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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1903
Page
3
The report claims America tops global population increases over the past century and has outstripped other nations in growth. It frames the United States as the leading nation for population expansion during the era.
In six days 12,000 immigrants landed in New York and 1903 may break the Europe to United States migration record. A Boer student Leopold Reinecke from Wellington Cape Colony begins graduate work at Cornell. A Dallas judge scolds a masher, saying jail will teach him to respect women. Harvard Yale quip about 48 states surfaces after a dinner. Buckwheat and Vermont maple supplies promise ample pancake trims as a nod to American habit.
In Indianapolis two young men, close friends in good health with respectable jobs, died by their own hands within hours of each other. They left no clue or clue to motive, taking their secret with them and baffling investigators.
Maj. Gen. Charles Heywood retires from the Marine Corps after more than 45 years of service and nearly 12 years as head of the service. He was the only Marine to hold the rank of major general and, at retirement, had more active-years than any other officer in the Army or Navy.
A columnist praises the United States hen and poultry industry noting last year’s poultry and egg value surpassed global mining metals and exceeded wheat outputs in 28 top states. The piece calls the hen a key part of American industrial life.
Chief Justice Lore of Delaware denounces lynching and rejects state killing. He would not take life for crimes, proposing restraint and long imprisonment to allow penitence and reform. He argues life is sacred and should be preserved as long as God spares each person.
The Illinois re formatory superintendent argues in a public address that lack of home life drives most juvenile crime and that education is the keynote of reform. He adds that beyond scholastic training, education must reach the hands heart and conscience.
The White Star liner Germanic ship's surgeon Brice, age 77, has traveled 2 500 005 miles across the Atlantic and hopes to make 900 more crossings. He credits modern invention for his record as ships now cross 24 times yearly, potentially reaching a round number in four years. In Greensburg, a woman refused to replace red railroad curtains after an engineer threatened a stop, winning green curtains from the railroad.
United States weekly trade summary reports 20 business failures in the past week, clearing houses show $1.938 trillion in activity, and a 24.4 percent drop from last year. Western railroads cut passes, Aberdeen fires erase ten blocks, and Bryan denies free silver remarks.
John Alexander Dowie and his Zion City hosts reach New York while a separate endurance run ends with 21 finishers in Pittsburg. Dowie’s wife is robbed of a diamond brooch at the railway station. Bishop Scarborough refuses a clergyman’s call due to a prior marriage. Wreckage salvage on Staten Island Sound totals 160000 in bullion. a separate rail collision near Washington Crossing, N Y leaves 15 dead and about 40 injured.
A train wreck near Langley Kansas kills four harvest hands. Vermont marshal Fred A Field removed by president over deportation escape in Providence. Chicago race tracks allegedly boosted by clerks and mechanics betting. National Civic Federation hosts debate on socialism. Dan Patch breaks mile record in Lexington. Linn Grove Iowa burglars steal 2500 dollars. Wickliffe Kentucky mob hangs black suspect Thomas Hall. Viborg South Dakota bank robbed of 5000. Cincinnati postal fraud trial ends without verdict. Francis previews Louisiana Purchase expo palaces ready in 60 days. Adirondack snowstorm blankets Lake Placid Loon Lake Chateaugay Lake Titus Mountain.
In Mexico City the International Bank of America shut its doors after reporting $1,850,000 in gold deposits and $1,500,000 in silver deposits. Two 12 year old boys Edwin Hummel and Matthew Bary were fatally struck by a Chesapeake and Ohio freight train near Bellevue Kentucky. Dr Greth of San Francisco after a year on an airship sailed for two hours overhead directing his machine at will.
Advices from London deny a final Alaska boundary decision. Russia will honor the China US commercial treaty. Far East policy gains new importance for America. Alaska claims are kept except Portland canal to Canada, pleasing Britain but arousing Canadian resentment. Cuban president pardons two American soldiers jailed in Cuba. Italy's king and queen depart Paris for Rome after a review, cheered by crowds.
