07 Sep 1899
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1899
Page
1
The Express notes Gen. Coxey once led the tramp army and can cover costs in Missouri. Sing Sing’s Star of Hope carries a wry Lost advertisement offering a fortune for a good character, with no questions asked and to contact Con trition at Clinton prison.
Nations aside from Great Britain and the United States run deficits to finance armies and navies. France trails by 100 million dollars, Austria 80 million, Russia 50 million, and Italy 30 million.
In Cuba kitchens are on the roof or in inner courtyards. The housewife cooks only twice daily, at ten for prep and at six for dinner, which is served at eight.
The July 12 issue of Freedom, an American paper published in Manila, urges readers in the United States to send orders promptly for extra Christmas numbers due to long mail times and delays in arrivals.
Admiral Schley noted that few officers take interest in politics because long service abroad leaves them out of touch with political affairs. He added he had only one chance to vote for president since reaching his majority.
Senator George L. Turner of Washington helped poor BC miners draft papers without a fee. They gave stock in their claims, which proved lucrative, making Turner and the miners millionaires.
The United States has one warship building in England at Sir William Armstrong's yards, the Albany. Built about a year earlier along with the cruiser New Orleans, work was not rushed after the Spanish war. Delivery is expected before the end of 1899.
William Dowling of Titusville petitions the U S district court in Pittsburgh to withdraw his former bankruptcy filing as his wife has paid all debts in full. A receipt dated to Genesis notes 700 dollars received by hand of Ann Dowling in full settlement of all claims from the beginning of the world to the date of the receipt.
Former Texas governor responds to stories about his children naming their offspring Ima Hogg. He explains the girl’s name came from a book his wife read and a character that impressed her. He notes the boys are named Tom Mike and Will.
Editor Harry G. Steele of Ashland Pennsylvania has reached Dawson City to launch the Daily News the pioneer daily in the Klondike. The paper will sell at 25 cents per copy or 1.50 per week with advertising at 1.25 per inch per insertion. The tone suggests a well chosen name for the editor.
In Oxford county Me Startford hosts an annual custard pie association meeting held in Hemrock Grove by Swan pond. Originated 39 years ago from a fast day pie eating contest that ended in a tie. Secretary John D. Long, Buckfield native, is an honored member.
Prof. R. H. Thurston of Boston notes the automobile or self moving carriage predates locomotives and traces its suggestion to Isaac Newton around 1680. Early self propelled carriages used steam, with over 20 said to operate in London by 1883, though stage coach opposition and strict regulations eventually banished them.
The new religious law in Japan requires missionaries to present their faiths to a governor with full details before starting work. Any change in tenets must be cleared by the governor, placing local officials in the position of adjudicating diverse creeds for multiple Christian denominations.
A summary of U S treasury gains and debt, pension figures from Col Evans, and mint output. Gen Fitzhugh Lee advocates Cuban self rule under American protection while Gen Wood urges prolonged U S control. Government reports show August surplus and deployments, with a $30 bounty for deserters and remaining Cuban army funds.
August customs receipts at New York reach 13 750 471 while a 64 million rail coal deal forms in Pittsburgh. Weekly exchanges total 1 443 564 887, with 131 business failures nationwide. Sharkey Jeffries set for October 23 title bout at Coney Island. Tragic drownings in Easton Connecticut. Ava New York local man dies at 99 war of 1812 veteran. Pitts iron works boiler blast kills five, injures seven. Ex Speaker Reed becomes New York lawyer. National League standings show Brooklyn leads at .684 with several clubs below. Brooklyn man kills wife and then himself over jealousy.
A railway wreck at Rossville NL killed Engineers Tilton Fireman Hollis and Air Inspector Kelloge. Samuel Merrill ex governor of Iowa died in Los Angeles at 73. Key West yellow fever outbreak worsens. Fort Bayard NM to house army consumptives. Yellow fever patients at Wampton VA are recovering. Sargent's bowl factory Cope mush Mich explosion killed three. four fatally injured. Global communication with Key West cut off due to fever. Jacob Cold fertilizing works Kansas City loss 250000. Cleveland rioters attack streetcars. ten arrested. A very dangerous $5 counterfeit treasury note 1880 series A in New Orleans. A C Wissee owner of Ixissee Mills Mo married Dora Garrett 15. Warren sailed from San Francisco for Manila with recruits. Henry Emde killed wife and daughter then himself in Chicago. Chickasaw enrollment Atoka Okla lists Pah-He-Dah aged 180. Cedar Grove crossing Wis deaths Toll Fass Schirek by cars. Pinconning Mich fire wipes out 13 shops and 23 homes. Yellow fever epidemic at Key West Ila Henry James and Puss Campbell suffocated in a well near Kennard Ky.
A. Van Guilder, a Salt Lake City carpenter, driven mad by illness, killed his daughter and a boy before taking his own life. The tragedy occurred as authorities described his acts as the result of mental illness.
Flooding at the Besshi copper mine in Japan cost 600 lives. a North Sea canal collision sank a boat with nine drownings. Santo Domingo forms a provisional government led by Horacio Vasquez. Dreyfus affair revelations surface from Rennes. Kruger warns of imminent war. Funston advocates defeating rebels in the Philippines. 399 Spanish monks are held in the islands. Indiana brings officers and soldiers to Manila. Pope Sophronius dies at 103. Dewey stays at Gibraltar en route to New York. Areogugula falls to Sixth Infantry. Angeles defense collapse precedes.
