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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1897
Page
1
The Express notes Texas enthusiasm for education with a tale of a schoolhouse moved ten miles in one night. It cites a record corn crop of 1.75 billion bushels and mentions California fruit bound for London, the impact of refrigerator cars, and a humorous dyspepsia claim about kissing by an English scientist.
A British technical journal notes Americans are called to supply equipment for an electric railroad as English manufacturers cannot meet demand. The piece declares that "Made in America" will mark the London tramway project.
Two Chicago girls remark on family looks and ancestry while a patriotic order of Daughters of Their Fathers weighs in with a cautious reply. The article frames the debate around heritage and humor within a community group context.
The Right Worthy National Supreme Grand Lodge of the Ancient and Independent Order of the Sons and Daughters and Brothers and Sisters of Moses in the United States and the World at Large launches as a new organization.
Santa Fe New Mexico hosts a board of trade with only women members. They handle city business, promote sanitation, welcome visitors, entertain celebrities, and strive to attract capital for factories and development.
Mr. Gladstone criticizes the eastern policy, saying Armenian slaughters and Turkish changes stem from the European concert and the mutual distrust of powers. He argues these forces overwhelm language to describe the situation.
The piece notes that Pennsylvania increased legal holidays from six to eleven full holidays plus 52 half holidays, leaving 172 working days after excluding Sundays. It then describes Iceland as 39 756 square miles, population 70 927, populated by Viking descendants with a single police officer kept for ornament rather than need, to give the capital a police presence.
Revival of an international railroad plan linking America to Europe through British Columbia Alaska Siberia and Behring Strait. Believers say a practical day may come as remote farms gain connectivity. New rural life features include reading circles and rising telephone networks bridging isolated districts.
Bandits have again taught railroad officials that protection for valuables in express cars is inadequate by looting a Northern Pacific passenger train in Minnesota. Experts warn that express cars may need bullet and dynamite proof safes, and a few thousand dollars spent on protection could prevent many robberies. The piece also notes telegraphy’s diamond jubilee and recalls Cook and Wheatstone’s first telegraph patent signed by William IV on July 10 1837 and the July 4 1837 wire laid between Euston and Camden stations.
The 21st jumper from the Brooklyn Bridge survived after a river plunge and a tug rescue. Doctors say no permanent injuries. Previous 20 jumpers showed a high fatality rate, suggesting little gain in such feats.
In the fiscal year ended June 30 oleomargarine production fell to 45,531,207 pounds, down 5,322,027 from the prior year. The September public debt rose by 3,787,502, with a treasury cash balance of 850,368,631 and total debt excluding cash at 1,227,315,500. September receipts were 21,933,098 and expenditures 25,368,815, an excess of 3,405,717. McKinley tapped Newton L. Bates as surgeon general of the navy and head of its medical bureau. The cabinet discussed Spain’s crisis after the president’s return from Massachusetts, hopeful that liberal ministries may end the Cuba war. Post office receipts for the year ending June 30 were 82,831,716 versus 82,665,462 prior year.
The East reports 194 business failures in the week ending the 1st down from 209 and 299 year-ago. Joseph Proctor, veteran actor, dies at 81 in Boston. A West Medford wreck injures 30. Mrs. Rivinius and four children suffocate from gas in a New York hotel. National League final standings list Boston, Baltimore, New York, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and others. George Brownlee and two sons die in Long Meadow house fire. Gen. Neal Dow, temperance pioneer, dies in Portland at 96. Carleton Troops withdrawn, miners back at work, and business activity rising nationwide.
Fire in Irontown Ohio wiped a three by five block area causing losses up to 400000. Bank of Montrose closed with 175000 in deposits. Paris Mountain earthquake unsettled guests near Greenville. Deaths and crimes noted across states including Wis, Mich, Mo, Cal, Kan, Ga and Neb. Congress vacancies, municipal league formed, and rail wrecks with multiple injuries.
Maj. Lewis Ginter, noted cigarette magnate, died at his suburban Richmond home. The British ship Andrada set a new record for Europe to San Francisco passage, completing the voyage in 116 days.
Havana dispatches report Capt. Gen. Weyler’s resignation effective soon after Madrid accepts. Greek Premier Ralli resigns amid cabinet shakeup as Sagasta forms new Spanish cabinet with Puerto de Cuba home rule aims. Northern Torneo coastal earthquakes create new island near Mempa kul. Palestine sultanate enforces historic anti Jewish law. Japan endures deadly storm while Halifax hurricane sinks a vessel with 50 aboard. Beausejour prairie fire kills two women and five children Moreski. Garibaldi Erebus Poppy schooners sunk off Labrador coast with six drowned.
A railroad crossing tragedy near Willow Springs Missouri killed Philip L. Wooten and two children plus Mrs Francis Mallory and her child while Mrs Wooten was fatally injured. Indiana fires devastate forests in several counties and a series of political results appear nationwide.
