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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1900
Page
3
Des Moines reports a study by Dr. Benjamin F. Shambaugh showing crowded archives in the Iowa statehouse risk damage or loss. Proposals include a state archives department and a dedicated building, with a move toward organized classification for use by officials and students.
Manager Kent of the Garretson and Mondamin leading Sioux City hotels orders removal of parlor matches from rooms. Only old sulfur matches to be issued at counters. Incident in the Mandamin parlors where a young woman stepped on a match and her skirts caught fire prompted the change.
Enrollment at the state university continues to rise daily and is near last year’s total. Officials expect a fall term enrollment of about 3,600. The heating plant contract for boiler plumbing and piping has been awarded to M. LK. Hurley of Iowa City for 10,500 dollars.
The letter from William W. Bainbridge assistant secretary at the American Legation in Peking dated Aug 18 1960 recounts the siege by Chinese troops since June 20 the lifting of the siege after 20 000 foreign troops arrived and the legation guards and civilians endured hunger and shellfire Bainbridge Mary survived the ordeal noting ruin in Peking and thanking friends at home for their prayers and support
The Town agricultural college launches a new stock judging course starting January 7 for two weeks aimed at farmers breeders and stock enthusiasts. The college herd covers 25 breeds and a new 500 seat stock judging pavilion with a 50 foot display ring supports the program. Tuition is free. applicants should file with C F Curtis care of the college at Ames.
Reports from Davenport detail a dubious inheritance claim after the death of Dr. P Walter Connaughton. An alleged son named C A Connaughton asserts two thirds of the estate and $10 000 deposited earlier, prompting the bank to withhold payout. The Mott Watson case remains unsettled with an unknown heir claiming a $400 000 estate.
The text outlines hunting prohibitions by species with specific seasons. Pinnated grouse and prairie chicken trap shooting and killing forbidden December through September. Woodcock bans January through July tenth. Ruffed grouse pheasant quail ban January to November. Wild geese brant duck ban April fifteenth to September first. Gray fox timber squirrel ban January to June. Wild turkey and ruffed grouse barred until January 1 1901.
The completed census shows 3 427 school children in Marshalltown and 10 718 in Marshall County. Based on four residents per child, Marshalltown's population is 15 708 and Marshall County 42 872.
Will Marks, unmarried and employed at the ice house of the C. G. W. railway in Delhvin, was fatally injured when he fell between cars while icing an east bound meat train. The car tracks passed over him, near the thigh and abdomen, nearly disemboweled him. He died about an hour after being taken to Patterson hospital. his parents live in Ohio.
In Spencer the bishop announced pastors for conference districts. Presiding elders named are Algona Robert Smylie Fort Dodge F Day Ida Grove J J Lace Sheldon D M Vetter Sioux City J B Trimble. The Twentieth Iowa Veterans Association met in Cedar Rapids for a tenth biennial reunion with over 100 regiment members attending. A social day was followed by a banquet and camp fire with short addresses.
In an address at St. Marys German Catholic School in Dubuque Archbishop Keane declared English the language of the country and urged its teaching in all Catholic schools. He also stated the catechism should be taught in English to ensure proper instruction.
In Council Bluffs a bandit, about 46, six feet tall with black hair and mustache, is found dead in the Burlington route hold up after a confrontation with Express Messenger Charles Baxter. Baxter shot the robber and the other fled. the dead man is identified by the Nay family of St. Joseph as Albert H. Poone of Topeka. Baxter receives praise and a $500 draft from Express and likely reward from Adams Express.
Auditor Merriam releases official reports for 232 savings and 216 state banks showing deposits at September 5 totaling $94,673,208. Deposits have nearly quadrupled in ten years since 1890. The compilation lists deposits and capital stock for banks from 1890 to 1899 based on reports to the auditor of state as of June 30 each year.
Emerald Hamilton a colored 12 year old girl admitted to larceny and placed 15 grains of strychnine in clubhouse cheese brought to poison rats. The Sargent family ate the cheese but recovered after emetics were given. She confessed and was sent to the reform school.
Hd R Altman slept in a box car on the Milwaukee line and dreamed cries for help. He crawled through a rear window to aid victims and fell beneath the wheels as the train moved. Both legs were amputated and he died in a Sioux City hospital after being brought from Luton. He spoke of the dream before death. He has a brother in Manning.
Articles of incorporation filed by P. H. Bousquet authorize a railway company to build an eight mile line from Pella to Howell connecting the Wabash at Pella with the Rock Island line at Howell. Capitalization is set at $100,000.
A south bound Wurrington Cedar Rapids Northern passenger train derailed after striking an open switch near the Oelwein depot. The engine plunged into sand and capsized while the engineer Funk remained at his post and fireman Norris leapt from the locomotive.
