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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1896
Page
4
Thousands attend a Louisville September notification in Indianapolis for Palmer and Buckner. Senator Caffery announces Palmer as nominee while Buckner accepts, with Cleveland telegrams and party unity themes amid fervent speeches and music.
William J Bryan accepts the Democratic presidential nomination, pledges not to seek re election under any circumstances, endorses the party platform, and outlines views on government power, monetary policy, foreign policy, labor arbitration, trusts, territorial expansion, and free homes, urging united action toward gold standard. New rice receipts are well taken at New Orleans.
New York Governor William Sulzer Sheehan denounces the Chicago Democratic convention as undemocratic and pro populist. He argues for fidelity to Democratic principles and warns that free coinage of silver would hurt the nation. He vows to resign if New York Democrats endorse the Chicago ticket or platform.
In New York at the Bartholdi, Corbett and Fitzsimmons verbally agree to a $10,000 per side bout and a large purse. Written contract to follow with $5,000 stakes from each fighter held by Al Smith. Siler of Chicago named referee. If Sharkey fails, Fitzsimmons steps in. otherwise the fight occurs two months later. Fitzsimmons declines Police Gazette title.
Victor Colorado September 13. Charles McGovern Charles O Toole and George Stevens found dead today in a cabin a mile from Victor. The men with Harry Doyle and John McDevitt had been occupying the cabin for some time and all had been drinking heavily. The two latter have been arrested on suspicion of poisoning their companions.
Alice K. Potter filed suit in Tacoma on September 14 seeking sixteen thousand dollars from the Preferred Accident Insurance Company of New York to recover on her husband H Cranston Potter's fifteen thousand dollar policy. He was killed by a fall over a cliff at the Cliff House San Francisco last December.
The leaders of the conspiracy against the Spanish government in Cavile province have been executed by firing squad in Manila on September 13.
A Montana roundup reports Sheridan starting a newspaper in Madison county and Dillon capturing a wandering porcupine. It notes cholera infantum in Deer Lodge and a Helena bank failure with N P BR Co. holdings. Glendive fears Yellowstone flooding, and Hoyt of the U S A. is paralyzed in Helena. The Missoula Republican switches to a Democratic paper under new management.
The page reports varied market activity with metal prices steady to firm led by copper and silver, mixed wheat and oats futures in San Francisco and Chicago, and livestock values in Chicago. Cattle, hogs, and sheep show modest to strong demand with receipts sizable as markets react to shipments and world trade signals.
At the Puget Sound conference in Vancouver Washington on September 14 Bishop Cranston announced the Swedish Methodist church at Spokane would be supplied. The conference voted 64 to 11 to approve the arrangement and a separate vote on equal representation declared women eligible as lay delegates.
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