03 Jan 1895
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1895
Page
1
The Express notes the retirement of Mr. Gimps Tower yet credits his continued link to humanitarian causes. Mackenzie Bowrin, poised to become Canada’s prime minister, is seventy one, born in England and raised in Canada since age ten. An ardent Protestant.
City planning notes Brooklyn seeks additional park area totaling 526 acres with 137 acres in smaller parks. The aim is to buy land before development raises street and block density, boosting value substantially.
Arboriculturists warn that electric lighting disturbs urban trees causing leaves to look blighted. They argue trees need sleep like animal life and say nightly illumination prevents proper rest.
Lady teachers in Philadelphia public schools petitioned for equal pay grade by grade and the school board proposed lowering male teachers salaries to match those of female teachers, establishing immediate parity.
Ports Portland and Tacoma ship large quantities of meat and grain to China and Japan. Observers hope the trade will establish a lasting economic link between the Pacific coast states and the two nations.
A Quebec city council committee recommended granting permission to erect a monument on the spot where General Montgomery fell in 1775 during the failed Quebec attack. Citizens had urged the memorial.
New York philanthropists who began a winter program lending money on household goods have doubled their capital after a successful first season. They loaned $195,000 last winter and report repayments sufficient to support the scheme without external funding.
A Central Pacific railway land agent says Nevada harbors over 200000 wild horses. They devastate ranges by consuming the best grass, reducing forage for cattle and sheep. The recent legislature authorized shooting stallions found running wild.
An exploring party plans ascent of Mount Tacoma to verify observed summit changes cited in reports of eruptions avalanches and glacial activity. Telescopic observations suggest a real alteration in the summit’s form.
A 78 year old man was jailed for three days by the Marylebone police magistrate for failing to ensure his 12 year old grandchild attended school. He could not pay a 60 cent fine as his wife was bedridden and the parents of the child were dead.
A mining camp north of Tucson called Bachelor’s Rest, with 800 residents, lacks women and cats. About 200 men advertised for wives in a Tucson paper, seeking brides aged 18 or older who understand household duties. The richest miner offers a dowry of $10,000.
The passage notes Robert Louis Stevenson dying in Samoa after long wanderings. It mentions Kip Jing as a globe-trotter and lists writers Bret Harte Marion Crawford Henry James as nearly nationalized. Julian Hawthorne settles in Jamaica after extensive travel while Stanley Weyman roams Europe. Dorian Doyle plans further globe-trotting and Lafcadio Hearn has been active in Japan.
Expectricary has beaten the record of the gold beater and can produce a foil of the metal from five to ten times thinner than ordinary gold leaf. Mr Joseph Wilson Swan, chemist of electric lighting fame, presented to the Royal Society specimens of this foil made by depositing gold on copper with electric current and then dissolving copper with perchloride of iron.
A Glasgow study shows women workers in shops earning from 1 to 3 a week with hairdressers and tobacconists earning up to 3.75 weekly. An overseer starts at 3 weekly up to 600 yearly. One girl in sole charge earned 2 weekly with long hours and no proper meals or facilities.
Report notes a California visit by a lady with brick horses offered at forty dollars for a pair with no buyers. Broncos from Wyoming sold in Denver for ninety dollars each including freight. An Idaho stock farm released 250 ponies to forage through winter with no sale activity.
The week reports show U S grain supplies on the 26th Wheat thirty nine million seventy one thousand bushels corn eight million eight hundred thirty eight thousand oats nine million barley eight million eight hundred six thousand rye four hundred fifty two thousand. There were three hundred fifty business failures in the seven days to the 28th. the U S clearing houses traded over eight hundred thirty six billion dollars, down from one trillion. The Shiloh battlefield national military park act passed. Indian agents are instructed to ensure the red men remain employed.
