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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1906
Page
5
A column of quips and observations critiques work, hazing, marriage jokes, navy enlistment, auto era measures, and Russian and domestic affairs. Notable lines mock automobiles as a new malady, celebrate restraint, and poke fun at matrimony jokes while noting Berlin’s aerial race and Polish rebellion rumors.
A reflective meditation contrasts the unpredictable ocean of life with two fates of men. A dwarf palm found in Algeria yields vegetable hair suitable as horsehair. In Paris, Count Witte vows he will not return to power in Russia, warning against provoking trouble.
An officer who oversaw a race between automobiles and balloons in Germany was run over by a vehicle not involved in the event. The incident underscores the danger when organizers remain on foot during such public spectacles.
The article quotes M. Labeuf, a French naval engineer, suggesting tunnel under harbors to detect and destroy approaching submarines. It notes trans Pacific trade totaled $197,791,041 in early 1905 versus $126,679,968 exported in the same period of the current year, implying a commercial setback after Japan’s victory over Russia.
A tobacconist in High Wycombe England has faced weekly fines over nearly five years for opening his shop on Sundays. Fines started at 15 shillings and rose to seven and sixpence.
A Haglish orator claims humans cause more noise with one car than God does with all stars, a statement challenged as overblown. The piece argues man tends to overestimate his impact, especially with a new vehicle.
The Buffalo News reports that sixty percent of Glasgow residents live in one or two room houses. It notes Glasgow rooms may be larger than typical American flats.
United States navy commander Robert E. Peary achieved the farthest north latitude at 87 degrees six minutes, surpassing the Duke of Abruzzi's 86 degrees 34 minutes, though the pole was not reached. Peary's report to the Peary Arctic club details a grueling voyage aboard the Roosevelt with ice, open water, and lost caches, but no deaths or illness.
In Findlay Ohio probate court Judge Banker overruled Standard Oil’s motion for a new trial and imposed a $5,000 fine plus costs. The court granted 40 days to file a bill of exceptions and suspended sentence for 60 days to allow a petition on error. Proceedings against Rockefeller Buckeye Pipe Line and Manhattan Oil were continued. The fine reflects a single offense under the anti trust law with daily offenses potentially increasing total penalties.
Washington James D Yeomans longtime Interstate Commerce Commission member dies at 61 after a battle with a complication of diseases. A Wyoming County New York native he rose from railway service to serve as general superintendent of multiple railways and shaped railroad building in New York Pennsylvania and Michigan. He was succeeded on the ICC by Senator Francis M Cockrell and later pursued private business in the city. Judge Yeomans was widely known and highly esteemed among public figures and citizens.
Paris reports three Americans challenged Count Boni de Castellane amid insults to American womanhood. The count, wary of fatal duels, weighs accepting terms while seeking reconciliation with his wife. He continues to write love letters and may seek witnesses to prolong the divorce case.
Coroner Gaskill began the inquest into the Thoroughfare wreck on Thursday after witnesses testified. Key statements described misaligned draw rail grooves in heat, train speed at impact, and the bridge signals after the yacht Sinbad passed. Bridge tender Daniel Stewart testified he relocked rails and signaled all clear before the collapse.
Five indictments for peonage were returned by a federal grand jury in Atlanta against Newman Georgia manufacturers F B Cole Jean Reinhold and H L Ziegler. The cases stem from German immigrant workers lured south by promises of factory work in Newman aided by the Southern Immigration Bureau of New York.
The council of state approved a contract for 2 100 tons of armor plate worth 1 000 000 dollars for an Italian man of war. The material was allocated to Midvale Steel company of Pennsylvania.
Prairie fire sweeping southeast from north of Stillwater burned seven miles wide and devastated Galligan ranch including buildings hay and horses. Valley ranch shed sheep stock. D Z ranches lost 900 tons hay. Nester and Krenz farms suffered damage to buildings cattle horses hogs and machinery with some workers fatally burned.
Interior department reports to Secretary Hitchcock find infractions at the Walker Lake Nevada opening not serious enough to invalidate the process. The act of Congress ordering the open settlement was not violated and early entrants may not be punished.
Sheridan Wy The Ute Indians nearly 400 strong with 1100 ponies remain camped on Little Powder river Montana 35 miles northeast of Moorehead A messenger at Arvada said Chief Unkaskia expected snow to prompt a move to see Sioux while Cheyennes would not come yet A military mediation report indicates the conference is ongoing and likely the Utes will agree The army offered to take them home provide winter rations and pursue a new abiding place by next spring.
The Milwaukee Episcopal diocese bishop Isaac Lea Nicholson D D died at his residence late Monday afternoon after a prolonged illness. His death came peacefully and was anticipated. The fatal heart ailment and related complications caused the end.
Heavy storms across Italy cause widespread flooding and landslides. Over a foot of water blankets St. Mark’s Square in Venice as roads become impassable and communities assess damage.
Madison Wis Gov Davidson has returned home and is bedbound with rheumatism after strenuous automobile campaigning. He will likely cancel all remaining campaign appearances.
W H Fisher aged 79 longtime justice of the peace at Theobald near Toledo Ohio died by suicide. Grief over his wife’s death is given as the cause of his own action.
The University of Moscow was closed by rector order until November 12 due to violations of the prohibition on political meetings in the university building.
A seven story factory building at Stanton and Mangin streets in New York was destroyed by fire early Friday causing about $100,000 in damage. Two watchmen inside were rescued with difficulty.
Blue Ridge Virginia reports the Atlanta division shops of the Louisville & Nashville railroad, present in the town for ten years, will be moved at once to Etowah Tennessee. No reason is given for the relocation.
