04 Oct 1894
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1894
Page
1
The Express notes Mrs Nene Grant-Santonis plans Washington as her future home. It lists comparative illness days for soldiers from various nations and reports the US navy expanding to forty five ships. A clove crop shortage is announced and a quip advises alternatives.
Jerusalem plans reconstruction of ancient water conduits dating from King Solomon. The Turkish government appropriates 2 million dollars for the project.
Statistics show India with 27 million acres in rice, 18 million in wheat, 75 million in other grains, 1 million in sugar cane, 251 thousand in tea, 10 million in cotton, 1 million in indigo, and 300 thousand in tobacco.
An opinion piece mocks Chinese Americans by claiming they show little patriotism and remain detached from the war in the Pacific, asserting passive support and minimal impact from events like Ping Yang and Yaloo.
Captain Henry W. Howgate, once disbursing officer of the United States signal service and organizer of the Howgate polar expedition, embezzled 360000 dollars and disappeared thirteen years ago. He has now been arrested in New York, prompting renewed debate over the superstitious claim that thirteen is unlucky.
The New York Herald warns New Jersey officials that dynamite is tearing up Palisades along the stadia to provide trap rock for a Long Island turnpike. A single blast recently removed 150000 tons of cliff beauty, prompting concerns that utilitarian progress will erase natural splendor.
A Georgia family keeps a mantel stone that looks like an old castle when lit by gas. The stone shows turrets and strong foundations and the gas light reflection makes it resemble a building with lit windows.
A new electric lighting system is being installed in Juneau, Alaska, a town of about 2,000. When finished it will be the territory’s first electric plant. Electricity has been used in a limited way in the mines, with water abundant and power generated on streams and conveyed by cables to the mining sites.
An authority explains that while only nine perfect tones exist in the human voice, there are 17 592 186 044 415 possible distinct sounds. Fourteen direct muscles yield 16 883 sounds and thirty indirect muscles yield 173 741 823, with all cooperation producing the total.
Government surveys indicate Mount St Elias lies on British soil and reaches 18 023 feet, revised higher than prior estimates. Amazingly two or three inland peaks on English territory surpass the saint’s height, with Mount Logan at 14 544 feet and two unnamed summits exceeding Mount St Elias by several feet.
A gigantic ten yard diameter clock now dominates Philadelphia city hall with a four yard minute hand and a two and a half yard hour hand. Electricity lights the face at night and a fifty thousand pound bell sounds the hours over the district. A steam engine winds the clock daily from the tower.
Officials in Canada debated frog status in a Northumberland Ontario petition. They note a thriving frog legs trade and that frogs are embryonic fish, suggesting a possible fishery law change to include frogs.
Prudent advice notes that kisses can spread disease and urges mothers to limit affectionate caresses from relatives. It condemns women’s indiscriminate kissing in society as poor form and praises restraint as a service to mankind.
The weekly summary notes calls for relief to Wisconsin and Minnesota homesteaders, a presidential commission on strikes in secret session, pardons for Mormon polygamists complying with laws, and national financial figures. Clearinghouse totals reach $825.4 million for the week, with 235 business failures and US pension disbursements at $137.6 million. China ratifies a new treaty.
The text lists varied items from refineries closing halting 10000 jobs to a Cape Vincent destruction, political nominations in Saratoga, race results at Mystic Park, church temperance talks, drownings in Cayuga Lake, weather bureau arrest, and labor unrest. It covers conventions, sports records, constitutional changes, entombed miners, and strikes in Fall River and tin plate plants.
In Columbia Washington the anti Tillman convention adjourned without nominations after passing resolutions on topics. Also reports of prize fight results, shipwrecks on the Great Lakes, political nominations across states, a Hemophilia death in Martinsville three deaths and arson and other crimes.
Reports from multiple regions detail fatalities in accidents including a dynamite blast in Atchison and a wreck near Woodstock. Other items note a speed record in California harness racing, marriages in Austin and Canton duels, weather impacts in Minnesota, crop damage in California, and various crimes and political notices.
