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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1906
Page
6
A Philadelphia idea in Everybody’s Magazine proposes a pleasure railway with submarine cars that dive under lakes or ponds. Cars resemble shells with passenger space and a fresh air reservoir, pulled by a cable from a water edge station. The design features glass domes, underwater exits, and marine shaped car exteriors to evoke buccaneers and coral reefs.
Charles Edward Russell in Everybody's Magazine details Japan shifting from importing American flour to tapping Manchuria for wheat. He notes Russia leased Manchuria for wheat, but after defeat Japan moves to develop the region with mills and crops, planning quietly before striking to secure supply.
Preliminary census figures from Washington show 1904 U S pig iron production at 16,268,625 gross tons valued at 228,911,116 dollars, with 35,077 wage earners. Domestic ore use reached 29,203,994 tons valued at 96,206,246 dollars while foreign ore was 829,918 tons valued at 4,789,123 dollars. Lake shipping in early 1906 sets new records, with April shipments at 4,365,505 net tons and four months totaling 1,592,656 tons.
Col. Watterson tells the young men to go south while Uncle Jim Hill urges them to go west by north. Torn by conflicting emotions, most of the young men likely will stay where they are.
Edison asserts a method to halve automobile prices and says editors will soon be able to buy them too. King Leopold of Belgium continues his harsh ambition, aiming to be the continent’s most notorious German-leaning ruler.
Chicago naval reserves from Illinois drowned after a sudden squall overturned their dinghy just outside the harbor breakwater. Coxswain Thomas Coffey fought to save seven men, two survivors are Coffey and Frank Randall, with six others named among the dead.
Berlin Crown Princess Frederick William has a healthy son born at 9 15 am on Wednesday. The birth sparked celebrations in Potsdam with 101 artillery guns and 500000 Official Gazette copies. Emperor William names the prince Wilhelm and sets August 12 for the christening. President Roosevelt awaits official notification of the birth.
Henry Meldrum, former United States surveyor general for the district of Oregon, was sentenced Thursday to pay a $250 fine on each of 21 counts and to serve 60 days in the federal penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington, for conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government in connection with land deals in Oregon.
H McK Twombly Jr., heir of H McK Twombly of New York and Newport, drowned Thursday night while swimming in Big Squam Lake six miles from Ashland New Hampshire.
James K. Allen, the aeronaut from Providence, Rhode Island, who departed Wednesday in a balloon, was rescued Friday at sea by the Boston fishing schooner Francis V. Sylvesia and landed at Boston by that vessel.
Mrs. Thaw mother of Harry Thaw who is jailed in the Tombs New York on murder charges against Stanford White sailed from Dover for New York aboard the steamship Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Friday.
In Melrose Minnesota on the Fourth a tragedy occurred when 80 year old Frank Ronsall, a local prize fighter, struck and killed 70 year old Michel O Connor a retired well off farmer. The case aroused shock in the small town.
Miss Magsutton of California loses the British tennis championship at Wimbledon to Miss Douglass. Final scores 6-3 and 9-7 in favor of Douglass.
Representative Tawney, chair of the house appropriations committee, releases a detailed analysis of the fiscal year 1906 appropriations totaling 880 188 301. He argues per capita government cost, including federal and state, is lower than any European state, outlining channels for the 740 726 886 in government expenditures and the 781 575 364 in expected revenues.
A report by a committee of experts for the Illinois Manufacturers' Association and the Chicago Commercial Association finds the Chicago packing houses healthy. Dressed meat is wholesome, canned meats nutritious, and plant inspection largely efficient. It notes variable cleanliness, urges better meat inspection training, and proposes using Chicago plants as preparatory schools.
Leb beus R. Wilfley of the Philippine Islands has been appointed to the United States court in China to replace the consular court. Wilfley, a St Louis native, served as judge of the court of first instance in the Philippines in 1901 and soon after became attorney general of the islands.
The Kansas Supreme Court finds Mayor W. W. Rose of Kansas City Kansas in contempt for occupying the office after removal over prohibition and gambling law enforcement lapses. He must resign and pay a $1,000 fine.
An explosion on Friday at the Cosendai dye works on North Jefferson avenue in Saginaw Michigan killed four people and injured six, one seriously, when a large gasoline tank exploded on the second floor of the boiler house.
Police in the Friederichstadt district discovered a granite monument weighing a ton erected in memory of a revolutionary killed in the recent revolt. The origin and sponsors remain unknown.
About 160 piano plate molders and an equal number of helpers walked out on Friday in Springfield. They demand a 15 cent raise per plate and a reduction of work hours from ten to nine.
Los Angeles gets a treasury contract for the United States court house post office and custom house with a total price of 918000 dollars. The award covers construction work on the federal complex in Los Angeles California.
Joseph B. Sanford, pioneer dock builder and railroad contractor and head of Stanford and Brooks of Baltimore, died at his Newark home at age 75.
Chicago court finds Chicago and Alton Railroad and two former executives guilty on eight counts for rebates to Schwarzschild and Sulzberger. Fines range from 6000 to 120000 dollars. judge overrules bid to take case from jury. Attorneys may appeal.
The tally clerk's statement shows 4 501 bills passed and 362 left undisposed of in the first session of the Fifty-ninth Congress. Total enacted laws are 3 989, compared with 2 160 for the Fifty-eighth Congress. Excluding public and private resolutions, 54 were enacted this session and 39 in the prior two sessions.
The Thirty-seventh district Republican convention adjourned Friday without a result and set a new meeting date in Iowa Falls on July 19 to continue the contest.
