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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1908
Page
1
A collage of reflections on aristocracy and modern life includes Prince Helie de Sagan, Castro, and American heiresses, with observations on pay as you enter cars, Brooklyn preacher Rev D C Hughes, and Mrs Baldwin of St. Albans. Humorous quips touch on tea in South Carolina, cologne making, and vanished coins.
The remark notes that alliances between dukes and American heiresses lead to a flurry of tailoring, as tailors rush to recoup themselves from the fashionable unions.
Lawyers express regret over a potential Vanderbilt family divorce but say they will gladly represent the case if it proceeds.
Jersey City plans a 28 foot diameter illuminated clock dial that will be the largest in the world. The feature is expected to become a local landmark and keep residents closer to home at night.
A bronze tablet on Old South Middle Hall at Yale New Haven marks the room once used by Nathan Hale Yale 1773 hero of the Revolutionary War and later by Eli Whitney and John C Calhoun. The piece notes corruption funds and boodle themes observed by reporters and lawmakers.
Whitelaw Reid ambassador to Great Britain and other dignitaries attended Basque Fetes in Sare France honoring King Edward. The king, staying at the MIRARRITZ, could not attend due to a prevailing storm.
The writer predicts that future generations will view smoking with disapproval similar to current chewing tobacco. He notes this is a distant glimpse of the future while acknowledging that most people will still seek solace in a relatively mild vice if indulged in moderately.
A cruel practice in parts of the Telugu country involves a cart with upright stakes at corners impaling pigs, lambs, and fowls alive after a sacrificial rite. The cart is dragged to the village boundary where the animals die and are removed at the destination.
An earnest seeker suggests enlarging cartoons in newspapers by placing a blackboard behind every pulpit with chalk for illuminating sermon points on Christian conduct. The idea is offered to clergy for prayerful consideration.
A cyclonic windstorm swept through Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama injuring over 800 and killing about 225. Many areas struck include Amite City Arcadia Independence Belle Grove Melton Lorman Pine Ridge Quitman Landing Fairchilds Creek Purvis Lumberton Dora Albertville Winchester Hattiesburg and Natchez. Bridges roads and telegraph lines were damaged and relief teams and militiamen were deployed to aid victims.
The supreme court upheld the local option law as constitutional in all respects in the John McBride appeal. The decision covers the title, interstate commerce, saloon licenses, elections without notice, district creation, medicinal liquor sales, license refunds, and the legality of local adoption by voters. The ruling is unanimous.
Emmanuel d Albert de Luynes d Ailly ninth duke of Chaulnes died of heart embolism at 11 in his Hotel Langham apartment Paris. The duchess Theodora Shants, bride of under three months, kept vigil as he passed away. They wed in New York February 16, a brief honeymoon ended in tragedy.
Former British prime minister Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman died at 10 Downing Street after a long illness. Born September 7, 1836, he served as premier from 1905, winning a major election. He represented Stirling Burghs for nearly four decades.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr with Capt Fitzhugh Lee and Capt Chandler conducted army balloon experiments in Washington. An early ballast throw averted trouble, then the craft ascended northward. A later AP dispatch from Wilmington reported landing safely four miles north of Delaware City at 5 15 pm with Roosevelt Jr and Lee aboard Chandler piloting.
Lieut. Gen. Linevitch aide to the Emperor Nicholas and commander of the First Manchurian army died of pneumonia in St Petersburg Thursday evening after a brief illness. He had suffered heart failure symptoms earlier in the week and underwent an operation after a Tuesday attack.
Fire at Mercy hospital in Big Rapids Michigan destroyed a 75 000 building erected 28 years ago. All patients and 40 Sisters of Mercy escaped unharmed, with 25 to 30 patients in the institution at the time. The blaze started likely from a defective chimney and spread rapidly, but patients were removed in time. only a small addition survived.
Three hundred American tourists arrived in Naples aboard the White Star steamer Cretic and toured the newly active Solfatara crater near Pozzuoli, drawn by the volcanic eruption recent activity and the imposing landscape.
Sir James Willcocks commanded two British columns from Simla against Mohmand raiders. After a brief engagement Friday morning, British forces drove the tribesmen from their position. British casualties are reported at 60 with Mohmands’ losses unknown.
The supreme court reverses Madison county rulings for the sixth time in the long running Alton school case. It orders a verdict finding the mayor, city council, and board of education unlawfully prevent Scott Bibbs’s two children, of a colored father, from attending the nearest white school. Former Gov. John M. Palmer of Springfield was among Bibbs’s original attorneys.
Jacob Kohlhaus a prominent La Crosse Wisconsin manufacturer died Friday at age 79. He founded the first sash and door factory in western Wisconsin in 1854.
The Western Federation of Miners announced in Friday's issue of the Miners' Magazine that the federation's executive board has terminated William D. Haywood from his field representative role.
Victoria Hale aged 24 shot and killed her sister-in-law Fannie M. Hale 22 at her home near Bondsville Missouri amid long running family trouble.
Richmond Virginia Daniel Jackson was hanged at Emporia Friday for the murder of his wife. He confessed the crime on the scaffold.
Guatemala City reports President Cabrera says 18 ring leaders in a conspiracy against him have been shot to death and that further executions are likely.
Arbor Day was celebrated throughout Nebraska on Wednesday with banks and public buildings closed in Omaha and other large cities. Schools held exercises to mark the event.
A pile driver on the jetty at Fort Stevens Oregon ran off the track and toppled into the ocean during Wednesday morning work. Two men were killed and six others were injured in the incident.
