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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1901
Page
2
The text notes a Chicago School of Domestic Arts and Science showing how to tell boiling water by dipping a finger. It adds that a company with a $50,000,000 capitalization has formed to build a trans Alaskan railway to Behring Strait, with expectations to fund the project through a prospectus.
Barley and rye ripen along the Yukon while vegetables flourish and reach market by mid August. The Alaska agricultural outlook appears more favorable than previously thought.
The Roosevelt family requests correct enunciation of their Dutch surname. They stress the proper pronunciation is Rose-ze-velt and emphasize sensitivity to how the name is spoken.
Dr Pozzi the eminent French surgeon writes in Echo de Paris that President McKinley never recovered after the attack and that leading French doctors believed he would not live ten days.
The idea that humans descended from apes raises a sharp question for society. How far may a person degenerate from ideal conduct before civilized restraint fails and he must shed clothing, retreat to a tree, and stop speaking.
The remark anchoring Archibald Bulloch as a great great grandfather of President Roosevelt notes his Georgia leadership in 1775 1776 as provincial congress president and delegate to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1775 He is credited as the first man to read and publish the Declaration of Independence in Georgia.
The czar of Russia and the president of France recently parted on good terms and discussed alliance. Their friendly talks imply that any attacker would face two foes, a condition that supports European peace rather than war.
Gen. James M. Bell rose to brigadier general under Roosevelt's first act after starting as a Civil War volunteer. He led the Eighth Cavalry in the Santiago campaign and was wounded at Guasimas. After a long illness he resumed service in the Philippines with his regiment.
A 21 man force has sailed to Manila to establish a large printing plant for the United States government. After January first all pamphlets will be printed in English Spanish and Tagalog. The office will include linotype machines, the first of their kind in the Philippines, and the Tagalog typesetting machine is claimed to be the first in the world.
Reported tensions between Baldwin and Wellman expeditions unfold as supporters warn each party tracks the other northward to seize stores along the route. The exchanges spark worry over a dangerous confrontation and potential damage to the pole’s area.
The text argues that New York law treats any participant in a crime as a principal, whether involved directly or as an aider, and asks why self styled anarchists who commit murder should be exempt from this responsibility. It notes similar statutes exist in other states and challenges exemption claims.
The growth of Pacific commerce is shown by charted steamship lanes between Europe and America established for many years. The lanes reduce collision risks though steamers remain in danger of meeting sailing ships, especially off the Newfoundland coast, where foggy conditions persist.
The Hotel Gazette notes 20 000 to 25 000 summer hotels in the United States employing around 300 000 people and hosting about 10 000 000 guests annually. Atlantic City is the largest summer resort with about 200 000 residents and 15 000 workers, guests spending an estimated 20 000 000 yearly. The piece concludes that home remains the coolest place in summer.
A man named Richard Lawrence tried to shoot President Andrew Jackson as he left the Capitol on January 30 1835 near the end of Jacksons second term. The pistols misfired twice and Lawrence was captured. Jackson escaped unharmed, described as miraculous by authorities.
A summary of recent U S economic data shows eight months ending August with exports up 23 million and imports up 14 million. Schley court inquiry hears Sampson will explain a letter, and the president plans army and navy reforms.
The city reports 11 048 more females than males. Columbia wins third Shamrock II race by time allowance. Depew to marry Miss May Palmer of New York. Helen Long, secretary of the navy’s daughter, dies at 26 in Hing ham Mass. Ransom plea for Miss Stone from Bulgarian bandits gains US attention. Weekly trade shows broad activity. iron and steel orders rise. U S exchanges total 2 136 970 900. weekly failures 205. Massachusetts Republicans renominate Crane. Fall River strike 30 000 workers demand 5 percent raise. Pittsburg clay pot plant fire causes 280 000 loss. 1381 foot Atlantic wedding voyage begins. Peter Scheldgen, Trenton, arrested nine wives. National League final standings list Pittsburg and Philadelphia atop. New York and Chicago near bottom. Anarchists’ ball busted by New York police. William H Powell U S A retired from Sacketts Harbor N Y nominated for Congress.
Congressman Kahn says Aguinaldo denied any promise of independence by Dewey. Snow fell two inches in Michigan and Indiana. Barboursville WV marked James Farrells 105th birthday. Free Society anarchist paper blocked in Chicago. Walter McClennon shot in Huntingdon Tennessee. Farmers National Congress in Sioux Falls condemns McKinley assassination and calls for state action against anarchy. Rendville fire clears business district. John Flanagan sets hammer and discus records in Louisville. Arizona calls for statehood convocation at Phoenix. Detroit Free Press printing plant damaged. Kansas Supreme Court bans liquor saloon smashing by Mrs Nation supporters.
Reports from Hungary describe election riots with 24 killed and hundreds wounded. South Africa faces renewed Boer War fighting. General Chaffee reports a massacre on Samar island with 3 officers and 40 men killed. Venezuela sees uprisings against President Cuastro. German scientists claim to have found Nebuchadnezzar’s palace at Babylon. British railway workers travel to the United States to study American roads.
