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Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1894
Page
6
Moxey Accumulates in Bank of England
A mysterious buildup around the Bank of England Center raises questions about Moxey's ongoing accumulation. The hint of financial concentration links to wider public curiosity on economic movements and accountability.
Milkmen Milk Cows Publicly in Egypt and London
In Egypt milkmen drive cows past customers to milk in sight of buyers. In London some dairymen are said to have adopted the same practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egypt
London
Gold Recovered From Mint Ashes After Carpet Cremation
The San Francisco mint cleaned a woolen carpet once covering the coiners' room and cremated it. Government officials refined the ashes to recover ounces of gold valued at about 5500 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Max Warn Weaves Ancient Frog Tale in English Dinner Speech
In England, Max Warn uses a two-thousand-year-old jumping frog story during an after-dinner address. The crowd enjoys the gentle touch of time on wine and humor as the tale unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max
Train Wrecker Labeled Worst Admiral by Editor
A harsh editorial denounces a train-wrecker as a cold murderer at heart, accusing him of wrecking a train out of personal spite against a railroad official, and asserting severe punishment is deserved by the law.
Ex champion Sully injures doctor in Boston assault
Joan L. Sunnivay, once idol of sports, insulted a Boston physician who then suffered a facial wound from a blow with a beer bottle. The ex champion Sully was taken to hospital for repairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan L. Sunnivay
Boston
Sully
Chicago approves ordinance banning certain cigaret sales
The Chicago council overrode the mayoral veto to ban selling within the city limits cigarettes containing opium morphine jimson weed or belladonna. Other items including garlic mash creosote iodine cabbage mullein scrap leather asafetida hay onion tops yarn and hair of the dog remain unrestricted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Census Numbers Hint at Matrimonial Boom Needed
The article pokes fun at the census tallies showing about 19,945,576 unmarried men and 17,183,988 women of marriageable age. It laments the gap and calls for a boom in industry and matrimony, suggesting millions of single people and many potential matches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Sam
Father Endeavor Clark Origin of Nickname Revealed
Rev F E Clarx, pioneering Christian Endeavor movement founder, explains the origin of his nickname Father Endeavor Clark. He recalls an old schoolmate coined the moniker by punning on his initials, creating the name from the letters F E C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rev
F. E. Clarx
Christian Endeavor
Father Endeavor” Clark
Father Endeavor Clark
Four Napoleon survivors live through famed retreat tale
The text notes four members of Napoleon's grand army survived, the oldest being Jean Jacques Sabatier born April 15, 1792. It remarks they are over a century old and that they endured eighty two years since the hardships of one of warfare history's harsh retreats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Army
Jean Jacques Sabatier
Learning to Sense a Flower’s True Fragrance
The author notes Tr spends long years mastering any skill and reflects on inhaling a flower’s scent. The aim is to capture the fine fugitive aroma with delicate halation, warning that jamming the nose into petals yields a rank smell from petals or leaves, not the fragrance from the glands at the flower’s interior.
Murder charges and verdicts in Great Britain last year
Domine reports last year in Great Britain one hundred and thirteen murder charges were tried. Twenty one were child murder, thirty verdicts of willful murder, twenty acquittals, fourteen cases of insanity, and the rest were manslaughter. Willful murder charges and convictions more than double from the prior year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Domine
Great Britain
Syndicate Plots to Marry American Heiresses Exposed
The piece warns of organized European rings funding schemes to lure titled paupers to the United States to marry American heiresses and split profits. It calls the conspiracy against American girls horrible and notes substantial supporting evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
London celebration marks YMCA fiftieth founding anniversary
The London event brought together all Protestant denominations in a large gathering. The YMCA has contributed greatly to churches and humanity by providing social venues free of temptations and offering libraries and reading rooms for intellectual and moral development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Young Men’s Christian Association
Association
Lorp Rosepery Wins Derby and Amasses Ambitions
Lorp Rosepery, long-foretold to marry Britain’s richest heiress and climb to power, sees his aims crowned as Ladas wins at Epsom. The heiress Hannah Rothschild, Rosebery's wife, stands as a key link in a century of royalian ambition while the Derby trophy and 5,000 guineas reward the victor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorp Rosepery
England
Ladas
Epsom Down
Rosebery
Hannah Rothschild
Great Britain
Gladstone
Death of Muley Hassan sparks succession upheaval in Morocco
The sultan Muley Hassan is killed by attendants of his son. His death follows a pattern of retribution after the royal succession with disappearances of male relatives and purges to avert rival leadership. Muley Hassan is succeeded by Muley Abdal Aziz described as fanatical and cruel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tur
Muley Hassan
Morocco
Muley
Muley Abdal Aziz
Broad coverage of tariff debates and political turmoil in June
June reports detail senate tariff discussions and house absences, with bills on railway clerks salaries, wagon and silk culture support, and Ute treaty disapproval. Notable items include free coinage talk, a national home for aged colored soldiers, and indictments of violence amid labor disputes and elections across multiple states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
House
Monpar
Tursday
Squire
Washington
District of Columbia
Sherman
Territory
Utah
Tuansday
United States
Released trio head to Bladensburg commonweal camp
Brown Coxey and Jones were released from jail and departed for the commonweal camp at Bladensburg. Immigrants to the United States fall 60 to 70 percent below normal while travel to foreign countries increases. The Mint reports higher gold and silver output and confirms U S as the top gold producer. Flames destroy Bennings union stock yards near Washington causing 125000-dollar loss. American Flag Day observed in several states on June 14 by the Sons of the American Revolution marking 117 years since the flag’s adoption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown
Coxey
Jones
Bladensburg
United States
Mint
Union Stock Yards
Bennings
D. C
Washington
States
Robbers steal 4000 from Bridge private bank vault
Foreign intelligence item reports a bank safe at Bridge Ontario opened by robbers and $4,000 taken.
