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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1901
Page
3
A battalion of 400 United States engineers and bridgebuilders will soon move to the Philippines to throw dirt and construct interior trolley lines.
An observer notes rainfall stores enormous energy, estimating 100 000 000 000 horsepower. He argues that as coal runs short, neglected power sources will be better understood and utilized.
A sweeping plan seeks to use Niagara Falls to provide light and power for cities and towns within a 100 mile radius, harnessing natural forces to meet human needs.
Walter Crane president of the Arts and Crafts Society of Great Britain says American steel construction is gaining favor in England and that the modern American skyscraper will become a common sight in London. America sets the fashion for them.
Clarence L. Thurston son of Nebraska senator is appointed secretary of the United States legation in the Argentine Republic. At barely 21 years old he becomes the youngest American diplomat and the youngest man ever to hold such a post.
Frank Eddy of Minnesota, who boasts of being the homeliest man in Congress, has cigars named after him and a patent medicine man seeks his picture for ads. Eddy remains unsure about eligibility for a place and a New York hall of fame.
An excerpt notes that 15 more votes will be needed to elect the next president than were required for McKinley last fall. The last college had 447 members. apportionment raises it to 476. North Atlantic states gain nine votes, sixteen ex clave states gain ten, and the middle west far west gain ten.
The English census returns warn that agriculture is languishing and the sturdy yeomen are disappearing. Armies will be recruited largely from the slums, alarming patriotic Englishmen. Country boys make good soldiers while slum youth are generally poor soldiers.
The United States has 268000 Indians with 45250 drawing regular rations and 12600 receiving intermittent aid due to age or lack of work. Many in the latter group are aged and abandoned by family. Last year’s cost of purchasing and distributing rations totaled 1231000 dollars and will rise in 1901.
The passage contrasts rural and urban paths for a farmer’s boy. In towns nine out of ten cases yield irregular work, a dingy room, poor food, and temptation to spend. In the country, hard work, long hours, fresh air, sun, and better social standing await, reflecting character-based outcomes.
Experiments aim to double corn yield without extra cost by cross breeding. Farmers are advised to select the best standing stalks rather than wait for harvest. The department claims 10 000 hybrids including 200 new varieties. Go west and buy a farm.
The government’s scientific instrument shop in Washington is constructing a machine to replace the work of oceanography experts. It will improve on an instrument used by the Coast Survey to compute tides and can perform 19 calculations with a simple crank turn. It handles the complex tidal variation computations.
Politicians across France join European peers in criticizing American competition and urging a boycott of American products as buyers sign large end grain contracts amid growing trade tensions.
A week of national events highlights Mrs McKinley's first carriage ride since illness during the western journey. Government receipts are projected to surpass expenditures by 77 million dollars for the year ending June 30. Foreign trade remains strongly in U S favor with a 675 million dollar surplus, up 145 million. In Washington equity court grants 28 000 to Dewey’s sailors and 500 000 to Sampson’s fleet as war prize money.
A roundup of incidents and events includes a fatal coal mine fire near Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania that killed four workers. J Pierpont Morgan gifts exceed one million dollars to Harvard. A clash in Rochester New York injures 11 police and 20 workers during street laborer protests. Lehigh Valley stock sale shifts control to Erie and rivals. Mount Vernon high school graduates are hazed by students left tied to trees for hours. Wesleyan awards LL D degrees to Charles Emory Smith and David J Brewer. A storm near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania claims three lives by lightning. Joseph Ladue founder of Dawson City dies at his Schuyler Falls New York home. Yale wins varsity and freshman boat races at New London while Harvard takes the four oared. Seventh National Bank in New York closes by order of the Comptroller due to heavy doubtful loans. A Buffalo scaffold collapse kills four. Pennsylvania Democrats set a Harrisburg convention for August 25 to nominate state treasurer and supreme court judge candidates.
