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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1893
Page
3
A Riley poem about Decoration Day and honoring soldiers rests beside a note on city lighting costs in San Francisco. The verse dwells on lonesome Sundays, flowers for graves, and the old flag, while the prose hints lighting savings from a single balloon and the removal of street wires.
Henry T Thurber, Cleveland's private secretary, is a Michigan native from a long line of Democrats. He is 389 years old and a University of Michigan graduate. After college he joined Dickinson's Detroit office as a law student in 1875, became Dickinson's partner after bar admission, and has earned over $10,000 yearly for several years.
The Detroit Free Press reports a novel lighting method using a 40 by 15 foot aluminium balloon shaped like a cigar to illuminate cities. C A Smith of San Francisco prepares to build the craft with six arc lights or incandescent units, powered through a cable and reflectors to focus light downward.
The World's fair committee assigns June 10 as the fete day for the Commercial Travellers Protective Association. The convention runs June 6 to 9 with 3000 traveling men expected from nearly all states. Peoria raises 5000 for entertainment. parades in Peoria and a mammoth Chicago parade. Special trains to Jackson Park for ceremonies. Six national speakers and governors from ten states will be on the program.
The list from the World’s fair committee on ceremonies outlines scheduled observances for numerous states and organizations. Dates run from May through October across Washington Wisconsin Maine Denmark Germany Nebraska Massachusetts New Hampshire France Utah Liberia Foresters Hayti North Carolina Austria Netherlands Nicaragua Catholic education New York Brazil California Maryland Michieal Kansas Colorado Montana Patriotic Order Sons of America Iowa Rhode Island Spain Italian societies Minnesota.
M. Constantine Rakouza de Soustcheffaky will present The Public Press In Russia as imperial Russian commissioner. Signor V. Zeggio will discuss The Public Press of Italy as royal Italian commissioner. M. Alexis de Kobelatzky will offer a paper on the great transsiberian railway. Dr Panaghiotis G Fiaimbolis will present the Greek church in the world parliament of religions.
Flat faced silver vinaigrettes feature Cupid motifs and enameled pennants. New ribbon brooches shaped as square rosettes reveal ruby and diamond layers. Wreath brooches in gold and gold with gems rise in popularity. A sapphireSquare diamond spray brooch stands out. Necklaces return to chokelike wear with seven pearl strands held by bars.
The article notes Italy spending about $6,000,000 yearly on soldiers. It discusses Muslim faith among Cossacks and Circassians, advances in firearms this century, and transport savings via wagon trains drawn by traction engines. It lists gear for infantry and engineer companies including picks, shovels, axes, and crowbars.
The snippet notes tides reach speeds near 1 000 miles a minute and humans cannot breathe above seven miles. It cites Liebig on the body’s air components and optics experts saying no living creature can see in absolute darkness.
A Minnesota joint resolution setting up a pine land graft investigation is ruled unconstitutional by Attorney General Childs. The seven member legislative committee must suspend activity, halting the probe into alleged pine land robberies valued at 5 million dollars. Critics claim collusion to shield prominent Pine Ring figures, including Ignatius Donnelly and Governor Nelson, from accountability. The investigation cannot resume for at least two years.
May 20 report from Dallas notes Mrs Myrs Lillian Reeves aged about 20 shot Louis Longennetti six times while he insulted her after leaving her boarding house. She fired until the pistol’s chambers were empty and was released on $1,000 bail. public sentiment favors her and no prosecution is expected. Also reports Rogers’s body found in Minnesota river after his suicide from the Mississippi, and multiple late city road race and fire losses across Detroit Havre New Reptorp Jackson and Newton with sizable damages and fraud arrests.
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