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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1896
Page
2
The piece surveys Cuba’s length and width and compares its area to Ohio. It notes the combined Mississippi Missouri length over 4,000 miles, and separately 2,816 miles for the Mississippi and 3,047 for the Missouri. It also remarks there are 109 women per 100 men and lauds the role of women in civilization.
The piece notes a deaf woman using a fan folded into a cone-like shape as a listening aid. It also condemns wife beating, urging stricter punishment, and reports a Maine deer with a distinctive polka dot red spotted coat described as strikingly pretty and unusual.
The piece notes Rovumania as the world’s highest taxed nation with duties on wine whisky transport stamps and even female servants. In Pittsburgh Grand Army posts push a nationwide effort to preserve veterans war records and form a national museum in Washington with district museums nationwide.
The French government paid the Persian shah ten thousand dollars for the right to dig up antiquities across the ancient empire. Archaeologists believe many Biblical cities lie buried there and promise a treasure trove surpassing anything found in the Orient.
The column lists state by state county totals including Texas 244, New York 60, Georgia 137, and states that 191 counties in 27 states lack newspapers. It then shifts to anecdotes about a prison wedding in West Virginia, a volcanic theory about Ascutney Mountain, curios about perpetual stone, and Philadelphia cremation growth with a bonds scheme offering cremation rights and storage space.
The article notes Cripple Creek and other Colorado districts surpass 75 million dollars from Gilpin in 30 years with about 2.5 million yearly, while old stamp mills yield large waste. It also profiles William Cookson Carpenter at 91, a lifelong New York attorney who has never postponed a case due to illness and remains active.
The report covers December sessions in Washington with bills on treasury relief, tariffs, and silver coinage, plus a barrage of calamities including drownings in a freshet near Sterling City, wildfires in Ryan, L T, and a catastrophic flood in the Osage valley. It notes executions, fires, earthquakes, and social unrest from Minnesota to Missouri.
On the twenty third the visible grain supply totaled wheat 9 398 000 bushels corn 5 789 000 oats 6 408 000 rye 1 156 600 and barley 4 204 000. Cleveland offered Venezuela high commission posts to Edward J. Phelps and Robert T. Lincoln both ex ministers to England. US railway construction fell to 1 782 miles the lowest in two decades. Clearing house exchanges for the week ending the 27th reached 1 144 928 202 dollars, down from 1 185 207 000 the prior week. up 36.6 percent versus 1894. Total 1895 business failures reported to Bradstreet were 14 013 with liabilities at 158 842 445 dollars, exceeding 1894 by over 9 000 000.
The firm of Whittle Warnahan Co dyers and bleachers at Providence R I failed for 315000 dollars. A report notes the financial collapse and potential creditors' claims.
A batch of incidents from various states includes a haywire toll of fires, drownings, and fights. The Scotia river covered bridge burned costing 100000. A Florida pistol duel left two dead. Missouri floods ruin 400 miles of Osage valley. A Calico boss died in a jealousy murder. Des Moines investment firm assigns liabilities of 420000. A 192nd birthday celebrated in Akron. Fire destroys Lawrence reduction works for 125000. A clothing store fire in Baltimore causes 300000 loss.
Reports from 1895 detail the Moresby stranding off Dungarven with Capt Coomber his wife son and 35 sailors drowned. The Victory schooner foundered with 27 dead. San Salvador dispatches report 24 officers shot. Bellerophon collision sunk Smile selsise with 30 drowned. Manitoba rejects separate schools. Kwan Ping wreck near Pescadores with many deck officers missing. Canada Newfoundland business failures total 1923 liabilities $15.8 million versus prior year.
Reports from Yokohama quote the emperor asserting restored order in Formosa and closer Japan foreign relations. News from Norwich New York notes a $100000 loss from giant feed stores and grain warehouses fire. Other incidents include Armenian violence, Leeds England factory fire, a Syracuse steel firm entering receivership, and U S indemnity claims over Asia Minor missionary losses.
Weldon Illinois December 30 Postmaster John A Pace shot and killed Dr W H Taylor a longtime physician and legislator in the post office. Pace claimed self defense after Taylor drew a revolver and demanded papers Pace fired with a self cocking pistol and Taylor fell dead near the back door. A coroner's jury later acquitted Pace.
Twenty oil burning Baldwin locomotives weighing seven tons each were loaded onto the British steamer Turret Bay in Philadelphia for Novorossisk Russia. The engines, among Baldwin's largest, have petroleum fireboxes and oil tenders, with half destined for passenger service and half for freight on the Trans-Caucasian railroad, ahead of a January shipment of the remaining twenty engines.
In Double Springs, Alabama, Mrs. Archie Fletcher died after her husband’s cousin Joseph Wheeler joked that his gun had killed Archie. Wheeler claimed the shot was accidental and fled. Archie Fletcher had been away briefly, and Mrs. Fletcher collapsed and died soon after.
A compact list traces early milestones from 1460 printing to 1830s steam power. Key items include the first almanac 1460, post offices 1464, first English newspaper 1588, copper cent 1687, Morse telegraph 1835, and the first railroad in 1820. Names and dates highlighted.
The House approved the first section authorizing sale of three percent coin bonds by a 169 to 126 vote after lengthy debate. The bill also sets terms for debt certificates and bond redemption, with Republicans voting against the bond section. Senate committee assignments feature mostly Republicans, with few Democratic chairmen.
In Chicago on Sunday representatives from the American Bi metallic League the National Bi-metallic Union and the National Silver Committee consolidated to form The American Bi metallic Union. A J Warner was chosen president and Mrs E B Light secretary with HQ at 134 Monroe Street.
A historical snapshot notes annual military expenditures by Belgium France Italy and Britain in francs pounds and lire. It cites wartime losses at Waterloo and mentions a Russian peacekeeping horse tally and a peculiar ring worn by the explorer Lurther.
Tur John A. Salter Seed Co. buys Northrup Braslaw Goodwin Co. catalogs, enlarging its seed trade to the nation from La Crosse Wisconsin. They mail catalogs for a 5 cent stamp, boasting largest catalog business and stock from own lands.
A Half Fare Excursion offers round trip tickets from the northwest over the Big Four Route and Chesapeake and Ohio to Virginia and the Carolinas for one fare with two dollars added. Expires January 14 and 28, 1896. details and a free pamphlet on Virginia lands available from U L Truist N W P A 234 Clark St Chicago.
On the first Tuesday of each month the railroad will sell one way tickets to all points in the South at reduced rates. The fast train now leaves Chicago daily at 8 25 P M and runs through to Nashville with connections to the South and Southeast. City Ticket Office 230 Clark St Chicago.
The Monon Route introduces a fast train Chicago to Jacksonville in about 8 hours 51 minutes with Pullman sleepers day coaches and highback seats. It departs Chicago at 8 82 PM and reaches Jacksonville next morning, claiming the fastest Chicago Florida run. Frank J. Rero General Passenger Agent Chicago city office 232 Clark St and L E Sessions NW Passenger Agent Minneapolis provide time cards and information.
A Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegram style dialogue contrasts manners and money with a bootblack who would rather earn a nickel than a thanks. An ad copy extols Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a health tonic aiding digestion, biliousness, malaria, rheumatism, and kidney inactivity. A comic line from a tourist exchange concludes with a playful regional quip.
The Irish comedy Rory of the Hill by Jas C Roach plays at McVickers Chicago with mail order seats. Ad copy notes testimonials from E Capy Huntington Ind November 12 1894 praising Piso’s Curr for throat and lung trouble.
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