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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1898
Page
2
Des Moines coverage outlines a board of control debate and a push for biennial elections. It highlights committee studies, advisory boards, and proposed constitutional changes, with attention to woman suffrage, Temple amendment, and related legislative plans.
P. L. Solan of Rock Valley has word the U S Supreme Court affirmed lower court rulings granting $1000 in damages from the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway for injuries from a wreck near Rock Valley about five years ago.
Legislative committee warns of nonuniform purchasing, intermingled funds, and weak auditing across state institutions. It urges a three member board with administrative powers, uniform accounts, two year appropriations, scaled per capita allowances, and executive control of providential funds to ensure economical, lawful administration.
An ongoing Page county experiment tests how far and at what cost sanitary regulations can prevent or control hog cholera. The last session empowered authorities to destroy animals and enforce quarantines though funds are limited. Early results suggest hog cholera antitoxine may have a beneficial effect.
James Weatherby a farmer near West Union has ten children. He has five fingers and a thumb on his right hand and six toes on each foot. Five of his children share the same trait while the rest have normal digits. Mrs Weatherby has standard counts. The condition is considered a harmless freak of nature with no clear disadvantage.
The state versus Lena Ricks was tried in Eldora and the jury returned a not guilty verdict after about 40 minutes. Ricks, wife of barber T. J. Ricks of Stanhope, shot at a prowler during a night incident at Alden, wounding J. A. Parks a nearby farmer.
Miss Katherine Davis of Crawfordsville Indiana wed Prof Pearl Suger of Panora a former man hater who fell in love at Des Moines. Opposed by her wealthy mother Mrs Amanda Davis she secured engagement through her guardian A F Ramsey and marriage followed. Miss Davis owns a fortune in her own name.
Elijah Davis aged 65 and Miss Tan nie Spaulding aged 67 wed in Webster City after a long romance. In 1851 Davis saved her life from a Ohio river drowning incident when he was 18 and she 20. He later hunted west and discovered she and her brother were tenants on his Iowa farm, leading them to marry after four decades apart.
At the ninth annual Des Moines gathering the Iowa National Guard Association elected Maj. J. T. Davidson president. Maj. C. D. Ham and Capt. J. E. Banyard as vice presidents. Maj. John T. Hume as corresponding secretary and treasurer. Capt. J. C. Worthington as recording secretary. Resolutions urged repeal of the 1792 militia law and passage of a modern act, and honoring Capt. William H. Goodrell and Capt. Robert H. Drench who died last year.
At Des Moines the society debated holding a state fair this year with some urging no fair due to an Omaha international fair. The majority favored continuing the fair, leaving final decision to the board of directors. A Sunday closure resolution passed and officers were elected: John Downie president, W. F. Harriman vice president, P. L. Fowler secretary, Gid Ellyson treasurer.
Des Moines reports the Twenty-Seventh General Assembly convenes with bills on taxation of telegraph and railcar owners, a state institutions board of control, and constitutional biannual elections. House debates include male suffrage, Hawaiian annexation, and local tax and election reforms.
A large crowd of state university students at a Cherry Sisters show in Iowa City grew furious, shouting threats. The sisters fled via a rear door, escorted to their hotel by police. The theater disturbance led to arrests and a fire department response, with two water streams used on nearby hotels before dispersal at midnight and several injuries reported.
Topeka Kansas January 2 attorney for Mrs Sadie W Hillmon arrived and the Hillmon case was compromised New York Life Insurance settled the claim for 24000 It is understood that with the judgment of ouster against the Mutual Life of New York in the supreme court the New York Life thought further fight useless and they have decided to settle the claim and receive a Kansas license for March 1.
Michael Ringrose a Des Moines area farmer recently inherited 20000 from a New York brother after moving to Louisiana. The news unsettled him and he attacked women with brickbats, prompting officers to restrain him and withdraw to a retreat in New Orleans.
Indian Agent Robok arrested Buck Green an Oklahoma Indian while he eloped with a woman described as a squaw from the Tuma reservation. The woman, wife of Black Cloud a Sac and Fox Musquaki, was sent to the penitentiary for swindling the government. The agent returned Green to the reservation and permitted the woman to proceed to Oklahoma.
Richard Rowe, brother of Chester Rowe, the Poweshiek county treasurer in default, must complete a three year penitentiary term to which he was sentenced over a year ago. The supreme court ruled there is no distinction between principal and accessory.
A stock company with $20,000 capital organized at Independence will purchase the county canning factory once run by local farmers but never operated. Tomatoes and corn will be the main products.
A two days gathering of the Iowa Engineering Society concluded in Cedar Rapids and announced next meeting plans for Iowa City. Officers for the coming year were elected: President C. P. Chase of Clinton, Vice President B. Schreiner of Des Moines, Secretary E. P. Boynton of Cedar Rapids.
Mrs Elizabeth Dummler and George F Stodghill of Ottumwa marry and depart for San Francisco to begin a wedding tour aimed at penetrating the Klondike gold country. They plan to reach the heart of the gold region on their trip.
Sarawak has joined the postal union but issued no new stamps yet. The 1889 stamps were reissued with two values, 50 cents and one dollar. A philatelic writer notes stamp values depend on sale price, not catalogue estimates. An English collector debates the Mulready envelope’s total living beings, estimating about forty humans and offering no animal count.
A merchant asked two boys which they’d rather be, a swallow or a duck. One chose swallow for flight and speed, the other duck for ease and luck. The first boy, Rufus Clark Landon, grew up to become head clerk in the merchant’s store in New York.
Pearson's Weekly describes a London parrot school with staged standards from Room L to Standard TV and beyond. Monitors are trained birds advancing from monosyllables to reading and spelling, with music focus in Standards VI, certificates awarded after months of study.
An 19th century voice relays a Georgia tale of speckled squirrels living near frozen creeks. The animals dickering bark sails on ice while whippers steer, engaging in bark races and nut hoards amid chilly wildlife lore from the New York World.
Naturalists note elephants reach the greatest ages, often 25 to 50 years to maturity, with some reports over 150 years though unreliable. Lions may live about 10 years, with a Tower of London claim of 70 years unlikely in the wild. Horses average shorter lifespans but can exceed 40 with good care, while cows live 18 to 20 years though later years are less valuable.
A Chicago Journal note recounts three year old Ithel who asked for rhymes. When a mother ends a verse about bachelor life and bread and cheese on a shelf the child interrupts with a quip that he’d be better off buying a cat than seeking a wife in London.
A fragment shows Ethel scolding Willie as he acts out a game plan to outwit his parents. The dialogue hints at tensions over a late father and a scheme within a家庭 setting.
A Youngstown miller finds eel- clogged wheels at the Baldwin mill on the Mahoning river, forcing engine use to regain power. Previously, eels in the Mahoning were noted years ago, prompting debate on how freshwater eels reach water wheels and the river’s odd phenomenon.
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