stockers 2.75 to 3.90, calves 3.00 to 5.25, Walis and stags 1.75 to 1.00. Hogs receipts 5500 up 15c with heavy 4.50 to 4.90, mixed 4.70 to 4.80, merit 4.00 to 4.70, pigs 3.50 to 4.50. Sheep receipts 9000 steady with western ranges 3.90 to 4.50, wethers 3.60 to 3.90, ewes 2.75 to 3.50, lambs 4.75 to 5.75.
An advertisement promotes Ely's Cream Balm as a remedy for drying catarrh and nasal irritation. It claims to cleanse, soothe, and heal, noting trial sizes mailed for 10 cents and 50 cent bottles at druggists. Ely Brothers of New York asserts quick relief without pain or sneezing.
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