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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1895
Page
10
A roundup of crime and civic events reports burglaries in Moorland Griswold and Corning. a Mondy bank raid in Griswold ruins vaults. Newton sheriff killed. widespread tuberculosis tests affect Lind and Kossuth county. Masonic Temple in Mason City dedication and business troubles in Cedar Rapids.
Senator Mills announced an amendment to the sundry civil bill repealing all laws authorizing the secretary of the treasury to sell United States bonds. At Chicago’s Republican convention Geo B Swift was nominated for mayor. A fire in Hot Springs Arkansas destroyed four and a half blocks of homes and businesses, killing about six people. The New York building trades strike in solidarity with Electrical Workers could affect up to 100000 workers. Frederick Douglass died at his Acostia home Washington DC on the 21st from heart failure, leaving an estimated wealth of 100000 to 200000.
Jefferson City February 21. A resolution passed both houses moving the state capital to Sedalia without gubernatorial approval. In North Dakota on the same day, Bismarck, 21 February, woman suffrage failed in the house but the motion to reconsider was not tabling, keeping the issue alive. Iowa Patent Office Report.
The Senate and House acted on major appropriations and public works including a bridge across the Missouri at Sioux City and a bridge across the Illinois river at Hennepin. The Indian appropriation bill faced extended debate while pensions, consular funding, and a cable to Hawaii drew votes and discussions.
Des Moines items list twelve U S patents issued to Iowa inventors in the past week. M Flanders of Hamilton receives a well drilling apparatus. Dr J T Robbins of Newton a hot water furnace built from short pipe sections. L Fisher of Des Moines assigns half to Marshall Bros for an improved cylinder printing press. W W F Gould of Des Moines granted a balanced valve. Spitz & Young secure a trade mark for cigars showing a black cat with back arched and the word Hoo-Hoo.
Cleveland Ohio February 27 The chamber of commerce votes to appropriate 1000 from the Johnstown flood surplus fund for destitute miners in the Hocking Valley and Sunday Creek district A second 1000 may be given if Governor McKinley deems necessary.
In London on February 27 the government lines up behind a strong stand against a resolution by Robert L. Everett advocating a national agreement to restore free coinage and full legal tender power for silver.
The Chicago Great Western will rebuild 102 bridges and culverts on its system this summer. Thirty-nine replaced by permanent stone and steel, forty-seven by stone and earthworks, and twenty-five by wood at a total cost of $100,000.
Quakers nine to assemble in Pa on March 19 then travel to Hampton Va for practice starting March 20. The Philadelphias open the season at Washington on April 18.
George B. Swift of Chicago was nominated for mayor by the Republican convention yesterday. The nomination was by acclamation. A full city ticket was also nominated.
Paris February 99 The council of state rules that if Germany pays bounties on stag exports, steps will be taken to counteract their effect in the French market. The decision signals government concern over bounty driven trade impacts.
The remains of Minister Gray lie in state in the rotunda today and the funeral train will depart the capitol for Union City where interment is planned Friday at 11 a m. Great preparations have been made there for the funeral.
If sanctioned by the racing board, the annual LAW meet at Asbury Park N J will run July 8 to 15. Four days of racing will decide state and national championships. The track will widen to 26 feet and the grandstand bleachers will be extended to seat 10 000. Railroad rates are expected to be favorable.
The Boone Oil Mill company holdings, part of the Haseed oil trust, vote to spend $1 to investigate trust affairs. Allegations claim four years of rottenness in trust conduct. The probe will review books from seventy mills, a substantial task.
In St. Paul on February 22 the legislative committee of Minnesota and North Dakota agreed to introduce bills in both state legislatures to reduce railroad rates for wheat coal and lumber by ten percent.
Reports from western Nebraska indicate a general rain is prevailing in the death stricken region, with moisture affecting the affected area around Omaha on February 27. The weather development may influence relief efforts and conditions in the stricken zones.
Grantsburg Wisconsin February 27 warm weather halts logging work with all operations at a standstill due to unsafe conditions and stalled production.
Battle Creek report from February notes Adam Arnold in court for the killing of his son. A witness described a furious fight in which the father threatened to kill the young man. The examination is to continue the next day.
A blaze in the Rock Slope mine of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company at Pratt City, Alabama, killed John Patton and Louis Stevens and seriously injured eighteen convicts. Twenty men and twenty mules were affected by smoke and flames. three hours after ignition the fire was extinguished and rescuers pulled the survivors from the air shaft. Mules valued at $3000 died from suffocation or trampling.
Paris reports Commandant Monteil led a French expedition from Marseilles into central Africa was surprised in hostile country. About three hundred troops were killed and the rest forced into retreat. An urgent plea for reinforcements reached the minister of colonies.
Philadelphia reports heavy winter losses at sea with eleven ships overdue. Local underwriters face uncertain claims as storms' worst effects may yet emerge, reflecting an unusually high number of Philadelphia vessels lost this season.
The jury convicted ex State Treasurer William E Woodruff on the night of February twenty six in Little Rock Arkansas. He faces one year in the penitentiary with the case cost to the state near fifty thousand dollars. Bondsmen have paid into the treasury a hundred nine thousand dollars related to the defalcation. Clinton Iowa reports a shareholder meeting of the Lyons Co operative association with plans to pool issues and pursue action against those accused of wrecking the concern.
At a cabinet council meeting M Gadeau minister of agriculture proposed a decree forbidding the importation into France of American cattle due to Texas fever and pleuro pneumonia amid a new animal health policy.
Philadelphia reports James B. Gentry, murderer of Madge Yorke, has become a spectacle as women flood him with armloads of flowers photographs and cologne revealing a surprising outpouring of sentimentality amid the case.
A Panama cable report says yellow fever rages in Guayaquil Ecuador. The Spanish consul’s two sons died the same day, prompting quarantine on Peruvian and Chilean ports. A Venezuelan consul was arrested in Colon for alleged involvement in a garrison uprising. A cargo of arms sent from New York was moved to Savanilla.
Indo California February 25 There is a prospect of war between factions of the Coahuila Indians over the reservation near Indo Cabazon the hereditary chief is about 80 and clashed with Agent Rust over abuses The rebel Joa Quin Torres with followers set up a separate camp and quarrels continue The Indian agent Francisco Pstudillo sentenced Cabazon lieutenants to five days work for Torres Cabazon supporters vow to resist arrest of Razan armed with rifles ammunition and whisky Youths push for war unless orders against Razan are lifted.
Chicago wheat opened heavy but then rallied as official and private messages showed large visible decreases at Buffalo Boston Montreal and New York. May futures moved from 52% to 53% cents with thin cash movement and mixed stock for corn and oats.
New York on February 22 George Gould denied the report that a plot to abduct his two sons Kingdon and Jay had been devised. He also rejected the claim a bodyguard was in attendance and said his children went out for a walk drive.
Milwaukee February 22 John Koetting former cashier of Side Savings Bank will plead guilty when brought into court he is described as penniless.
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