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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1907
Page
2
A collage of observations and quips on smoking wealth and risk from Dr Parkhurst to J Pierpont Morgan. notes on German prosperity moralizing about American female charm and sparking plugs. a London noblewoman travels in disguise. drowning rescue rules emphasize persistent artificial respiration up to four hours.
The Indianapolis Star quotes Mr. Wright of Dayton as saying a soaring machine could be built for under 500 dollars with perfect control. He claims a man could hover over a ship like a gull all day if the wind is right and would not tire of flying after first experience. He urges quicker development of his 300 dollar machines.
John Nicholas Brown at ten years old rejects the title ten million dollar baby. He tells playmates he is a plain kid who wants to play and have fun, tiring of nurses chasing him. The report suggests more notable actions may follow from Brown.
The piece notes Japanese sailors earned goodwill through courtesy and ordinary acts, choosing to visit Grant's tomb over Bowery leisure. It praises Queen Marie Amalie of Portugal for philanthropy and medical study, yet laments that she faces abuse and hostility despite her charitable deeds.
A mother visiting New York found the only hotel not allowing children is a women’s only facility and a women’s only restaurant also bans children. Youth's Companion asks if women alone justify excluding children, arguing against nature.
Henry Scutcheon, about 50, killed his wife Polly his invalid son Frank and foster father George Anning with an ax in Nanies Michigan. He then injured his wife and attempted suicide before being shot dead by neighbor Henry McClellan who defended himself with a shotgun.
In Seoul Gen Hasegawa commands Japanese troops guarding arsenals and palace with orders to destroy magazines if threatened. Korean resistance contends with civilian harangues as Ping Yang regiment resists surrender. Martial law awaits reassertion while Marquis Ito repositions forces and the exiled emperor's coup is thwarted. street battles claim Japanese lives.
The Lamana kidnapping and murder trial jurors convicted Campisciano, Mrs Campisciano, Tony Costa and Frank Gendusa without capital punishment. The verdict was unanimous. A lynching threat surfaced after the verdict, prompting public outcry from a local physician who denounced the decision as prostitution of justice.
W W Raipe a Milwaukee mining man arrested in a federal grand jury indictment involving the Federal Coal Mining company faces trial as a government witness after signing a statement detailing the conspiracy to defraud Routt county coal lands in Colorado. He appeared before U S Commissioner Hinsdale and was released on his own recognizance.
William January alias Charles W. Anderson was released from Fort Leavenworth federal prison on Friday after a pardon petition with 50 000 signatures was presented to President Roosevelt three months ago. He returns to Kansas City to pursue business, echoing the Jean Valjean tale.
The stables on John Wanamaker's Lyndenhurst estate near Jenkintown were burned Sunday causing an estimated loss of 100000 dollars and three horses perished in the blaze.
In Wheeling West Virginia four murders occurred in and around the city. Walter Benford a Black man was shot three times and killed by Charles Moxley another Black man. Jealousy was named as the motive. At Wellsburg Edward Lockhart 35 killed Pierce Davis 57. In Bradley over the state line Arthur Slipper another Black man killed John Meadows. Lockhart and Slipper escaped.
In St. Petersburg the newspaper Rec was confiscated for printing a war prediction by its war correspondent. The piece warned of imminent conflict between Russia and China and stated China would soon rival Japan in strength.
Dr Adolph Gehrmann and Dr W A Evans oversaw a secret exhumation of Mrs Pet Magill's body in Clinton as authorities pursue the murder charge against her husband Fred Magill. Organs from the first wife were sent to Chicago for analysis. A woman named Mabel Parrett attempted suicide at the grave, later muttering that Fred and Fay caused it.
Dr Washburn of St Johns Episcopal Church, summer pastor to President Roosevelt, stated he would not participate in any nature taking competition. He stopped when a dog in the congregation drew attention and announced no members should bring pets to future services as President Roosevelt and family attended.
In Harrodsburg Kentucky Busters Phil lips shot his wife four times Sunday three bullets hit her breast and abdomen He then shot his sister in law entering her left side likely fatal and another bullet wounded Thomas Baillee 18 in the shoulder Jealousy triggered the attack.
Boston reports Midshipman James F Cruse of the battleship Georgia died Friday at a naval hospital in Chelsea. He is the tenth fatality from the powder explosion in the Georgia's after turret.
In Anson county, Superior Court acquitted John Jones, one of twenty men charged with lynching John V. Johnson. The not guilty verdict was returned Friday after the trial as jurors weighed the alleged mob action.
Captain August Azzali, leader of the Mexican band that accompanied the El Paso lodge of Elks to Philadelphia, drowned Friday evening while bathing at Atlantic City New Jersey.
