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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1903
Page
10
An old advertisement touts Acker's Blood Elixir as a cure for blood diseases and poor health. It claims impure blood shows in the face and skin and guarantees approval with every bottle sold by Riley's Drug Store.
A Lake Michigan squall capsizes the steamer J H Hackley seven miles off Green Island. Twelve drown while seven survive on wreckage until rescued by the steamer Sheboygan near Fish Creek. Names listed include George LeClaire Jr and Joseph V Crus among the dead. rescue efforts continued at dusk.
Dispatch from Bogota says no immediate steps will be taken to build the canal. Opponents of the treaty are pleased by U S delays on the Nicaragua route. Roosevelt is seen delaying until August and awaiting Congress, shaping a cautious stance across the isthmus.
Herbert Bowen publisher from Richmond Hill his wife Agnes and their five year old son Herbert Jr were badly injured when their car plunged over an embankment while speeding down a hill in East New York. The wrecked car left the family hospitalized with Mrs Bowen reported in critical condition. A stone struck the right front wheel causing the crash and the auto rolled ten feet to the ground.
Washington Oct 5 with beet sugar interests urging a united front against the Cuba United States reciprocity treaty. The plan is to renew the fight at the extraordinary session to secure delay and push the treaty to the regular session using any parliamentary tactic.
Brigadier General William P. Carlin retired from the U S Army died aboard an eastbound Northern Pacific train west of Livingston while en route to Omaha to visit friends. The body was removed for shipment to Omaha. Carlin, about seventy, served with distinction in the Civil War.
A dispatch from the captain of the steamship Samoa reports the schooner H. W. Sage foundered in a gale on Lake Michigan while in tow from Escanaba to Lake Erie ports. The crews were saved. The Sage carried ore.
The weekly Trade Review reports mixed trade and crop conditions with price declines for cereals signaling potential large future business and rising foreign interest in farm products. Reports vary by region with strong notes from the southwest northwest and Pacific coast. Iron and steel face over production fears while wholesale demand for finished goods remains quiet. West and Northwest collections improve as delayed crops move to market. Wheat exports for the weekend ending October 1 total 4,082,681 bushels, 1,042,251 higher than last week and 1,212,? lower than last year. thirteen week cereal exports total 40,297,362 bushels versus 65,879,715 a year ago. Corn exports for the week reach 1,123,871 bushels with thirteen week totals of 12,729,122 bushels. Business failures for the week ending October 1 number 153.
Brigadier General John Chase is recalled to Denver on detached duty after a dispute over payroll examinations with Colonel Gross, paymaster of the Colorado National Guard. Governor Peabody ordered another in command and did not disclose reasons. Chase opposes pay discrimination toward certain officers.
Reports from Sofia on October 5 describe heavy fighting at Demir Kapia with Bulgarian frontier posts attacked and refugees pursued. Bulgaria mobilizes 2400 recruits, sends cavalry and artillery to border districts, and tightens measures to prevent cross border incursions. Refugees suffer cold and hunger as bands are driven back. villages Obiditt Kremen Belitza burned and hundreds slain near Samakoff in Kirk Kilisse province.
Chicago markets close with a marked decline as shipments from Russia and Danubian provinces push wheat lower. December corn and oats slip slightly, while pork lard and rib futures mix. Cash prices show No 2 red wheat at 78 to 80 and corn mostly 44 to 47 cents.
On Oct 5 Chicago notes cattle receipts at 26 000 with 400 Texans and 4 500 westerns. Steers fetch 5.35 to 6.00 for good to prime, hogs steady to 10 cents lower, calves up to 7 7 25, sheep and lambs steady to lower with western and native entries listed.
Cattle receipts total 13 900 natives and 5 400 Texans with prices steady to higher. Top exports and dressed beef steers 4 50 to 5 40. natives 1 25 to 3 70. stockers 2 25 to 3 90. Hogs receipts 2 700 with prices 5 80 to 6 10. top 6 10. Sheep receipts 10 000 with natives 3 25 to 5 50. western lambs 2 90 to 5 15. Texas clipped stockers 2 00 to 4 00.
South Omaha on October 5 reports cattle receipts at 6 500 with gains of 10 cents for native steers from 3 80 to 6 60. hogs at 2 400 with stronger tones and bulk sales around 5 65 to 5 70. sheep receipts 2 700 steady with yearlings at 3 50 to 3 85 and lambs 4 00 to 5 00. diverse grades listed.
Vienna reports a joint telegram from Emperor Francis Joseph and the Czar to ambassadors in Constantinople. Austria-Hungary and Russia pledge full support for reform programs, condemn excesses, and outline humanitarian aid to aid victims, with aims to restore villages churches and schools and repatriate displaced residents.
A. E. Hammond alias E A Bell alias F H Crosby, arrested in Denver and sent to St Louis, confesses to robbing a Springfield Junction Ill mail pouch on April 10 and to fraudulently securing money from the Lincoln Trust company. He also admits to crooked acts in Asbury Park New Jersey and Germantown Pennsylvania.
Miss Mary Archer formerly of Milwaukee won damages from the Sacred Heart convent for dismissal from the order and confinement in an asylum on insanity charges. The jury awarded $8.00 in damages for seventeen years of services. verdict cheered in the London Ontario court.
Fifteen hundred glovemakers in Chicago will strike next Wednesday in about a dozen factories over the failure to establish a uniform wage scale on piece work. The action involves both men and women and aims to secure standard pay rules across the industry.
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