13 Sep 1894
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1894
Page
1
In a provocative note The Express claims Mexican authorities equate anarchists with cholera and treat them the same. It also notes a phonographed Niagara roar could be heard nationwide for a fee and cites a French specialist who says a nitrate of strychnine injection may cure alcoholism.
A Texas paper lists an advertisement for a first class driving horse for a lady, young and gentle to handle. It also notes Apple-Green shirts and London fashion authority overs are to be correct for men next season, fitting many a chap.
An association of cyclone survivors is forming in two western towns. Membership is limited to those who have passed safely through a genuine cyclone or have endured a year living with a stormy wife.
Over fifty kinds of bark are now used in paper manufacture. The list extends to include human skins pea vines cocoanut fibers hay straw water weeds leaves shavings corn husks and hop plants as alternative raw materials for pulp and paper production.
The famous Scottish rail bridge is undergoing a repaint that requires about fifty tons of paint per coat and covers roughly 120 acres, illustrating the scale of this substantial maintenance project.
The Antwerp Society of Geography organized the latest atmospheric science congress which just held a meeting. Key topics included air currents their causes and effects and methods to record them as well as aerodynamics.
The British Postmaster General describes a curious case where a young woman lost and found at Swiss Cottage used the express service. For three pence a special messenger guided her to Hampstead where she received a receipt for her safe arrival.
In South Dakota eight million three hundred sixty one thousand eight hundred fifty six acres were reclaimed and put under cultivation by irrigation. Initial costs reached three million dollars with the irrigation system valued at about three times that amount. Land before irrigation stood at seventy seven million dollars and now its worth nearly three hundred million.
Two Swiss scientists announce a discovery after years in Ceylon studying the Veddas, a pygmy race said to be more like apes than other humans. They describe them as forest hunters living in rocks and grottoes with no chiefs no laws and little in the way of ideas.
Worldwide estimates put total newspapers at about 60 000 with major shares in the United States and Canada 20084 Germany 6000 Great Britain 6000 France 4300 Japan 2000 and other regions. More than half are printed in English.
A Madison New Jersey woman patents a gummed envelope flap device printed with a fluid that stays dry yet spreads when steam or moisture is applied, revealing if the letter was opened or tampered with. The invention uses a small shape printed on the underside of the flap to show detection on contact with moisture.
The Globe notes a large return of French Canadians from the United States. A Boston and Maine official says since last May about forty thousand have recrossed into Canada in three months, with fifteen car loads of household effects daily. Meanwhile steerage passengers sail back to Europe for lower fares.
A claim that Nature provides cures for all ailments is linked to Massachusetts experiments showing water purified through clean sand improves public health amid typhoid fever. Sand is abundant and a home water filter is deemed essential for every family.
An old patent describes a covered porous receptacle made from cellular brick ware clay sawdust and asbestos fiber. Water in a tray beneath rises through the porous walls by capillary action and evaporates to keep the contents cool without ice.
August coinage totals 7.722 million in gold and 76,000 pounds in silver with 8745,000 in standard dollars. The Treasury shows a nearly 11 million local circulation decrease and a per capita of 25 dollars. The Knights of Pythias decide ritual must be in English. Stock failures total 215 in a week, August liabilities reach 10.189 million. Clearing houses report 704.483 million in weekly exchanges. A Davy Crockett reunion gathers 4,000 in Humboldt Tennessee. A saloonkeeper in Abilene burns his stock. fires wipe Conrad Iowa. Montana Republicans nominate Mount for associate justice. Nevada nominates Peckham for governor. Pacing record set near Indianapolis at 231.044 seconds. Oklahoma bank doors close. A farmer kills a man then dies by suicide. A St Louis youth dies after swallowing a fly. North Illinois hit by a severe storm. Tennessee’s Ben Wilhite, 8 feet 6 inches, dies. Malta Illinois burns entirely. Oklahoma divorces nullified. bigamy risk for remarrying couples. Outlaw Linke Waggoner shot by mob in Minden Louisiana.
