09 May 1895
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1895
Page
1
An unnamed Nebraska boy hanged himself to test if death by hanging is painful, the coroner calling the method painful. Elsewhere a desperado Biu Cook serves a forty five year sentence and works in Albany penitentiary making shirts. New York approves a law requiring cities with populations over 60,000 to establish free public bath houses.
Many residents accumulate dead bodies through the week to hold Sunday funerals. A ministers’ meeting was held recently to protest this practice.
A Dominican friar named Father Calendolid is credited with creating an electrical typesetting machine said to be five times faster than contemporary machines. The remark prompts musings on the limitless potential and future of printing technology.
The law proved expensive for Kentucky as it paid at least 114 dollars to extradite a thief from Ohio who had stolen a two dollar hog. Ohio kept the hog and avoided any payment.
The piece notes French losing ground to English and German, with English spreading worldwide and poised to become a universal language. It mentions the duchess of Marlborough funding a marriage to an Englishman, and observes Americans seeking foreign titled husbands despite high costs.
Gen. Alexander McCoog, last of the fighting McCooks, is placed on the army retired list. For nearly fifty years no family member remains on active duty, a lineage that included father and nine sons who served the Union and four who rose to general ranks. A separate note recalls a New York dry goods firm failure with an English lender who invested $25,000 in 1847 and, through 48 years of compound growth, earned $154,000 in credit.
Secret service and officials have learned that Canadian counterfeiters are selling United States stamps in Chicago at discounts. Genuine stamps fetch par value, so buyers paying less raise strong suspicion of bogus or illegally obtained stamps.
Patriotic American girls place a tablet at the spot where Gen Montgomery fell in Quebec and seek a monument. Canadian officials have given permission for the erection, a graceful gesture of friendship and courtesy welcomed on this side of the border.
The speaker laments fashion industry elites who profit from shifting trends and ridicule the women who follow them. They warn that women are labeled foolish for wearing whatever style is demanded, noting oppressive bonnets and balloon sleeves as examples of contrived disguises of beauty.
The New York Press reports a sale of blooded horses at Madison Square Garden where top pedigreed animals that two years ago would fetch about 61 400 now bring 150 to 100. Dora Thorne sire Egthorne’s yearling sold for 175 after previously fetching 500. Horses once worth 300 now go for about 50 and hack horses down to 10 and even 5.
April federal receipts 24.25 million and expenditures 32.08 million yield a monthly deficit of 8.70 million. public debt rises by 19.11 million in April while cash balance stands at 180.82 million. Gold and minor coinage total 5.30 million. Reports of business failures, wage pressures in Pittsburgh, weather-linked destruction in multiple states and notable deaths including Gen. John Newton and William Ward accompany a torrent of financial and calamity notes.
A sweeping notice lists fires destroying Wilkins Ketcham & Rothschild’s Chicago factory causing $100 000 loss. A Burlington train robbery near St Joseph Missouri ends with two dead and one wounded. A Patterson Kansas cyclone kills ten and devastates twenty houses. Heavy rains mix with rising crop prospects across Minnesota Wisconsin Iowa Missouri and Texas. A South Bend Laforte area cyclone destroys sixty buildings and burns twins. Newton Kansas cyclone death toll grows. Notorious outlaws Slaughter Kid and Bitter Creek killed. Grant Poule shoots a witness in Tennessee. Captain John Brown dies at Put in Bay aged 74. Omaha banker Megquier commits suicide. Dr. Alleyne dies of apoplexy. Miss Zoe Lark shoots stepdaughter in Oklahoma. Lightning kills a Nashville Michigan pair. St Joseph tornado blows down many structures. Tennessee legislature declares Turney governor. Sioux County cyclone leaves fifty-two dead and widespread destruction. Storm path from Sioux Center to Perkins wipes out all buildings in its reach.
Reports include a Cuba insurgent clash with 72 killed, Japan Russia tensions escalated, Wilde trial deadlocked, Italy demanding payment from Brazil, and China and Japan conflicting over treaty ratifications. Alaska gale sinks the George K White with 17 missing or dead. Nicaragua accepts Britain’s ultimatum ending a long dispute.
A rapid-fire digest notes drownings near New Orleans. Japan renounces Liao Tung claim. Buffalo area fire loss hits 250000. A clerk kills wife then suicides in New York. Insurgent Cuba fires burn towns. Butte treasurer dies as term ends. Cloudburst ruins Dayton Tennessee. School board killings in Como Colorado. 114 year old man dies in New Jersey. Greenwood Michigan wiped out by forest fire. Grain stocks chart shows Wheat 62,196,000 bushels.
Reports from Sioux Center Doon and Sibley recount dozens killed or missing after a Friday cyclone. At Sioux Center sixteen died and Perkins, Doon, and Sibley saw heavy losses. Lightning and flooding spread across Redfield and West Sioux Falls with property damage and rising rivers. Other counties reported drenching rain, hail, and multiple fatalities from Wisconsin to Illinois. Community leaders plan relief funding as early tallies estimate 75 to 100 deaths with potential totals reaching 300.
May day unrest spreads from Ohio miners to Pocahontas and Flat Top coal regions with thousands on strike and wages fought over. Nonunion iron and steel workers in Pennsylvania face a new battle as Amalgamated seeks a wage scale, while South Chicago clashes involve grain trimmers. Brick yards in Chicago shut as 1,560 are displaced by belt boy strikes.
Official figures show a sharp nine month decline in U S immigration ending March 31 1895 with 140 940 arrivals from Europe and other regions down 77 664 from the previous year. Italy and Russia show the strongest illiteracy among arrivals while Ireland England Germany Russia and Italy lead origin nations.
Claus Blixt pleads guilty to the murder of Catherine Ging in Minneapolis Minnesota. He changes from not guilty to guilty before Judge Pond and is sentenced to life imprisonment with trial scheduled for May 14.
A feud between the Townsend and Fulgham families in New Bern ends with four dead on Main Street, R W Townsend his son Beauregard and two Fulghams after a disputed trigger event. Neighbors report a sudden fusillade as darkness fell.
A playful exchange from Harper's Young People explains that twins are two children of the same age from the same parents, clarifying a common misconception about family terms.
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