21 Jun 1894
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1894
Page
1
The Express notes an old May 1696 envelope now housed at the British Museum London. It mentions rumors of a gasoline and gas stove combine to control industries and jokes about hiring girls who operate them. It also cites a looming New York misdemeanor after September prohibiting publishing potentially libelous information to newspaper reps.
A Vermont society belle recently married a colored hotel porter in Saratoga. In such cases the woman is described as a leading society belle and the groom as having thousands of dollars, underscoring an extraordinary union.
The Chicago council overrode the mayoral veto to prohibit the sale within city limits of cigarettes containing opium morphine jimson weed or belladonna. The public health measure targets narcotic ingredients while other unusual tobacco products remain legal. Napoleon era survivors highlighted reflect on age and endurance.
The article surveys Scandinavian emigration benefiting in the US, notes the allure of affluent life back home, and discusses a method of capturing fragrance. It recalls Connecticut slavery and its abolition, recounts a New Haven sale in 1825, and reviews Britain’s murder charges and verdicts across the year.
The article warns of organized European syndicates financing trips to the United States to recruit American heiresses for marriage profit. It notes strong evidence of the claim and condemns the scheme as a grave threat to American girls amid a broader critique of moral decline and social crime. It also cites a Chicago court ruling on decoy letters affecting post office detection methods and the innocence of a carrier.
A weekly summary notes Senate debates on free coinage of silver and wool in tariff bills, while the House passes funds for a national home in DC for aged colored veterans and advances Indian appropriation bills. It records discussions on tempering tariff duties, women's public school trustees, silk culture, and removal of a warehouse from New York to Chicago.
The director of the mint notes higher gold and silver production and confirms the United States remains the top gold producer. Flames destroyed the Bennings stock yards near Washington causing $125,000 in losses. American Flag Day marked by Suns of the American Revolution on the 14th to honor 117 years since the flag’s adoption. In the week to the 15th, 252 business failures occurred, with clearing house totals at $852,863,607, down from the prior week and 1898 figures.
The state senate investigation revealed police protection for green goods swindlers and lucrative payouts to dull the crime trade. A fatal fire at the Dodge roller mill in Williamsville claimed Henry Dodge amid a $100,000 loss. Erastus Wiman was found guilty of forgery and remanded for sentencing with jury clemency recommended. The national league standings show Baltimore leading at .787 and Chicago at .826. Cornell beat Pennsylvania by five lengths in the Dela ware boat race. William Walter Phelps, diplomat, dies at 54 near Englewood New Jersey. Jersey City abattoir fire destroys 5,000 sheep. loss $1,000,000. Thomas Bayne, ex-congressman, dies by suicide in Washington. William Hart, landscape painter, dies at 72 in Mount Vernon New York.
Wisconsin prohibitionists nominate a full state ticket with J G Cleghorn for governor. The platform calls for prohibition reform of naturalization laws direct money to the people pensions and excluding state aid to sectarian schools.
At Kingman Kansas Oman suf fragists parade editor Brown in gown before brass band. Populists nominate J M Grier in Illinois fifth district John G Blair Kentucky ninth district and C D Chapman Maine fourth. W Henshaw kills father in law Jacob Sutton then dies. Joan Macon shoots two men at Suffernville wedding feud. Eleven bodies found in Mississippi River between St Louis and Cairo. Mine strike coherence seen as broken with many accepting compromise. Illinois Supreme Court denies jurisdiction in senatorial apportionment. Flood damages exceed 2 million, Union Pacific loss 1.5 million in Oregon. Irene McKee dies at 104 in Geneva Indiana born 1790 New York. Gov Stone pardons ex-treasurer W L Themingway. California GOP renominates Bowers. Iowa populists nominate Beebe. Hucy Buncu kills fiancée Ida Gallahorn and dies by suicide. Catherine Greer dies in Chicago aged 107 after leaving Ireland. John Anderson house struck by lightning kills three inmates. Con. John Ellis dies aged after three wars. Terre Haute miners reject Columbus compromise. 10000 strike in Kansas and Missouri. Plot to destroy capitol claimed by H J Jaxon and others.
Reports from Buffalo to Bloomsburg recounts of a man sent to Siberia during a visit home, apologies from Canada for vandalism by soldiers, cholera fears in Russia China and Turkey, Seoul captured by rebels forcing the king into exile, and Panama Army loss of over a million dollars in property. Fires in Yamagata claim 13 lives. death of England’s Lord Chief Justice John Duke Coleridge. A boat capsizing near Ireland sinks harvesters, 180 miners die in Korwin mines, Aziz proclaimed sultan of Morocco, an assassination attempt on Premier Crispi in Rome, and a collision of Russian and Greek ships in the Sea of Azov.
The Senate enters the twelfth week of tariff debate while the bill drafts are completed. Till's bid to place coal and coke on the free list fails. The House reports the deficiency bill of 4,890,508 dollars and discusses the anti option bill. About 15,000 of 20,000 idle Pennsylvanian miners resume work as Coxey returns to Massillon.
Across Ohio Illinois and Indiana the coal strike widens as towns like Columbus Euphrates braceville and Massillon reject the Columbus compromise. Miners demand last year’s 70 cent price and plan resignations of union leaders while state troops guard moving coal. Destitution reports rise in Kentucky as crews refuse to dig.