Fires destroy 33 homes and two tobacco warehouses in Mayfield Kentucky with $200000 loss. A cupola explosion in Chicago kills two, injures five. In Vinita Oklahoma George Williams confesses a Pryor Creek murder. Wabash wreck in Cass Station Indiana kills 14, injures 30. Lightning damages oil tanks in Decatur Indiana destroying 50000 barrels. West Virginia flood death toll to exceed 100. A boat capsizes near Mercer Wisconsin. two drownings. Two teens die together near Quincy Illinois over marriage dispute. Drownings at Ottumwa Iowa and near Perrysburg Ohio. Manila transport brings 2000 soldiers to San Francisco. Fire destroys 10000 acres grain near Los Banos California. Lightning kills William Huss and sons in Lincoln County North Carolina. Senator Hanna donates 50000 to Kenyon College Ohio. Jessie Morrison convicted of second degree manslaughter in Eldorado Kansas. Philippine arrival of Forty-third Regiment at San Francisco. Blackmail attempt ends with arson and murder of W C Carson’s wife. Ames Iowa drowning of Jesse Vansecoy and brother. Train robbery near Manoka Minnesota nets 4500. Ohio penitentiary electrocution of Edward Ruthven for police murder in Cleveland May 6 1900. Railroad construction set to exceed 1890 peak. Drownings include Walter Evans and Lee Setter in Waterloo Nebraska. Detroit divorce bid over domestic chores. Nebraska Republicans set August 28 state convention. Monroe Center lightning kills Marvis Carlson during ball game.
A fire swept through Chester Point Arkansas destroying 20 houses and leaving extensive damage. Railways estimate the grain crop in the northwest will be the largest ever harvested.
In London the international congress of vegetarians urged a vegetable diet as a positive cure for drunkenness. The Lusitania wreck near Newfoundland left 500 aboard and all saved. Bigamy trial planned for Karl Russell by the London grand jury and Lords.
Financial figures for the U S mint show year to date coinage totals. Multiple tragedies from lightning strikes in Indiana Wisconsin and Connecticut reported with fatalities. Tornado damage in Wisconsin and a fatal shooting over a fence in Dayton. National prosperity noted amid shipping and finance changes.
In Columbus Ohio June 1926 the Republican state convention named George K Nash for governor by acclamation after Hanna accepted the chair The platform reaffirmed gold standard and protective tariff support navy buildup and a canal across the Isthmus It backed President Harding policies in colonial and Chinese affairs commended Gov Nash administration and endorsed tax reform and foraker and hannas records Resolutions extended sympathy to Secretary Hay and adopted the eagle as party emblem The session adjourned at 1 10 p m
Orient Steam Navigation Lloyds steamer Lusitania from Liverpool to Montreal with 500 aboard strikes rocks off Cape Bollard. Passengers flee in night clothes as boats smash in surf. Men trample women, crew aids evacuations. coast residents rescue drenched survivors.
Forest park in St Louis is the selected site for the 1903 world’s fair to mark the Louisiana Purchase centennial. The 1118 acre parcel includes 668 acres in western Forest Park plus 450 adjoining acres, with most land level or gently rolling and elevations around 68 feet to 186 feet above the city.
Wash Snow, the La Crosse division's oldest engineer, was killed when his engine rode into an open draw bridge on Tuesday morning. The train's three coaches stopped before entering the canal. Snow's fireman was injured but not fatally.
London reports at the Old Bailey the grand jury returned a true bill against Earl Russell for bigamy. The recorder announced the trial would be held in the House of Lords.
A June storm wave across Indiana to Wisconsin and Minnesota left multiple fatalities and injuries. In Brazil Indiana four harvest workers were killed by lightning near Lodi. Minneapolis saw a cyclone-like storm with a deadly live wire incident. St Paul and Ann Arbor reported major wind and hail damage. La Crosse endured a tornado. Pittsburgh recorded a long, fierce storm causing one death and widespread damage.
