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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1900
Page
3
The Cripple Creek district reports gold production of $2 500 000 in January. The Weather Bureau plans observatories in Gulf ports Tampico to Progreso under Galveston officials. A new electric axle cooling system for moving freight cars proves successful in a southern trial run.
A Tennessee firm promotes a broom with a spring claiming it sweeps better than the old-fashioned broom. The note amusingly asks for a girl who would spring into the closet, grab the broom, and use it diligently to solve a great problem.
A Philadelphia paper reports a man who makes a living selling labels from foreign hotels railroads steamships and express companies to people who paste them on baggage to fake abroad travel.
The giant skyscraper will rise this season in New York City. The land is valued at 2,000,000 dollars and 4,000,000 more will be spent on construction. To complete the site the company paid 260,000 dollars for half of a 25 by 100 foot lot.
In 1899 silk import value reached 41000000 dollars, up 50 percent from 1898. Silk mills operate in 19 states with 750 factories in 230 towns. Capacity grows to meet domestic demand and enable exports.
A Chicago sermon at Central Music Hall questioned the existence of Adam and the fall, while a judge disputed the Washington hatchet and cherry tree tale as myth. The speaker warned that ongoing challenges from doctors and judges could erode belief.
Both houses of the Mississippi legislature approved an 80000 appropriation to purchase a 10000 acre farm where convicts will be housed and put to work. The plan aims for self sufficiency with earnings from the farm possibly generating state revenue.
The twenty seventh annual report shows substantial work by the New York diet kitchen to supply nourishing food to the sick poor. Four kitchens operated at a total cost of 7536 dollars, enabling thousands of needy patients to be fed during illness.
The piece notes a severe coal shortage in England with coal selling for $11 per ton and working class wages at half those in America. It argues this disparity should make Americans feel content living in the United States.
Congressman Thomas J. Bradley of the Ninth New York district is known as the old man with the polyglot cinch for his ability to address voters in their native tongues. He speaks German French Hebrew Polish Italian Irish and Bohemian giving him broad appeal among diverse constituents.
In a voters poll of 1 548 654 cast on the nomination question President Diaz received 1 456 482 votes, a near unanimous showing. The election will be held next fall and he is certain of reelection by a commanding majority as Mexico's exports and imports have nearly doubled and the nation has grown stronger under his administration.
The article notes 4 000 000 people receiving relief in India and many deaths from starvation. It laments India's reliance on its own resources and criticizes British aid as diverted to South Africa and home fronts, leaving India under-supported.
The New York senate appointed commission on state prisons filed its report. It urges reform over punishment, condemns demeaning treatment and lockstep discipline, and recommends abolition of stripes and stripes. It calls for prisoner classification based on current behavior.
The Senate passes the substitute for the currency bill by 46 to 29. A favorable report on Des Moines military post. House discusses civil service reform and Philippine issues. Ex Consul Macrum mail controversy cited. Taiwan government bill read, conference on financial bill. Polygamy ban proposed in House. Civil service appropriation restored. Nicaragua canal construction bill favored. Senate not in session on the 17th.
The report by ex Consul Macrum alleging tampering of his Durban mail is dismissed by Washington. The government lists 61 naval vessels either authorized or under construction needing 3 048 more officers and 17 937 more men. The Daughters of the American Revolution start their ninth annual convention in Washington. Senator Clark of Montana testifies denying money was used to sway legislators.
Leading clearing houses in the United States reported total exchanges of 1 507 131 331 dollars for the week ending March 16. New York saw Roland B. Molineux sentenced to die at Sing Sing for murder. A messenger boy stole 700 dollars in New York and fled toward Chicago. General Edward C. Williams died at 85 near Shamokin Pennsylvania. he was the first Union volunteer mustered in the Civil War. Miss Porter's School founder Sarah Porter died at 85 in Farmington Connecticut. Abbott-Downing Company of Concord New Hampshire failed for 200 000 dollars. Two 13 year old boys Jacob Dull and Thomas Carsons were found asphyxiated in a Millvale Pennsylvania hotel closet.
Across the nation brief items report June 26 state convention plans in Chicago for Illinois prohibitionists, steady Kentucky politics, Arkansas Republicans set to meet March 20 in Little Rock to elect delegates, Maine anniversary observed in Havana, and embezzlement arrests in Seward Nebraska with a bondsman’s death upon notification.
Fire nearly wiped out Dayton Michigan and swept away St Charles College at Grand Coteau Louisiana along with its large valuable library. The events reflect large scale destruction to educational facilities and communities in two separate incidents.
Reports from Luzon describe 5000 Filipino attackers routed a night garrison raid after burning the town. In South Africa news centers on Kimberley relief, Cronje’s movements, and British actions around Ladysmith and Thoenfontein as Gen. Roberts maneuvers. Manila census counts 190000 population including 31000 Chinese.
In Washington the senate debated Congress power to extend or withhold constitutional rights in new U S territories. The house adopted a resolution seeking information on charges against ex consul Macrum. A beer tax bill passed and Porto Rican tariff debate began. Meanwhile Mrs Hasbrouck marked her 100th birthday in Oshkosh Wisconsin and other national happenings were noted.
