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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1894
Page
6
A discussion of the social double standard between city and country life, outlining three types of married flirt behavior born, made, and seemingly unconscious, and exploring how public opinion varies with location and gender dynamics. The piece cites Ella Wheeler Wilcox and ends with notes on Old Hundredth and opium culture.
A travel-stained pilgrim at a kitchen door protests being called a tramp and asserts a standing offer of fifteen dollars from a leading medical college for his corporeality. He departs with a stately bow to seek better reception elsewhere.
In a brief exchange from a tale, a kind maiden searches her purse for a stray penny and then gives a quarter to a blind mendicant who longs to see the lovely ladies. The mendicant expresses gratitude and nostalgia for sighted beauty.
A Christmas quip from N Y Weekly shows a mother asking why a daughter ran when the father entered. The daughter replies the lap held gifts not for him, hoping he would think they were.
A humorous aphorism contrasts Shakespearean line about sparing an oak with a twist that the subject is actually a chestnut tree. The playful misdirection highlights wordplay on tree types.
Des Moines dispatch notes forty three indictments by the U S grand jury in Dubuque. Most are against George M Van Leuven Jr pension attorney for illegal fees and false affidavits. Dr Kissell faces similar charges. T R Van Leuven and Kissell are charged with conspiracy to defraud.
The jury found Anna Wagner not guilty in the Koesters murder trial after twelve hours of deliberation. The case linked arsenic poisoning to deaths in the Koesters family, with multiple indictments dismissed and Wagner later acquitted.
The viceregal government of India and local authorities discuss improving Indian farming. Simla hosted a conference on the topic. New Zealand’s frozen mutton trade to Britain profits despite high local sheep prices. A County Wexford farmer died from anthrax exposure and a worker is gravely ill. Efforts to acclimate horses in Belgian Congo settlements show healthy foals from Belgian and Spanish mares.
The article lists casualties from Bannockburn Gravelotte Sadowa Austerlitz and Waterloo with numbers of engaged soldiers and those killed or wounded. It notes Waterloo as the bloodiest in proportion and highlights vast losses across battles.
Milwaukee December 30 Northern Pacific by Silas W Pettit petitions Judge Jenkins for removal of receivers Thomas F Oakes Henry Payne and Henry C Rouse alleging fraud and mismanagement by Oakes and Kalstor and claiming the line’s insolvency stemmed from improper actions and conflicts of interest and that reorganization requires new competent management.
Writs served on Chief Arthur and other officers of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers enjoin interference with Northern Pacific railroad operations. Arthur calls it a surprise, noting the union had taken no action in the road troubles and considers it precautionary.
London reports the death of Charles Merivale dean of Ely after a period of illness. He collapsed Tuesday night and his work translating Homer's mind was praised by the Earl of Derby as among the finest in English.
J Pierpont Morgan representing the New York Central bought the New York and Northern railroad for 1 000 000 dollars at a foreclosure sale on Thursday. He was the sole bidder.
In Lawrence Kansas a black woman named Brown left five children with two others as a fire started from a stove. During the night the cabin burned and two children aged 9 and 11 were roasted to death in bed.
Topeka Kansas December 30 an ex soldier with his pension attached for debt asked Attorney General Little to define his rights. The attorney general replied that such an attachment is void.
The state superintendent reports 28,301 teachers in Iowa, 4,837 male and female disparities in pay, 509,514 pupils enrolled, and 13,433 schoolhouses valued at 15.11 million dollars. He proposes two story limits and state furnished schoolhouse plans.
On October 2 John Rohr er, a veteran steamboat engineer on the Missouri River, was murdered in Sioux City and his pockets rifled. A deathbed confession names William Leach, William Gamb, and John King as the killers, with Jesse Williams revealing the tale. None of the suspects have been arrested or located.
The Sixth annual session of the State Veterinary Medical Association in Des Moines elected officers: President W. B. Mills Ames, vice president E. E. Sayers Algona, secretary and treasurer J. E. Brown Oskaloosa. The legislative committee was instructed to push a bill creating an Iowa state veterinary board.
Mrs. S R Russell, former public librarian and sister in law of ex Mayor Palmer, sues C T Fitts in Sioux City for breach of promise. She resigned her office and secured a marriage license before he changed his mind. She seeks ten thousand dollars.
Pleasant Forbush, a noted desperado, was arrested in Ottumwa for the April 1892 killing of Granville Hayes in Glasgow Missouri. Authorities say Forbush killed Hayes out of jealousy, dragged the body a quarter mile, tied a rock to it, and sank it in the river.
A rich vein assaying nine and a half ounces of gold with 40 percent copper was found at Starr's cave near Burlington. Several men formed and incorporated a company to develop the find. Liberal traces of tin and zinc were also detected in the area.
Judge Conrad in district court at Des Moines overruled a new trial motion in grave robbery cases and sentenced Dr. John W. Schaffer to six months in the penitentiary with two associates, J. W. Sloan and James Martin, fined $200 each.
News in brief items report liquor limits, a Colfax hotel purchase for private use, resignation of W M Fields from the state normal school, a new Midland Monthly magazine, and suits against the Des Moines club. Other items note post offices burglaries, fatal accidents, a German girl case, and political inaugurations and tax appropriations.
