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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1904
Page
1
After a four minute senate session, lawmakers adjourned until January 4. The house also adjourned at 12 39 until January 4 after Mr Mann blocked unanimous consent to take up the inaugural resolution.
A Chefoo dispatch reports eight torpedo boat destroyers escaped Port Arthur as a heavy snowstorm rages. Japanese cruisers under Admiral Kamimura sail south to the China Sea to meet Russia’s second Pacific squadron. Gen Kuropatkin relays that Russians retook Metre hill. The admiralty notes Port Arthur advice confirming partial ship wrecks. Japan seeks a major assault with 60 000 troops before the Chinese New Year.
Juries split in the Nan Patterson case. Patterson may face retrial. Dolores sees a fatal ambush of Sa mar natives. a Georgia officer killed resisting vaccination. Roosevelt family gifts Cove Neck pupils with candy. no public engagements next week. Ohio miners earn 496.60 per capita, up 55.32 from last year. Frank Stevens fined 1000 for conspiracy. Bankes & Collins store robbed of 250. Servia’s king signs press law restricting freedom. Mystic Shriners founder Sam Briggs dies in Cleveland. Severe drought ends in central Illinois after heavy rain. Armada Michigan murder of Mrs Abel Brown. Esch announces bid for Senate. New York Central unveils giant world-class railway station plan. Wichita shippers accuse seven railways of rate discrimination. St Louis World's Fair admissions total and free admissions tallied. London fog halts traffic. two trainmen killed in Rochester collision. Beloit factory destroyed by fire. 100000 loss. Minneapolis Peck building collapse kills seven. Rohrsburg boiler blast kills four. Smoot hearing paused. immigration officials flag European migrants as paupers.
Secretary Hay sent a note proposing to defer further Hague conference details to the international bureau and expressed gratification at the results achieved. Holiday trade appears robust with earlier shopping, and Sioux City fire devastates 25 buildings over two blocks, $2,000,000 loss, one firefighter dead. Edward Cassiday is hanged in Towson for felonious assault.
Across a wide array of incidents a 1800 mile voyage begins from Mobile to Honduras aboard Stsama. a feud ends fatally in Kentucky. a fire kills a Bangor family and deposits losses. a Chicago rail wreck claims two lives. leadership changes and corporate moves unfold in Cleveland and Conneaut. notable deaths include Judge Phelan and Admiral Ommanney.
Nicholas issued a reform ukase outlining eight topics from a zemstvos memorial. It promises referral to ministers with prompt reports on relief, avoids constitutional assembly, and pledges limited liberalization like reduced censorship, independent courts, equal peasant rights, fair trials, and broader religious and speech freedoms.
In Huntington on December 27 Lucian and Ira Lucas were killed and Octave Adkins wounded when a dispute at a Midkiff Lincoln county residence escalated to gunfire after Adkins ordered Ira Lucas to leave. William Adkins survived as bullets pierced his clothing.
Mack Nima rick his wife child and Anna and Massaun Cole all Slavs perished in a shanty housing 50 Wabash railroad laborers. Explosion of coal oil suspected with foul play rumored after money found on Nimarick. Two Slavs remain missing.
Elmer Hunt aged 19 was shot and killed Monday during a Christmas play in Chicago. He stood with a bottle on his head at Waseman's saloon at Archer avenue and Thirty-fifth street as a target for a friend's pistol, a fatal outcome resulting from the companion's poor marksmanship.
Edward Murray a 17 year old Brooklyn clerk died after a nose bleed began the morning after Christmas. He returned from work in good health but soon suffered a severe headache followed by unstoppable bleeding. doctors failed to stop it.
Des Moines December 27 Corporal Solomon Cook of the Eleventh United States Cavalry killed himself by turning on the gas at a local hotel. Cook had served many years in the regular army and served in the Philippines.
West Plains Missouri December 27 James Anderson is accused of stabbing brothers Don and Joe Smith to death during a quarrel and fled into the mountains as posses pursue him.
Chicago December 27 William J Bryan is expected to offer Harrison as the Democratic presidential candidate for 1908. The announcement is anticipated at the Jackson club banquet in Lafayette Indiana on January 10.
