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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1896
Page
2
A collage of notes covers flying flies on paint to a new Mexican money constitution, weather experiments lifting men, kites as fads, Franklin’s longevity, baldness theories, and evolving light from Edison and Tesla. It also notes cross border fishing rights, bicycle labor shifts, rubbers profits, and photography of thoughts by Baradue Istrati Hasden.
A summer wedding featured cycling costumes for the bride, groom, ushers, maids, and 30 guests who biked to the church. A cyclist priest performed the ceremony before the couple and party biked to the bride’s home for a wedding breakfast.
The St. Louis tornado spurred heavy demand for insurance with about $2,000,000 written in the city since the calamity. Combined losses in St. Louis and East St. Louis total about $400,000, indicating limited property protection against tornado damage. Roughly one quarter of the losses involve broken plate glass in the larger city.
Statistics show the annual cost to the British empire for horse racing hunting shooting golf boating cricket tennis and other sports is about 200 million dollars. The cost of American sports will also reach a huge total though less. The Anglo-Saxon race has benefited from its love of sports.
Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, in a Harvard baccalaureate sermon, urged a press that reports both vice and virtue. He likened the press to a looking glass that reflects society’s flaws, insisting truth can be told without dwelling on disgusting details and predicting the press will do so increasingly.
Baseball began as a pro game with a Hoboken match on June 19 1846 between Knieckerbocker and New York clubs. The first team formed on September 23 1845, with a four inning game where 21 runs decided the winner. The Athletics of Philadelphia and the Atlantics of New York later spawned professionalism and paid players.
The public debt rose by 1 820 853 in June. Treasury cash balance stood at 853 905 635. National debt net of cash totals 368 584 828. National bank circulation at 225 912 060 up 14 312 262 since June 30, 1895. Mint coinage June 4 623 929. J G McKibben, ex congressman, dies in Washington. New National Party platform calls for liquor prohibition and broad reforms. 45th star added flag for Utah. US business failures a week to July 4 total 217. Clearing house receipts 1 103 518 933, up 13.0 percent from 1895.
The East reports planned fortifications for New York at a cost of 50 million 9 thousand and 9 hundred dollars while a string of disasters and affairs unfold across states. Brooklyn lumber yard fires cause 800 thousand in losses. the president departs to Gray Gables for summer business.■ Fire and crime pepper the region as a high wire act crosses Niagara Falls, a child tragedy in Fall River, a barber’s death in Old Forge, and a mass of worker movements. A notable death marks Harriet Beecher Stowe’s passing in Hartford aged 84. a bicycle record is shattered in a Chicago to New York run. a boat accident in Rochester claims several children. Baseball outlines top NL clubs by week ending the 5th with Cleveland leading at .672 and New York at .410.
In Ohio 8500 iron workers idle as mills close awaiting a new wages scale. Congress nominees listed include J A Tawney and J P McCleary in Minnesota, D Meekison and M Dunn in Ohio, A J Hunter and T Ford in Illinois, W A Calderhead in Kansas, J A Barham in California, plus local party lines. Other items note a $160,000 blaze at Ryan’s packing in Dubuque, Rockefeller’s first Chicago visit, a tax ruling on greenbacks, a Lee Jackson reunion in Richmond, crop reports favorable, and GOP nominations in Arkansas and Minnesota with several state figures renominated. a Goat Jack man fatally wounds daughter-in-law before suicide, and Iowa, Tennessee, and West Virginia districts are listed for renominations.
Minnesota Prohibitionists nominated William J. Dean for governor and adopted a broad gauge platform. Other items note Michigan and Nebraska conventions, Cleveland riots, Buck gang executions in Fort Smith, and various national political events.
June toll in Cairo reaches 3,698 from cholera while Cretan insurgents defeat Turkish forces on Crete's northwest coast, claiming 200 enemy lives. Wilhelm in Wilhelmshaven pledges Germany will pursue its own path while upholding peace. Near Arequipa Peru daily earthquakes cause widespread damage.
In Chicago the Democratic National Committee chose David B. Hill as temporary chairman by a 27 to 23 vote over Senator John W. Daniel, with silver delegates expected to back Daniel when the convention meets. Other items include a Michigan woman’s 146th day of fasting, June fire and flood losses, and various accidents.
Hartford and Norwalk papers report the death of Harriet Beecher Stowe at noon on July 2 at 78 Forest Street. The famed author of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Dred died after a long mental illness with family at her bedside.
President Cleveland on Independence Day calls Tammany Hall to oppose a free silver money policy within the Democratic Party. He warns of dangers to national finance and credits, urging sound money and prudent party principles. Senator Nill adds a parallel address affirming democracy and liberty.
A July gathering in Chicago's Auditorium theater drew thousands of sound money supporters including Senator Gray of Delaware, John R Fellows of New York, and Franklin McVeagh. Speakers condemned free silver and defended protection, urging Democrats to stay united and warning against tariff confusion amid party divisions.
Cleveland July 4 The Republican National Committee sets headquarters in New York City with no branch. A literature driven education campaign starts immediately and a full campaign by September. The executive committee will meet in Cleveland around July 20. Members include Mark A. Hanna chairman Cyrus Leland John J. Long Joseph H. Manley Warner Miller Henry C. Paine Matthews S. Quay William McKinley Osborne with some names subject to state party leader accords to avoid factional opposition.
Dispatches from all sections report the usual observance of Independence Day with celebrations and activities marking the holiday. Citizens joined gatherings, parades, and fireworks as communities observed the national occasion.
The Kimball family in Preston records the long life of Abby S S Cook who reached 90 on her birthday and remains active at her daughter’s Franklin Street home in New Haven. Surviving siblings and relatives include Abby B Cook 99 Sarah Green 88 Sarah L Brown 85 Nelson L Kimball 82 Frances De Wolf 80 Lucius T Kimball 78 and Rev Nathaniel Kimball 76 bringing total ages to 669.
Ill health drives English artist H. S. Marks into retirement from the Royal Academy. Krupp and Armstrong guns fire heavy shots long distances. A Jefferson City snake chokes on a porcelain egg. A Bavarian rule taxes female bicycle riders. A Fresno wine cask dwarfs Heidelberg’s Great Tun. Novel uses for electricity warm bedclothes. Milk stations in Chili cities offer milk on demand with optional brandy.
The article notes Berlin banning Rubenstein's Christus under Prussian law on public performances. It remarks M Francis de Pressense’s likely conversion to Catholicism and waves of French pastors. Leo XIII remains the oldest consecrated Catholic bishop. A John Robinson memorial Congregational church is planned at Gainsborough with a $30,000 cost and Bayard to lay the corner stone. Prof. George Adam Smith preached in Boston’s Old South church, yet no Boston paper covered his sermon.
A collection of puns and wordplay clues framed as jokes. It includes quick pronunciation, fowl in pieces, clergyman’s horse guided by a minister, a bald head, ground for propagation, sacked and burned coal, a pack of cards at table, vane to aspire, dust in teacher’s eyes, two mile stones, Adam’s two parents, and a restless man in bed like a lawyer.
Italy raises 102,000,000 bushels, Russia 186,000,000, India 235,000,000, France 231,000,000, Hungary 119,000,000, Great Britain 71,000,000 all consumed domestically, England 36 bushels per acre, India wheat belt 9.3 bushels per acre, South Australia 7.6 bushels per acre.
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