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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1907
Page
3
A collage of trivia and wry observations covers science, politics, humor, and social irony. Items include silk production totals, skin pores, swing in Sweden, Yamamoto travel, immigrant demographics, cabbage fortunes, and quips on matrimony and dictionaries, with a few sharp musings on industry and heaven.
A congressman executed a double back somersault over two seats and escaped with minor injuries after a railroad collision. The incident illustrates the daring adaptability of lawmakers accustomed to abrupt changes in congressional districts.
The quotes from Charles Dudley Warner favor rural birth and a small red farmhouse with a stone wall. The passage notes farmers' sons show higher likelihood of future success in business and professional life due to health vigor self-reliance ambition and work habit.
The New York post office issued money orders totaling 446 million last year. Three million went abroad, mostly from immigrants sending funds to families. The Indianapolis News notes this reflects broad prosperity, not just a few fortunes forming national wealth.
News from Havana and other distant points noted a slight disturbance in Ecuador with seismographs reporting a quake 14,000 miles away. Waves spread southwest to northeast, indicating a center beneath the Pacific near Central America, with confirmations arriving before location was known.
A London publisher plans a Dickens dictionary to clarify his writings for the general public. The editor notes that earlier generations could read Dickens, but questions whether a new dictionary is needed soon after the author's death.
An English critic expresses shock at bone buttons on garments. He notes that in this season and with wives away, most men are fortunate to have any buttons at all on their outfits.
The plan to boost working women's unions by offering significant marriage dowries appears promising. Prospective suitors would likely need to present union cards, potentially boosting membership for men’s unions as well.
Automobiles may be bad for good roads, but they are good for bad ones in this country. Every major auto race or tour inspires renewed demand for improved highways.
Fred M. Magill and his second wife Faye Graham Magill face six counts each for allegedly murdering Pet Magill. The indictments detail poison by strychnine and arsenic, smothering with a quilt, a self inflected death theory, chloroform administration, and an unknown method. Judge Cochran allowed most counts to stand and set a rapid trial schedule.
The Interstate Commerce Commission reports in the three months ending March 31 that railway accidents caused 421 passenger and employee deaths and 4,920 injuries, with total casualties 20,563. Collisions and derailments reached 3,991, costing $3,536,110 in damage.
Gov. Johnson issues a proclamation on the iron range crisis defining workers rights and police limits. It bars large marches and trespass but guarantees peaceful assembly and open roads in small groups. Officials report quiet Hibbing Eveleth districts with improved night shift numbers.
A reflection on Monday as the moon's day and its link to laundry. The writer recalls Pilgrims landing on a Monday and women washing aboard the Mayflower, imagining the ship’s size and conditions after a 63 day voyage.
Paris says France and Spain act in concert to meet the Morocco situation. A warship from each power sits at Casa blanca and three French and one Spanish men-of-war head to Morocco. France prepares three transports to move 2,500 troops and 300 horses to Casablanca, while Premier Clemenceau is away seeking treatment. A Tangier bank pillage and a British consular employee capture report circulates without confirmation. Madrid reports Infanta Isabel has arrived and Don Alvaro de Bazan is ordered to the Moroccan coast.
Paris reports the public works ministry approved a canal project linking the Rhone valley to Marseilles. A seven kilometer tunnel, the largest by earth moved, will cost about 6.9 million dollars, with total canal expenditure around 15.2 million.
The Ohio Republican state committee endorsed William H. Taft for the presidential nomination by a 15 to 6 vote. The resolution opposed removing Senators Foraker and Dick from public life. Foraker supporters balked at the olive branch and did not seek unanimous approval.
The coroner's jury found Laura Matthews died from gunshot wounds inflicted in personal crisis. Amos R. Rumbaugh shot himself and died by his own hand after an inquest. Suspicion of Rumbaugh arose from his infatuation and absence at the inquiry.
Detroit based Pere Marquette general solicitor F W Stevens informs state rail commissioner C L Glasgow the railroad will not contest the two cent fare law. The law, set to take effect September 28, reflects public sentiment in Michigan despite management’s belief the rate is unreasonably low given passenger earnings and territory.
Telephone operators who walked off May 2 return to work under the same conditions as before. The strike was declared off Friday in San Francisco.
Boston reports the death of Rev. Charles A. Crane D D pastor of the People's temple and a leading Methodist clergyman in New England. He died of heart disease at his home Friday night.
Menominee Michigan S M Stephen son ex congressman and multimillionaire lumberman died at his home Wednesday afternoon from injuries from a fall suffered days earlier.
Waterloo Iowa Senator Bryan Newberry once linked to the Iowa pure food law was bitten on the ankle by a rattlesnake Tuesday and remains in critical condition with recovery doubtful.
Police disclosed another strangler murder in Manhattan. An eight year old girl, Katie Pritschler, daughter of a restaurant waiter, vanished a week ago and was found murdered with a ribbon tied around her throat, indicating brutal restraint. Earlier two women had suffered similar treatment.
The Navy Department rejected all bids for the Bremerton dry dock on Puget Sound because none stayed within the appropriation. The lowest bid nearly exhausted the total funds, leaving no money for a caisson and pumping equipment costing about 350000. The department will refer the matter to Congress.
Geneseo reports a tornado wrecked Marquette station in McPherson county east of Geneseo. All wires are down and the Missouri Pacific division office has been notified.
A serious hail and windstorm struck central Michigan late Thursday. Corn oats and fruit suffered extensive damage. Around Oakley Chesaning and Orion losses total about 100000 dollars.
