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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1905
Page
6
In 1904 a broad survey reports social and legal restrictions for Hebrews in Spain. Other items note Japan marriages under 22, Welsh and Rosshire gold finds, Paris shoplifting with canine accomplice, Hawaii hat theft cases, and a Madrid centenary Don Quixote festival plan. The piece closes with cremation statistics, Edward VII funds, stamps, and public morality calls.
In portions of Central America barbed-wire fences have trees growing from posts. Telegraph lines show crowns of leaves on top after growth since linemen last visited. The tropics pose extra challenges as trees keep growing, unlike northern regions where growth is slower.
Bishop Thornton of Manchester argued in a Blackburn Parish Church talk that animals possess souls and minds. He said statutes lack souls in popular theology while scripture uses the same term living soul for beasts and humans, with spirit reserved for mankind.
Reports from Petersburg claim the Russian second Pacific squadron has left Kamranh bay and heads for Vladivostok while Paris and St. Petersburg push to uphold Japanese protest. Rojestvensky refuels at Karavanh bay April 12 to prepare for a northern voyage as Tsugaru strait and Lingayen bay gains attention in the wider neutral zone dispute. France orders strict neutrality assurances to Japan and Indo-China officials amid these maneuvers.
In New York on April 20 the Equitable Life Assurance Society agents adopted a resolution demanding Vice President J H Hyde resign and a five member committee to present the demand. Hyde refused calling resignation cowardly and disgraceful. In New Orleans on April 20 Edgar M Cahn filed suit for a receiver and accounting for policyholders alleging the company's large Louisiana interests.
Sioux City Iowa report states former U.S. senator from Nebraska John M Thurston has been retained to pursue indemnity claims for Americans killed and injured in the Yaqui massacre near Sonora Mexico on January 19. The total seeks 450000 dollars with 100000 for each of four dead men J K McKenzie Dr Robert McCoy Walter Stubinger and M H Cail and 25000 for the two survivors C Terringer and H E Miller.
Frenzied by a false fire alarm in a stairway at the Masonic Temple Indianapolis four newsboys were crushed to death while争抢 free theater tickets distributed by a traveling patent medicine representative. Several others were fatally or seriously injured as crowds surged under the alarm.
A movement in New York aims to raise a life sized marble statue of the late actress Mrs. J. H. Gilbert. The Mrs. Gilbert Memorial association gathers prominent American supporters to sponsor the project.
Harrisburg April 21 Gov Pennypacker signed the Greater Pittsburg bill authorizing the consolidation of Pittsburg and Allegheny City. The move creates a single municipal government for the merged area and reshapes local governance and planning.
Notices posted in Youngstown blast furnaces announce wage hikes starting May 1. Laborers receive a five percent raise and turn men ten percent. Previous wages were $1.50 per day for laborers and $2.00 for turn men.
Mrs. Charles Fairbanks wife of the United States vice president was elected honorary president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution on Wednesday in Washington.
A fire at the Ste Annes convent in St Genevieve Quebec on Friday kills fourteen, including nine girls aged 10 to 18 and four older women, with two nuns severely burned. Heroic Sister Marie Adjuteur along with Sisters Therese and Robertine perished or were injured aiding others. the village lacks organized fire protection and a bucket brigade formed too late. The convent, part of the Sisters of Ste Annes of Lachine, stood as a central stone building in the village near Beaconsfield and Pointe Claire.
United States Senator Orville Hitchcock Platt of Connecticut died at his summer home in Washington Conn at 8 53 Friday night from pneumonia complicated by a lung abscess rupture. Elected in 1879 to succeed W H Barnum and last reelected in 1903 he served decades in the Senate chairing the judiciary committee and holding Cuban relations finance and revolutionary claims posts. He frequently presided over Senate sessions and served as presiding officer during the Swayne impeachment trial.
New Paynesville Minnesota April 19 Edward Welk a Zion township farmer died at his farm Tuesday from a unique accident while butchering hogs. He slipped while catching a hog and fell on his right side driving a knife in his right side to the hilt. He died within an hour after the surgeon arrived.
