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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1899
Page
3
The Dewey arch in New York is to remain in place for a year unless relic hunters remove it. Authorities said the retention hinges on preservation and security during the interim.
Central Park New York adds three lion cubs to the menagerie named Dewey Olympia and Manila. The names form a bold mix as keepers celebrate the new arrivals in the zoo collection.
Flying Fox, the English Derby winner this year, has earned about $150,000 in stakes this season. The lengthy development effort and cash investment by the owner highlight the costs behind a top racing animal and its return.
The Iowa papers claim state cornfields appear finer than Kansas fields. The Chicago Tribune suggests testing by selecting samples from both states and placing them side by side to compare cornstalks.
Archaeologists locate a 330 by 270 foot Roman fortification along the Narenta river. Visible walls gates and towers remain partly standing and numerous tools and weapons have been unearthed in the site.
The item notes Young Cornelius Vanderbilt receiving only 10000000 from his father due to choosing love over an arranged match. It also mentions Avondale New Jersey resident Thomas P Daly printing cards offering legal services with a cheeky line about marriage and jail. Additionally a Minneapolis district court divorce grants Kate Acker the right to resume her former name Kate Schafrankowa with costs to the defendant.
Katie Foy, a Wilkes Barre laundry employee, was badly burned. Fifteen fellow workers volunteered to donate skin for grafts, demonstrating communal courage and compassion.
United States authorities survey of Porto Rico finds Spanish measurements unreliable and island smaller than records. Distance from Ponce to Port Viento measured at 43 miles versus 50 miles listed by Spaniards.
Martin Dutton of Poughkeepsie offered Gould M Dutton $5,000 to take the Keeley cure and another $5,000 for a week of sobriety plus $10,000 a year to remain sober. The son has started treatment and vows lifelong abstinence, while his marriage suffers from liquor troubles.
An Italian newspaper item lists saints and beatified individuals by country over 400 years. It notes 76 Italians including 28 canonized and 4 beatified, 66 Spaniards with 17 canonized and 49 beatified, 37 Portuguese with 1 canonized and 36 beatified, 14 French including 6 canonized and 8 beatified, 13 Dutch and 12 canonized with 1 beatified, Germans with 2 canonized and 2 beatified, 2 Poles including 1 canonized and 1 beatified, and no saints from Great Britain or the United States.
At the Berlin meeting of the International Geographical Congress a proposal urged an inter national census to determine the world population. Prof Keltie introduced the idea noting estimates vary from 100 000 000 to 200 000 000 and questioning whether a census costing about 1 000 000 would be worthwhile.
Delegates at the Mississippi Valley Medical Association question routine cutting for pain in the right lower abdomen, noting some cases resemble simple stomachache and urging caution before costly procedures. The debate highlights conservative approaches amid fevered surgical trends.
A weekly roundup reports army manpower about 100000 in the field with new regiments filling quotas. Washington post office officials anticipate a domestic parcels post. The government to send 40 more female nurses to Manila joining 60 already there. War secretary orders all available chaplains to the Philippines. Exports for 1899 poised to be the largest in U S history.
Weekly financial and business figures show clearings at major exchanges rising to 1 29 769 586 from 1 752 988 538. U S weekly business failures reach 164 with Dewey laying a cornerstone at Dewey hall for Norwich university in Vermont.
Nationwide dispatches report fires in Minneapolis destroying the Produce Exchange with losses around 100000 dollars. Other items note bank liquidations, a Virden miners monument unveiling, presidential stops in multiple states, and various crimes and accidents across the country.
In Zanesville Ohio Robert D Schultz millionaire soap manufacturer died suddenly from heart trouble. While speaking at a religious meeting A M Atkinson prominent capitalist and churchman of Wabash Indiana dropped dead in Cincinnati Ohio.
Advices from Apia report Tamasse proclaimed king despite an Am-German-British pledge to abolish the office. Maj. Cheatham’s scout drives rebels from Montinlupa near Manila. three Americans dead, two wounded. Martial law and British warnings surge in Orange River State. Conspiracy to assassinate Dominican leaders Quinquez and Jiminez exposed. Kimberley siege and Boer advances threaten Ladysmith. Mafeking arsenal train explosion noted. Luzon fighting long fray, Otis cites Schwan victory. Chinese empress names Pu Tsuan as heir.