Russian Far East press condemns the U.S. China accord and vows Mukden will not open as a treaty port. A string of calamities follows from a Cheboygan city hall fire to deadly rail and streetcar crashes and financial alarms.
Mrs A D T Whitney writer of girls books is 79 living near Boston. Mrs Ama D Lemon cousin of Buffalo Bill appointed matron at Pittsburg jail. Britain aims to excel in St Louis exposition exhibits and expenditures. Dr Belisario Sasa from Lima studying US medicine advances in New York. William Morgan resigns as clerk of US district court St Louis after 30 years service, 16 as clerk. Arkansas experiences a boom with new railroads and northern capital. Plan to displace Mexican money in the Philippines with peso coin will prove successful. International Harvester plans consolidation to save salaries. Higher consular salaries favored by A S S H D Pierce after inspection tour to London. Tee system opposed. Lieut P W H Sheridan returns from the Philippines aboard the Sheridan. Ex Gov Samuel Albright sent to Soldiers Home in Dayton. Booker T Washington returning from Europe says US Negroes better than Europe’s poorer classes. Henry C Jarrett dies in London aged 73, known for The Black Crook. A colossal statue of King Catton slated for Mississippi exhibit in St Louis world’s fair agriculture palace.
The Alaska boundary commission mostly sustains American claims, granting Canada only the Portland canal as its outlet to the sea. Lord Alverstone cast the deciding vote for U S control of about 20 700 square miles and key bays along 600 miles of coastline. Canada protests across the dominion amid calls for annexation to the United States.
On the Belvidere division near Washington's Crossing a work train collision killed fifteen laborers and injured about forty. Most victims were Italian residents of Trenton and other colored workers. The crash halted near the crossing, with a gravel train said to have rear-ended the standing train. Police aided, and bodies were taken to the morgue for identification.
Dr August Greth completed a two hour free ascent over San Francisco on an airship. He circled the city then hovered near the Golden Gate before landing at the Presidio bay. The cigar shaped balloon carried 50 000 feet of gas and a 12 horsepower engine aided by ballast. The crew rescued the craft and Greth planned another ascent after repairs.
Cincinnati October 19 The jury in the Daniel V Miller and Joseph M Johns post office fraud conspiracy case failed to reach a verdict after a six hour deliberation. The judge discharged the jurors then instructed them on law before resuming. A new trial bond was renewed by the defendants.
Reports from Port Dalny claim Sir Claude MacDonald mediates between Russia and Japan with Japan seeking Manchuria to China trade access and Russian troop withdrawal with railway guards. Japanese war stance denied by Terauchi who calls for peace with honor. local deaths and Navy budgets follow.
A Chattanooga inventor travels to San Francisco to build his fifth flying machine. Gilbert Spankie, Indian judge’s grandson, works as a waiter aboard the State of California. Washington Grayson, Creek, becomes a lieutenant in the Philippines constabulary. Joseph Meyer, Milwaukee harness maker with a heart on the right, dies at eighty. Alfred Speer, Passaic vineyard owner, 106 year old aunt Ann Betts visits. she notes endurance and a war pension.
The oldest wood carving, a 3900 B C sycamore statuette of pyramid overseers, rests in a Cairo museum. Antwerp painter Robert Moss is honored in Brussels. A Zola monument design by Charpentier and Meunier is completed. Leavitt plans St Louis residence post world fair. Charcot memorial bust by his wife shown. A Lemelon statue by his wife gains esteem. A Toledo McKinley inscription error will switch “Nearer, My God, to Thee” from Freely to Feebly.
Archduchess Augusta shoots a bear on a hunting trip. Baroness Lowenfeld sells nearly all her property to cover Monte Carlo debts. Duchess of Marlborough favors physical training for children at Blenheim Palace. Lord Dunraven becomes president of London’s Constitutional Club, a 6500-member, large and elegant society hub.
J. W. Walls of Lebanon Kentucky describes severe kidney pains and backache. He recalls seeing a newspaper account of a cure by Dean's Kidney Pills and reports quick relief after using them. A free trial offer is extended by Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo New York with sales at 60 cents per box through druggists.
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