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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1903
Page
4
Des Moines reports the state university requests 2100000 for two years plus 70000 annual support to fund a medical building, campus land, walks, and salaries. Agricultural college seeks about 550000. normal school pending.
A pine log freight car on a Milwaukee line caught fire while moving through Arion. The car was detached and allowed to burn out. The intense heat from burning logs produced a bright sight, but low wind kept sparks from reaching nearby property.
Judge Wolf decides Francis Parker, son of Mrs Fraissainet and Frederick Parker of Omaha, is acknowledged in deeds as Parker's son and heir to half of the $1,000,000 Parker estate. The judge finds Mrs Fraissainet was a servant, not Parker's wife.
Rural free delivery routes set to start on November 16 covering Grand Junction Greene county with 28144 miles and 38 square miles serving 620 people. McCausland Scott county route spans 21 miles 21 square miles serving 510. Norwich Page county route covers 1954 miles 20 square miles serving 410.
Daniel Murphy a well known Clinton grocer was found guilty after a jury deliberated about an hour. He faced 25 counts and was tried on two cases, convicted on both, with allegations of long time accomplice in robberies. A life sentence could result from the conviction.
Charities and Corrections leaders G. S. Robinson and John Beardsley released the schedule for the sixth state conference at First Baptist church in Des Moines. The event runs November 10 to 12 with a reduced rail fare of 1 1/2 percent, tickets valid November 6 to 15.
Sophia Krueger, 68, convicted in Howard County court of murdering her husband. Jury recommended life imprisonment. No motive shown. Krueger killed during a fight with a pickax. The family was described as well to do with good connections.
A Des Moines grand jury returned 16 indictments against city officials for blackmailing gambling house keepers, saloons, and resorts. Prosecutors also issued 60 subpoenas to investigate the police department.
Seventy years old judge O P Shiras of Dubuque, aged 76, announces his resignation from the United States district and circuit court for the Northern district of Iowa. The resignation takes effect November 11.
Hardin county grand jury returns murder in the first degree indictments against E S Blydenburg for allegedly poisoning his wife to gain her fortune. Blydenburg faces serious charges and awaits trial.
A batch of Iowa notices reports a post office burglary in Archer, a $30,000 embezzlement by Edward O Soule, a Davenport quarry accident fatality, and a coal oil find near Audubon. It also notes deaths of Martin Garber Enid and J A Risley Cherokee, along with other local losses, a resigning Ottumwa pastor, and school and building updates.
The biennial report by J. M. Jamieson shows the government has patented 1,179.61 acres of swamp land in place to Iowa and swamp land cash indemnity of 1419.78 dollars was allocated to counties. Swamp land grant adjustment is slow and may take 10 to 15 years. 1,385.96 acres of railroad land patents were received. most grants are adjusted, with few tracts awaiting approval due to contests or conflicts.
The supreme court reversed the Decatur county court ruling and granted Dr. J. W. Crofford a new trial in the Lamont murder of Miss Maude Stone. Stone died January 22, 1901 after a reported criminal operation at Crofford's sanitarium. Crofford, out on bail, had continued practicing amid prior certificate disputes.
Special correspondence reports S A Parks of Ames college arranging a Des Moines lecture series on the race question. He says the negro should lead the discussion and appeals to white readers to support a permanent forum bringing adept speakers aware of southern conditions.
Rev. I N McCash of University Place Church of Christ Des Moines has taken the Iowa Anti-Saloon League superintendent role. The salary is 3000 with possible extra 500 to 1000 from lectures, duties begin December 1. The league aims to influence party nominations on temperance matters.
Governor Cummins received the first comprehensive 13 year crop and weather survey from J R Sage director of the weather and crop bureau. It details state wide crop values averaging 182 853 420 yearly with corn oats wheat barley flax potatoes and hay among the chief contributors and shows corn dominating the returns with a peak in 1901 at 113 954 000 as prices ranged from 14 to 50 cents per bushel.
The Iowa State Retail Grocers association plans a vigorous drive for a pure food bill at its February 9 to 11 Des Moines convention. Executive committee members plus S B Packard and H R Wright were named to draft the bill with a three member association committee including W H Ahlbrecht A M Hugh and Ira B Thomas.
W H O Connor pursues a search for a missing heiress daughter of Allen O Brien of Rhodesia South Africa. She inherits 200000 dollars. The administrator commissions O Connor to locate her. he could earn 10000 and possibly marry the heiress. O Connor, Boer War veteran, travels to prominent cities to find her.
