Montana News Highlights From The State and Nation
The note references subscription rates, a Blaine demonstration in Chicago, pardons from President Cleveland, and pending pensions. It reports on prize fight concerns, metal prices, opium smuggling efforts, and a large Post Office free-delivery appropriation. It notes the National Teachers Association meeting in San Francisco and a Mills tariff debate. It mentions executions in Idaho and Montana assessor duties as well as a Catholic priests strike in Argentina. It cites tariff reform support, a New York tariff rally remark, and the Free Citizens Union of Montana as a growing secret temperance faction aiming to influence elections.
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Academy of Music
New York
Gov. Hl
Free Citizens’ Union of Montana
Helena
FOC
Injustice of Territorial Law Delays Trials and Imprisons Poor
A Montana write-in argues that bail delays and imprisonment for debt punish innocent witnesses and poor defendants. He cites a Anaconda murder case where three witnesses await trial with no bail, and Beaverhead cattle theft cases where poor defendants stay in jail for inability to post bond. He calls for repeal or reform to end such hardships.
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Ubes
Wingath
Anaconda
Beaverhead
Montana
National Republican Convention Heads to Chicago
The National Republican Convention meets in Chicago next Tuesday with thousands of delegates from across the nation. California leads the Pacific delegation on a special train with 500 silk handkerchief bags and orange wood canes. Nevada Oregon Idaho Montana join Reno Granger before Denver. Balloting is expected to be lengthy with Sherman Depew Gresham Maison as leading candidates and a possible dark horse.
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St. Louis
Pacific Coast
Territories
California
Nevada
Reno
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
Granger
Denver
Sherman
Ohio
Depew
New York
Gresham
Indiana
Maison
Town
Dark Horse
General Sheridan in improved yet precarious condition
The aged mother of General Sheridan died at her Somerset Ohio home on Tuesday. Born in County Cavan Ireland she immigrated to the United States in 1828. She was described as a small modest elderly woman and the obituary notes she weighed little in her final days.
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General Sheridan
Somerset
Ohio
County Cavan
Ireland
United States
Gerera Sheridan
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