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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1898
Page
1
Washington notes that the Fifty-fifth Congress ends and lawmakers expect to pass only the usual budgets and army expansion measures. The administration deems an army increase necessary to meet postwar obligations, with likely no action on war gains or Hawaiian territorial governance this session.
Report from San Francisco describes Manila postal labor as a blend of six San Francisco staff and from Manila fourteen workers including two US soldiers and twelve ex Spanish clerks. It notes salaries, hours, and that the 200 workers did the work of about 20 Americans. Also mentions Jacob Woolner plans and lumber shipments from Ashland to Lake Erie ports.
Arthur Stirling prominent actor dies in London. Princess Augusta of Saxe Weimar dies in Stuttgart. Comptroller of the Currency requests condition reports from national banks as of December 1. Spanish transport San Francisco arrives at Valencia from Cuba with passengers and cargo.
Advocates for a Nicaraguan canal may secure passage, but no single bill such as the pooling or anti scalpers measures will block the agenda. Leaders at both Capitol ends plan to begin work immediately to prevent an extra session and push appropriation bills through rapidly.
A Portsmouth newspaper reports Secretary Long saying the European squadron date is undecided while praising a warm welcome for the United States fleet. Readers infer a future American squadron visit to Portsmouth.
War department dispatch from General Otis at Manila reports seven American deaths in the past week including three from the First South Dakota Irwin J Willett musician dysentery James E Link private Company I dysentery and John J Mahoney private Company K typhoid fever.
The item notes repatriated Spanish troops on the road and reports the death of James G. Lindsley former representative of New York’s Seventeenth District in the Forty-ninth Congress. It also lists the death of Sidi Mohammed Taieb Bey of Tunis at age 77. Other items include a manslaughter conviction in Hastings Minnesota, a lawsuit by Thurlow Weed Barnes against the American China Development Co, an arranged marriage linking Sir William Vernon Harcourt’s heir and Walter Burns’s daughter, and the hiding of Grant Gellett in Kansas City. It mentions Mrs Martha Little Davidson of Leba non, aged 80, and a 3 million pesetas legacy to the young King of Spain.
Consul Hart reports to the state department that the Bogota house of representatives rejected the Panama Canal company's petition to extend the construction period by six years. The firm still has six years to complete the canal work.
Baltimore reports the fiercest wind and rain storm in years with speeds around sixty mph. Eight hundred houses in the city and nearby areas lose their roofs as trees fall and chimneys topple. Telegraph and telephone systems, electric lights, and trolley poles are wrecked. a gas tank explosion at Scott and Ostend streets triggers a neighborhood panic.
A daylong heavy rain storm with winds up to 42 miles per hour battered the state. Telegraph wires from the city southward were nearly useless as trees and signs fell, chimneys toppled, yet major damage was not reported. A northeaster affected the Delaware Breakwater and New Jersey coast with high tides the strongest in years. No vessel disasters noted.
Reports from Toreno Ohio Kansas City and Indianapolis describe a severe winter storm sweeping Lake Erie with heavy snow, downed wires, and threatened boats. Amid record winds and cold, rail and telegraph lines face disruption as cities record frosty temperatures and deserted streets.
The Spanish Red Cross Society requests from the French embassy detailed illustrations and explanations of all U S surgical and humane devices used to ease war suffering. The society, not a government body, acted during the recent conflict under Spain's queen regent. A similar request is being made to other governments to publish a volume on global advances in care for the sick and wounded and wartime distress.
The United States gunboat Helena arrived here from Bermuda after departing Nov. 10 for Manila and is now coaling. She travels to join Admiral Dewey’s squadron at Manila Bay in Tanila.
Jewelry valued at 4500 dollars was stolen from the Blumenthals in the Great Northern hotel. Entry was gained by picking the door lock and trunk lock.
Maprio reports The Imparcial questions whether the United States plans to resend an ultimatum to Spain during discussions on fully restoring diplomatic relations.
Chicago and Minneapolis price notes show December wheat around 63 cents and May near 64.1 cents. No. 1 hard and Northern grain bids listed. Hog and cattle markets vary by city with pork around 32 to 46 per hundredweight and cattle mostly steady. regional beef and veal prices reflected for beeves and stockers.
The United States transport Port Victor arrived from Santiago with 120 passengers, mostly soldiers on furlough, and about 6,000 Mauser rifles and seven Spanish cannon from Morro Castle. In New York a $40,000 gift surprises Geo C. Thomas of the mission society. Costa Rica President Iglesias travels to New York then Paris. Colonel Carter accompanies him. Colonel William Jennings Bryan returns to Savannah after 30 days sick leave. 800 rifles found buried in Biray, Spain, with Carlist arrests nearby.
In Stewartville Minnesota a lone highwayman attempted a stage robbery near the High Forest route half a mile from town. The driver refused to stop and fired four shots from his revolver wounding the attacker in the leg. Doctors Stoddard and Burns treated the wounded man whose bullet traveled through the leg and lodged in his shoe.
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