09 Mar 1899
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1899
Page
1
Iowa items note aluminium used in France to craft violins with richer tone. A New York doctor says the skull is a brain accommodating structure. Massachusetts faces a gypsy moth infestation requiring $200,000 for eradication after escaped samples.
The Hartford Convention condemns a recent slander against Connecticut as a stale baseless libel and malicious insult. It labels the claim a disgrace while noting national misconceptions about the state’s pride in the emblem.
A West African visitor in England, touring with a missionary society, views photographs and asks, What is this. He learns the image shows a snapshot from a rugby football scrimmage and questions why his church has no missionaries sent among these people.
Last January proved record breaking on Wall Street with 25 trading days. Daily sales nearly reached one million dollars and daily bond sales approached six million. Entire month set new records each day and week, marking an unprecedented period of activity.
A western editor who printed the motto We tell the truth was forced to publish a notice stating Until we recover from the injuries recently received this paper will be just like the rest of them. The incident followed objections from several gentlemen to the truth.
The Chicago Tribune notes prize fighting is less brutal than the six day bicycle race. It highlights the public fascination with watching riders endure extreme fatigue and horror in the spectacle, suggesting public sentiment would object if competitors were horses.
Norway passes a law banning tobacco sales to anyone under 16 without signed adult orders. Tourists who offer cigarettes to youths face prosecution. Police may seize tobacco products from minors smoking in public and impose fines from 50 cents to 25 dollars.
A high insider in life insurance circles claims major companies are paying out unprecedented death by own action claims. He notes the public underestimates the scale and estimates aggregate payments last year averaged about 1.5 million dollars per large company.
Ulysses S. Grant of San Diego is named president of the Grant Family association. Rev Dr Roland D. Grant of Concord New Hampshire is first vice president Dr Thomas D. Grant of Louisville Kentucky is second vice president Franz Grant of Westfield Massachusetts is secretary and treasurer Rev Arthur H. Grant of Montclair New Jersey is recorder. The group includes descendants of Matthew Grant of Windsor Connecticut and biennial reunions are planned in Windsor with the first on October 27.
The Mount Vernon estate and buildings have been carefully preserved by The Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union founded in 1854. The work reflects the intelligent effort of patriotic American women whose faith and energy transformed a distant idea into a realized national treasure praised by every visitor.
The article notes Julius Caesar's ashes discovered in the Roman forum beneath a column dedicated by Augustus. It reflects on how contemporaries valued Augustus more then, and compares the find to the Romulus burial stone unearthed recently.
World totals show 1,288,163 telephones with 1,509,499 miles of lines. The United States accounts for over half of instruments at 772,627, while Germany has 151,101 and Britain and Ireland 69,645. Other countries include Sweden 60,000, Canada 33,500, Switzerland 88,646, France 27,730, Norway 20,678.
A week of activity in Washington ends as the Fifty-fifth Congress adjourns at noon. Senate passes fortifications and Alaska criminal code, river and harbor bill, and key army and deficiency measures. House approves Niagara and Toledo expo funds and river and harbor conference report. Promotions for Dewey Otis Sampson and Schley confirmed. Members sing patriotic songs as the president extends best wishes.
In Washington the president signed a bill creating the rank of admiral and making George Dewey an admiral. The war department inquiry found worms in canned beef. McKinley signed $20 million to fund peace treaty provisions with Spain. Gen Otis in Manila to be reinforced by six regiments. Congressman John W. Crawford died in Washington of heart disease at 36. Congressional estimates total $675,885,489 for the Fifty fifth Congress. Merriam nomination to direct the census was confirmed. Osborn W. Deignan named naval cadet and Merrimac hero.
The week ended April 3 saw 186 business failures in the United States, down from 191 and 251 a year earlier. Clearing-house totals reached $2.151 billion, up on the prior week. Fatal incidents include a Boston tenement fire killing two and injuring one, a Huntington wreck killing a engineer and a fireman, a lightning strike in Chiltonville killing a church bell ringer, the death of artist Michael Angelo Woolf in New York, and a Torrington murder-suicide.
Fire wipes 26 homes and a church in Shreveport. Clyde Cole killed by Burt Grundy in Nebraska, then Grundy dies. A Texas mother poisons herself after roughing rats for children. White Pine boarding house fire claims five lives. Des Moines GOP set August 9 for nominating officers. Curban army reported at 48 000 by Gomez to Governor General Brooke. Farmhouse fire near Onawa kills Mrs McGee and two children. W P Sprague dies of blood poisoning in Ohio. Mrs Stevenson's death noted in Bloomington. Charleston flood submerges city. East Tennessee cyclone causes $3 million in losses. Hutchinson family drowns fording swollen stream. Rhinehart children burned to death in Walker's Valley.
Reports from Madrid describe a plot to overthrow the dynasty with suspects under surveillance. Admiral Montejo faces imprisonment for Manila conduct as a Spanish squadron commander. A 20 000 stand arms shipment to the Philippines is seized in Japanese waters. A powder magazine explosion in La Goubran kills 40 and injures 100. In Macedonia fighting between Albanians Muslims and Turkish troops leaves many dead. J M Cook founder of the Cook's excursion agency dies at Walton on Thames aged 65. The Cheribon carries Spain's Cuban army contingent to Valencia. Spain's new ministry led by Senor Silvela takes office as the cortes dissolve for an April election. Maj Gen Otis predicts the Philippines war will largely end in three months. At Manila Dewey raises the admiral's flag on the Olympia, greeted by warships and forts.