A roundup notes low tea prices from a vast Japanese crop and Milwaukee's rise as a bicycle manufacturing center. Labor shortages hit Southern cotton mills while American timber aids Japanese rail sleepers. Exports and naval statistics are cited alongside disease mortality in France and Dewey victory memorial fundraising. Reports also cover Boer War tensions with Britain and incidents in Linz and Apia, plus California farmers' expected canning income.
The Transvaal government, led by EF W. Reitz, issues four demands to Britain over the 1884 London convention. It seeks arbitration for mutual differences, immediate troop withdrawal from borders, removal of post June 1 reinforcements with a mutual no-hostilities pledge, and that Britain’s ships on the high seas not be landed in South Africa. The notice calls for an immediate affirmative reply.
Manila reports on Schwan's column advancing toward Sapang and Das Marinas with 500 men to support from Imus, Lawton to command on full concentration, and Young occupying Arayat while moving supplies up the Rio Grande. Casualties include six wounded and one enlisted man. insurgents repulsed at Angeles.
In Wilmington on October 14 Judge Bradford allowed the district attorney to enter a nolle prosequi in the case of United States Senator Richard R. Kenney who had been indicted for conspiring to aid and abet William H. Boggs the former teller of the First National Bank of Dover. Boggs is serving a prison term for robbing the bank of 107000 dollars.
Salt Lake City report states congressman elect Roberts has vanished from Utah amid legal peril. He faces two felony charges centered on polygamy and two misdemeanors for living with his two plural wives. Affidavits prepared to carry the record to Congress if Utah convictions fail.
Report states rebels from their position were killed and two were wounded in an engagement. No further details on location or parties involved are provided.
Five masked bandits robbed Northwestern train No 9 near Tower W between Maple Park and De Kalb about midnight Friday dynamite opened the express car vault. They bound the operator and crew and escaped in the engine later abandoned it two miles west of Maple Park. Loot exceeded 25000 dollars plus jewelry and valuables according to American Express General Manager Antisdel.
San Francisco reports the Twentyeth Kansas regiment and 400 discharged soldiers arriving on the transport Tartar. They were welcomed with thunderous cheers, cannon, bells, and an ovation to Gen Funston. The parade was reviewed by Gen Shafter and governors Stanley Rogers. Earthquake in Ceram Indonesia kills about 4,000. 500 injured.
Fire in Saginaw Michigan on Thursday caused about 60 000 dollars in damage to the Brewer Lumber company plant at Carrollton suburb. The shingle mill planing mill cooperage mill and a segment of the barbed wire reels plant were destroyed along with 2 000 000 feet of lumber. The firm plans immediate rebuilding.
Reverend Frank Gunsaulus once rode a cheap, rough horse on his circuit travels while his father, a blunt and colorful man, quipped that the Savior rode a worse animal and may have used the same one. The anecdote shows humble beginnings of the famed preacher.
A through Tourist Car departs every Friday at 10 35 p m from the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Union Passenger Station Chicago via Omaha Colorado Springs and Salt Lake City with stop over at Salt Lake City The berth rate Chicago to San Francisco is 6 00 Sleeping car accommodations should be reserved in advance Tickets and sleeping space available from agents in the east or at the Chicago depot or city ticket offices Send for California folders Geo H Heafford General Passenger Agent Chicago Ill
A Brooklyn Eagle note recounts a ministers meeting where a clergyman, applying eloquence at a funeral, nearly laughs at an unconscious joke. He pauses to reflect on the pallbearer being a milkman in the community for 25 years.
The Frisco Line Passenger Department issues a handsome illustrated pamphlet touting resources and advantages for home seekers. Free copies are mailed on request to Bryan Snyder G P A St Louis Missouri.
A collage of adages and quotes from newspapers contrasts a call to action with comic remarks. Included are wry observations on banks and cash, a Dutch comedian father, a singer mother, and a brisk health remedy pitch for Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
A Chicago Chronicle report tells of a woman who trims her own hat to cut costs. She collects ribbon, frame, and odd materials then stitches and rips to fashion a striking creation. Her relatives laugh and the mother buys her daughter a new hat from a store.
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