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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1900
Page
2
A collection of quips and observations from Townsend Montana and national figures touching on marriage economics elections and political pairing. Notable notes reference Fitzsimmons Dublin England Ireland Porto Rican bill Hoar and McEnery with remarks on partisanship and parliamentary pairing patterns.
Across Pittsburg a single family, the Joneses, held most church offices and eight trustees. A vote to diversify leadership produced a minority challenge and a Jones withdraw, allowing Smith to win. In a separate note, municipal electric funding disputes surface, while a tragic Checotah tale ends with a cross tribe marriage and a double burial after a deer hunt goes awry.
Descendants of the Daniel Boone family recount a century old Kentucky tale. On Sulphur Creek near Hesstand the Delaware lovers Checotah and Salala meet doom as he falls to the gorge and she, in a final act, leaps to perishing waters while singing the tribe’s death cry.
A Great Dane abandoned by his family wandered the neighborhood for days then leaped from an upper window in Thirty-first Street. He survived the fall long enough for a policeman to shoot him after investigation showed no threat from the family.
G. W. Roberts a farmer near Mount Vernon NL was shot and killed by his stepson Harry Hughey after a two year family feud. The dispute arose from fears Roberts would seize the Hughey family farm and other property for his own use.
A Cleveland era column highlights Romantic Marriage at the National Military Home in Dayton as veteran William H. Post weds Mrs. Elizabeth McWilliams after she runs away to marry him. The piece also recounts an early explosive test and a Civil War era song Just Before the Battle Mother, mixing anecdotes of war’s small sparks and large myths.
Marsite, invented by Mr. Hathaway of Wellsboro Pennsylvania, is described as the safest high explosive yet known. Early tests by the U S Navy Ordnance Bureau, reported via the London Times, show highly favorable results. The nitrate compound resembles dark clay and is said to be as safe as clay to handle, resisting hammering and friction, but sensitive to percussion or electric current.
The Rev Wm J Rutledge of Jacksonville Illinois aged 86 who first proposed the Grand Army of the Republic died. He fathered twelve children seven surviving and his funeral drew relatives from across the United States. He served as chaplain in the Fourteenth Illinois Infantry Joliet prison and the Quin cy Soldiers Home and helped establish Northwestern University.
Adjutant General Corbin released figures showing total Philippine garrison strength on April first at 63 585 personnel. Regulars and volunteers dominate, with 2 610 regulars and 120 volunteers in staff, 2 411 regulars and 1 096 volunteers in cavalry, and 24 133 regulars plus 30 987 volunteers in infantry. Including all classes, 31 382 regulars and 32 203 volunteers.
The Abyssinian warriors honor their king by a ceremonial band of 45 trumpets accompanying him on every journey.
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