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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1900
Page
1
A writer questions why certain rescue stories captivate readers while others, like ordinary families or girls deemed plain, go unnoticed. He jokes about mushrooms and toadstools, then notes the human body and a carp’s surprising anatomy with many bones muscles and veins.
A New York doctor advises drinking the last quart of a cow’s milk, dug or stripping, before it cools. The strippings are nearly all cream, suggesting a possible compromise on a peaches and cream diet.
Rev. John J. Eberle of Pottstown Pa has lived on one meal daily for forty years. He recently turned seventy one and reports peak health. He began the practice to cure indigestion and says the diet proved beneficial leading him to continue. He eats to live.
A wealthy Wisconsin pioneer died recently noted for frugality and honesty. At his funeral, the children of Kemosha outnumbered all others, a testament to his kindness. The piece contrasts this epitaph with those of other men who may rest in marble mausoleums but lack such simple praise.
Explorer Sven Anders Hedin discovers ruins said to be an ancient city with grand scale roads crossing the site. He notes the roads rival any found in China today and suggests the city was built on a vast, impressive plan.
Russia plans to invest 100 million dollars more to complete and equip the Trans Siberian road. M Boutfsky, a vice minister now in San Francisco, states a large portion of the funds will flow to American manufacturers as the Russian government intends to patronize U.S. industry.
Frank Morehead, a New York insurance agent, had a bad fall from a bicycle blamed on a New Jersey mosquito that tried to land on him. He raised his hands to drive it away and fell but was not seriously injured. some insist the insect pulled him off his wheel.
A Kansas street fakir peddled electric belts until an inspection revealed a dry mustard layer beneath the guzze strip. When wearers perspired the mustard moistened and burned, creating the illusion of an electric current. The con man fled toward another gullible area.
A young man was pounded in a New York athletic house so severely his life hung in the balance. The victor had almost no scientific training, proving unaided native ability can produce near-fatal power and inspiring ambitious youths lacking formal prep.
A Boston fire insurance company conducted a three month experiment to test if rodents start fires by gnawing matches. Rats and mice were confined with matches and cotton waste. mice did not gnaw the matches, but rats started several fires using sulphur matches as the instrument.
A Department of Agriculture report outlines investigations into California's giant trees. It notes their unequaled dimensions, great age as the oldest living things, and status as rare species representing a former geologic age. It suggests they deserve honors.
For years cattlemen grazed Okmulgee Creek Nation land at 25 cents an acre. A Kansas City firm offers 25 cents an acre plus a dollar for all lands in exchange for leasing rights and promising improvements.
Summary of widespread labor unrest with coal miners strike in Pennsylvania and AFL involvement. death of Rear Admiral Sicard in New York. trade impacts from coal strike and a West Indian storm. baseball standings update. Roosevelt’s vice presidential bid. art critic John B. Randolph killed in New York. forests fires near Plymouth, Massachusetts caused $500,000 damage.
Gov. Sayers estimates at least 1.5 million dollars needed for relief as Galveston faces 10 000 destitute residents and thousands more in hardship. More than 2 000 bodies identified, 500 burned, property losses near 40 million. Rebuilding plans and ongoing relief efforts contrasted with continued mourning and a shifting city outlook.
A large amount of gold has recently been sent to the Transvaal to protect the Boer indebtedness in Europe. A Peking dispatch reports a Japanese arresting a Chinaman who confessed to killing Von Ketteler by imperial order.
Dispatches report Dom Paul Kruger has resigned and is effectively imprisoned by Portuguese authorities at Lourenco Marques. Lord Roberts urges Boer ceasefire while further reports describe gale wrecks in Newfoundland with multiple ships lost and 14 fatalities.
Paris dispatch warns that a global war may erupt unless major powers secure a China peace. Li Hung Chang is named as negotiator by London papers, while Prince Ching signals readiness for talks.
The list includes South West as a Missouri name, census notes more Indians than 1890, a prairie dog crusade in northwestern Kansas, Skagway printers with 17 union members, Lore Roberts due in London on November 1, Buller to command in South Africa, and the U S postal service as the largest business concern. Other items mention pearl finds in Missouri, English cotton mill crisis, Buffalo moving up in population rankings, Belgium tobacco use lead and Italy lower, Japan’s rice consumption, U S streetcar color seating ordinances, Gen Richard O Grady Haly’s honor, Siberian colonization, University of California Japanese and Chinese courses, and ancient Chinese praguns still in use.
The United Mine Workers Launch a major four day effort to halt hard coal output across four districts Lackawanna Wyoming Lehigh and Schuylkill with 112 000 workers idle as leaders push for concessions from coal operators. Violence remains minimal and clergy mediation efforts stall.
