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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1903
Page
2
A compact roundup of industrial, political, and personal items from the week. Highlights include domestic events and overseas happenings shaping business and public life, with brief notes on notable figures and developments.
The Fifty seventh Congress adjourned sine die on the 4th after disposing of appropriation bills. Senate figures show appropriations of 1 554 108 514. February debt decreased 5 969 665. cash in treasury 374 543 470. total debt 937 972 898. February receipts 43 028 179 expenditures 37 750 749. monthly surplus 5 277 430.
A roundup of notable deaths includes Gen. William Farrar Smith known as Baldy Smith in Philadelphia at 80, Maj. Gen. Robert S. Foster in Indianapolis, Dr. Charles N. Ohr in Cumberland aged 93, Mrs. Josephine Quintal in Jacksonville aged 102, and railroad executive W. A. Scott in St. Paul. Also commemorated are 104th birthday for Preston Garland in Norristown and paper car wheel inventor Josiah Muir in Morristown at 91, plus political shifts in Delaware with J Frank Allee and Louis Heisler Ball.
A roundup of international and American news reports notes Pope Leo XIII marking his 93rd birthday in Rome, alongside other events: political changes, deaths, and notable incidents including a wreck survivor reaching Hamburg, Venezuelan warships returned, and labor disputes in Philadelphia.
The Iowa Collegiate association held the contest at the Masonic opera house Oska loosa with 1500 attendees. Roy Talley of Simpson College won first prize for Anglo Saxon Supremacy, followed by Miss R Belle McCord of Cornell and Thorvaldsen Risser of Iowa College. The winner receives 100 dollars and a spot in the interstate contest. Judge G E McLean of the state university presided.
The 1902 summary shows 610 children found homes by seventeen institutions for friendless children in Iowa. Reports were completed in the board of control office, the first under new supervision authorized by the last general assembly.
John McGill believed dead 25 years ago returns to Council Bluffs. He lived in central Iowa with his family, became insane, was sent to an asylum in 1878, escaped, and fled to Kansas where he recovered his mind. He rejoined his children, gained wealth, and now reunites with his family.
The article reports Speaker Henderson leaving Davenport to join a New York firm Reed Simpson Thatcher Barnum. He will succeed the late ex Speaker Reed in Reed Simpson Thatcher Barnum, a firm known for handling large corporate cases and featuring Judge Barnum noted in many important trials.
In Decorah district court Judge Hobson held a saloon cannot operate without written consent from property owners within fifty feet, even if the saloon room is partitioned to be more than fifty feet from those owners.
Two mail pouches containing letters to Rock Island points Vinton and Sioux Falls were stolen from push trucks at Cedar Rapids Union Station. Thousands of letters rifled were later found in a nearby slough a half mile north. all valuables were taken.
Frank Baird one of three masked men who robbed Mr and Mrs Sullivan at their Hamilton home of 1900 has been sentenced to 18 years in the penitentiary. His wound from the holdup is serious and may hinder recovery.
The advertisement extols Peruna as a radical cure for catarrh once deemed incurable by physicians. It cites testimonials from Rev E Stubenvoll of Pella Wisconsin and J W Fuller president of the Jewelers Association of Los Angeles praising complete restoration and lasting health after Peruna use.
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