Various News Briefs From New Jersey to New York
The chief justice of New Jersey rules the legislature cannot grant women the right to. In Rutland Isaac Hanks is fined 1000 for causing his wife’s death by starvation. John T. Andrews, 98, of Dundee, represented Steuben in Congress from 1833 to 1887 and may have been the oldest ex-member in the state. Rhode Island elects ex Governor Wetmore to a six year U S Senate term beginning March 4. In Lawrence County Pa miners near starvation due to a strike. Johann Kauffmann of Cramp Hill N J killed his wife and three children then himself. Middletown Pa James B Carpenter hanged for killing his father on December 11 1993. Vernon Bros New York paper dealers lose 200000 in stock to fire. State senate investigation shows New York police protected green goods swindlers and profited from protecting saloonkeepers and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
Rutland
Isaac Hanks
John T. Andrews
Dundee
N. Y
Steuben
Rhode Island
George P. Wetmore
United States Senate
Lawrence County
Johann Kauffmann
Cramp Hill
N. J
Middletown
James B. Carpenter
Vernon Bros
New York
State Senate
Strikers Hit Salineville Bridge. Several Disturbances Reported
Reports detail a Salineville Ohio incident where strikers blew a railroad bridge and troops dispersed them with bayonets. Other items note Michigan fires destroying Sagoda, Oregon election results, Alabama bridge blasts, a Knoxville smallpox case, a fatal stabbing in West Virginia, hydrophobia cases in Dallas, a skeletal mound find in South Carolina, and political shifts including Breckinridge’s removal from Chicago’s Union League.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salineville
Michigan
Sagoda
Oregon
Lord
Alabama
James Perry
Knoxville
Tenn
Breeden
W. Va
Lizzie Maynard
Jennie Morris
Dallas
Tex
Egan
S. C
Breckinridge
Union League Club of
Chicago
Attorney General
Illinois
State University
Columbus
Ohio
Indiana
Toledo
Isaac D. Smead
R. R. Hitt
J. H. Hemingway
George W. Cooper
L. M. Strong
Kentucky
L. G. Pugh
Bill Dalton
Ardmore
I. T
Bill
Crawfordsville
Ind
Windy Senate votes defeat wool tariff amendment in 1893
The U S Senate defeats the wool tariff amendment by 29 to 37 while the deficit funding for the government printing office passes and the post office appropriation bill of 87236599 is reported. In the house Indian appropriations are discussed and private pensions debated at night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Senate
Government Printing Office
Post Office
Anpur Aziz
Morocco
Erastus Wilmman
New York
Suffernville
Mil
John Macori
Monroe
Jamestown
N. C
Edward Wallace
Walter Muir
Irene McKee
Geneva
Ind
Northwest
Union Pacific Railway
Oregon
Mississippi River
St. Louis
Cairo
Kingman
Kan
Brown
Franziska
Korwin
Russia
Illinois
J. M. Grier
Kentucky
John G. Blair
Maine
C. D. Chapman
Ohio and Illinois miners endure new compromise terms
Springfield reports Gov Altgeld withdraws the First regiment from Pana on sheriff guidance. General Order No 9 limits troops to peacekeeping. Columbus boards discuss the compromise withOhio Illinois Indiana and Pennsylvania miners. Strikes widen with regional actions and docked rail links.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Pana
Hugh Bayle
Peoria
Altgeld
Columbus
ColumbBus
National Executive Board
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Illinois
Cleveland
American Railway Union Holds First Annual Convention
The American Railway Union assembles in Chicago on June 14 for its first annual convention. Delegates gather to organize the new labor federation and set goals for railway workers nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
American Railway Union
Fisher's Hall
East Lake Street
Ulrich's Hall
North Clark and
Kinzie Street
CuicaGco
Knights of Labor
Chicago
Graydon Wheel Under Construction at Earl's Court London
The Graydon Wheel rises at Earl's Court London as a larger Perris wheel copy. It measures about 300 feet across, uses a tubular 7 foot diameter axle, and features bars and plates construction. It will carry 1 600 passengers in 36 cars with a solid predecessor noted at 250 feet diameter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl's Court
London
Wisconsin Prohibition Convention Nominates State Ticket
