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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1903
Page
6
The Washington Star urges a shift for energy policies citing Marconi wireless tech and a plan for nonpolluting heat. The weather bureau costs the U S about 1 250 000 dollars yearly despite free information from residents. Over 30 years Germany up 40 percent France 2 percent UK 30 percent U S 100 percent.
Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones of Chicago lectures on Browning to 350 women while only 13 attend his talk titled Housewives. The audience appears to differ in interest, suggesting many feel they know as much about housewives as the speaker.
Prof Koch, noted bacteriologist, declares typhoid fever can be stamped out through proper treatment and strict isolation of each case, likening it to cholera control. He argues that such measures could wholly exterminate the disease.
The Moroccan sultan made a bold move by naming his brother governor of Fez to curb the rebel pretender. The action removes the revolt’s main excuse and tightens his grip, with promises of a decisive punitive show.
Three million men women and children contributed to a magnifi cent bank offering fund totaling 20 000 000 dollars. The funds support Christian causes including college endowment city evangelization aid feeble churches and missionary expansion.
Prof Mason of the Smithsonian Institute says the top goal for 1903 is a practical method to economize electricity. He foresees rivers supplying all needed power in the not distant future, harnessed streams heating homes, powering wheels, and lighting lamps.
A durbar report from Delhi notes flags and emblems of the state of Ouch carried on camels. It infers that Ouch is the state taxpayers face after a blow-out like this.
Treasury officials fear the end of the Behring Sea seal hunt as American and Canadian sealers lose work under a British American ban. Some fish under the Japanese flag and make large catches. Without full cessation within the 60 mile zone, the Pribilof herd may be wiped out.
The completion of the new Pacific cable from San Francisco to Hawaii marks a long step in the on ward march of American interests. Hawaii is a U S territory with direct communication to Washington and serves as a way station toward the Philippines and the cable’s Asiatic reach.
The Chicago Chronicle notes a dangerous trend as gasoline blasts injure and kill across the winter landscape. It argues the coroner and undertaker treat gasoline as accidental, while the explosive device cited is clearly a murderous weapon.
The death of Senor Sagasta, ex prime minister of Spain, marks the passing of a man whose name rose during the war with Spain. He directed the war, led the ministry that negotiated peace, and shifted from republican roots to steady dynastic support. Peace to his ashes.
Topsy, a famed Coney Island elephant, died after surviving cyanide, shocks, and strangling by a cable and donkey engine. The 35 year old giant stood about ten feet tall and weighed 5144 tons, hailed as a terror to tamers and a spectacle in life.
The piece notes toys evolved from sacred and practical artifacts anciently valued as tools and worship images. It traces how playthings once held religious significance and powerful status, later fading from memory as modern use emerged.
A Washington report notes the Hoar resolution urging the president to identify the governing status of Guam. Tillman presses trusts criticism. action on the statehood bill, army appropriation, and commerce department measures fills sessions. The House votes 137 to 40 on a commerce and labor department substitute.
Three persons drowned after ice in a Washington park basin broke. The president signed the anthracite coal repeal bill, effective immediately, while Baron von Sternberg, new German charge d affaires in Washington, predicted friendlier U S relations. Customs collectors were instructed to implement the coal free list act at once.
Public schools in Philadelphia close as coal supplies run out. The coal crisis disrupts industry with lines delaying shipments and plants forced to halt operations.
A Mississippi woman and infant drown in a well after marital dispute, a Chicago murder suicide follows a rejected proposal, and a Kansas City board adjourns as independent packers threaten the West Coast. Additional notes include stock association actions, iron mill consolidations, a 106 year old Texan death, Baltimore Maryland locomotive explosion deaths, a Greenville Michigan factory boiler blast, a Toronto bank failure, Adrian Anson seeking city treasurer, Chicago court sentences for district Lake Michigan watchman killing, a fatal Great Western rail wreck near Sycamore Illinois, and Chicago grand jury indictments against 39 coal firms under anti trust laws.
A grain warehouse and elevator owned by Ireton Bros. in Van Wert C burned causing an estimated loss of 68000 dollars. The incident follows other distant news items including British debt rise and various international reports.