Erastus Wiman has been found guilty of forgery in the second degree in New York. The jury's ballots shifted from initial mixed verdicts to a final decision of conviction after a juror changed to favor mercy and a recommended mercy posture. The maximum penalty is ten years in state prison.
Lightning struck the house of John Anderson in Menominee Michigan Saturday afternoon killing three men Nels Berkstrom Peter Frenon and Peter Rossmussen Injured Swem Berkstrom and Swem Swanson were sheltering beneath the structure as the storm struck Corner Stone Laid in New York base in Dobbs Ferry to mark Washingtons 1788 headquarters Vice President Stevenson spoke at the ceremony Twenty Six Lives Lost in Azov Sea collision Egyptus and Maroussia both ships sank with most aboard drowned Panama City suffered a major fire burning 150 houses First stories warned of higher losses but later proved inflated
Washington June 19 The Senate investigation into sugar stock dealings concluded with Senator Gray admitting he bought and sold sugar stocks for about twenty months. He said he sold all holdings at a loss before the vote to avoid any influence on his decision and that he would pursue such business in the future. Several other senators denied any purchases or knowledge of purchases by associates or themselves.
William Walther Phelps, noted statesman and diplomat, died at Tea Neck Grange near Englewood New Jersey at 1 45 am Sunday after a prolonged illness. Pneumonia complicated by consumption and other diseases caused the death. He had been unconscious for days, with daughter Baroness von Rottenberg arriving from Berlin as his condition declined. Survived by wife and two sons and daughter. estate valued at 10000000.
Thomas Bayne, ex representative of Pennsylvania's Twenty third district, died by suicide at 10 15 am after a long illness and despair He served eight consecutive terms and was a notable Republican leader Born June 14 1826 in Allegheny PA Bayne fought in the Civil War as colonel of the 136th PA Infantry and later practiced law before entering politics He retired from Congress at the end of the Fifty first Congress and later toured Europe
An Austrian Silesia mine disaster at the Franziska pits in Karwin reports 180 dead and twenty wounded. A 10 o'clock Thursday night explosion at the Franziska pit killed 120, followed by more blasts in Johannes pit. A rescue party of ten perished at dawn as ventilators and fires spread. aid has been dispatched from surrounding areas.
A steamer from China reports a pirate band of eight junks aimed at Tanchi in Hsinning district. Local forces of 500 repelled them, thirty-two pirates killed, three captured, three junks seized, many pirates drowned while fleeing. Eight villagers were wounded, one mortally.
On Thursday night three Italians, after heavy drinking, fought at Coal City. Guns drawn, two men died instantly from heart and head wounds. the killer was jailed. In Ohio seven masked men forced Farmer Crow to surrender money and valuables at his home near Bellaire. A massive fire in Jersey City destroyed the Central Stock and Transit company abattoir and a wire grain elevator, with losses up to $1,000,000 and stocks including meat and 6000 live sheep and lambs.
Bradstreet's weekly trade review notes improvement in Pittsburgh and some southern cities, with better collections in Jacksonville and higher demand for staples in New Orleans and Memphis. Nashville eyes a better fall. Atlanta and Augusta mills active. In the West, Omaha Chicago Detroit show some signals, while Cleveland Cincinnati Milwaukee St Paul remain dull. Railroads report May earnings fell sharply due to coal strikes, with overall May earnings down 17.7 percent. five months total down 14.2 percent, coal-carrier companies down 41 percent from last year.
A Lexow committee inspired expose claims New York police protect green goods swindlers and share profits. The morning paper cites over 10 million dollars yearly illegitimately collected for “protection,” with 8,600 officers on the force and a 1694 budgeted legitimate maintenance sum of 5,189,147 dollars. The report notes extra income from disorderly houses, saloons, gambling dens, merchants, and pushcart pedlars.
London June 16 Lord Chief Justice Coleridge is dead after a brief period of unconsciousness his death was painless His son Bernard will inherit the peerage and Baron Russell is expected to succeed him as lord chief justice Sir John Rigby will become a lord justice of appeals and Robert T Reid will be attorney general while Richard B Haldeman M P will serve as solicitor general The obituary notes Coleridge born 1831 educated at Oxford his career included Portsmouth recorder 1855 queen's counsel 1861 and roles in the house of commons 1865 73 and Gladstone's cabinet 1871 as attorney general and his 1880 appointment lord chief justice.
A four car freight train and caboose of the Greenfield & Northern derailed at Mundays Cut three miles north of Mount Vernon after rocks blocked the track. Fireman Jack White died from severe burns, engineer Rhem suffered burns but will recover, brakeman Bill Samuels escaped unharmed atop the train. Obstruction suspected as tramp-caused wrecking of a southbound passenger train.
Reports from Westport Quay Ireland recount a passenger boat carrying eighty harvesters to Scotland that capsized off Annagh Lead near Achil Island. Initial figures listed thirty drowned, but later reports suggest about fifty perished, with others missing as the craft overturned during the voyage.
Woe in China reports seventeen hundred Chinese dead since May 4 with the plague outbreak. Europeans remain largely immune due to strict precautions. Epidemic wanes amid exodus from Chinese quarters. Also notes Capt Smith Moore’s death in Marquette from apoplexy and North Dakota Populist convention nominees including Edward Wallace for governor and Walter Muir for congress.
A Boston Commercial Bulletin critique extols Stomach Bitters as a potent remedy for rheumatism malaria dyspepsia constipation nervousness and a range of stomach ailments. It lauds the tonic as a blood purifier and warns of discomfort if untreated.
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