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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1897
Page
4
A Brockton Massachusetts woman describes six months of illness and failure with doctors. After following Mrs Pinkham's guidance she cures using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Blood Purifier and Sanative Wash.
Railway building continues in the island of Ceylon with vigor. A Florida man praises Piso's Cure for Consumption. In Conway North Dakota three pilfering hoboes were jailed but during the night the jail was burned and the hoboes cremated.
At the Belt Miners union semi annual election in Neihart Montana officers chosen include President M J Paisley Vice President C F Coggswell Financial Secretary Hiram Willis Recording Secretary Charles Bonner Treasurer E J Sanford Conductor D J Martinoli Warden H P Fitzpatrick and a finance committee James Gann John Pierce A Bernier with trustees Peter Rush Pat Killeen Mike Steils John Haggerty and B E Marquis.
Colusa Sun reports on George F. Packer’s new pump powered by Hercules engine. The 80 horsepower pump, 6 000 gallons per minute, draws river water through a 20 inch pipe to irrigate hundreds of acres of wheat and other crops. The unit promises low fuel cost and high output, with tests exceeding contract figures.
James Johnson, a Missouri penitentiary inmate, petitions the governor for a pardon arguing he wishes to go to the Klondike gold fields. The case rests on his stated motive rather than new legal grounds.
Consular reports praise Lombardy for a rapid expansion of spinning and weaving capacity with about 2.5 million spindles equivalent in day and night work. Italy uses mainly Indian and American cotton, shifting toward finer counts, while calico printing expands to Tunis, the Levant, South America and the Balkans.
The fierce wind storms across the Grampian hills have repeatedly stopped trains traveling from Perth to the north, disrupting service on several occasions.
A Minneapolis genealogist estimates four billion people between William the Conqueror and his modern descendants. The Washington Congressional Library will hold about 44 miles of shelving for over two million volumes. Berthelot aims to improvise artificial rubber cheaper and better than natural rubber. Michigan starts a new fuel industry using resin-coated sawdust blocks. French and German dentists warn hollow teeth harbor tuberculosis and microbes. A drunken Polander slept with a wooden leg burning near a coal stove. Detectives check gloves on shoplifters. Popocatepetl is tied to a US syndicate to mine sulfur and guide tourists to its crater. A Frenchman offers toothpicks to a Turk who declines after eating two. Frogs and toads puffing up is an instinct to frighten foes. Professor Forbes sees electric power potentially profitable to about 1000 miles. Japanese poor children wear neck labels with names and addresses for safety.
Reports from Washington Montana and Idaho note log prices and shortages on Gray's Harbor. a waterfront patrol planned in New Whatcom. U S court expenses of about 6000 received by Marshal Ide. Prune drying expands in Clarke county with 15 plants near Vancouver. a death from accidental shooting in Port Townsend.
The 1896 97 county assessments show Nez Perce and Latah valuations with minor tax shifts. The Parker reward for Parker outrages grows, and Indian treaty talks on Fort Hall end temporarily. The Daly Haggin Anaconda party takes Butte and Boston control, Formosa tunnels advance, and rich free gold finds and new Baker City and Teutonic prospects drive mining excitement in Idaho and neighboring states.
In Butte Tom Lane a 50 year old miner shot Jim Shea shift boss at Mountain Iron mine in Centerville and then killed himself. Both men unmarried. Lane recently discharged for drunkenness and held a grudge. Also noted Cranton and Son sold 23000 pounds of wool at 12 cents per pound and heavy rains damaged western Washington hop fields.
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