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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1899
Page
7
A sermon-like address dated May 28 1899 warns against three looming threats to the republic monopoly nihilism and infidelity. It argues monopoly corrupts politics and economics while nihilism would destroy property law and order and infidelity would erode faith and moral guidance.
A speaker urges that the United States be wed to Christ, arguing the nation’s birth and history are pledged to holy marriage with Jesus. He argues against infidelity, praises colonial prayers, notes the land’s bounty, and envisions a Pacific marriage altar with American wealth offered in devotion to God. The address cites Hawaii’s 109,020 population with 44,000 Buddhists Confucianists and Shintoists.
S B Packard reports Iowa exhibitors at the Trans Mississsippi exposition earned 3106 in cash premiums plus ribbons for 76 awards. Cattle leading with 34 firsts and 87 seconds. horses, swine, sheep, poultry and dairy honors follow, with notable grain and butter prize wins and a protest over judge bias in Shorthorn and Hereford classes.
A health report by Dr. Gresham and colleagues at Independence hospital analyzes insanity rates, noting higher tendencies among those born outside the United States, with Irish and Scandinavian groups highlighted. It questions occupation as a cause, suggesting farm life may be protective and that many patients perform work on farms or in shops within state hospitals.
A party from Wright county sails from New York on the steamship Campagnia for a three month visit to aged parents in Bergen Norway. H. T. Ashe A. I. Ashe and sister Mrs. Melinda Johnson join the return journey. They arrived twenty five years ago with little means but great resolve and now possess sizable farms and wealth in Iowa.
The Forty-ninth regiment has returned from a year of service in the US Army. They suffered casualties from typhoid fever but were welcomed home with joy, banquets, and public honors in some towns. The regiment did not file complete reports with the adjutant general at Des Moines, so history remains incomplete and Gen. Byers seeks the missing documentation.
At its Cedar Rapids annual meeting nearly all stock was represented. Directors chosen for three years include I. Rh. Cable Chicago, C. Pysquires Burlington IN, Griggs Davenport, Aimball Davenport, and William Carson Burlington. Officers reelected: Cable chairman, Ives president, Williams VP, Hollister treasurer, Dorwart secretary, Brouks auditor. Net earnings for 1898 were 140,821.01.
Senator John Henry Gear, eleventh Iowa governor, sent lifelike pastel portraits of himself and his wife to the state historical department. They will hang in the governor’s private office until the historical building is completed. Remaining portraits from governors Sherman, Larrabee, Boies, Jackson and Drake are expected to be supplied soon.
At the forty seventh annual convention in Davenport of the Episcopal diocese of Town Bishop Morrison gave his first address since taking office. He urged abolishing the deanery as unnecessary in America and opposed reopening Griswold college or Kemper hall without a large endowment.
Willisea schools without a superintendent or high school principal as Prof. Col Williamson and Miss Stella Westcott resign after board inquiry into unbecoming conduct. Both have left town. Prof. Hamison previously led Alliance Nebraska schools for four years and is married. Miss Westcott came from Chicago.
Mrs. Marie Boardman, widow of Henry K. Boardman, files in Marshalltown district court a petition challenging her late husband's will claimed as unsound mind and unduly influenced. She seeks a receiver for the estate, alleging over 300000 in personal property and complex transfers to daughter Mrs. Conover. Judge Burnham appears to appoint bond, with President J P Woodbury joining the effort.
Walter Burton, once sentenced to ten years in Anamosa by Judge Woolson, told Deputy U S Marshal McCormick on the way to the penitentiary how he began counterfeiting. He was arrested in Burlington on April 24 for trying to pass a counterfeit fifty dollar bill at the First National Bank. He stole the bogus bill from H G Welch, a real estate and insurance man in Iowa City, the day before. Burton is actually George Parks or James Woods, a noted criminal who has been in prison twelve times under multiple names.
A congressional delegation from the Third town district issues a joint letter to Republican members of the fifty sixth Congress urging support for Col. B. Henderson. Excluding Henderson, the state delegation argues his long service since 1882, Republican credentials, and mastery of parliamentary law justify his candidacy for the high office.
Reports from Davenport to Council Bluffs and Keokuk to Ruthven detail corn in cribs at 3,092,500 bushels and total farmer holdings at 3,801,000 bushels as farmers wait for higher prices. Oats in store reach 1,059,500 bushels with holdings at 52,900 bushels, totaling 7,793,900 bushels of corn and 8,012,000 bushels of oats.
Dr Charles C Plunket and his divorced wife Rosa Plunket of Des Moines remarried in Joliet Illinois after a separation of about a year. The couple left on an eastern tour and expect to be home in Des Moines after June 15.
In a Webster City barn loft Fred Singer wrestled his brother John before friends. John twisted his leg and lay senseless, later dying as his heart stopped after failing to speak.
John Hayes of Red Oak, bondsman for Charles W. Spalding the Illinois University treasurer, is released from all obligation as surety by a jury. This marks the first trial action against Spalding’s sureties and hints at possible defenses for the remaining sureties.
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