Mrs Mary KE Curran aged 72 and Mrs Sara Holmes aged 55 died after ignoring police shouts alarm bell and lowered gates at a Chicago Erie railroad crossing then were struck by a third train. The tragedy occurred about 150 feet south of Garfield boulevard while officials warned of danger.
Havana reports early returns in Cuba indicate equal strength between nationalists and republicans in the constitutional convention. No results yet from Santiago.
R G Dun weekly review reports the Galveston hurricane trimming southern trade and harming rail earnings but notes resilience as steel mills resume and car plants restart. Wheat and iron markets rise with better foreign demand while shipbuilding expands. weekly failures fall in U S and Canada.
Rear Admiral Montgomery Sicard of the United States Navy died of apoplexy at his summer home in Westernville near Rome New York on Friday morning He was born in 1836 and entered the naval academy at age 15 His rapid career saw promotions from master in 1858 to rear admiral in April 1897 and retirement in 1898.
Reports from St Johns show a gale causing shipwrecks across Newfoundland. Six vessels wrecked near St Pierre and six in Placentia bay with additional losses in Renews harbor, Belle Isle straits, and Cape Bonavista. Four lives perish in Renews, with 14 dead confirmed and higher toll feared as wires come back.
A group of wholesale grocers has gathered in Salina forming a syndicate to control wholesale grocery business across Kansas Missouri Iowa and other western states with an estimated capital of 10 million and headquarters in Kansas City. Port Huron fire wipes out major mills and elevator firm with 225000 loss and 150000 bushels of grain burned. East St Louis population rises 95 percent since 1890 to 29655. The Balena steam whaler reports 25 whales as winter catch begins.
Milwaukee report notes Lester A Rose a prominent Wisconsin newspaper man and former Wisconsin Valley Association secretary died of heart failure. In Albany 25 acre Lake George land purchased under recent legislative act, including the site of the old Lake George battlefield. In New York Erastus G Knight chosen as new state comptroller candidate replacing the late William J Morgan.
A four story Salvation Army branch nursery on East Front Street burned Monday evening trapping women and children. Dozens were rescued but multiple fatalities followed including Myrtle Farrell six James Harkins painter aged forty Herbert Harkins four Rhoda Harkins five months Maggie Williams three months Edward Mullen four. Property loss estimated at 1500 dollars.
An eastbound Lake Erie and Western express struck an open switch near Red Key Indiana at midnight. Fireman McClellan died, Engineer Montague lost both legs, and two tramp victims were trapped. one killed, the other severely injured. Baggage car wrecked. many passengers slightly hurt. Engine was traveling 40 mph.
Bowman Gaines testified as the main prosecution witness in the Jim Howard trial, saying he saw Howard run from the state house grounds and jump the fence immediately after the Goebel shooting. Deputy Sheriff Stubblefield testified Howard admitted killing Goebel. the two were intimate friends.
Six laborers at Seaboard Airline terminals died after a small flat-bottomed boat capsized in mid stream when a passing steamer created a swell. Names were not known. The incident occurred near Savannah Georgia on September 18.
Prince Ching, empowered with Li Hung Chang, asks the U S to instruct Minister Conger to start peace negotiations at once. Paris and London report mixed signals as powers debate credentials and the shape of a central Chinese government.
Galveston returns to partial normalcy with horse cars and restored electric line and water service. City leaders report progress and expect further improvements next week while the board of health begins compiling dead names for legal and life insurance needs. The Santa Fe bridge may be usable by midweek and 107 bodies were recovered and cremated recently, with total deaths from the storm around 15,000 across 11 of 12 wards.
The President's orders to establish a civil government in the Philippines were made public. Issued April 7 to the Taft Commission, the plan aims to guarantee freedom, protect rights, and separate church from state while involving natives who show capacity.
The complete statewide vote for governor was 132,979. Jeff Davis of the Democratic party received 88,637 votes, H. L. Remmett of the Republican party 40,701, Abner W. Files of the Populists 3,641. Davis wins with a majority of 44,295 and a plurality of 47,936.
The dispatch from Taku says a fatigue party destroying gunpowder at Tung Chow was blown up. Two British Indian soldiers died and thirteen others were wounded along with Captain Hill and eleven British-Chinese soldiers. eleven Welsh fusiliers also reported casualties. A second item notes Rev. George Willard of the Reform church died in Dayton at age 82, former Heidelberg University president and Ohio pastor.
In Chicago a 14 year old, Richard Novack of 59 West Fourteenth Place, stabbed and killed Albert Olson, 65, who was celebrating his 15th birthday during a schoolboys quarrel. The incident occurred Monday with juvenile violence shocking the city and prompting police inquiry.
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