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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1899
Page
3
Maj. Gen. Arthur and American forces entered Malolos this morning after a three hour charge. The rebels set the city ablaze and escaped toward the north with Aguinaldo and the cabinet two days ahead. American losses were light. Malolos fell despite fierce resistance.
The passenger steamer Stella from Southampton to the Channel Islands foundered on Casquet rocks in fog near Alderney. Four lifeboats with about 40 survivors were rescued by the Lynx, while 70 to 120 lives were feared lost. The captain perished with the ship amid orderly evacuation and dramatic scenes as families were separated.
Dispatches from Gen Otis in Manila describe Malolos taken and Manila forces resting after fighting. Casualties total 58 killed and 392 wounded as operations near Manila continue with Hall and MacArthur forces active. Reenforcements for the Philippines will depart from New Jersey ports next week.
In probate court Joseph Medill late Tribune editor and ex mayor, distributes a 2 million dollar estate. Most assets go to his daughters Mrs Patterson and Mrs McCormick via trustees. Legacy of 1000 dollars is left to Tribune employees and 15000 dollars funds a bronze Benjamin Franklin statue for Lincoln Park.
A Dennison Ohio report says six masked burglars entered the Crocker home bound and gagged the elderly couple. Mr Crocker was tortured with lighted matches but resisted revealing money. Mrs Crocker suffered indignities. The burglars escaped with $97.
An informal gathering of Quay supporters met Tuesday night at the executive mansion in Harrisburg. Senator Penrose attended and the group decided Quay would stay in the race for United States senator and, if the legislature fails to elect, the issue would go to voters two years hence for the legislature election.
Lewiston Idaho March 29 James McCaffery a miner arrived in Grangeville with news that his partners S T Short hill Mike O'Brien and Jeff Turpin drowned in the Salmon river four miles above Old Wire bridge. The four were returning from Mallick mining district near Buffalo Hump when their boat capsized in rough weather. McCaffery alone reached the shore.
Postmaster Van Cott orders that no letters be delivered to private letter boxes in New York City and must be detained at the central office. Indigent addressees must provide full identifying details and reasons for directing mail to private boxes. In another item, Dr Samuel J Kennedy of Staten Island is found guilty of first degree murder in the Grand Hotel case.
A cable from Manila dated April 3 reports insurgents under Aguinaldo in perilous condition with losses, desertions and a northward retreat. Otis notes favorable reconnaissance and Visayan operations as Iloilo base area surrenders to American forces. A Philippine Commission proclamation to residents calls for peace, pledges civil rights, religious freedom, and U.S. supremacy amid planned self-government.
Washington reports that a formal peace proclamation will mark the end of the Spanish American War after treaty exchanges. The Paris treaty copy is en route to Washington for presentation by M. Cambon to President McKinley, with European and Madrid notices coordinated.
Municipal and township contests across Ohio show Republican gains led by Cleveland and Columbus with independents in Toledo boosting a Jones mayoralty. In Michigan, GOP strength holds. Detroit and Grand Rapids swings favor Democrats in key courts while state ticket leans Republican.
Minneapolis report details Joan McGraw who killed Mrs. Stacey Miller and then shot himself after a days lived together ending their romance. The Chicago scene describes Clara Brown stabbing Joseph Brown after a domestic quarrel. Paris finishes a 30 day West Indies cruise with 400 passengers aboard.
Rudyard Kipling left his bed for the first time since illness and wrote a public letter on April 4 thanking all who sent sympathy. In Glasgow Kentucky, Robert Brown was hanged in the jail yard at 9 40 am after a crowd of about 4000 watched the execution.
In Creston Iowa on April 4 Miss Florence Cruzen 25 hanged herself at her father's home after love disappointment. Also Mrs E A Hedges of Carbon Adams county a patient in the hospital there hanged herself in a bathroom. A Buenos Aires dispatch via Galveston says Britain plans to shoot an engineering corps of 1400 to fortify Port Stanley and Falkland Islands.
Washington April 4 arrangements nearly complete for a two o clock Thursday interment at Arlington cemetery of about 350 soldiers and civilians who died in the Santiago and Porto Rico campaigns. Full military honors will be given with regu lar troops District national guard and marines marching. President McKinley issued an executive order praising the dead and ordering armed honors and a noon government shutdown on the day.
