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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1888
Page
4
Prominent items cover political developments, business activities, industrial notes, and reports on fires, accidents, crimes, and personal crises. Brief summaries indicate key figures, organizations, locations, and outcomes as reported by telegraph dispatches.
Washington dispatch reports Ways and Means plans for tariff revisions including free listing of wool salt lumber chemicals and raw materials. The draft proposes reductions on pig iron and coal but retains some duties, with specifics on percentages and affected goods such as sugar tobacco and agricultural inputs.
A Dublin dispatch reports the East Clare MP Mr Cox faced a crimes act charge in Kildysart. Police clashed with crowds of locals led by priests injuring several as they dispersed. The courthouse crowd eventually dispersed with police allowing continued presence. A separate incident sees a man shot dead near Tralee after being confronted by two brothers.
Natural gas was struck on H. E. Bucklen's 20 acre farm three miles southwest of here, about sixty miles from Chicago. A two inch pipe feeds the derrick and the gas cannot ignite within two feet of the mouth. When it does ignite a large blaze is visible, prompting a syndicate to form to ship the gas to Chicago.
Eighteen state prisoners in Russia sentenced to death for belonging to a secret society with bombs and a printing press have had their sentences commuted to banishment and imprisonment. Among them were a nobleman a Cossack captain and four women.
A jumble of brief items reports Lanark Illinois firms burned with about $50,000 loss and $25,000 insurance, pneumonia outbreak at Montpelier Indiana, winter cholera in Minneapolis, a Richmond Virginia penitentiary fire destroying leased buildings, and a $200,000 loss. Also notes Kentucky legislature protests Blair bill, a California Oregon rail line landslide halts 109 miles, Senate discussions on mail service, Blair bill remarks by Evarts, Hoar constitutional time change, Omaha public building bill, Chinese laborer entry limits, Interstate Commerce Committee road inquiry, mineral report on a special commissioner, Dingley Treasury bond purchases, and public works bills for Missouri and Ohio.
Reports from Ireland and the United States recount legal actions and political tensions. O'Brien Byrne and Hayden receive prison sentences for crimes act offenses, with appeals noted. Cork officials face coercion act scrutiny. International news include a self-inflicted wound to avoid czar assassination, Pope/Gibbons letter on Henry George, and Hatfield McCoy vendetta updates amid sparse local communications.
A St. Louis dispatch notes the death of George Clark a famed printer and longtime union leader. He served three terms as President of the International Typographical Union and led the local union many times. Clark was a notable candidate for Public Printer before Benedicts appointment and held broad union support in Missouri.
Republicans pick Henry W. Seymour of Sault Ste. Marie in Ishpeming for Congress. Democrats name Bartley Breen in Marquette. Prohibitionist 5.8. Stulle in Ishpeming. New York Democratic State Committee fails to choose a national committeeman. Julius & Grinnell touted for Illinois Governor. President nominates Harris, Rowley, Gheardi, Fitzhugh, Robeson to federal posts.
Ithaca reports Gregg & Company failure with vast business and state reach. Sharon stores shut on $9,000 judgments. Mason City restaurant closed. liabilities outweigh assets. Buffalo Rubber Company assigns with $53,000 preferreds. New York cigar maker Byron A. Shotwell fails. Miners strike morale questioned as readings say not yet broken. few mines operate. Seymour & Curtis of Minneapolis fail for $45,000.
O B Hitchcock and his wife were found murdered on their Los Angeles County farm after a trip to Santa Ana to deed the property to Fritz Anschlag a German buyer. Anschlag and partner Antone Dyker have been arrested. The case marks a chilling link between betrayal and murder over farm purchase money.
A patriotic verse urges soldiers to sing of loyalty and Union as the war ends. It calls Federals to celebrate peace, praise the nation, and plant the emblem of unity as a cornerstone, while rallying boys in blue to join in a mass chorus.
