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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1897
Page
6
In Banbury a widow nurses a wounded veteran found by the Lorimers on Memorial Day. John Lorimer Sr. regains memory after head surgery, reconnecting with his wife and their son John Jr. and Bessie Armstrong amid village sorrow and hope.
Noted strongman Sandow traveling by rail with a Kansas City to Omaha route is approached by a whiskered stranger claiming to test his feats. After confirming his lifting records, Sandow is asked to raise a window, illustrating a humorous mismatch between legend and simple tasks.
Reports from Constantinople Athens and London describe a shift toward peace as Turkey with Greece agree to armistice terms. Turkish Greek fronts pause with 17 day ceasefire in Thessaly and seven days on Epirus, while negotiations over capitulations indemnity and frontier rectification unfold.
Gen Horatio King former postmaster general during Buchanan's administration died in Washington at 8 20 am in his eighty sixth year from grip. His wife survives him. King came from Paris Maine and served as first assistant postmaster general in 1854 before becoming postmaster general from Feb 12 1861 to Mar 6. He was a noted literateur.
The 1909 general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States opened at Eagle Lake Indiana with Dr Sheldon Jackson chosen moderator by a vote of 313 to 238. Ex President Benjamin Harrison presented the gav el, as devotionals and committee chairmen were announced. The assembly reported New York building rental progress and a projected net income of about 43000 on a 1760000 cost.
In Madrid on May 22 the U S Senate vote recognizing Cuban belligerents sparked a brawl in the Spanish Senate. The Duke of Tetuan struck Senator Comas, his son joined, and a melee followed before order was restored. The Duke resigned as foreign minister immediately afterward.
The Senate approved the joint Morgan resolution 41 to 14 recognizing a state of war between Spain and Cuban insurgents and affirming strict U S neutrality rights for belligerents in American ports and territory. Debate amid partisan lines followed with vote tallies and cross party analysis.
The 1897 flood ends as the Mississippi falls from Memphis to the Gulf and June rises are deemed unlikely. Relief efforts are largely abandoned. refugee camps close and refugees return home. Areas flooded totaled 3,200 square miles in Arkansas, 6,520 in Mississippi, 975 in Louisiana with damages: Louisiana 1,975,000 dollars, Arkansas 4,325,000, Mississippi 8,220,000. total 14,520,000 dollars.
Dun and Company reports unmistakable evidence of improved trade with a rise in commercial loans, receipts from the interior exceeding shipments by 1.5 million dollars, and increasing demand for manufactured goods. Failures for the week were 248 in the United States and 37 in Canada, compared with last year.
Paris dispatch reports Father Sebastian Kneipp, renowned for his water cure, has died. The German priest gained global fame for holistic health methods and water therapy.
About 1,000 delegates from North America attend the sixty-fifth annual American Baptist Home Missionary Society meeting in Pittsburgh. President H K Porter notes John D Rockefeller’s $250,000 offer to clear debt if matched by July 1, 1897. Resolutions urging aid to Cuba are debated and referred to a committee amid questions of radical wording.
A tumultuous Thursday session in Springfield Illinois erupted in a one hour and fifteen minute riot around the speaker's desk. Republicans fought Democrats on the floor over recognition for Representative Novak to amend the revenue bill for supervisors of assessments. Desperate Democrats contained the melee as punches and objects were thrown. the clash was sparked by Novak's bid to recall to second reading.
The Stephen Girard statue honoring the philanthropist and founder of Girard College was unveiled Thursday afternoon. It stands on the west plaza of the city hall, funded by college alumni contributions.
A Sunday morning blaze in a four story brownstone at 1149 West Twenty third Street New York killed Mrs Catherine Mossway 38 and her four year old daughter Beatrice Mossway while seriously injuring boarder Mrs Mary Bowles from Boston and slight injuries to Miss MacDonald and I P Thaps. The fire trapped residents and a tenant La Mont narrowly escaped as a sign outside the building tumbled to the street. The origin is believed to be a lit hallway match tossed by a belated tenant. Damage around 2000 dollars.
May 24 report from Chicago details a raft made of boards on Mudlake in the south branch of the Chicago River near Ashland Avenue. Six boys rode the raft. five drowned after Panic when John Honis, nine, leaped off and urged others to follow. Victims named include Frank Quinn ten, Charles Coates eleven, James Coates eight, and twins Charles and Albert Svee nine.
Cable from Secretary Alger directs Maj. Gen. Miles now in Constantinople to reach London by June 15 to represent the United States Army at Queen Victoria's sixty year accession jubilee ceremonies. Admiral Miller will represent the U S Navy aboard the armored cruiser Brooklyn.
William R. Ross a 15 year old of Stockton in this county hanged himself on Sunday after his parents left for church. He had been scolded for cigarette use and, unable to quit, despair led to his death. The report notes he was in good spirits before the tragedy.
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