10 Jan 1895
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1895
Page
1
The Express notes a sharp decline in Tsoven whale fishing as whalebone demand soars beyond supply. It also reports automatic machines for recording track conditions on moving trains and mentions Avrnouen Switzerland with 1,050 miles of railroad costing over 100000 dollars per mile to build.
The minister repeats that 999 of 1000 English estate inheritances for Americans are swindles. Stanford students subscribe $500 for a noise-making steam horn blower to use at athletic meets, a device that would scare a saw-horse.
Mesmer, a Paris resident before the revolution, gave his name to mesmerism and became famous as a hypnotist. Modern hypnotism is presented as a continuation of this ancient recognized force.
Mrs. Grannis tells of a New York woman who reportedly won four husbands by showing a pretty neck. The tale notes that perfectly legitimate races have been won by a neck, and contrasts the story with Mrs. Grannis who won one husband and tired of him in a few years. Intellect is described as often at a disadvantage next to a neck.
The business misfortunes tied to Newfoundland bring debate on pronunciation. It is not Nu-fun-lan with the first syllable stressed. It is plain English New-found-land, a note on how people mispronounce familiar words.
The tally shows 90,000 cattle destroyed by wild beasts last year in India, up 9,000 from the prior year. Human fatalities include 21,000 from snakes, 1,000 from tigers, 291 from leopards, 175 from wolves, 121 from bears, and 1 from elephants.
The Delavan house in Albany was long recognized as a strictly temperance hotel built by Edward C. Delavan a noted temperance advocate who funded tract printing and other efforts to promote the cause after its construction.
Pennsylvania farmers of the late alliance back electric railways for public roadways across the state. They demand township authorities grant right of way and require tracks laid in the road center with the roadbed maintained by the companies for a few feet on each side.
The 100th anniversary of the New York Price Current and the Shipping and Commercial Lists was marked in New York. The piece notes trade journalism has grown remarkably, with journals now devoted to every branch of trade and manufacture, especially in the last thirty years.
The latest trend claims to skip breakfast improves health and calls breakfast a habit and injurious. Observers speculate whether others might abandon dinner and supper as well. The writer notes the high cost of meals, estimating hundreds of millions spent annually.
An advertisement offering a beautiful boy for adoption and a farmer seeking to sell his child for 200 pounds prompted an investigation by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The farmer had lost his wife and planned emigration.
The article explains Canada enforces laws against tramps with strict penalties including a year in state prison for a found tramp or seven years for theft, contrasting U S laxity. It notes drunks and vagrants are brought before magistrates, while Canadian rules deter cross border tramp activity.
Neal Dow responds to Bishop Neeley of Maine who argues prohibition failed. Dow cites Maine before prohibition with 35 distillers and seven breweries, none now. rum imports vanished. Portland’s runshops gone. public houses closed. fewer private liquor dens. treating restricted. overall liquor consumption greatly reduced.
In St Louis the United States Court of Appeals addresses whether a life policy with a suicide clause must pay after Dr L H Robbins, holder of a $5 000 policy, accidentally wounds himself, then dies by self inflicted throat injury during pain. The insurer refused payment but the court ruled the company must pay.
Summaries from Jan. 3 to Jan. 5 cover Senate proposals on tariff amendments and a sugar bounty, income tax rescission, and Nicaragua canal talk. House debates tax on malt liquor, currency issues, pension grant to 108 year old Iosea Brown, with McCreary backing state banks and Cochran opposing Carlisle plan.
The December statement shows debt up by 31.8 million with treasury cash at 158.4 million and net debt at 910.9 million. Receipts totaled 21.87 million, disbursements 27.14 million, creating a 5.27 million monthly deficit and 27.56 million for the year so far. Postmasters move to curb overtime claims. 29 international and 102 domestic money order offices to open nationwide. Commissioner Miller drives income tax collection. overall trade shows no major improvement. Bank clearings in 1894 reach 44.996 billion, down 16 percent from 1895. Congressman Pillar Sipnsey dies in Washington at 62.
State legislatures convene as labor unions clash with coal operators at Pittsburgh and Thirteen states report strikes and factory shutdowns. A New York tenement fire suffocates Lena Lehman and her children. Massachusetts bans oleomargarine imitation. Hazleton and Dubois coal regions idle. governors Busiel and Cleaves inaugurated. Germantown wreck injures seven. Utica shooting ends marriage dispute. pilot D J Lawler sinks with four lives lost. suffragist Mary Livermore poised to retire from temperance platform.
Frames destroyed the main building of the Illinois southern hospital for the insane at Anna, the loss being 80000. Fine swept away seven three story brick buildings including the new Masonic block at Coffeyville Kansas. Lass 105000. Secretary McBryde of the United Mine Workers urges miners to shun Sovereign and Hayes. A four story building belonging to the Gas Light and Coke company at Cleveland Ohio burned for a loss of 150000. Wu Le in a drunken fit at Paris Tennessee, John L. Sullivan beat members of his company and the organization was disbanded.
A wide array of brief reports records deaths including Mrs. Mary T. Laturer 56 in Jackson Michigan and Mrs. Catharine Nolan 112 in Litchfield Illinois. Also notes Andrew Vaughan killing Will English, George Jordan’s family shooting suicide in Savannah, Milwaukee fireworks fire causing 100000 damage, and vigilante hangings in Idaho and North Carolina.
A Bereras force razed a Congo village in revenge for seven lost soldiers, with 100 villagers killed. A gale claims 322 English fishermen from Mull, Grimsby and Yarmouth. Shocks strike Reggio Messina Milazzo in Italy. Alfred McClure US vice consul general at Belgrade dies after illness. Mexico poised for war with Guatemala. An invading army of 5,000 waits for transport at Acapulco. Canada public debt shows a large rise. A Toronto Globe office fire causes one death, Fire Chief Ardagh injured, five others hurt, and about 400 0010 in property loss.
The report lists multiple items including a Senate introduction for Oklahoma statehood, relief for timber land settlers burned by fires in Wisconsin Minnesota and Michigan, and memorial resolutions for Gen Post. It notes Governor Inauguration in Wisconsin and resignations and deaths across states plus a deadly steamer boiler explosion in Rio and a post office robbery murder.
On January 3 188? debate resumed as Mr Black of Georgia criticizes the Banking and Currency Committee for ignoring opposition voices. Several speakers including Mr Haughen Mr Springer Mr McCreary and Mr Hendrix argue for and against Carlisle’s currency bill and greenbacks with references to gold standards silver policy state banks and possible bond funding. The debate touches on treasury solvency free silver versus gold standards and legislative remedies amid partisan tensions.
Dun and Co reports commodities at record lows with 1894 seeing sharp declines in iron steel wool cotton and wheat. Wages fall little while output rises. bank reserves gold exports and failures in U S and Canada reflect subdued trade and uncertain currency outlook. Bradstreet finds no material improvement and ties revival to currency settlement.
A Yokohama dispatch reports the Japanese emperor awarded the Imperial Chrysanthemum Order to the German emperor in recognition of German officers' military and naval instruction to Japan.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports Mrs Houser confronts a husband over kissing a servant girl. Houser replies he has long kissed his wife and has begun with the servant, asking if he kissed her before.
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