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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1905
Page
6
The Express reports on global curiosities and social notes. British officials bar the Irish Guards band from visiting U S cities while rapid telegraph experiments claim to transmit 40000 words per hour between arts and London. A Berlin exhibit features champagne cork curtains.
The text notes mandatory accident and disability insurance for Belgian miners and a voluntary national pension fund established since 1900 giving a $69.50 pension at 65. It also states tobacco’s global prominence, heavy taxation, and the U S revenue from tobacco around $44.5 million annually with peak figures near $62.25 million in 1901, and Britain's tobacco tax about $55 million yearly.
Wheelwright Leo V. Feaster and two natives hunted between the post and Bambang river when a 27 foot monster python approached within ten yards. Feaster fired his carbine, killing the snake. Inside lay a fresh deer carcass about two years old with four inch horns. The deer was carried home for food.
The article notes Cleveland and Harrison remain notable for success in private business and law. It cites Cleveland consulting for law firms leveraging presidential experience, commanding large fees, similar to Harrison's past work as legal adviser and constitutional law lecturer.
Wild cats released by a lumber company years ago at camps and headquarters have multiplied after camps dissolved. Their thousands of descendants now roam northern Minnesota forests, overwhelming local wildlife and altering the ecosystem.
Consul General Guenther of Frankfort urges the state department in a useful communication. He argues that any manufacturable article with steady demand in the United States will sell in Germany if presented properly at a fair price. He notes Americans are generally favorably viewed there despite rival German makers who seek to disparage them.
Metropolitan police report shows 1,925 persons arrested for street begging in London last year, 1,539 convicted and sentenced from one week to three months. It estimates 4,000 beggars living in London with an average weekly income of 30 shillings. Many arrestees carried money or bank books showing deposits in the hundreds of pounds.
Competent authorities note American makers gaining ground in Jamaica with rising demand for agricultural implements furniture boots shoes and hardware. Vice-Consul Orr ett Jamaica advocates reciprocity as a practical path to stronger trade relations through mutual tariff concessions and expanded consumption.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee of Virginia died at Providence hospital Washington at 11 20 p m Friday from apoplexy and paralysis after a rail journey from Boston to Washington. He left behind a wife and five children not present at death. He was nephew of Gen. Robert E Lee and held many posts including Virginia governor, railroad president, collector of internal revenue Lynchburg district, and Havana consul general.
In New York on April 27 Hyman Stern the pawn broker couldn’t identify J Morgan Smith as the man who bought the pistol used to kill Caesar Young The moment was expected to shock but drew only a ripple of surprise Stern also failed to identify Nan Patterson or Mrs Smith as the woman who accompanied the buyer
Berlin announces the German United States tariff accord of 1900 will terminate March 1 1906 when the new reciprocity treaties take effect. Germany remains open to negotiating a new reciprocity pact with the United States.
The Michigan legislature’s lower house on Tuesday passed unanimously the Bland anti trust bill. It defines and declares illegal all corporations seeking monopoly in any business trade or profession and nullifies any agreement restricting individuals from a certain occupation.
A buggy carrying Wendell Whittaker and a Negro named Lapham was struck by a switch engine at the Fortieth street crossing in Cairo. Both men were killed. Whittaker was nephew to Sidney B. Miller the local postmaster.
Early Friday morning George Mahen on Sibley Street shot his wife Hattie three times through the heart, killing her instantly, then fatally shot himself.
Reports from numerous counties show the Hessian fly attacking wheat in Nebraska. Grain men estimate central state fields may suffer about 20 percent damage as the pest devastates crops.
Louis Brandt and John Brandt trading as L. and J. Brandt builders and architects filed a bankruptcy petition in New York on Tuesday. Liabilities are listed at 1,118,001 dollars with assets of 33,048 dollars.
Frank G Bigelow former president of the First National Bank of Milwaukee and ex president of the American Bankers association was arrested on embezzlement charges totaling over 100000 dollars. He confessed to a defalcation affecting 1450000 and faced bail set at 25000.
A private telegram from Tsingtao reports Admiral Kujestvensky's fleet has joined Mebugatoff's detach ment. Naval staff calculations suggest Vice Admiral Nebogatoff may reach Singapore by Friday and join Tonquin bay with Rojestvensky by May 5. Separate note: Taft weighs recalling Bowen to explain Loomis charges.
The funeral will be held at 11 o'clock on Sunday at Croow's Nest. The body arrives from Boston Saturday night. After services at the summer home, interment will follow at Bay View cemetery in Sandwich.
