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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1903
Page
3
The Express notes Rockefeller surpasses the combined wealth of the Rothschilds. Prof Walkoff of Munich suggests our ancient ancestors walked upright but lacked speech, contrasting with modern progress. Bishop Le Roy arrives to study the negro problem in the United States.
Projections show Klondike and Alaska regions may produce about 25 million dollars in gold this season, with 1902 output only slightly larger. The season has already begun in most of the Klondike.
Two German explorers propose a specially built submarine boat to reach the north pole beneath the ice. The plan is new though the outcome echoes a long line of failed surface and unique methods by others who sought the pole.
The president of Mexico, Diaz, confirms candidacy and vows reelection without opposition for a sixth four year term. The writers praise his faithful and effective leadership as among the greatest ruling figures.
The 1902 death rate in Cuba stood at 21.19 per 1000 while Washington DC registered 21.21 per 1000, suggesting Cuba was as healthy as the capital. Earlier figures show 1898 reconcentration camps had a 91.08 per 1000 rate, with the regime’s lowest at 29.30 per 1000 in 1885.
A delegation of 44 German landholders and agricultural experts tours the United States. They will travel about 10 000 miles to view diverse American farming operations and gain a clear sense of the scale and variety of farming activity here.
The Boston Herald notes President Eliot's call for happiness without money but points out that poor people doubt such a message. It suggests only the wealthy may fully grasp the hollowness of riches while the poor are willing to risk money.
Thousands who know him or have heard him sing will learn with regret that Jra D Sankey is hopelessly and permanently blind. His son cites his calm resignation and Christian spirit noting he says God gives and God takes away it is God’s will.
The measure allowing Englishmen to wed the sisters of their deceased wives has cleared the house of commons for the sixteenth time but is once again blocked by the house of lords. The piece notes enduring opposition and hints at a eventual decisive public sentiment.
In one day two eastbound steamers ferried more than 1,000 passengers in steerage to Europe. The migration tide goes out as well as in. The year’s steerage departures from Atlantic liners plus migrants to British America's wheat belt are expected to equal about half of arrivals.
An enduring belief paints the bloodhound as a brutal savage, justifying its use only as a last resort. In reality the breed shows an extraordinary sense of smell and usually avoids attacking, instead becoming friendly when a suspect is overtaken.
European rulers follow the example of American presidents by undertaking extended tours. Roosevelt’s itinerary was published and now France’s president, King Edward, Emperor William, and the czar plan trips abroad. Differences remain: Roosevelt travels within the United States while others travel overseas to meet foreign rulers and constituents.
The report notes cheap coal prospects for next winter, no major labor issues, and settled wages in bituminous and anthracite sectors. Bituminous output rose from 224,449,000 tons in 1901 to 254,738,804 tons in 1902 and is expected to climb in 1903, while anthracite production fell in 1902 but should be higher this year.
A week of national coverage reports Congress approved 753 million dollars in appropriations and created 9 501 new offices. The post office controversy involves Andrew J Day and Quindocquia Maryland. Navy recruiting suspended due to contagious diseases aboard ships. A three week inquiry will examine post office scandals amid widespread corruption findings.
The mayor suppresses street Mormon preaching in New York City amid unrest reports. Moody Merrill, a New Mexico bank president, under arrest in New York for a decade old embezzlement, alleged as a scapegoat for a relative. Also notes on clearinghouse totals, business failures, labor unions, forest fires, bank thefts, baseball standings, bishop Starkey death, and a double homicide suicide in Pa.
A sweeping 1900s period wrap reports grocers battling manufacturers in Milwaukee over department store sales, Denver unions striking 12500 workers, Oberlin dedicating a missionary memorial arch, a foster child death near North Yakima, a deadly trolley crash in Indianapolis, Roosevelt's Yosemite trip, an assassination plot disclosure in Oakland, a fatal Chicago fire at Westchester flats, vandalism against Evanston churches, moonshine poison deaths in Arkansas, a Kentucky murder and suicides in prisons, hostile race violence near Burns Mississippi, and nationwide weather as well as local disasters and political bribes.
Former Mayor Ames of Minneapolis receives six years at hard labor in the state penitentiary after pleading guilty to accepting a bribe during his term in office.
Cholera claims the former Filipino foreign minister Goh Mabini in Manila. Kishinev riots in Russia leave about 1,000 victims with 65 dead and over 300 maimed. Chamberlain warns Britain on free trade in Birmingham. Mrs Pierre Lorillard robbed of jewels worth 50000 dollars en route Paris Calais. Reports confirm pogroms against Jews in Nishineff with police complicity. Opera singer Sybil Sanderson dies in Paris. Europe watches Russian moves in the Balkans amid Bulgarian tension. Captain Overton and Private Noyes killed by prisoners in the Philippines. John Muir touts a hog hide tanning method as rubber substitute in Scotland. A ministerial circular may drive Jewish emigration to America.