A heavy downpour across the Burlington Iowa region ends a drought and fills stock ponds and cisterns in good condition for the week.
Chefoo dispatch reports a December 22 Japanese assault of about 6000 with machine guns across the railway to the water course beneath Paquisean mountain. Russians countered with severe artillery fire and bayonet clashes. Japanese withdrawals left 80 prisoners and 300 rifles. 600 killed. Gen. Nogi wounded in limb and back by rifle fire during operations for 203 Meter Hill.
Belleville Illinois December 27 Gen William H Powell long a friend of President McKinley and former Illinois G A R commander died at his home. He led the second cavalry division under Gen Sheridan and was wounded at Wytheville. Powell 79 was president of the Western Nail Co East St Louis and internal revenue collector for the Thirteenth district under Theodore Roosevelt.
Chicago reports three men fatally injured and 12 hurt when two dynamite charges failed to explode and blew under a steam shovel near Lockport. About 100 workers were within reach of debris as the blast buried machinery and people. engineer James Hill suffered a fractured skull and serious injuries and is expected to die. An unidentified man and an Italian laborer were also fatally hurt.
Sheriff Barry failed to obtain extradition papers for Dr Leroy Chadwick in New York after New York authorities objected to proving his presence in Ohio on March 5 1903 the date of the forgery alleged against him and his wife Mrs Cassie L Chadwick.
In Amosa Michigan Baptist Delfour shot and killed BE Hanson in a barroom confrontation linked to a feud between their brothers. Hanson died almost instantly. Delfour was arrested at Crystal Falls. Both men were miners in the region.
A Sunday night blaze destroyed the Wayland cement works near Perkinsville in Wayland New York causing about 200000 dollars in losses. Insurance partially covers the damage.
George Evans secretary of the American Fuel corporation and a broker promoter killed himself in a Jersey City hotel after the failure of the firm. He shot himself in the head.
In Cheyenne Wyoming an unidentified man was found dead near the union depot. He appeared to have frozen to death as temperatures dropped from 18 above to 4 below zero overnight.
Nashville December 27 Luke Blackburn famed sire and outstanding American turf performer died of old age at the W H McAllister farm near Bellevue Tennessee He was twenty seven years old.
Robbers cracked the safe at Larsen & Co., 1925 Milwaukee Avenue, escaping with 1800 dollars after beating A. G. Krogstadt, a firm member, and leaving him for dead.
A retold theater anecdote recounts Fritz Emmet in a notorious drinking episode before a March 31 engagement in Kansas City. Despite a prior doorway lapse, he performs on April 1 in Leavenworth to a relieved, cheersing audience as a dramatic comeback unfolds.
A new butter derived from cocoanut milk is produced when the milk exceeds 28 C and yields a yellow oil. This oil, largely imported from India and Africa, comes from trees in Ceylon Cochin China and Australia. Cocoanut butter contains seven percent soluble acid and stores 15 to 20 days. It contains less water than ordinary butter and resists oxidation, making it good for pastries. Studies in Vienna and Swiss hospitals report satisfactory results.
Inventory lists movable property divided among Kruger's articles after his death. Items include a snuff bottle, silk hat, ear tube, several psalm Bibles, a large Bible and six smaller ones, eight button decorations, a purse with Transvaal sovereign and half sovereign, a Transvaal shilling, and a straw hat.
More than 500 students worked their way through Columbia University last year earning $74,021, according to a report from the secretary of the committee on employments for students. The Pittsburg Dispatch notes the sizable aid and work opportunities provided.
A collection of humorous exchanges and witticisms about tact love dogs kings and fashion. Silly quotes involve Johnny-Pa Higgins Miss Passay Wiggins and Mr Sharpe as breakfast table banter reflects social mores and gendered humor.
Brazil's foreign funded debt tops 230 million dollars. Japan records 1400 annual earthquakes with 50 noticeable. Berlin reports 64 schoolboys condemned for misdemeanors to two to ten months. German birth rates decline in Berlin Charlotteburg Hamburg and Crefeld. A British regiment lands at Southampton after twenty years in India. six men return. Madrid sees rising pickpocket swindler activity under lax police supervision in major streets and squares.
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