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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1896
Page
2
A framed note on gender progress and labor hints that Brown University yields to women as an annex for women is organized. The speaker urges practical precautions and ironies that touch families, travel, and modest wisdom about pain. The passage reflects a push for inclusion and persistence.
A Rheims find of Joan of Arc’s armor yields a height of five feet four inches. The storied French heroine remains celebrated though not described as notably tall.
The article notes that Egyptians believed the soul endured with the body and embalmed to preserve it as long as possible. It estimates about 400 million mummies exist in Egypt.
Over a century the state has kept fractions of a penny from periodical dividends, accumulating about 750000 dollars in that time. The note cites long term practice as a source of government revenue tied to national debt management.
A pair of Kansas men propose an apparatus that jets a strong stream of boiling water in all directions when activated. They believe the contraption would force train robbers to abandon their criminal trade.
The 59th year of Queen Victoria’s reign saw a grand public demonstration canceled due to the monarch’s health and her own wish. Officials consider celebrating the 60th anniversary instead.
Japanese women are as industrious and as skillful as the men and are doing their share in developing the foreign trade of their country. They work in large factories rising in every Japanese city and some earn what are considered large wages for their work as designers and artists.
Reports from Alaska claim two prospectors found a solid ledge of gold quartz 600 feet wide and 3000 feet long beside the Treadwell ledge. They say the ore could sustain 6500 stamps for a century, arriving as crops fail due to a grasshopper plague.
Archbishop Falconio speaks English fluently and has fifteen years in the continent. He once led Beneventure college at Allegheny Pennsylvania, served as vicar general in Newfoundland, then moved to Rome and held senior offices in the Franciscan order.
Oscar Plath of Chicago is credited with a labor saving fishing rod that uses a spring mechanism to jerk fish from water. The inventor only needs to bait the hook while the device reels in the catch. Described as highly advantageous among recent fishing innovations.
New York suburbs report a shift in leisure as women abandon intensive gardening for cycling. Seedsmen note summer sales weaken compared with last year while bicycles ride the wave of popularity across households.
The St Louis board of assessors estimates show property damage at 10,239,000. The figure reflects cautious appraisal amid high casualties marking the disaster as one of the era’s greatest calamities.
In the first half of this year 88 miles of new railroad were built across 29 states and territories on 53 lines, up about 20 percent from 1895. There were 217 business failures in the week ending the 26th, down from 276 the prior week and 256 in 1895. Clearing house exchanges totaled $809,553,882 for the week ending the 20th, down from $1,038,570,508 the prior week and 11 percent lower than 1895. For 1895 mineral products were valued at $611,795,200, up from $527,368,504 in 1894, an increase of $84,000,000.
The New York State Democratic convention in Albany elected David B. Hill Roswell P. Flower Edward Murphy Jr. and Frederick R. Coudert as delegates at large to the national convention on a gold standard platform. Mrs. Adelaide C Mitchell died at 42 writing as Violet Etynge.
A bulleted survey notes Lyman Trum dies in Chicago at age two, and outlines public service across state and national arenas. It lists multiple political conventions, silver coinage debates, and deaths including 103-year-old James Manley, plus numerous weather disasters from tornadoes to cloudbursts and a shipwreck in Minnesota.
Thomas Sharkey and James Corbett agreed to a $10,000 side finish fight within six months. Republicans in Kentucky's Tenth district nominated John W. Langley for congress. The report lists multiple executions, accidents, drownings, a cyclone, crop upturns, and other local incidents across several states, plus a horse stallion speed record set in Red Oak Iowa.
Liberal forces defeat the government in Canada as Wilfrid Laurier is chosen premier by a strong French-Canadian vote. The report notes a decisive turn in political leadership and regional backing.
William McKinley receives formal nomination notice in Canton Ohio from a national convention committee. he accepts with approval of the convention platform amid other political and local incidents across the nation.
A Cooper Union gathering chaired by George S Keeney backs Democratic free coinage of silver. Speakers including Senator Tillman and Alexander Delmar urge Chicago convention action, with pledges to reopen U S mints for gold and silver and issue coin certificates to back deposits.
Canton Ohio June 29. McKinley’s acceptance letter is nearly finished and will likely be brief. It will emphasize reciprocity and tariff planks while touching the money issue only as needed to support a safer national revenue system. He plans to stay in Canton through the campaign, declining many invitations.
William C Whitney declares sound money Democrats will not back a free coinage platform and predicts a Chicago convention dominated by silver advocates. He calls compromise impossible, urges national unity, and warns that free coinage could ruin the Democratic Party with the party’s honor and national credit at stake.
Chicago publishers estimate the city population at 1 752 100 based on a new directory listing 517 122 names, comparing with 1895 figures and previous census reports. They describe the estimate as conservative and not exceeding current population.
Havana June 27 W I W Gay a correspondent for a New York paper was notified he had been expelled from the island and must leave Cuba by the first steamer.
One hundred miners were buried by a rock fall at the Twin Shaft nine in Pittston Pennsylvania on Sunday. Authorities fear many died instantly with some possibly trapped in a tight airless drift as search crews race to cut through debris. The disaster echoes Avondale 1869 losses leaving dozens of widows and hundreds of orphans.
At Columbus June 26 the Ohio state Democratic convention adopted a free silver platform after a contested vote. Gen. A J Warner was elected permanent chairman and urged returning to gold and silver coinage with a sixteen to one ratio. Delegates to Chicago were chosen incl Allen W Thurman and J S Fedheimer. The body adjourned after seven hours of session.
Chicago reports the death of Lyman Trumbull at his home on Lake Avenue after a long illness. A former United States senator for 18 years, he also served in Illinois legislature and as secretary of state. A friend of Lincoln, he stood as a key figure of the Civil War era.
In Poughkeepsie on June 27 eight from Teac defeated Harvard Pennsylvania and Columbia in a photo finish. Cornell won by four lengths in 19 29, beating Yale's 20 10 record. Columbia placed fourth with three others, in perfect air and water under a four mile course beside the Hudson.
Four persons perish when a sailboat capsizes on Clear Water lake near Annandale Minnesota. The victims are John A Putnam a Minneapolis bookkeeper his sister Anna T Putnam a kindergartener Miss Yessie Newhall of Minneapolis and Mgr Sherman of St Paul. The group had set out for a sail when a gale hit two years from shore.
Prizes totaling over 50000 dollars will be distributed though many values are cut. Lieut Gen George Digby Barker aged 64 becomes Bermuda governor after Persian campaign Lucknow relief and China command. Auction fetches 175 dollars for king's colors Seaforth Highlanders Napoleon wars and 500 for a Busaco battle field officer's gold medal. An army surgeon proposes a chloroform burial aid to dull fear of burial alive.
A historical roundup lists key American firsts including export tobacco in 1616, umbrellas 1773, public schools 1645 in Massachusetts, steam engine 1773 in Philadelphia, anti slavery society 1775 in Philadelphia, public library 1700 in New York, gold pens 1840 in New York, submarine cable 1857 to Europe, Yale telescope 1830, Lombardy poplar planted 1785, and the first American theater 1750 in New York City.
The item lists several long lived individuals from Iowa Ohio Texas New York and Illinois. Ages range from 100 to 119 with notes on origins such as a Spanish Carib captured in slavery and great age milestones including a 102 year old in Waterloo and a 119 year old near Independence Texas.
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