31 Jan 1895
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1895
Page
1
The page mixes scattered items from North Carolina and South Carolina politics, social quips, and international updates. It mentions a North Carolina post office named Matrimony, youthful Southern officials, dietary shifts toward fruit, fashion for pew women, and Russia's mercy toward 20,000 prisoners under Tumczar with potential broader clemency.
A playful note describes how no one would dare whisper near Queen Victoria as her reputedly sharp ears detect even a wink from the next room implying the caution and etiquette of royal court life.
A New York paper claims Miss Virginia Fair, daughter of a deceased millionaire, has a tip tilting nose. The item is treated as important, with a major newspaper devoting space to the remark. In Greece, deputies vote to detain and destroy this year’s currant crop to protect the currant trade from ruin.
A newspaper correspondent in China reports fifty carts loaded with bows and arrows bound for the front. He notes a large portion of Chinese troops are thus armed. The Japanese victory trend is hardly surprising.
Kine Humpsrr of Italy reportedly spends more on charity than any other European monarch. He gave the poor $80,000 at Christmas and skipped his second ball at the Quirinal to save expenses. For a year and a half he has not touched the crown income.
The piece mocks a doctor’s quick daily run for longevity and jokes about social repercussions. It notes a Boston Herald take on hypnotism as a murder excuse and cites four Canadian poets Bliss Carman Charles G D Roberts Duncan Campbell Scott Archibald Lampman with mutual laureate proposals and playful rivalries.
Women posing as professors of palmistry in England were convicted under an old rogue and vagabond statute. The case involved a young woman who offered character readings as a side show to a picture exhibition, suggesting an underlying motive beyond the act.
Quinine cost plummeted from five dollars an ounce to twenty five cents with sales surging to as high as five hundred thousand ounces in some areas. A family buys quinine pills for home use in large quantities, while Mrs. Henry Marger, recently discharged from the Tombs, remains silent amid legal probes into a poisoning case involving her husband. Also highlighted are noted designers of city projections and shipyard architect Adolph A. Sheldon, Swede educated at Stockholm’s naval academy, who worked on the North West and Northland for James J. Hill’s lake line and first built the Virginia in Cleveland yards.
The text notes Washington's inauguration era when Philadelphia New York Boston and Baltimore were small by modern standards. By 1840 New York exceeded Philadelphia 312000 to 258000, with Baltimore and New Orleans over 100000 and most other cities under 50000. Overall most citizens lived in small towns.
From January 22 to 26 the Senate and House debated Hawaii policy amid sharp exchanges. Congress considered bills on Hawaiian contact, naval cadet appointments, and currency reform while the sundry civil appropriation bill advanced in both chambers.
Brig Gen Stephen V Benet U S A ret died suddenly at his Washington residence in his 68th year. The week ended the 25th saw United States clearing houses aggregate 017003847, up 10.3 from 1894’s week. Gold shipments for the week topped 14000000, treasury reserves stood at 57609000. US business failures numbered 363, down from 373 the prior week and 430 a year earlier. The urgent deficiency bill with the income tax appropriation was signed by the president.
In the Brooklyn trolley strike a Rev Father O'Hara accepted $10 to leave his car. A sleighing party collided with a train in Middleburg Pennsylvania killing four and injuring several. The list notes multiple fatalities and incidents across various towns.
In Detroit a $500000 cornerstone for a new Masonic temple was laid. Buckeye Glass Works at Wheeling W Virginia reopened with nonunion labor after a two year strike. St Louis building trades council adopts a new constitution abolishing walking delegates and declaring strikes failures while arbitration is sole method to settle disputes. Chivora steamer with crew of twenty five lost on Lake Michigan. Minnesota Gov Knute Nelson elected U S senator. Duluth officer Kid Wright arrested as noted counterfeiter. Two masked men rob Cotton Belt express car near McNeil Arkansas of 25000. In Chicago federal court Debs and other ARU members appear on conspiracy charges after release from jail.
A long list covers property loss at Georgia Mining and Manufacturing in Atlanta, deadly boiler blast at Mendota Illinois, a drowning flatboat wreck near Bouger's Landing, and other calamities. The report includes epidemics from impure water, cyclones in Alabama, hangings in Rocky Mount Virginia, thefts, train robbery bills, and weather disruptions across several states.
Guatemala faces coercion from Mexico after a demand sequence reported by President Diaz. Passports granted to the Mexican consul mark a severing of friendly ties between the two nations in a tense regional dispute.
The vice president announced Richard Pettigrew of South Dakota to a new Senate term. Bills on bankruptcy, sugar tariffs, and Kalamazoo harbor survey moved forward. A railroad trial hearing began in Chicago as Sidney Kuelteaa died at 75 in Pennsylvania. An electrocution occurred in Sing Sing, and disasters included capsize wrecks in Texas and Missouri deaths.
Washington Jan 29 Guatemala and Mexico drift toward war as mediation fails and arbitration is rejected. The dispute centers on the Usumacinta boundary defined by an 1882 treaty and a proposed shift to the Chixoy river, with Guatemala occupying disputed territory and Mexico demanding withdrawal and damages.
A Clareland woman credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with restoring health after a decade of severe stomach illness and near death. She recalls doctors' failed diagnoses of ulceration, and notes a friend's recommendation led to recovery and regained strength. The ad promotes pills for sale by Williams Medicine Co. with prices.
President Cleveland's Hawaii policy was sustained in the Senate by a 24 to 22 vote. Senator West offered the amendment reaffirming noninterference unless agreed with other nations, and praising the administration's foreign policy. Pettigrew joined the Democrats to break the tie in favor.
New London Connecticut January ninth reports the ocean tug Sea King with five coal barges from New York to Providence lost all tow and thirteen people died including three women and two children. Gloucester Massachusetts January twenty ninth reports the fishing schooner Leader went ashore and was broken by the sea. fifteen men rescued three bodies. Wymork Nebraska January twenty fourth P W Baker a local merchant killed himself amid mob threats after his wife’s breakdown and alleged cruelty.
A Memphis commercial traveler recalls his wife’s battle with cancer and a claimed cure by S. S. S. The couple credits the remedy with healing two chest holes and a ten year remission. Also a brief humorous exchange questions orange boxes on trees in Florida.
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