The Wisconsin Prohibition Convention in Milwaukee on June 16 named a full state ticket headed by Governor J. G. Cleghorn with Ole B. Olson as lieutenant governor and T. J. Vanmeter as secretary of state. The platform advocates prohibition, reform in naturalization laws, direct money to the people, just pensions, and withholding aid from sectarian schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Emporia
E. 0. Pickering
E. V. Miner
Indianapolis
Louisville
Chicago
National Association of Millers
United States
A. C. Ing
Minnesota
Sibley and Nicollet
Staunton Jil
Amos
Miss Herring
Blackburn
Indiana
Illinois
Columbus
Topeka
L. D. Lewelling
Sixteenth
Ohio
Lorenzo Danford
Congress
Arbecka
Raymond
Albany
N. Y
Lars Christensen
Alma
Neb
Grants
Ure
Knights of Labor
American Railway Union
Wisconsin
Rev
A. S. Kay
John J. Sutton
J. C. Martin
John Holt
J. L. Bretz
E. T. Baker
G. W. Wilson
R. W. Taylor
J. A. Connolly
Missouri
Hall
Mitchell
South Dakota
Isaac Howe
Spink
Milwaukee
J.G. Cleghorn
Clintonvernor
Mississippi
Festus
George M. Wagner
S. R. Lewis
Government Engineering Corps
A. C. Trautman
Fort Wayne
Borden
Ind
George Brock
Tennessee
Supreme Bench
Milwauker
Wis
J. G. Cleghorn
Clinton
Ole B. Olson
Eau Claire
T. J. Vanmeter
Lafayette
William Johnston
New Richmond
E. W. Chatin
Waukesha
F. L. Eaton
Thomas Edwards
Ashland
John W. Evans
Waup
Senate Finance Committee Seeks Tax Exemption Fixes
Senator West of Missouri reported in the senate that amendments to grant exemption to beneficial societies from the proposed income tax had been agreed upon after receiving numerous petitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
West
Dem
Senate
Finance Committee
Panama’s Big Fire Engulfs 150 Dwellings
A large conflagration in Panama destroyed 150 dwellings on Wednesday. Initial reports of the blaze being worse proved exaggerated as details emerged. Local authorities and residents assessed the damage and coordinated relief efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CoLoxs
Panama
Plague in China and Hong Kong Scourge Reported Abroad
Vancouver reports describe a devastating plague sweeping China with thousands dead. The Empress of Japan ferried details to the west as Canton censuses plague in Mohammedan quarters, with up to 100 daily cases and thousands of deaths. Hong Kong records 820 deaths from 393 cases, schools closed and panic spreading. European residents remain immune due to strict measures as the epidemic declines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancouver
B. C
China
Japan
Canton
Hong Kong
New York Police Accused of Protecting Green Goods Rings
A Lexow committee testimony suggests police protection for swindlers and a total of over 19 million dollars yearly from illegitimate sources. The report cites 3600 officers and a 1894 budget of 5.14 million as legitimate maintenance funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New Yor
Board of Estimates
Lexow
Terrible Irish Coast Disaster Capsizes Harvesters Boat
Dispatches from Westport Quay report a passenger boat carrying eighty harvesters to Scotland capsized off Annagh Head near Castle Bar Island. Initial counts ranged from thirty drowned to fifty believed dead, as rescue efforts continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castle Bar Island
Ireland
Westport Quay
Scotland
Achil Island
Westport
Annagh Head
Havemeyer Testifies Before Senate Committee
Mr. Havemeyer, president of the American Sugar Refinery, testified before Senator Gray’s investigating committee in Washington on June 14. He denied campaign fund involvement and any insistence on tariff protection for past favors, saying he discussed refining interests with several senators. He admitted supporting ad valorem taxation but called the tariff bill unsatisfactory and denied knowledge of sugar stock speculation by U S senators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Havemeyer
Senate
Washinetox
H. C. Havemeyer
American Sugar
Gray
Havemeyer
United States
Eight-Hour Day Declared Unconstitutional by Nebraska Supreme Court
Nebraska Supreme Court rules Sections 1 and 3 of Chapter 54 of 1901 session laws unconstitutional. The decision holds the eight-hour work limit discriminatory against farm and domestic laborers as special legislation and denies the right to contract for compensation.
