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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1907
Page
6
The article details catastrophic drought and floods in Russia and China causing mass starvation. It notes 30,000,000 peasants affected in Russia and 15,000,000 in northern China, with governments and the Christian Herald coordinating aid. It laments graft and inadequate relief while urging worldwide support.
A Philadelphia charity worker recalls an elderly newspaper peddler whose wife died while he hid his poverty. He continued selling papers to support them both and even shared profits with the charity, embodying steadfast devotion amid illness and loss.
A sermon argues every unborn child has a divine claim on parental planning and training. Samson’s God fearing home illustrates how early nurture shapes destiny and life alignment with God’s will, stressing consecration, righteousness, and Godward development for blessings.
The narrative follows Samson from early devotion to deliver Israel through personal ambition. He carries an ox-like burden through Timnath, struggles with bearing Philistine power, and resolves to marry a Timnath Philistine woman to ignite conflict. His choice defies parental guidance, framing a divine occasion against the Philistines.
Beatrice Grimshaw recounts a voyage to the New Hebrides visiting a forest cannibal fortress six miles inland where a booming dance and skull-faced idols accompanied a cannibal chief’s ritual. She mentions a month in Tanna amid vendettas with many deaths, an active volcano once noted by Cook, and travel onward to Sydney and civilization.
A Sunday night murder near Boston remains unsolved as the town’s police chief delegates the search to an assistant to rest for the town meeting the next day. No suspect is named and the killer is at large.
Two men robbed the Magleton state bank early on the 16th using nitroglycerin to blast the vault. They secured 4400 dollars in cash including 1000 in gold and 2200 in silver, then escaped undetected. A horse and buggy were stolen nearby, and tracks suggest the thieves fled toward Ocl weth.
In Oelwein a report ties a theft at the State bank in Hazleton to J H Clark registered at the Mealey hotel. Clark, described as tall heavyset with red whiskers, left town Friday and was last seen Monday heading south toward Hazleton after buying overalls and a jumper for rough work. Police have yet to locate him.
Hassan a Syrian arrival in Fort Dodge traveled 7000 miles to Denison to aid his two sons Joseph and Solomon Fassan, jailed for murder after their wagon collided with a train near Denison. The father’s arrival delayed their trial, postponed to the August term.
Five Austrian men were instantly killed thirteen miles northeast of Denison on the Illinois Central passenger line No. 6. A work gang near Elis had been laying off in a snowstorm. the men were returning with a keg of beer when a train struck them at a sharp curve. Bodies were taken to Denison for burial. coroner's inquest deemed unnecessary. Three brothers named Uzlac, Isadora Dragascoc, and John Bohic were among the dead.
Des Moines reports the death of Welcome Mowry of Tama County at Excelsior Springs Missouri on the 15th. He was born April 3 1842 in Putnam County Illinois and moved to town in 1867. Mowry served in Company D Seventh Kansas cavalry and later in the 151st Minnesota infantry. He was elected to the Iowa legislature in 1883 and later served on the railroad commission elected in 1898.
Sioux City shortstop Danny Sheehan was struck in the temple during the Sioux City Omaha game. The blow ruptured a blood vessel and left him in a local hospital with little hope for recovery.
The Anti Saloon league's injunctions extend to twenty four more saloonkeepers, placing all but sixteen of Sioux City's eighty eight saloons under restraint.
Sheriff deputies from two counties joined in a running battle over a tier of Iowa counties. More than a hundred shots were exchanged as they captured two men suspected in hog stenting near Templeton. Harry Rensle was jailed at Guthrie Center, Milott Hood held in Templeton.
J B Hollenhors of Marshalltown former roadmaster and associates W V Sibert and Claude S Johnson were sentenced for pilfering from the Chicago Great Western railroad unearthed by agents last fall. Hollendors receives three years at Annamosa. Sibert and Johnson get sixty days in county jail each. Judge Ransler credited no clemency beyond family ties.
Mason City reports Judge J K Clyde of Osage discharged banker J D Barlow from the jury and freed him. Barlow previously faced embezzlement charges after a note for 2700 dollars from George Myers and a 1700 dollar check allegedly kept by Barlow. The ruling states a check is not money and a person cannot be held for embezzlement on that claim. He may face later arrest for fraudulent banking.
Three public drains Nos. 4 1 and 6 were let for over 93000 with work split among Northwestern Drain and Construction Bancroft for 8041 Matthews Bros & Company Erle Ill 19 cents per yard tile No 6 to B J Sweet Boone Iowa No 7 to C H Sturmburg Sons No 8 ditch work 95 cents per yard tile work to Northwestern Drain and Construction Bancroft Iowa for 43788 82 Bonds totaling 100000 sold at 4000 premium.
Elkhorn reports a clothing storebreak in by bandits who escaped with valuables. This is Iverson’s fourth robbery in short order and losses exceed $500. Entry was gained by forcing the front door with a key the thieves obtained.
La Porte City observer Iarl Harvey reports a six and a half inch diameter head of a mastodon femur unearthed in gravelly wastes across the Cedar River. The fragment, well polished by ages, may belong to elephas primo and will be sent to Des Moines for identification before donation to the state university museum.
Esther Hardy, age six, sues the city of Council Bluffs for 3000 dollars claiming injuries from a fall into an uncovered excavation on a high embankment. She suffered a broken arm and other injuries. Her mother appears for the girl.
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