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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1896
Page
3
Union Pacific will lead the coming season with superior accommodations and fewer car changes. The railroad cites agreeable hours and quick time while passing all points of interest on route. Dates of sale routes and limits will be announced a few days later.
The Salt Lake Tribune will cut the Semi-Weekly price to $2.00 per year after June 1. The standard and front rank of the publication will be maintained as the price change takes effect on June 1.
Local column from the Madison County Tribune offices in Sheridan reports visiting dignitaries and residents, church schedules, mining activity, weather impacts, a birthday and birth, deaths, and social visits. Witness accounts describe storms causing flooding and lightning damage, plus community notices and obituaries for Jesse B. Shranger and local residents.
A public notice invites readers benefitted by Dr Williams Pink Pills to contact Toe Ditton Tristne for valuable information. Details include Democratic Convention in Chicago with a July travel offer $51.51 round trip, sales July 2 and 8, good through July 15. Copy changes for display ads must reach this office by Thursday.
Special correspondence reports visitors and social visits in Laurin and nearby areas. Residents include Mrs Bert Rew of Virginia City and Misses Linsley visiting grandparents, with several traveling to Butte and Laurin planning Fourth of July activities in Virginia. The Rochester note mentions a Fourth celebration and a missing Tom Jones with ongoing searches. Benj Ivey, a copper mine engineer, spent time in Butte and J Stacy bought the Laurin to Melrose stage line.
June items report J O Jordan of Fish Creek on a Idaho trip, locals like Johnnie and Katie Dullen returning from Salt Lake, and May Reed’s burns. Notes mention a wedding rumor, ice cream social for the Christian church, and a noisy hoodlum at the event. Mrs Hattie Courtney and son George visit en route to Norwegian to see R T Courtney.
An advertisement touts French Tansy Tablets as a remedy for painful and irregular menses. Manufactured by A Augenre, Paris, France, sold in Butte, Montana by D M Newbro Drug Co. as sole agents. Price two dollars per box, mailed sealed.
Two young men and two young women pleasure riding on the Missouri near Ludwick saw mill faced a high eddy and snag. The boat overturned during a rescue attempt. the first couple vanished beneath the water, while the other couple’s young man was saved after grabbing the overturned craft. Names include Samson from Conneil Bluffs and the Kelso and Reese sisters.
In Houston an explosive boiler blast at the Evening Age office killed Henry Lyons and Miss Mattie Loeb and injured several others. The blast tore through the office of W G Van Vleck, general manager of the Atlantic system of the Southern Pacific railway, and was caused by cold water entering an empty boiler.
Four choir boys and the choirmaster from St John s Episcopal church Charlestown were drowned in Lake Massapoag Sharon Mass June 80 The dead include choirmaster Fripp E Brackett 22 and boys Thomas Parker 11 Harry Laber 12 William Watkins 12 Benjamin Gibbs The party arrived to camp when the boat capsized after Parker fell overboard and fellow boy Frank Cox 13 rescued him before the craft overturned No prior warning was given and aid was close at hand
Four boys drowned and 13 injured when Sheldon's wharf in South Boston sank during Farragut day celebrations. Rescuers and onshore police steadied the panicked crowd as the Ella boat stood by. identified dead include James Washburn 11 James Coe 9 John Leary 18 and Lawrence McDowes Lt 10.
Official dispatches from Santiago de Cuba dated June 1 report 1,000 smallpox cases and rising yellow fever on the island. In Boston area news Colonel William Osborne is expected to accept as secretary of the national Republican committee, per Hanna.
A foreign paper correspondent known as An Old Envelope Maker argues most envelope adhesives are harmless plant based substances and warns against using strong potent glues on areas likely to contact moisture. He notes gum arabic is preferred and questions risky compounds. A Texas artesian well fish with a human face is also reported.
Advices warn against internal liquid tonics for catarrh that contain mercury iodide or potassa. Catarrh is a seasonal nose throat condition beginning in the nasal passages with symptoms like mucus flow and headaches. Ely's Dream Balm is presented as a quick healing topical remedy with no mercury or harmful drugs, priced at 50 cents.
The jury found James B. Gentry guilty of first degree murder for the February 18 1895 killing of actress Madge Yorke in Philadelphia. The verdict was reached at 11 55 am.
Rev. Michael Wynne of Cincinnati, a young Catholic priest, died at St. John's hospital in Lowell of pneumonia on June 29.
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