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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1895
Page
1
The Express notes Tun Bell Telephone company pursuing legal action to secure possession of remaining earth. Gladstone says he is too old to share views on the new woman. Mrs Stowr’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin remains widely sold and translated. A New York correspondent asks when a girl is beautiful. Mr Dana answers that love defines beauty.
The article notes that Americans use about 32 million postage stamps daily, totaling roughly 4.38 billion per year across all stamp types. It highlights the scale of daily mail usage and the resulting demand for stamps.
In Mexico and in Liam, judges juries and lawyers smoke in court during trials. Even prisoners are not deprived of cigars or cigarettes as cases proceed. The report notes widespread smoking by legal participants and detainees amid court proceedings.
A New York man, cited by his wife for refusing to do the washing and ironing, is sent to Blackwell's Island. The episode reflects growing tensions in domestic roles and the rising influence of the so called new woman in social expectations.
Report highlights the smooth French roads enabling the horseless wagons to perform well in a recent road race. It notes that the vehicles would struggle here except on city paved streets, implying limited favorable conditions outside urban thoroughfares.
Harvard awarded 78 diplomas Yale 575 and Michigan 601 marking a surge of college bred individuals. The era prompts questions about who they will become and whether there is room at the top. Meanwhile physicians and scientists study multiple personalities as case reports surface in legal courts.
The latest Harvard catalog records 19 335 graduates with 10 179 living and Dr Furness of Philadelphia noted as senior alumnus. Four classes 1621 1824 1825 and 1830 are extinct. Total degrees granted since founding reach 22 260 including an A M for actor Joseph Jefferson.
A Nantasket branch test on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad showed electric locomotives reaching 80 miles per hour and maintaining 60 miles, with experts deeming the trip perfectly satisfactory and suggesting steam's supersession may not be distant.
An American Civil War vignette shows a major general brother, a staff officer, and a private in Ohio regiments. In Europe, a commander would block a brother from serving as a private, while Gen. Phil Sheridan valued his brother’s rifle duty. English naval expert Wiel praised American ship crews as highly efficient, with German and Austrian papers aligning on American ships’ motion and precision, noting the New York as Kiel’s finest ship.
The passage notes Professor Huxley as England’s leading biologist who, like Tyndall, supported certain spontaneous generation ideas yet admitted failure to create life from nothing. It asserts that life must arise from preexisting life, even as he believed under some conditions protein could become protoplasm.
The Japanese consul general in New York argues that Japan would seize St Petersburg if war with Russia erupted. He cautions that Japan’s easy victory over China has inflated confidence, and a march through Russia would be perilous. He notes Napoleon’s reverses against Russia to illustrate risks of aggression.
In Paris and surrounding areas engines powered by electric or cheaper petroleum motors already run horseless carriages resembling broughams and phaetons. A road race from Paris to Bordeaux and back covered 750 miles with thirty entrants. the winner finished in just over 48 hours, averaging above 15 miles per hour. Running such a vehicle at 5 miles an hour costs about two cents per mile.
Summary of weekly US affairs notes chief changes in weather and postal leadership. Starrington departs as Weather Bureau head Willis L Moore named successor. Commerce volumes show stamp totals 2 823 000 000 with value 68 685 418 dollars. Shipbuilding tonnage and vessel records noted along with weekly clearing house totals. Financial failures rise and fall compared to last year with banking and manufacturing shifts. Steam ship inspection records report 368 lives lost.
Eight year hard labor sentence given to Capt Henry W Howgate for forgery and falsification of accounts as disbursing clerk of the signal service bureau. In New York Isaac Brewer and wife separated for the forty second time. In Camden Joseph H Stearns dies at 65, inventor of the duplex telegraph system. In Shenandoah Martin Rattigan fatally wounds wife, sister and himself after recent release. Bob Fitzsimmons acquitted in Syracuse of causing sparring partner Don Riordan's death. Grandstand collapse at Buffalo bicycle races injures nineteen, three fatally. John W Carter of Boston drowns at Harwich Beach. Prank Brews, John Anderson, and Miss Marembecis drown when boat capsizes in Delaware River at Leverly. Thames in Oswego destroys property valued at 100000 dollars.
On a bridge at Bristol Indiana the sidewalk collapsed with about 100 people involved. Chicago saw five deaths and thirty three injuries on the Fourth of July. Saloons in Atchison Kansas closed for the first time in five years. Hanged for murder were Griffin Zepparp Brin Purvis and Grant Wilson in Vicksburg Mississippi. Wisconsin chief justice Ilarlow S Ort on died at 78. Illinois miners lost over 1.6 million in wages to strikes last year. A man Augustus Fields murdered his wife and child then killed himself near Meadowville Missouri. Fires struck Reddick Illinois and Anderson Indiana. Banks and businesses failed in Chicago and Cartersville Georgia. Numerous other fatalities occurred nationwide including suicides, murders, and accidents in Louisville, Springfield, Terre Haute, Mobile, Santa Rita, and Jeffersonville.
