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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1896
Page
3
In Caylus during troubled times a gang pursues a courier bearing a letter from Vicomte Pavannes. Croisette fights them, and the narrator fatally wounds a ruffian defending Marie’s honor. He orders the corpse hung and the gates closed as danger mounts at the town gates.
The vidame confronts Mlle de Caylus at the ramp gate demanding vengeance for a murdered man. Anne refuses surrender of Pavannes' messenger, while Bezers mocks justice and asserts his religious zeal. The party discovers Bezers has left by horse with baggage, provoking anger and fear of further conflict.
Edward W. Curry chairman of Iowa's democratic state central committee died at the Savery house from blood poisoning after an initiation in a secret lodge. An electric chair fright was intended, but a mild current burned him, leading to fatal infection. The incident followed by a second report of fraudarrest of George W. Harris in Polk County for a loan secured on non owned property.
Graham Gems mix a quart of Graham flour with water and salt then bake quickly in buttered gem pans. Buttermilk Biscuit uses soda lard and buttermilk baked hot. Pickled Nasturtium Seeds are salted dried then cured in vinegar with mace and white pepper and sugar. Good substitutes for capers listed from New York Ledger. Nearly $300,000 in charitable bequests were given in Berlin last year.
A fragmentary editorial style verse urges Bryan, Thimun, and Altgeld to heed a united public stance. It proclaims respect for truth and purity, vows to preserve a clean country, and to throttle any serpent seeking to corrupt it. The piece closes with a garbled attribution.
The nation rejected free silver and clash over the Dingley tariff. Republicans debate whether the Fifty-fourth Congress can pass the revenue bill before an extra session, while some senators favor prompt action and others warn of delays hurting business. Chicago Times-Herald notes growing calls for a March session.
A collage of editorials critiques from papers including Troy Times Philadelphia Press and St Louis Globe Democrat and New York Tribune. They discuss protected workers foreign labor gold standard and banking practices amid calls for monetary reform and political change.
Clara Dawson Scott widow of Walter Scott married Des Moines to Willard McKay after a dramatic courtship. Father opposed union, twice sent girl to asylum and once to convent to stop it. The couple eloped. an hour after the ceremony Scott was killed by the father, who now serves ten years. Willard McKay aided the elopement and is Scott’s friend. Old war claims to be paid Iowa adjutant general Wright lists 506 claims for Second and Third Infantry, unpaid since 1866 and 1868. money to survivors, widows, or children.
Charles Whitcomb of Cherokee evaded officers for two months and was captured to face charges of stealing three horses from Toe Wheeler. The horses, once Whitcomb’s, were deemed state property by Judge Todd and were to be sold to cover costs from a related lawsuit.
Burlington inmate Henry Teacher, jailed two months awaiting trial for murdering his grandfather Louis Krebel, implicated Krekel, son of the deceased, in a conspiratorial plot after Krebel’s body was found in an oil well on the farm three miles west of town.
The Des Moines Union railway signs a contract with Chicago Great Western, Wabash, Chicago and Northwestern, Des Moines Northern and Western, and Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul roads to build a $200,000 union depot in Des Moines.
The J W McCay store at Roberson was burned with building and all contents a total loss. It had suffered two robberies this fall and authorities suspect another raid with fire to conceal the theft. Loss estimated around 3000 dollars.
An 25 year old Orren L. Barton of Otsego died after taking poison. The death followed a dispute over cutting down a tree ordered by his father and a grievous event weeks earlier when his half brother hanged himself on the same tree. Idle leaves a wife.
A meeting of Town Valls businessmen considered advancing the Chautauqua project. Grounds have been secured, and improvements are planned to begin early spring so the first annual meeting can be held next summer.
A Burlington report notes the $12,000 Coliseum building for the lews semicentennial tilts on one side with a bad foundation. Other items include Killen named Moulton postmaster after prior exoneration, a deer-fenced Little Sioux river tract near Cherokee, and multiple local deaths and corporate actions across Iowa.
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