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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1902
Page
3
A compact weekly digest reviews home and foreign stories from industry, politics, and daily life. The column notes notable events,人物 figures, and developments shaping markets, leadership, and public affairs around the world.
The week-long congressional items cover Senate debates on the Chinese exclusion bill with warnings from Foraker and McLaurin, Cuban reciprocity discussions, post office funding, and a Nicaragua canal speech by Senator Morgan. In the House, Cuban reciprocity faces opposition led by Cushman as rules and speaker coercion are challenged.
Reports detail the slaying of Mary Peterson age 15 and her brother Thomas 11 in Des Moines Iowa by an unknown assailant who also assaulted Mary. Suspect James Hutchins is named as a person of interest. The item notes broader national and political events of the period.
A digest of brief items: a Milligan Nebraska bank robbed of 3000 dollars. Ohio passes osteopathy license law. Secretary Root travels toward Cuba. Britain’s 32 million pound loan attracts American buyers. Root to light Liberty statue in New York harbor. Palma of Cuba outlines dollar standard reciprocity stance. Burlington Colorado trains hit 98.7 mph record. Maryland adjourns after tax bill fix. A fire in Wallin Michigan kills five. Chicago fire leaves 20 homeless. four New Hampshire arrived Tacoma children die of ptomaine. Rev. DeWitt Talmage laid to rest in Brooklyn. National Bread Co formed in Boston. Illinois Central and Chicago & Eastern Illinois plan homeseekers to southern Illinois. Garfield confirmed as civil service commissioner. Roosevelt vetoes Walter pension bill. Water cure hearings on Filipino torture. Palma sails to Cuba. National Baseball League opens season. National Association of Manufacturers elects Parry. beef trust controls egg supply. James S. Clarkson nominated for New York port customs post. Gen Miles to lead Army. River-side Kentucky wreck kills two. Winter wheat yield outlook improves. 2000 coal miners quit along West Pennsylvania line.
Thomas H. Ball of Texas launches Hill boom for presidential nomination at a Democratic harmony meeting. Indiana prohibitionists refuse a governor candidate and back James M. Dungan for secretary of state. Mrs. Kate Zielinski dies at 112 in Michigan. Abraham Fisher, inventor of many Valentine forms, dies at 90 in Germantown. Benjamin F. Marsh nominated for Congress in Illinois Fourteenth. Judge Charles C. Fuller in Twelfth.
Belgium ends a general strike affecting tens of thousands across industries as labor actions subside. Reports note related global tensions including war taxes, Boer conflicts, and political shifts in Europe and the United States with various economic and diplomatic effects.
General Malvar and his command surrender unconditionally and orders to stop fighting. Washington and Manila view this as effectively ending the war. Other notes report peace talks with the Boers, papal delegate appointment, and other European events.
Gov. Cummins signs the parole of John Wesley Elkins and sends it to Anamosa prison for signature. The document requires good behavior, bars him from Clayton county where he killed his father and stepmother, and forbids certain curious employment. If he remains violation free for ten years, a full pardon is granted.
Clifford Bradley a 24 year old law student at the University of Iowa in Iowa City cut his throat with a razor in a suicide. Authorities believe he suffered temporary insanity from extreme study for examinations, though he ranked among the top in his class. He was the son of a widow living in Rock Rapids.
Carl W. Preston a 30 year old farmer near Odebolt was found on his farm with a bullet hole in the back of his head. He died twelve hours later without regaining consciousness. A 22 caliber rifle with a discharged shell was found under his body. Officials say the entry angle could fit suicide, but investigation continues.
Karl Garman shot and possibly fatally wounded his father M. L. Garman in Glenwood during a dispute over a business deal. He allegedly drew a revolver after refusal and shot his father in the back of the head. M. L. Garman owns the Glenwood mills.
The Washington weather bureau notes two weeks of unseasonably cold and dry weather at Towa. Seeding nearly complete and corn preparation advanced, but rainfall is needed for grain and grass. Hay outlook unfavorably low, farm animals generally healthy yet thin where forage is scarce locally.
Keokuk hosted joint commencement exercises for the Keokuk medical college the College of Physicians and Surgeons the Keokuk dental college and the Keokuk school of pharmacy. A total of 64 physicians 13 dentists and 5 pharmacists graduated. The Keokuk medical college is the oldest west of the Mississippi River.
Judge Kelley overruled the motion for a new trial in the Louis Busse murder case. Busse, found guilty in Waverly of killing his wife and attempting to burn her body, was sentenced to be hanged in the state penitentiary at Anamosa on April 17, 1903.
Rev Samuel Krell pastor of the Methodist church in Lacona died by his own hand after struggles with despondency over church attendance. He had previously served two years in the Philippines as a private in the Fifty first Iowa volunteers.
Mrs Sophie Binns of Fruitvale reports relief from congestion and inflammation of the ovaries after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says symptoms improved in two months and she continued treatment six weeks more for lasting health.
The note surveys minor statistics and curiosities from 19th century life. It cites railway class distribution in England, peak growth ages for girls and boys, German city populations rising from eight to thirty three over years, Amazon palm tree leaf dimensions, and Danish engagement ring customs shifting from left to right hand at marriage.
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