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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1914
Page
6
Hunters from all Iowa districts met at a state fair game farm session to draft proposed revisions to the state game laws. A five member committee was created to study current statutes and present changes to the legislature. They opposed spring shooting and debated migratory bird law and seasons for mink muskrat prairie chickens and ducks without action.
Maxwell-Word reports the violent death of Charles Holland, a former prominent city resident, in an automobile accident near Cody. Holland had closed his Montana business in Billings and planned to return to Iowa to run a new enterprise at Mt. Ayr, Ringgold County.
Detectives in Des Moines await word from Chicago to confirm if they have arrested Blackie Cummings a 29 year old Black man suspected of being Thomas Mansfield the ax murderer who killed four family members in Blue Island Illinois Also the Iowa City region reports the University received sixty seven boxes of chemicals ordered from Germany reaching New York for immediate forwarding.
An automobile belonging to Roy Waste of Farmington overturned near the Indian Creek bridge west of Farmington injuring five people. The victims were Roy Waste, his wife, Mrs Sharp, Mrs Stone, and Miss Beckmeyer, who were returning from the Kahoka fair.
The Waukon Commercial club announces a jubilee in Waukon on September 22 with plans to invite Luther College band from Decorah and secure prominent speakers for the event.
The Danish Young People's societies of Iowa met in Clinton for a three day convention. On Saturday the German Lutheran youth group Synod von Iowa und anderen Staaten held a gathering as part of the same event.
Lansing will host a corn carnival and farm festival on September 29 30 and October 1. A splendid program is planned with committees busy arranging the details of the celebration.
Odebolt reports 123 cars moved in August including 10 popcorn cars. Shipments comprised corn seven bags? multiple grain types and livestock totaling 322,000 dollars in freight receipts.
Keokuk city council weighs buying an automobile fire truck as civic and industrial groups push for the purchase and a decision is expected soon.
Athelstan reports a fight between Tobe Ruscoe and Glenn Black at a local ball game. Ruscoe remains unconscious after Black struck him with a bare fist on the head, risking fatal injuries.
Melcher William Thomas a miner about 50 years old was killed at the Indiana coal mine near here while propping when a large quantity of slate fell crushing him. He is survived by a widow and four children.
Cedar Rapids reports the death of Dr. B. I. Benedict of Chelsea Ja after injuries from a collision between a Northwestern train and his car. He succumbed in a local hospital.
Decorah Rod and Gun club with over 100 members endorses State Game Warden Hinshaw in the dispute sparked by county auditors at their recent convention.
S. T. Neveln, longtime Storm Lake schools superintendent, has moved with his family to LeMars and been elected to a similar post there.
Plans for the annual convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of Iowa and Upper Des Moines Editorial association proceed in Iowa City during October's alumni homecoming. Chicago advertising man John Lee Mahin will speak at a banquet hosted by the Iowa City Commercial club. Editor H E Carroll of the Iowa City Press chairs conventions for widespread editor turnout from northern Iowa.
In Ottumwa a suitcase found on Minnesota Street belongs to the man found dead in a cornfield by Shaul cemetery. Coroner Ellerick cites Chicago agency records naming Ben Mikovitch a Russian murdered with five others sent from Chicago to Drakesville for Rock Island track work. A track chisel was found near the body, but no suspects or acquaintances have been identified.
The Iowa presbytery holds its annual fall meeting in Keokuk under the Second Presbyterian church on September 14 and 15. Delegates from across Iowa are expected to attend a planned program promising a successful and interesting gathering.
Iowa farmer Joseph Kioubeo a wealthy Bohemian resident eight miles north of North Liberty between Iowa City and Cedar Rapids shot himself after driving his family from the house and starting a fire to destroy the dwelling. The tragedy occurred on his farm and authorities investigated the scene.
A Northwestern train struck a Chevrolet near Chelsea leaving one man dead and another believed fatally injured. Victims were George Stottlemyre of Chelsea and Dr. Byron Benedict, a local physician.
The Mount Pleasant Journal will be sold to C. Rogers of the Mount Pleasant Daily and Weekly News. The sale followed a disastrous fire that destroyed the News plant and equipment.
Ames welcomed sixty survivors of the Twenty-third Regiment Iowa Infantry to its seventh reunion. T. C. Miller invited members from Washington and California, but attendance remained capped at sixty.
Articles of incorporation filed for the new Farmers' Savings bank at Waterville with A. J. Ellefson as president G. Pederson as vice president and Joel Ellefson as cashier. Bank capitalization set at 10000 dollars.
