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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1895
Page
2
The latest census shows Fort Dodge at 8,450 residents, up more than 3,000 since 1890. The piece surveys political conventions, crime notes, trials, and local incidents across Iowa, including lawsuits, fires, accidents, and notable deaths, with emphasis on public figures and regional events.
Russia and France dispatch thirty four men of war to Japanese waters while Britain pressures Nicaragua with possible pacific blockade. Oscar Wilde indicted for immorality as Japan ratifies peace terms. A web of arrests, inquests, and political maneuvers unfolds across Europe and the Americas.
Indians on Winnebago and Omaha reservations monitor federal lease litigation between Capt Beck and Flournoy Land Co. They move couriers and fear a bloody outcome if tensions rise. In Lincoln, lawyers for about 225 tenants press for an immediate hearing though most cases won’t be heard until fall.
Movement begun in West Superior Wisconsin to secure a pardon for A A Cadwallader former president of the Superior National Bank who was charged with embezzling sixty thousand dollars and is now serving a five year term in Milwaukee His family has suffered two child deaths and lacks support after a failed jury verdict and his guilty plea after three years in prison
New York April 26 Mrs Delia Stewart Parnell lies critically ill at Bordentown New Jersey after a severe convulsion yesterday The attending physician Dr Shipps has lost hope and no operation can be performed while the end approaches rapidly
Princeton, N J April 26 Princeton defeated Lafayette yesterday in a hotly contested game. Princeton won by superiority in fielding and by bunching hits. The score was 7 to 1.
Secretary Gresham visits New York for financial counsel with ex Secretary Bristow and J. W. Doane of Chicago. He kept plans private, avoiding public view, and stayed mostly in his hotel room while meetings proceeded.
Chief Justice Fuller’s April 8 opinion on the income tax case is released. The document surveys direct versus indirect taxes, apportionment, and uniformity rules, debating whether rents constitute a direct tax and noting historical disputes from the convention to Congress.
Forest fires rage on three sides of Perley nine miles south of Cumberland on the Omaha line. Dry conditions worsen the danger as firemen’s aid from Cumberland’s city is withheld by Mayor Luff citing peril. In Ironwood Michigan a water works company refuses hydrant service over two years of unpaid rental.
Nearly 400 women from the northwest attended the twenty fourth annual meeting in Detroit. Mrs. D. M. Cooper gave a welcoming address, Mrs. Jorge H. Laflin of Chicago replied, and synodical reports noted slight declines in giving but overall optimism. Afternoon talks featured Anna Rhea Willson and E W McDowell, missionaries to Persia and Mosul, followed by Rev R H Milligan on Africa. Sessions continue through today.
Bloomington April 26 H M Kennedy chairman of McLean county democratic central committee calls a meeting Friday in Bloomington to issue a call for a county convention selecting delegates to the state convention at Springfield He opposes free silver and believes a Springfield decision for free silver would trigger another convention favoring gold standard or bimetallism The free silver democrats are reported to be in the majority locally
A massive blast at the Ohio and Indiana Torpedo company factory two miles west of Lima Ohio yesterday noon shattered more than a thousand panes of glass and toppled windows in nearby business blocks. Two employees had just left the building when it exploded.
Battle Creek secured the annual race meet of Michigan bicyclers at the state board meeting. The event will be held in July at Mount Clemens Michigan.
Reports detail a Findlay Ohio poisoning attempt on Mrs. Odell and two children, a colored man named William Owen hanged in Arkansas for murder, Lexington Ky. mayor jailed for weapons offenses, Isaac LaForge in Pine Bush NY suicide, James R. Holland's $75,000 bank shortage in Charlotte NC, Albert Anderson’s stabbing of Alice Blair in San Jose and his self-inflicted wound, and a Hartshorn Oklahoma mother and her 7-year-old daughter dying after arsenic poisonings.
Plainfield New Jersey April 25 The First National bank was robbed of 22765 Monday The theft likely occurred while two clerks were present as a stranger talked with clerk Adelbert Vail while a confederate reached the vault through the directors room The money was in two bundles one with 20000 in new bills and another with 2765 in mutilated notes Bank officials deem the crime the work of professionals.
