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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1906
Page
2
A collage of curiosities and social notes ranges from Anna Gould and Mrs. Sage to Peary’s dog powered plans and Emperor William’s optimism. It jokes about tipping, fashion tiaras, and a proposed Iowa railway move while noting meat consumption and its critics.
A Denver woman raised $2,000 for a hospital by selling kisses and smiles. She plans to seek additional charity money by writing a testimonial endorsing a cure for chapped lips.
The Pennsylvania railroad questions the practicality of electric locomotives in Washington. The phrase reasonably practical is critiqued as emblematic of diplomatic ambiguity in assessing electric power use.
A medical journal contrasts professional drivers risks for money and fame with their reluctance to display number 18 on cars. It notes drivers fear fictitious medieval terrors yet dive into obvious dangers, illustrating curious human contradictions observed at racing events.
The college baseball coach proposes letting batters run bases in either direction from home plate to first or third and back, a plan that would confuse beginners and shift play away from traditional paths. The notion shows players resisting football influence as they discuss rule amendments.
The Chicago Record Herald questions the premise arguing that no one will live long enough to need a car lasting fifteen years. Edison asserts a $200 automobile with a 15 year lifespan, prompting skepticism about long term durability and future obsolescence.
A Cincinnati musician posing as famed reporter Richard Harding Davis entertained himself at the expense of Nashville's elite, the "400," by fooling guests and drawing laughs at their gathering.
Walter Wellgaan worries about passing the pole in his balloon and being unable to stop. The fear centers on maintaining control during ascent and ensuring a safe halt before contact with the obstacle.
The first steamship bearing immigrants to Charleston recently arrived with 29 couples aboard. Each couple faces establishing a home in America with renewed strength and determination.
The figure who says he can produce life in vegetables appears to be adding workload for Professor Wiley rather than delivering a breakthrough.
A reform movement in football aims to recruit and train a new professional player. The initiative emphasizes updated coaching, stricter fitness standards, and pathway development for athletes transitioning to the pro level.
A mob of 25 to 30 men broke into Annapolis jail early Friday, abducted Henry Davis also known as Chambers, and lynched him at a vacant lot by College Creek after his confession. Officers offered little resistance. Davis body left under the tree as witnesses viewed the scene. coroner’s jury returned death at unknown hands. The attack occurred near State House. Senior Hall at St John’s College hosted the assembling. College officials denied student involvement.
New York bishop Charles C. McCabe of the Methodist Episcopal church died at 6:20 am after apoplexy struck him while en route to Philadelphia. Born October 11 1836 in Athens Ohio he served as chaplain of the 122nd Ohio Infantry and later led fundraising as secretary of the Methodist Missionary Society. He was also chosen chancellor of the American University at Washington.
In Omaha Nebraska four Nebraska Land and Feeding Co officers Bartlett Richards Will G Comstock and C C Jameson and agent Aquilla Triplett are found guilty on 26 counts of conspiracy to defraud the government of public lands and subornation of perjury The trial began November 19 and lasted two hours of jury deliberation followed by days of government testimony.
In a Mississippi river tragedy at Gold Dust landing near Vicksburg the steamer W L Scovell blew up killing four white men and several colored workers among the dead and missing totaling 14. Captain John A Quackenboss of Vicksburg and L Wade Quackenboss of Vicksburg are named among the white dead. Joseph Smith of Yazoo City and Leval Verger of Jackson are listed among other victims. The boat was taking on freight when a boiler plate failure caused the explosion and the vessel sank quickly. The Scovell had recently been purchased for the Vicksburg-Davis Bend trade and was insured for 6000 dollars. Wade Quackenboss was Captain Quackenboss’s son.
In Paris Madame Gould former Countess Boni de Castellane defeats creditors in 13 of 15 suits seeking joint responsibility for the count. The court dismissed them, ruling debts not for the couple’s common benefit. Only two art-dealer cases may hold her liable. three cases remain to be decided December 26.
Two robbers looted the Bank of Horatio in Horatio Arkansas on Wednesday afternoon. They covered the cashier with pistols and escaped with about four thousand dollars.
A would be killer, Frederick Elerbrock, fired in a corridor of the criminal court building at Probate Judge Charles S. Cutting. The judge blocked the shot and struck the assailant, who was then disarmed. Within hours, an indictment for assault with intent to kill was returned.
The Vatican issued a note of protest to papal representatives abroad complaining that France violates religious rights by barring communications with the French hierarchy. It cites the expulsion of Mer. Montaguini, secretary of the papal nunciature in Paris, as central to the dispute.
Government bulletin lists 1906 corn production at 2 927 416 091 bushels. winter wheat 492 888 004 bushels. spring wheat 242 372 966 bushels.
Captain Edgar B. Macklin of Company C Twenty Fifth United States Infantry was shot twice and badly wounded Friday by a man described as a discharged soldier under Roosevelt. The incident occurred in El Reno Oklahoma and the assailant is believed to be among those discharged by the president.
Mrs. Rachel Brookfield Day, described as an actual daughter of the revolution, died in Newark at age 96. She was the daughter of Capt. Job Brookfield who served throughout the Revolutionary War.
Havana reports Cuba is free of yellow fever for the first time since August with the last case in the city discharged on Friday. A year ago the island had 12 cases.
Sheriff of Wabash County Alex Compton was shot and killed in Keensburg Illinois while preparing to take a child from its father David Kellum and hand the child to the mother. The incident occurred Thursday afternoon as lawmen attempted to transfer custody.
Pat Max Kaftle, a Russian immigrant, killed his wife by striking her head with an iron Thursday night. He also injured a young daughter and a boarder and told police he had the right to slay his wife.
