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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1898
Page
3
The Intelligencer reports a controversial bond terms plan promising broad access only after small lenders are served while banks and major capitalists would wait their turn. The piece critiques the system as favoring wealthy holders and leaving small savers shut out or delayed from receiving bonds or coupons.
It is said lake sailors make the seamen. A sailor may cross the Atlantic without danger of small islands, yet on the lakes the danger is different. The lake sailor becomes more alert, watchful and careful during voyages.
Among state leaders, Pingree of Michigan offers to buy shoes for a regiment from his own pocket. Powers of Maine pays a large state bounty for Maine volunteers. Tyler of Virginia will be responsible for troop shoe orders, and Adams of Colorado offers to advance troops equipment costs with public debate over sharing the honor.
Howtanp tops a world ranking as the leading nation of smokers with an average annual consumption of 200 ounces per person. The Netherlands follow at 80 ounces, then Belgium 70, Turkey, and the United States at 60, with Germany France Spain Italy close behind and the United Kingdom at 3 ounces.
The Washington agent for a life insurer holding a $10 000 policy on Lieut Hobson who led the Santiago raid secured a permit for war service without voiding the policy. The permit date matched Hobson’s daring act, and if he had died the father would have received $10 000.
Consoling note in the new revenue law allows legacies by millionaires to be taxed at 15 per cent under certain conditions when the law takes effect. The heavy levy may push wealthy individuals to donate large portions of their fortunes while alive. The tax reads as if designed to curb wealth accumulation.
The grandsons of Admiral Raphael Semmes, famed commander of the Alabama, serve in the U.S. armed forces. Their father Gen. L. E. Wright married the admiral’s daughter. One son is a cadet at Annapolis with Samp son’s fleet, another a sergeant in the First Tennessee volunteers, and E. E Wright is a major in the Fourth Tennessee volunteers.
The text credits the south with many war honors in the Spanish American War. It notes Nashville as the first to engage, Texas for bold action, and a southern officer who died protecting the fleet, with Hobson's fame rising and even Cervera praising the feat.
The easternmost Caro line group island is 2000 miles nearer San Francisco than Manila. The islands are Spanish by Spain but with Mongrel populations mainly descended from aborigines who speak Spanish. They lack their own government and rely on Manila for laws and policing, which is minimal.
A gunboat near Havana harbor uses an electric bait device to kill sharks. A pork strip attached to a wire carries dynamite. when a shark swallows it, current detonates the charge and destroys the predator.
A proposed iron bridge for the Central Asian railway would replace a wooden span from the Transcaspian era. About 30 miles northeast of Merv the structure would be 3 miles long and 73 feet above normal water, with a $500 000 cost and a Russian firm handling metal work. Construction is expected to start soon.
Madrid dispatch reports Col Wood's Rough Riders and regular cavalry repelling a Spanish ambush near Sevilla during the La Quasaina engagement. Roosevelt leads a final charge with Wood to turn the tide as Spanish losses mount and many dead and wounded remain unidentified.
Washington reports at 11:15 p.m. the navy bulletin naming Commodore Watson commanding an eastern squadron aboard the Newark with Iowa, Oregon, Yosemite, Yankee, Dixie and support vessels to sail for the Spanish coast from Santiago. Rear Admiral Sampson leads the North Atlantic fleet with Schley and Howell as squadron commanders and Remey at Key West.
The transport City of Para and three more ships with 4,000 troops left San Francisco at 2 30 pm bound for Manila. The War Department estimates about 21,000 regulars and volunteers will be sent, with 10,000 already in motion on earlier expeditions. General Merritt aims for peaceable possession and has issued a Spanish proclamation defining provisional government and liberty under law.
General Shafter reports at nine pm Monday the army lay west of the San Juan river within three miles of Santiago in plain view of the city. Lawton Chaffee and Wheeler reconnoitred the Spanish lines with maps from Cubans and pacificos. Pacificos report Spanish starvation, with 77 killed and 89 wounded in the fighting.
Daily summary notes opponents pressing against Hawaii annexation in the senate. Reports on information requests about Lieut Hobson’s Santiago confinement. Debates continue on June 24 25 and 28 with a July 2 vote anticipated. bankruptcy bill conference results and deficieny appropriation details also recorded.
The senate session focused on Senator Caffery of Louisiana promoting opposition to Hawaii annexation. In parallel, the House reported agreements on the sundry civil bill and disposed of 63 pension and relief measures, plus a new life and accident insurance bill for military and marine forces. A Nicaragua canal construction bill was introduced and adjournment set for June 27.
Niagara Falls N Y June 27 The Clifton hotel in Clifton Ontario opposite Niagara river was destroyed by fire Sunday with an estimated loss of 100000 The Clifton hosted many European royal figures and the peace congress near the war's end It will be rebuilt as plans proceed
Washington June 27 A new order of the post office department provides substitutes for clerks in post offices when they are subpoenaed as witnesses in a court. These substitutes will be paid by the post office department.
Captain Joshua Slocum arrived in Newport aboard the Spray, completing a solo voyage around the world. He departed Boston on April 24 1895 aboard the 33 foot by 14 foot yacht Spray, making the journey alone.
Journal notes four Michigan infantry battalions depart Camp Alger for Cuba and 6 000 men prepare to sail from San Francisco. It records naval actions near Baiquiri, landings, bombardments of Santiago and Guantanamo, and Allied plans to attack.
A violent wind and rain storm Friday night and Saturday morning caused massive damage from North Dakota to Ohio. In Grand Forks the losses exceed a million dollars with widespread crop destruction, including 200000 acres of wheat. fatalities occurred in Benson County and other areas. In Illinois and Wisconsin, rail lines, bridges, and buildings were damaged, with multiple deaths and substantial property losses. Iowa reports tornado like destruction with ruined crops and damaged barns. In Marietta Ohio a cyclone struck during a river excursion, killing and missing passengers and blowing down numerous buildings.
Milwaukee crowds fill the streets as the semi centennial celebration reaches its peak with a grand military parade in Grand Avenue park honoring Civil War heroes and the dedication of the soldiers' monument.
San Francisco reports that regular steam lines to Honolulu are diverted for Manila troop transport. This interruption risks large losses for Hawaiian banana growers as fruit spoiled before ships can be found to carry it to market.
Walter Wellman leads an Arctic expedition from Tromsoe on Sunday with scientists to search for Prof. Andree and to discover the north pole. The party sails to succor Andree and reach the pole if possible.
A Montevideo dispatch reports Uruguay authorities, at Spain’s request, have shipped Sanarelli serum to Cuba to combat yellow fever. The news came via Galveston from Buenos Aires on June 29.
Thirty thousand spectators watched the American Derby at Washington Park on Saturday. Pink Coat from Warrenton won the race with Isabel finishing second and time recorded at 2:42.
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