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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1903
Page
3
An undated advertising note claims the Blood purifier Acker's Blood Higir cures many diseases that cheap seraparillas fail. It promises a positive guarantee and urges readers to buy from Riley's Drug Store to improve health and complexion.
Chicago's City Railway maintained regular service on the Wentworth Avenue line with a nonunion crew under heavy police guard. Twenty five cars operated despite track obstructions and two small riots, while arrests topped previous strike levels, including McQuaid, who was stopped before a cartridge could harm the line. Officials say further lines may run if police protection is provided, but no conciliatory move occurred and a prolonged struggle is expected.
In Cincinnati on November 16, over 100 pulpits across Cincinnati Ohio and Kentucky suburbs were occupied by delegates lecturers organizers and others attending the thirtieth national convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Thirty visiting Anti Saloon League clergy also preached. Mrs Katherine Lente Stevenson of Massachusetts delivered the main sermon at Ninth Street Baptist Church detailing the evolution from early crusades to the international WCTU and urging continued effort until the liquor traffic ends.
Officials in Louisville Colorado report the official count of miners in the northern coal district rejecting a proposed settlement to end the strike. The sub-district board canvassed votes and announced the proposition defeated by six votes with no work today due to fears of a conditional eight hour day affecting the south.
Pueblo, November 16 Two thousand workers displaced by the Colorado Fuel and Iron company closure will be sent to southern coalfields. Three carloads have left and more will follow promptly. Officials say they will not reopen the closed departments until the strike ends.
The mail steamer from Labrador reports no news of Leonard Hubbard Jr. leading the Labrador interior expedition. Believed to have perished, the party has not been seen by inland tribes who recently visited the coast and traveled 150 miles inland without sighting them.
R G Dun & Co weekly review notes wage readjustment and warm weather dampen merchandise demand especially clothing and fuel. Despite quiet staple goods, agricultural prosperity circulates money, boosting markets. Prices rose slightly on Nov 1 then dipped. labor disputes ease in some sectors but new clashes emerge in building trades streetcars and coal. Montana copper mines coke ovens and western stock yards resumed work. Railways earnings for early November up 4.8 percent from last year.
A Georgia town reports a plan to repatriate Irwin county Negro emigrants from Liberia. Twenty have died at Cheesemanburg due to famine and disease after settlement with two room housing. Thirty six remain ill and destitute awaiting aid.
Heavy fighting surrounds the city as insurgents shell forts while the town remains undamaged and the situation unchanged. The U S cruiser Baltimore has arrived to protect American interests as Minister Powell wins a protocol concession and arbitrators are to be appointed. Washington confirms Powell reports revolutionists attacking San Domingo on three sides and notes the Baltimore is in the waters.
Former Grand Rapids city attorney Lant K. Salsbury, already convicted for a $75,000 bribe tied to a water works franchise in 1901 02, provides a full confession naming all partners. Sentencing delayed to allow him to testify against others implicated as aldermen and officials are expected to be arrested. Authorities call the unfolding scandal potentially the nation’s worst.
A mass of 281 resolutions was laid before the American Federation of Labor as Boston delegates met. The convention adjourned after a brief session to allow committees to study the measures, while a sympathy resolution for Chicago street railway strikers was adopted and telegraphed.
Deputy Sheriff John Hindman died from gunshot wounds after being shot by a striker named Gondolif at a Victor company coal camp twenty miles south of Trinidad. Gondolif, said to be intoxicated, opened fire as officers moved to arrest him.
New York reports the death of Andrew H. Green, famed "Father of Greater New York," who was shot on his Park avenue steps by Cornelius N Williams, a Negro man believed insane. Williams cited a delusion that Green had slandered him, claiming he acted to save his character.
Chicago grain and provisions trade weak as December wheat hints at final dissolution in St Louis and Dennish statistics. Prices ease across grains with corn oats and futures lower. pork lard and rib futures show slight declines while cash wheat and corn vary by grade. Cattle and hog receipts and bids fluctuate with mixed, steady to strong demand in spots.
Marines recount the November 13 fire on the destroyer Lawrence at Norfolk led by Lieutenant Roland I. Curtin and crew. A candle sparked the blaze in the forward compartment, threatening the magazine with explosives. Curtin and seamen fought the flames, lost consciousness from smoke, and were treated aboard the cruiser Olympia. Their condition is not serious.
President Roosevelt formally welcomed M. Philippe Bunau Varilla the envoy extraordinary of Panama in a ceremony marking Panama's birth as a republic and signaling forthcoming negotiations between the United States and the new nation.
Cattle receipts 16 000 steady to 10 cents lower with choic e beef steers 4 50 to 4 75 fair to good 3 20 4 45 stockers and feeders 2 00 3 00 western fed steers 3 00 4 20 native cows 1 20 1 80 native heifers 1 75 3 00 canners 1 00 2 00 bulls 1 25 2 80 calves 1 50 5 80 Hog receipts 7 000 active to lower top 4 90 bulk 4 65 4 90 heavy 4 54 4 80 mixed packers 4 67 4 90 light 3 77 4 00 pigs 4 75 4 87 1 4 Kheep receipts 4 000 steady to strong native lambs 3 35 5 30 western lambs 2 95 5 20 fed ewes 2 30 3 90 Texas clipped sheep 2 40 2 75 stockers and feeders 2 0 3 50
The large dry goods firm D Crawford & Co. filed bankruptcy in the U S district court and a receiver was appointed. Hugh McKittrick named receiver. Assets are listed at about 500000 while liabilities reach 900000.
A blaze in Jenkins City Aurora Missouri started at 1 a.m. destroying the business block and parts of the residence area. Estimated loss reaches thirty thousand dollars with coverage largely by insurance.
South Omaha cattle receipts 550 show slow to 10 cent declines across native steers. Western and Texas steers range from 2.75 to 4.25 per hundredweight with various cow and calf categories. Hog receipts 5,500 steady to lower with heavy and mixed lots easing to 4.45 to 5.40, pigs around 4.65 to 4.70, bulk 4.00 to 4.50. Sheep receipts 2,000 steady with yearlings and wethers trading near 3.25 to 4.75 depending on grade.
Market note from St Joseph lists cattle prices with cows and heifers around 3.50 to 4.50 and feeders at 2.50 to 4.25. Hogs show steady to higher bids with light and butcher types around 1.20 to 2.00, while sheep and yearlings appear with limited figures in the garbled text.
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