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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1905
Page
2
The piece notes Gen Booth without funds relying on a small legacy, mentions a Marseilles court fining an automobilist and imprisonment, cites Oregon theft of 190000 acres, Iowa's 74 woman bank cashiers and no bank closures, and asserts banks run by women remain solvent.
The report notes Bank of Bostand and Gorresary leaders drawing significant pay despite national costs. It highlights Seng Pte's head of a farvuranes unit and states the company president receives a monetary allowance to perform his duties.
The passage notes a general rise in Obl passage stamps over the last two years with a ten percent increase for stamps sought by collectors and instances where values have more than doubled.
After five years of lull a renewed push arises to require liquid poisons to be in bottles with warning tactile cues. The drive follows more cases of people waking at night and mistaking poisons for medicine, leading to accidental ingestion.
The article notes perfumes have been used for 3000 years and highlights floral scents as healthful and soothing. Doctors say plant aromas act as natural sedatives, calming nervous tension and aiding nervous disorders by toning the temperament.
The Sioux, once warlike, now show Christian faith with nearly half as communicants. Missionaries funded by their contributions teach in China and Africa, transforming them from subjects of mission work to participants in global evangelization.
The last British troops depart North America and Britain agrees to turn over the Halifax citadel to Canadian volunteers, mirroring Quebec’s arrangement. The fortress sits on a hill 250 feet high, with a mile circumference, dominating Halifax and its harbor.
A colossal bronze statue of Christ rises 13,000 feet above sea level on the Chile Argentina border. Erected to honor the treaty of peace and arbitration that averted war, the sculpture by Mateo Alonso, a young Argentine, uses bronze from old Spaniard cannons left after independence.
Forty one governors of states and territories will serve on the committee charged with drafting and promoting a constitutional amendment to move the presidential inauguration date from March to a later spring day. The effort cites common sense and health considerations for a vast populace.
Prof Otto Von Stockslager, famed Belgian explorer, reports finding a tribe in Lake Irauser living largely in water. He named the lake after collaborator Frans Brauser. The discovery describes men women and children who eat and sleep in the aquatic environment.
A Michigan mill powered by water cannot dispose of its sawdust by river dumping and burning, so for 30 years it has piled in a vacant field. The mound measures about 1,080 feet long 815 feet wide and 20 to 50 feet high covering roughly 12 acres.
Across the empire riots flood major cities as czarist reforms spark deadly clashes. In Warsaw and Odessa mobs kill and wound hundreds. Kishineff and Lodz report fires and pillage. Finland regains limited self rule while political prisoners are released nationwide.
In a quarrel over a craps game at 669 Central Avenue Sunday night William Watkins shot and killed George M. Gregory, a former Cleveland police officer. Officers pursuing Watkins captured him as he attempted to flee, ending the incident.
C Dye of Tabor admitting forging notes totaling five thousand to seventy five thousand dollars that were discounted by a bank while serving as vice president of the Tabor state bank and treasurer of the Tabor college church and school district in Iowa.
Lésbon reports the queen of Portugal was thrown from her horse at Cascades on Saturday. injuries are described as slight and her condition is not serious.
Special examiners in Albany report bafflement over a missing $600,000 check linked to Equitable Life Assurance. The tangled condition of the company complicates tracing large, unknown transactions and related records.
Richmond Ind Nov 6 Dr Zaccheus Test eminent educator and clergyman died Friday night from injuries suffered in an accident.
An explosion at the Miners' National Bank in Ishpeming Michigan on Sunday killed three children Steven Goodman 12 Alice McGee 10 and Edward McGrath 9 and injured thirteen others including James Mullen who died later. Gas in the basement sparked by two steam fitters caused the blast as bystanders stood nearby watching street cars on a side track.
Boston investigators recover a leather handbag containing the head of Susanna A. Geary from the harbor bottom. The head, found near the spot where suspects Crawford and Hawkins said they dumped the body parts, completes the dismembered remains after earlier finds of the trunk and limbs. The head will be examined by Medical Examiner Harris and is expected to be identified as Geary.
Madison Wis Nov 6 The Wisconsin Supreme Court decision by Judge S D Hastings Green Bay upholds ad valorem tax assessments from railroads ruling the law constitutional The ruling will raise railroad taxes by about 600000 for 1908 and larger sums for 1904 and 1905 compared with the license fee system.
Eight people died and 30 were injured in Saturday's tornado at Mountain View Oklahoma. The revised list names the dead as W. T. White Frank W. Clark J. S. Barkley Mrs Jennie Jones Mrs W M Holt and two small children Mrs Robert Hulme Fatally injured are Mrs J F Barkley Ed Hollis Mrs J McBride and a child of W M Holt. No damage occurred outside the town. The tornado path was about 100 yards wide and one mile long.
Leslie BE Fuller assistant attorney general who went insane in Muskogee while investigating charges against Judge GO W Raymond died after falling from a window in a Michigan sanitarium. He had been moved there by a government employee and earlier attacked a man in Chicago. At the same time Col D B Henderson former speaker of the House lay at death’s door in Dubuque Iowa, suffering paresis, with physicians considering an operation.
Seven miners were killed and several others seriously injured by an explosion at Tide Water Coal & Coke Co. mine in Vivian near Bluefield West Virginia. The accident occurred on November 6 and emergency crews worked to rescue survivors.
