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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1903
Page
6
Des Moines reports 829 unions in Iowa with 48 400 members across 64 crafts, up from 396 unions and 26 068 members two years earlier. Labor Day parades were larger, janitors and other workers pressed for recognition, and the state treasurer projects a 1 000 000 balance at year start while rain damaged corn crops and a furniture manufacturers association forms for mutual benefit.
The Mississippi valley leads in fruit crop share with Towa predicted to head all states. Iowa yields 42 percent of apples and plums, Missouri 15 to 20 percent, Arkansas 20 percent, Illinois 20 to 30 percent, Minnesota very light, while Michigan New York Pennsylvania and Virginia supply most of the national crop per the State Horticultural Society.
The remains of Timothy Brown, the sole Revolutionary War veteran buried in Washington county, were unearthed in a neglected cemetery in Washington. The Historical Society of Iowa has located his unmarked grave and placed the bones in a vault pending proper burial rites. Only five Revolutionary soldiers are buried in Iowa.
Rev Thomas M Nicholson D D resigns from Cornell college Mount Vernon where he led Bible literature and mentored the academy. He accepts the presidency of the Methodist university at Mitchell South Dakota and will begin before January 1 1904 after eight years with Cornell.
In Sioux City it was announced that Francis Wilson and stage star June Van Buskirk will pursue a legal separation. Their child now stays with the grandparents in Sioux City as custody terms are sought. Wilson previously chased the mother to Europe after she took the boy during a prior dispute.
Albert Ellinghouse of Bellevue was shot by a woman named Cook, provoking a large mob that threatened to lynch her at Maquoketa jail. The woman and a male accomplice were arraigned in Bellevue court, then hurriedly escorted to a carriage and sped away as 100 plus men pursued in a breakneck chase.
The decomposing body of Jerre Q. Palmer of Fort Madison was found in a sealed box car at Raton New Mexico by a car inspector. He had three gunshot wounds to the right side and a watch cut from its chain. No valuables remained on him. It is believed he was murdered in Fort Madison or en route to Kansas City after leaving Fort Madison with substantial money.
Assistant State Superintendent G. R. Malone announced the Iowa Anti-Saloon League convention will be held in Des Moines on Monday through Wednesday October 12 to 14. He said it will be the largest temperance workers gathering ever assembled in Iowa or any state west of the Mississippi.
Des Moines police arrest evangelist Rev F C Lomack on bigamy charges after his wife alleges a prior marriage to Mary Garlan when he wed her. Court records show Lomack married both women with no divorce from the first wife.
W. S. Golden of Monroe City Missouri, a director at Pecos Valley Standard Oil, died an hour after shooting himself in Cedar Rapids. He left no explanation. authorities suspect he was $7,000 short in company accounts.
A sweep of brief items covers names and places across Iowa. Lemars gains free delivery after November 1. T C Stevenson reveals a road grader. deaths include George Coulton at Centerville from a fallen tree, DeWitt C Ferris in Corydon, Dr. S W Heald in Osage, Mrs Kendall Young in Webster City, and Harm Janssen near Atlantic. Fires destroy Burlington stock, and burials and marriages are noted. Other items report suicides, drownings, livestock deaths, fairs in Cass County Greenfield and O'Brien county, and a fatal ice wagon accident in Vinton. An Iowa counterfeit issue and a library funding note accompany the roundup.
State Superintendent R C Barrett issued a circular to be read on the third Monday of September urging accuracy in secretary treasurer reports especially on school age counts, addressing teacher shortages and urging higher wages, compulsory education law compliance, and support for school libraries and the Iowa exhibit at St Louis under F J Sessions Cedar Rapids.
The Iowa Purchase Exposition commission in St. Louis plans a civil service exam for Iowa exhibit applicants. The test covers state history officers judges and senators, county seats, Iowa geography and resources, education, institutions, population and industries. Iowa days June 16 and 17 mark 231st anniversary of Marquette and Joliet discovery. Railroads promised favorable rates.
Superintendent Voelker announces the Ida Grove self-government in schools plan will be dropped by the school that introduced it. He argues the idea will succeed only if self knowledge and self control come from the pupil, but says the public is not ready for the concept and will return to the old methods.
