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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1906
Page
2
Moses leads elders to the rock at Horeb where God stands in the Cloud. The rod splits the stone and water flows abundantly, proving God in their midst and providing for the thirsty Israelites as they drink and rejoice.
The sermon compares Rephidim to a place of need and unbelief on the manward side and to the Rock which prefigured Christ on the Godward side. It explains that the Rock was smitten, as Christ was, and that the water typifies the Gospel in its blessing abundance and everlasting refreshment. It urges learning from Rephidim and rejoicing in Christ revealed.
Missions inspector Kriabe notes ten societies active in the East Indies with eight Dutch and two German. The Rhenish Society leads, accounting for over half the results, while 126 mission stations host 176 missionaries, 537 schools, and 131 215 baptisms. An BFB Society agent on Ambonia reports about 80 000 Christians among 267 000 people served by 10 Dutch missionaries and 100 native helpers.
Two Montana cattlemen William Coburn and Abe Gill rode 1 200 miles across the Argentine pampas from Neu Quen to Lake Nahuel Huapi and back. They faced heat sand and brigands, brandished cattle for Chilean gauchos, survived a guide’s fall, and concluded they are glad to be back in the United States and God’s country.
John Dietz, the Sawyer County homesteader who controls Cameron dam on Thornapple river, fights off a Milwaukee militia and Mississippi Logging Company with his family. A son Clarence was wounded, a militiaman shot, and the battle extended over an hour as Dietz defies authorities and logs continue to be hauled past his claim.
Paris officials deny rumors Maj. Dreyfus was assaulted by a fellow officer. An official statement says First Cavalry officers hosted a dinner for two new lieutenants with a unanimous invitation approved by the minister of war. The event ended at about 9 30 p m with no incident.
Fritz Consantino, accused of killing Mrs. Arthur W. Gentry of Chicago on January 6, is not the Chicago police sought man. The Chicago police deny Consantino is the suspect in the homicide.
The Danish freighter Nikobar, arriving Friday, collided with an unknown sailing vessel 15 miles offshore near La Rochelle France and sank it. All crew aboard the sunken ship perished.
Paris Maurice Chaulin advocates electrification to kill mosquitoes and gnats by a two ring lantern with live chains and a central lamp. Mosquitoes touching two chains create a short circuit and die instantly. A Senegal railway protection method uses fine wire screens to cut bites, reducing hospital days from 139 to 13 and staff from ten to two.
A fog whistle at Partridge Island near St. John New Brunswick imitates a cow moose call and lures moose into the city. The wandering animals have become bolder and swim toward the island but turn back before reaching it, raising questions about license requirements for the signal device.
Fire sparked by lightning destroyed the county courthouse, Harper's department store and warehouse, and several other buildings in Maryville Tennessee. Loss pegged at 125000 dollars.
Washington informally reports the department of justice opinion holds that a battleship under construction does not come under the eight hour labor law. The ruling affects how shipyard labor time is counted and may ease compliance for naval construction projects.
Madison attorney and former assembly member M S Dudgeon announces his candidacy for Congress on the Republican ticket to succeed the late H Adams in Wisconsin.
After meetings of socialists and allied groups in Moscow and St. Petersburg, leaders pause plans for a general strike, citing the revolutionary military committee's timing. Manifestos target peasants and soldiers, while Kharkov plots an autumn uprising. French news from Yuzovska reports 46,000 workers arming and a rifle legion. Russian troops are fracturing with strikers as demands edge toward plant confiscation.
Washington reports that Chairman Martin A Knapp of the Interstate Commerce Commission directed rail carriers to file and keep open to public inspection schedules showing all rates and charges for transportation within and between routes. The commission will cooperate with carriers to pursue immediate substantial compliance and long term applicability of the amended law.
The probate filing shows Russell Sage leaving all to his widow Margaret Oliva Sage after $25,000 to each of his nephews and nieces and $10,000 to his sister Mrs. Fanny Chapin of Oneida New York, who has since died. The will imposes disinheritance on any beneficiary who contests probate. The estate value is not listed.
Six men were injured Friday night when a bomb exploded near Teutonia Hall at Sixteenth Street and Third Avenue. The blast occurred as about a hundred plumbers waited for a meeting, and authorities believe the device was thrown from an elevated train.
A federal grand jury returned three indictments based on an investigation into alleged sugar rebates involving the American Sugar Refining Company.
The former St Ignatius church and college block in Frisco was leased to Wanamaker Brown of Philadelphia. The deal ranks among the largest transactions since the fire.
John Kennish assistant attorney general named for long term and Judge James T. Neville of Springfield chosen for short term on first ballot at the Republican state judicial convention in Jefferson City Missouri.
Dispatches from Melilla report the Spanish bark Manuela attacked by pirates off the Riff coast. It is expected that Spanish warships will be sent to demand redress.
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