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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1890
Page
1
Local letters report Normal School enrollment rising with 50 pupils by Christmas and new reading room arrivals. A long list covers dances at Henrys Lake, bailment repairs, lyceum events, a fire scare, an electric plant plan for depot and shops, and a new Cottage Restaurant residence.
Reports from Carcano and Fort Custer describe Indian excitement at Cheyenne agency over an imminent Messiah led by Porcupine who previously stirred Nevada and Wyoming. Secretary Proctor says no immediate danger, estimating up to 30 000 Indians with about 15 000 capable of arming. Lieutenant Robertson met Porcupine and learned the creed urges work and order. Meanwhile rumors of settlers fleeing North Dakota are questioned as unfounded. Also noted are testimonials praising Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption with free trials offered at N. M. White's Drug Store.
Helena November 18 The Legislature secures legislative quarters in the Electric Block building Governor Toole State Treasurer Hickman and State Auditor Kenney signed a lease agent Barnard Brown The senate chamber occupies the upper floor with cloak and committee rooms The house of representatives faces Park avenue with windows on all sides The entire building is furnished with modern conveniences and should meet member approval for the January session.
Old Dutch copper mine rediscovered near Bloomfield New Jersey shows a 100 by 30 feet cave system. Tools and artifacts including iron shovel and a pipe were found along with bones and a copper ore vein valued for gold silver and copper content. Mining experts predict rich development.
State news briefs report Helena Broadwater bath turned into a skating pond. Other items note a Bozeman patent for a hand doll, artesian well work paused awaiting new cable, prisons count at 234 with expected rise, Missoula bridge builder Walter Ralston found dead after morphine use, Crow and Cheyenne agency talks yield no changes, Patch the educator faced town hostility, state tax fees case for Silver Bow treasurer heading to the Supreme Court, coal test at Mulherrin mines near Anaconda, Maine’s launch at New York navy yard, Montana Congregational College bid, and Ballard’s Snow remedy advertised with testimonials.
The Irish case unfolds with claims that O'Sullivan, jailed in Joliet for Cronin murder complicity, asserts he knew nothing of the plan to kill Cronin and was told by Coughlin that the aim was to seize documents aiding the Irish cause. The narrative recounts the cottage scene and alleged threats amid the sequence of events.
Grover Cleveland returns to New York. John Callile dies as American consul at Bristol. Luthersburg PA nearly destroyed by fire. Smallpox devastates St Petersburg. Georgia elects Gordon senator on first ballot. Kingston NY man goes insane from cigarettes. Seattle railroad workers number 5000. Irish delegates resolve to back Parnell. 13 year old Clara Greenewald teaches near Reading. Hull steamer sinks after reef strike. two drown, sixteen saved. London financiers meet at Bank of England. Fort Robinson Indians under guard for ghost dance. Reginald Birchall hanged in Woodstock. B&O train derailment near Clarksburg injures two fatally. Three Italians killed in Lackawana rail collision. Norfolk and Western collision injures several. one brakeman dies. Savannah bank ex-president David McLean jailed two years. Elkton MN train wreck kills three. WCTU convention opens in Atlanta. No Union Pacific wreck. Duluth dynamite accident kills Moreland. family injured. Four children drown skating at Philippe WI. Eastern WA grain growers protest high freight. $1,000,000 needed. Danbury hat factories idle. 5000 out work. Boston Methodist missionary conference seeks $1,250,000 for year ’91. Sandbury PA man exhumes petrified child remains. Lock Haven gravity road wreck kills two. others injured. Bistritz Transylvania conflict over new pastor. six dead, sixteen wounded.
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