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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1900
Page
2
Mr Geo Drury, a Davenport and Monticello passenger brakeman, was flung from a box car during yard switching. He struck his head on a rail, suffered a seven stitch forehead wound and a possible skull fracture, and remains unable to work for weeks. The incident occurred early in the week at Davenport.
Jacob Schneider indicted for maiming Michael Hogan Jr. seeks a change of venue citing county prejudice, threats, editorials, and mob sentiment. Affidavits from local residents urge a fair trial away from Monticello, with trial set for March 21 and local caucus news included.
In Monticello the Republican general caucus met at City Hall last Tuesday with strong turnout. Officers elected included D. E. Pond as chairman and E. Reed as secretary. Ballots named candidates for mayor and city offices with Schaeffer and Eastwood among top choices. ward caucus followed naming committee members and an alderman nominee.
Collis P Huntington’s private secretary Miles asked for more pay. Huntington asked if he could manage without it but later used funds to buy property for Miles and later sold it for a profit of 50,000 dollars for his wife’s investment. The tale appears in the San Francisco Argonaut. A live bird on a hat causes a Chicago woman to be the focus in a lunchroom when a sparrow perched on her hat and was shooed away by a waiter. The Chateau de Prefargier near Neuchatel, known as a lunatic asylum, is tied to a Dreyfus case letter from a pretargier inviting Beaurepaire to stay.
The article cites A N Keane on pliocene men and Homo varieties, notes misattributed book covers in London secondhand stalls, and quotes a Chicago Times Herald exchange about a vacation and a girl preferring her new automobile, with other brief anecdotes from the era.
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