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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1904
Page
2
A condensed summary of business political and social happenings at home and abroad. Key developments in industry politics personal affairs and notable events across regions are highlighted in this week’s records.
Charles Mikelson, 35, widowed two months earlier, shot himself on his wife’s grave in Hibbing Minnesota. The report lists multiple other national tragedies and events, including political stances on The Hague tribunal, labor cases, accidents, and notable deaths across the United States.
Miners uncover two dozen mummies in a Silver City cavern with stone tools indicating a prehistoric race. The late Paul Kruger leaves £750000 for Boer widows orphans and Dutch language maintenance. Japanese attack Poutiloff hill November 29, decimated by Russian shell fire. Britain fears Canada-U S schism from closer ties. Cuban officials deny yellow fever but warn of poor sanitation.
Various political updates note Attorney General Moody staying in President Roosevelt’s cabinet. Other items cover the Louisiana Exposition loan payment, Missouri and Kansas returns, Alaska governorship, Illinois voting machines ruling, and arbitration with Portugal.
President Roosevelt toured the Chicago Exposition greeting crowds and inspecting exhibits before Sunday services and a banquet. International issues include Spain seeking a peace congress, the Ottoman and Japanese fronts, and a Dutch exposure of tensions at The Hague. Various U S and world events cover elections, Labor leadership, Assassination claims, railway contracts, and famine reports.
The Janey Manufacturing Company of Ottumwa, capitalized at 125000, passed into receivership under Joseph Dain of Dain Manufacturing. Judge F W Richelberger ordered the appointment in Wapello County District Court with bonds set at 50000. The six year old firm made farm implements and machinery with key local investors, including Calvin Manning of Iowa National Bank.
An Oskaloosa jury found Jimmie Seibert not guilty less than an hour after deliberations. Seibert had shot J. J. Nelson, claiming defense of his sister Mae Seibert. Nelson, accompanied by Charles Carpenter, who is jailed for attacking Mae, went to the Seibert home seeking to confront them. Carpenter escaped. Nelson was fatally wounded.
In Des Moines Mrs Mary Hubbard swallowed carbolic acid and died in an out-house rear to her home. She was found gasping and moved to Warren Jackson's home across the street where she died. Neighbors were Black. the only white nearby were Dr Conkling and Dr Miller who tried to aid her.
Judge Platt releases the bonds men in the case of William Golden and holds the defendant to the Independence grand jury in February on his own recognizance. Golden, a Jesup resident and civil war veteran, faces embezzlement charges involving about $800 as township clerk and school funds treasurer. He has sold his home and household goods to meet obligations.
Despondent over the failure to sell his wagon axle cutting machine Wright hung himself in his Marshalltown barn. He leaves a wife and three small children. Wright, formerly of Hawarden, had introduced the device and patent rights for counties and states three months earlier but saw limited sales and little interest.
Ralph Jepson, owner of the National Suit Co, arrested in Independence by the Bankers' Association for passing worthless checks at Walworth Wisconsin and Manhattan. Detectives say there are 20 other cases across western states. Requisition to Wiscon sin halted by habeas corpus hearing.
Joseph Schaupp, a farmer near Dunlap, sues Henry Hendkie, Jacob Herges and J A Southwell for 10,000 damages alleging they were masked men who dragged him from his home last December and beat him. he says the masks fell from their faces.
Leroy Messner aged 12 took carbolic acid at his home in Council Bluffs after classmates frightened him with threats of police. Investigators believe he was not involved in a chocolate theft from a freight car and died from his own action.
A series of rural and city incidents in Iowa include a fatal runaway near Albia killing Mrs. Hollingsworth and injuring Prof Hollingsworth. a second degree murder indictment for William Kling in the Egly shooting. H L Warner, longtime Sioux City mayor, dies of Bright’s disease. Burlington man Carl Peterson dies in dynamite accident. John Bloom shoots his elder son Frank near Shenandoah. The Des Moines rapids canal closes for winter. a National Gratorical League formed with University of Iowa among members. The state historical department receives relics tied to Gen W W Belknap including saddles holsters and a rifle.
Albert W. Morgan, Civil War veteran and former inmate of the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown, built a 6 by 6 foot dwelling from two piano boxes with tar paper roof and earth fill. He uses a homemade tricycle to distribute ammonia to Marshalltown householders and keeps a bunk, window, floor, and gabled roof inside the tiny shelter.
Arnold Beuthien former bank president and major stockholder in five banks in Iowa and North Dakota was captured by Chicago detectives while resting on a Union Park beach. He denies embezzling 850000, admits improper loans, and awaits extradition papers after a two month fugitive period.
The Rev W A Denton of Girard Kansas recounts his wife nearly dying after childbirth. Doctors offered little relief until Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People restored sleep eased stomach pains and rheumatic symptoms. Sold 50 cents a box or six for two dollars and fifty cents by Dr Williams Medicine Company Sche nectady NY.
Jetson Balliett once promoted the White Swan Mining Co of Oregon and gained wide notoriety. He pleads guilty in federal court in Des Moines to charges of using the mails fraudulently after his second trial was ordered by higher courts following a conviction at the first trial two years ago.
The Iowa Mutual Insurance Association adopted an entirely new constitution at the first session of its 24th annual meeting in the Yeomen hall. The three day gathering was the largest in the association’s history.
Sioux City jury convicts Harry Hortman of first degree murder in the fatal shooting of his sweetheart Florence Porter at Cherokee and fixes life imprisonment as the penalty.
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