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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1901
Page
2
A compact weekly digest summarizing home and foreign news, industrial trends, and notable personal and political items. Read as a quick snapshot of seven days of events, with emphasis on regionally relevant developments and key happenings at home and around the world.
A broad digest reports Carrie Nation’s $500 fine suspended for staying out of Kansas City remains. births in Tennessee. Pacific steamship line plans. Milwaukee judge frees Christian Scientists. U S proposes $200 million Chinese indemnity. labor actions against steel trusts. Wall Street overspeculation worries. numerous divorces ruled invalid. clergy retirements and resignations. tariff and tax cases. various rail, river, and train incidents. blizzards and weather losses. political races and local elections. burglaries and robberies. sports and military movements. state and interstate legal rulings. international diplomacy and colonial armaments. and ongoing U S military and foreign policy developments.
Obituaries note Maj. John H. Belcher and Gen. Alexander McClurg among prominent U S figures dying in Boston and St Augustine. Other deaths include Phineas Blodgett and West Point graduate Maj. Joseph Brice in New York. Floods, fires, and storms cause casualties from Kentucky to Alaska. Political moves include Iowa GOP convention plans and new Greater New York Democracy party formation.
A sweeping storm spread from Pittsburgh to Ohio and beyondbringing heavy wet snow and rain that collapsed rail lines and cut power. Flooded rivers, submerged towns from Rochester to Chester and Middlefield, and widespread property losses mounted as officials counted damages and delayed transport.
Letters from women across New England extol Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from inflammatory bladder conditions, painful periods, nervous prostration, and other female weaknesses. Testimonials from Mrs. Mabel Goorin of Mechanic Falls Maine and Mrs. J W J of Jamaica Plain Mass. accompany calls to try the remedy.
The Cuban constitutional convention appoints five members to travel to Washington and present the convention's wishes to President McKinley. Judge Steyn is reelected president of the Orange Free State. The Philippine commission is told by Mgr Chappelle that friars will not return to provinces, with only enough remaining in Manila as instructors. Milner notes Boer gains in six months. The empress palace at Peking burned, saved military papers. Four killed in a river steamer boiler explosion near Fort Langley, B C. Religious order opposition grows in Portugal.
In Sacramento at the Velodrome Clem and Charley Turville broke the world eight-lap record in the second heat of a five-mile professional motorcycle race finishing in 7 40 5. Their rivals were Judge and Stone.
The flow in Chicago drainage canal is cut to 200000 cubic feet per minute under a secretary of war order. Trustees intend to raise the canal capacity as part of the river improvement plan.
The snippet folds in humorous remarks about fashion copy and readers. It cites reporters from Baltimore Philadelphia Indianapolis and Chicago comparing costumes and trends. The jokes touch on secretkeeping in society and a pun about leghorns in summer fashion.
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