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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1894
Page
4
A mention notes over 6 000 postmistresses to the United States. It highlights Mrs H R Temple as president and Miss Temple as vice president of the First National Bank of Lexington Neb.
Greene Graves announces arrival in Kansas as a new doctor and says he has just graduated from medical college guiding patients to his services.
A French statistician humorously asserts that deaths worldwide in a single century total about five billion. He uses playful phrasing to illustrate mortality scales and provoke thought on global life spans.
A line about the song Our Tune of We Won’t Go Home Until Morning traces origins to crusader times. Singers today feel as aged as those eras on waking, highlighting a humorous reflection on age and endurance.
A New York shop was burglarized and 15000 artificial teeth were stolen during a nighttime heist. Police note the teeth are hard to move and suspect a single well planned operation. No arrests announced.
An observer notes that a guest with an odd name like Valino dasky leaves an unintelligible scrawl on a registry passport while a common surname such as Smith appears in Spencerian copperplate handwriting, highlighting quirks in clerical forms.
Over a million and a quarter dollars have been realized from the sale of Moody and Sankey's hymn books. Every dollar of this amount has been expended in religious and charitable work.
An exchange notes that Bismarck would prefer a sure rheumatism cure over European titles. He could, by advertising his remedy, earn enough to buy titles and cure his own rheumatism at the same time.
Circumstantial evidence adds another to Michigan case as a man serving life for a murder is slated for release because the supposed victim is alive and only recently learned he was considered dead. The surprising turn exposes a long chart of questions about the case and the reliability of the verdict.
A description claims unknown runaways in Russia where every horse wears a thin cord with a noose tied to the dashboard. When a horse attempts to run the cord tightens, stopping the animal instantly. The piece notes a horse endures the bit but cannot move without wind.
The piece notes that Cameron earned $30 for Over the Hills to the Poorhouse and Betsy and I Are Out while a salaried writer for the Toledo Blade. It suggests these two editorials may define him more than other works.
The patent on flying machines has expired and every citizen may fire their own machine. The move is praised by many poor people who long to navigate the air but were kept from it by the flying machine monopolists' high charges.
A Unitarian minister in Chicago leaves the denomination over insufficient liberalism and plans a new church offering maximum freedom of thought. The St. Paul Globe notes he may echo Mrs Partington who liked a church where the gospel is dispensed with.
A farm doctor lured foreign extraction residents to hide money in treetops as a supposed cure. At his signal the funds and the doctor vanished, leaving victims sapped and bewildered as the sap supposedly traveled to their heads.
A description notes paper from China and Japan using manilla fiber. Fresh fiber is costly, so discarded rope or net material is repurposed into pulp. The resulting paper is unusually strong and when rolled into a cord serves as a solid substitute for cotton or flax twine, owes its strength to the manilla fiber.
The text notes caesastr y substitutes for costly flower perfumes and that lab methods reproduce banana odors. It suggests fragrant plants may gain surgical value even if cultivation declines. Some plants resist insects and fungi due to antiseptic soils, with eucalyptus and others highlighted as antiseptic sources.
A brief portrait notes Queen Victoria at seventy five with fifty seven years on the throne. It highlights a life of happiness and duty, the expectation of breaking the throne record if she lives three more years, and mentions her children grandchildren and great grandchildren amid English celebration.
A modernized new Salvation Army home will rise in New York with a 3000 seat auditorium. The front will feature two turreted corners with the Salvation Army and American flags, a central tower bearing the Blood and Fire badge, an illuminated design, and an American eagle atop. Gen Rooth will attend the dedication.
A condensed review of Senate and House activity from May to May 31 detailing tariff debates, pension acts, tax discussions, and state affairs. Notable items include expansion of pensions, Dillon’s tax repeal talks, nonintervention stance on Hawaii, a fatal shooting in Alabama, a lynching in Florida, and multiple disasters from fire to floods across Illinois, Missouri, Washington and beyond.
Weekly fire losses reached 2,492,000 dollars. Supreme Court overruled Judge Gresham denying ICC reach. Gen Frye named commander in chief of the commonweal army. Visible grain stocks: wheat 61,330,000. corn 7,648,000. oats 2,087,000. rye 301,000. barley 102,000 bushels. Memorial Day observed countrywide. Secretary Lemont fired nearly 300 War Dept clerks. Government ran a 72,000,000 deficit in eleven months. receipts 268,000,000. expenditures 340,000,000.