Denver December 27 Gov Waite issues a call for an extraordinary session January 10 claiming it offers the best chance to act for Colorado. Business leaders oppose the move though the governor proceeds, citing mining, taxation and credit remedies. The call lists about 30 topics including legal tender for certain silver coins and limits on trust deeds and municipal bonds.
Fire swept a block bounded by Clay Commercial Sansome and Leidesdorff streets at 11 30 am striking old brick buildings housing the Call and Bulletin offices Francis Valentine & Co printers Broqui Printing and Engraving and others Firefighters battled for over two hours as losses were estimated around 350 000 with half insured while total damages near half a million and no halt to Bulletin and Call publication expected.
London Dec 29 The Wall Street Journal review of 1883 trade shows a gloomier year than 1892 with declines in imports and exports across most sectors. Coal and textiles hit hard while American trade grows steadier, yet tariff shifts loom as a key unknown for 184. Merchants fear lockouts and rising unemployment as Canadian factories idle and shipments falter.
Rich & Silber a Milwaukee dry goods firm and the A W Rich Shoe Company filed assignments on Monday. Aggregate assets listed at 831000 with bonds of 225000 and 106000 respectively. No creditor preference. principal creditors are eastern firms. Rich indebted to relatives for 30000.
A gunman at a dance near Gloucester Ohio disrupted the event, fatally shooting bystander Jake Hanks and wounding Andrew Lovell and Frank James. James, the riot initiator, was shot in the chest and may not recover. Eight participants have been arrested amid talk of lynching.
United States Secret Service agent Hazen hunts a gang flooding Cincinnati with aluminum dimes dated 1993. The counterfeit is unusually fine and undetectable by eye, marking the first aluminum counterfeit reported by local authorities.
Starved herself to death after fifty five days without food or drink. Mrs Fannie Landers, inmate at the alms-house in Taxwee Ma, died on December 27.
Thomas A. Edison files a $1,000,000 damages suit in the New Jersey supreme court against the Edison United Phonograph company. He alleges harm from sales of phonographs in the United States and abroad.
Havana reports an air accident at Pabillone's circus as Aeronaut Killipa fell from a trapeze at 60 feet. He was unconscious when recovered and died an hour later, ending the performance tragedy.
Joseph H Lowis rearrested and arraigned in the Tombs on grand larceny charges. He had previously caused a sensational death attempt at Union Square hotel and driven A J Schloss & Co into collapse. Shortages in the firm’s books total about seventy thousand, with defalcations estimated between two and three hundred thousand dollars.
A Ashland report states Secretary Hoke Smith ruled the land claimed by Col Ji H Knight under the innocent purchaser act belongs to six homesteaders who settled there three years ago. The Ashland area land valued at 300000 dollars and Secretary Noble previously found Knight as receiver knew the Central company lacked title, thus not an innocent purchaser.
Gov Lewelling writes to Kansas police commissioners urging hiring only heads of families to ease financial strain. He suggests removing nonheads and filling posts with men supporting dependents where possible.
New York reports prize totals for cyclists, with Wheelman Zimmerman winning prizes valued at 20000 dollars and Johnson recording winnings of 15006 dollars during the year.
A boiler room accident at Proctor and Gamble Ivorydale when Digester No 4 blew up. Edward Marquet and Stephen Reynolds, both workers, were killed and their bodies were torn to pieces.
Dee-Yob8 Poening the Elmwood treasurer and local saloon keeper fled with the town's funds totaling $5,000. The incident leaves Elmwood facing a missing- funds case and an ongoing police inquiry.
Washington notes show the treasury balance slid to 85 914 096 on Wednesday with 82 024 796 in gold and 4 891 300 in currency. Officials describe this as the smallest currency balance in many years.
In Depesx Utah on December 29 three boys Tracy Bingham Oscar Bingham and John Ashlander sons of Bishop Bingham drowned when ice broke on a creek at Riverdale. They fell into a deep hole and did not survive.
Ex senator Thomas C. Platt appointed temporary receiver of the New England railroad as Archibald A. McLeod’s failures trigger losses. Stock plunges amid Wall Street panic as creditors and directors await a permanent receiver hearing set for January 1 in New York.
Col. C. A. Zelinger mayor of Fort Wayne Indiana died at 11 50 p m Wednesday from neuralgia of the heart after a brief illness He had long served as mayor and was pension agent for Indiana under the Cleveland administration He died while active in politics having served in the Union Army and held the Democratic county chairmanship with a Republican past.
Dispatches from Lonpox report that Capt. Wilson leading a forty man force of the British South Africa Company has been massacred by the Matabele. Communications with Maj. Forbes are cut as rivers rise in the rainy season, with several sources confirming the annihilation though official confirmation is pending.
In Lawrence Kemia Dec 29 a colored papa can dies in Kansas and in Kentucky a fire ignited the bed in Barbara Woods house on the edge of the city. Two children perished in the Kentucky blaze while the mother was away and the house was locked.
Charles P. Huston, a switchman of 203 Brooklyn Street, attempted to murder Edward McDonald, foreman at Judge & Tunsel. After failing, Huston killed himself by lying on a railroad track in the Union depot yards as a train decapitated him.
In PLaTranure New York three men Joseph Manly Henry Manly and George Cronk perished from privations while attempting to walk across ice from Saranac Lake to Tupper Lake.
Bankstrown Kentucky December 26 C. Bar ber Sr a leading Kentucky millionaire died age 78 His fortune was estimated between 1 500 000 and 9 000 000 His wife aged 76 and two children survive him
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