Prominent Bedford county farmer John Vaughan his wife and their 12 year old niece were killed in a Sunday mountain road runaway toward the Peaks of Otter. The tragedy occurred on the Mountain road as the family traveled in Bedford City Virginia on November 6.
Mrs. Sarah A. Shook aged 107 died at Winthrop Saturday in St. Joseph Missouri. She was born in Howard County Kentucky in 1798 and her parents settled near the city in 1789.
A New York Supreme Court judge with a lakeside residence is asked by a camping and fishing club to camp on the opposite lake shore for weeks. The judge, unaware the lake has fish, asks for briefs to decide if camping and fishing can proceed.
In Peru ten miles from Pittsfield farmers trade butter and eggs for tea or sugar at Frank Creamer’s. Mrs Ackert brings pound lumps, but Creamer claims the butter does not weigh a pound, replying she weighed it by a pound of soap.
Riverton Kentucky reports a bloody clash ending a wave of robberies by a nitro gang blamed for several bank heists along the Ohio River valley. Four men held in custody. two more fled as bloodhounds tracked by armed posse. Other incidents include Sandborn Indiana and Odon Indiana robberies with tens of thousands taken.
Dr. Percy McLeod of Boston was arrested on abortion charges tied to the suitcase mystery. Police report he may have dismembered Susanna Geary's body. In New York two men, William Howard and Louis Crawford, are jailed for homicide linked to the Boston case, admitting they moved remains from Tremont Street hospital and disposed of parts in dress suitcases and a handbag into Winthrop Harbor.
Alton Illinois November 3 18 year old Frank Aller was acquitted of homicide for killing his father with a rolling pin during a family fight. The coroner jury found justifiable homicide as the mother fainted upon hearing the verdict. Also noted journalist Arthur Foster Bowers former Tribune city editor died in New York. Embezzlement charged in Hamilton Ontario Bank manager Hillhouse Brown faced $2500 to $3000 shortage. Charles H Darling quits Navy post to be replaced by Truman Newberry of Detroit.
A blaze swept the Petrolia Packing company plant in Petrolia Ontario on November 1 causing an estimated loss of 125000 dollars. The fire damaged machinery and storage facilities but no injuries were reported. Local fire crews and investigators arrived to determine the cause.
In Casey Iowa on October 31 a head on collision between freight trains No 85 west bound and section two of east bound No 96 killed six men including Fireman Ed Nelson Engineer Bert Shields and Fireman William Marshall Brakeman Frank Johns and Rev F W Caldwell with one unknown man. Four others injured as both engines piled into scrap iron. the crash followed a misread order by the No 835 conductor who pulled out as the first section paused for the second.
Hongkong reports five American missionaries were killed at Lienchaw including Dr. Eleanor Questnut Mrs. E C Mackle and child and Mr and Mrs Peale The killings followed a dispute as a native procession pressed idol worship The mob attacked the mission beat the occupants and cast their bodies into the river
Rear Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg was received by President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House on Friday afternoon. He delivered a personal goodwill message from King Edward to the President and was presented by Sir Henry Morton Durand. A state dinner followed by a reception and ball capped the visit.
Washington announces Charles A Stillings of Boston Massachusetts appointed public printer effective November 1 He is manager of the Printers Board of Trade in New York City and takes over duties from the prior appointee
Louis Theodore Levy a renowned French architect with New York offices fell or jumped from a Macalester Street flat window Friday and was crushed on the sidewalk 40 feet below in San Francisco.
Birmingham announces a 2 percent per ton wage increase for union miners based on the current average iron selling price. The adjustment reflects market conditions and aims to support worker earnings in the state.
William W. Karr formerly disbursing clerk of the Smithsonian Institution pleaded guilty at arraignment before Justice Gould. He was sentenced to five years imprisonment in the West Virginia penitentiary at Moundsville for embezzlement.
Lead South Dakota November 3 Mrs John T McNann was instantly killed and her husband perhaps fatally injured in a runaway near here.
A Daily News interview with Mr. B Janssen promotes Mull's Grape Tonic as a permanent cure for constipation and stomach trouble. He argues laxatives fail and touts the tonic as safe, effective, and superior to cod liver oil, suitable for children and nursing mothers.
A fragment from Stray Stories depicts Mamie questioning fidelity as she and another discuss a man who writes daily letters that seem oddly sane and sensible, casting doubt on his true feelings.
Mrs B B Ford of Pushorataha Mississippi urges women to use Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People to regulate a single essential function. She reports rapid relief within three weeks from uterine discomfort, headaches, dizziness, and weakness, claiming renewed health and full ability to work as a teacher. The pills are promoted to improve appetite digestion complexion and strength, with a free booklet offered by the Dr Williams Medicine Company.
The article surveys women in Greenland India Borneo New Holland South America and New Guinea adopting striking beautification. It notes blue and yellow face paint blackened teeth hair dyes shells facial patterns nose rings and ear piercings as cultural adornment customs.
Marcus R Mayer endorses Deans Kidney Pills to aid suffering people. He notes his own benefit and mentions cures of back pain headaches rheumatic pains and urinary disorders. Foster Milburn Co packages are sold for 50 cents a box in Buffalo NY with distribution by all dealers.
Reporter notes a visitor in Connecticut gazing toward Oyster Bay asks if the White Squadron is visible. The Democratic host replies no, the president is smiling. Times account describes the scene and mood during the visit.
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