Fort Scott Kansas April 26 The trial of Noah Strevel accused of killing his father Stewart Strevel near the city on March 16 was continued. Mrs Noah Strevel testified detailing the crime as confessed by her husband the night it was committed She spoke for nearly four hours facing a tough cross examination and stood by her story The defense says they are ready to meet the evidence and allege a secret motive for the accusation
Griswold bank robbers Smith alias Wilson and Wilson alias Butler were sentenced by Judge Woolson in federal court. Both received five years at Fort Madison and Anamosa respectively, with the judge noting regret over not imposing ten years. An order authorized transporting the prisoners to Atlantic for district court trial.
Bill Cook the Indian territory bandit arrived in St. Louis with twenty other U S prisoners en route to the Albany N Y federal prison to serve sentences ranging from eighteen months to forty five years in a prior era.
Lansing April 26 The senate voted unanimously to pass the liquor tax bill which the house approved earlier fixing the uniform tax at 500 dollars. Attempts to set July 1 as the due date instead of May 1 and to allow saloons to stay open on secular holidays failed. The final vote united advocates of amendments with supporters of the bill and granted immediate effect. The current law taxes malt liquor at 300 dollars and spirituous liquors at 500 dollars.
Grand Forks North Dakota April 26 a definite agreement was reached by creditors of the North Dakota Milling association and immediate application will be made to the court for the appointment of O L Gibbs and H R Lyons as receivers. The mills will run double time to fill orders on hand. It will require two years to pay the indebtedness if carefully managed. The capacity of thirteen mills is 5 000 barrels daily. It is expected the receivers will take charge at once.
Seven Polanders at work for A. M. Hefferon in Wild Rose town burned to death last night in a shanty near the Portage county line. They had been carousing and it is believed all were intoxicated when the blaze started. Names of the dead are not known.
The Omaha Live Stock exchange censured Secretary Morton for an erroneous idea about cattle versus beef costs, saying it harms the cattle industry. The report notes possible favorable Supreme Court action for Debs and predicts a rehearing of the income tax case with a full bench as Justice Jackson recovers. A Detroit bank officers’ accounting suit proceeds, Cyrus Teed forms societies in Pittsburg and Beaver Falls, and Theodore Roosevelt avoids denial or confirmation of a New York police commissioner offer.
Austin April 26. The Texas Democratic Party appears split over silver. Silverites in the Texas legislature, about sixty strong, insist on 16 to 1 free and unlimited coinage and will admit only 16 to 1 adherents to their meetings. A meeting tonight aims to urge Texans to back the 16 to 1 policy. Cleveland Democrats last night adopted a proclamation urging orderly discussion of the financial issue at the forthcoming state and national conventions to help all Democrats reach a common platform.
Washington reports Secretary Gresham received a dispatch from Hannis Taylor confirming Spain will meet the United States demand in the Alliance matter and that the Conde de Venadito’s captain will be tried for firing on an American vessel outside the zone. De Lome’s mission is noted as influencing Spain’s actions.
Justice Jackson may be in Washington in May when the Supreme Court plans to vacate the April income tax decision and reopen the case for reargument. Chief Justice Fuller will issue a supplemental announcement today or tomorrow outlining the plan to reopen if Justice Jackson attends.
Washington reports the Concord reaching Nagasaki, the Castine at Zanzibar, and the Olympia at San Diego. Commander Perry of the Castine is expected to review the case of United States Consul Hollis in Mozambique who is under arrest for shooting a native and faces inaction from the Portuguese Appellate court.
Des Moines papers report seven United States patents issued to Iowa inventors last week. Items include a kitchen ventilator by B F Wood of Des Moines a wagon end gate by S Herr and R S Moore of Washington Iowa an automatic brake by W A Cameron and W J DeLamare of Des Moines and a plug tobacco holder and cutter by R Whitlock of Des Moines. Patent solicitors Thomas Ganor and J Rapa Onwie provided the filing.
Market notes report the Tennessee house backing the 16 to 1 free coinage of silver while New York monometallists push a crusade against it. Ex-President Harrison supports greater silver use. Syndicate articles loom for 1,000 newspapers. Rep Cogswell of Massachusetts is seriously ill but improving. Minnesota legislature adjourns.
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