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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1900
Page
3
A fund raised by United States navy officers aims to present a model recreating the battleship Maine to Miss Helen Gould. A $20,000 gold prize at the Paris exposition seeks the best life saving device for sea use. American inventors submitted 112 models.
A Chicago jury that freed a man to marry him was invited to the wedding as a matter of course, illustrating the belief that juries may determine penalties.
The piece notes a wave of humor about a so called sweet girl graduate and suggests abolishing the graduating essay. It then jokes that the mother in law proposal could follow but will not be carried out.
A Bostonian who recently paid twenty thousand dollars for a flower has now paid ten thousand dollars for a coach horse. The remark implies the horse might eat the flower and choke himself, a cruel test of fate for the high priced pair.
A campaign seeks funds to preserve the Longfellow house on Congress Street in Portland as a city landmark. The interior remains as when the poet lived there. Jam Lee of San Francisco is noted as the only ordained Chinese Gospel minister in regular use, with a church in Oakland and ties to his countrymen.
Cincinnati inventor John Rule unveils a novel slot machine that dispenses newspapers inside streetcars. The device aims to supply business travelers with reading material at the start of their morning trip, turning transit time into a newspaper moment.
Col Pope, a noted bicycle maker, predicts cars will soon be affordable for everyone. He says the price drop will surpass bicycle market declines, and a two person first class automobile may cost as low as 250 dollars in the near future.
Ground has been broken in Philadelphia for the Metropolitan Baptist Church. The entire structure will be built by colored labor from basement to roof including interior finishing. The church was designed by a colored architect with a colored contractor and all tradesmen employed will be colored.
The passage envisions a future where autos replace horses on western ranches and cowboys shed horsemanship for machines. It imagines the end of classic frontier romance with nicknames like Autemo Vete and Busted Tire Cornelius replacing Quariat Luke and Broncho Bill as the cowboy myth evolves.
Foreign visitors note the simple cordial reception of Presidents McKinley and Governor Roosevelt by the American people at the ecumenical gathering in New York. They contrast this with European royal displays, emphasizing that in America the people themselves are the sovereigns.
Miss Sarah E. Bradford of Palmer Massachusetts, a lineal descendant of colonial Gov. Bradford, died at age sixty nine. Her motto, found after death on her mantel, urged kindness to others in the brief life we lead, as we all shall pass this way but once.
The Electrical Review notes rapid expansion of electric motors in small appliances and medical devices. A standout is an electric saw that cuts bone and tissue at high speed, used in major New York City hospitals where slow hand saws could cost lives due to delays.
Senate debated troop withdrawal from Cuba and a resolution by Senator Mason. House passed post office funds bill and a census director salary rise. Senate ratified the Spain Philippines citizenship treaty. Nathan B. Scott seated. Private pensions approved including widow Stotsenberg. Senate sympathy for Boers offered. House tackled US claims against Spain from the Paris treaty.
In Washington Admiral Dewey was presented with a watch bought by one cent from 500000 children in the northwest. The president and Mrs. McKinley arrived in Washington from Canton. American contributions to aid starving India will reach $350000.
Auction sale of the Fifth Avenue Hotel and Madison Square Theater in New York yielded 4 225 000 dollars. National baseball standings show Philadelphia and St Louis at .667 and Brooklyn at .625 for the week ending the 29th.
The dispatch highlights diverse incidents from the era: new Porto Rico governor Charles H. Allen arrives in San Juan. Texas floods drown six and damage property. Grant’s birthday celebration nationwide. Gov Roosevelt speaks in Galena. Adolph Landauer files bankruptcy in Milwaukee. a double tragedy near Coloma Wisconsin. Chicago bank robbery. Congress nominations in Nebraska and Ohio. a jealous shooting in Sharon Township. a Cuban governor’s wife’s death tied to burns. Susan Simmons Winans’ Chicago birth anniversary note. Atlas Brewing plant fire in Chicago. Washington’s Goebel indictment return. a Chicago double homicide by Edmonds. burn deaths in Wisconsin. extensive blueberrie fires in Jackson County. Boer forces evading Roberts cordon. mob hanging in Marshall Missouri.
Near Otter Lake Mrs James Simonds killed herself and her baby by jumping before an express train. In Minnehaha County South Dakota Willis E Mayne wed Miss Eunice Arnson while Mayne’s first wife lay in the house awaiting burial.
Reports say fire from JTull Ontario crossed the river into Ottawa destroying 2000 buildings and causing 17 million to 20 million dollars in damage with seven deaths. Meantime Boer operations slow toward Pretoria while Berlin dismisses meat embargo rumors.
Senate refuses to consider a sympathy resolution for Boers. Porto Rico bill conference report approved and a 40000 dollar appropriation for Burlington IA public building. House passes bill broadening agriculture powers and prohibiting interstate commerce in locally outlawed game. Jt resolution targets polygamists for Senate seats referred to judiciary. Amended Porto Rico bill passed. George Gordon hanged in Mississippi. Michigan forest fires destroy Ames and Nathan, 16 buildings at Gladwin and 7 at Athens, many homeless. boiler explosion at Tifton GA kills 2, injures 3. McKinley signs Hawaiian bill. Admiral Dewey greeted in Chicago. Writer Jennie Drinkwater Conklin dies. Benedict gives daughter 1,000,000 at Hastings wedding. Beaver Dam WI iron works burned, loss over 100,000. Tom's Creek VA mine suffocates six. Kentucky governor case argued in Supreme Court. Canada militia mobilizes for Fenian raid. Kiowa Comanche Indians facing starvation in Oklahoma. Boers raid near Bloemfontein. Windsorton occupied. Mafeking relief blocked. 48-hour warning for Transvaal residents.
