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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1900
Page
1
Ness county Kansas farmers pooled 1009 pounds of bisulphide of carbon to drive prairie dogs from their land. The plan risks wider consequences as the heavy use could affect the local population. German cavalry units now deploy two waterproof canvas boats that fold for storage and can raft up to carry 25 to 77 hundred pounds.
E. H. Town of Chubbs Crossing shows a unique elm planting on his farm. He drilled a corkscrew continuous row from base to summit to cover the entire knoll shaped hill, claiming the longest unbroken elm line in Vermont.
Over thirty years India’s average rainfall runs to forty one inches. In 1896 deficiency reached five inches. By 1899 the deficit exceeded eleven inches, about twenty seven percent, a level unmatched in Indian records.
Ponca Indian girl Mollie Big Buffalo, famed Carlisle graduate and preacher to her people, travels to Mexico and meets the president who promises 6,000,000 acres in Chihuahua. Agents later secure the land.
Consul General Mason in Berlin reports liquid air tested at Vienna shows lower efficiency than dynamite guncotton explosive gelatin or giant powder. It was mixed with silicious marl and solar oil and placed in paper cartridge shells. Fresh cartridges were powerful for coal mining but gas evaporates quickly rendering them ineffective over time.
Japan begins artificial pearl growing with special oyster stock in Miye prefecture. The crown prince and princess visited Ise oyster beds where the owner submitted twenty seven pearls of various sizes to the royal party via the prefectural governor.
Prof. C L Howard chief of the bureau of entomology in Washington reports marked development in the honey industry with over 300000 people employed and product value at 20000000 dollars. There are 110 operarian societies and eighty journals. Much honey is exported with England as the main buyer. The potential for further growth remains.
A Clay county farmer left about 800 bushels of wheat undisturbed because a hen nested on the grain. He waited for the hen to leave with her chicks and later found he had gained over 100 dollars as wheat prices rose. In Virginia Albermarle area worn-out farms are now violet growing sites run largely by women with African American laborers, supplying Philadelphia dealers.
The Croton dam at the Cornell site spans Croton river in a north south line about three and a quarter miles above the Hudson. Estimated cost is around 5,000,000 dollars making it the largest and most extensive on this continent. Its height is the greatest in the world and masonry totals about 670000 cubic yards.
Mattie Pegues of Siloam Springs Arkansas is described as the youngest temperance orator in the United States at 15 years old. She won the Woman's Christian Temperance Union diamond medal for oratory and elocution at Prescott Park this year after earlier earning four medals for public speaking at age 12, and other honors on the temperance platform.
The original Alamo bell now belongs to Mrs. Adina De Zavalla of San Antonio. The bell was found three months ago at Goliad offered for sale as old iron by Moses Oppenheimer of Victoria. After press attention and correspondence, the bell was delivered to Miss De Zavalla in San Antonio. It measures eighteen inches high, four ten inches in diameter, and weighs about thirty five pounds.
Cabinet approves sending a transport to bring back stranded Nome miners. Government plans to build six submarine torpedo boats immediately. Twelfth census estimates U S population at 76 million. August internal revenue receipts total 29,421,391 dollars, up 1,409,103 from last year.
Reports from Philadelphia to Milan recount a clashing mix of tragedies and triumphs. Powers dies after a train fall in Philadelphia. Corbett stops Kid McCoy at Madison Square Garden. battleship Wisconsin readies for official trial. Diplomacy and finance detail exchanges, failures, and treaty talks amid imperial moves in China and Africa.
The dispatch reports a mob hanging in Cheneyville La for a killing, elections in the Knights of Pythias and Grand Army of the Republic, endorsements for McKinley, census gains for Detroit, Daughters of Veterans officers in Chicago, and various crimes and events across states including a train robbery in Wyoming, a double homicide in Florida, bicycle speed records in Salt Lake City, and a Raleigh N C hanging of a black preacher.
An all day cabinet meeting at Washington notes a German and Italian note on China. Signs of friction rise between Russian and Japanese forces in China. Russia proposes allies withdraw troops from Peking. Japanese troops rout Chinese at Teh-Chou killing 1500 including Prince Tuan. Report Li Hung Chang imprisoned denied.
The State Department releases Russia's China aims and U S reply. It states Russia has no territorial designs and supports legation safety in Peking. It urges joint occupation of Peking until China stabilizes and calls for peaceful negotiations for a lasting settlement.