Miss Mier of Johnstown ends her life after a Christmas lover desertion. Seely in New York sentenced for $854000 bank theft. Ex Captain Stephenson of Lexow probe jailed three years nine months and fined. Whitman of Vermont kills his wife and two sons then commits suicide. Carter in New York confesses to $30000 embezzlement. A Hartford bound mail train depot theft in New Haven. Majestic brings largest Atlantic mail in 1672 days. Blizzard cripples eastern states. ships wreck offshore Massachusetts. Boston and New York suffer storm damage. August Ver month shoots two tenants, then kills himself. insanity noted. Lichtenstein & Sons fail for $450000 in New York dry goods. Buffalo business block swept away by wind, $300000 loss.
A fierce blizzard gripped western states as subfreezing temperatures followed. Farmers William Finprey and Joseph Bidwell were killed near Columbus Ohio by a Panhandle train. Indiana and Iowa college presidents moved to ban intercollegiate football. Sim Coy, longtime Indiana politician, died in Indianapolis at 44. Robberies, fires, and violent incidents occurred across multiple states, including a $4,760 theft in Piqua and a $16,000 real estate loss in Des Moines.
Reports reveal Turfan and Kashgar inhabitants rising against Chinese rule to form an independent government under Russian sway. A British steamer Abydos was lost in a gale with 22 dead. A house used as a hospital in San Gabriel burned by Brazilian troops, 120 rebels killed. Francis II dies at 59 in Arco Austria. Brazil faces threats of revolt as Peixoto loyalists clash with Moraes. 200 officers jailed. Uruguayan ex-president Jose ELLAmn dies in Montevideo.
Summary of scattered reports: Lexow committee session on Byrnes resignation. Bay City officers indicted. Delavan House fire in Albany. Sunn Labelle Wagon Co. assignment. wheat elevator fire in Toledo with deaths. Fort Pierre bank assignment. Liddeford fire from a cigar stamp. Holyhead wreck with 24 drowning. federal receipts and deficits. death of Irish National League ex-president Joan Berrigman. Carlstein Co. failure. Werper double murder. Northamere land mill fire. freezing Florida weather hits orange crop. child deaths in Georgia. Amelia J. Broomer obituary. San Francisco gas asphyxiation. Colombia floods wipe Gaira and Santa Maria houses.
Judge Woods grants a stay of proceedings for the Delta case after defense counsel requested cumulative sentencing to allow appeal on Sherman act constitutional questions. Government counsel supported delaying execution to resolve the issue before the Supreme Court. The court issued an order reflecting the stay and potential double incarceration pending higher court ruling.
World Herald correspondent Robert B. L. Peattie reports extreme destitution across Keith Perkins Chase Delayes and Dundy counties in southwestern Nebraska. Most people rely on charity with little fuel water or crops. railroads invited to ship aid to county seats. The other items detail testimony before the Lexow committee about Anthony Comstock and alleged bribes in the green goods case.
Advance sheets from Railway Age show about 1,919 miles of new track laid across 34 states and territories in 1894 with grading on more mileage. Fourteen states added none, while Oregon and several others barely met thresholds. total steam railway length reached 179,672 miles, with 54,500 added in the last decade averaging 5,480 per year.
New York December 28 The Lexow committee wins its first major criminal court victory with Police Capt. John Stephenson sentenced to three years and nine months in Sing Sing and fined 1000 dollars. He was found guilty after a trial ending December 12 for taking bribes from street merchants and peddlers, with four baskets of peaches cited as proven evidence. The case is viewed as the start of many convictions to come in the probe.
R G Dun & Co reports 1894 year to date commercial and manufacturing failures with liabilities and comparisons to 1893. Wages in November show higher hours but lower pay per hour, while holiday trade remains tepid. Rail earnings up 2.9 percent, wheat and corn trends mixed, money flows to New York steady as bond market shifts follow currency bills.
News from Ore. states a Christmas Eve blaze at Christman Bros hall in Silver Lake killed forty-one people and injured sixteen, five of whom are expected to die. A spectator toppled a lamp from a bench, sparking the fire as oil ignited in the dry, inflammable hall.
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