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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1899
Page
2
Bradstreet's reports persistent demand supports price strength across textiles and cereals. Raw cotton wool and hemp rise while wheat remains dull on world stock gains, with American sources driving the month’s increase. Corn stays firm due to foreign buying and yield estimates. Business failures total 182 for the week.
Announcement from Bern states that after an agreement approved by the United States Britain and Germany repeal the Samoan act. Upolu Savali and nearby islets pass to Germany as free property. Tutuila and subsidiary islands go to the United States. Britain renounces Samoan claims. Germany surrenders Tonga and Savage islands to Britain and cedes Choiseul and San Isabel to Britain.
The Chronicle reports John W Gates William Wden Isaac L Elwood and John Lambert leading steel and wire interests join with E H Harriman and Gould syndicate to consolidate US reading trunk railways. The move aims to own networks and keep traffic rates, bypassing the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Interstate Commerce Commission meets in St Louis to hear Pacific coast rate discrimination complaints against Southern Pacific and other transcontinentals. Former Governor Joseph W Fifer sworn in as commissioner. Davenport Indiana business figures arrive to testify for the St Louis trade bureau case.
Amsterdam sources report a British regiment suffered heavy casualties with 600 soldiers killed or wounded and 300 horses captured. The claim, tied to Free State reporting, mentions a decimation of the unit and a large loss of mounts.
Mrs Euphemia Falconer of Trent Muskegon County Michigan credits Dr Pierce Favorite Prescription with restoring her health after severe anemia and pregnancy complications. She rose from 100 pounds to 165 pounds and credits the remedy with improving her four children’s health and aiding future pregnancies. Over 250000 women reportedly endorse the medicine and counterfeit products are warned against.
The United States cruiser Charleston was wrecked on a reef off Luzon’s northwest coast on Tuesday November 7 after patrolling the northern coast for aid to Ambri awn Puno. All aboard were saved. The vessel had been in Asiatic waters for over a year and recently overhauled at Mare Island. Commander was Captain William H. Whiting. lieutenant commander Gotfried Blockinger.
Dispatches from Manina report General Young approaching San Nicolas while Aguinaldo and forces are encircled near Dagupan. Aguinaldo’s secretary captured, Major Coleman moving toward Nueva Visaya with 175 bolo men. Prisoners include General Laneras family, while US forces press the retreating insurgents amid disease and shortages. The 60,000 troops expected to join amplifies the American advantage. insurgents suffer high mortality from illness and poor hospital care.
A Bradford nitro glycerine magazine near Gibsonburg exploded sending shock 40 miles away. Driver Benjamin Card unloading 720 quarts of nitro glycerine perished nearly instantly. horses also killed. The blast dug a seven foot hole in rock and shattered nearby homes and windows. About 1500 quarts were on the wagon and in the magazine.
An explosion at the glazing house of the California powder mill in Santa Cruz early today destroyed the mill and salt petré warehouse. Four cylinders with 16 000 pounds of powder blew apart, felling miles of fencing and breaking panes at Superintendent Payton's residence. Night watchman Patrick Hughes was killed. No cause was found.
In Londox on November 14 the Associated Press found no evidence in diplomatic circles to support alarmist press views about the far east. Advices from Shanghai in the last 24 hours are regarded as unlikely to signal a near serious denouement.
In Leavenworth on November 14 sensational testimony emerged in the Hillmon insurance case. Mrs. Sallie E. Hillmon sues eastern insurers to recover policies on her husband John W. Hillmon who disappeared in 1879. Arthur Simmons testified that Adolph Walters worked for him in May 1879, a key detail as insurers claim Walters was killed by Hillmon and Brown to fake Walters’ body as Hillmon. The suit seeks nearly $100,000 with interest and centers on a supposed conspiracy involving Hillmon, Brown and Levi Baldwin.
A Huntsville Mercury correspondent records Admiral Schley urging the Nicaragua canal as vital. He says it would let U.S. fleets mobilize quickly on either coast, strengthen defense, and open the Orient for cotton iron and coal exports. Also notes Times dispatch on Cuba Porto Rico civil government and a USDA corn yield report with state breakdowns.
From Fort Ethan Allen to Port Tampa and Chicago the day’s items report desertions affecting the Forty-third infantry, yellow fever cases in Florida, a counterfeiting gang busted in Chicago, possible reprieve for Manila sentenced soldiers, and tainted rations causing ptomaine poisoning among California volunteers.
Wartime dispatches describe heavy bombardment at Ladysmith with Long Tom a 40 pounder firing from the Bulwara railway area. Kimberley reports Boer activity, with shelling near Carter's farm and Kenilworth, cattle lifting, and quick Boer movements noted by observers. General Buller, Baden-Powell report South African operations and Mafeking is holding with light British casualties.
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