Various short notes highlight figures and names: Gen Benjamin Butler’s grandson a political candidate in Lowell. Queen Victoria’s medical department costs £2700 yearly for 24 staff. 300 ministers sought a single army chaplain vacancy. Flint Weston aged 90 in Georgetown. Ife born in his home. Minnesota mortgages paid off at record pace. Parker Pillsbury, 88, last survivor of abolitionists in Concord. Rev. Saunders resigns over tobacco ban. ColMilne the oldest American lithographer dies in Owensboro. Grand Duchess Olga titled richest newborn with $5 million in securities. Gen. Cameron travels 4 000 miles before returning to Camp Ben Warrison. NY Court of Appeals ruling on church attendance by jurors. Jenny Sage longtime Cornell trustee chairman dies at Ithaca.
Reports from Tacoma detail floods in the Ping-Chou region near Peking with sixty villages housing over 80,000 people washed away. Authorities estimate 15,000 to 20,000 lives lost while relief efforts mobilize, nobles’ estates damaged, and meat supply disrupted by a protracted drought and royal edicts.
Fire at the Hotel Lafayette in Minnetonka destroys the 1880 built resort known as the largest summer house in the west. The blaze starts in the laundry at 11 AM and engulfs the main structure in 40 minutes. Wind toward Crystal Bay aided rapid spread. rebuilding unlikely.
Judge Foster rules against the Stock Yards company in the Kansas City yardage charges case. He holds the law governing yardage was valid and regularly passed by the Kansas legislature, and finds the stockyards as an incident of commerce subject to state regulation until Congress acts. The decision favors Attorney General Boyle and the company plans to appeal to the U S Supreme Court.
London report claims a strong syndicate offered the United States government to sell the Union Pacific at auction on November 1. A New York group purportedly bid £9,000,000 with expected proceeds between £10,000,000 and £12,000,000.
Gen Nelson A Miles returned from Europe aboard the St Louis after touring European armies since May. He and aides prepared reports urging reforms for the U S Army and warned that modern weapons and rapid-fire guns demand substantial preparation for national defense.
Chicago Oct. 4 experts for the defense in the Luetgert trial clashed with two veterinary professors testifying the bone the state calls a human femur is the lower part of a hog femur. Defense expert Allport cited the upper end. Merrillat and Hughes sided with the lower part and refused to waver.
In Schuyler Nebraska on October 4 a poison in coffee killed the mother and four children and left another child dying while two others were ill. Frank Davis and his eldest son left before breakfast as the meal began. The family was planning to go somewhere together. The poison was strychnine.
California growers report a 25 percent rise in anticipated wine production reaching about 20 million gallons. About half the grape crop has already been made into wine as prices rise five to ten dollars per ton for grapes.
Gen Neal Dow, noted for leading the temperance movement, died at his Portland home at 3:30 PM following old age. Born March 20, 1804 in Portland, Maine, he led prohibition efforts from his teens, helped enact state laws, served as mayor twice, fought abolition, and commanded units in the Civil War before his 1880 Prohibition Party presidential nomination.
Yokohama papers recount September 9 storm havoc across Japan with 376 homes destroyed in Tokyo 7 728 damaged and 14 043 submerged. Shizuoka 1060 homes demolished 4000 seriously damaged 38 killed 42 injured. Toyama flooded 750 homes washed away and crop ruined. An American vessel ashore at Awagone with several lives lost. Yejiro town ruins Koishiwawa 1500 submerged including mission and school buildings.
A drastic water shortage grips Missouri and Kansas with 17 years since such scarcity. Streams and ponds in Jackson county are dried up, artesian wells perform best, farmers haul water daily, livestock suffer, crops dry, and rain is awaited to avert severe outcomes.
Samuel J. R. McMillan, two term U S senator from Minnesota, died at ten p m Sunday night from anaemia in St Paul. Born February 22 1826 in Brownsville Pa he moved to Minnesota in 1852 and served as associate justice and chief justice before Senate terms in 1875 and 1881.
The advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy that purifies blood, strengthens nerves, and restores appetite. It claims tired, worried women and pale children benefit, calling the product the mother's friend and necessary in many families.
Every Saturday night the Midland Route offers sleeping car service to Colorado Utah and California departing Chicago Union Station at 10 o clock. It travels via the Chicago and Omaha Short Line to Omaha Lincoln Neb Colorado Springs Leadville Salt Lake City Ogden Reno Sacramento and arrives in San Francisco at 8 45 p m Wednesday. The excursion is guided by courteous couriers and targets families groups and solo travelers with care for children. Sleeping berth rate is 6 00 for two persons Chicago to California.
The New York Journal lists vivid bicycle metaphors for social traits. Terms describe awkward wobbler gossip loose sprocket wheel and 995 model as style faults. A jilting sweetheart yields broken chain while enamel scraping occurs from falls. Wheels and bearings frame imagined faults.
October closes this greatest Exposition in the South with special attractions. Rates from across the country are lower than ever. Nashville sits on the Louisville and Nashville line, offering cheap through-car travel both ways. Request rates from agents or contact C. P. Atmore for information.
A Pittsburgh Chroni cle Telegraph note shows a woman seeking divorce on cruelty grounds. She explains her husband never struck her but insulted their dog Fido, prompting the judge to sympathize with her. The column also includes humorous bits about Nobbleton and a rail fare ad from the Cotton Belt Route.
A testimonial from Mrs Louis A Place of Brockton Massachusetts claims Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Blood Purifier and Sonative Wash cured six months of female troubles including womb tilt headaches hysteria numb spells and leuorrhea after following a doctor advised course.
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