30 Sep 1886
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1886
Page
1
Since the combined letter sheet and envelope issue began a month ago two million sheets have gone to post offices. The President has turned from mosquitoes and black flies in the Adirondacks and is now at home in Washington, pestered by office-seekers. This is a distinction without a difference.
Kine Kanarawa of the Sandwich Islands pursues uniting the Pacific under a single monarchy and is reported to be actively plotting to become sole ruler.
Cotoravo’s irrigation system features 800 miles of first class canals 3 500 miles of secondary canals and 40 000 miles of smaller ditches. The project cost about 11 million dollars and is planned to irrigate 12 200 000 acres.
The English post office department adds parcel insurance with a two cent premium for values up to 25 dollars and four cents for values up to 50 dollars. This new option allows customers to insure shipments against loss or damage during transit.
Statistics compare national beef consumption: England averages 45 pounds per person yearly, Australia 160 pounds, and the United States 130 pounds. The figures highlight dietary differences across nations and suggest England's lighter meat intake relative to peers.
Dana calculates land height averaging about 1000 feet above sea level and ocean depth around 15000 feet. He concludes the land area would need about forty times more land to fill ocean depressions, based on these figures.
A columnist notes a Mexican man recently died leaving eighty seven surviving children and thirteen deceased offspring. The writer adds that large families are common in Mexico with some men fathering forty or fifty children according to local talk.
The argument in a Cincinnati telephone case notes about 50 000 telephones in use with Bell Company royalties of fifty cents monthly totaling 175 000 dollars a month. A Chemist and Druggist editor surveyed 10 000 physicians prescriptions listing chloroform glycerine and orange peel syrup as common. A New York bankers office janitor found 10 000 dollars in waste paper coupons. A Buffalo Advertiser tale recalls a beer saloon knife bell and cord to quiet disputes. A London lecturer derides women’s health with extreme statements about dress and breathing. Wheeling West Virginia reports successful piping of natural gas from Washington County Pennsylvania to supply local mills and Ohio towns.
A Lima dispatch recounts a thunderstorm that struck the Brotherton oil field causing tank fires and oil wells to burn. Loss to oil men estimated at 25000 dollars as gas works and machinery were saved. Other towns report roof loss, barn fires, and widespread damage from wind and hail.
Washington reports from Commissioner Black show for the year ended June 30 a total of 365,783 pensioners including 265,854 army invalids and 80,162 widows and dependents. New pensioners added 40,857. net names increased 20,685. average pension value $122.23. total annual value $44,708,027.63. payments $63,797,831.61.
National banks report withdrawal from the system due to the calling in of three per cent bonds that underlie their circulation. Others seek to keep their called bonds as a circulation basis, preferring to forego interest rather than bear high premiums to replace with four and four and a half per cent bonds. Banks with called bonds defer replacements awaiting a decision on whether those bonds may remain in use.
Written motion for a new trial in the Anarchists case is filed with affidavits alleging verdict error improper instructions and evidentiary issues. It claims juror bias misconduct by officers and improper closing by Grinnell, with supporting statements from Sorrell and Indianapolis witnesses suggesting a looming labor trouble.
A massive rain storm and hurricane affected Brownsville and Matamoras from Sept 21 to 23. Twenty six inches of rain fell, winds near 100 mph, over 200 Brownsville houses destroyed, 300 homeless, Matamoras over 300 houses leveled and many injured. Flooding across 30 blocks, telegraph lines down, rail lines washed out, relief efforts under way with food and funds distributed.
The Sterling passenger train on the Chicago Burling ton and Quincy railroad derailed east of Greggs station while traveling about thirty miles per hour. The engine and tender remained on track, but the rest fell down a fifteen foot embankment. One passenger, Mrs M L Baldwin of Rock Falls Illinois, was killed and sixteen others were badly hurt.
A grand street parade honored General Miles and his staff including Captain Lawton with Governor Ross participating. A reception, banquet, and ball followed. General Myles defended the subjugation of hostile Apaches and rejected claims of improper conduct or ease in achieving victory.
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