County report shows 68 male and 545 female teachers in Pottawattamie County. Men average $47.94 monthly, women $36.07, both working about eight and a half months annually. A slight salary increase is expected next year.
Rev. F H Shedd of Third Presbyterian Church in Zion City declares in a paper to the ministerial association that no teacher is qualified for public school work unless they begin with prayer and accept the Bible as the highest religious and moral teaching.
Citizens vow drastic action after a surge in robberies and lawlessness. The group plans immediate organization to curb crime and restore order in the city.
The Iowa estate of James Keefe who died in 1885 had no heirs found and was sold by administrator Frank Beckley. The sale realized $1,75.33 and the funds were paid to the state treasurer.
Emma Booth-Tucker consort of Salvation Army leader Booth-Tucker died after a Pullman derailment near Dean Lake Missouri on California No. 2. Col Holland was fatally injured and a dozen passengers hurt. Funeral services followed at Carnegie Hall with notable figures from the Army in attendance.
Peoria Illinois October 31 H W McQuaid of Des Moines announced the end of the Consolidated Grocers of America which was formed with a 1.5 million capital to control leading retail groceries. It was organized by Flavel Shurtleff of Peoria and N Kawin of Chicago. Two Peoria stores and four Chicago stores plus one in Galesburg and W V McQuaid's store in St Paul were part of the venture.
Five hundred delegates representing millions in capital will attend the national meeting in Chicago on Thursday to form a national employers association to address the labor problem. The group aims to match the reach of the American Federation of Labor among workers.
Keokuk aged 85 and regarded as the tribe's oldest member died at the Sac and Fox agency home 12 miles north of Prague Oklahoma. He was noted as intelligent and devout, a member of the Baptist church.
Capt Nathaniel G Herreshoff, famed designer and builder of several America s Cup defenders, is seriously ill in Bristol Rhode Island with pneumonia. Doctors report the disease not yet critical but the patient is weakened by overwork.
War Secretary Root and Mrs. Root departed London for Liverpool to sail the Celtic of the White Star line to New York. Ambassador Choate and friends saw them off at the railroad station.
Alfred R. Eckstein, Mabel Bechtel’s sweetheart, is arrested in the Allentown murder case. Bechtel’s brothers are being held at the police station with Eckstein as witnesses in the investigation of the alley killing.
A mob in Jacksonville, Florida shot dead Jennie McCall while aiming to reach her husband near Jennings. They fired into her house, killing her instantly as they believed her husband was inside.
Prince Galitzin governor general of Caucasia narrowly escaped an attack on the city outskirts. Three natives stabbed him and wounded his head and hand as he rode with his wife. Cossacks pursued and shot two assailants dead and one instantly. He later attended a civic reception amid public outrage.
An Port Arthur dispatch quotes the Novykhai edited by a staffer of Vice Roy Alexieff urging Russia to keep troops in Manchuria until eastern affairs are settled. It praises Russian censorship and calls for a political east balance and controlled Japanese immigration into Korea.
Memphis shows two new world trotting records as Lou Dillon runs a mile in 2 minutes flat and The Monk and Equity lower the mile to 2 0 8. Dan Patch sets a half mile pacing mark of :56 and a mile pacing record of 1 :57.
The Interstate Mississippi River Improvement and Levee association wrapped up in New Orleans on Oct 29 adopting resolutions backing government control of levees or adequate federal funding if control is not suitable. It also endorsed the Lakes to Gulf waterway and the Chicago sanitary canal as components of the project.
President Roosevelt celebrated his forty fifth birthday with an outpouring of telegrams and letters from across the nation. Washington reports hundreds of congratulatory messages received at the White House throughout Tuesday.
Dowie opened the evening meeting with a prayer urging voters to keep the city from bad hands in the upcoming election. He said his host had visited 600,000 homes in New York and was received with courtesy everywhere.
George T. Hoagland, 80, pioneer and philanthropist, died at his home in St. Joseph Missouri. He gave liberally to local charities and Methodist educational institutions.
An extensive gold discovery is reported two and a half miles southwest of Davis' Corners in Adams county nine miles from Kilbourn. Experts have been called and the deposits are said to be very rich.
Governor Yates offers 200 reward for arrest and conviction of anyone involved in the lynching of William Johnson, a Black man, at Thebes in Alexander County on April 26. Also notes murder suspicion in Dubuque Iowa where burned remains of Justus Harwig found. coroner reports skull fracture. peace sentiment grows in China with the war party said to be waning.
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