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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1905
Page
6
The British Medical Journal claims mens necks have lengthened over time while a Maine paper misprinted Lob sters in a local personals section. Udine hosts the world’s largest Dante library with over 3000 publications. Denmark requires drunken patrons be transported home at the publican's expense.
The army council ends the experimental program giving recruits artificial teeth after soldiers refused to pay 25 cents daily for them. When pressed to deduct the cost from pay soldiers deserted, teeth and all.
The article notes 60 Japanese imperial family members by marriage including four widowed princesses, with 11 married princes, 16 unmarried princes, and 18 unmarried princesses. It also reports South African gold mines recovering from the Boer war, July output at 425,000 ounces worth 9,031,250 dollars, above June’s 8,757,060 and well above the prewar August 1899 Rand record of 8,604,000.
New Orleans dispatches note that foci denote disease centers in yellow fever reports. Recent wires show case counts but fewer foci, signaling better control and possible containment of the outbreak.
Three thousand convicts in New York state prisons will dine from glazed white pottery dishes replacing tin plates cups and basins for sanitary and humanitarian reasons. Superintendent Collins ordered the substitution, a change from the long used tin dining outfit in all state prisons.
Reports from American consuls describe prospects for American enterprises abroad. An electric railway is planned between Mexico City and Puebla. Japan projects 200 miles of steam and electric railways. Brazil plans a naval reconstruction costing 71 million dollars with battleships cruisers and other ships. Demand for sugar grows in southern Morocco.
Consul General Guenther forwards a German report to the state department noting Dr. Quinton of Paris recently stated at the Academy of Medicine that sea water can affect tuberculosis. Experiments used sea water diluted with pure water to seven parts salt per 1 000 parts of liquid.
Postmaster General Cortelyou and Mr. Hitchcock announce a new money order design that should resist forgery and alterations. Approval was given before Cortelyou left on vacation, and plate preparation will begin immediately. This is the third change since 1864.
At the Ansonia New York roof, touted as the world’s tallest apartment, a prolific chicken farm shipped 700 chicks of various ages to Long Branch New Jersey. Master W. E. D. Stokes watched the wagons depart, relieved to have the heavy burden of care lifted from his shoulders.
Seven Russian inmates who fled from Riberia were captured at sea and brought to San Francisco. Californians provided clothes and meals and helped them find work. Soon each faced American police and was convicted of crimes from house breaking to violent highway robbery. one was guilty of nearly every crime except manslaughter.
An old account notes Pamir highlands natives and animals dwarfed beside English giants. Full grown people barely reach a yard. ponies resemble small equines. cattle and sheep tiny. tigers reportedly kitten sized in the wild hills.
Reports from Oyster Bay and Portsmouth indicate President Roosevelt pressed a conciliatory plan with Baron Rosen. The effort, backed by Great Britain France and Germany, aims to avert failure at the Portsmouth peace conference with discussions on indemnity Sakhalin and naval limits.
The Great Western limited, departing St Paul Thursday evening, wrecked at Annapolis street near city limits. Engineer T Kennedy and express messenger Robert Heath of Minneapolis were injured. about 30 passengers were bruised but none seriously. Sand washed onto the tracks from a nearby sand run.
In Anderson county J. J. York eighty two a wealthy farmer was murdered by robbers his head blown off with a shotgun found by his family returning from the county fair bloodhounds tracing the killers in Mt Sterling Kentucky August 24
Tokio reports the squadron commander seized the Russian transport Australia in Petropavlovsk harbor on August 14.
In Norfolk Virginia on August 21 the bodies of two more victims from Thursday’s Kinston and Greenville excursion wreck were recovered in the western branch of the Elizabeth river. The death toll rose to 16 with two additional injured dead at St Vincent’s hospital.
Two half breed sons of Henry Detrich the Alaska Commercial company’s Bethel agent and four natives died after jumping from a small steamboat on the Kuskokwim river near Bethel. They fled steam escaping from the safety valve fearing an explosion.
A Sunday crowd at Kennywood park in Pittsburg Kansas saw a miniature railway train jump the track injuring ten passengers. None were killed in the accident that occurred on August 21 as crowds enjoyed the amusement venue.
Joseph Mara, a former Cincinnati city employee, was stabbed to death in a Sixth street restaurant. Albert Barnes was arrested and claims he acted in self defense during the incident on August 21.
Yellow fever widens across Louisiana and Mississippi with 43 new cases in 24 hours and nine more in Lower Mississippi. Ship Island quarantine reports seven cases on August 9. by August 3 there had been 18 cases and one death. Jackson imposes blanket Mississippi coast quarantine, isolating New Orleans as the gulf entry point.
The Interstate Commerce Commission initiated a probe into railroads and refrigerator car lines amid complaints that current laws fail to regulate private car line combinations. The investigation targets Armour car line American Refrigerator Transportation Santa Fe Refrigerator Dispatch and multiple railroads including St. Louis & San Francisco Atchison Topeka Santa Fe and more. The move seeks to inform Congress on needed national control laws over private cars affecting freight and refrigerator schedules.
Nine Italians were killed and their hut destroyed by a dynamite explosion at the Dunlevy Bros. construction camp about six miles from Durbin West Virginia on Tuesday. The blast occurred at the Durbin area camp, leaving local authorities to investigate the deadly accident.
Official account from St. Petersburg confirms 40 people killed in Bielostok Russian Poland disturbances. Jews allegedly fired on troops who answered with volleys in the clashes.
Jori an anarchist arrested while plotting to kill Emperor Francis Joseph during his Botzen visit hanged himself in prison on Friday. At arrest he carried two revolvers and a bomb.
Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania August 19 Pioneer banker and first city treasurer F W Rockafellow died Friday at age 71 from a complication of diseases.
