30 Jan 1868
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1868
Page
1
A poetic fragment recalls a shared past and enduring affection. The speaker insists the beloved will believe the depth of love grown daily, framing the verse as a confession of growing devotion across time.
A St Louis correspondent reports on a wealthy financier living on Chouteau avenue and his daughter. The daughter, social queen of the city, announces plans to marry a faltering gambler who deals in a faro bank, shocking the high society and frightening her father. The couple’s betrothal triggers swift gossip in the fashionable circles of the city.
A Birmingham paper reports Mr Charles Bridges a solicitor who killed himself by lying on a railroad track near Stechford station. The express train from London crushed him, severing head arms and legs. the incident left no identification and shocked witnesses. A Connecticut joker was fined $15 for playing ghost.
Police plan public shaming by marching suspects with a pasteboard sign reading This is a thief. Victim Tony Craig from New York is shown as a top safe blower. Officers display iron rods and crow bars to illustrate methods while crowds follow along the Fourth Street route and the calaboose awaits.
Chicago detectives arrest William M. Betz on dwindling and minor offenses. Held at the Armory, he awaits a Massachusetts governor’s requisition for transfer to Boston. His life tale traces wealth to ruin through gambling, with prior ventures in Brooklyn and Boston.
Two women posing as sisters of a late U S army officer arrived at the San Ysabel in Havana with a forged letter from a supposed colonel of Congress. They secured luxury rooms a carriage and wine while swindling merchants of cash and jewels. The pair fled after the hotel keeper uncovered the ruse, one claiming to be widow of a distinguished general.
In Union Township Mahaska County two young brothers ages nine and eleven found a pound of powder and rigged a fuse and rope behind a barn. The older boy was killed instantly with his face torn away and the younger was badly burned and mortally wounded. The father mourns beside the remains.
Paris report details a lavish wedding in the Basilica of the Holy Trinity featuring a bride described as the fairer daughter of a fair mother and a groom an officer in the fine and nephew of a distinguished Mexican marshal. Majors-dome parish officials preside as waxlit chandeliers and music create a somber, ghostly glow, while guests sign the officiating book, a ritual noted as central to such Parisian nuptials.
A duel between New York City men Mr. Pemberton and Mr. Deblieux occurred near Patterson New Jersey after insults at Irving Hall. One shot wounded Deblieux’s opponent in the head area while Deblieux remained unhurt. The parties traveled by carriage to Goodwinsville for the confrontation and returned quietly to Paterson, seemingly satisfied.
From Upper Sandusky Ohio a widow with four children faced a grim accusation. Neighbors reported a string of sudden deaths among her offspring. Chemical analysis later found uranic and arsenic in the stomachs of three daughters and a son, with a poison cake allegedly given to the eldest daughter before her planned marriage. Old Flora Temple is in foal.
An Austrian Baron and a Prussian Count quarrelled aboard a northbound train to Lille. After insults and a bartered duel setup with seconds, shots were fired at twenty five paces. the Austrian was killed and the Prussian remained unscathed, the others watching in shock.
The Pall Mall Gazette reports December dispatch that the King of Holland refuses to remove ministers after the Second Chamber rejected the foreign affairs budget. He may dissolve the Chamber, while disputes with Luxembourg over a seven million franc debt arbitration persist.
The piece recalls American visitors in Paris who hear officials deliver long French or mixed language speeches. Crowds respond with questions in broken French, while officials repeat phrases, often ending sentences with a self-satisfied recitation of a single term like silver gilt.
Lieutenant Prideaux, among English prisoners at Magdala, reports good health yet no clear deliverer. Native chiefs fight each other while the king’s camp suffers famine, salt currency devalued to survive, and Carlyle appointed a justice of the peace.
A collage of brief items reports a cab strike losses of forty thousand dollars, a large muskelonge caught in the St Clair river, tax assessments due, and various oddities from Paris, Detroit, and New York. It notes political figures, literary items, prices, a cathedral tower pause, and French sharpshooter drills.
An 19th century notice promotes a lung balsam claiming cures for coughs bronchitis asthma croup and chest oppression. It touts physician approval and promises permanent relief with lozenges wafers and the balsam itself sold widely through Cincinnati Ohio druggists.
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