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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1900
Page
4
News of the industrial field, personal and political items, and happenings at home and abroad. Coverage spans domestic developments and international events with brief notes on key figures and recent actions.
Drought damages crops in Minnesota South Dakota and Montana while North Dakota yields vanish. Wall paper trust head Burn resigns. Debt and treasury figures show June deficit and current balance. Heat fatalities in Chicago and Hoboken fire victims tallied. Union miners suspend Alabama strikes. Various incidents including murders drownings wrecks and political conventions are reported with names, places and dates.
The state board of control awarded the Glenwood Institute contracts totaling 40000 dollars to Northern Building company of Davenport for the Glenwood hospital cold storage and boys cottage addition. Tone Bros of Des Moines won the entire coffee contract after testing about 70 samples. Tea contracts go to multiple firms with different institutions requesting varied teas.
Judge Eichelberger rules the Ottumwa library election was valid as an election by law and constitution, denying women the vote since the constitution recognizes only male adult citizens as electors. Local attorneys expect a new vote may be required with men voting only.
A horse owned by a Clinton man swam over five miles along the Mississippi River from Lyons high bridge to Beaver Island. The animal repeatedly breached the water, changing course toward Willow Island Little Rock Island and back, finally reaching shore under human care. Spectators watched as the brave animal persisted against swift currents.
A new industry along the Mississippi harvests mud turtles for eastern cities including Boston and Washington. Workers trap turtles, cage them, and ship them in barrels with air holes, delivering tortoises in good condition. Clinton area residents increasingly join the profitable turtle trade as steamboat passengers watch the activity.
The George Smith residence in Jackson County caught fire when a lamp ignited oil. Smith tried to fling the lamp out a window but dropped it on the stairs, fueling the blaze. The couple saved their children by throwing them from an upstairs window and leaping to safety. The family sustained burns. no property was saved.
The Sioux City yards report 442 500 hogs received in the first half of 1900. The peak year was 1890 with 723 900 hogs. The second half is typically strongest, and this year is expected to become the yards' largest on record.
Bray voices strong disapproval of metempsychosis calling it a horrid belief. Kkunnell shrugs at the idea in Sydney Town and Country Journal’s light exchange.
The Sheldon District Fair association reports sufficient funds have been raised for subscribed stock. The first board of directors has been elected and work has begun, with plans for a large fair and race meet to be held early this fall.
The report states France spends about 3.6 million dollars annually on its legislature while Italy's parliament costs about 430 thousand dollars per year.
A bank cashier from the Philadelphia Times notes that the number of women who can undorse checks is slowly increasing, signaling broader participation in financial procedures.
The Retail Grocers' association of the state led by Eugene Bottles of Burlington formed a merchants mutual fire insurance company in Des Moines. It will insure only members and any merchant may join.
L. O. Scott of McCallsburg topped the Ames shooting match winning the gold medal and county championship by breaking 22 of 25 birds. The event drew local shooters and highlighted marksman skill in Story County.
Government dredging at Clinton to improve the channel uncovered numerous pearls in river sand. Some gems are valued at up to $100 each as locals frequent the riverbank to inspect the dredged material and search for pearls.
Dr. Van Buren Knott at Samaritan hospital performed a skin graft on Mrs. Mary J. Holbrook, ending 40 years of leg sores and daily pain. The left leg, once burned as an infant, received grafted skin from the right leg, marking a remarkable recovery for a woman of limited means.
Charlie Hutchinson, a former Sioux City boy, wrote his brother City Assessor O F Hutchinson that he sold his Klondike metal to the United States mint for 25000 dollars. The 100 foot square claim yielded nearly 200000 dollars, one of the richest strikes. J H Hutchinson of San Francisco received 10000 dollars.
John A. Moler former Iowa Falls citizen is sued in Denver Cal where he runs a Moler barber school. A worker clipped a theater boy’s curls, diminishing his trade value, and the mother seeks damages of 1000 dollars.
Webster county officials have moved from the old courthouse into a temporary building in Fort Dodge while a new $106,000 courthouse is erected on the old site. The former courthouse is among the oldest structures in the area and has witnessed several Iowa historical events.
An unknown man was found dead in tall grass near Comanche with signs of brutal injury. Local authorities suspect murder after noting the body showed cuts and bruises and that the man had likely been dead for about three days.
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