The Windsor hotel ruins search ended with 45 dead known and several missing. Memorial services were held at Heavenly Rest Church with Rev. D Parker Morgan officiating as mourners gathered, flowers displayed, and the church crowded with relatives and friends.
Clyde Mattox killed Lincoln Swinney an Osage ranchman in the White House club saloon during a quarrel. Swinney was the aggressor and Mattox used a knife. Mattox’s earlier murder conviction in 1891 and subsequent pardons are noted as among the southwest’s famed cases.
The employer of the Aetna Standard Iron and Steel company's works at Aetna will be notified of a ten percent wage increase to take effect immediately.
Washington April 3 The isthmian canal commission will have seven members chosen by the president. Named are Rear Admiral Walker Brigadier General Haines Prof Haupt Civil Engineer Noble Maj Frank Symonds and Civil Engineer Voigt. A seventh member Morrison is under consideration. The panel will study Panama and Nicaragua routes and report to the next Congress to secure funding.
A military court investigating the beef question held one session but heard many witnesses, including army surgeons who denied experience with canned beef and said patients remained healthy. Greenleaf W. Simpson testified about supplying beef on the hoof to Cuban troops, claiming it spoils within 24 hours and that refrigeration and preservatives were being explored. Other witnesses described meat spoiling en route to ships, with large quantities condemned though some tainted meat was issued.
Former Wisconsin supreme court justice Silas A. Pinney died at 66 in Madison after eight months of illness. He left the bench November 9 and will be interred as the supreme court adjourns for his funeral. Pinney, who began on the court in 1891, had a notable legal and political career and helped publish Wisconsin supreme court reports.
The Evening News says a London district messenger left Saturday for California to rival Jaggers the messenger boy whose Chicago New York and Philadelphia trip was recent.
Mrs. George W. Young, longtime Iowa Women’s Relief Corps leader, recounts a brutal 1862 Sioux uprising near Fort Ridgely. A wagon train led by J. W. Earle fled an attack, four were killed including a brother of Mrs. Young, and captive women and children were marched north. After Gen H H Sibley defeated Little Crow at Yellow Medicine, Mrs. Young and others were freed. Sixty six Sioux were later executed at Mankato on December 26, 1862.
Waterloo resident Will Parrott reports widespread construction activity across Iowa. He notes crowded lumber yards and designs for new school buildings in Council Bluffs Algona and Shell Rock a new courthouse at Garner and a statewide boom in stores residences depots and other buildings. He says conditions suggest an era of lasting prosperity.
The street railway merger in Sioux City is completed with officers named J S Lawrence president Abel Anderson vice president and treasurer John P Allison director all from Sioux City and J S Goodwin and J W De C O Grady directors from Chicago The new Sioux City Traction company will be equally held in Sioux City and Chicago by consolidating Riverside Leeds Electric Central Sioux City South Sioux City Traction and linking bonds of the Morningside Elevated into the system.
Oxford Junction adopts a tramps relief plan by placing wood in a yard with saws and bucks. Tramps buy a card for one dollar to saw wood and earn meal tickets usable at local restaurants. In the first week ten men sawed enough to cover ten meals, but no man returned for a second visit.
Secretary of State Dobson presides with Shaw as director in the Des Moines company capitalized at $100,000. The firm plans life insurance focused on investment, issuing a single ten year endowment contract. Prominent backers include Cal Manning of Ottumwa as second vice president, with L. J. Patterson of Dunnlap Bank and Louis Haas of Woodbine Savings Bank serving as directors.
Deputy United States Marshal Tilgham left Keokuk for Chandler Oklahoma Territory with Bill Cumberledge in custody. Cumberledge is charged with the murder of G W Fox of Payne county Oklahoma Territory and with three post office robberies a bank robbery highway robbery and several shooting scrapes. Fort Madison police secured Cumberledge and Oklahoma authorities were notified by wire of the capture.
Blackleg has broken out in the southern Davis County area near the Missouri line. Clark Haskins reports ten head of fine Herefords lost, some from the same herd valued at $100 each. W C Carrick and Simon Wager also report multiple losses, with other cattle sick. The disease is almost certain to be fatal once it strikes.
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