19 Nov 1896
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1896
Page
1
A survey of varied curiosities notes Wyoming and Nevada sparsity, Hastings corundum quarry and emery-like stone import costs, coal reserves expansion, balloon lifeboats proposed by a Connecticut inventor, and Australia’s orphan system. It also mentions a sun lens lighting a cigar, British rail fatalities, US college founding dates, and a list of historic universities led by Harvard and Yale.
A 300 acre California ranch has been donated to the Salvation Army to test reclaiming ex convicts through honest industry. The project follows prior, limited successes and aims to expand to similar sites nationwide if successful, with Salvation Army leaders confidently prepared to implement the program.
The piece notes that if Senator Morrill serves until March 3, 1897 he will have completed five full terms in the senate a feat no one has accomplished. It corrects a common belief about Thomas H Benton stating he did not serve five full terms since Missouri did not gain statehood until 1821 and he left office in 1851.
The piece notes Welsh claims Shakespearean lineage and broader Celtic ties, then shifts to Japanese railway rules with cases of fines for trespassing and a cow run over. It also cites a San Francisco teacher linking scalp patterns to behavior and reports Boston rumors about restricting liquor saloons outside residential areas.
Hazen reports 750 arrests in the past year with $757 631 in counterfeit notes seized. Army officials call for larger force and stronger coast defenses. Indian service budget rises to 7 200 000. Navy details show over 72 percent of sailors are American citizens. Immigration data show 345 267 arrivals last year with 2 799 sent back. House likely to include 207 Republicans 137 Democrats and 13 Populists. Trade figures compare ten months to prior year with imports exports rising. Gold and silver export and import figures for October listed.
Reports show McKinley with 55 671 votes to Bryan 21 096 in New Hampshire, a 34 575 plurality. Other items include embezzlement allegations at a New York bank and a Niagara Falls power transmission milestone to Buffalo.
Ohio official vote gives McKinley a 51950 plurality while Kentucky returns show a 257 vote plurality for him. One Bryan elector chosen out of 13. Alaska mine output estimated at 4500000 dollars, up 1500000 from last year. At Chamberlain Missouri River closed earliest in 20 years. Cincinnati mill and Salzburg brewery burned in West Bay City causing 75000 dollars in losses. Farmers National congress endorses woman suffrage and free coinage of gold and silver. Michigan lumber camps expand by 50 percent. Mrs Anne Featherstone marks her 100th birthday in Indianapolis.
Welsh cyclist Jimmie Michael lowered world records from two miles to ten miles in New Orleans, with the ten mile pace listed as 1933 1-5. The article also notes varied political and criminal events across the country, including election results and incidents in multiple states.
In 11 districts of the Deccan and Cancan 1 250 000 people are said to be on the verge of starvation. A Bolivian committee favored recognizing Cuban insurgents as belligerents. Archibald Campbell a leading Canadian grain and lumber dealer drowned at Colborne. Weyler led Spanish troops after a Cuban attack near Pinar del Rio killing four Spaniards and wounding 60. Edward J Ivory of New York a dynamite suspect was committed for trial in London. An earthquake was felt at Acapulco with no injuries but great alarm.
A series of incidents includes a Chicago barn fire killing sixty two horses and injuring a man, a Denver arrest for drowning his wife and four children, Pettus nominated for US senator in Alabama, Port Bowkley slaughtered by fire leaving nine families homeless, and Washington river floods causing deaths. Other items note a US Supreme Court adjournment, drownings and shootings, scaffolding collapses, cross state killings, a life-for-life verdict in North Carolina, a double suicide in Connecticut, a Spanish minister hinting at war, fatal train accidents, a Pittsburgh warehouse loss, counterfeit coins flooding Michigan, and election canvass shows Bryan leading McKinley with 19,266 votes and Tussel defeating Watson by 8,000.
More than half a million votes were cast in Iowa as Republicans held their U.S. House seats. The report details county by county tallies and confirms incumbents won reelection across the state.