An explosion in Ellsworth Collieries No 1 in Ellsworth, Washington County, killed four foreign miners and critically injured three others. About 100 workers escaped after the blast amid gas ignition fears in a new entry. Deputy Mine Inspector J W Southitt investigated as rescuers sought causes.
In Belvidere Illinois Morris Bengston enraged by rival attention to his sweetheart shot Miss Sigrid Appleholm Thursday morning, likely mortally wounding her. He fled into the highway and then fired a second shot, ending his own life.
John McNabb, held as Canada's oldest man, died on the shores of Lake Manitoba. Born in western Canada in 1800, he would have turned 108 in August. He spent his life in the Hudson Bay Company workforce from boyhood.
Springfield Indiana miners and operators reach a split over coal wage scale and prepare a referendum to decide on a strike to force payment of shot firers' wages. The action was decided by the miners on Friday afternoon.
Charles Seipelt, a tobacco farmer three miles from Ripley Ohio, was forced to stand with uplifted hands while 35 to 40 night riders destroyed his tobacco beds. Several other tobacco beds were burned in the surrounding area.
In Iron Mountain Michigan on Thursday Andrew Johnson fatally shot his wife and then killed himself. Jealousy was cited as the motive. Three children survive the tragedy.
A five judge special Supreme Court panel appointed by Gov. Johnson suspended Capt. Francis B. Hart, a Minneapolis attorney, from practicing law in Minnesota for six months. The action followed Hart’s letters to Gov. Johnson and Chief Justice Start criticizing the court over three cases in which he represented the defeated party.
Six hundred pounds of dynamite exploded in a burning warehouse near the downtown business section in Hagle River Wisconsin Friday. Six business buildings were wrecked with fronts blown in and partial demolitions to surrounding structures. No fatalities reported and damage estimated at $15,000.
The flag of the American frigate Chesapeake, captured by HMS Shannon on June 1 1813 and sold at auction in London, was donated to the Royal United Service Museum by William Waldorf Astor. Astor also supplied the museum with Balaclava’s famed bugle.
For the first time ladies served on the judges’ stand in Lexington Kentucky on a Wednesday. Mrs John C Ten Eyck of New York and Mrs Henry Oliver were installed as honorary associated judges to honor Gen John C Breckenridge and Gen James F Robinson, remembered figures in early Kentucky Racing history.
The Gladiator battleship and American liner St Paul collided off the Isle of Wight. Twenty three men are missing and six injured with eight believed still unaccounted. Admiralty lists five dead and notes Navy discipline held up as exemplary amid the disaster. Passengers recount orderly evacuation and the Gladiator crew remaining at posts as tragedy unfolded.
A slide of rock and earth buried half of Notre Dame De Salette in Buckingham Ontario near the Lievre river. Rescue teams report at least 30 villagers killed as spring floods melt snow and threaten further slides. Communication is limited with no telephone or rail access.
New Orleans reports death toll about 350 with 1200 injured and several thousand left homeless. Forty six towns suffer serious wreckage, and around 2500 habitations and business houses are ruined. Plantations and farms also damaged, figures not included.
A severe blizzard, the worst in southern England since 1881, swept across the United Kingdom Friday night into Saturday with a violent northerly gale and temperatures. Snow drifts reached eight feet in some areas, hampering railway traffic and delaying service nationwide.
Former United States Senator Johnson N Camden of West Virginia died in Baltimore at the Hotel Belvedere on Saturday at age 80 after years of declining health.
The Bristol county steel bridge linking Fall River and Somerset across the Taunton river suffered severe damage from a dynamite explosion. The $750,000 structure, slated for completion in two months, risks $15,000 in losses to Holbrook Cabot Rolling of Boston, the nonunion contractors who began work over a year ago.
London postal authorities report two bags from London to New York totaling $500,000 were stolen in New York late last month. One bag for St. Louis aboard the Majestic arrived March 26. the other for Brooklyn aboard the Philadelphia arrived March 29. Both vanished in transit between the steamers and the post office.
Mrs Rebecca Mack of 1795 BW Rich Street Columbus Ohio reports chronic kidney pain backache and nervous fatigue before using Dean's Kidney Pills. She says the pills provided prompt relief and ongoing use cured her. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A quip filled exchange features two speakers noting apparent wealth from cheerful mood. The first comments he seems happy because of money while the second disputes the assumption citing a habit of cracking jokes versus cracking bottles. The dialogue hinges on wealth and behavior.
A 19th century advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal remedy for catarrh. It claims internal action to destroy the disease’s foundation and strengthen the patient, with a $100 reward for any case not cured. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A lecturer notes Athabascans where women are supreme. A resolute spinster interrupts and leaves, saying she is never better and is heading out to the Koskok wine trail.
A. D. Bruce of Aurelia Iowa says Sloan's Liniment cured a horse with fistula after a failing vet declined further treatment. He notes it also treated Sweeny in another neighbor’s horse and praises Sloan's Sure Colic Cure as reliable.
A Sunday school teacher hosts a social evening for her class but finds spontaneity missing until a bull terrier enters. A shy boy blurts out that his bull pup grew into a bloodhound, delivering an awkward punchline to the gathering.
A poor but nervy young man seeks the heiress hand. The father bans him with threats, the suitor calmly suggests painting the house bright red instead. Immediately a chase ensues with a Scotch coachman, a French chauffeur, and an English bulldog in pursuit.
An old man frets about his daughter’s wedding while the bride reassures him and jokes that her fiancé George cannot even afford a secondhand store. They voice hope they will stay close despite financial limits.
A Wise reader reports severe dyspepsia for 12 years with weight loss and inability to speak clearly. After using Grape-Nuts with milk and lime water she regained strength, gained weight, and could eat a wider range of foods. She credits breakfast and supper use and notes improved speech.
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