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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1902
Page
2
A weekly digest summarizing home and foreign news, industrial developments, politics, and notable happenings. Highlights include personal items and broader events from both domestic and international fronts.
The Senate and House debated and advanced several bills including shipping and rural free delivery measures, with a Senate ship subsidy discussion, a Philippine tariff action, and an extension of national bank charters. Notable items include a $25,000,000 legislative and executive appropriation, Roosevelt enforcing anti pooling laws, and various international and domestic events from Prince Henry’s visits to farm and bank incidents.
Charles L. Rouss, blind millionaire, dies in New York after offering $1,000,000 for sight restoration. Dr. William Stoke Wyman resigns after 50 years at the University of Alabama. Indiana GOP nominates Clarence C. Williams for Congress in the Twelfth district. Dixon B. Ward dies in Marion, Illinois, aged over 100. Alfred Booth, Chicago seafood pioneer, dies at 74. Chester I. Long renominated for Congress in Kansas Seventh. Rufus K. Polk dies suddenly in Philadelphia while serving in Congress from Pennsylvania Seventeenth. Warren L. Wheaton, founder of Wheaton, Ill., turns 90. Daniel Harrington dies in Braintree, Mass., aged 103. Cornelius O'Brien, 72, aka Neil Bryant, Brooklyn minstrel, oldest early blackface minstrel.
Lord Kitchener reports 632 killed wounded and prisoners after the Vondonop engagement. The British steamer Tiber was lost off Nova Scotia with 20 perished. Brodrick presents army budget in Commons seeking 348.55 million dollars. Germany praises Prince Henry’s American reception in Reichstag. Rebellion in Kwang Si province spreads.
The 1900s senate debated the diplomatic appropriation and president protection bills while Congress moved rural free delivery and a Jefferson Territory proposal. Troops sailed to the Philippines as a Texas wreck, murders, natural deaths, and political shifts filled the ledger.
Reports from the Agricultural Statistics Branch show actual threshing results across the Territories with high yields. Edmonton and Regina area growers report wheat up to 40 45 bushels per acre and oats averages from 53 to 116 bushels per acre in notable plots.
Des Moines reports detail senate and house actions March 4 to March 8 on railroad tax dates and reports, wage increases for state officials, appropriations for the historical department building and capitol, a child labor bill with fines, university funding, arid various probate and city council changes. Several measures pass, including teen labor restrictions and amendments on elections and representation.
Evansville Indiana reports rising Ohio River water at 9 PM Sunday reaching 39.6 feet and climbing. Area farmers race to save corn in cribs while several Green River sawmills are submerged. If 41 feet is reached it will be highest since the 1884 flood.
Kip Holton was hanged Friday morning in Van Buren Arkansas after Gov Davis refused to intervene at ten o clock. The execution was private and he was pronounced dead after twelve minutes. Holton killed his wife in Lancaster last September in a premeditated crime driven by jealousy.
Col Lafe Young editor of the Des Moines Daily Capital and a prominent western newspaper man is sued by the state of Iowa for 4367 dollars to recover alleged overcharges during the state binder contract. The case cites Young’s speech nominating Roosevelt for vice president and notes his involvement in state publishing matters.
City Assessor Everest includes Portland Mining Company assets in Council Bluffs assessment roll. Property holdings are in Colorado. The balance sheet is listed at 9 million dollars and an ensuing lawsuit is anticipated.
The Chicago Journal offers terse guidance on discretion and manners in daily life. It warns against flirting eye contact and attention seeking, advising restraint to avoid provoking disdain. It also suggests placing beauty within the home rather than display for passers by.
Mrs J N Haskins of Chicago credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and associated pills with easing childbirth and postnatal recovery. She reports lasting yearly use maintains health and urges expectant mothers to seek free guidance from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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