Olga Lundell a 17 year old Sac City Indiana girl and member of the Holy Jumpers at Fountain house in Waukesha was ordered by Court Commissioner Hemlock Friday to be taken to her home by the county sheriff despite her testimony she wished to stay with the sect. The crowded courtroom welcomed the order with loud approval from spectators.
Martin W. Littleton, former Brooklyn official and noted orator, becomes chief counsel for Harry K. Thaw in the upcoming trial for the killing of Stanford White. Littleton will replace Delphin M. Delmas and reportedly charges 25000 dollars. He is known as a skilled trial lawyer and recently spoke for Alton B. Parker at the St Louis Democratic convention.
President Kingsley of the New York Life Insurance Company outlines a program with four points: economy, broad publicity, global institution status, and growing new business under lawful, economical practice while prioritizing policyholder interests.
A weary hobo asks to sleep in a farmer’s barn. The farmer quotes a ten cent magazine praising open air sleep for delicate types, claiming health benefits. The farmer offers the potato patch and a spare sky, while a judge is mentioned in passing.
A Boston lawyer and his Irish wit clash in a divorce trial as he cross examines the plaintiff. The exchange includes the question you wish to divorce her because she drinks and the reply that it is his business. The unmoved lawyer then asks if he has any other business.
In Jackson Michigan a trolley car struck an automobile Friday night killing three women. The dead are Mrs Levi Palmer Miss Bernice Oliver and Mrs Pulver. Mr and Mrs Oliver were injured. The victims all resided in the city.
Tacoma physicists John B. Fiett and Cowles along with a Chicago scientific party found millions of tiny worms in Urania glacier ice during ascent of Mount Rainier. The worms measured about an inch long, hair-thin, and wriggled when examined microscopically.
Seven indictments were filed against the Missouri Pacific Railway company in Jefferson City Missouri for failure to operate trains on the Bagnell branch from Jefferson City to Bagnell.
An Oregon attorney argued before the state supreme court that a client's title to a cold storage plant carries life and livelihood stakes beyond the property itself. The attorney claimed the client’s life’s work, blood, body, and soul were wrapped up in the plant, urging the court to weigh human consequences in the decision.
A bill in equity filed before Chancellor Magic in Trenton seeks an accounting of four years’ operations from American Refining Co. on behalf of George Earle Jr. as receiver for Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Co. This unprecedented move may trigger a broader probe into sugar trusts.
In Salins roadstead off Toulon the breech-block of a 100 mm gun exploded during target practice on the gunnery school ship Couronne. Three people were killed and five wounded in the incident.
Edmund R. Watson longtime banker president of Northern National Bank and treasurer of Henry Hess Brewing died Thursday in the swimming pool at the Columbia club.
Lodz endures renewed strike violence with troops clashing in the city center. About 30 people are killed or wounded in the recent fighting as strikers clash with authorities.
In Vallejo California the cruiser California was placed in commission after ceremonies. Captain Thomas S. Phelps will command the vessel.
Robert Stubbs, longtime butler at Levi P. Morton’s home, retires with a $100,000 fortune and returns to England to live, ending decades of service in Poughkeepsie.
Three Moroccan tribes attacked Casablanca on Wednesday over harbor works discontent. They killed native guards and seven Europeans in what authorities call a massacre at a major Moroccan seaport.
Claude Heywood twenty year old naval academy student at Annapolis, on leave, drowned Wednesday at Clark's Lake near Jackson Michigan. The tragedy occurred while he was visiting family.
A pale man in a large bathing suit stands knee deep in the water and sighs revealing the sea as the grave of his first wife. He explains he remarried but his second wife refuses to go near the water.
A testimony extols Postum Food Coffee as the cure for headaches nervousness and biliousness caused by coffee. A mother and neighbors reportedly recovered, with one neighbor now able to work sew and sit all day. The advert promises a reason and cites the book The Road to Wellville.
Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations, released to President Roosevelt a report detailing how Standard Oil manipulated oil prices and profits. It asserts rising prices over 25 years, $27 million rise in profits 1896 to 1904, and total earnings possibly over $790 million with dividends of about $552 million from 1882 to 1906.
A Sunday assault left Ellen Bulger, a middle aged woman, beaten and left helpless in her Bronx residence. The attacker escaped as cops investigate. Earlier a Russian man named George Kestner faced mob violence after an attempted assault on an eight year old girl. A mob also targeted Hylo Saloda the Italian palmist but police intervened to prevent punishment.
Three young men Swift Tarbell Edward L Woodson and William Catchings were badly injured Sunday when their auto was struck by a surface car. The car was pushed about 30 feet and then smashed against an elevated railroad pillar. Tarbell is son of Gage E Tarbell formerly vice president of Equitable Life.
Forty passengers in a third class car and the engineer drowned when a local train jumped the track on a bridge over the Loire at Les Ponts-de-Ce. The locomotive and tender plunged 50 feet into the river while other cars stayed dry.
A large crowd of whites and blacks clashed near One Hundred Thirty sixth Street and Fifth Avenue over a baseball dispute. About 50 people required medical treatment, two later dying. Roughly 5,000 attended while 300 police dispersed the mob and took nine into custody.
Eight train hands were injured in a freight derailment on the Boston and Albany division near Chester Massachusetts on Sunday. Three are reported seriously hurt as investigators examine the derailment site and assess the cause and extent of damage.
The funeral of Augustus St Gaudens the sculptor who died Saturday evening at his home in Cornish New Hampshire is set for Wednesday afternoon at Aspet the sculptor's mansion.
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