Extensive improvements will be made at the Kohrs Packing Company in Davenport soon. Plans are complete and bids for the work will be opened within a few days.
C O Macy buys 240 acres just north of Sully at 225 dollars per acre. The tract includes the site of Cyrus Taylor’s noted race track and is described as a fine holding in Newton County.
Odebolt reports W. P. Adams owner of Fair View farm marketing the 1913 corn crop totaling a little over 200000 bushels. The 5970 acre tract lies in one consolidated body adjoining Odebolt and farmed as a single unit.
Joseph Emery a farmer living south of Shenandoah lost an ear and had his chest crushed in a runaway accident. His daughter and grandson who were riding with him sustained minor injuries.
District Attorney O'Conner leads an inquiry in Dubuque under AG orders into high living costs and possible price fixing. The probe focuses on conspiracy to raise food prices and analyzes market practices.
A lightning strike razed a barn on Frank Hill’s farm between Logan and Magnolia, destroying sixty tons of alfalfa and the entire alfalfa barn, constituting a total loss. Fire origin confirmed as a bolt of lightning.
Captain Oscar Bjork and a crew of 60 guided the burning City of Chicago seven miles to the government pier after a fire broke out in the hold. Lifesavers from the U. S. Life-Saving Station rescued all 260 passengers, largely women and children, with no loss of life. The Graham & Morton steamer inbound from Benton Harbor carried 260 aboard.
Five thousand people stormed the private bank of M. and L. Jarmulowsky at 165 Mast Broadway New York to protest potential loss of savings. They overran police reserves from two stations and rushed the criminal courts building seeking District Attorney Whitman before arrests ended the violence. The bank had recently been taken over by the state banking department.
Russian lieutenant Sadoff who led an 1912 expedition to reach the North Pole died on the ice after reaching Franz Josef Land. Two sailors survived, and the party had wintered 1912 13 on newly discovered land. Survivors reached Archangel with the news.
Ten companies of the Montana National Guard left Helena aboard an armored train for Butte. Two machine gun platoons accompanied the force as Maj. D. J. Donohue of Glendive assumed command. Governor Stewart delivered sealed orders to the commander prior to departure.
About 200 of the 10 000 G A R veterans in Detroit declined to continue the parade as it stretched a mile and a half, while the rest completed the march in ideal conditions with cool breezes counteracting the sun. Claude Grahame White, famed aviator, has been appointed flight commander of the British aviation corps.
The French island colony off Newfoundland Saint Pierre and Miquelon faces wartime disruption as the fishery fleet withdraws. Steam trawlers were sent to France with orders to sail back on a military need. Women and children remain safe while the islands await the fleet’s return to the Grand Bank.
London dispatch reports twelve Red Cross nurses killed and several wounded while attending wounded soldiers on the battlefield during World War I. The attack at the front underscores the peril faced by medical personnel amid ongoing hostilities.
Pacific Mail officers report China has arrived in Honolulu and that British warships off Hongkong board ships, removing Germans and Austrians, including from American vessels.
American ambassador Myron T. Herrick told a Paris audience that the U S embassy will remain in Paris even if Germany occupies the French capital. The reply came in response to a direct question during a Paris event on September 23.
New York reports aboard the Hellig Olav from Copenhagen describe Russian popular loyalty to the czar during mobilization. Passengers recount crowds kneeling in the streets of St Petersburg, fear of German attack in Ulenborg, and a court martial leading to the commander’s death by suicide.
Washington reports a peace commission treaty between the United States and Paraguay, the twenty-second of Secretary Bryan's peace conventions, signed in Asuncion per a State Department brief from the American legation. Other items note McReynolds and Gregory sworn as Supreme Court justices, and the Clayton antitrust bill passage by 46 to 16 in the Senate.
Paris Kentucky August 31 A city jailer EF J Farris shoots and kills Eugene Houston a prominent citizen while defending a prisoner from a mob seeking Henry Thompson the robber who struck Henry Mead with a hatchet Mead’s injuries are likely fatal to Thompson the accused robber.
Cotton mills in Providence Rhode Island are operating around the clock to cope with a surge in orders. The mills have extended to night and day shifts as demand remains high over the past several weeks.
Vice President Marshall released a statement noting President Wilson will be the Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1916. The remark, made on September 4, anchors the party’s expected nomination lineup.
France defeated Germany in a 20 round decision at the Orleans Athletic Club. Phil Virgets of New Orleans won the decision over Walter Kid Brookes of New York to claim the victory.
The Hamburg American liner Hamburg was chartered by the American Red Cross Society for use on the European relief trip and will sail from New York for Europe.
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