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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1907
Page
6
In the snowbound English Gothic scene at Glenarm House the executor Arthur Pickering probes for buried assets. Squire Glenarm dodges scrutiny while noting Pickering’s power and a tense village encounter with Morgan and Bates. Olivia warns and disappears as the search continues aboard a private car at the station.
The narrator seeks the crypt door and slips through a tunnel to reach a panel chamber. He thanks the builder for a clear floor and ample roof as he exits, then realizes he miscalculated the passage length.
Charles Dana Hazen of Smith College excused a pupil for sickness. He later saw her walking toward town. She hid in a bookstore but entered a saloon by mistake, then rushed back into the street into the professor’s arms.
Final reports list four Hanlontown residents dead after a broad storm passage from Keister Minnesota to Clear Lake Iowa. Victims Ole Tweed Ashland Tweed Mrs Ashland Tweed and son perished in the field and home collapse.
Webster City resident George Mackown, accused of embezzling 10 000 to 15 000 and burning a 100 000 plant to cover the theft, was brought back by Sheriff Thompson to the county jail. Lawyer D C Chase to defend. Mackown denies statements today. Sheriff notes he once led local Fairbank Morse unit earning 2600 yearly.
Polk County Judge Jesse Miller rules the last legislature’s merger law constitutional and valid. The Des Moines consolidation unites seventeen districts and places West Des Moines directors in charge of the new district. Plaintiffs argued rights, contracts, and improper appointment. the judge says the people elected the board through adoption.
Chaplain J. H. Lozier of Mt. Vernon Iowa a pioneer and widely known figure in the Grand Army of the Republic died after a brief illness. He led temperance campaigns and opposed liquor traffic in northwestern Iowa while serving as a Methodist pastor and Northwest Iowa conference presiding elder. He was laid to rest in Mt. Vernon cemetery on the 7th.
A major blaze at 8 am burned $50,000 in property in Hiteman. The Thomas Neighbor hotel was saved when 26 sticks of dynamite were detonated nearby. losses included Hireman Supply Co. $40,000 and other businesses and residences with mixed insurance coverage. Albia Fire Co. assisted. explosion prevented wider damage.
Council Bluffs police identify Rosano Emilito as the fugitive who shot Detective George Wilson and wounded Patrolman Richardson a week earlier. Emilito, under a death sentence in Lincoln, New Mexico, for killing a Mexican woman, was spotted by three witnesses and linked to the case after being seen near a residence. his photos appear in the rogue's gallery, but he remains at large.
Strawberry Point state senator Byron Newberry has made rapid recovery after a rattlesnake bite. Doctors say the swelling has lessened and the leg nears normal size, but discoloration remains. Full convalescence may take months before he can resume duties.
Wil iam Jennings, a farmer, was knocked from his mower by hail during a storm, found hours later unconscious with a severe head laceration. The storm lasted about thirty minutes as the team ran away nearly striking him. A swath shows the sickle narrowly avoided his body. The Iowa, a Stevens fleet fast boat on Clear Lake, sank Tuesday evening in a cyclone and has not yet been located.
Hazel McCants eleven year old daughter of Mr and Mrs McCants swallowed a silver quarter while playing store keeping at home in Riverview. Dr Emma Peterson located the coin by X ray in the stomach near the stomach and intestines opening. An attempt will be made to dislodge it with nonoperative means and if unsuccessful an operation will be performed for removal.
Snails place their eyes on the uppers of the two long pair of feelers at the front of the head. The upper pair of tentacles bear the eyes while the lower pair serve as sensory organs for touch and smell.
Lizzie and Myrtle Guilemont, aged 18 and 22, were badly burned when Myrtle attempted to fill a gasoline stove tank. The fire ignited as she poured the gasoline. Lizzie rushed to help and both sisters suffered severe burns to faces and arms. Surgeons expect disfigurement but not loss of eyesight.
A 72 year old man John Lockerby ran a Fagin style thieves’ school in Cedar Falls. He and ten boys allegedly stole iron and brass from Illinois Central cars on side tracks near the city. Nearly a hundred people affected by the scheme are cited in the information.
Atlantic W D Shaw a farmer from near Brisco marketed two car loads of wool from two thousand sheep shipped to Chicago. He realized about 7250 dollars at 25 cents a pound and will keep sheep on his farm as the most profitable crop he can raise.
Stratford officers armed with a search warrant found Ss W Jones barn filled with machinery allegedly stolen from local hardware and implement stores.
A jogger is knocked over by a startled man who explains he fled after overhearing a sewing circle discussion. The fiancé explains his surprise at the audience gathering of matrons and their gossipy talk about feeding children and illnesses.
The American Medical Association and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union join in a campaign against patent medicines. Doctors argue alcohol is used as solvent and preservative in many prescriptions, while the W C T U claims alcohol is dangerous in any amount. The piece cites high failure rates among medical graduates and questions in medical education and licensure.
Mrs Green and Gregory discuss a 17th century romance and a mysterious term halidom which Mr Green identifies as the old English word for watch, prompting a playful quip about reasoning faculties.
He gazed on Dora with fond devotion and declares his love as the sun, birds, and flowers seem named Dora. Ferdinand, surprised, asks what drew Dora to him while she jokes of a father threatening a brain specialist for her.
Dr George S Kunz and Dr H S Washington confirm a new American diamond field in Pike County Arkansas spanning about 100 acres with 130 stones found so far The field lies between two dikes in greenish friable peridotite comparable to Kimberley blue ground Stones include white yellow and brown varieties with two largest stones over six carats each Local Arkansas businessmen control the project and advance development efforts
In St Louis John Oger, 86, 115 pounds, a shoe salesman, married Meta Mierhoff who was crowned the city’s beauty queen after a unanimous judges vote awarded her a $1,500 automobile. Oger, eight years her senior, is her striking opposite in build with brown eyes and a swarthy complexion.
Six or seven intoxicated tramps slept on the K line near the Missouri approach of the Alton bridge causing alarm in Alton. The locomotive’s footings were used by the engineer to awaken and move the sleepers off the tracks without stopping the train.
Frankfort on the Main and Giessen mark the three hundredth founding anniversary with banquets speeches and parades. Grand Duke Ernst of Hessen attends the opening and gives a speech to students while presenting a gold chain to the rector.
An American teacher in the Igorrote country of the Philippines requests a transfer after locals sought his life during a lunar eclipse. Chiefs accuse the maestro Americano of using powers to veil the moon as punishment for a fanciful offense.
London reports 360 clubs hosting a combined membership of about 280000. The city celebrates widespread club activity across neighborhoods, reflecting strong social engagement and diverse organization participation.
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