Abolition of the export duty on coal took effect at midnight triggering a brisk morning in the coal trade as hundreds of coal laden ships headed to foreign ports.
The president plans to fulfill his pledge to the Philippine people through Secretary Taft, granting a two year term of self government conditioned on good behavior. Taft is expected to travel to the Philippines next spring to witness the installation of the new representative government.
Washington reports completion and distribution of Volume 20 in the official records of the naval wars. Volume 21 on the West Gulf Blockading Squadron operations for 1864 is finished, and Volume 22 is compiled and partly in press.
Secretary Hester reports world cotton visible supply at 3,280,281 bales, up from 3,000,298 last week. American cotton totals 2,522,281 bales, compared with 2,250,298 previously.
The National baseball commission fined W. A. Lindaman of the Boston National League club $100 for playing with the Logan Squares, an independent Chicago team, on Friday.
The Indian Territory Federation of Women's clubs at its annual Tulsa session adopted unanimously resolutions advocating separate schools for whites and blacks across Oklahoma.
Tulane University announces withdrawal from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference at season’s end alleging discrimination by SIAC president Dudley prompting the decision.
Representative Rockwood Hoar of the Third Massachusetts district died at his Worcester home after a five week illness. He was son of the late Senator George F. Hoar.
St. Petersburg reports M. Krustaloff, president of the executive committee of the Workmen's council, and 14 council leaders were sentenced to exile in Siberia and deprived of civil rights.
A Wednesday night blaze in Leipsic Ohio destroyed the entire opera house block with an estimated loss of 100000 dollars. The fire began in the Knights of Pythias lodge rooms and engulfed the area within an hour.
William Horlick of Racine has purchased and presented a large island in Root River to the city. He also donated a generous sum to convert the island into a beautiful park, a much needed enhancement for Racine.
Havana reports the provisional government plans extensive practice marches by American troops to bolster confidence. General Bell urges officers to show courtesy to Cubans of all affiliations and avoid suppressing disorder except in emergencies. Also noted are hospital relocations, arson case on Isle of Pines, and yellow fever cases among sailors and officers.
An eastbound Central Railroad freight engine derailed at James street in Rome New York and smashed into a two story saloon. Engineer Albert Brown Little Falls died from scalding and Brakeman Robert Vandervoort Albany crushed beneath the tender. Fireman Hugh Grover Syracuse escaped unharmed. The engine pulling 50 loaded cars jumped a frog and sped 125 feet before hitting the saloon. no patrons or upper rooms were affected.
Col Henry Steele Olcott president founder of the Theosophical Society and collaborator of Helena Blavatsky was seriously injured in a railway wreck in Italy. He has been hospitalized in bad condition and recovery fears are voiced due to his advanced age. Olcott was returning to India from Chicago where he presided at the American Theosophical convention in September.
The Standard Oil company purchased 42 acres in the Caddo City field, located 20 miles north of Shreveport, and will commence development operations immediately.
Miss Hilda Porter aged 19 in Marion Ohio committed suicide by taking carbolic acid after a Sunday quarrel with her lover. Friends believed she was joking when she said she would kill herself.
In Chatham Massachusetts the British schooner G M Cochrane was totally wrecked on Nausett beach Sunday. Captain Benjamin Tower and five crew members were rescued in breeches buoy.
Police prefect confirms Jews not enrolled at the University of St Petersburg are barred from attending lectures despite student protests. The rector and university council had urged inclusive access.
Panama marked its third anniversary of the republic with daytime bull baiting and amusements and evening fireworks, as ceremonies continued in Colon on Sunday.
A testimonial from Mrs Anthony of Looming ater Massachusetts describes lingering back pain nerves and dropsy swelling. She credits Dean's Kidney Pills with a rapid improvement after faithful use and notes the product is sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Life of John Camden Neild, famed miser and benefactor to Queen Victoria, detailing his lavish wealth, frugal living at 5 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, and frugal habits. He inherited £250 000 at 34, educated at Eton and Trinity Cambridge, spent days on foot during Midlands estate visits and rode free seats on transport, shivering in all weathers.
In France George Gray Barnard says he will destroy his marble groups rather than allow them to be shipped without fair compensation for years of labor. The Harrisburg capitol statues were to fetch $100,000, but payments are delayed. An order for replicas for the opening exhibition was nearly ready when canceled, despite $4,000 spent by Barnard.
An advertised medical claim asserts deafness from inflamed Eustachian tube mucous lining can only be cured by constitutional remedies. It offers one hundred dollars for any case caused by catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure, and promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation with the ad from PF J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
A proposal to honor John A Roebling by a monument in Trenton New Jersey moves toward a new plan to build an industrial arts school and dedicate it in his memory Roebling designed the Brooklyn Bridge and was a leading American engineer of his era
A Chicago buyer Marshall Field & Co. Dept. 8 seeks dried downy or fibrous cat tail material. Collect the down, strip from the stem, dry thoroughly after first frost for easy peeling, and ship F.O.B. Chicago. Payment offered at 24.5 cents per pound. Write for particulars.
Prof Taichiro Honjo ends a New York inspection tour of U S school systems sent by his Formosan government. He plans to set up back home a gigantic educational institution modeled on the American high school after his return.
Reports claim Gabriele d Annunare abandons literature to pursue invention. Noted innovations include a new bicycle system replacing rubber tires and a cure for baldness. The inventor remains notably bald.
An English paper reports that Sir Keri Singh, the maharao of Sirohi, lost his last jaw tooth on July 2 and had a diamond inserted in its place. The article notes the unusual dental restoration and the maharao's status.
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