Baseball standings for the week end show Cleveland leading at .720 and Philadelphia at .680 while New York trails at .500 and Washington at .111. Other items include a Presbyter ian assembly protest in Saratoga, mint gold output topping 80 million dollars, miners switching to new workers, a Greeley statue unveiling, a fatal Sharon wreck, and Cunard’s Lucania record voyage.
Reports include lynching in Mississippi, a woman in Springfield delivering her twenty fifth child, a Kentucky murder, the death of Blatz Brewing president in St Paul, a big Elgin watch plant bid, a deadly rail wreck near Pine Grove, militia ordered to McAlester, frost damage across Great Lakes states, incubator losses in Franklin, life sentence in Newark, a twice-wed New Orleans bride, and Des Moines Democrats planning a state convention.
Explosion on Norwegian steamer Norden kills five in the Bay of Biscay. Lasker defeats Steinitz in Montreal to claim the world chess title. Bradford worsted spinners Craven & Craven face $10 million liabilities. Sig. Don Claudio Vicuna exiled for 15 years. Dam breaks flood in Punjaub River. 200 killed. French cabinet formed with Dupuy premier. Prince Duartes and Princess Josephine wed in Brussels. Han River floods drown 1000 in Hankou. Canadian tragedy at Smiths Falls as three children and woman drown. Italian MP Felice sentenced to 18 years solitary. ExeveN firms suspended on Buenos Ayres bourse.
A petition from the New England Industrial Army seeks guaranteed work for the unemployed as Congress tackles tariff issues. In the House a bill to carry out the Paris arbitration award for Behring Sea seals passes, while other measures including a state bank bill and private pension debates proceed. News from abroad notes a Korean rebellion endangering Americans and a request for a warship. Reports detail 183 business failures in the past week, a lynching in Jackson Tennessee, and a disastrous Fraser River flood in British Columbia leaving thousands homeless. Bravestreet comments on Wall Street stagnation amid uncertain tariffs and strikes. A train derailment near San Salvador results in many casualties, while bribery testimony ties to sugar trust influence. Treasury debt and cash figures show May changes, coal operators pledge force to reopen mines, and Columbia River floodwaters inundate 600 miles of fertile lands.
In Chicago a grand parade of not less than 10 000 marchers including police firemen Fort Sheridan troops Grand Army posts and civic groups. Washington observes a wide parade and flags at half mast with ceremonies at Arlington Cemetery marking Union graves with flags and roses.
Details from Maprip report describe a boiler blast aboard the Norwegian steamer Norden while loading coal at Gijon Bay of Biscay. Debris struck a dock laborer, killing him. Five Norden crew died and several were injured. Nearby ships carrying sulphuric acid and gunpowder suffered damage.
Coal contractors warn that by the time the vessels reach New York the city will be out of fuel and the cargo now awaited will be exhausted within a week or ten days, creating an urgent supply crisis.
Curiaco May 30 Frost Sunday night and Monday morning did considerable damage to fruit and grain in the northwestern states. The cold snap affected orchards gardens and fields, with fruit trees showing broken buds and crops hit by frost in several counties.
Memorial day ceremonies at Grant's Tomb New York and at Jefferson Barracks St Louis featured G A R posts, the U S Army and National Guard. President Cleveland attended parts of the program and returned with his cabinet. Memorial services also marked by the Woman's Relief Corps and the Sons of Veterans. In Illinois and Wisconsin crops suffered frost damage with replanting needed in northern Illinois and fruit losses in Wisconsin and Michigan. Northern Indiana reports wheat frost injury.
Illinois holds the key to the mining dispute with the Consolidated Coal Company, as United Mine Workers officials press for an amicable settlement. Illinois operators demand cooperation from Consolidated Coal before any peace terms, while New York faces a coal famine with imports from Wales looming and ships en route to relieve shortages.
In Herxinsville Kentucky Neal Edwards killed Samuel Martin during a dispute at a country store near Pilot Rock nine miles east. James G Edwards and Neal Edwards then fired at each other. James G Edwards was fatally wounded. Neal Edwards was left with his horse killed. Authorities fear further trouble from the ensuing feud.
