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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1898
Page
1
Adaptability to American institutions appears in San Juan where hotel keepers have formed a trust and raised prices by 100 percent, illustrating quick alignment with new systems and market demand.
The 20 year old Lafayette offered his fortune and life for American liberty. He left behind a legacy that inspires a planned monument in Paris with an estimated $250,000 likely to be raised.
The era of vehicle power shifts from horse to machinery as trolleys and steam and electric currents advance public works. The car horse’s era seems to end with electric and steam energy unlocking new philanthropic progress, including imagined freedom for animals in distant regions like Africa.
Gen Denver, eponym of the Colorado city, remains alive as his namesake enlarges from a frontier village to a bustling western metropolis with a population around 170000.
The Century company awards for best stories by 1897 college graduates have all gone to young women. The era of rapid growth is pushing men to focus on producing history rather than romance.
William Barclay Parsons, chief engineer for the American syndicate planning a 650 mile railroad from Hong Kong to Han Kow, has sailed to China to inspect the ground and arrange preliminary surveys. The project will be strictly American made.
The Ohio girl Sanda, seen as a sensational violinist in Europe, is said to wield a power beyond doctors' explanation as her notes lull concertgoers into sleep the moment the violin sounds.
Observations at the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station show that eighty percent of a toad’s diet consists of insects harmful to agriculture. The toad is an enemy of army worms cut worms and greenhouse pests and does a lot of good in its modest way.
Switzerland has more inns than any other country relative to its size with about 1,700 hostels, many on mountain tops near glaciers. The tourist trade is the chief industry and hotel receipts reach about 25 million dollars annually, signaling a thriving business.
The five major express firms operating in Kansas City join to halt recurring train robberies across Missouri and its suburbs. In the past year six trains within about twelve miles of Kansas City have been robbed. Proposals include armored cars with rifle loopholes riot guns and revolving turrets atop guards led vehicles.
A Havana report says Cuban resistance to U S authorities is waning and Spaniards would have kept the war going only if they knew Shafter's army condition The author doubts prolonged conflict, suggesting both Cuba and Spain have had all the fighting they want for decades to come.
General Traffic Manager McNicholl of the Canadian Pacific railway says that 50,000 people have gone to the Klondike gold fields this season and that about 20,000 will return penniless without seeing gold. He estimates at least 30,000,000 dollars spent by prospectors on outfits, travel, and living costs, and that overall expenditure reaching and working the fields roughly equals the gold dust extracted.
Gen Miles proposes a force of one soldier per 1000 population about 73 000 today Secretary Alger backs 75 000 and Chairman Hull plans a 100 000 bill The article notes broad support for a regular army large enough to meet immediate national needs.
Hastings town council invited bids for 2 085 tons of water pipe in 16 and 10 inch sizes. The lowest British bid was 11 610 dollars while an American bid of 10 359 dollars was accepted, showing rising American competition in iron and steel trade.
War news from Washington to the Caribbean notes Spain's acceptance of American debt stance in Cuba. Reports detail barracks needs for Hawaii troops, praise for Gen Wood in Santiago, and new Puerto Rico posts.
The treasury department nears completion of the 200,000,000 of three per cent bonds authorized at the last session of congress. An official sealing industry report shows a season total of 27,855 skins, the lightest catch in years. A presidential proclamation fixes November 24 as Thanksgiving Day. Shaenenberger reports 83,795 mail routes, 480,461 total mileage, and 56,944,000 needed for expenses next year.
The great peace jubilee in Philadelphia concluded with Inde pendence Hall rededicated, recalling the 1776 reading of the Declaration. Also Penns football beat Chicago 23 to 11, and Col George E. Waring, head of the Cuban sanitary commission, died at 67 in New York from yellow fever.
News of multiple incidents includes the death of W H H Wilkins in Louisville at age 52, noted as the youngest Confederate volunteer. Other items report hangings in Richmond Texas, indictments in Dover Del, a suicide after a murder refusal in Lenora Kan, earthquakes in Cleveland Ohio, a trance death in New Orleans, boiler blast injuries in Houghton Mich, bank liquidation in Springfield Ohio, a large fire in Tuskegee Ala, and Col William Clyde’s death in St Louis, former editor of the Republican.
The article notes that Atlanta saw the inauguration of George Allen Danner as governor of Georgia. It also reports George Moore receiving a 99 year prison sentence in Fort Worth Texas for involvement in the Santa Fe train robbery near there in July. The Farragut torpedo boat logged speed over 30 knots on a San Francisco trial trip. In Knoxville Tennessee John Kennedy aged 15 killed his sweetheart May Peck then shot himself in a jealous act. C A Wall a veteran newspaper man aged 79 died in Worcester Massachusetts having served with the Spy since 1837.
Paris court of cassation to decide reopening of the Alfred Dreyfus case. In London a publisher Nicholls failed for 520000 dollars. An earthquake shook London and Ottawa. Fires destroyed public buildings in Serinagar Cashmere. Five Muslims convicted of the September 6 massacre were executed at Candiac India.