Washington hails a new isthmus waterway treaty with credit shared by McKinley and Hay. Headlines cover a Wheeling saloon arrest, a deadly Morgan Chadwell clash near Middlesboro, buried alive workers in Indiana, a Dayton poison case, Buffalo exposition day, Schley inquiry findings, Stone ransom, Afghanistan, and DC Bar founder Davidge.
London population grows by 2500 monthly. Carnegie Steel completes a 2 million merchant mill at Duquesne. Ten states fund 1.785 million for St Louis exposition exhibits. American Locomotive spends 1.25 million to enlarge plants. Abner McKinley resembles the late president. McKinley portrait on upcoming ten dollar notes. Copenhagen brewer donates 3.216 million for arts and sciences. Jacobsens give nearly 15 million for philanthropy. Eliza A. How donates 100,000 to Washington University for a Capt. Eads memorial. Five hundred mass meetings planned in Britain in Oct–Nov over SA policy. Arctic explorers Stein and Warmouth reach Sydney after two years in ice. Chauncey Depew serves on 76 boards, 49 railroads. Roosevelt opposes altering the White House. seeks new presidential residence. First steel trust financials show higher earnings during strike.
The 1901 cup series ended with Columbia defending the trophy against Lipton's Shamrock II in a 30 mile windward leeward race. Columbia finished two seconds behind but won on time allowance by 41 seconds, securing yachting supremacy. Lipton applauded the defender as “the better boat.”
In Havana and across Cuba on Oct 4 a massive demonstration honored the U S administration in Cuba. Estimates say about 100000 participants joined displays from Cape Antonio to Cape Maysi and Santiago sent 8000 marchers. The event underscored desire for closer Castro-U.S. ties and lower American duties on Cuban sugar and tobacco.
Sir Thomas Lipton’s Shamrock challenges end as the Columbia crosses the line seconds ahead or within the time allowance, winning the series in three straight races. The fleet reports no incidents and the U S yacht is hailed as the strongest foreign foe defeated in Western Ocean waters.
The Dun report for nine months in 1901 lists 6144 failures with 97.86 million in liabilities, down from 7895 failures and 133.23 million last year. Excluding 61 banking fiduciary failures with 17.24 million, commercial defaults total 8083 cases and 80.56 million, versus 7851 cases and 101.87 million previously.
Fire in Skarritt and Sack's meat market at Edmore Michigan on Friday afternoon destroyed the market and adjacent buildings including the post office Edmore Journal Cole's bicycle shop and town hall Florence Grout seven perished in the blaze. Loss about five thousand dollars partly insured.
In Washington on October 5 Rayner chief counsel for Admiral Sehley asked Judge Advocate Lemly to summon Admiral Sampson as a witness. The dispute centers on wording in Sampson's May 20 letter from Key West to Commodore Sehley during the flying squadron's off Cienfuegos.
Residents noted this week that industrial conditions hinge on Cuba–US relations and predicted the Thursday gathering signals a growing annexation sentiment likely to form a strong party soon.
The Episcopal Church of America opened its triennial convention with Bishop Dudley of Kentucky elected president and Hart of Middletown Conn. secretary of the house of bishops. Dr. John S. Lindsey of Massachusetts named chairman and Charles Hutchins secretary of the house of deputies. A thanksgiving service followed with a missionary offering of 104295. The first day saw routine business and the adoption of seven articles from the 1898 general convention.
An order from Wisconsin G A R headquarters signed by Commander A H De graff and Assistant Adjutant General E B Gray bans saying the name of President McKinley s assassin. The decree declares the assassin s name should never be pronounced by Americans to keep the criminal forgotten by veterans and descendants.
United States geological survey reports total value of minerals produced in 1900 at 1,070,108,889 dollars. Metallic products valued at 552,418,627 dollars. Nonmetallic products 516,690,262 dollars. Estimated value of unspecified mineral products listed as 1,000,000 dollars.
Casualty list from Moedwill shows four officers killed and 23 wounded, plus 51 enlisted men killed and 115 wounded, far surpassing prior reports. Colonel Kekewich's company was the targeted unit in the engagement.
Washington reports a proposed U S Great Britain agreement to abrogate the Clayton Bulwer treaty and create a neutral isthmian canal open to all nations in peacetime. The United States would control the canal in war and decide fortifications, with Britain accepting nondiscrimination. President Roosevelt supports the pact as outlined.
A Milwaukee woman Savin E Koon writes of months of illness and near insanity from female troubles she says improved after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She praises the cure and invites others to seek free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
Atlanta reports two crowded street cars collided on a down grade at Fair and Washington injuring 18 people. Chicago indicts Robert E. Burke for embezzling 23000 in fees from Standard Oil and others. Topeka holds saloon smashing illegal under law with prosecutions. Detroit fire damages the Free Press Printing plant at 621 Fort Street West with losses pegged at 20000 to 25000 insured.
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