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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1903
Page
3
A February Cedar Rapids blaze at the Clifton hotel claimed nine lives and injured 42 guests who fled from second and third floor windows. Debris searches found four bodies with five more feared. the firetrap structure housed delegates to YMCA and Knights of Pythias events.
Plans for an electric freight and eventual passenger railway from Duluth to the Gulf of Mexico are announced with a $70 million estimate. John W. Gates and leading capitalists back the Texas Iowa and Minnesota Electric Railway Company, routing through Des Moines and St Louis to the gulf.
Washington February 18 Ex Secretary of State John W Foster is selected to lead the U S presentation before the special commission formed under the recently ratified Alaskan boundary treaty Gen Foster will be assisted by his son in law Mr Lansing who also handled the seal questions
Mrs. Jay E. Decker gave birth in January. Puerperal fever struck within weeks. A New York Christmas day injection using 300 cc and 700 cc of formaldehyde solution in saline reportedly lowered fever and pulse. By third day after second dose the patient neared recovery and was out of danger. Doctors across the state are seeking details of the treatment.
An Iowa farmer near Webster City and a railroad claim agent exchange notes after a railroad cow kills the farmer's animal. The farmer offers $30, the agent replies with $100 and a request for a framed photograph for honesty. The case highlights integrity and unusual compensation from the railroad.
Contractors have stocked 27 army post buildings with brick lumber stone and other materials all winter near Des Moines to prevent delays. Work should begin March 15 with 200 mechanics and 100 laborers on grading and landscaping. Nine buildings will house a cavalry troop and most projects aim for early fall completion.
J. J. Crowe of Council Bluffs received a letter from England claiming Pat Crowe, linked to Eddie Cudahy’s Omaha kidnapping, is in Liverpool employed as a solicitor for a wholesale house earning $200 monthly. The letter says Pat enlisted in the English army under an assumed name and fought in South Africa, then returned to England for his present job and would go to Omaha if immunity from prosecution is guaranteed.
Sheriff Fluent of Charles City reports two men named Stafford and Langworthy, convicted of burglary at Nora Springs, had prior prison terms. Stafford, alias Douglass, served six years. Langworthy, alias Bloyd, served two terms at Anamosa and one at Stillwater.
Jerome Hoot, jailed in Black Hawk county for sending a dynamite bomb to his wife with intent to kill, is improving his time at Anamosa penitentiary. He is said to contemplate lecturing on the platform after completing his term.
Fifteen members of the Nebraska legislature from the agricultural committee visited the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts at Ames. They spent a full day inspecting buildings equipment livestock and facilities used for instruction in agriculture.
Des Moines reports show Iowa plans to expand the Weather and Crop Service with 200 county correspondents and 800 township reporters to weekly and monthly crop condition updates. A large display on school work and manual training will head to the St Louis exposition led by Senator Trewin. The article notes statewide humane law efforts and a Brady case rehearing, plus a fund drive for Ames YMCA building and other educational initiatives.
William Watters, a wandering musician of the west for 20 years, died without mourners or relatives. His funeral proceeded without claims on his body and he was buried at Linwood cemetery in Dubuque at the county’s expense.
Three weeks after a wind storm toppled a haystack at David Trickler’s Bloomfield farm, he unearthed a steer that had vanished. The animal survived 18 days buried beneath hay, subsisting on the bundle. Senator Hoar will speak at the university commencement in Town City on June 17 at the opera house.
Governor Cummins calls for famine relief to Sweden Norway and Finland noting widespread want. A relief commission led by C J A Ericson Boone B Amundson Decorah and others will supervise contributions collected by city mayors and ministers.
The Iowa supreme court decision in Chamberlain v Iowa Telephone Co holds streets are public highways, allowing pre 1897 code companies to lay lines without a franchise. Cities may authorize later lines under the new code, affecting about 70 companies with networks across numerous cities and towns.
The Christian church in Webster City launches a coupon plan with 15 firms to give members and friends 2 to 10 percent back on purchases. Coupons are redeemed by the firms, concentrating trade to benefit both church debt reduction and participating merchants. The novel program aims to raise funds to settle the church debt.
Judge Whitaker issued a permanent injunction in Craw ford vs Fort Dodge Plaster, barring sale of Fort Dodge interests to the United States Gypsum company now allied with four of six Fort Dodge mills. The suit charged gypsum officers with price manipulation to force a sale. Trial lasted a week with many gypsum officers testifying.
After one month of operation the Ida Grove high school self government system shows solid success. Board President Johnson shifted from opposing to supporting the plan, noting improved discipline and practical benefits. The Iowa State Turn Verein will meet in Des Moines June 17 to 19, drawing thousands of Germans and Turner members for business sessions and high‑level athletic contests.
A coroner's jury investigating the death of Laura May Croft daughter of the Buffalo station agent found the C R I & P Railway Company responsible after a car loaded with steel jumped the track and crashed through the depot.
Charles Carpenter, a farmer living three miles east of Oskaloosa, was robbed of 3700 dollars hidden in an iron kettle 18 inches underground in his cellar. The thieves fired on him during the intrusion, then escaped. Carpenter says only he knew the hiding place.
A. J. Gault author of Twenty Years Ago and I Wandered to the Village Tom died at his Wheatland residence. Born in Jefferson County New York in 1818 he moved to Clinton County Iowa and founded the Wheatland Spectator which he sold to his son recently.
A Fort Dodge committee of business men met Mayor Bennett to cooperate on closing gambling houses. They pledged to aid in securing testimony against alleged gamblers. The mayor stated he will prosecute if adequate testimony can be gathered.
PhysiciansConsultation found Eva Steen a dumb and blind girl from Knoxville is mentally deficient due to infant illness and will not regain speech or sight. Officials decided to send her to the Glenwood state institution.
August Bunge faced life in prison or hanging for the murder of Helmer Bedner. While the jury deliberated, his attorney Mayor James M. Parson argued self defense and won. Moments later Bunge wed the woman he loves and prepared for a life apart from the courtroom.
The trial of G. W. Vanderbilt, retiring Marion county auditor, ended in acquittal on one count for altering returns to seek reelection. The second count's trial will be deferred at Des Moines.
Mrs Birdie Martin files for divorce in Atlantic district court from Asa Martin. At 24 she faces her fourth divorce action from four different husbands.
Spirit Lake residents back Mayor Osborne in a bid for free postal delivery. Dubuque Merchants' Hotel shuts as landlord I B Capron cannot meet obligations. Various obituaries and local events: Mrs. Mary Dineer dies at 84 near Volga. Mrs. Fong Tin sues for divorce after husband sold her to another Chinaman. Ames expands westward adding strip west of college.
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