Charles King an American is to be hanged at Edmonton on August 31. King was convicted of murdering English prospector Hayward at Lesser Slave Lake N W T last fall after two trials.
Quebec August 16 Twenty thousand citizens witnessed the unveiling of a monument to Quebec soldiers who died in the South African war. Earl Grey unveiled the monument in a ceremony marking the tribute to the fallen.
A limestone rock slide at Lehigh Portland Cement Company quarry in Ormrod, Allentown area, killed twelve workers and injured six others. Nineteen or more were trapped, all Slavonians, with nine escaping. Heavy rains had softened earth before the noon collapse.
In Huntington West Virginia on August 17 a flood on a Guyan River branch killed three Adkins children aged 11 to 7 while they rode a horse to safety. The elder couple escaped with the remaining family members but the horse and children were swept away at the ford below the home. Several others escaped unharmed as the community reported no further fatalities.
A Commercial Appeal report from Lake Cormorant Mississippi states Henry Young, a Black man who killed Edward E B Perry on the Bass plantation last Sunday, was seized by Sheriff Withers and a deputy and hanged by an armed mob of about 100. Young confessed guilt but claimed the pistol involved was not intended to kill Perry as it exploded amid the confrontation.
Frank Ward, foreman at the Pueblo steel works, forced his 16 year old daughter Frances to drink poison and then killed himself with the same drug. Neighbors say he had been drinking heavily and had threatened to kill both. Ward was a widower.
Six Mexican track laborers died and six or seven others were fatally injured when a Santa Fe work train rear ended an extra southbound freight at Horseshhead twelve miles south of Corona. The wreck occurred Wednesday evening around dark.
Cincinnati August 19 Mrs Anne Woodall died Thursday at Newport Ky aged five years She was England native and after marriage rode the first steam railroad with her husband and witnessed Queen Victoria's coronation
Confirmation arrives that the Marshall Islands were visited by a hurricane and tidal wave on February 30 causing about one hundred deaths. The event's official details remain sparse as authorities assess the wreckage and impact.
A pearl necklace worn by Miss Evelyn P. Willing of Chicago, valued at 2500 dollars, was recovered by Station Agent Edward D. Bennett in Rutland on Thursday after Willing died in an automobile accident near Bennington on Monday.
Amsterdam Aug. 18. A Batavia telegram reports an assault by Acehnese rebels on the Dutch post at Rambong resulting in the deaths of two officers and twenty three others.
New Orleans reports as of Sunday 45 new cases raise total to 1 385 with 196 deaths and 381 still under treatment. Officials credit widespread reporting and treatment as signs of approaching end of visitation. General fumigation day burned brimstone with Rev Dr Warner overseeing distribution of sulfur to the needy.
London reports Lord Curzon resigns as viceroy of India and the Earl of Minto is named his successor. The white book release shows Curzon's resignation received August 12 and reveals bitter tensions with the India office and Lord Kitchener over army administration. Curzon balked at cabinet rejection of Maj. Gen. Sir Edmund Barrow as military supply member.
Great Northern announces sweeping grain rate cuts across eastern territory to Montana border. The move likely triggers price reductions by Chicago Great Western, Burlington, and Northern Pacific, saving farmers at least one cent per bushel on large shipments and totaling two to three million dollars.
A Great Northern freight train collided with a crowded suburban street car at a grade crossing in Butte Montana Sunday night. Ten dead and 25 to 30 injured, with two bodies recovered uniden tified. Maggie Harrington of Butte among the dead and Miss Shaw of the Florence Hotel dying.
Tokyo reports heavy rains fail to halt Japanese progress as Russians abandon advance works and retreat. After crossing the river the Russians destroyed bridges, with no sign of enemy south of Tumen. Japanese forces have linked with Field Marshal Oyama.
Harold E. Beard assistant treasurer of the Cross Press and Sign company 53 Dayton street was slugged and robbed of a payroll valisa containing 1025 dollars covering the pay for 150 employees near the Dayton street plant. The event was witnessed by several workers.
In Philadelphia on Saturday a disturbance at a southern city street party ended with Policeman Iseninger shooting and killing 39 year old Thomas Vaughan as efforts to quell the melee continued Sunday.
Frederickton New Brunswick August 21 Hon. David Wark the oldest legislator in the world died at his home in this city He was a member of the Canadian senate at Ottawa a life official and his age was 101 years six months.
A dated testimonial from Dr. Melvin M Page of Erie Pennsylvania recounts a severe kidney ailment in 1895 linked to excess iced drinks in New York. After using Deans Kidney Pills the abscess resolved and he recovered fully, returning to 188 pounds by 1896.
An advertisement touts EGG-0-SEE and EGG Q-SEE as wholesome whole wheat cereals. It claims golden brown flakes offer delicious taste and perfect digestion, delivering life power and robust well being in air-tight, inner-lined packages.
The passage notes Kipling’s skill with carpentry and his creation of many miniature ships. It mentions Mrs. Ogden Goelet ordering a lavish one of Hyperion for her library. It adds various biographical tidbits on Annie Laurie, William Douglas, Leonid Andreyev, Prof. White, the Fiske bequest to Cornell, and Harold Speed’s witty views on art and manners.
A fragment recalls a grandfather as a general and a cousin nickname, noting a fast white man hung in his country in a Chicago Sun excerpt. The passage blends personal memory with charged phrasing about justice and violence.
A Welden Illinois woman recounts severe stomach trouble and headaches, bed rest, and an exhausted state until Grape-Nuts provided relief. She reports rapid weight gain, renewed strength, and no recurrence of symptoms, crediting the product and Postum Co. with saving her life and improving her sons.
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