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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1901
Page
3
The Havana yellow fever outbreak ends as Chief Sanitary Officer Gorgas credits thorough sanitation and mosquito destruction. London says South Africa war costs about 6.25 million dollars weekly for prisoner maintenance, calling war an expensive luxury and unhealthy.
In Alabama Arkansas California Colorado and Connecticut the foreign population rises by 60 000 since 1890 while native birth increases total by 1 000 000 in the same period. Immigration remains strong but native residents gain on it steadily.
The department will supply each congressman with 14 000 vegetable seed packets 400 flower packets 110 tobacco 40 cotton 30 lawn grass 25 sugar beet 50 forage crop 220 bulbs 150 strawberries 40 grapes and 50 trees. A courtly feud between Mr Balfour and Miss Sartoris ends as incompatibility of temper revealed in a prior romance.
Consul Mahin of Reichenberg cites a Brus sels report about Tobiansky, a Belgian engineer, who claims to convert smoke into light. The device draws smoke from a fire, feeds it to a receiver, saturates it with hydrocarburet, and produces a brilliant light.
It seems settled that Rear Admiral Schley will stay on waiting orders until his retirement date for age, October 9. Friends urged shore duty to round out his career, but the Navy Department has no suitable assignment, so he will likely serve on waiting orders during his remaining active period.
Charles James of St Agnes fell 120 feet in Polbreen mine. He escaped with life but his boots, tightly laced, came off during the descent and were found in the shaft fathoms above him.
The scope of wireless telegraphy will be limited on land by tall iron and steel buildings. Marconi apparatus on outgoing Atlantic steamers failed below the Battery due to metallic interference from New York skyscrapers. Nature has not yielded all her secrets to man yet.
The disease named equinitis is grippe among horses, affecting 100000 of 150000 in Manhattan. Cure is rest nutritious food and protection from wet and cold. dry summer aids recovery if health rules are followed.
Ernest Still of Glencoe Oklahoma conducts a raffle offering a $15000 cash prize and marriage to the winner. Five dollar tickets total 3000. He bets the drawn number will secure him as husband and the prize money.
The article notes that all volunteers who served in the Philippines or elsewhere under the army enlistment 1899 have been mustered out and returned to the United States over the past four to five months. It highlights the large, smooth operation and the creation of a new 75,000 man force of regulars deemed the country’s likely strongest fighting unit.
An insurance journal cites life policy costs at two million dollars monthly. It quotes an authority praising prevention to preserve heart action and bodily health through temperate exposure, pure air, clean water, hygiene, and orderly habits.
A weekly union overview notes a Cuba tariff treaty as a congressional issue. President McKinley and Mrs McKinley depart for Canton. Charles G. Dawes resigns as comptroller of the currency effective October 1. 1900 export data show twelve nations each spending over 10 million on U S farm products, while Porto Rico trade soars with exports up 300 percent from 1898.
Reports include a murder suicide near Williamstown involving a gambler and his wife and child, Mortimer Nye a former Indiana lieutenant governor dying in Laporte at 63, a Wilbur Washington business loss by fire, a July 22 labor leaders meeting in St. Louis to unify steel workers, bans on Dowie meeting streets in Waterloo Idaho due to riots, and Versailles Ohio nearly destroyed by flames.
The British house of commons announced failed peace negotiations with the Boers. Elsewhere the U S natal day was celebrated abroad, with Cuba and Porto Rico showing enthusiasm. Porto Rico legislature urged free trade per the Foraker bill. Generals Wood health may force Cuba departure. Prince von Hohenlohe dies in Ragatz Switzerland.
Weekly summaries show exchanges at major clearing houses totaling 2.04 billion dollars, 204 business failures, and a will leaving 8 million to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Other items note a 12 year old killed in Albany, keel laying of the Colorado at Cramps Yard, and miners suffocated in Catskill mine.
A broad roundup of violent deaths accidents and legal cases across American locales. Drowned rowboat disaster at Toledo. Albert Johnson kills Thomas Spaulding after a love quarrel in Columbus. sergeants in recruiting service involved. Executions include Ernest Reid in Carthage and Jose Sanchez in Silver City. Fires poison and train-of-tying incidents listed alongside political news and notable deaths including John Burk and Edward McCon key. Presidential visit Canton. Gov. Shaw paroled Daw son. McKinley pair to spend summer in Canton. Domestic murders suicide and hangings span Illinois Indiana Florida Missouri and California.
Reports include 25 injured by a Panhandle road wreck near Columbus Q due to a defective switch, 989 deaths in New York City from heat, and Frederick D White's suicide in Syracuse N Y amid ill health. Floods drown 4 000-plus in Kiang Si China. Revival in Cincinnati Y P S C E delegates. Carnegie declines NYC mayor bid. Child found in Fort Wayne cistern. mill owner Charles Dunn arrested. Internal revenue receipts steady post July 1. Constitution defeats Columbia in Newport race. Kansas wheat losses reach 15 000 acres from fire started by a cigar. Colebrook fire guts much of business district. Sidney Locke of Lockport NS murders his three children. Two men die and 11 injured in Forsythe Mont Occidental Hotel fire. Kansas drought may cost farmers 100 million. Christ Jensen detained after killings in Denver. Boers burn public buildings at Murraysbore. U S Canada grain stocks: Wheat 29 688 000 bushels corn 14 472 000 oats 9 195 000 rye 509 000 barley 395 000.
