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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1914
Page
1
Medill McCormick reports Americans including Walter Whiffen and Doster jailed in Mexico City amid Huerta regime tensions. Press censorship blocks cables while suspects face police inquiry and potential intervention debates.
Observations suggest wireless stations disturb birds in a distinct manner. Gulls appear to suffer most, while many doves struggle to find home direction when radio waves lie in their flight path. The cause remains unclear and is attributed to unknown wave effects.
An anxious Colorado woman asks an ex senator to define the term smart set. He replies with a quip about a rain belt in the eastern Colorado and western Nebraska borders where it never rains.
Witnesses for Maj. Patrick J. Hamrock testified the Ludlow clash began with strikers firing on National Guardsmen and that orders to "smoke them out" aimed at the tent colony. They said the fire may have been started by an overturned lamp, not by troops, and that several victims died of suffocation hours earlier.
Wisconsin reports four dead as a severe storm damages crops and infrastructure across seven counties. torn telegraph and telephone lines cripple communications and losses range from one to two hundred thousand dollars per county. in nearby states, high winds and lightning kill two in ohio and two women die from lightning in van wert while others are injured or trapped in wrecks.
San Francisco May 13 the threatened lockout of building trades affecting all workers on San Francisco and Oakland buildings was declared off arbitration will decide disputed points workers continue at work Philadelphia May 13 board of health bans common drinking cups for humans and troughs for animals Tulsa May 13 two tanks holding about 90000 barrels oil at Pierce Oil property near Tulsa burned and extinguishing efforts halted Denver May 13 Nelson Underhill Colorado Railway association official attempted suicide at the Marquette hotel Hague May 13 third international conference on the opinum question set for June 15
Fred Keeney president of the New York elevated died suddenly in Santa Barbara California on May 14.
Washington May 15 Jacob E. B. Connor former consul at Constantinople and Frank M. Bankett secretary to Secretary Bryan fought in the anteroom to Bryan's office on Wednesday.
Washington May 13 under a special rule the house passed the senate bill providing temporary machinery for the conduct of popular elections of United States senators. The bill provides for the elections of senators at an election called for members of the house next preceding the expiration of a senate term.
William Percy younger son of the duke of Northumberland sails from Seattle aboard the revenue cutter Bear to the Arctic Ocean to hunt for the Stella eider a rare duck specimen.
Chicago paid tribute to Sammy Meisenberg, a marine killed in the Vera Cruz action. His body lay in state at city hall as 20,000 people filed past to pay respects.
Col John C Calhoun Mayo a Democratic national committeeman from Kentucky died in New York after a two week illness. He was known as Kentucky’s wealthiest citizen.
Eight federal prisoners escaped from the Eleventh cavalry guardhouse at Fort Oglethorpe in Chattanooga by sawing out a ventilator in the rear of the prison. Seven were white and one was Negro.
Arthur Gillespie writer of Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder and other popular songs died in New York on Monday from pneumonia at age forty six.
Two army aviators were killed and a third seriously injured when two army aeroplanes collided 800 feet above Farnborough, England, while traveling at 65 miles an hour. The accident occurred near Aldershot on May 14.
The captain and 31 seamen of the schooner St Solens were rescued after their vessel hit an iceberg and sank. They were brought to Saint Pierre by the schooner Marie which rescued them from the sinking ship.
Rebels under Generals Pablo Gonzalez and Luis Caballeros captured Tampico after heavy artillery and close combat. thousands of federals killed or drowned, and defenders retreat toward gunboats as General Zaragoza fights on at the Southern hotel. The U S plans to keep Lobos Island. mediators discuss a provisional government in Mexico.
May 13 in Washington Representative Neely introduced a resolution demanding an investigation into the conduct of U S District Judge Alston G Dayton of the Northern District of West Virginia.
O. H. Yo cum, a Galva banker with an estimated wealth between three and four million dollars, collapsed and died of heart failure while opening his mail in the bank on May 13 in Galesburg Illinois.
South ard P. Warner United States consul at Harbin killed himself in a hospital where he was under treatment. He had served as consul since August 1912 in Harbin Manchuria in May 138 era context.
Washington May 13 The Supreme Court of the United States declared valid a Texas law regulating collection of claims for personal services labor or materials furnished over freight or express charges.
The body of John C. Calhoun Mayo, a Democratic leader from Kentucky, arrived in Paintsville on May 14 for funeral services to be attended by Governor McCreary and state officials. Mayo’s fortune, estimated above $20,000,000, will be placed in the hands of a trustee or board of trustees.
In Yuma Arizona on May 14 a fire destroyed the Hotel Imperial killing three women. The bodies of Naomi Strong Geneva Brown and Brown's mother were recovered.
A bomb thrown into a Kingston New York bedroom occupied by Mrs Darwin Hinckley and her two daughters exploded injuring two women.
A militant suffragist attacked the famous portrait of the Duke of Wellington at the Royal Academy in London on May 14. She used a hatchet to slash the painting and was arrested by police.
A fire in Memphis Tennessee on May 14 destroyed the Southern Cotton Oil mills owned by the Southern Cotton Oil Company of New York. Loss is estimated at $500,000, including several thousand gallons of cotton seed oil.
The First National Bank of Corning failed to open after a bank run that extracted about $50 900 in deposits. Controller of the Currency ordered its closure and a bank examiner took charge. President R R Newcomb and cashier R Newcomb said all claims would be paid. The bank had 100 000 capital and 28 430 surplus. Deposits in 1913 were listed at 343 000 with assets around 280 000 excluding capital. Most stock was held by the Newcomb family.
The Boone district Methodist conference will meet in Colo on Monday and Tuesday June 16 and 17 with Rev. R. E. Shaw of Indianola presiding. G. H. Johnson of Colo church serves as secretary. Committees named include license to preach W. B. Thompson L. B Carpenter and C. B Guest and examination of candidates for orders W. E. B Hardeway C. W. Hohansheff and J. H. Beveridge. The program lists addresses by R. J. Tennant W. C. Barclay O. G. Orcutt EC McGilvery and others.
Radcliffe Farmers Bank owners HB D Himmell and J E Himmell face forgery warrants after the bank's collapse. The Eldora hearing follows a voluntary bankruptcy petition filed with Referee N S Carpenter. Assets total 90000 mostly real estate while liabilities reach 254000 with 135000 in deposits. Bogus notes valued at 40000 to 50000 reportedly uncovered after closure.
George H. York once a Colfax grocer and key witness in the Wheelock inquiry is indicted by a federal grand jury. He is charged with transporting Mrs. O. E. B. Jackson a Des Moines dressmaker from Kansas City for immoral purposes in a white slavery scheme.
The Iowa State Eclectic Medical Society re elected its entire staff for a third consecutive term. Officers include Dr L Eslick Rockwell City president Dr M B Stine Des Moines vice president Dr B C Minkler Des Moines recording secretary Dr P F Price Milo corresponding secretary and W W Manle treasurer.
Des Moines reports general orders proclaim May 30 as memorial day and flag day June 14 is also highlighted. George A. Newman, assistant adjutant general, sends the orders from the capitol.
Correctionville Hoboes set fire to two carloads of hay at Cherry Bros pressed brick plant burning the entire Hant property loss estimated at ten thousand dollars.
Cedar Falls Holstein owned by Peder Pedersen and Sons produced 2274 pounds of milk in the past month yielding 122.3 pounds of butter. The owners challenge another Iowa cow to match the feat.
Judge Kintzinger sentences Mrs Dorcas Brazzel for the January murder of her husband Charles Brazzell, delivering a twenty year term in the penitentiary.
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