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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1904
Page
2
The column summarizes industrial, political, and personal items from in country and abroad. It highlights notable happenings in business policy and public life for the week, with quick notes on prominent figures and events shaping markets and opinion.
The daily record notes extensive debates and votes from the 9th to 14th, including post office and Panama canal zone bills, pensions orders, and the Lewis and Clark expedition aid. It reports deaths, arrests, and naval disasters, with Missouri battleship casualties numbered at 32.
Copper magnate William C. Greene's arrest of an Arizonian who threatened to kill him over $500000. Cabinet debates executive order on Chinese immigration. Galesburg high school fire causes $100000 loss, fireman John Slater dies. Dominican rebel leader Jiminez arrives in New York. March 1904 postal receipts rise 13 percent. O. S. Kelly dies at 82 in Springfield. Hinkley dies of apoplexy in Poughkeepsie. Clothiers convention in Philadelphia with ~100 delegates. Senator Quay reportedly ill in Atlantic City at 71. Ouray judge orders arrests amid habeas corpus glare. Minnesota merger suit remanded by Supreme Court. Clyde Ore kills Addie Blossom then himself in Batavia. Minneapolis mills to close over railroad discrimination. Hines Lumber buys $1 million worth of lumber from Ludington mills. Tug Frank Canfield sinks at Point Sable with three deaths. Knights of Columbus donate $50,000 to endow secular history chair at Catholic University.
Charles L. Tucker was arraigned in Waltham Massachusetts on a charge of murdering Mabel Page of West Newton. He pleaded not guilty and the case was continued until April. In East St. Louis Illinois Rodenberg was unanimously nominated to succeed himself by the Twenty second district Republican convention.
Reports detail Russian plans to mobilize 500000 under Gen Kouropatkin, Rojestvensky heading the Baltic fleet for Port Arthur, and heavy fighting at Yalu and Port Arthur. The Japanese bombard Port Arthur. the battleship Petropavlovsk and Admiral Makaroff are lost. Grand Duke Cyril is badly injured. Pope Pius X memorial event noted.
In the Senate on the sixteenth Senator Morgan moved to discharge the committee on inter oceanic canals from considering a resolution of inquiry on the Panama canal but the move was defeated. McCumber proposed a three person presidential commission to revise pension laws for the next Congress. In the House an amendment to the general deficiency bill providing 10000 for the Missouri battleship explosion victims’ remains was adopted.
Mr and Mrs Charles Rocker of Boone are in jail on a murder indictment. Mrs Rocker has confessed to Attorney C A Irwin that her husband killed her former husband August Schroeder on June 30 1900 by hanging him in a barn to simulate suicide. She says she collected Schroeder life insurance and gave it to Rocker who then went to South Dakota and married him.
Isaiah Roll of Chariton promin ent citizen and pillar of the Methodist church died at a church meeting from apoplexy. He was 74, left a wife and six children, nearly all grown, and had just finished a short talk before his sudden death.
Miss Mattie Fawcett died in a house fire while attempting to rescue her trunk. Onlookers protested as she entered the burning building and hours later her charred remains were found beside the trunk’s steel hoops and bands, her cherished possessions destroyed.
Henry Deeter died from a mortal wound after being shot by Conrad Wigman at Greattner. Wigman, a tenant of Henry Spies, was watching a decoy package placed to intimidate Spies into paying $1,000. Wigman has been arrested and charged with murder.
In Des Moines Andrew Loeffier a florist accused by his wife of assault with intent to murder in a divorce case and wanted by county authorities for breaching a district court injunction took a dose of carbolic acid after being held to answer by the grand jury and died in the courtroom on the lawyers' table.
Mrs. Sarah Kuhns known as the Florence Maybrick of America was denied a pardon by the legislature. She is alleged to have poisoned her husband by drugging his beer and this marks her third attempt at release from Anamosa penitentiary.
In Butler Iowa Ira Glassford wed Mrs Belle Lewis soon after her acquittal in a sensational murder trial. Public sentiment runs high as villagers discuss the marriage following the courtroom drama.
The secretary of the treasury awarded the contract to Lauritzin brothers of Fergus Falls Minnesota to construct a white marble public building in Waterloo for $113 353.
Congressman J P Conner receives unanimous renomination in Fort Dodge. Waterloo and Cedar Falls Rapid Transit renamed to Waterloo Cedar Falls and Northern. French ambassador Jusserand to deliver UI commencement address in June. Clinton man thought dead 30 years ago alive. Drake memory honored by Iowa legislature. Lohrville brick factory sold to outsiders who plan expansion and new machinery. Muscatine girl nearly dies after scalding accident. Dr Josiah McVay dies of heart disease. Murder suspect Thomas Moody arrested en route to church. Editors from six counties form a new group in Council Bluffs. Iowa Epworth assembly to hold camp meeting at Colfax July 21–31. Monticello’s Carnegie library praised. Supreme court rules possession of stolen goods shows guilt. Kephart Iowa pioneer reaches 100. Egg shippers cite high prices hurting profits.
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