Washington reports indicate the United States plans to assume governance of the Philippines and seeks debt settlement, with Spain losing Cuba Puerto Rico and colonial ties while the U S gains the islands and Guam. Cabinet meeting hints at Paris troubles as Spaniards resist Philippine terms, urging resignation if negotiations fail.
Gates of the Trans Mississ ippi exposition at Omaha shut after a successful season leaving more than four hundred thousand dollars to be divided among stockholders.
West Virginia carries no state debt and reports a million dollar bank cash surplus at 3 percent. A San Francisco doctor proposes inoculation to treat drink problems and immunize children. Silas Packard, educator and founder of Packard Business College, dies in New York aged 72. McMonroce Powell fined $1000 in St. Louis for wire abandonment the heaviest such penalty there. Divorce applications in North Dakota show 25 percent from New York state and most from New York City. Bright Side Educational Corporation files to found a town near Denver for aiding friendless boys. United States Japan indirect money order exchange set with Corea starting 1899. Rev. Edmund Dowse marks 60 years at Sherborn Pilgrim Church pastorate. William C. Slipp acquires options on leading fire brick plants to form a trust. Dawes orders nationwide semiannual bank examinations extended to all cities. Quartz ore with $23 gold and $480 silver per ton found near Malvern Carroll county Ohio in Indian cavern. Postmaster General Smith orders Hawaiian stamps honored at face value for postage to U S and abroad.
Isaac Stetson, a hermit living near Wahconah Falls in Springfield Mass, was found dead in woods. Autopsy indicates a instantaneous death by a gunshot wound, with signs pointing to probable murder and robbery as motive though hut not rifled.
Privates Lants Peech and Ed Swadley of the Second Missouri were shot with buckshot on a farm near Camp Hamilton Friday night. Lants Lants sustained serious injuries while Peech and Swadley were wounded but not seriously. The men said they were en route to visit young ladies when an unknown assailant fired.
The Zealandia carried 590 men from the First and Second battalions of the First Tennessee regiment sailing Sunday afternoon for Manila. In Mason City Iowa a Mrs Lottie Tuighes was indicted for murder of her husband after a poisoning in April. A hailstorm in Mentone France damaged crops including olives and lemons.
Paris reports the court of cassation ordered a formal revision of Alfred Dreyfus case on Saturday. Despite presumed innocence, he remains imprisoned at Devil's Island as inquiries proceed. The decision grants cassation wide powers to demand documents and compel witness testimony. London reports the vote was nine to four in Paris.
More than 600000 bushels of wheat and corn cleared the Philadelphia customs on ships bound for Europe. The Picton carries 116563 to Ipswich, Cairo 110000 to Sligo, Strathisla 70000 to Rotterdam, Roxby 144000 to Antwerp, and Aragonia over 100000 to Liverpool with general cargo. Since January 1 shipments total over 25000000 bushels.
Kansas farmers refuse to sell wheat at current prices for 60 million bushels new crop and up to 20 million old wheat. Granaries and elevators are full while mills close and railroad traffic slows. Farmers, financially independent, can hold wheat indefinitely.
Springfield Ill Oct 31 The injunction cases against Edward Cahill and 25 Virden miners brought by Chicago Virden Coal Co were dismissed in the circuit court by the complainant It is believed this punts to arbitration between company and workers as a next step
Coey & Co pork packers in Keokuk Iowa shut their plant for the winter amid poor profits and weak business. The firm, employing about 250 workers, hopes to join the packers trust in spring. failure to do so may keep the plant closed.
Col G E Waring Jr died of yellow fever at his New York home after arriving from Havana aboard the Yucatan. He was 67. Officials moved to isolate, disinfect, and cremate the body on Swinburne Island. Waring had served as a sanitary commissioner and engineer, with a career in agriculture, public works, and military service.
A brief dialogue recalls Miss Charmian, the debutante now called beautiful in youth. The exchange notes a playful age tease, suggesting she is "twenty two, if she's a day," in a Brooklyn newspaper snippet describing social chatter about a young socialite.
A quip in Illustrated American frames a clerical remark on marriage vows as a couple discusses separation. The woman jokingly states she found her husband via an advertisement in the papers, highlighting a humorous take on matrimony.
A compact quip about the dead languages of women and a sharp reply about taking good advice, reflecting humor and editorial tone from Chicago Evening News and Atchison Globe as read in a newspaper snippet.
Mrs E Wooruisrr of Mills Nebraska credits Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with saving her life after doctors said she had consumption and could not live. She reports menstration returned, blood thickened, weight gain, and improved health, calling it wonderful.
Mrs Gro of 1609 Belle St Alton Ill writes she suffered heavy menses and weakness before using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. After trying the product she says she feels like a new person and would not trade it for any doctor’s medicine.
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