The thirty third national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic opens in Philadelphia with President McKinley in attendance. Other items note labor day observances, Sen Carter predicting an end to the Philippine war by year’s start, and a possible British war plan against the Boers.
Daniel Lamont’s fortune pegged at 5 million dollars. Frank H. Burford, 15, admitted to the bar in Guthrie. Navy plans a Buffalo recruiting station. Spain’s queen regent drafts 60 000 in 1899 class for service. Thermometer cups gauge cocoa coffee temperature. Syracuse pallbearer Alexander Henderson has buried 172 friends in 50 years. Yale students work printing for Clark & Watkins. Western Hay Fever Association elects W A Rowe president. Reina Mercedes may join New York parade for Admiral Dewey. Williams resigns B&O treasurer after 46 years. Cadet Philip D Smith dismissed for hazing. Wilson to study abandoned New England farms for reclamation. Gen B F Tracy notes Dreyfus trial as casual talk. Hawaii to be represented by William O Smith in Congress. Rankin of Talkie Missouri rises from horse to 23 000 acres valued at 50 to 100 dollars an acre.
Rennes faces military orders amid the Dreyfus court martial nearing verdict. France mobilizes two infantry regiments and one cavalry regiment to secure strategic points at the first sign of unrest. An Austrian refugee Cernuschi testifies alleging Dreyfus shared treasonable documents with a foreign power, prompting Labori to seek diplomatic inquiry into the bordereau.
Chicago reports Richard Hoeneck and Herman Hundhausen confess to killing Walter F. Koeller for revenge. They stabbed Koeller after he lit a gas lamp, then fled by streetcar and were captured at Grand Crossing two hours later. They cited dime novels and found weapons in their possession.
A Halifax sailboat sank Monday night near the harbor mouth, seven residents perished among the 11 aboard. Four survivors include residents of the city. Drowned are Robert Davidson his wife and three unmarried sisters W Hamilton a city clerk's office employee John E Hancock a steamship checker. Enlistments Washington reports 265 new recruits Saturday for the ten callout regiments totaling 2,602.
Labor day festivities varied from city to city with sun and breeze in New York. Parades were scaled back due to unemployment, replaced by picnics and Henry George memorials at Greenwood. Cleveland and Chicago reported large parades, while Washington Ohio and Omaha observed with closures and expositions.
Black Hawk, a longtime western Wisconsin figure, died in Brockway near Black River Falls aged 90. He was known as a friend to whites and helped prevent warpath actions by the Winnebago. He gained local fame over the past five decades for his peaceful stance and cooperation with settlers.
The Roumanian queen Carmen Sylva finishes her first play "A Diary of Shoes." The Duke of Edinburgh owns 50 silver ships given by various cities. Queen Victoria revives the extinct Dorchester barony via the elder daughter of the third baron. Prince Henry of Prussia, Victoria's grandson, arrives in America as a young admiral and a popular Hohezollern figure.
A war department dispatch from the Morgan City transport aground near Nagasaki reports all troops safe and ready to embark. General Otis will redirect the Ohio to Manila to transport the soldiers. In Clarinda Iowa an elderly farmer, Alex Long, was fatally struck by a breaking tree while mowing hay.
Philadelphia welcomes the Grand Army of the Republic 33rd encampment with Col. Johnson arriving from Cincinnati. President McKinley and party tour the city, receive naval veterans, and attend a German singing serenade before a parade and official events.
Sound Keynote reports a Cooper Union gathering where ex-Gov Altgeld ex-Judge Tarvin and Rep. Lentz urged renomination of William J. Bryan and opposed McKinley’s Philippine policy. The crowd crowded Cooper Union as resolutions endorsed the Chicago platform and Bryan, pledging efforts for his 1900 bid and denouncing the Philippine war.
The U S cruiser Olympia with Admiral Dewey lands in Gibraltar Bay. He is received at the palace by Sir Robert Biddulph and a Grenadier guard battalion. Dewey will rest ashore until September 11 before sailing to New York. In Des Moines, Huffman schedules Iowa Democratic campaign opener for September 14 at Davenport with E White as governor nominee, focusing on imperialism over silver.
Dublin authorities grant a site near the rotunda in Upper Sackville Street for the proposed statue of Charles Stewart Parnell. The move marks a public acknowledgment of the Irish leader's historic role and aligns with city commemorative plans.
London auction sales report four surcharged unpaid Grenada stamps of 1892 realized 65 dollars. European catalogs price the unused set at 15 dollars and the used set at 3 dollars. Cuban envelope design printed and dispatched. Novel halved stamp surcharges reported in Pahang with two and three cent values on halves. Guam stamps rushed to print with 100 substitutions and potential errors.
A retired man recounts a perilous encounter with a wandering band of Indians in the west. He credits his missing finger, lost years ago to a hay cutter, with saving him and his partner by signaling the traders’ honesty to the chief. Neighbors call him brave and full of yarns.
A quiet young singer is approached by a tall stranger who asks to join him at the river. The visitor offers to pay the boat fare and hire a craft to drift with the outgoing tide, seeking to make the singer happier.
A Bohemian citizen returns home after heavy drinking with no memory of the night. His breakfast reveals he nearly killed his family by knocking over the cradle and blowing out the gas. His puzzled reply hints at a reckless spree and a line about dying together with his wife. Comments from newspapers add moral anecdotes and witticisms.
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