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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1901
Page
7
An early morning blaze at the Rochester orphan asylum hospital section killed 19 children and two nurses, with many more feared dead. About 109 children and 30 staff were in the building as an explosion preceded the flames. The origin remains unknown and losses may exceed $20,000.
Minneapolis on January 7 reports eight men dead from smoke in a three floor blaze at 115 Washington Avenue rear of Standard Furniture store. Victims were found on the Harvard hotel floors with nineteen of twenty seven lodgers escaping amid heavy smoke.
A powerful windstorm battered Reno and surrounding areas on June 6, damaging the Central Pacific freight depot roof and Reno roundhouse. A southbound Nevada California and Oregon train was blown off the track near Doyles injuring four passengers and three crew. Families including R W Perry and his three children narrowly escaped burial when a 60 foot wall section collapsed into their dining room. Other property damage occurred at J A Pothoff’s livery stable State University and insane asylum windows were blown in and John Sparks’ cattle king residence was damaged.
London reports a sweeping cold spell across Europe with English gales at Dover causing a capsized boat and drownings. Moscow records 30 degrees below zero as Adriatic gales, Austrian blizzards, a Mikola train collision killing six, and Transylvania freezing deaths. Odessa remains snowbound.
William S. Warren was unanimously re-elected president of the Chicago Board of Trade for the ensuing year. The decision preserves the board’s aggressive stance against bucket shops and its clashes with telegraph companies. Warren framed this as the central issue, facing few opponents in the renomination.
Philadelphia January 8 The Reading company board decided to accept J P Morgan’s proposition to purchase the Central Railroad of New Jersey. President Harris will travel to New York to confer with Morgan and Charles Steele on financing the deal.
A reward of 13000 is offered for the arrest of Pat Crowe with no conviction required. Police circulate 5000 notices containing Crowe’s picture and a brief description, broadcast to public distribution. General John O. Cowin endorses the reward, aiding the pursuit linked to the Cudahy abduction.
Eureka reports a record snowstorm with 72 inches since Thursday evening and continued heavy snowfall. Buildings collapse under weight while trains engines and snow plows are stranded. The Fort Jones and Huna stage is stuck 18 miles out and passengers fear for the driver. Excursionists from the county and southern Oregon remain in San Francisco unable to return due to the blockade.
Thomas Cunningham of the Bank of Joplin got a letter demanding a $1,000 in gold placed in a sack at a spot south of Joplin. The writer threatened to shoot him if he refused. Cunningham, with police, left a rock filled bag at the site and police waited all night. No one appeared. investigators continue.
Chicago doctors report that normal salt solution can restore life after massive blood loss. Following Loeb's experiments at the University of Chicago, two physicians say a 90 percent blood loss may be survivable with salt solution as a restorative.
Chicago police received word from Evanston to search for a man and woman who abducted a 12 year old girl from Lake Bluff. The child, an orphan, was lured into a candy store and taken to Lakeside where she vanished.
Frank Pettigrew Jr., son of Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota, is reported to be gaining strength after an assault at a Kansas City hospital. His right cheekbone, fractured in the attack, has been reset and he is expected to resume travel to Arizona within a few days. The fourth annual National Live Stock Association convention will open January 15 in the assembly hall, with four days of sessions featuring leading national authorities on live stock matters.
The record covers Jan 3 to Jan 7 sessions in both houses. It notes disruptions over the ship subsidy bill, a privilege resolution on voting rights in southern states, and votes on adjournment. Senate discussed the army reorganization and treaty limits on intoxicants, while House debated reapportionment and prerogatives, with Pettigrew filibustering and Crumpacker Hepburn Grow speeches. It also reports Iowa southern district court schedule changes and payments to Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians.
Dun and Co reports holidays and heavy year-end settlements yet the new year shows further progress with steady contracts and better cotton goods movement in some sectors. Wheat declines due to Minneapolis flour cutbacks, while Atlantic demand remains lukewarm. overall business remains respectable with strong railway earnings and record bank clearings.
Speculative fever drove heavy trading across grain and provisions in Chicago. Wheat fell late while corn and oats rose, pork and fats posted mixed gains, with cash quotes showing varied red and white wheat and spring corn prices.
Chicago January 7 cattle receipts reach 19 000 with Texans steady and steers strong for butchers stock and Texans. Hogs receipts today 36 000 with active trade receding to 5 10 to 5 40 per hundredweight and bulk sales around 5 15 to 5 30.
Kansas City cattle receipts 8000 natives 10000 Texans and 400 calves with varied prices across grades. Hogs receipts 10000 rising up to 5.22 top with most sales around 5.10 to 5.20. Sheep receipts 2300 strong demand with western lambs at 5.30 to 5.50 and western ewes 3.25 to 3.75. culls down to 2.00 to 2.30.
South Omaha live stock report shows cattle receipts at 1 500 with native beef steers 4.00 to 5.40, western and Texas steers 3.00 to 4.40, cows and heifers 3.00 to 4.20, calves 4.00 to 6.25, bulls and stag 2.00 to 4.00. Hog receipts at 4 200 with heavy 5.15 to 5.22, mixed 5.12 to 5.17, light 5.10 to 5.20, pigs 4.00 to 4.40, bulk sales 5.12 to 7.17. Sheep receipts at 4 000 with strong gains, red mutton 4.0 to 4.4, westerns 3.90 to 4.25, common and stock 3.65 to 3.85, lambs 4.20 to 5.40.
A vintage advertisement touts Cascarets Candy Osthartio as a liver stimulant and intestinal tonic that cures biliousness headaches fevers piles and other ills blamed on constipation. It promises a money back guarantee and sample booklet for ten cents and up. A handwriting expert quips about poetry and typewritten verses in a Washington Stitt feature.
In promotional language the ad touts Cascarei’s natural remedy to cure ailments by aligning the bowels with cascarets candy Cathartic. It promises easy movements, no pain, and a health return for 10 cents to start. The genuine tablets are stamped with 0. O. and in metal boxes, warning against imitators.
Indianapolis Journal notes a light exchange about a husband praising his grandmother's baked hash and his mother’s mince pies. The piece also advertises Krause's Cold Cure capsules claiming 24 hour relief from colds sold at City Drug Store.
A fragment from Chicago Times Herald notes that men crowd around a woman, hoping for a smile or to please her with compliments, while their wives resent the attention she receives.
It is a pleasant herb tea that brightens the complexion and steadies digestion by gently acting on the stomach liver and kidneys. The Lane's Family Medicine moves the bowels daily and is sold at City Drug Store for 2.60 and 6.00.
A witty line from the Ohio State Journal notes King Solomon's millinery bill as prodigious while remarking he died in time to avoid the sealakin wrap age. The quip playfully blends biblical imagery with a pun on fashion costs.
An advertisement claims dull headaches pains in body and feverishness indicate impure blood and promotes Acker's Blood Elixir as a universal cure. It guarantees relief and notes Central Pharmacy owner L. J. Williams sells every bottle with assurance of satisfaction.
A corned philosopher from the Indianapolis Press quips that value lies not in the price of a gift but in the spirit of economy behind its giving. The remark highlights thrift as virtue in charitable exchanges.
Advertised panacea claims Quin ine lags behind and MinoEv s Dynamic Tables cure worst colds in hours. Endorsements from Henry, Houzin, and Van Winxitz cite quick relief and cough suppression. Sold by Inland Drug Co and local agent Williams in San Francisco.
Larative Bromo Quinine Tablets claim to cure a cold in one day. No cure, 10 pay. Price two cents.
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