A flood in Akita and Iwate Japan kills over 306. Durango waterspout drowns ten families. Blussels cholera fires destroy sixty houses with sick burned. Nanaimo burns cause $100,000 loss. Crown Point plant burns for $5,000,000. Hawaii ex-queen loyalists take allegiance.
Public debt statement shows Septembers increase of 8 052 701 with treasury cash at 119 019 710 and total debt minus cash at 97 046 617. Bank closures and disasters including a Valencia Venezuela waterspout killing 150 plus and a Wilmot Wisconsin house fire with three children perishing are noted.
Jacksonville dispatches describe widespread damage from the West Indian cyclone in Florida. Tampa factories were wrecked, the First Presbyterian church and Tampa Bay hotel damaged, losses in the city around sixty thousand dollars, several ships damaged near Fernandina, and St Augustine flooded with many houses wrecked. The orange groves suffer heavy 20 percent losses as wharves vanish and telegraph poles fall, while the east coast remains cut off from Jacksonville to St. Augustine.
R G Dun and Co reports mixed retail gains and overall softer activity versus a normal year. Despite recent improvements in essentials, wholesale and manufacturing show little momentum with new orders slackening. Commodity prices slip with corn and pork down and wheat futures at record lows for delivery. Failures total 235 in the United States and 65 in Canada as reported.
Cleveland police investigate the mysterious killing of James L. Caven, general freight agent of the Valley railroad. He was shot Monday night, robbed of a gold repeater and cash, body found in the yard with five wounds. No crew recovered.
At SanaTona New York on September 26 delegates nominate David Bennett Hill for governor amid a roll call and acclamations for other offices. The platform praises the Sherman and federal election law repeals, supports tariff reforms, labor protections, equal rights, and criticizes the constitutional convention as partisan and gerrymandered.
Reports from Montevideo dated October 1 describe rioting in Rio de Janeiro lasting five days with attacks on Portuguese merchants. Admiral Da Gama says troops, including soldiers in civilian dress, attacked royalist conspirators. Estimated deaths reach 828 with 218 wounded. property losses total about 1.6 million dollars affecting Portuguese British and other foreign residents.
A Shanghai dispatch reports Li Hung Chang to be replaced by Wu Ta Cheng as viceroy of China with Yu Lin to succeed him as northern trade superintendent. Four imperial princes monitor events at Tianjin as 180000 troops defend Moukden amid expected battle. Japanese warships patrol Pechili Gulf. Dowager Empress curtails birthday festivities to divert funds to war expenses.
The National League ended with Baltimore atop the standings as New York and Boston held second and third. St Louis unexpectedly jumped to ninth, displacing Cincinnati at the last moment. the Temple Cup looms only for the top two, not affecting the championship.
An Albany, October 2 report summarizes the convention’s work in detail. Key points include drainage rights across lands, separation of municipal and state elections, safeguards in legislation, removal of salt springs restrictions, abolition of the coroner office, expanded gambling prohibitions, higher damage limits for wrongful death, stricter citizenship requirements, new district apportionment, civil service reform, end of convict labor contracts, canal improvements, free public schools with no sectarian funding, and judiciary reforms to ease crowded trial calendars.
Republicans and Democrats converge on Capitol Hill to shape a bipartisan path in Congress. Leaders outline aims, with committees reviewing options that affect budget, policy, and procedural rules. Debates focus on strategy, timing, and potential compromises.
Seven people drown near Chaska after Louis Scharf intoxicatedly drives off a river bank following a warning. He escapes, but his wife five children and Miss Mary Roskus perish with the horses as the wagon sinks into the river near the ferry.
Poem fragment in Boston Transcript expressing longing and restraint. The speaker asks for truth without a mask and imagines a future moment too full of splendor for words. The passage blends emotion, nature images, and unspoken desire.
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