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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1901
Page
6
In a Washington dispatch Dr. Talmage argues dreams are divinely meaningful but not needed for guidance. He classifies dreams into five points, notes most are physical disturbances, and cites pastors and historical figures who claim God spoke in dreams including Yount and Newton.
A fragment from the Herald reports a palmist interruption predicting marriage amid college fraternity chatter. The snippet hints at a festive forecast linked to campus social life and future nuptials.
Supreme Court holdings declare that the Philippines and Porto Rico are domestic territories upon peace treaty ratification. Duties under the Dingley act on Philippine goods are illegal. Foraker-type government for the Philippines is constitutional and Congress may impose tariffs and taxes for territorial governance. Refunds likely on collected duties.
Strong denunciation from Peking on December 3 condemns Pu Chun and his father Prince Tuan. The edict declares Pu Chun not fit to be heir and says the son of such a father should not aspire to the throne.
Emil Goodman a tailor of 22 Woodland avenue was fatally shot by a burglar who entered his store to rob him Monday night He died an hour later in Cleveland on December 3rd.
The United States shipped 3,330,890,448 pounds of cotton abroad in the past year. Siberian butter is cowled as Danish butter and sent to London and Hamburg. Arabian wool from Bagdad tops the quality, followed by Mosul and Kurdistan. In 1900 Switzerland imported German fuel: coke 126,210 tons, coal 1,145,418 tons, briquettes 307,813 tons, total 1,579,441 tons.
The secretary of the treasury sent to Congress the fiscal year 1908 appropriation estimates totaling 610,827,688 dollars. The breakdown lists increases and decreases across departments, highlighting public works and military costs, with districts and permanent annual appropriations noted. The report compares figures to the 1902 allocations, showing overall reductions and targeted increases in specific areas.
Manila reports received by the U.S. War Department allege that the Balangiga massacre on Samar was planned by American deserters who acted as spies. Deserters allegedly obtained uniforms to impersonate troops and posted English enlistment notices on trees.
Lieut Benito Sylvain, aide-de-camp to the king of Abyssinia, disembarked on the La Gascogne in New York in full Abyssinian army uniform with sword. He explains to a customs inspector that King Menelik was a great warrior who slaughtered 8,000 Thalian soldiers in one morning, a claim he asserts as fact.
A Philadelphia Bulletin item notes a woman who spends time evaluating shoes dressmakers and hosiery while avoiding conflicts, and enjoys confidential chats with hostesses. Separately, Germany consumed 376 tons of imported cigarettes value 1,737,000 last year, five times more than a decade ago.
The South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition opened with grand ceremonies in Charleston attended by 800 officials and 4,000 onlookers. President Roosevelt greeted the event via a telegraph key, and Tow. Channcey M. Depew delivered the day’s oration as workers rush to unload between 200 and 500 exhibits due to transport delays.
Washington, Dean The defense in the murder case of Mrs Lolanda Bonine began presenting testimony with 16 witnesses. They aim to show she showed no special partiality toward James Seymour Ayres and treated him like other hotel guests.
Work began Monday on a house over Sir Thomas Lipton s yacht Shamrock T7 hauled up in the Erie basin. Shamrock IV was hauled up on Saturday but the hull settled on the starboard side near the stays, likely from a prior squall during the racing period.
Chicago has invested nearly a million dollars in golf grounds. Fairmount park Philadelphia spans 2740 acres and Central park New York covers 843 acres. Nome’s winter population is around 3000, about 1500 fewer than last winter. The first edged tools manufactory opened in Hartford Connecticut in 1826. The Municipal Art Society of New York will display a full size model city block at the St Louis exposition to show an ideal city design. In 1900 Germany imported 21420000 dollars of tobacco.
A Peaberthy Injector Co plant boiler blast in Detroit at Abbott Street and Brooklyn Avenue on Tuesday night killed 29 workers, many burned or injured, with 18 still missing or unaccounted. The two-building plant suffered heavy damage and losses around 180000. relief subscriptions halted as investigators seek cause.
Washington dispatch reports the annual report of the life saving service head detailing the lowest loss of life since expansion. It cites 17 deaths last year, 43 casualties per 1000, and $6.2 million in vessel value saved. Total losses include four vessels, with salvage efforts aiding hundreds of vessels and warnings issued to many more.
Dun and Bradstreet report rising prices and tight supplies with strong pig iron demand, plentiful grain shipments, and urgent need for rails engines and foundry materials. Labor conflicts and transportation bottlenecks hinder movement while 1902 business shows limits by facilities and holiday demand boosts.
In Rockwood Tennessee at about 1 AM Walter Smith a prominent local businessman killed James Rush a Knoxville bartender near Smiths home. Rush reportedly tried to shoot Smith. No witnesses. Smith surrendered to officers and faced a preliminary trial Friday afternoon.
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