An American laundry plant ships to China amid rising prosperity in Mexico cited by statistics. Reports note coal ease in Shansi at 13 cents per ton. New York players aid people in a burning building. 1899 U S coal output estimated at 250,539,650 tons, up 1.5 percent. Roosevelt signs seats for waitresses bill in New York. European wages listed for maids laborers carpenters. Minneapolis runs three public playgrounds costing 300 dollars. Watches demand described as historically high. David T. Haraden dies after 74 years with one piano firm. A New Jersey syndicate forms to control turquoise. Philadelphia passes a rule banning loose circulars under doors and porches. Napoleon II cradle to be exhibited in Paris loan. Francis Murphy marks 65th birthday during Indianapolis meetings. Carnegie argues in Century that trusts can benefit all in capital essay. Connecticut Justice Baldwin backs whipping posts for petty offenses and life imprisonment for incorrigibles.
Admiral George Dewey visits Chicago amid a 5 000 strong crowd at Grand Central and a city reception. Mayor Harrison welcomes him as 17 gun salutes sound from the Michigan and Morrill as ballroom guests mingle with naval officers and dignitaries at the Auditorium Annex.
London dispatches report Boers active west of Bloemfontein between fourteen Streams and Kimberley with Windsorton occupied and threats to disrupt Warren ton communications as Gen. Hunter prepares a 200 mile Mafeking march. Maseru intelligence places main Boer force near Leeuw River and outposts near Karee Siding. Mixed casualty notes and muttered political resignation rumors accompany ongoing maneuvers in the theater.
The morning session on May 1 at Carnegie Hall focused on Medical Work within missions. Papers discussed various aspects of medical duties and their relation to missionary effort with Dr Henry Foster leading devotional exercises. Reverend K S Macdonald, senior Free Church of Scotland worker in Calcutta, was noted as editor of the Indian Evangelical Review.
Chicago hosts the Methodist Episcopal Church quadrennial conference with about 725 delegates and an attendance near 15 000. Sessions open Wednesday at the Auditorium and discuss religious political and economical topics shaping church state relations and labor capital questions.
A May Day string of fires across Michigan and Alabama left 16 buildings destroyed in Gladwin including the Methodist church and depot with $50,000 in total losses. Elsewhere Ames and Athens suffered heavy damage. storm in Selma caused tornado and hail damage. Notable death in Boston as Francis Gilbert Atwood dies. Mines in Wise county report fatal suffocations and flooding. Milwaukee confirms GOP convention arrangements.
Gov. Pingree disputed a local paper interview quoting him on this year's election as well as remarks on trusts. He said the report stemmed from a private conversation overheard after he refused to discuss politics for publication. He demanded corrections.
Kentucky circuit court arraigned Caleb Powers and four others for the murder of William Goebel with pleas of not guilty. The court denied a venue change prior to arraignment. Also reported are a Greenwich marriage with a million dollar gift, Corea refusing mining concessions to Americans, Beaver Dam fire destroying a malleable iron works plant and railway depot, and Edward E. Rice declaring bankruptcy with liabilities listed.
Opinion argues aristocratic luxury weakens vigor and causes national decline. It cites indigestion and nerve strain from late suppers as undermining health. Advocates Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a remedy to purify blood strengthen the stomach and cure constipation and biliousness.
A Chicago showman advertised a piano playing elephant drawing crowds for the first performance. After a brief spiel the animal lifted its trunk and bellowed then stopped. The performer announced the act halted because the elephant recognized his dead mother’s teeth in the piano keys.
A new Colorado book by James W. Steele, richly illustrated and artistically printed, is offered by Mr. P. S. Eustis of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. Copies cost six cents postage. request letters should go to Mr. Eustis at 209 Adams Street, Chicago.
A visitor at a Columbia Missouri school问 asks a lower grade pupil what is the earth axis. The pupil defines it as an imaginary line pole to pole and adds a bonnet can be hung on it, prompting amused exchange.
A Philadelphia Press item presents a dialogue where a daughter recalls a man kissing her after asking permission. She says she refused, insisting she would be very angry if kissed without consent, highlighting a teachable moment on boundaries and assertive refusals.
An advertisement touts Kemp's Balsam as stopping coughing immediately with free sample bottles from druggists. It promotes large bottles priced at 25 and 50 cents and urges immediate use, warning that delays are dangerous.
A collage of quirky quotes and adlines from multiple papers. Snippets gesture at relationships divorces and remarriage rumors. Also includes an ad pitch for Purnaw’s Dyes and a cold remedy claim. The tone mimics tabloid miscellany across Cleveland Philadelphia Atchison Chicago and others.
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