A veteran recounts lively camp life and humor among volunteers during active campaigns. He recalls pranks like a camp elephant, races and music from enslaved people in the South, and humorous letters and prayers that lightened soldierly burdens amid war.
A reader letter from Captain J A Whiteside of Co E, 12th Georgia Regiment, laments Civil War hardships. He denounces lice, lack of soap and clothes, and transportation, noting shared sufferings and urging the Confederate leadership to heed his “record” of the body-guard and winter campaigns.
The narrative details how soldiers flung belts and saddles aside, trusting the Second Corps to stop Lee's army. The men praised Han cock and his unit for courage and cohesion, remaining steadfast through the night and resuming marching toward the James at dawn.
In 1863 at Glasgow Kentucky the Elgin Battery Illinois Artillery included a slave named Aaron who served as cook. He quickly became a favorite among officers and soldiers amid rumors he had fled his master’s home.
An anecdote recounts a fugitive Black person hidden inside a fort after a sheriff questioned a deputy. The detainee was cared for by other Black soldiers, while a pass altered by mistake allowed him to exit. The narrator then shares a Civil War memory of a sick comrade who, despite orders, served bravely, giving blankets and religious tracts before dying at home.
In April 1863 a group marching from Leavenworth Kansas headed southwest for weeks. Lacking tobacco they found a box house with a padlocked door and an English bulldog. After chaining the dog they pried the lock and seized tobacco to quell their hunger.
Veterans recall a sudden midnight alarm near Cold Harbor on a night in early June. Troops sprang from sleep, saddles on, artillery in motion, as a frightful musketry barrage rattled the front. The army scrambled to prepare for a feared Confederate assault.
In Nashville hospitals during the Civil War a German soldier refuses Union bias and watches as Confederate sympathizers deliver luxury baskets. One woman offers wine and cake to the Southerners, while another tries to win him over with tracts. The German quips about his Union status if his basket contains drinks, but insists mince pies and cake prove nothing.
A husband and wife with a baby were caught a mile from home as a blizzard hit O'Brien County Iowa. The man protected his wife and child by using a sleigh cushion and buffalo robe while he braved the cold. After hours he wandered to find shelter and was rescued once the parties rescued the wife and infant at dawn. He remains severely frostbitten and may not fully recover.
Mrs Patrick of Peosia Iowa learns her son George Patrick a schoolteacher forty miles north of Mandan North Dakota perished with five pupils in a raging blizzard. He sheltered the children in a schoolhouse and died after stripping garments to clothe them and tearing the floor for fuel. Remains expected in Peosia as the region mourns a heroic act amid the deadly storm.
The Nebraska tale tells teacher Louise Royce shielding three pupils eight miles northeast of Plainview during a blizzard. She kept them warm while freezing conditions claimed all three children and left her with likely amputated feet after guiding herself to a distant house.
Ettie Shattuck got lost in a Nebraska storm near a dwelling. She prayed for guidance and hid in a haystack, covered by snow for seventy eight hours from Thursday noon to Sunday night, with a wolf nearby and a mouse nibbling her hand. Rescued in poor condition, she remains in good spirits and slowly recovering.
Two sisters aged 11 and 13 were caught in a storm while walking to school. They sought shelter in a straw stack, the elder entering first to warm the younger, while rubbing her sister’s frozen feet. Waking before dawn, they walked home unharmed to joyful parents.
The Chicago Farmers' Review notes the winter wheat crop is mainly covered with snow. Under these conditions its condition is safely stated as in the percentage from the last report, indicating no adverse change despite the snow cover.
The paper reports a request to publish a feature on the Chinese Wall but notes the publication already has sufficient wallpaper and declines to publish further material.
An old advertisement for Rough on Itch ointment claims to cure skin humor and various conditions such as fever blisters barbers itch and ivy poison. It mentions availability from E and Wells in Jersey City New Jersey by mail or druggists.
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