Multiple Deaths and Discoveries Highlight Montana News
Butte and Missoula items report deaths including John E. Hansen and William McLaughlin with possible suicides and mining accidents. Other notes cover railroad extension work, elopement captured in Butte, court decisions on capital ballot, new catmea mill at Missoula, ore finds at Bay Horse Idaho, and a bear-killing tale from Bonner. Governor Rickards discusses Montana area versus New England states and a 1894 mining labor law suspension with May 10 date provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Bell
Broadwater
Niehart
Chicago
Wm. McLaughlin
Butte
George A. Pulver
William Davis
Salt Lake City
Utah
C. L. Campbell
Moses Hall
Hayre
Supreme Court
Missoula
Martin Buckley, Sr
Duggan House
Mike Donley
Beardsley
Bay Horse
Idaho
Northwest
Wilson Ellis
Salmon River
Challis
J. D. Wood
New Northwest
Bonner
Albert Leroy Tippet
Tippet
Gov. Rickards
Montana
New England
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Maryland
Delaware
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Rhode Island
Massachusettes
Senate
House of Representatives
Congress
United States
South Dakota
Mysterious mail robbery sparks railway theft reports
The text details a series of criminal incidents including a Hannibal and St. Joseph railway mail robbery stealing nineteen registered packages, a chloroformed fiancee in Avon Ohio, a Chicago anarchist literature arrest, the Cook-Dalton gang’s Fort Smith entrance, and a Bloomfield Bank holdup with $5000 seized. Also noted are a Tombs Angel bail-bond keeper, a speed horse record, Flying Jib’s mile in 1 55, a Montana driver, a large bear killed by a train near Blossburg, a new school in Elliston, four bears in Spokane, and wage testimony for the Oregon Railway case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hannibal & St. Joseph
Henry L. Tollery
Avon
Ohio
Gertrude Lewis
Akron
Chicago
Union Depot
Lizzie Loftus
Cook-Dalton
Fort Smith
Fort Gibson
United States
Bloomfield
Buonfield
Ind
Charles Rivers
Rivers
Ernestine Schaffner
Tombs Angel
James K. Polk
Chillicothe
Harners
Monroe Salisbury
Capital Clippings from Our Newsy Exchanges
Capital Notes roundup highlights brief items from various sources. Names, places, dates, and events are summarized in compact notices reflecting the period newspaper voice.
Helena Should Victory Signal Freedom in State Fight
The Butte Miner denounces the Anaconda Mining and Smelting Company and Anaconda's political grip as a threat to Montana liberty. It urges white and black voters to resist corporate domination, cast off serfdom, and rally under a banner of freedom for the state's future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Colored Citizen
Anaconda Standard
Standard
Anaconda
Citizen
America
Montana
Anaconda Mining and Smelting Company
Combine
Anaconda Company
Rothchilds
Butte
Also Mentioned on This Page
Qacram
Ratt Roxas
Nary
Montane
CurRivere
Agar Padi
John E. Hansen
George Brandt
St. Paul
Butte and Anaconda
Daly
Andy McDowell
McDowell
Northern Pacific
Blossburg
Brain
Deer Lodge County
Mountaineer
Elliston
Spokane
Benson, Ariz
E.G Roesler
Ocoeta
Wash
North Beach
Crosby
McArthur
The
Oregon Railway & Navigation Company
McNeill
Portland
United States District
Bellinger
Tom O'Rourke
George Dixon
Walter Campbell
Young Griffo
Bob Johnson
Hope Will
the Valley Stables
Central Broadway
Townsend
Jobb & McDonald
Proprietrs
Ww. T. Hazakrston
Hazerton & Bixss Inc
W. T. Hazelton
Townsed
Tim McCarthy
Townsend, Mont
Bank OF Townsend
Mleinschmidt
J. R. Weston, S. Hyatt, J. &. Manouse
Herman Berc
T &. Tierney
F. E. Kenaston
J. L. Belcher, M. D
Townsend House
John H. Shoeer
Attorneys At Law
Flelena, Mont
State
Supreme Court of the
G. W. Gilham, M.D
Mont
Norther Pacific Railroad
E. H. Goodman
G. A. Wilder
Howell
Land and Mining Attorney
J. C. Stuart & CO
R. M. Crane
Jefferson County
Robert Swain
Shetches
Udio
McKight
Lower
Main St
Taomas McCormick
Fpick McCormick
McCormick Stables
Broadway
N. P
Upper Broadway
W. E Tierney & CO
Castle
VIA
Canyon Ferry
Diamond City
FT. Logan
Missouri River
E. F. McRae
Carpenter & Builder
Wallace
Pine Street
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