In Pontchatoula Louisiana three prisoners tried to escape by firing the parish jail. Two prisoners were cremated and a third badly burned. The event left many injured and prompted extensive damage reports.
New York dispatch reports William H. Rogers business manager of the Boston National League club has died at age 45. The obituary notes his prominent role with the team and his leadership within the organization.
Chicago April 21 Judge Brentano grants a sweeping injunction prohibiting even accosting workers against their will. Writ bars aiding strikers and targets union officers agents and attorneys. Prohibits interference with carrier wagons crowds at pickets and threats or intimidation of employees. Also forbids acts aiding any conspiracy to obstruct Montgomery Ward Co operations.
In Greensburg Pennsylvania on April 21 a bottle of gasoline exploded in the Kunkle home on Maple avenue killing Paul seven Alice five and Louise three Kunkle children. A grandmother age 75 and three firefighters were injured. Parents away at church. Property loss set at 18000 dollars.
Reports from the south and central states indicate killing frosts Sunday night reaching Kentucky Tennessee Maryland and Georgia with widespread fruit crop losses. Michigan and Illinois suffered heavy frost especially on cherry and plum blossoms with Ohio also hurt. Purdue station notes wind and cold stripping Indiana trees with $100 000 losses in apples. South Carolina and West Virginia crops are thought ruined.
A New York Times recount describes a watch fixer noting a commuter habit of repeatedly setting a watch to match train times. The owner admits the practice, and the watch wears out from constant adjustment as schedules guide the time rather than the device.
Mrs. A. A. Smith of West Pembroke Maine urges Dodd's Kidney Pills for her daughter who suffered weekly spells, pale yellow skin and poor appetite. After using about a dozen boxes the spells ceased, with continued use during illness. Also promotes Pusheck's products and a cautious note on mediation.
Peking April 22 M Paul Lessar Russian minister to China died Thursday night after his foot was amputated. He had served as Chinese negotiations with amendments to the Russo Chinese Manchurian treaty and met with Prince Ching and Wang Wen Shao in early 1901. Pending succession may fall to Paviloff. Comerford sworn in Springfield after March expulsion and re-election in Chicago.
In Rayford and near Charleston, five miners may be dead and three others fatally injured after a Cabin Creek Mining Company explosion late Thursday afternoon. The disaster follows a previous fatal incident at Rush Run a month earlier that killed twenty men.
Captain George Wellington Streeter, famed for actions in the District of Lake Michigan, reportedly married a 19 year old woman in Montrose Michigan after his wife Maria died during his imprisonment.
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius intensifies with frequent explosions and lava flows as smoke and ash rise from the crater. Georgia peach crop suffers major losses due to recent cold, with entomologist Smith estimating 75 percent of crops north of Atlanta ruined. Rome announces creation of the Diocese of Lake Superior, with residence at Ishpeming.
The post office department issued a fraud order against the Ubero Plantation company and the Consolidated Ubero Plantation company of Boston. It alleges promoter William P. Owen vanished to Europe with victims facing losses of at least $1,000,000, with Arthur W. Stedman and Frederick C. Hood also absent abroad and Judge A. Z. Wiley named treasurer.
Mrs Donald McLean of New York was elected president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution on Thursday in Washington is a concise report of the organizational leadership change.
Johnstown on April 22 reports George Lichenstein manager of a glove factory in Johnstown and New York wed last Sunday. On Friday faced by Michael J. McCurtin who claimed her as his wife the woman drank carbolic acid and died. Also noted Earl of Chichester death and Vanderbilt College fire in Nashville with $200000 loss but no injuries.
Peoria Illinois April 21 a wind storm Thursday night around seven created a small tornado north and east Peoria that damaged several homes and wrecked five. Four people were injured none seriously.
Mrs. T. C. Willadsen of Manning Iowa credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing her irregular painful menstruation after two years of medical attempts and costs She praises the remedy and urges other women to seek advice by writing to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts
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