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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1897
Page
6
A Farmington Maine man recalls a long journey as two elderly travelers aged 94 and 82 rode behind a horse that had seen 34 summers. The remark frames a nostalgic scene of endurance and age.
The article notes widespread discussion of marriage failure while observing an increasing number of men with more than one wife among the population.
It is estimated that foreign immigration to the United States will be 100000 fewer than in 1896. The agitation against the more undesirable class of immigrants has largely reduced it.
Europe begins to value American corn for bread as US exports reach 76,000,000 bushels this year with more on the way. Travel by rail in Great Britain shows high danger, with 386 fatalities among 930,100,000 passengers and 586 London deaths from falls. A Kansas inventor patents a bicycle braking device to stop and stand still without dismounting by using steel supports on the rear wheel.
The swindle is illustrated by 41 mining companies that sold for 610 million dollars in 1895, while their present valuation has fallen to 215 million dollars, a 65 percent drop over 18 months affecting English and French investors.
A Murfreesboro News subscriber explains he must drop his paper due to lack of time and his wife's death. he plans to resume after remarriage. The page also notes gun penetration through sand, machinery replacing labor in shoemaking with rising wages, and a warning against delaying happiness until wealth is achieved.
Workmen start removing the Tombs, a historic Egyptian style prison in New York. The landmark has housed many famed criminals, with massive walls that could tell tales of crime and misery if they could speak.
Fall 1900s style report notes Mississippi flood losses in Louisiana Mississippi and Arkansas estimated at ten million dollars. It discusses indirect damages and calls for inquiry into prevention. Also covers Japanese war aims and London market gains for American meats fruits and game.
United States Senate advances on the tariff bill with thirteen pages covered and a key vote 34 to 20 on reducing a duty. Seven paragraphs were reviewed with the committee sustained. The House adjourned to the 31st as new bills target mailings by commercial agencies and taxes on energy and manufacturing firms. Senator Tillman proposes no special committee on senators' speculation charges.
Washington dispatch notes the national arbitration committee appeals for further effort in international arbitration. President McKinley selects Whitelaw Reid of New York as special ambassador to Queen Victoria's jubilee. Henry O. Havemeyer of American Sugar Refining is acquitted after trial in Washington. U.S. business failures reach 214 in the seven days to the 28th, down from 248 prior week.
A steamer pulls 16 crew members from the Provincetown fishing schooner J P Johnson after it went astray in a fog on the western bank. Simultaneous notes report a Bradford manuscript history of the New Plymouth colony handed to Massachusetts by Thomas F. Bayard, festivities for Julia Ward Howe, earthquake tremors across Vermont and New York, a 68th Brooklyn Sunday School union parade with 26 000 children, a new Niagara Falls bridge planned for April 1 1898, and weekly exchange totals at U S clearing houses totaling 917 628059.
The town hosts a state convention of sound money Democrats in Des Moines on July 7. Nine men died and eight were seriously injured in a freight passenger train collision at American Falls Idaho. El sie Neumiller of Milwaukee fed her eight year old son carbolic acid then drank poison. The United Mine Workers executive board ordered a general strike of over 50 000 miners across Pennsylvania Ohio and West Virginia to secure a 69 cent mining rate. Wire destroyed Bunge vinegar works in Chicago causing 100 000 damage. James Hoskins an addicted street preacher in Atlanta was arrested and fined for his vicious Christ remarks. Flames wiped out the Northern Grain Mercantile flour mill in Ashland Wisconsin loss 100 000. In Oakman Alabama a shooting affray left Mayor Isaac Appling and Charles Williams dead and two others fatally wounded. The last chief of the Qua paws Buffalo Calf died at the Quapaw agency in Indian Territory. The State Exchange Bank at Hot Springs Arkansas closed moving deposits to Arkansas National Bank. Lincoln Nebraska prohibition convention nominated D M Strong for associate justice and Mrs Isabella Spurlock for regent of the state university. John Lattimore and William Powers negro murderers were hanged in Chicago for killings of a saloon keeper and Louis Marvic. Frank Senn set a world bowling record in Louisville by 20 straight strikes. In El Paso Texas a levee break left hundreds homeless. John F Johnson former president of State National Bank Logansport Indiana sentenced to ten years in Ohio State Penitentiary.