A New York coroner’s physician reports little Frank Evans died of tetanus after a vaccination administered by a health department doctor. The 35 year old child died in severe convulsions with locked jaws and spasmodic muscle contractions about three weeks after vaccination.
Gen. John Hewston, an American staying at the First Avenue hotel, was assaulted by itinerant musicians on Gray's road. Hewston used his umbrella in self defense. the umbrella struck Burton in the eye, the assailant who then died at the hospital.
Maj. Pollock head of the Indian division reports from Chicago that the annual bid award for Indian supplies yielded record low prices. He notes the government saved $60,000 on the beef contract the largest saving on any specification, with proportional gains on smaller contracts.
A powerful explosion and fire at 4 30 in the morning in a distillery on the ground floor of a double tenement at 129 Suffolk street killed four year old Lizzie Yaega and seriously injured four others. Twenty families occupied the building.
Curcaco May 31 none of the charges against the life Ravi crew have been sustained by the testimony presented to Inspector Abbey.
Des Moines River reminiscences recount the rise and fall of river navigation from Keokuk to Fort Des Moines, noting the Otter and Dove steamers, canal plans, and land grants, and detailing the river’s abandonment after rail and bridge developments. The piece also previews the next State Fair with a dog show and a Des Moines gun club shooting event, and details the death and career of pioneer Judge Thomas S Wilson born 1813 in Steubenville.
The state supreme court ruled that any money paid for liquor intended to be sold illegally may be recovered from the payer. A Des Moines dealer recovered about $3,000 from a Peoria brewing firm plus liquor worth a similar amount. The ruling covers bottles and cases and related containers. Ernest Perry former Globe editor Worthington Minnesota died in Sibley of Bright's disease.
June 2 Puerto Col. Pueblo endures the worst flood in its history. Four levee breaks on the north and two on the south flood the area from Eighth Street to the river and beyond. Thousands homeless, property losses near $100000, water 3 to 15 feet deep along Arkansas banks. Trees uprooted, streetcars hurled, homes submerged or torn from foundations, and mud fills cellars and storefronts.
The St Paul limited derailed at Mannville Wisconsin after a defective switch caused three cars to telescope. Six people are dead and eight injured including Judson Bigelow and James Hubbard both from Stevens Point. Wrecker theory cited. town previously burned last fall and now nearly a ghost railroad town.
Washington June 2 The tariff bill amendments on lumber were voted down. Senator Allen moved to strike paragraph 178 detailing charges for planed and tongued lumber with no deductions for processing. Senator West announced the amendment would be accepted, a 35 to 4 party line vote. Senators Peifer and Allen (pops) supported free lumber stance.
Kelly's army of 1,100 reached St. Louis from Alton on May 30 and anchored off Ferry street near the waterworks. The troops went ashore to camp while awaiting their next march or sailing to Washington. Local labor unions and a large crowd greeted them, with a supper provided by city trades unions.
A Chicago and Eastern Illinois freight train fatally struck two men, W. N. Young and R. H. Stewart, near the Sixteenth Street junction with the St. Charles Air Line. Both were from Berwin. Young died instantly. Stewart died en route to St Luke's hospital.
A foreign relations committee report was unanimously agreed to affirm that Hawaiians may establish and maintain their own form of government without US interference. The resolution states any intervention would be unfriendly and was adopted with 55 yeas and no nays.
In Hazleton Pennsylvania on May 29 a church riot erupted at St Casimer's Polish Catholic Church Freeland area. Four men were killed and many parishioners were injured by blows and thrown objects during the clash reflecting a year long division within the congregation.
Two jockeys were killed in a hurdle race at Phoenixville when their horses collided at a hurdle. Arthur Davis and Gilbert were jockeys aboard competing mounts when the accident occurred leaving both riders crushed under the horses.
cumavs Ohio May 30 Edward Massey in the Ohio penitentiary knocked down Aliyah Lynch a fellow prisoner and cut his throat Death will probably ensue Massey is believed to be insane.
Washington June 1. The house passed a bill for the appointment of an additional judge of the United States district court for the northern district of Illinois.
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