Suez canal to 1 foot deeper and lighted by electricity. US leads world coffee consumption. British naval program calls for 19 new ships. American tourists reported worldwide. Pennsylvania produced over half US coal last year. Stratton plans to leave Colorado Springs to escape beggars. Dayton firm sues Metal Polishers union for 25000 damages over a strike. Washington & Great Northern Railway incorporated in Seattle with a 250 mile line. Ethnological dept. holds valuable Indian relics from Amazon tribes. Independence Day read in Jackson Mississippi after 40 years. Rome conference on reforming pro Spanish priesthood in American colonies. Oil discoverer Cap A F Lucas financially ruined a year ago. Sophia Adelaide dies in New York. claimed royal lineage. Kansas penitentiary visitors to be charged ten cents. Palmetto leaves paper-making plant reported in St. Cloud Florida. US to publish book on war methods with military attaches’ material.
Prince von Hohenlohe former German chancellor died at Ragatz Switzerland on Friday evening. He had left Berlin weeks earlier in apparent good health though weakening. Officials cite old age as the cause and plans for transportation to Germany and obsequies remain undecided while arrangements for the family estate at Schillingsfürst are noted.
Obituary notes Prince Clodwig Carl Victor von Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst born 1819 with marked diplomatic career including Bavarian foreign minister and German chancellor. Praise for conciliatory German American relations and near certain attendance by Chancellor von Buelow at his funeral. Also brief civic items from St Louis and Upper Sandusky July 8 1900s.
New York July 8 Pierre Lorillard died at 2 10 Sunday afternoon after a long illness dating from June 20. He arrived in New York aboard the Deutschland from Europe July 4 and died before reaching Grace Church for a hoped return. His fortune is estimated above 25 million with a large estate, survived by his wife, Pierre Lorillard Jr., and daughters Mrs William Kent and Mrs T Suffern Tailor. Funeral set for Wednesday at Grace Church with interment at Greenwood.
James E Yeatman prominent St Louis philanthropist died Sunday at age 84 from uraemia after an operation. A Civil War sympathizer who helped explain local affairs to Lincoln, he led the western sanitary commission from 1864, directing hospital steamers soldiers homes and relief bureaus and later organized the freedmen's bureau advising leasing abandoned cotton plantations to freedmen.
Police in Boston and Massachusetts counties order the suppression of this week’s Irish World from newsstands. Dealers were notified not to exhibit the New York publication due to a Detroit paper image showing Uncle Sam with a national flag inscribed for political purposes. The move cites a state statute banning disrespect to the national flag.
Miss Eva M. Reed assistant librarian of the Missouri Botanical Garden was killed by a passenger train on the Burlington line near Louisiana Missouri while sketching on the tracks. Reed, a Wisconsin Madison graduate studying at Chicago University, was well known for botanical and geological writings. In West Virginia Sylvester Green from McDowell County fatally stabbed his wife and fatally struck his child with a rock after the wife refused money to gamble, then fled to Kentucky.
The Constitution finished at about 5 45 beating the Columbia by roughly nine minutes. At 6 10 when the time limit expired the Independence was about six miles from the finish line.
In Turned to Death Louisiana Donald Nichols and Samuel Taylor both about five years old were burned to death after playing near a coal oil can. The door was fastened trapping them inside. In Milwaukee W E Fitzgerald an American Shipbuilding officer died from acetylene gas blast injuries at his Nagowicka summer home late Saturday night into Sunday.
Cincinnati hosts the twentieth international convention of the United Society of Christian Endeavor from Saturday to Wednesday. President Francis Be. Clark opens sessions as 61,427 societies and nearly four million members are celebrated, with a new field secretary and biennial international and state conventions approved. Delegates preach in city churches and three services fill Music Hall.
A jury of Fort Scott business leaders holds the state’s new liquor law unconstitutional in four minutes. Attorney Dan F. Campbell refused to testify, was arrested, and acquitted.
The University of Notre Dame offers full courses across Classics Economics History and Engineering with pre courses and rooms for studying. A limited number of candidates for ecclesiastical state will be admitted at special rates. St Edward's Hall serves younger students. the seventeenth year begins September 16 1901. Catalogues are free and available from Rev A Morrissey C S C president.
A notes list celebrates Flavio Gioja's mariner's compass in Amalfi this summer. Brunswick remains the sole nation with execution by axe while Spain is the only country using the garrote. Gold coin in circulation shows 915 tons in Britain and Germany, Austria holds 60 tons. Swiss watch exports set a record with millions of nickel silver and gold pieces plus chronographs.
A brother in Lostant Illinois sent Dodd's Kidney Pills to his Belfast, Ireland kin after cure from kidney trouble and nervousness. He paid forward the remedy with a testimonial, illustrating enduring brotherly care across distances. The Notre Dame University notice promotes its catalog, preparatory school, and courses.
An old advertisement promotes Cascarets Candy Cathartic for bowel relief at ten cents and Allen's Foot-Ease powder for foot comfort at twenty five cents. It notes genuine products, imitations to beware, and lists Allen E. Olmsted in Le Roy New York as the source. The Washington Iowa Democrat is cited as the origin.
A 1900 newspaper snippet offers home care tips for washing muslin and lace dresses with Ivory Soap and shade drying, plus light starch. It includes customer testimonials praising Piso’s Cure for Consumption and Hoxsie’s Croup Cure for bronchitis, priced at 50 cents.
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