The summary blends multiple incidents: Paul Wong dies riding a 200 foot lake chute in Idaho. Alexander Hesler, famed Chicago photographer, dies at 72 in Evanston. free silver advocates gather in Washington Court House Ohio. 3,500 educators attend the National Educational Association meeting in Denver. a Kansas cyclone at Baxter Springs kills five and injures twelve. various other calamities include a suicide by ex Gov I A Stevenson, a population report for Kansas City, a world-traveling duo intent on walking their trip, Winona Mo wiped out by a cloudburst with eleven drowned, a baby born at Gray Gables, a warehouse loss at Duluth, Iowa census projections, a Canton cyclone injuring twenty-five, Scotia Colorado flames, North Dakota grain storm, Lady Lee sinking with six lives lost, a shooting and suicide in Calamus Iowa, a steamer wreck at Lake Geneva with drownings, a tornado across Morgan and Putnam counties Georgia, a Green Bay marriage of large families, Chicago hurricane damage and deaths, and lightning strike fatalities at Apalachicola Florida.
Foreign intelligence reports a lightning strike on a Ham nedd building in Sweden where ten people sheltered, seven died and three were fatally injured. Other items note a paymaster robbery captured in Sonora shot under new law, Eslarn Bavaria fire leaving hundreds homeless, Gladstone retirement, Guatemalan officers charged with $3 million theft, and flames destroying twenty buildings in Lorneville Ontario leaving fifty families homeless.
A three day storm system raked Kansas and Missouri covering 200 square miles, claiming thirty seven lives with many missing and property losses above one million dollars. Other items note two earthquake shocks in Springfield Missouri, a court clerk in Minnesota killed himself, children found in the San Joaquin River, and Knights of Pythias activities in Detroit. Manchester New York business district fire caused heavy losses, a Guthrie Oklahoma woman appointed US commissioner, drownings in Neche North Dakota, a British parliament dissolution, Cuban battle deaths, Tacoma bank consolidation, a Norwich bartender shooting, Best slain in Kentucky, and grain stocks figures plus various regional crimes.
Telegraph reports detail a massive storm system across Nebraska Iowa Texas Missouri Arkansas and Kansas causing 43 known deaths and millions in damage. Winona Baxter Springs and Jefferson City report the heaviest losses as bridges homes and grain fields are ruined. Lake Geneva Milwaukee and Chicago area storms yield drownings and capsized boats while a separate tragedy in Chicago sees a fatal wind rain event.
Disrupted route of the Little Red Schoolhouse parade in East Boston sparked insults and clashes with spectators. Police protected the column of A P A lodges and other groups as chaos erupted, leaving a murder and injuries. Across the country, fatal and injurious fireworks related incidents were reported in Minnesota Illinois Indiana and Colorado with multiple deaths and crowd panics.
News from Tonio dated June 21 via Steamship Em press of China reports anti missionary riots in Szechuan. Dozens died, mainly natives and Roman Catholics, with property losses around 5 million dollars in Cheng Tu Hohe. French mission founded 150 years ago claimed 36,000 converts. Four Protestant institutions destroyed. occupants including women said to be in danger despite Pe king authorities pledging protection.
Secretary Morton will end the general free seed distribution next year citing opposition to the practice. He will supply seeds only for scientific purposes under attorney general guidance, marking a reform in agricultural policy. The note reflects a shift from Congress and department duties toward selective issuance.
The July 8 Dun and Co weekly review notes midsummer reports show better crop prospects, increased retail distribution of produce, active demand for goods, and wage gains for over 500,000 workers. It cites reduced commercial failures for H1 1895 versus prior years, with manufacturing and trading failures falling and liabilities outlined, plus banking failures totaling 63 with $16.65 million in liabilities.
Willis L. Moore, a Milwaukee born local forecaster, was appointed to succeed Prof. Mark W. Harrington as chief of the Weather Bureau in Washington. A renowned forecaster with near perfect accuracy, Moore previously served as local forecaster in Milwaukee and Chicago, and earned a $2,500 salary as professor of meteorology after his Washington assignment. Age about 40, Republican, long in the service.
Democratic state convention in Denver on July 4 with about 100 delegates. Gen Sam Brown chosen chairman as Arbuckle declines attendance. Resolutions oppose current administration's financial policy and bond issuance in peacetime, praising Illinois Democrats for seeking a national convention to restore sound money gold and silver coinage.
Washington reports show the agriculture department's fiscal year expenditures at about 1.8 million dollars with appropriations of 2,506,915. About 700,000 will be returned to the treasury, ahead of last year’s 627,115 restitution. Nearby, Buzzaro's Bay notes a third daughter born to the president’s family at Gray Gables, while Sluxnesy, Oklahoma, records two heat deaths among harvest workers and a third near Lacy with unknown names.
San Luis Obispo California July report states former Idaho governor Stevenson took laudanum to end his life after years of suffering from sciatic pain and deep despondency.
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