Paris hotels raise rates three to nine dollars daily. Edison Jr says he built a safety miner lamp. U S bachelors beat spinster totals 5,427,767 and 3,224,494 respectively. Sumner says 90 percent of marriages unhappy. First women’s club of Puerto Rico formed by Americans in Ponce. Longest telegraph wire spans 6000 feet over the Kistna in India. Johannesburg area mines produce 15 tons monthly. University of Texas holds over 2,000,000 acres, largest real estate owner. New York health board reports 13,257 deaths from consumption. Railroads order 17,000 cars and 120 locomotives at 13 million dollars. Mrs. Thomas moves stocks abroad to dodge taxation. Sund sold for 4000 dollars. Bonner pays 41,000 for the mare. Porto Rico coffee exports total 53,243,025 pounds worth 26,139,955. Lehigh Valley Coal raises wages two percent, about 2,000 workers affected. Mrs Jennie June Croly to leave for England after decades of work.
London reports a British push under Lord Roberts with Buller and Kitchener coordinating. Gen Cronje is reportedly surrounded as Boer forces retreat toward Bloemfontein while Des Delarey delays pursuit. British forces capture hills near Colenso and Monte Christo with light casualties and significant stores seized.
The article notes growing use of formalin in museums for specimen preservation and claims about global mountain leveling raising land height by about 250 feet. It cites anesthesia related deaths around one in four thousand to five thousand, and identifies Verchoyansk Siberia as the coldest inhabited area with a yearly mean of 2.74 degrees below zero. It contrasts salicylic acid from wintergreen with ordinary cyclohexyl acid as a neutral preservative. It describes Hamburg institutes testing Elbe water for cholera and diphtheria germs and surveying two thousand wells in the city.
Kentucky senate sessions at nine and ten-thirty mark a partisan power struggle as Democrats ratify Gov. Goe bel and Republicans dispute legality. House attendance cited. Marshall presides. fights move to courts, with Taylor supporters vowing continued challenge.
Lincoln Neb Feb 20 The populist national committee splits after anti fusion leaders are rebuffed by credentials. Fusion supporters adopt credentials report and plan to call a national convention with the Democratic convention in the same city. Bolters set up at Grand hotel and announce Cincinnati Ohio May 9. Des Moines Iowa Feb 20 Assistant State Geologist Bain says Du buque and northeast Iowa zine deposits show riches near Missouri Joplin region with one plant opened and more planned amid mineral rights litigation.
The Bank of Commerce in Memphis received notice of the suspension of the Bank of Friars Point in Mississippi. Friars Point bank, organized in 1590, has prospered. President D. A. Scott guarantees full repayment to depositors. D. B. Hebdon named as assignee handling affairs.
In Lansing on February 20 Judge Wiest denied the motion to quash the indictments against Col. Eli R. Sutton and Gen. Arthur F. Marsh of the state military department. The court also denied a defense request for bills of particulars. Gen. Marsh will be tried next month.
The article notes southern California shipped 875 car loads of dried fruits and raisins worth 1.64 million dollars in a year. Michigan farmers grew sugar beets for the first time, boosting ten factories and signaling future self sufficiency. It also mentions Japan's new gold fields attracting attention, a 650 square mile territory, with primitive mining by river wash. Geologist Becker reports meager outlook for gold in the Philippines but coal deposits are present there.
A testimonial from John Evans of South Wabash Indiana extols Peruna a systemic remedy for twenty years of catarrh. The letter claims several bottles improved health, notes prior lagrippe cure, and urges obtaining Dr Hartman’s free books on catarrh from The Pexa Medicine Company in Columbus Ohio.
A rosy cheeked German girl employed as a domestic in a famous family learned English quickly but misinterpreted phrases. She answered a telephone call by shouting Hello and asked who is this, prompting the other party to laugh and hang up.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad offers unmatched facilities for tourists to Florida Cuba Porto Rico Central America and Nassau. Double daily sleeping car services run from Cincinnati Louisville Chicago and St Louis through Jacksonville to inland Florida and to Miami Tampa and New Orleans, the embarkation ports for the listed destinations. For folders contact J. K. Ridgely N W P A Chicago Tl.
To St Paul Minneapolis Ashland and Duluth trains run from Chicago Central Station Park Row and 12th street Lake Front with ticket agents listed. Jas C. Pond, G P A Milwaukee Wis serves as the closest agent for tickets.
Request for full information on Low Rates excursion tickets to Winter Resorts in the Southeast via Cincinnati Louisville Asheville Atlanta Jacksonville and East and West coasts of Florida. Quotation ends with a remark on the eccentricity of genius and mediocrity.
An old advertisement touts Kemp's Balsam as a cure for consumption with promises to stop Gowrk immediately. It urges readers to visit a druggist for a free sample bottle and offers large bottles for 25 and 50 cents. A testimonial from Mrs. Allie Douglass of LeRoy Michigan claims Piso's Cure for Consumption saved her boy's life last summer.
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