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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1908
Page
3
The Express Iowa riffs on spirits talk by Sir Oliver Lodge and a string of odd, humorous observations. It notes Castro, baseball slang, old coins selling for 51 dollars, Kitchener training abroad, a mirror fright, a sea water silver project, and a Brooklyn teacher facing a Black Hand note.
The Philadelphia Press notes a paradox in a New York school board ruling: teachers should refrain from lambasting pupils, yet no regulation forbids pupils from making faces at teachers. Naval critics warn that a battleship suffers when its armor belt is too low, a flaw not easily corrected.
A New York woman stole jewelry worth $20,000 to uphold her social standing, leaving a poor impression of what it takes to sustain social position in the city.
Prosperity sits idle while Argentina's season centers on wheat. The crop’s marketing outlook keeps the mood cheerful as growers ride steady demand and favorable prices.
A reflective line on Australia with no tables or hydrophobia and a century of absolute immunity. It suggests the world could learn from how such immunity arose in that large island continent.
The passage portrays Osserted as out of work and physically damaged by chemical experiments that destroyed his vital organs save his lungs. With no digestive organs and no need for boarding, he questions work and seems to view his situation as enviable amid economic hardship.
A humorous note suggests war could proceed with gum shoes and soft commands to avoid disturbing the country. The Society for the Suppression of Useless Noises fears abolishing war, but the noiseless sun offers a solution to tone down warfare without chaos.
A young Connecticut man sought to elope with a young woman but faced a splash of hot water from onlookers. His chances might have worsened later if his plan had not failed.
The mockers say the Harvard graduate working for a railroad for 15 dollars a month is unlikely to rise high. He may become president of a large railway corporation in twenty years.
Washington reports the German government declined to receive Dr David Jayne Hill as American ambassador to Berlin citing a personal objection by Emperor William connected to Prince Henry's years earlier visit to America. Hill, ex first assistant secretary of state under Hay, was to succeed Charlemagne Tower. Paris notes Hill was surprised by Berlin’s stance and had believed Germany ratified his post.
Lincoln banker Frank Freezer president of Lincoln Mining Co was held up Wednesday at three pm by three men in a buggy who grabbed $5000 in miners payroll. Two robbers were captured after a running gun duel. a third escaped with the money.
The Leland hotel in Springfield suffered severe fire damage costing about 75000 dollars to the Wiggins estate. Delegates at the nearby Republican state convention rushed to save belongings, overwhelming police as guests fought to salvage baggage amid flames. No lives were lost and most baggage was saved despite the hotel’s crowding.
The Aldrich currency bill was approved by the Senate 42 to 16 in a largely party line result. Earlier a Dailey substitute to authorize government issued emergency circulation failed 42 to 13 with Senator La Follette joining the Republicans.
A blaze in the Commercial hotel in Oneonta, Binghamton area, endangered 35 guests. Some fled via ladders and rope fire escapes, losing all possessions. The building suffered about $4,000 in losses.
The Senate passed a bill to appropriate 10,000 dollars for the support of P. B. Banton of Waterloo Iowa who was permanently injured while serving as yardmaster of the Panama railroad.
Rock Island reports the death of Dr. P A Lindahl on Friday due to heart disease. He served as president of the Augustana Book Concern and editor of the Augustana, a Swedish publication, and long directed Augustana College.
San Francisco durham W Stevens, adviser to the Seoul government, was shot Monday by a Korean and died at midnight Wednesday. Doctors failed to halt the injury as a bullet passed through the intestines after an operation proved unsuccessful. The shooter blamed Stevens for Japan's protectorate over Korea.
New York Daniel Leroy Dresser former president of the Trust Company of the Republic was discharged by Magistrate Barlow when arraigned Friday on a larceny charge
An 18 year old Brooklyn physician's son Edwin J. Ditmars reportedly leaped from the Brooklyn Bridge on Thursday and died shortly after rescue from the water.
Rogers proprietor of the Rogers hotel announced plans to erect a 16 story hotel at Fourth Street and Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis at a cost exceeding 1 million dollars.
New Poston reports a cyclone hit Burlington Friday night blowing 12 freight cars from the rails and demolishing a church. Several people were injured in the storm.
Detroit man Michael Rochowiak dies from injuries after Tuesday derailment of an interurban car from Jackson. First fatality in the wreck reported Wednesday.
Wyoming horse thief W C Buckford who Tuesday killed Sheriff Webb of Yellowstone County died by his own hand Wednesday rather than surrender to a surrounding posse in Montana.
Early Thursday evening a double earthquake struck Chilapa Guerrero Mexico destroying the town and igniting fires in a dozen locations. Telegraph lines failed, Chilapa is two days by horseback from the railway and casualty figures are unknown. A second dispatch confirms Chilapa reduced to ashes and ongoing efforts to learn full losses. In Vera Cruz Emma Jeannette Dorville, an American, died in a panic at Tiburcio theater. St Thomas D W I reported a sharp quake with no damage.
Washington reports the battleship fleet will visit China as well as Australia and Japan and return for Washington’s birthday with a potential Roosevelt participation in a welcome. Cabinet decides to accept China invitation and to decline further social invitations with thanks.
Kansas City General R C Horne was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the killing of H J Groves editor of the Kansas City Post. The jury ruled Horne was insane at the time of the shooting and committed him to an asylum.
