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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1898
Page
6
State address reviews finances from 1897 including a floating debt and new revenue sources, notes savings from reduced expenses, advocates interest on public funds, library expansion, and program updates across universities, normal schools, hospitals, and reform proposals for prisons and taxation.
A large audience packed the Wichita auditorium for the interstate cake walk featuring top cake walkers from Kansas, Missouri, Colorado and Oklahoma. Judges included Wichita Police Chief Campbell Guthrie’s J G Twiblack and W L Robinson of Kansas City. Walter Gray of Guthrie won first prize with a 100 pound cake and gold.
A German paper notes 800 tons of steel wire used yearly in Aachen for needles, totaling 4.5 billion needles valued at 1.5 million dollars. It also reports a large reallocation of agricultural land along the Missouri River with an 80 acre farm moving from Brown to Cole County without taxpayer or legal consent.
Gov. Drake’s report on the Illinois invasion scare by Iowa National Guard clears Hoyn and the Walton soldiers. Adjutant General Wright finds no Iowa guards in Fulton on August 1 So-called uniforms and weapons belonged to town guards at Lyons. Witnesses failed to prove intrusions or weapon ownership by Lyons company.
The Board of Trustees of the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts at Ames presents its seventeenth biennial report. It notes financial prudence with an appropriation request of 4475 and reports substantial facility and educational progress. 26 classes have graduated totaling 808 alumni serving in trusted positions nationwide. The president emphasizes continued growth and the 1862 Morrill Act’s aim to provide liberal practical education for the nation’s industrial population.
County assessors report the mulct tax in Dubuque County netting over 100000 with 600 per barrell? per venue. Auditor Sechoup says tax books cover period December 4 to April 1 16098. half stays with county about 61800 and half to cities. about a dozen non incorporated saloons pay full amount. Julien Township notes 138 establishments to close this month with 120 remaining in city limits. city share near 10000.
The body of J. A. Larson, foreman at Town Printing in Des Moines, was found in a fourth floor St George hotel room. He lay face down with a bullet wound to the right temple and a used 32 caliber revolver clasped in his right hand. No note was found. Friends say he had been morose and withdrawn for days. He leaves a wife and six children.
In Stanhope IL A Matson and his cousin wed after a ceremony about 30 youths gathered to jeer. When hosts delayed responses the mob battered doors and windows and a skunk was hurled through a window. Eighteen men were identified but escaped punishment on a technicality. Later four men John A Johnson Rudie Satee Gilbert Hanson and Iver Johnson were arrested tried and fined.
Richard C Marrett becomes state school superintendent succeeding Dr Henry Sabin who leaves after eight years of service but remains active in Des Moines. Ira C King will be deputy until March 1 when A C Ross takes over. Miss Goodwin leaves as secretary to be replaced by Miss Gertrude Leachman. A Grinspan faces a $10000 slander suit from Sam Fox with a prior $406 judgment. a church dispute between Russian and Austrian Jews is mentioned.
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