Reports say Filipino attackers lost 17 killed and many wounded while two Americans were wounded six miles from Manila. Other items note Indiana's Sixty first assembly adjourned sine die, DC liquor sale ban proposed, and various national events.
United States consul general John K. Gowdy presided at the annual banquet of American university men in Paris. Cecil Rhodes predicts U.S. dominance of the American hemisphere within a century except Canada. A Kentucky court of appeals rules $700 not excessive to kiss a married woman against her will. Christiania readies an arctic expedition to Walter Welman. President Zelaya hosts U.S. Minister William L. Merry in Managua. Elizabeth Bigg dies in London aged 91 after 74 years in bed since a spine injury in 1824. The American Sunday School union marks its 75th anniversary in May with a monster Philadelphia meeting. Congressional Temperance Society holds memorial for Rep Dingley. National Federation of Musical Clubs to meet in St. Louis May 3–6 with Mrs. Edwin F. Uhl presiding. Italian inventor Sig Cardosa claims a screw propeller will double ship speed and halve coal use. Grant Family Association to reunite descendants in Old Windsor October 27. McKinley may attend Moravian College centennial exercises June 14. W F Kettenbach of Lewiston Idaho, at 24, becomes the youngest U.S. bank president at the National Bank of Lewiston.
The La Goubran magazine near Toulon blew up at 2:30 AM, killing all on duty and injuring about 100. Forty corpses recovered, many more missing, with debris clearing under harsh conditions. Relief funds and mourning marks spread as officials aid victims.
Nashville Illinois March 6 All that remains of Old Kaskaskia the first capital of Illinois and a historic settlement in the Mississippi valley will vanish as the Mississippi river shifts flood the area. Only a few hundred feet of the village survive as the river washes away the tavern where Lafayette dined in 1825 the old statehouse and the cemetery have fallen to the waters.
Charleston West Virginia reports one of the worst floods in local history after days of heavy rain. The Kanawha Elk rivers have risen rapidly flooding the valley and submerging much of the state capital area. Relief stations opened by the mayor and leaders distribute provisions and clothing. Additional flooding threats remain in Richmond Virginia as James River rises toward disaster levels. In Kentucky Gen Cassius Clay’s friends fear mental collapse after turmoil involving his former wife and a bid for aid.
Representative Joseph G Cannon summarizes a total Congress appropriation of 1 566 890 016 28 dollars with 673 658 400 for the just closed session, notes a 219 573 000 reduction from the prior session and cites war expenses and future contracts totaling about 70 000 000 as added measures.
A March cyclone struck Madisonville in Monroe County, killing three people, injuring ten to twelve, and destroying 12 to 15 houses and several barns. Jack Moser, his wife, and Ed J. Horton perished as the storm roared through the area. In Decatur a wind hail and lightning storm caused four deaths and damaged a steamer raft near Whitesburg.
Madrid reports the new cabinet sworn in on Saturday with Benor Silvela as premier and foreign affairs minister, Dato interior, Villa Verde finance, Duran justice, Polievaja war, Pidal public affairs and colonies, and Imaz marine. In a separate note, a Madrid supreme court case aims to imprison Generals Jaudenes and Toral amid calls for accountability.
The first section of a fast newspaper train was wrecked one mile east of Huntington by a landslide after heavy rain. Engineer Robert McCutchin and fireman J C Trace of Harrisburg were killed instantly, caught under debris. McCutchin burned beyond recognition. Germany renews purchase talks for Caroline islands in Madrid.
Manila reports Gen Otis expects the fighting to finish within three months as Lawton’s division strengthens the line around Manila and a decisive push against Caloocan and Malolos is planned. Dewey urges immediate attack and occupation while Otis seeks conditional surrender from Aguinaldo.
Washington March 6 British ambassador Sir Julian Pauncefote asked Secretary Long to thank the United States for offering the Brooklyn to carry Lord Herschell's body to England. He said Britain would use a vessel from its Bermuda squadron, likely the cruiser Talbot, for the mission. Death of Mrs. Stevenson Peoria Ill March 6 Mrs Sarah Stevenson mother of Adlai Stevenson died at 2 30 am after several weeks illness She was 90.
Plymouth Massachusetts March 6 William H Hoxie aged 68 was struck by lightning and killed while ringing the bell of the Congregational church in Chiltonville The lightning also wrecked the tower and front of the church Three children perished in Sedro Woolley Washington March 6 the Rhinehart children were burned to death after being locked in a house while parents worked in the woods The bubonic plague rages in London with 972 deaths last week official returns show record severity and high mortality
A health column condemns washboards as back breaking and harmful. It advocates adopting the Rocket Washer from Rocket Washer Company of Fort Wayne Indiana as a faster, cleaner, healthier alternative, claiming wives and households gain health and happiness by switching.
Choice cleared stump lands in Central and Western Michigan suitable for fruit and general farming. Very low prices and favorable terms to actual settlers. Panels lent schools and markets. Written by H. H. grand Agent C. & W.M. and D. G. W. R'ys, Grand Rapids, Mich.
A Powerbul locomotive pulls modern Pullman Sleeping Dining Cafe Parlor Cars and fine coaches making travel pleasant. Two trains depart Chicago daily for St. Paul Minneapolis Ashland and Duluth via Wisconsin Central lines. See C Pond Gen Pass Agent Milwaukee for details.
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