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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1901
Page
3
The New York Sun reports a locomobile explosion in city streets with the operator only moderately injured. A New York beau shot himself after singing a love song under his sweetheart’s window rather than letting a family member do it. An observation notes women’s access to congressional galleries a century ago.
An unusual case considers testing a New York cow’s milk for nitroglycerin after her owner notes the animal might hold untold value. The remark hints at potential fortune if traces are found.
The Philadelphia Ledger opines that a satisfactory permanent adjustment of labor and capital relations by Congress could transform the nation’s identity to the United States of Readia.
The record notes 12706 miles via Suez and 19832 miles via Magellan Straits. With the Nicaragua Canal, voyage via Honolulu and Guam would shorten to 12266 miles, outlining future navigation changes.
The opening of the century saw 21 million people speaking English, now 130,006,000. The language is forecast to become universal and to rule the world.
The speaker claims that while progress occurs in every century, the nineteenth century stood out for vast advances across many fields and will likely be remembered as a period of exceptional development.
Sulphuric acid produced in England from iron pyrites sourced in Spain, which contains arsenic, leads to arsenic entering English beer via use in grape sugar. The note hints that the pace of chemical progress outstrips caution and suggests adopting the term ops if needed.
Dr A J Austen Kelly of Brooklyn forms a society to create colonies for consumptives in northern New York. Over 5600 acres in the Adirondacks will be bought and divided into small farms, each with a home for a patient.
The custom of decorating churches at Christmas with mistletoe and greens is traced to Druids. Druids believed sylvan spirits inhabited green places and, with spring, transformed surroundings, using magic to renew beauty.
Under American rule in Porto Rico natives condemn a recent slugging match at a fashionable club. The piece argues that in morals and refinement the Anglo-Saxon sport offers no improvement over Spanish bullfighting.
Among 600 million passengers carried, only 206 died on steamboat vessels within U S jurisdiction during the last fiscal year, including 44 passengers and 162 crew. In the same year there were 383 boiler explosions on land, killing 298 and wounding 456.
A senate committee heard a manufacturer define process but ter as aleomargarine washed with sulphuric acid to remove rancidity. The term ties to process butter and formaldehyde milk, raising concerns about its use in breakfast dishes like buckwheat cakes with glucose maple syrup.
Nikola Tesla states that disturbances in his experiments suggest attempts by inhabitants of another planet to communicate with humans. He says the disturbances affect his instruments and he cannot yet identify their cause, but believes they are signals from non Earth sources.
Professor Loeb of the University of Chicago is urged to test his salt theory on kissing and heart action. The Demorest W C T U of New York opposes kissing as an intoxicant and bans it. If Loeb can prove the theory wrong, volunteers at the university may assist in the experiment while he records the results.
The United States cruiser Olympia will leave the Boston navy yard next June after a thorough overhaul. She will be a better vessel than before with a new 3,000 pound bronze figurehead, a life size Winged Victory of a woman in flowing draperies holding an American eagle aloft.
A weeks history from Washington covering senate actions on the army bill land law extensions to Hawaii and education department creation. House debate centers on reapportionment and suffrage investigations with cross‑party exchanges. A prohibition on opium to uncivilized races is noted along with appropriations for the legislative executive and judicial branch.
The mint director cites a total world money stock of 11 billion dollars. Inspector General Knox notes high efficiency of national soldiers homes. The British ambassador commends American performance at the Siege of Peking. A federal lottery law test will be held in the US Supreme Court. Gen R N Batchelder, ex quartermaster general, dies in Washington at 69. Washington treasury records show gross gold at 480,709,005 dollars on the 5th.
Financial roundup shows leading clearing houses in the United States aggregating 2 09 billion for the week ended the 4th up from 1 786 billion last week The year over year advance stands at 29 5 percent There were 268 business failures in the seven days ended the 4th compared with 213 prior week and 488 in the corresponding 1900 period.
Reports recount hangings in Rome Georgia and Charleston District of Columbia, lynchings in Florida and Arkansas, and killings by suspect mobs. Additional items note Illinois coal output, a Denver pneumonia death of Belle Fremont, earthquakes in Kansas, a Chicago insurance fraud arrest, California snow sections, Vicksburg murder case, Brazil Indiana mine fatalities, Ar mour death in Chicago, a Manistee fire, Missouri smallpox spread, and a murder suicide in Carrillos New Mexico.
Reported near the Golden Gate the steamer Saqua wrecked off Duxbury reef drowning 30 aboard. Census Bureau places U S population center about seven miles southeast of Columbus Indiana. Former North Carolina governor C H Brogden dies at 85 in Goldsboro. Harvard House fire in Minneapolis kills eight men.
The report lists 32 Russians detained for high treason while Gen Funston notes Filipino surrendering under Gen Gardico. News mentions Sir Walter Francis Hutchinson and Sir Alfred Milner appointed governors of Cape Colony and Orange River Colony and the Transvaal. Generals KitchenER calls for 5,000 Cape volunteers as Boers disperse and a Dutch uprising looms. The Manila dispatch records the Leonora wreck with crew saved.