Des Moines Iowa August 29 The middle of the road populists convene decide to remain in the center of the road No state ticket named the state central committee to form a ticket and seek petition placement Votes last year were insufficient to place names on the ticket Resolutions back national platforms from Omaha St Louis and Cincinnati and pledge support to Wharton Barker and Ignatius Donnelly for president and vice president
Cartwright Wisconsin, a town of 2000 near Chippewa Falls, reports its business portion wiped out by fire. Sawmill, planing mill, flour mill, Bitney's Warehouse, several stores and homes burned in the blaze.
Chicago report notes George H. Ling aged 35 who saved 24 lives in the Johnstown flood was killed after falling from a Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago train near the Caumel river bridge. Havana dispatch says former Cuban president Cisneros urged immediate troop withdrawal from Cuba.
Detroit reports the Knights of Pythias reach 492,506 members with a net gain of 21,237 in 1898 1899 and 6 740 lodges. Hawaiii Alaska Cuba and Quebec lodges organized. Ogden H. Fethers elected supreme chancellor succeeding Sample. San Francisco to host next meeting.
New York reporting R G Dun & Co notes August commercial failures at 150 with liabilities of 7 3 million. Manufacturing failures total 174 for 2 95 million and 519 trading failures for 3 59 million. Banks failures are 2 with 146 thousand liabilities. Iron market shows steady improvement while copper exports average 1 million pounds daily. Weeks failures in US total 175 versus 141 last year and Canada 19 versus 25.
Chicago watches as about 40,000 Grand Army of the Republic veterans from 45 states march in a near five hour parade. The 34th annual encampment convenes with Gen. Albert D. Shaw delivering the opening address and Leo Bassleur named commander in chief for the coming year.
James Whitcomb Riley read a new poem at the G A R encampment banquet in Chicago about Old Glory. The speaker asks who gave the flag its name and the flag finally answers it is as old as the glory of God, born from white stars and red stripes.
Gov Gen Wood, after a careful island canvass, says conditions in Jucaro and surrounding areas are orderly with jails largely empty. Reconstruction advances slowly but steadily. no hunger suffering observed and U S troops health is good. Havana reports Gomez declines national party convention nomination, preferring to stay out of politics.
Conditions in Samoa as of Sept 1 are reported by B F Tilley commanding the Tutuila Naval Station He describes promising conditions in the American section and recalls the impressive ceremonies marking the unveiling of a monument to the American and English dead from the April 1899 engagement.
Watseka Illinois August 29 Mrs Dr Charlotte Wright died in the jail following the Gilman tragedy raising the Wright hospital riot death toll to four. Injured George Willoughby from Gilman is expected to die at any moment as new fatalities are reported.
Washington reports the August internal revenue statement with total receipts from all sources totaling 29 million 421 thousand 391 dollars an increase over prior periods. The monthly figure reflects broad gains across tax categories and aligns with federal revenue expectations for the period.
Washington reports Detroit Michigan has 285,704 residents up from 205,876 in 1890. The gain equals 0 828 and 38 77 percent, reflecting substantial urban growth.
Pawhuska Oklahoma August 30 The census of the Osage and Kaw Indian tribes shows population gains over 1899. Osages total 1900 1783 up from 1768 in 1899 Kaw total 1900 217 up from 208 in 1899.
The Daily Mail reports with high authority that Lord Roberts has become commander in chief of the British army, succeeding Lord Wolseley. In Salt Lake City Charles Turville set a motor-paced mile record on the eight-lap track in 1 32, breaking Iver Lawson’s 1 33 3 5 record.
Chinese authorities report capturing a band of armed robbers 12 miles from Shanghai with eight leaders to be punished by starvation in a cage. Amoy unrest ends as Japanese and British detachments guard consulates after troops withdraw. London reports growing support for withdrawing allied forces from Peking to aid peace talks and potential Li Hung Chang mediation.
In Cleveland a 15 year old Ida Corrigan is found in the lake near the drowning site linked to the schooner Idler disaster on July 7. Five women and a baby from Corrigan families drowned. Jane Corrigan, 20, remains missing beneath wreckage as Captain Corrigan faces manslaughter charges.
In a much anticipated bout at Madison Square Garden under the Twentieth Century club, James J. Corbett defeated Charles Kid McCoy in under five rounds proving himself the superior fighter.
At the Republican state central committee meeting in St Paul the opening campaign will be September 27 in Minneapolis with Senator Albert Beveridge of Indiana delivering a party rally address at the Exposition building. In Hawaii the territorial bill bars liquor sales with congress evident in the wording.
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