The Democrats of New Hampshire nominated Hainry C. Kerr for governor at a convention in Concord Bliss. Highlights from other items include a Springfield bicycle record, an insurance company insolvency in New York, a Corbett victory in Orange New Jersey, Knights of Labor comments in Buffalo, a Philadelphia type founder’s death in Paris, fatal lightning near Jeannette Pennsylvania, a Hoosac tunnel crash, and league baseball standings and signings in New York.
Reports from the upper peninsula indicate rain effectively halted ongoing forest fires. Fire conditions eased as precipitation dampened active blazes across northern Wisconsin and Michigan, bringing some relief to strained resources.
The report covers diverse items: the Hawaiian republic recognition by a president via Minister Willis, the Miranda drifting onto a reef off West Greenland with Dr. Cook’s Arctic party abandoning ship, the Comte de Paris dying in London, a Kamouraska fire killing several, Emperor William denouncing opposition at a Berlin banquet, Finnish boats wrecked with seventeen drowned, Hermann von Helmholtz’s death in Berlin, Canada’s revenue deficit near 2 million, workers slain by farmers in Samara, and a Paris Cologne rail crash at Apilly killing ten and injuring twenty.
In a statewide result H. B. Cleaves won reelection as Maine governor by 27000, the largest majority in state history. Republicans hold a working majority in the legislature, aiding Frye’s Senate reelection.
Chicago reports heavy rainfall of eight inches in a week with electrical disturbances and property damage from lightning. A cyclone near Huntley leveled barns and windmills, ruined corn fields, and injured several people including Mrs Shimer and Mrs Curtis. Paralyzing lightning deaths reported in Greensburg and Jeannette, Pennsylvania, as storms sweep the region.
The contempt case against E. V. Debs and A R H U officers of the American Railway Union continues before Judge Woods. Debs is ill in Chicago but proceedings proceed as if present. Trial will cover government and Santa Fe injunction cases, jury trial motion denied for now.
A severe storm struck multiple farms from Algonquin to Muscoda causing blown barns, killed horses and cattle, and destroyed orchards. In Rockford, a deadly lightning strike killed a farmer and heavy damage was reported to barns and equipment. Flooding hit Bethlehem and South Bethlehem as cloudbursts swelled sewers and streets. Separate reports recount railway union activity, Debs telegrams, and a Tennessee governor offering a 5000 reward for lynchers near Millington.
In Duluth and nearby towns generous relief supports more than 1,000 destitute refugees from Hinckley and Sandstone. Over 8,000 dollars raised, with food clothing and lumber donated. Cloquet Two Harbors and others send supplies. Some evacuees return home leaving families to relief societies. Also noted are starving livestock and a tribute to James Root engineer of St Paul Duluth train No 4 who died from burns after saving passengers.
Forest fires devastate vast timberlands and crops near Negauner Michigan with fire spreading on wind. In Duluth Minnesota 1200 refugees from the Hinckley blaze are housed in hospitals and shelters as relief funds reach twenty thousand dollars. Reports of fires threaten northeastern Minnesota with delayed trains and demoralized telegraph lines.
In Shanghai, about 700 Japanese fear for safety after two Japanese prisoners, sheltered by the United States, are handed to the Taotai. Reports say executions may follow, prompting mass emigration and withdrawals of business as Japanese merchants prepare to depart. The Yokohama Specie Bank branch is moving operations to Comptoir d'Escompte amid the turmoil.
Prorta Illinois September 8 Henry P Ayres treasurer of the dime savings bank with twenty years in banking died at White Bear lake returning from a three weeks business trip to Dakota and the northwest. Horace Loomis ordered to the insane asylum after last week murdering his cousin near here during a medicine delivery at midnight. In Savannah Georgia a pitched battle erupted between union and nonunion longshoremen with one man fatally shot.
The North-Western Line announces low rate home seekers excursions to the west and northwest with sale dates September 11, 26 and October to Montana Idaho Utah and other states. Tickets good for return within twenty days with stopovers allowed. Circulars detailing rates mailed free by W A Thrall Chicago. Uncle Eben quip appears in Washington Star quotation.
An old style advertisement extols Hostetter s Stomach Bitters as prevention for repeated dyspepsia visits and a comprehensive remedy for malaria liver kidney trouble debility and nervousness. It urges readers to question others troubled by these ailments who will testify in its favor.
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