President Roosevelt’s coach arrived in Raymond after ten hours actual travel from Yosemite with the train waiting, breaking road records. A blizzard in Montana kills thousands of lambs and a rock slide near Palisades, Colorado kills a engineer and fireman. Robbers loot Culver State Bank in Kansas for $3000 then flee on a handcar. Fifty Pinkertons strike for higher pay in Chicago.
Reports include eight million feet of timber burned in Pennsylvania forest fires and fears of anti Jewish outbreaks in southwestern Russia due to economic distress. Other notes recount a Boston civic figure confessing to doodle schemes, Christian casualties near Monastir, dog exhibition bans in Vienna, transit plans for New York, a Boston family body found in Seattle, and a search for a missing official in Montana. Also mentioned are Mexican silver dollars set as legal tender, a St Louis to Kansas City rail link, coal operator consolidations, farmer labor shortages, country summer work offers, an incident of a flag torn down in Manila amid a Filipino play, and related upheaval.
Dispatches from Odessa Kishineff and St. Petersburg report an expected massacre of Jews from May 18 to 24 old style with an exodus underway wealthier Hebrews sell property and flee meanwhile authorities tighten czarist security in St Petersburg and a government circular forbids Jews to defend themselves prompting emigration and lawsuits totaling about 1.5 million dollars in damages.
Seymour W. Tulloch former cashier of Washington post office accuses Perry Heath and other high officials of corruption. He says Platt's bonding company favored, Porto Rico furniture purchase and extravagant spending noted. An inspector general report is expected in three weeks detailing hundreds of corruption cases and political pressure to suppress details.
Minneapolis judge sentenced former Mayor A. A. Ames to six years at hard labor in the state penitentiary after an appeal hearing. A $19,000 bond, signed by multiple local brewers, was accepted, delaying imprisonment until the supreme court rules on the appeal. Also, Bishop Thomas Alfred Starkey of Newark died at his home after long service, at age 15 years into his bishopric.
Victim in Springfield dies from cigarette smoking at a St Paris sanitarium. Cleveland delegates condemn blue laws at Ohio convention with next meeting set for Dayton. Chicago magistrate W T Hall dies in Colorado Springs during visit. wife to accompany remains to Chicago.
Paris May 18 Sybil Sanderson the American opera singer died suddenly Saturday of pneumonia after a grip attack. Born December 7 1865 in Sacramento she studied in France and rose to fame in Massenets works. Her planned summer marriage to Count Tolstoi sparked headlines and her will with Antonio Terry left major fortune to her with a condition.
Manila May 18 Captain Overton of the Fifteenth cavalry and Private Noyes were killed and Private Hartlow wounded in a bolo rush by insurgent prisoners they guarded at Sneatlan Mindanao while pursuing Flores. Overton criticized for guarding 50 prisoners with three men.
Chillicothe Ohio marks the centennial of statehood with a week long program through next Thursday. Surviving former governors will attend with Gov Nash and Senators Foraker and Hanna, plus Ohio congressmen, state officers, and legislators. Chillicothe, the former state capital, is heavily decorated. churches observed the day.
Continued southerly winds bring drought in Porto Rico delaying the new cane crop harming cattle due to scarce water and food. Orange blossoms drop, crops are limited with coffee in good condition amid minor whirlwinds. A bronze tablet will be placed in Canton courthouse to mark McKinley lying in state.
In Birmingham Alabama on May 18 burglars entered Jack W. Johnson’s private office at the Union passenger station and took seven thousand dollars from the safe.
Chicago May 18. Farmers tools makers plan an appeal to the president stating the industry is in the grasp of 33 trusts, with International Harvester the sole exception. Tragedy in Johnstown Pa. Albert Palmer age 41 shot Mollie Beck age 30 and then killed himself after she refused to marry him.
A retrospective notes the May 17 1903 fiftieth anniversary of the New York Central Railroad incorporation. It recounts the consolidation of ten small lines into a single Albany to Buffalo route, the 1853 and 1869 milestones, and the Mohawk Valley route linking inland seas to seaboard. It cites Joshua Wilber of Lockport describing 1839 travel from Albany to Lockport, the primitive cars, horse power, steep inclines, and rapid changes before a continuous line united Albany with Buffalo.
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