Detroit reports 31 dead after a Saturday collision near Salem between a Pere Marquette excursion train and a freight train. About 100 injured in Detroit and Ionia, eight seriously, with 61 at homes in Ionia and 42 hospitalized locally.
President Mellen of the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad announced Friday that John F. Stevens, former Panama Canal chief engineer, has been appointed vice president of the road in New Haven Connecticut.
Thomas B. McPherson of Omaha was elected Friday president of the National Livestock Exchange Association to succeed C Swift of Kansas City.
The naval court of inquiry will find the Georgia explosion resulted from a shareback when the breech of the eight inch gun was opened. Shreds of burning cloth or unconsumed gas were driven into the turret.
Washington reports the convention of the Army and Navy union voted in favor of restoring the army canteen. The decision comes after debate over service facilities and military morale.
Boise Idaho. Judge Wood limits the defense and prosecution by excluding evidence on a alleged conspiracy against the Western Federation of Miners. Prosecutor Hawley then delivers a two hour and fifteen minute argument calling the case the most important in U S history and denouncing Haywood and his alleged co conspirators as a criminal band. He praises former Governor Steunenberg in fervent terms.
The body of Midshipman James F. Cruse, a Georgia explosion victim, was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. Accompanying him were his parents Maj. and Mrs. Thomas Cruse of Omaha and his brother Lieut. Frederick T. Cruse U.S. A. The burial followed the ship’s tragedy on Monday.
Mrs Hazen Pingree widow of Michigan governor dies at home in Detroit aged 67. She leaves Hazen S. Pingree Jr. and Mrs Sherman L. Depew as her children.
A violent wind and rainstorm struck Williston North Dakota Saturday night destroying 15 homes injuring 25 people with two thought fatally hurt and causing extensive damage to the city and surrounding countryside.
Yaqui Indians raided the Richfield Copper Mining camp just north of Querobabi, Hermosillo, Mexico, on Thursday, stripping the camp of valuables but refraining from murder.
Judge George B. Adams ruled the Employers Liability Act constitutional in a Thursday decision of the Admiralty Branch of the U S District Court New York. The act, passed by Congress on June 11, was upheld as valid federal legislation.
Hammond Indiana Daniel Hunt a mail carrier was arrested on a charge of rifling the mails. Inspector Burr said Hunt admitted stealing money from the mails over seven years.
A child waking with toe or leg cramps should press toes to the footboard or press the sole of the cramped foot against the other foot. For stubborn cramps use a father's handkerchief band above the cramped area and provide a warm bath with an alcohol rub at night as prevention.
The New York Life Insurance Company reports over seventy million dollars in paid business for the first half of the year and aims to stay near the statutory limit of one hundred fifty million. Policyholder payments in six months ending June 30 totaled 21,660,761 with roughly equal shares to death claims and matured endowments, annuities, trust fund installments, purchased policies and dividends. Modern life insurance serves as both protection for families and a savings vehicle for the aged.
The theater glowed with colored lights as 200 boys and teachers filled the stage for a graduation. John, brother of Bobby, surveyed the scene with wide eyes and asked his father in a whisper if it was nice that so many people attended John’s commencement.
Towne recalls helping Dubley pick a fine etching Browne says Dubley sent it as a gift. Browne explains his wife required rearranging the parlor to fit the artwork and he has not finished yet.
Two Irishmen share lunch. Pat muses on how to wear clothes over his wings in heaven. Mike retorts that he should be worried about getting his hat over his horns in the other place, delivering a humorous cultural quip.
The article analyzes vegetarian objections to killing animals and warns against heavy starch intake from oats and white bread. It promotes Grape-Nuts as a pre digested starch form that supplies phosphate of potash aiding brain and body, claiming quick strength gains and a scientific basis with a ten day trial, and references Read to Wellville.
In Bradley, Derbyshire, the rector Rev. R. H. Tomlins directs villagers in a two week dig for hidden riches believed buried at Bradley Hall. Local legend ties wealth to Cromwell era sieges and a young Charles Stuart visit, but attackers allegedly fled before recovery.
Pluto Rutherford a well bred St Bernard of Mrs. Sarah J Rutherford Newark New Jersey aged 8 years 0 months was buried with honors after dying Friday at a dog hospital The dog registered with the New York Kennel Club as No 53587 Pluto R possessed a long pedigree and was a beloved family pet buried in a country field near Maplewood under a large tree to allow visits by local children
Nevada reports a record wool clip with over 8.5 million pounds shipped this season and strong prices. An influential sheepman cited that including tributary ranges, Nevada could exceed 18 million pounds of wool shipped this year.
A new feature in amusement parks this year is the telephone garden. Transmitting devices in trees relay music from the orchestra so visitors hear it from every point on the grounds. It was tested last year in Chicago and has spread to other parks nationwide.
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