Yale wins the four mile varsity race by under a length from Harvard with official times Yale 23 37 Harvard 23 45. Freshmen race won by Yale 10 27 4 5 and Harvard 10 48. Four car race won by Harvard 11 49 1 5 Yale 12 9 1 5. A neighbor feud in Dayton Ia leaves C D Guild and his son Clarence dead. Oliver Bricker arrested on $10,000 bond.
In Brainerd Minnesota on June 27 workers at the Northern Pacific railroad shops received a unilateral wage increase. The company granted the raise of its own accord with no requests from the men, delivering personal notices to the first class mechanics.
A June New York report notes overall prosperity and growing harvests, with European shortages helping. It details localized labor disputes resolved, coal region tensions, active merchandise movement, and steady prices. Construction booms, railways strain, and wheat outlook improves as exports lag and failures rise modestly year over year.
Train No 3 comprised two sections from Detroit and Toledo and a Wabash crack train derailed nine miles west of Péru Indiana. Fourteen lives are reported dead including John Williamson and Mrs Mattie Cruse with dozens injured. Engine crew Engineer W Butler and Fireman John Adams survived with minor injuries. The wreck occurred on a sharp S curve at 60 mph when a culvert collapsed after heavy rains.
Cloud burst over Coaldale Simmons Creek and Pocahontas causes major damage Bluefield reports yards flooded with mud and hundreds of feet of track washed out Damage to yard about 1000 dollars Elkhorn river swollen debris floats downstream relief efforts underway with 3000 laborers repairing washouts and trains prepared to reopen by Saturday night
Peter L. Foy aged 87, a St Louis postmaster during the Civil War, died Wednesday. A Mayo Ireland native, he moved to St Louis in the 1850s and led the Missouri Democrat before his Civil War appointment as postmaster by President Lincoln. He served until 1865 and then returned to editing the St Louis newspaper.
Lord Wolseley, former commander in chief, praised the U S Army during the debate on the army reorganization bill in the House of Lords. He credited good wages for its superiority, saying it is the finest of its size in the world.
Cedar Rapids Iowa June 29 Parsons longtime grand secretary of the Iowa Masonic Grand Lodge died Friday. He was a widely known Mason and likely the last of Iowa’s original pioneers.
A telegram from Buffalo informs the father that Helen Fi field will ride the first train home. No reason for her presence in Buffalo or how she arrived is given.
The Seventh National Bank suspended operations at 10:45 as the failure of Henry Marquand & Co. triggered broader trouble. Bank examiner RPORREST RAYNOR cited depositor and stockholder protections as reasons, while attorney William N Cromwell and President Edward R Thomas outlined plans for reorganizing affairs and avoiding new deposits until safety is restored.
Judge William A. Woods of the United States circuit court died suddenly in his Delano apartment on East Michigan Street. The death, from angina pectoris, occurred just after midnight as his wife watched. Woods, born May 18 1837 in Farmington Tennessee, rose from farm boy to Supreme Court and federal circuit judge with key roles in Debs injunction cases and national politics. He leaves a widow and two children Floyd A and Alice of Indianapolis.
New York reports the hottest day of the year with a 92 degree reading at 4 PM and street thermometers up to 100. Humidity sits at 64 percent. Eight deaths and 50 prostrations in Greater New York by midnight, plus about 20 prostrations in Jersey City area with no deaths yet. In a separate note, the AFL executive council authorizes a fund-raising assessment to aid striking machinists seeking a nine hour day, with an initial call expected to raise about $50,000.
King Edward issues a proclamation declaring the coronation to occur in June next on a yet undetermined day. The ceremonies will follow Westminster Abbey traditions only, excluding the king's champion and many ancient procession rites.
Torrents in Edgar, Douglas and Verillion counties hit eastern Illinois. Three days of rain followed by scorching sun scorched exposed corn, costing farmers hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage.
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