In Portland Oregon former judge A H Tanner who admitted perjury to shield law partner the late United States Senator John Mitchell was granted a presidential pardon on June 26.
The Argonauts of Canada defeated First Trinity Cambridge by a bare length in the first heat for the grand challenge cup at Henley England. The winning time was 7 minutes 20 seconds.
Thirty two people at the Jer ome Ladies Aid society picnic in Columbus Ohio fell ill after eating pressed chicken sandwiches. The chickens had sat for two days in tin receptacles before serving raising fears of contamination.
Manila reports show 19 new cholera cases and ten deaths since midnight July 4, with 28 cases and 19 deaths on July 4. For the week ending July 4, 116 cases and 99 deaths. Two Americans, Robert Imobertz and Hart, have died, while five Americans have contracted the disease, all in native Manila quarters. Health bureau halts suspect food sales. doctors' efforts reduce new cases and authorities believe the outbreak is under control.
A runaway mine car loosed from Puritan near midnight Tuesday sped down Martin's branch toward Portage hitting a crew of eleven workers. The car, left on tracks after mines closed, was allegedly tampered with and controlled by brakes being released. Eleven men were killed instantly, with several others injured before the car was halted one mile west of Portage.
Washington reports Secretary Shaw has received about 100 bids for Panama canal bonds. Most bids are for small amounts, with one large offer of 2,000,000 dollars.
At two o clock Thursday morning Ernest Koehnke a young farmer shot and instantly killed 17 year old Lucy Fisher and then killed himself Miss Fisher had discouraged Koehnke s attentions The incident occurred in Manning Indiana and investigators described it as a murder suicide.
Lieut Tallmadge H Brere ton of the Second Infantry shot himself at the Army and Navy club in Manila. He was said to have acted while temporarily insane.
In New Albany Indiana an electric Highland line car plunged 20 feet down an embankment Monday injuring five passengers. All injuries are non fatal and the car was demolished.
A press dispatch from Russia reports drought relief failing as rains arrive too late to save crops. Peasants sell or starve cattle while government granaries were emptied last year. Clashes erupt across Volga regions with troops and Cossacks on defense. Incidents occur at Tambov and Kedabey amid agrarian tensions.
Secretary Root and party arrived in San Juan aboard the cruiser Charleston at four o clock Sunday. The ship set a New York to San Juan record of three days and nineteen hours, entering the harbor at speed and receiving salutes from Morro Castle and the Italian cruiser Umbria. Gov. Winthrop and secretary A H Frazer boarded, greetings exchanged, and the party landed with Capt Rohrer and staff of the naval station, marines in honor.
In Last Chance, a mining town near Auburn, Charles Dorka attempted to kill Frank Tillotson after a jealousy dispute at a saloon. He shot and killed William Polifka, mistaking him for Tillotson, then Tillotson shot Dorka when approached.
A lone highwayman delayed Wamona Cal Five Yosemite walk ley stages Saturday and stole a large sum of money and jewelry. The robber struck at a curve near Ahwanee at the same location where a bandit operated a year earlier, taking valuables from wealthy tourists.
Belgrade reports Austria-Hungary has closed its frontier to all Servian cattle and banned the import of tinned meats from Servia, signaling tightened trade and quarantine measures.
Sofia reports that Neophylos the recently appointed Greek metropolitan of Varna abandoned plans to land at Varna and instead sailed back to Constantinople via Kus Tendje, on the vessel of his arrival.
Four thousand Chinese volunteers marched through Shanghai on Sunday after months of diligent drilling creating an unprecedented and interesting spectacle for the settlement and observers.
The Southern Pacific company plans a 67 mile freight line between San Francisco and Oakland to handle trans continental freight for the orient. The project aims to improve regional haulage and connect key coastal ports.
The oil steamer Indiani carrying 300 drums of naphtha and 35 000 cases of oil caught fire Sunday east of the harbor. Many drums were jettisoned and the blaze was extinguished.
Mrs. Elizabeth Maxwell of Olympia Washington recounts years of backache swelling and dropsy until taking four boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills. She notes reduced bloating eased breathing and heart palpitations. Sold by all dealers 59 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Miss Winnonah Von Ohl, age twenty from New Jersey, earns renown as a horsebreaker. Two years ago she traveled to South Dakota with her mother for a climate change, learned riding there, then returned east to train and break horses, without ever sustaining an injury.
Barley growers are advised to let grain fully ripen before cutting. Shock and cap properly, avoid thrashing while in shock, and stack barley to sweat and cure without overheating. Following these steps improves grain quality and helps secure top prices from maltsters who will refuse barley mishandled. John Noth, Secretary, United States Maltsters' Association.
Irish language revivalists claim a notable win as the National Bank agrees to accept checks signed in Irish if the signature is repeated in English. Banking officials say the move provides double protection against forgery while preserving linguistic heritage.
The British and Foreign Bible Society reports a banner year in Europe Russia with over 500000 Scriptures distributed, plus a very large number in Siberia despite disturbed conditions last year.
The article notes Justice Holmes, a supreme court figure, abstains from reading newspapers to keep his mind free from distractions and misinformation that could impair his judicial efficiency and wisdom.
A compact critique contrasts reformers beginning at the task end with a note on Lewis' Single Binder cigars from Peoria and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething. It highlights generic rhetoric as useless, calling out claims and pricing.
A physician urges women with serious feminine troubles to avoid operations and try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound first. A Milwaukee woman reports ulceration healed and renewed vigor after rejecting surgery and using the remedy.
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