Mrs. Kate Hayford the United States champion pie maker filed for bankruptcy in Davenport listing liabilities over 1000 and assets of 75. She claimed to bake 28000 to 30000 pies annually for local lunch counters and restaurants. Once aided by AJ Ruebsam, her business expanded but failed to stay financially healthy, leading to the petition.
Spencer resident Miss Jessie, daughter of Mrs. Emma Miller, formed an engagement with Nicolas Leysbeth, Belgian consul. Repatriated to Guatemala City, Leysbeth cannot travel, so Jessie and her mother sail to San Francisco and then to Guatemala to marry in Guatemala City.
The state board of control awarded meat contracts for the last quarter of 1903 to Agar Packing Co Des Moines Cudahy South Omaha Swift Co South Omaha Armour Packing Co Kansas City. Agar received two thirds of smoked meats sausage and bologna while Armour took the rest. Cudahy and Swift handle beef contracts. Quality guided the awards with Agar supplying a larger share despite higher prices.
Dates fixed for state and four regional horticultural society meetings this fall and winter. State meeting December 8 11 in the capitol building. Northeastern Decorah December 16 17 18. Northwestern Alta December 12 13. Southeastern Albion November 18 19 20. Southwestern Glenwood December 15 16 17. Transfers of Story county farm land at high figures noted along with a Utica New York to Council Bluffs buggy journey by Mr and Mrs Edward Warren complete with two horses and a leisurely pace.
Washington reports Commissioner Ware estimates 996 545 pensioners on the rolls in 1903 729 356 soldiers and 267 189 widows and dependents. He forecasts the roll will not exceed one million again and notes veterans from Revolutionary War to Mexican War. He urges reforms and cites per capita cost at 1 75 and onward decline in burden.
London reports indicate a devastating storm across the United Kingdom with 50 plus shipping casualties and widespread loss of life. Vessels foundered, coastal towns suffered, Kent hop gardens ruined, and river valleys flooded as France and Germany also report damage.
London reports that the British Foreign Office protested Washington after the U S gunboat Quiros seized two or three islands off the northeast coast of British North Borneo near Darvel Bay. The islands had long been under British administration and were once pirate-infested before the chartered company of Borneo tamed the area.
William A Hoffiman shot and killed Dr William Brandt at the door of his home near Macystown Illinois. Authorities suggest motive was a withheld weekly allowance as Brandt had been supporting Hoffiman and family. In Kansas a grand stand collapse at Fort Leavenworth injured 25 during a sham battle with no fatalities. A Vienna arbitration conference favored resubmitting Russia disarmament to a congress of powers.
Lima witnesses the installation of Senor Candame as president with the congress and surrounding streets packed as crowds shout vivas. Farmers convene in Chicago planning a cooperative system backed by 100 million dollars to dominate markets via a central exchange.
United States District Attorney Beach announced six named individuals face seven indictments from a grand jury. George W. Beavers August W. Machen James W. Erwin George H. Huntington Isaac S. McGrehan Eugene D. Schebie are charged in various conspiracies to defraud the United States and bribe schemes, with offenses including accepting bribes.
Umpire Carroll D. Wright declares employers may discharge workers for any cause not tied to union activity and the award covers this portion of the case. He also notes rockmen fall outside the award and urges rehiring of old, competent workers where not criminally charged, with 25 pages of findings filed.
Four men repairing a break in the Peavey concrete elevator fell from a 60 foot scaffold in Duluth Minnesota Thursday evening. Andrew Anderson Oscar Ericson C Anderson and an unnamed 21 year old man were killed. John Swan was severely injured but expected to survive. The accident crushed skulls and caused multiple leg and arm fractures as workers rushed to help. The interior relining had burst months earlier.
The schooner W. Fielding from West Indies returns to Providence after a wreck near Port au Prince. Seventeen aboard after a rock strike caused the vessel to capsize and sink. Four days of starvation left nine dead before eight survivors were saved on the fifth day.
Count Tolstoy marked his seventy fifth birthday in private with his children at Tula and remained in good health as newspapers published glowing tributes to the famed author.
In Germany Berlin September 12 a severe storm swept the western region interrupting telegraph lines delaying trains and uprooting many trees. A New York report notes artist Cline Wilson a Russellville Kentucky native died by gas in his studio amid presumed career disappointment.
Topeka dispatches report Illinois state legislator William I. Dawson died on the Rock Island train near Mankato Kansas at 9 45 Friday morning. He was a member of the Illinois legislature and died while traveling.
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