A legislative roundup notes Senator West of Missouri introduces a hazing prevention bill for military academies. Other items include Mor ran's Alabama senatorial reelection credentials, Lodge praising a large army and navy, reapportionment debate, and bills on Chinese exclusion and veterans’ eligibility. President McKinley bouts a cold. China powers signaled defiance against the empress dowager edict. postmaster general Smith backs a 500000 dollar pneumatic tube appropriation.
Compulsory education in New Zealand is considered a success. Georgia Tech celebrated its centennial in Athens. Belgium has no navy except a training ship for merchant marine. German capital in China exceeds 70 million dollars. About 900 people daily visit the White House year round. Florida citizens deepen fruit and orange farming. Coins gain usage as cents and nickels rise. Ifeten Gould partners with a Polish tailor to operate a Colorado gold mine. Dr James Gibbons, nephew of Cardinal Gibbons, was shot and killed by highwaymen in New Orleans. Italians in the south prove adept at cotton picking. Swift and Co lands first contract to supply American meats to Russia. British ambassador praises Americans during the siege of Peking. Insurance firms with 50 million dollars in policies consolidate in Chicago. John T. Williams editor of Keystone commits suicide in New York. Armour Packing buys 25,000 tons of salt in Portugal at a price lower than domestic. Chamots return to San Francisco from China claiming to have killed 700 Boxers during the Peking siege. Britain bound by treaty with Russia on Manchuria. England and Germany may seize parts of China. Montana mine inspector reports 2231⁄2 percent world copper output and 61 percent of U S output.
Aaron T. Bliss was sworn in as Michigan governor on the state capitol steps at high noon with Chief Justice Montgomery administering the oath. A naval militia salute followed the ceremony in Lansing.
New York reports from R G Dun & Co and Bradstreet indicate continued business activity despite year end pauses. Contracts remain available at steady prices in leading industries and cotton goods show some movement. wheat declines due to Minneapolis flour output cuts. Iron and steel hold firm with no wage cuts. stocktaking and 1900 results shadow winter trade as bank clearings reach new highs while warnings about small debtor disasters persist.
Edward A. Cudahy Jr. failed to identify J. J. Crowe as a kidnapper after a Bertillon room confrontation at the city jail. Crowe was released after a private conference with Chief Donahue and dismissed by Judge Learn when no charges were filed.
Illinois Central Railroad transferred the remaining lands of the original government grant to a syndicate led by George W. Fithian of Newton the former congressman. The 60000 acres span Williamson Franklin Union Jackson Perry Johnson and Alexander counties and the lump payment ranged from 275000 to 300000.
The resignation of Bishop H. M. Turner as president of the college of African Methodist Episcopal bishops is announced due to disagreement. The issue roots from dissatisfaction with assignments, not from district church conflicts, and involves several bishops who objected to the changes.
A catastrophic blast at the Repauno Chemical powder machine house at Thompson's Point New Jersey destroyed the building and killed three workers who were inside. The plant, located on the Delaware River twelve miles below Philadelphia, suffered total annihilation of the structure.
The Interstate Commerce Commission reports to Congress that railroad managers largely evade the law while arguing they must counteract its aims. The study notes 659 complaints about unlawful rates, pooling, and discrimination, with 343 investigations concluded or pending, plus vast consolidation and safety statistics.
New York January 4 Benjamin Ide Wheeler president of the University of California says secret Philippine sources claim Aguinaldo is dead and his death occurred at least six weeks ago. The news supposedly kept secret to prolong the rebellion by Aguinaldo followers. Wheeler says he learned this from Filipino children placed in his care. Washington January 5 Admiral Remey reports a Cavite Viejo morning attack by the Fourth Infantry marines and navy capturing a lieutenant colonel two majors five captains one lieutenant 48 insurgents and four others.
Michigan lawmakers hear ex Gov Pingree’s exultant address and Gov Bliss’s inaugural message. Pingree criticizes courts, legislature, and press while noting his four year cost of about 40 000 dollars. Bliss urges economy, ad valorem property taxes, and strict cigarette sales laws.
Lincoln Nebraska January Chandler H Dietrich was inaugurated governor before the joint legislature in the hall of the house of representatives at three o'clock Thursday afternoon. The ceremony lasted a little over an hour and included Gov Poynter's retiring message and Dietrich's inaugural address.
In Rome Georgia on January 4 1923 George Reed a Black man charged with an attempted assault on Mrs J M Lockleer was hanged on a tree Thursday by a mob of about 150. Reed protested his innocence as bullets riddled his body after the hanging.
Gov Thomas Thursday sent his final message to the legislature reporting exhausted state credit and a need to raise revenues. He warned the state is faced with relief or bankruptcy due to severe financial condition.
The monthly debt statement reports the national debt excluding cash in the treasury at 1,099,191,310 dollars as of December 31, 1900, down 1,953,565 dollars for the month.
A Greensboro Georgia Presbyterian pastor Rev E G Smith testifies Peruna cured his family of catarrh of the lower bowels after two bottles and calls it a near specific for the malady. Elder M J Rossman also endorses Peruna in a letter to The Peruna Medicine Co promising relief from kidney catarrh and urging others to try the remedy.
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