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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1901
Page
2
A week’s record highlights home and foreign items across politics industry and personal news. The compact digest surveys events at home and abroad with brief notes on notable happenings and developments.
Two killed and five injured by lightning in Greenville South Carolina reported amid a wide world overview. Cable from Peking notes final protocol draft agreed upon. Drowning deaths at Ogdensburgh and Tybee Island surf reported alongside fires, rail incidents, and legal cases across continents. Major labor strikes, naval affairs, and weather disasters fill the update.
Hon. Sanford M. Green, a Michigan supreme court appointee from 1848 to 1858, died at his Bay City home at age 94. He revised the state statutes in 1843 and served as a circuit judge for 34 years. The Pennsylvania Democratic convention adopted a state issue platform, Bryan and free silver being ignored. Harmon Yerkes nominated for supreme court judge. Virginia Democrats adopted a platform praising Bryan after a lengthy convention debate.
The withdrawal of the Colombian legation from Venezuela signals possible trouble between the two nations and potential war. US representatives in Venezuela will protect Colombian interests as tensions mount amid regional upheaval and spillover risks.
A mine shaft accident at Tamarack in Calumet Michigan kills three workers and injures two with grave injuries. Fire devastates the Bradley Watkins mill at Sault Ste Marie costing large unemployment. Global unrest includes battles near Zululand, labor strife in Bay View Wisconsin, and port news from Sandy Hook to Caracas.
Vladivostock reports Lieut Wallace Berthel of the U S Navy begins shipping 12 000 reindeer from Okhotsk to Alaska. Other items note slavery in Egypt ending, a Covent ry England funeral with cars, Col Cabrera captured in Batanzas, fighting near Colon Kingston, Venezuelan plans on Isthmus of Panama, and Edward P Thompson fined and jailed for fraud at Havana.
Thomas R. Breanbrack aged 67 a prominent Anamosa attorney died after a trip to Dubuque He fell ill on a train was assisted to Judge O Donnell s court and later died at Flinley hospital of apoplexy He had practiced law over 30 years in Anamosa and partnered with State Senator Ellison.
Herman Hohn aged 19 son of farmer Chris Hohn north of Audubon tied a 25 foot rope around a horse and was dragged about 100 yards through barbed wire fences after catching his foot. He died before a doctor arrived, marking the second such loss for the Hohn family in recent years.
John Scholzen was brought back to New Hampton by Sheriff F. E. Sherwood of Chickasaw county to answer burglary larceny and horse stealing charges. He allegedly robbed a New Hampton saloon of 160 dollars worth of cigars and liquors, stole a horse, and after the horse fatigued cut its throat and left it by the roadside then stole a bicycle to continue fleeing.
Des Moines area grain men report collecting ear samples and warn marketable corn will be scarce. They say samples so far show ears that are partially filled or consist mainly of cobs, signaling a disappointing yield.
Albert O. Smith of Storm Lake drew a farm at Fl Reno and is an old soldier and laborer who has lived in Storm Lake 25 years. H. Sutton, another Oklahoma farm winner, is an old soldier and farmer ten miles northeast of Storm Lake and has resided in the county seven years.
William H. Disbrow, a Cass county prominent citizen living four miles northeast of Atlantic, was kicked by a vicious horse at his son in law James Lepper’s home near Sarah. He died shortly after the injury.
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