Dr. Masters long associated with Sheldon moved to Terrill a year ago to practice medicine and run a drug store. He left Terrill abruptly to visit Sheldon for old accounts and to consider moving back. En route he wrote a note to his wife hinting at death, claiming his belongings would be found in a boat on Okoboji lake. A search found a boat on west Okoboji but not the reported items. Rumors accuse him of fleeing his family. he leaves a wife and six grown children and heavy debts.
An unidentified man standing by the tracks near Leaver was killed when he threw himself onto the rails as No. 16 passenger train departed. Engineer B B Valentine reported the incident. coroner Clark held an inquest in Ogden, but the man could not be identified. Police speculated he was a tramp weary of life.
In Brecon Wales Yadolina Patti receives the freedom of the town for local benefactions. Marquis de Merinville Jean de Monstiers has married Miss Gwendol en Caldwell, Washington heiress, and heads a historic Limousin estate. English war artist Mellon Prior reports 14 campaigns with eight wounds and three fatalities listed. Mexican entrepreneur Maximilian Damm rose from clerk to mine owner, earning $700000 annually after a partner’s misstep abroad.
Indianapolis reports Gen. Harrison addressing the Farmers National Congress in a mood of optimism. A memorial to Congress was adopted, urging tariff reforms, stripping the skirt clause from the 1890 tariff and supporting wool grower interests, with a call for an extra session after March 4, 1897 to enact a protective tariff law.
Washington reports a party split in the Fifty-fifth Congress tallying 207 Republicans 137 Democrats and 13 Populists. The populists include Hartman Newlands Shafroth and John Baker plus four Kansas three North Carolina one Colorado and one California members. Free silver supports 153 oppose 204 with two Democrats and five Republicans split on the issue.
William J. Bryan arrives in St Louis with Gov. Stone and others for a hunting trip in southwest Missouri. The 5 000 acre preserve at Taney county hosts ten days of game hunting as Bryan defends free silver and avoids political talk while traveling the state.
Denver grocer Andrew J. Spute and a resort inmate Nellie Davis are tied to the drowning of Spute's wife and five children on Smith’s lake October 26. Detectives gathering evidence allege murder for life insurance of twelve thousand dollars. Spute was jailed early Monday. Davis remains in custody as a witness amid community shock.
A dynamite cartridge blown down a chimney partially wrecked a top-story kitchen at the Hotel Highland in Roxbury. Five people were in the kitchen with two injured by bricks. two more unexploded charges were found on the roof. Rumors link the blast to ownership disputes.
Cardinal Gibbons completes his new work The Ambassador of Christ to be published soon He prefaces that Americans are religious at heart and enjoy broad constitutional liberty under law and order The note comes from Baltimore November 17 reflects on national character and faith
A French scientist questions germ destruction by electric current in eggs, suggesting modified germs hatch monstrosities. US water falls power plans and St Lawrence rapids may generate electricity for nearby cities. Dr Burton Ward cites thumbs inactivity as a sanity indicator. A French invention measures nutritive properties of vegetables and density of farm products with specialized scales.
Seens in the shops describe ermine or seal collarettes preferred by fastidious women, violets falling out of favor, large cretonne sofa pillows with brown velvet cords, Dresden and Haviland china at half price, and a photo frame shaped like a small gold screen with pressed English flowers for two pictures. The display highlights elegant home items and accessories.
A column offers practical household hints. Add lemon juice to rice water for whiter grains, scorch salt cod to aid digestion, place lime in damp cupboards to keep them dry, blot grease from wallpaper with blotting paper and heat, hold onions under water to ease tears, add horseradish to pickles to preserve texture, and make a glue from borax gum shellac for labeling tins.
Allegra Eggleston daughter of Edward Eggleston paints faces and carves wood while aiding her father’s writings. Ethel Nordhoff daughter of Charles Nordhoff pursues bookbinding after training in London. Mildred Howells daughter of William Dean Howells maintains a studio in New York and illustrates for books. Annie Corbin daughter of Austin Corbin ran a small seaside hotel at Shinnecock Hills last summer.
An old advertisement column promotes No-To-Bac as a tobacco cure with claims of rapid weight gain and widespread cures. It cites a guaranteed remedy through a druggist and promises free booklet and sample by the Sterling Remedy Co. The snippet also includes quips and brief ads for cough remedies and Cascarets as a liver and bowel regulator.
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