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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1904
Page
3
An advertising note touts Acker's Blood Elixir as a cure for scrofulous and syphilitic blood diseases with a positive guarantee. The copy claims to purify blood and restore health, urging readers to purchase at Rifley's Drug Store.
Board members present at the courthouse approved minutes, reviewed warrants, acted on road petitions, and appointed new viewers. Actions included road approvals, rejections, and new installations, with names of viewers, districts, and future hearings set for April 16 1904.
The Montana Churchman reports Bishop Brewer has removed William Skinner Eldridge from candidates for holy orders in the missionary district of Montana. He deserted his wife and children at Sheridan last fall and has not been heard of since. The clergy approve the disqualification and the convocation in Anaconda next June will discuss changing Montana from missionary district to diocese.
Official and private accounts say Admiral Togo’s fourth Port Arthur attack on March 10 destroyed Russian torpedo boats and damaged batteries. Casualties include seven killed and eight wounded on the Japanese side. one Russian destroyer sunk and another heavily damaged amid heavy bombardment and fires in the city.
London reports repeat rumors of Port Arthur evacuation and heavier bombardment than admitted. Telegraph and Daily Mail dispatches from Tokio Yin Kow allege Russian casualties and damage to docks fortresses arsenals. torpedo boat destroyers sunk and powder magazine destroyed amid internal harbor desertions.
Private Chinese reports from Peking describe Manchuria in chaos as Russians seize food and other supplies. Natives flood south toward ports under mounting hardship. Kirin’s late governor died by his own hand unable to ease distress. Russian corps will deploy to the far east with others remaining in Asiatic provinces.
An eye witness report from Tien Tsin cites Russian casualties at Port Arthur with twenty five killed on the battleship Sevastopol twenty on the Retvizan of New Chiang and twenty in the town. Russians brace for defense to stop landing by Japanese.
Mark Dunn was hanged in St. Joseph on March 12 after a church minister attended the execution. Doctors had cleared him for the scaffold and Governor Dockery declined a reprieve. Dunn claimed on the scaffold that his conviction stemmed from a conspiracy and implicated a Dr Fisher in the shooting of a man named Fenton.
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania on March 13 efforts to blast the Susquehanna river ice to start an ice forge failed as dynamite broke off large blocks but did not break the gorge. Authorities plan further attempts to clear ice and remove glow.
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