Nathan B. Hawkins of Portland was nominated by the Republicans of the Eighth district on the seven hundred sixty first ballot after the convention sat since Thursday afternoon at three o'clock in Anderson Indiana.
In Hornell New York a Wells Fargo express westbound train collided with an eastbound freight at JX tower early Friday. Two men died and five were injured in the Erie railroad wreck.
Tallahassee Florida confirms Hall Milton of Marianna as the new U S senator succeeding the late Senator Bryan. Milton is a grandson of former Florida Governor John Milton.
August Wetzel, president of the Wetzel Brothers Printing Co., pleaded guilty to perjury in federal court. He admitted false testimony linked to the T. & Cameron frauds. Judge Quarles fined him 1000 dollars and sentenced him to one day in Milwaukee county jail.
Lexington leaders petition the president for federal intervention after state authorities fail to pursue night rider perpetrators. The move aims to unite the president and governor for possible action. The Equity society denies a settlement with the American Tobacco Company in Winchester.
Congressman Thomas Heflin of Alabama shot a negro, Thomas Lumby, in the head and a New York horse trainer, Thomas McCreary, in the leg on a Pennsylvania avenue car. Lumby is in critical condition. McCreary was wounded unintentionally. Heflin was arrested on assault with intent to kill and later bailed out.
In Gentry Arkansas early Thursday a dynamite blast to blow the Farmers Bank at Springtown killed one robber whose head was blown from his shoulders. The other robber’s body lay near the safe inside the bank. In Danville Illinois two men attempted the Chrisman bank robbery the day before and then robbed the Danville Water Co office under gunfire forcing Cashier Byers and a woman to surrender. They took ten dollars and missed a larger sum.
A late Friday tornado damaged farm property around Blackman and Woodville northwest of Jackson while a separate storm produced heavy snowfall in Michigan’s upper peninsula. No fatalities were reported.
James O Neal a traveling man from Philadelphia became deranged at Bidwell near Gallipolis Ohio on Thursday and jumped under a Hocking Valley train. He was instantly killed and his body brought to Gallipolis. O Neal had been drinking and is believed to have squandered considerable money.
Richmond reporters say the Virginia General Assembly adopted a resolution removing Judge J W G Blackstone of the Eleventh circuit citing immorality and gross neglect of official duty
A blaze nearly leveled the center of Greenville Kentucky ten miles north of Albany on Thursday. The town with about 350 residents suffered extensive damage as fire gutted key blocks. Local crews fought the flames and protected surrounding structures.
The most disastrous prairie fire this section has known in years began Wednesday afternoon between Pukwana and Kimball. A high wind drove flames over a wide area and, at last reports, it continued traveling southeast.
Dr. Truman Jay Backus, president of the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn and noted educator, died Wednesday. He was born in Milan, New York, in 1842.
A bomb aimed at Capt. Reilly’s squad exploded in Union Square injuring four officers and killing a companion. The attacker, Seligh Silverstein, reportedly said he intended to strike the police after a prior beating. He described buying nitroglycerin in Brooklyn and making the device from gas pipe. He has a wife and two children in Russia.
Express Messenger O A Bailey of Kansas City was murdered during a robbery on Santa Fe train No 115 between Florence and Newton. The attacker looted both the local and through safes, taking at least 1000 dollars and some jewelry. total haul unknown.
In the Clarendon hotel an early Sunday morning shooting left Mrs. William Pryor, about 25, dead and the actor William W. Train or, from West Union Ohio, dead by his own hand. Coroner Miller noted Train or had a Reno brother among other details.
Berlin reports Emperor William has recalled disapproval messages to President Roosevelt and now would be pleased to receive Dr Hill as ambassador to Germany in succession to Charlemagne Tower.
In Wellsville Ohio on Sunday George Snowden of Steubenville fatally shot Mrs. Spires wife of Constable William Spires after she refused to elope with him. Snowden then shot himself and died almost instantly.
Tokyo reports the Korean cabinet approves a donation of 50,000 yen to the family of Durham W. Stevens who was killed in San Francisco by a Korean zealot.
In Port-au-Prince General Larraque, once chief of cavalry, detained March 14 on charges of plotting against the president, sought refuge Sunday at the French legation with two fellow officers after being released March 24. Police sweep the city and guard legations to trap other conspirators.
Kansas City bank resumes operations with six million dollars cash and exchange to meet a twelve million dollar deposit liability. The reopening places the National Bank of Commerce under the charge of prominent national financiers.
Lynchburg Virginia Colonel Maurice S Langhorne aged 85 who commanded the Eleventh Virginia Regiment during the Civil War died Saturday after a weeks long illness.
A St Paul storekeeper Edward Hamilton received a letter with two cakes of soap that repaid a long ago theft from his storefront showcase. The note explained the writer saw Hamilton’s ad and apologized for taking a soap cake years earlier, now sending the payment.
A new scheme to arouse local civic pride organizes clubs by localities rather than the whole community. Merchants on a single street join to clean up and light a block, with plans to expand as success proves. The approach spreads as more blocks form similar cooperative efforts.
Mrs. Marie Sipfle of 416 Miller St Helena Mont reports backache kidney trouble and weakness three years before starting Dean's Kidney Pills. She says four boxes cured her completely and lastingly with relief from pain and improved kidney secretions. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Kansas City Times excerpt notes a remark about the Indian appropriation bill ending relations with five tribes. Reeder comments on the measure while Grump complains about a prolonged household visit, quipping about wishing to be Indians.
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