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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1896
Page
2
A collage of quirky notes and local tidbits from The Express in Monticello Iowa. Census counts note Italians in New York and Brooklyn, a bicycle champion’s suicide, naval captures, and a telegraphic marriage tale. Cuban junta funds and trans Atlantic steamship traffic also appear amid satire on marriage and a mock warning about alias marriages.
Judge Cole of the Washington DC supreme court refused naturalization to two applicants who admitted ignorance of the constitution. He said it is absurd to oath to support a document one cannot understand. The report also notes a friction geared engine reaching high speeds, rail industry statistics, and the Atlantic City West Jersey disaster with 44 killed and 43 injured.
Judge Cole refuses to grant naturalization to two young Italians in Washington citing ignorance of the U.S. Constitution as disqualifying. The report also notes the death of prominent Washington lawyer and war congressman Samuel W. Shellabarger at 75. Weekly U.S. exchange totals reach $911.998 million with a 6.4 percent drop from 1895.
A freight wreck six miles west of Shamokin Pennsylvania killed six aboard including engineer Michael Smock conductor Alexander Smith and fireman Jason Dreisach. Other items note political nominations in Concord and Waterville, a Niagara Falls fire, a ship record, a bank closing in Brooklyn, and a deadly trolley derailment near Columbia Pennsylvania with five dead and fifteen injured.
Republican conventions in Michigan and Wisconsin nominate governors and state officers. Galveston populists back Bryan. Bank failures close in New Orleans and East Chicago. A lion kills a boy in Chillicothe. Cyclone kills and injures in Swayzee. Executions in Salt Lake City and Omaha. Fires and poisonings amid a day of disasters.
The report lists crimes and disasters including Mattie Johnson and Robert Hopper murdered near Harrodsburg, Kentucky, six dead in a Rock Island wreck, a lightning strike killing part of a Riverview family, a lynching in Hahnville Louisiana, and a series of political developments from Indianapolis conventions to Populist nominations. Heat waves cause deaths in several cities and other incidents span Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and more. The piece also notes bank failures, mortgages filed in Detroit, a horse record change in Columbus, and violent acts in San Jose and Nashville.
In the Brincoch pit near Neath Wales forty miners were trapped by an underground blast. Separately Sir Martin Conway led the first East to West crossing of Spitzbergen. Armenian massacres and famine are blamed for up to a million deaths. Resignations, bankruptcies, and a dramatic transatlantic rowing voyage also appear in the day’s wire items.
A sweeping late news roundup reports 30 Christian victims in Crete after Mussulmans kill them. storms wreck Baldwin Wisconsin and Detroit Benton Harbor area. Chicago fruit losses reach 506000. Saginaw and Colombia flood damage. drownings near Philadelphia. cholera in Egypt. Miss Clara Barton returns from Constantinople. Fort Wayne cloudburst. Nevada Missouri hanging. widespread heat and deaths. Four killed by gas in Camden. boxers fined in Cincinnati. Cleveland lakeboats wrecked but no deaths. Toronto floods suit of American silver certificates devalued at 90 cents on the dollar.
Across Chicago New York St Louis and many towns suffer sharp rises in heat deaths and prostrations. Daily fatalities mount with the heat wave. urban areas report hundreds of hospital admissions and exhausted residents desperate for relief.
R G Dun & Co notes a shock to monetary conditions from Chicago speculator collapses and stock exchange disruption. Europe sells American stocks. railroad and trust stock values decline. Labor unrest grows with garment workers strikes, Cleveland spreads, iron and woolen industries cutting costs, spindles idle, and widespread plant suspensions. July failures rise to 240 in the US and 82 in Canada amid added domestic economic strain.
The Bryan party arrived in Chicago at 7:30 p m and faced a dense mob around Rock Island depot. A large, noisy crowd escorted Bryan to the Clifton house where thousands filled Monroe street and surrounding blocks. He left for Pittsburgh at 11:30 p m after resting at the hotel.
Four militia companies on duty at the Brown hoisting works were ordered home by Mayor MecKisson after soldiers allegedly assaulted and bayoneted civilians on city streets. One militiaman was bayoneted, a saloon was confiscated, and a clash with guards left several injured and dozens facing court martial.
The American line steamer St Louis arrived Friday and broke the Southampton to New York record with six days two hours and two minutes at sea. The ship averaged 20 867 knots per hour and posted a best days run of 530 miles, surpassing the St Paul’s June record of six days five hours and 32 minutes. Insurgents in Havana burn tobacco fields and plantations in Matanzas causing extensive property damage estimated at $600,000 including 17 houses.
The Catholic Total Abstainers Union of America closed its convention in St. Louis on Sunday appointing Rev. James Cleary of Minneapolis to a new term as president. The 1897 meeting is planned for Scranton Pa on August 17. Also reported death of Judge Reuben Noble of McGregor Iowa at 1:15 Saturday after a long legal career.
In Toronto on August 11 banks announce American one dollar bills will be accepted at 90 cents starting August 15. Other banks likely to follow as merchants in Hamilton also refuse American silver and certificates. City taxes in Hamilton will not accept U S silver or silver certificates.
Reports from Yokohama and Tokio note a clear solar eclipse visible there while northern regions faced clouds hindering observations. St Petersburg and Vadso observers faced cloud cover with failed efforts, yet a steamship Ohio voyage off Stor Island Norway recorded a perfect total eclipse lasting one minute thirty five seconds.
A Toledo Ohio Central freight and passenger train collision at Sandusky street, Columbus, injures nine crew and injures many passengers. Engineer Charles Vance is killed, others injured. a misordered signal said to cause the crash. Nearby fire at Fagan's lumber yard causes $50,000 in losses in New York.
A stray collection notes new devices and gifts. An electric umpire rings a bell upon foil hits, distinguishing hits by sound. Paris tramps raid used electric lanterns by police, promising lighting power. Princess Maud received gem encrusted umbrella handle from Grand Duke Michael of Russia. A German patent proposes phosphorescent paint for ads that glows at night on fences and hoardings.
The item notes American locomotive exports for the tsar’s coronation and English corridor trains rivaling U S cars. It covers Tashkend linking with Orenburg to connect Siberia railways, and cites 507 million railway passengers in the United States. It also records Pennsylvania Railroad as Philadelphia’s top taxpayer with 261,925.43 in taxes on property valued around 20 million.
Popular Science notes a new German industry distilling a strong aromatic oil from green celery leaves with a hundred pounds of leaves yielding one pound of oil for flavoring. It also reports Dr Shanks on ivy poisoning relief via sodium hypochlorite bath and Berlin Roentgen advances imaging the stomach and intestines using mineral salt solution. Fatigue triggers a blood chemical change creating a curare like poison, even though arrow poison is plant derived.
In the personals column Georges Charpentier retires from the firm bearing his name. The note mentions Egypt's khedive seeking cures in Corfu and Switzerland, Leo XIII receiving a pearl inlaid typewriter, and Mrs Ellis of Sidney Maine turning one hundred next January with a witty comment on daily jubilees.
Rev. E. P. Baker died after losing control of his bicycle on a bridge at Ben Lomond California and falling onto rocks below. The Leeds magistrate fined an English rider 12 cents for riding without a light, with defense claiming moonlight.
An old advertisement promotes Syrup of Figs as a universal family remedy priced at 50 cents for a small bottle and 61 cents for a large bottle. It claims genuine product manufacture by the California Fig Syrup Company and sold by druggists. The note about a baby’s name and a November election reflects inserted editorial content.
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