Death of Lord Coleridge and succession changes in judiciary
London reporting the death of Lord Chief Justice Coleridge after a brief unconscious period. His son Bernard is set to inherit the peerage. Baron Russell is named to succeed Coleridge as lord chief justice, with Sir John Rigby becoming lord justice of appeals. Robert T. Reid will be attorney general and Richard B. Haldeman MP solicitor general.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridge
Ont
Frazer River
Columbia
Berlin
D. L. Harkness
Wisconsin
Morocco
Muley Hassan
Tadla
S. F. Frank
Buffalo
N. Y
Siberia
St. Thomas
Russia
China
Turkey
Seoul
Corea
Panama
Yamagata
Japan
John Duke Coleridge
England
London
Ireland
Scotland
Coleridge
Bernard
Baron Russell
Lord Coleridge
John Rigby
Coxey and companions released from jail in Washington
Coxey Browne and Christopher Columbus Jones were released from jail on Saturday morning. Oklahoma Sam met them at the jail door driving four horses to Coxey's phaeton. They went to the National hotel, greeted staff and friends, then headed to the Coxey camp in Bladensburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Browne
Jones
Washington
Coxey
Christopher Columbus Jones
Oklahoma Sam
National Hotel
Bladensburg
A Monarch Dead Sultan Muley Hassan Murdered in Morocco
Tangier reports Sultan Muley Hassan died June 7 at Tadla between Morocco and Casablanca after four days of fever and vomiting. Advices say he died while giving orders and symptoms point to poisoning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morocco
Sultan Muley Hassan
Tangier
Tadla
Casa Blanca
Des Moines Letters Cover Fire Loot and Inc
Disastrous Ottumwa fire destroys thirteen blocks and twenty houses, with a missing dwarf boy and injuries to Bert Patterson and Nick Renner. Walcott to incorporate after a schoolhouse dispute prompts legal steps and a two thirds vote. Cadet exam announced in Cedar Rapids. indictments for murder in Des Moines including Weams Hammil and Krout, with Betsy Smith charged in a separate case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Des Mores
Ottumwa
Seymour
Cooper Shop
James Seymour
Bert Patterson
Nick Renner
East Ottumwa
W. R. Beck
Charles Reifsneider & Sons
E. J. McLaughlin
P. Underwood
John Bauer
Samuel Mahon
Walcott
Scott County
Wozoba
Oxford Junction
Dr. Moore
E. A. Grimwood
H. W. Kettleson
C. J. Felton
J. J. Wozoba
Gustavus Hinrichs
St. Louis
Edwin E. Howell
Washington, D.C
Robert G. Cousins
Cedar Rapids
Fifth Congressional District
Iowa
United States Military Academy
West Point
Polk County Grand Jury
George Weams
Barney Hammil
John Krout
Conductor Redpath
McGarrough
Wise
Nambe d
Mike Smith
Meek Block
Betsy Smith
Smith
Bond
Reforming a Hard Drinker with Mephisto Costume Prank
A wife uses a Mephisto disguise to confront her drunk husband claiming he must come with her. He replies that he is the brother in law after discovering she is his sister in law. The episode ends with the wife fainting. A Cuiiaco judge found a woman not guilty of assault with a deadly weapon for throwing two pounds of butter at a neighbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mephistopheles
Satan
France Considers Joan of Arc as Patron Saint in Posts
In France the idea of featuring Joan of Arc’s famed beauty and patriotism on the next postage stamp edition is being floated. The memory of Joan of Arc is being honored nationwide with prominent tributes and exhibitions across the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Joan of Arc
Misread Marriage Column Sparks Conversation in Detroit Free Press
Fragment from a Detroit Free Press column shows a misread marriage note as a joke. A young man questions a woman about a supposed Marine link, while another voice defends the claim amid the unclear spoiled text.
The Man Who Works His Jaws Says Time Is Short
A Boston Gazette snippet notes that a person who constantly talks has little time left for work or useful pursuits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Gazette
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Imperial Coal Company
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Wheeling & Lake Erie
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Sugar King
Nebraska Supreme Court
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F. J. Cuexer & Co
Toledo, & Co
Ae Bennie
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Chicago Herald
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C. K. Wilber
P. A. Ceelcago
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