01 Nov 1899
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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1899
Page
1
Mrs B A Bender of Keene Ohio reports relief after using Favorite Prescription and Pleasant Pellets for four weeks. She says the remedy improves health sleep appetite and childbirth ease and notes it contains no alcohol opioids or narcotics. Free medical adviser offer details included with stamps for mailing.
Ladysmith is again surrounded as Boer shells strike British camps while Powerful fires on them at dawn. Gloucesters and Fusiliers’ heroism relieves tension after a dire rout. In the Philippines General Young’s rapid advance demoralizes insurgents who flee to the hills as Aguinaldo seeks recruits and rice.
General Frederick Funston, returning home with the Twentieth Kansas, wired Topeka lawyers to sue Archbishop Ireland of St Paul for criminal libel over interview statements. He also seeks action against the Monitor, a San Francisco Catholic paper that published the story. Ireland had been quoted saying Funston faced looting accusations in a Chicago interview.
Full attendance requested at regular convocation on Wednesday November 1st at 8 PM by order of the H P A Brown secretary pro tem.
Washington reports a Spanish official denial that Spain holds any Philippine island. The note counters Count D Alps claim that American commissioners left three islands under Spanish control by treaty boundary definitions.
In district court yesterday Carl Helmuth and Frank Marin pleaded guilty to charges from the previous day’s grand jury. Helmuth received two years in state prison, broke down crying as Judge Bonnifield imposed sentence. Marin withdrew his not guilty plea and was sentenced to four years. James O’Donnell faced five indictments for forgery and was given until 3 pm to plead. The grand jury continued work on the Bouton case with no further report this afternoon.
A cheerful Hallowe en party at Mr. and Mrs. J A Rogers on Bridge street lasted until 11 o clock. Old fashioned games charades and fortune telling preceded a dining room supper where friends pledged affection and merriment carried into the night. Guests wished for many more such times and promised to meet next Hallowe en.
Sing Lee was brought to Justice Rutherford's court after arrest for allegedly attempting to kill Wong Tan last Sunday. Bail set at 3500, cash deposited, and he was released. The Sing Lee faction swore out warrants for Wong san for the shooting and for another man to create the impression of an earlier life-threatening event. Tan's bail was 200, paid, and he was freed amid fears of gang plotting against him.
An advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets promising cure for a cold within a day. It guarantees refund if ineffective and features EB W Grove's signature on each box, priced at 25 cents.
Mrs J Rush Branch found dead with a bullet in her head in her first floor apartment at 42nd Street Chicago. The body had likely lain for a week with fingerprints and bloodstains nearby and a revolver with an empty chamber on a bed. Neighbors heard of a possible husband visiting and a strange man was seen in the front room while the janitor repaired a gas jet. Letters to a Mrs Mabel Downs suggest a dual life. The coroner will investigate the case.
Local notes report arrivals from Lovelock Willow Point Reno Battle Mountain and Humboldt plus a Halloween prank wax in a door keyhole scene. A Church Furnishing Society social at the parsonage featured recitations by Mrs Canady and Miss Hoy with refreshments. City of Puebla brought 105 enlisted sick soldiers home from Manila. Hood's Sarsaparilla ad ends the column.
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