In Tiflis on April 28 an attempt by a peasant mob to maltreat a rich farmer and a priest triggered a confrontation with police and troops. Three peasants were killed and twelve wounded in the ensuing clash. A separate item from Washington reports Assistant Secretary Loomis being accused by Minister Bowen of accepting ten thousand dollars from the New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company to safeguard the company’s interests in Venezuela.
Madison Wis April 26 by a vote of 25 to 84 the state assembly Tuesday passed the Thayer option bill to prevent by remonstrance the establishment of saloons in residence districts.
Chicago April 29 Judge Kohlsaat issues a sweeping federal injunction against all labor unions and others restraining interference with Employers' Teaming Company operations. One hundred defendants named including the Teamsters Joint Council. Returnable May 10. Violations carry fine or imprisonment. Treas ury coin transport between Baltimore & Ohio Chicago station and subtreasury also aided by military guard to prevent government function disruption.
President Roosevelt will break camp May 8 instead of the planned May 15 and proceed to Washington with stops only at Denver and Chicago where reception dates are moved up. Secretary Loeb returned from the camp and said Washington affairs require an earlier start, though no emergency is seen in foreign relations.
A $10,000,000 Carnegie gift will fund annuities for aging or inactive university professors in the US Canada and Newfoundland. A board of trustees to oversee the donation will be formed with United States Steel bonds transferred to fund the effort and data gathered by Dr Pritchett and Frank A Vanderlip for the November 15 meeting.
A Trish boy explains absence to a teacher saying his stepmother keeps him from catching illnesses while his mother has mumps and he must see the doctor. The exchange frames a child’s clever deflection in a public school setting.
Elder asks if dyeing hair is dangerous. Kidder recalls a man of about your age who dyed hair and ended up married to a widow with five children in a cautionary tale from Philadelphia Tess.
Local resident Mr. J. H. Bailey touts Dodd's Widney Pills as the sole cure for diabetes citing a personal course of seven boxes. He asserts the remedy also treats kidney diseases from backache to Bright's Disease and urges strict diet adherence for full recovery.
Advertisement extols Pushecks Kuro as a universal remedy affecting stomach blood and nerves, claiming permanent cures for many diseases by regenerating the entire system. Price is $1 or 50 cents to buy, with money back if it fails, and other health products mentioned along with promotional lines.
The advertisement extols Cuticura as a constitutional and complete treatment. It recommends Cuticura Soap with hot water, the Cuticura Ointment for itching and inflammation, and Cuticura Resolvent Pills to cleanse the blood. It claims many cures of skin and blood troubles and asserts superiority over all other remedies.
A farmer named Corntassel in a Philadelphia Press excerpt considers his son’s future beyond a set profession. He shifts from generic asks to seeking a line of business that could be persuaded to accept him in a lighthearted rural-urban dialogue.
An explosion at the Eleanora shaft near Dubois Pennsylvania on Thursday night leaves twelve dead and one gravely injured with instant deaths and burned bodies. In Wilkesbarre ten miners die after a rope breaks and a cage plunges 400 feet at the Conyngham mine of Delaware and Hudson company.
A mob of 25 men broke into the parish jail at Homer 75 miles northeast of Shreveport after three hours of hammer work and shot Dick Craighead. He had been charged with the murder of Mrs. Ike McKee and her young son.
A Santa Fe passenger train en route from San Francisco to the east was ditched by washed-out track near Ashfork Arizona. The engine toppled killing Engineer Richter and Fireman Morton.
Neighbors entering the home of 74 year old Mrs. Margaret Barry and her 24 year old son William found them dead from coal gas asphyxiation after being attracted by a continuo barking dog on Friday night in Toledo.
A laborer was killed at the world’s fair grounds when the north wall of the horticultural palace blew down in windy conditions on Friday. Also reported, ex governor Alvin Hawkins died at his Huntingdon home in Tennessee at age 83.
Springfield April 28 The house concurred in the senate joint resolution asking national Congress to appropriate 900 000 for the erection of a Lincoln monument at Washington D C The action follows a prior petition for funds to honor the famed president in the capital.
An armed clash at Voukolios in Kissamos Province left three insurgents dead and six wounded while one gendarme died and three were wounded. The engagement occurred on April 29 near Canea Crete.
Centerville lowa April 29 Gen H H Wright adjutant general under Gov I M Drake died at his home Friday. Wright was a prominent politician, high in the republican party. Passes Tuberculosis Bill Springfield Il April 4a The Glack in bill establishing a state sanitarium and appropriating 59000 for treatment passed the house 117 to 1. Bill goes to senate.
Washington April 28 The police census shows the District of Columbia population at 322 572 an increase of 43 854 over the 1900 federal census.
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