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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1908
Page
6
Well known on the Pacific slope. His Washington address is 1312 9th St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
New York Gov. Charles E. Hughes outlines support for President Roosevelt’s anti abuse record and calls for strengthening the Sherman act. He opposes federal ownership of railways but advocates interstate regulation and tighter election integrity measures.
The New Amsterdam National Bank at Broadway and Thirty-ninth street, capitalized at $1 million, was closed by order of the comptroller of the currency with Charles A. Hanna appointed as receiver. Depositors are owed about $2.07 million of a total $4.48 million in assets, while officers claim full depositor payments and dividends for stockholders.
Four story brick building housing the Plain Dealer Publishing Company mechanical department and press rooms was nearly destroyed by fire Sunday. The adjoining offices were undamaged and loss is estimated at 200000 with partial insurance. The Plain Dealer will be issued from the Cleveland News office for now.
The father of John D. Rockefeller lies in an unmarked Oakland Cemetery grave in Freeport New York. He died May 11 1906 at age 96 after a life spent under the alias Dr William Levingston farming and selling his own decoction medicines. He also appeared as Dr William A Rockefeller to his sons and acquaintances.
A major fire in Chicago's loop district caused about 1.7 million dollars in damage and halted transportation for hours. It started at Alfred Peats & Co on Wabash near Madison, then spread to Edson Keith & Co 182 Michigan Avenue, gutting upper floors and threatening multiple millinery firms. The blaze burned through the night, one of the city’s worst since 1874, with widespread losses to furniture and other firms on Wabash and nearby streets. In Kansas City the Nelson Morris & Co packing plant saw a second twin-building fire in its cannery area, endangering the plant and causing about half a million dollars in damage before control.
A woman believed to be Almyra Wilcox, a Milwaukee millinery shop proprietor, was found dead in her Hotel Chelsea room after death occurred in the night. Powders in the room and a doctor’s assessment pointed to an overdose of narcotics used for insomnia. she had written letters describing four sleepless nights.
Nantucket life savers from Cossata station battled five hours in frigid seas to rescue the crew of the Newport brigantine Fredericka Schepp wrecked on Coatue beach. Captain's wife Mrs Overson and her infant child were saved aboard.
Harry K. Thaw, acquitted Saturday of Stanford White’s murder on insanity grounds, starts a routine life at Watteawan State Hospital for the Criminal Insane, with officials noting his stay at the Tombs would pale in comparison to the institution’s quiet.
A $5,000,000 credit arrived Friday in New York for the Hungarian Discount and Exchange Bank to be used for the account of the Count and Countess Laszlo Szechenyi.
Stockholm reports severe famine in the Iron district of northern Lapland with Velhelmina parish residents slaughtering dogs and cats to avoid starving. A Kiruna sourced dispatch to Dagens Nyheter confirms extreme hunger and dire conditions among inhabitants.
Two Lipsy brothers James 84 and Charles 40 aged form a death by own action pact Friday at Raymond this county. James Lipsy is dead and Charles lies dying at his home, following the pact.
In St. Petersburg a revision of the College of Heraldry of Georgia Trans caucasia uncovered 600 of 2000 registered hereditary coats of arms as bogus forgeries. The discovery marks a major forger identification within the heraldic registry.
A fire at the Hamilton Tourist hotel in White Springs Florida on Friday night destroyed the hotel and several cottages. Guests escaped with their lives as the blaze caused an estimated loss of 100000 dollars.
Rochester New York reports Captain Hooker left a $100000 estate to Galesburg Illinois but probate was denied by the surrogate court on grounds of mental incompetence. The will’s validity is under dispute as the distribution of the estate proceeds.
Police in Lublin have captured a female led band of robbers operating in Russian Poland. The arrest reveals a group of women criminals at large, with leaders taken into custody.
Dr. Andrew W. Riley professor of practice of medicine at Creighton Medical College died Friday from blood poisoning linked to an infection from an erysipelas patient. He was 49 years old.
Evans Steele 21 Hans Kraft 12 and Harold Dixon 11 fell through thin river ice off Nyack New York on Friday and drowned police said.
In Jasper Indiana Philip Kastner sixty two fatally shoots his son George thirty two after a dispute over a sick horse. Kastner claimed his son poisoned the animal and the killing occurred on their property.
In West Seneca New York the superintendent of poor office was besieged by 500 men begging for food on Thursday. Four men were taken to the county hospital in a starvation condition.
Traffic opened over the Julfa railway in Tiflis linking Russia and Persia. The line consolidates Russian control over the north Persian provinces.
Janesville resident A N Sheldon longtime Republican leader and leading business figure died Saturday from a stroke at age 70. He was well known across Wisconsin for his public service and business activities.
Columbus Ohio reports the death of Dennis O'Sullivan an Irish actor and singer at Grant hospital following an appendicitis operation. He was born in San Francisco in 1866.
The Atlantic Compress company plant in Americus Georgia was destroyed by a Sunday night fire. Between 2000 and 2500 bales of cotton burned. Total loss estimated at 150000 dollars and covered by insurance.
Henry Oliver Collins died in Missoula on a Saturday night from pneumonia. He was formerly editor of the Missoulian and a Denver associate of Eugene Field Opie Read and Charles Hasbrook.
Charles Von Soehnen of Colfax Washington describes long kidney pain backache and rheumatic symptoms with daily urinary issues for thirty years. He credits Deans Kidney Pills with restoring near complete relief and praises the product sold by all dealers at fifty cents a box through Tooster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
An odd ad for John A Salter Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin promotes a 250000 customer seed catalog mail offer with cheap seed prices and a Berliner Earliest Cauliflower bonus. The text also contains unrelated anecdotes about a southern girl and a museum stuffed animals story and a praise of Defiance Starch for home laundering.
A Long Island burglar escaped from a new county jail and carried off every lock and doorknob in the facility. Observers suggest such ingenuity deserves promotion to the nation’s best penitentiary as a tribute to his genius.
A collage of ad copy features Garfield Tea laxative Pazo Ointment piles cure Lewis' cigars and Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup. It also hints at consumer quips about milkmen nerves and teething remedies.
Representative Birdsall of Iowa objects to high Washington rentals during the congressional season. He compares himself to an Irish farmer who fights an assessor over a value set on property. A neighbor jokes about adding to a house already large enough. The exchange ends with the farmer insisting on keeping the assessed value.
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