The Michigan legislature adjourned sine die amid sessions.Secretary Gage told a Cincinnati banquet crowd that Congress would swiftly settle the tariff issue and spark early industrial revival.Over 2900 residents in Paso, Texas, sought shelter after floods wrecked homes.An express train on the Denver Rio Grande plowed into a freight near Grand Junction Colorado killing the engineer and fireman and injuring several passengers.
A memo from the Greek government protests Turkey’s indemnity demand and proposed frontier rectifications. The sultan bans slavery in Zanzibar and Cemba. An earthquake shakes Montreal Ottawa valley and eastern Quebec. Constantinople reports peace talks may proceed after a Greek armistice. Turkish and Greek plenipotentiaries to sign in Thessaly. Turkey objects to Dr. Frank B. Angell as U S minister.
Thomas A. Boyd dies at his Lewistown home aged 67. Bud Franks murders his wife and suicides after a drunken spree. A distinct Atlantic south region earthquake is reported. Cheyenne Indians kill a dozen, incl. five U.S. soldiers, in Montana. May was the coldest on record. A Denver train hits a wagon killing four children, two fatally injured. Snow falls in Wisconsin Minnesota. A Frey man frozen to death en route to his farm. Hubbard Milling Co. fails for 500000 dollars. A party of 21 from Brooklyn church is struck by a train. five killed. National Republican League meets July 13 in Detroit. Mark Twain reportedly dying in humble London lodgings. Maria and Frances Butler commit suicide in Lowell over losses. Memorial Day observed nationwide. Baseball NL standings update. Senate tariff bill debate shows controversy. little passage. House adjourns after brief session.
The item outlines varied brief notes from around the world and United States. It notes the shah of Persia favoring commerce and electricity, a crime sentence in Alabama, a Los Angeles flower girl heir to 100000, French Canadian farm occupation in New England, Greece foreign-born population, Dr. Jenkins tallying 2152 births, Spain migration rise, Florida senator Stephen Mallory tracing his father’s seat, a Lewiston Maypole dancer reuse of a stored pole, Angeline Hall’s 20000 gift to Judson Memorial church, and a Kan husband and wife divorce reversal marriage to his support.
Iowa executive council appoints commissioners for the Transmississippi exposition in Omaha. Districts include Mount Pleasant Davenport Cedar Falls Mason City Marshalltown Ottumwa Des Moines Chariton Logan Jefferson Sioux City with party affiliations noted for each appointee.
In Mingo a quarreling trio over a pet bird ended with Albert Neale aged 18 fatally struck in the side by his 11 year old brother Perry using a public safety item. The incident left the father to discover the body at night as the youth confessed later.
The weekly state crop bulletin notes progress in corn planting with most of the state nearing completion. Early corn is making a good stand and cultivation continues. limited replanting is needed for defective seed. Central and southern districts report oats and spring wheat injury from crusty soil, but overall prospects look fairly promising.
A federal grand jury returned indictments against J. R. Ratekin B I Warfel B Evans J J Russell A L Birchard Col George L Godfrey L B Raymond and John Morton commissioners of the soldiers home at Marshalltown. They are charged with withholding pension certificates from pensioners in the home.
The high court of the Independent Order of Foresters in Cedar Rapids elected officers including High chief ranger A. D. Flea Davenport High vice chief ranger J. B. White Cedar Rapids High secretary Perry Perkins Des Moines High treasurer Christian Haw Ottumwa High physician C. I. Stuart Waterloo High counselor William Theophilus Davenport High chaplain Dr. Thomas E. Green Cedar Rapids.
The Ottumwa Supreme Court declines Patrick Brady's request for a new trial in a case where he was convicted two years ago of crafting fictitious vouchers for Wapello county aid, defrauding the county of several thousand dollars and receiving a two year penitentiary sentence.
The state supreme court ruled courts are not obliged to honor parental guardianship requests in wills but may exercise discretion in the child’s best interest. The decision limits prior standing of such provisions while preserving protective oversight by judges.
Miss Cordius Cole of Bedford captured the elocution contest medal at Hardin College in Mexico Missouri. The news briefs list assorted local incidents including deaths, accidents, crimes, accidents, and organizational notices across Iowa with names such as Davenport merchants and Keokuk doctors.
