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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1904
Page
2
At St Louis the Democratic National Convention adjourned after a dramatic final session. Judge Parker sent a telegram confirming support for the gold standard, Bryan made a final appearance despite illness, and discussions centered on monetary policy and platform silence on the issue.
Delegates vote 774 to 191 to send a message to Judge Parker amid late night deliberations. Former Senator Harry G. Davis wins vice presidential nomination by acclamation with 652 votes. Clark adjourns the convention sine die as exhausted delegates depart.
Judge Parker sent a telegram congratulating Henry G. Davis and his party on the nomination for vice president. He has not yet received the telegram from the St. Louis convention replying to his pledge to William I. Sheehan supporting the gold standard.
In St Louis on July 11 Mr Bryan left the Jefferson hotel for Dr Jennings's residence. His condition improved and he planned to return to Lincoln that night. Earlier he rose from bed Saturday night to attend the convention, with a temperature above 100 and lung soreness. Dr Osborne found no immediate danger and recommended rest as the remedy. His departure from bed surprised attending staff and worried friends.
Senators Tillman of South Carolina and J W Bailey of Texas were riding in an automobile that struck a Jefferson Avenue street car. Both were thrown into the street but escaped serious injury. Tillman had a sprained ankle and Bailey was bruised. They rode a street car to their hotel. the chauffeur was badly bruised.
John Johnson a colored prisoner awaiting execution for the murder of Grocer James Donnelly has confessed to four additional killings. He said he was born in Georgia and began as a tramp eighteen years ago. He described two killings with accomplices in a Virginia boxcar after taking $5, and two more on a Georgia railroad with similar fates.
The American consul general John Fowler received news that anti-Christian riots have broken out at Chao Yuen eighty five miles west of Che Foo. Troops were dispatched and authorities notified to send aid if needed. Foreigners are not believed to be in danger and the cause remains unknown.
Wong Kai Kah, Chinese commissioner to the World’s fair, living in Indianapolis with his wife and two daughters, was awakened by a burglar rifling his pockets. The intruder fled through a window when confronted, and Wong reported diamonds worth $2.00 taken.
Three children of farmer James Robinson drowned while his wagon tried to ford swollen Pryor creek twenty miles southwest of here. Robinson and his family were crossing the stream when tragedy struck.
A general strike of 49 600 workers in major meat packing firms was ordered by Michael J. Donnelly head of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen. The strike affects Armour Swift Nelson Morris Schwarzschild and Sulzberger Cudahy Packing and National Packing, with Chicago employing over 14 000. The walkout targets all packing plant operations including dressed beef for export.
South Omaha reports no livestock market today due to looming labor difficulties. A packer said the move allows shippers to be wired or ship stock elsewhere as cattle would need returning to the country and hogs face a grave situation with the warm weather and possible labor walkouts.
A tornado struck a traveling crane on the second arch of the new Mississippi river bridge at Thebes Illinois. Seven workmen were killed and two seriously injured when the crane was blown back about 200 feet and hurled 150 feet to rocks below. A relief train ferried the dead and injured to Cape Girardeau Missouri.
Coroner William A. Gray's jury from Montgomery county reports twenty five dead from the Wabesh wreck at Litchfield on July 3. Twenty identified, one unnamed, four missing. verdict states the switch was disconnected and the keeper broken off, listing Margaret Steiner and the Connell family among the deceased.
A July tornado near Burwell destroyed seven houses and barns on multiple farms including Mr. Brittain's. Farmers Lyons Brumage Campbell Dutton and others suffered losses. No lives were reported. Severe hail ruined crops at Greeley Center Ord Hastings Arcadia. High winds with tornado features toppled buildings near Shelton and Tobias and damaged crops statewide.
A waterspout with violent winds swept Clinton and nearby areas at midnight July 8 killing six people including Mrs. Baker and three children and Mr. and Mrs. John Flenner. Reports from Arapahoe Weatherford Geary Cordell Anadarko describe widespread flood damage across Oklahoma.
Report from Aspen Colorado dated July 11 says 1,500 sheep owned by H H Lawson of Salt Lake were killed by Gunnison county cowboys. The livestock were spread across Taylor Park where three herders were in charge. Cowboys disarmed the guards and then slaughtered the flock.
Michael W. Zeller, a gardener, killed his wife and her father William R. Burkamp at the Burkamp home. Zeller fled with the knife, leaving two victims dying, while Mrs. Stromberg witnessed the stabbing of the wife and reported the events near Forest Lawn cemetery. Burkamp, age sixty nine, died after rushing to aid his daughter.
The state department backs Minister Leishman of Constantinople as he presses the Ottoman government to grant American educational institutions equal rights with other foreign schools. Washington seeks prompt compliance, but Turkish diplomacy is slow to reply.
In Des Moines on July 11 a missing girl Loretta Poppenpohl aged sixteen is feared lured to St Louis after leaving home a few days ago. Investigators probe the case while two Nevada Story County boys who took their father's team and wagon also vanish.
A July 11 blaze in West View, a suburb of Pittsburg, was subdued with help from the Allegheny fire department. Five families were left homeless and five children jumped from second-story windows to escape, suffering only minor injuries.
In Kansas good weather ends rain, rivers recede to summer levels. Armourvale and Argentine residents return home. Damages in cities limited, but farmers face losses totaling several hundred thousand dollars.
A head on collision on the Philadelphia and Reading railway at Frankfort, a suburb of Philadelphia, killed two passengers George B. Colton and Henry Glack and wounded about twenty others. Two of the injured are in serious condition. The accident resulted from a misunderstanding of orders.
Judge Thayer in Saint Louis district court sentenced Edward J. Gildersleeve a ticket broker to fifteen days in jail for disobeying an injunction restraining the sale of World's Fair excursion tickets.
Eleven Welsh miners who arrived aboard the Haverford were found to be contract laborers and deported on the same vessel. They had been bound for Rockford and Arragon Georgia.
General Toral who led the Spanish garrison at Santiago when it surrendered to U S forces died in an asylum near Madrid. He reportedly became insane from brooding over his capitulation.
In Kansas City Kat on July 11 Earl Dennefeld eleven and Owen Stone seventeen drowned while bathing. Dennefeld went beyond his depth and Stone died attempting to rescue him.
The Baptist Young People’s Union wrapped its fourteenth annual convention in Detroit with a solemn consecration service at Light Guard Armoury led by Rev. W. H. Geistwelt of Chicago. Rev. John Mc Neill delivered the conference sermon to nearly 5,000 attendees, stressing spiritual life growth and Christian culture as core aims.
Chinese junkmen from Port Arthur claim on July 6 that 800 Russians were brought into the town including two high officials. They say a Japanese force pushed within six miles of the besieged town and captured another eastern fort.
The Virginia farmer audience asked Captain Lamb how he acquired farming insight. He answered that six years on the agricultural committee explains his knowledge, noting his city background yet long service on agricultural matters. The anecdote recalls his familiar talk with farmers and their respect for his expertise.
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