Ten representatives and one senator sail on the Alliance for a five day inspection of the Isthmus of Panama learning conditions for the proposed canal. Senator Flint and Congressmen McKinlay Knowland Fulkerson Dickson Rives McKinney Smith Howell Kinkaid Stenerson join the trip invited by Secretary Taft and canal commissioners.
In St. Louis two men entered the J. B. Muss Milling Co office Friday and shot cashier J. B. Muss in the chest while attempting to rob the safe. One robber was captured.
Albany attorney general Julius Mayer filed a suit in New York county supreme court seeking dissolution of the American Ice Company. The action marks the start of a government effort to break up the so called ice trust.
Albany Governor Higgins commuted Albert T. Patrick from death to life imprisonment for the December murder of William Marsh Rice, ending five years on death row.
Mrs. Ella V. Kober was robbed of six thousand dollars by a pickpocket amid holiday crowds in Philadelphia’s shopping district. The money was kept in a secret pocket in her underskirt when the theft occurred on Wednesday.
Middleton Ohio proprietor W N Powers of the Rommel house destroyed by fire Tuesday was arrested Wednesday afternoon on a charge of arson at his other hotel in Franklin.
Harry Kendall Thaw will stand trial Monday January 21 in the criminal branch of the New York state supreme court for the murder of Stanford White. Justice Newburger set the date after Thaw's counsel moved to dismiss the indictment or fix a trial date.
New York acknowledges the death of Mrs Blanche Horeon Boardman Lincoln a renowned child educator and former lecturer on child training who taught for many years. She died at her home in New York.
John Hamilton was executed for the murder of five people in Houston Missouri on Friday. The hanging went badly when the rope broke and Hamilton was likely fatally injured by the fall.
A masked bandit shot and killed Joe Dale a Denver and Rio Grande ticket agent at Leadville depot early Thursday. The thief then robbed the cash drawer and escaped, leaving investigators seeking clues and motive.
Washington records show the post office department reduced its excess expenditures over receipts by more than 4 million dollars in the annual report of Edwin C. Madden the third assistant postmaster general.
Honolulu dispatch reports a visiting Japanese squadron will arrive in February and not proceed to San Francisco due to fears of a renewed Maine disaster, tied to heightened American sentiment and tensions.
Curtis Jett was found guilty of the assassination of James Cockrell town marshal at Jackson Kentucky. He confessed that he alone killed Cockrell and received a life sentence.
Clara Heyl wife of Jacob Heyl filed for divorce on Friday in Milwaukee. Jacob Heyl is known as the central figure in the Shandein will case.
Joseph S. Kerns was arraigned after a local bank robbery in Great Bend. He pleaded guilty and received a prison sentence of ten to 21 years in the state penitentiary.
The Pennsylvania Limited struck a freight train in Canton yards Sunday night. Engineer John Ray and Fireman George Nichols were fatally injured.
A southbound Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie train collided with a switch engine in Enderlin North Dakota at 2 10 am. Eight died at once and one more later, thirty seven gravely hurt. The smoking car was wrecked and engulfed in flames as rescuers rushed to pull the injured from debris. Local hospitals filled and aid trains transported physicians to the scene.
A. B. Hicks, buried for 15 days in Edison mine Kern County, was rescued at 11 45 p m Saturday. Surrounded by anxious crowds, he was carried on a stretcher to hospital and held to be uninjured aside from weakness, with a promising path to recovery.
Word reached Halifax of the passenger steamer Strathcona owned by Halifax Canso Steamship burning after being beached near Port Dufferin about 60 miles east. No lives were lost thanks to engineers and firemen who remained at their posts as 380 passengers landed before the vessel burned to the waterline within an hour.
A strike of locomotive firemen began Sunday afternoon at five on Southern Pacific lines in Texas and Louisiana. The action involves about 300 to 400 workers.
The Fraser house the oldest and largest hotel in Bay City Michigan was destroyed by a fire early Sunday. Fireman John O Neal was fatally injured in the blaze.
In Havana district Maria and Carmen Hidalgo sisters from a Las Lajas ranch dueled with pistols over a man. Maria Hidalgo was killed. no further injuries reported.
Mrs James G Blaine Jr daughter of Rear Admiral Hichborn retired obtained a divorce decree from her husband in Yankton South Dakota Saturday night on grounds of desertion and non support.
In Washington, Pa., a natural gas explosion in the home of John Carvel Sunday left four people burned and three fatally injured, including John Carvel and his two sons. Local responders treated the injured at the scene and authorities investigate the blast origin.
President Roosevelt urged American contributions to relief efforts for millions in famine stricken China on Sunday urging swift support for those near starvation and asking the public to donate funds through national relief channels.
Count Alexis Inga tieff a former Kiev Volhynia and Podolia governor general and member of the imperial council was shot and killed by an unknown assailant inside the nobles assembly hall in Tver Russia.
The grand jury of New York County recommends a ten year term for the police commissioner and removal only after charges the official can meet. The idea echoes former congressman Lemuel Ely Quigg who once called for an intelligent despot.
A local remedy claim extols Allcock's Plaster as a universal external cure for back aches rheumatic twinges and general soreness from colds. The ad highlights prompt action clean cheap results and sixty years of trusted use allowing continued work during healing.
Mrs. Marie Robinson Wright, renowned for extensive travels and writings on South American republics, sails from London to Rio de Janeiro under contract with the Brazilian government to continue work on a history of the Brazilian republic. She has written histories of Bolivia, Chile, and Peru and is preparing a book on Argentina.
Consul General Guenther from Frankfort reports a new metal named Alzen composed of two parts aluminum and one part zinc. It is said to rival cast iron in strength yet be more elastic and harder to scratch. It also takes a high polish and can cast delicate lines and detailed figures while remaining very strong.
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