A New York excursion coach carrying 21 worshippers from Greene Avenue Baptist Church, Brooklyn, was struck by an eastbound Long Island Railroad train near Merrick Boulevard, leaving five dead and many injured. Names of the deceased include George Fashley Jr and Dora Burtsch. numerous others suffered severe injuries.
The Turkish government accepts a military armistice between field commanders and seeks quick peace talks with the ambassadors. The porte demands a two week armistice from May 30 and will negotiate peace conditions in Thessaly with Greek plenipotentiaries. Fresh instructions will go to Edhem Pasha in Thessaly. A note from the porte urges rapid peace. Private postal cards at one cent are not authorized by Congress and remain subject to letter-rate postage. Johnstown marks eight years since the flood with memorial observances and flowers on Grand View cemetery where unidentified victims lie.
Toward Mann ridden for George E. Smith's Pittsburgh outfit captured the eleventh Brooklyn handicap at Gravesend on a muddy mile and a quarter. Time 2 0034. Other items note anarchist Dietro Accirito sentenced to life in the galleys, two Chicagoans drowned in Lake Pontoosuc, and ex-sheriff N Pullerton found dead by hanging in Iowa.
Washington June 1 President McKinley will devote effort to Cuba from now until June 10 before leaving for Nashville exposition. A new Spanish minister and likely a Havana consul general are to be named, with Calhoun’s report and a formal note to Spain in Madrid on arrival. The note is expected to offer good offices yet demand reparations and mediation terms, signaling a firm but polite push for a peaceful end to the war. Autonomy on a Canadian basis is favored by many conservatives as a final settlement option.
Reports from Helena say Cheyenne Indians on the warpath near the Crow reservation have killed a sheep herder Hoover and sparked a white settlement exodus. Cavalry from Custer were sent to the agency as settlers mobilize, though no battle has been confirmed.
Frosts Monday morning across Wisconsin caused damage to vegetables fruit and strawberries with some areas near Hurley and St. Paul reporting hard freezes and snows. A Norway town Namso destroyed by fire and other brief notices follow including a Milwaukee accident a Nashville bank case a bank cashier and an edict from Li Hung Chang approving a railway loan in China.
A 100 dollar reward claim appears in the advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Cure. It states the remedy cures catarrh as a constitutional disease and is taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. The ad promises testimonials and lists Toledo, Ohio as the company location, with Druggists selling the product.
A peculiar man complains of loneliness in the city and on earth. He cites egotism among kings diplomats lawyers and people, declaring himself the only consistently moral gentleman, which leaves him feeling isolated. The Washington Star quotation frames his critique of society.
A customer who bought kid gloves notes they fit large and asks for a gallon of molasses a pound of tenpenny nails and a hindquarter of lamb. The saleswoman asks whether to ship or bring them home.
Mornings and evenings in lowlands bring malaria seeds in mist. In miasmatic regions protection comes from Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, promoted as both safeguard and cure. The ad urges all residents to obtain this fortifying agent, claiming relief for dyspepsia constipation kidney trouble and rheumatism.
In a humorous exchange an old gentleman chides a grocer over redundant labeling. The grocer admits some customers think berries are being given away, revealing a practical misunderstanding about signage. The scene captures small town marketplace humor from the Indianapolis Journal.
Cleveland Leader quotes a disturbing assessment of Jonathan Doxey calling him a ruined man who hides his troubles behind appearances. The speaker recalls asking for his daughter's hand in marriage and receiving a silent, uneasy consent, prompting questions about retreat or endurance.
A Chicago Post quotation portrays a weary exchange where a man warns against provoking the editor. The world-wise man says the editor rarely misses when wielding a pen and implies stirring him up is unwise.
A dialogue fragment shows a patron asking for cheaper seating in the pit while confirming his wife returned home safely from a trip. The exchange captures a routine box office interaction and a casual reassurance about a spouse's travel.
A collection of witty sayings and quips from various papers including observations on cooking, etiquette, bicycles, letters, hats, money, and a product plug for Cascaret candy. The fragment preserves era humor and miscellaneous social commentary.
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