Washington reports a rapid sequence of proposals from Germany France and Russia on China affairs with the United States weighing in. The German note urges penalties for Prince Tuan and other officials while France proposes a coordinated program for negotiations and punitive measures with indemnities and military guarantees. A Russian report suggests danger to the Chinese fleet as allied squadrons press operations. Andre Day observed in Nyack marking Maj. Andre’s 120th hanging anniversary.
In Montpelier Vermont the legislature met in joint session on Thursday to inaugurate Goyo Elect W. W. Stickney as the new governor.
An investigation in Fort Wayne public schools shows 87 percent of boys and many girls, including high school students, addicted to cigarette smoking. The Anti Cigarette Society reports widespread use and societies are forming to combat the habit.
Reading Pa October 8 shipments to tide water nearly stopped as the Philadelphia and Reading railway carried about 20 coal cars on Thursday versus a daily average of 1,400 cars before the strike.
R G Dun and Co weekly review notes another week delay in the anthracite coal settlement with rising business activity in the west and south. Prices lower in iron wool coal and sugar while produce and textiles remain firm. Wheat steady and Atlantic exports for the week at 3,262,994 bushels. Bradstreets cites varied demand due to weather and political uncertainty but overall favorable trade tone though western jobbing declines and cotton remains a key favorable factor in the south.
Wetumpka Alabama October 3. Winfield Townsend alias Floyd a negro was burned at the stake in Eclectic fifteen miles from Wetumpka shortly after midnight Tuesday after an attempted assault on Mrs. Harrington. Townsend confessed before binding and said he was linked with Alex Floyd who was hanged two weeks earlier for an attempted assault on Miss Pearson. He said they planned further crimes.
The twenty third annual ball and pageant of His August Serenity the Veiled Prophet drew thousands to downtown St. Louis. Twenty two floats depicted the nations march through a crowded route as flames and colored clouds dazzled spectators. Miss Susan Larkin Thompson was crowned queen to preside over St. Louis society for the coming year.
Mrs. Lillian Smith of Inwood Manhattan, driven insane by worry over troubled life, shot her children Ethel 12 and Theodore 8 then killed herself. Another child is near death from carbolic acid burns after an attempt to force the liquid. Her husband Walter M. Smith has long been with Austin Co. grocery.
C E Galloway aged 89 editor died from injuries after being struck by a tramway car in Denver He is noted as likely the oldest newspaper editor in the United States Born in Portage County Ohio he learned printing in Lawrence Indiana and published papers in Ohio Illinois Missouri and Utah including the Warsaw Signal and the Missouri Messenger
In Baskett Kentucky striking miners won recognition of the union and a wage cut aligned with the Pittsburgh scale. Former mine owner T C Blair who paid above the union rate did not recognize the union. The union is signed and wage reductions implemented.
From July 1 to September 30 Klondike gold receipts at the San Francisco mint and Seattle assay office totaled 16 047 555 dollars plus Cape Nome gold 2 311 801 dollars. Combined deposits at both offices for the quarter reached 33 234 810 dollars.
Vienna reports 53 deaths in the Austrian Alps during the summer climbing season. Of the victims 1 percent were German, 16 Austrian, 15 Swiss, four English and one Dutch. Four women perished, two German and two English.
Fereno owned by L. V. Harkness of Walnut Hill farm won the Kentucky Futurity for three year olds in three straight heats to claim a purse of 16 000. Time records posted were 2 12 14 2 10 34 and 2 12. A double tragedy reported from Pittsburgh where Ferdinand Brobst killed his wife and then shot himself. A child nearby uninjured. In Lima crude oil prices were cut again two cents with North Lima at 83 cents and South Lima and Indiana at 78 cents.
Chicago detectives investigate a suspected murder for life insurance fraud after Marie Defenbach died August 25 at 310 La Salle avenue. Three conspirators face charges of a calculated plot to swindle insurers, with two in custody. Policies totaling 12,000 were issued by New York Life, Canadian Order of Foresters, and Knights and Ladies of Honor.
Carl Schurz resigns as president of the National Civil Service Reform League and the Civil Service Reform Association. He cites not wanting to appear biased amid administration opposition and says reform groups must act free from personal or political bias.
Lord Roberts reports daily prisoner gains nearing 16,000 as Muller and Dirksen surrender to British forces. A London Irish detachment attacked Boers near Builtfonstein October 4 but withdrew after heavy fighting leaving six wounded. Estimates place 4,000 to 5,000 Boers retreating from Pilgrim's Rest with four large guns and 22 other pieces, their long tom ammunition nearly spent.
On a Chicago and Alton passenger train moving at 40 miles per hour William Burke of St Louis fought an unknown man for Burke s money. Burke was shot in the side during the struggle and pushed from the top of the coach. The stranger fled. Burke survived with a crushed skull? and serious injuries.
Gov Theodore Roosevelt faced a hostile crowd in Chicago on Sunday with obscene taunts and mud thrown as his carriage passed by. He blamed the incident on a local democratic paper and stayed composed despite the disruption. In New Jersey a boy of ten died from burns after a reckless game of Indian.
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