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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1903
Page
10
A Rochester ad claims headaches fevers pimples and weakness are signs of impure blood and advertises Acker's Blood Elixir as a guaranteed cure for scrofula syphilitic poisons and other blood diseases sold by Riley's Drug Store.
Chicago Sept 2 union leaders threaten a national meat packers strike if owners refuse to grant a 10 percent wage increase. Butchers oppose higher workload while packers offer $5 a day under conditions. All lodges nationwide to vote on the proposal with meetings planned today.
Delegates from Pittsburg Cleveland Buffalo and Wheeling threaten to withdraw if Samuel Parks dominance continues at the International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers session in Kansas City. Parks supports re election of Buchanan while opponents warn of bossism and union split. H. F. Donnelly of Albany slated as Parks presidential candidate.
Wells Fargo Express workers from Portland to El Paso and Ogden to San Francisco may strike. The San Francisco Ex press auxiliary division plans a referendum among members in several states on walking out if demands to the company are not met.
Cheyenne Wyoming September 28 One local strike leader and an officer of the machinists union says President Burt and Mr Harriman meet in New York to frame a proposal for submission to machinists blacksmiths and boilermakers aimed at continuing the piecework system on the Union Pacific If such a request is made the men will walk out over the entire Harriman lines.
The annual encampment of Spanish American war veterans began in New Haven, Conn. Regret mounts that Commander-in-Chief Emmet Uriel of Washington cannot attend. A large parade of military and veteran organizations is expected.
Washington dispatch reports C. P. Matthewson resigns as superintendent of the Omaha and Winnebago agency citing ill health in his resignation letter to Commissioner Jones.
Four German workers imported to replace strikers at Cripple Creek refused to work upon learning of conditions and were jailed. The Western Federation of Miners petitioned the German consul in Denver to seek redress. Colorado Adjutant General Pell declared firm military readiness to mobilize the state if strikes spread, under Governor Peabody.
Russell Bolles, brought from Westminster British Columbia, faces Denver trial for the murder of Harold Fridborn and the assault of Florence Fridborn after a December 1901 pond incident in North Denver. Bolles, a local huckster, allegedly executed the double attack as the siblings skated.
Atlanta September 28 Bishop Henry M Turner of the AME church told a mass meeting that separation of the races is the only solution to the race problem He urged opening Africa for willing Black settlers by lowering steamship rates saying the nation must provide a highway to Africa or the negro question will imperil the government He added that separation should be optional not compulsory and applied to self reliant individuals only.
Helena Montana September 29 authorities report threats against the Northern Pacific railroad by a dynamiter gang demanding 50000 dollars. The same group warns jail in Livingston will be blown up if two men are not freed. Searches for the gang and the ton of dynamite stolen last week continue as October 4 deadline nears and guards are increased.
Curtis Jett was condemned by Judge Osborne in Cynthiana to be hanged between sunrise and sunset on December 18 for the July 21, 1902 killing of James Cockrill at Jackson. Jett urged return to Lexington as a new trial motion proceeds. Judge Blanton filed papers for a new trial and possible appeal to the Kentucky Court of Appeals in Frankfort.
Kansas City reports Frank Siegel former president of the Siegel Sanders Live Stock Commission Company was acquitted of embezzling funds from the firm. The jury retired one hour fifteen minutes and found him not guilty on the second ballot. Other indictments remain and Prosecutor Hughes plans to pursue them.
Three men from Menasha Wisconsin John Gambski William Gambski and John Gambski aged about three years were reported missing on Lake Winnebago after they left Sunday afternoon in a small sailboat to reach the Calumet county shore to gather hickory guts. They have not been heard from since and are believed lost.
A southbound fast mail train on the Southern railway jumped a seventy five foot trestle near Danville Virginia at high speed. Of sixteen crew members nine were killed and seven injured. The wreck involved four mail cars and an express car. Fire was extinguished by Danville fire department.
The government plans a canal from Lake Taal to the sea at a cost of 200000 dollars funded from the relief fund to aid Batangas exports. Reports say Batangas Negros Tayabas and Cebu suffer crop losses from locusts with 350000 dollars in rice distributed in exchange for labor.
In Bedford Indiana on September 28 Charles Cain of Oolitic was killed in a restaurant fight. Frank Dorsey the proprietor was fatally stabbed after trying to eject six young men from Dove who used profane language and behaved badly. Dorsey fired as he fell, striking Cain in the mouth and killing him instantly.
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