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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1901
Page
2
A compact digest of industrial news and social items from home and abroad. Highlights cover personal events and political developments, with brief notices of notable happenings in commerce and public life across regions.
Public debt fell by 17,737,314 in June while treasury cash stood at 326,833,124 and total debt minus cash reached 1,044,739,120. Across the country, heat killed hundreds, with 94 deaths in New York and other losses in Philadelphia Pittsburgh Baltimore and Chicago. News also reports lynching in Virginia, strikes idling 50,000 steel workers, and various political and legal updates including Taft named civil governor of the Philippines and Gomez’s mission to the United States.
United States Senator James H. Kyle dies at 57 in Aberdeen South Dakota. Thomas Dunn English aged 82 celebrates birth anniversary in Newark New Jersey. Rev P Henson and Edith Boyden wed in Chicago. Historian John Fiske dies at East Gloucester Massachusetts aged 59. Bernard Morris dies in New York City aged 109. Rev Franklin Fisk founder of Chicago theological seminary dies in Chicago aged 81.
Canadians at a Dominion day dinner in London emphatically deny any prospect of annexation to the United States. The American hospital ship Maine has been presented to the British navy by the Atlantic Transportation company. Religious orders in France, affected by the new law, are planning to move to the United States.
A wide sweep of brief items includes paroled designer R Dawson of Des Moines for killing his son in law, executions in Missouri and New Mexico, resignations and corporate formations, battleship keel laying in Philadelphia, fires in Polo and Versailles, and various sports league standings and public notices.
Berlin reports Prince Clodwig Carl Victor von Hohenlohe Schillingsfürst died at Ragatz Switzerland on a Friday evening after a long public service career. Born 1819 he held posts from Bavarian foreign minister to German chancellor and ambassador in Paris earning praise for his conciliatory stance toward the United States. The funeral plans point to Schillingsfürst as the family burial site with Emperor William potentially attending.
In St. Louis on July 8 the strikers' committee and railroad companies reached an accord granting freight handlers an extra 15 cents per day. Railroads will rehire as many workers as there are positions available.
Upper Sandusky Ohio July 8 Marek Lindsay found guilty of second degree murder after a 20 hour jury deliberation. The verdict is described as a compromise.
Iowa Shiloh commission approves inscriptions for 12 state monuments to honor Iowa’s regiments at Shiloh on April 6 and 7, 1862. Contracts to be let after national approval. total $50,000 allocated for a state monument, commission costs, and 11 regimental markers. list of Iowa units and commanding officers follows.
The Iowa statehouse will feature only top quality decoration with a moderate phased start. Commissions seek the finest artists in America for the grand staircase panel, costing about 10 000 to 30 000 dollars, aiming to set a world famous standard in construction and furnishing.
Miss Mary Louisa Gyger aged 17 of Marshall town eloped with Perry Davis a 23 year old bridge painter. Parental objections and desire for marriage out of age prompted the elopement. Davis reportedly had six dollars. A warrant was issued for his arrest on a charge of enticing.
The Iowa life report notes 42 level premium firms and 30 joint stock companies in the state, eight Iowa companies. Old line firms wrote 53,605,076 in 1900, took in 4,770,090 in premiums, and paid losses of 1,254,000. There are 54 fraternal societies, 17 Iowa concerns.
Rural free delivery service will begin August 1 at Correc tionville in Woodbury county with four carriers on 95 miles of routes serving 2 333 people. Appointed carriers are R D Kallin M W Tile D H Miller and J H Mor rab. Rock Branch post office to be supplied by rural cashier.
Forty seven percent of women students at Swiss universities are of Russian birth. Western Australia secures secular instruction with Irish textbooks. Tokio campus studies show over half of 1736 university students are myopic. Glasgow University marks its 450th anniversary and grants doctorates to Andrew Carnegie and others including three women, a first. New York City boards restrict gifts to teachers to anonymous delivery to curb favoritism in public schools.
The piece notes the Irish river in Siberia at 2200 miles, draining 600000 miles of territory. It marks December 29, 1902 as two centuries since Peter the Great sanctioned Russia's first newspaper. It cites railway punctuality, with 1900 Warsaw St Petersburg line least late at seven percent, others worse.
Lostant Illinois July 8 James Watt suffers from kidney trouble and nervousness after trying many remedies he is cured by six boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills He sends pills and his testimonial to a brother in Belfast Ireland who suffers similarly.
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