In Washington the Senate referred the commerce and labor department bill to the commerce committee while executive session discussed the Cuban reciprocity treaty. Senator Lodge introduced a probe into discriminatory policies by certain countries. General Miles heads home via Berlin Paris and London after arriving in St Petersburg. The United Mine Workers opened its 14th convention in Indianapolis with President Mitchell lauded. Narcisso G. Gonzales died from wounds inflicted by Lieut. Gov. Tillman.
Railways of the United States plan to spend about 300 million dollars on betterments and extensions this year. Other items note Marconi’s wireless telegram system nearing commercial readiness, a divorces roster in India, a proposed national union of teamsters, and rail changes easing travel to London.
Narcisso Gonzales editor of the Columbia State dies after four days of suffering from a gunshot wound inflicted by Lieut. Gov. James H. Tillman. Autopsy cites sepsis from bowel injury. Columbia radiates sorrow with flags at half mast and widespread telegrams of sympathy. A separate Ithaca incident reports a dormitory rooming house gutted by fire.
Chicago January 20 the special grand jury investigating the coal famine indicted 27 corporations and 17 individuals a total of 4 Counts based on conspiracy to restrain trade and blacklisting. The defense will argue anti trust act unconstitutionality if found guilty. A test trial is arranged and the jury reports similar combinations exist in other industries amid coal shortages and high prices following the anthracite strike and rising industrial demand. Indicted entities include numerous Chicago and Illinois coal firms and retailers with several operators listed.
Albany reports a New York Central freight locomotive exploded near Castleton on Monday night. Engineer Patrick Kenney and fireman J Sprought died in the blast. In Rich Hill Missouri Col Samuel Sims, veteran of Mexican War and Confederate captain, has died at 87. In New Orleans Col W F E Mickle of Mobile elected adjutant general and chief of staff of United Confederate Veterans to succeed George Moorman.
Denver January 20 republican members were reportedly imprisoned behind locked doors in the Colorado senate chamber while 50 armed deputy sheriffs, all democrats, guarded the corridors. The republican lieutenant governor appealed to the governor for state troops to clear the corridors and relieve the prisoners.
The birthday of Gen. Robert E Lee was widely observed across the south with special exercises. Notable services took place in Austin Texas with John H Reagan participating. Arkansas Little Rock adjourned the legislature while memorial meetings occurred in Charleston Richmond and other cities.
In San Francisco on Sunday night five Chinese were shot in a Tong war with two fatally hit. The violence occurred in a gambling den and a subsequent two attacks followed in retaliation. Four men are jailed with strong evidence against two. In Montgomery Alabama William Dorsey Jelks was inaugurated as governor after serving since 1900.
In a quarrel at the Bank saloon in Portsmouth on Monday James Polly shot and fatally wounded his brothers Charles and Earl Polly. Polly escaped. A separate blaze in New York City at 394 and 396 Bowery burned overnight. a fireman James Corbett died and losses are estimated at 150000 to 200000 dollars.
Life sentence given to George Hardwick in Escanaba Michigan for the December 2 murder of Anton Peterson. Judge Stone imposed the term at Marquette branch prison.
The article notes British torpedo boat destroyers with lighting powered by electricity and cites a $1.6 billion national electrical network employing 300000 and handling 60000 cars over 20000 miles. It also mentions Dr Pupin’s work easing long distance telegraph resistance and a dramatic Tyrolean lake lightning column spectacle lasting three minutes.
In 1866 Berlin horse cars were common now electricity dominates transit. Switzerland plans an electric line from Coire to Arosa. Etherogram may be M Marconi's preferred term for wireless dispatches, disfavoring Marconi grams. Smithsonian Prof Mason sees 1903’s key goal as economical electricity use and foresees rivers supplying power to heat, run machines, and light homes.
A 1899 case from Fostoria Ohio by Joseph Calmes, a mill foreman, endorses Dean's Kidney Pills as a cure for kidney pain and backache. He states lasting relief since 1896 after treatment, offers a free trial by mail, and notes the product costs 50 cents a box, sold by all druggists.
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