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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1892
Page
2
The Iowa Republican convention delegates select John Gear E. Mack D Chase and others as national delegates with Cummins among alternates. Resolutions praise President Harrison, call for tariff protection and reciprocal policy, and pledge united support in November. Additional items note pensions, Yale admitting women to postgrad, Cuba trade, and forestry note.
State New Keokuk launches a daily evening paper called the Chief. Council Bluffs Democrats form a D B Hill club. Shapton post office renamed Darbyville. Darbyville promises a premier Chautauqua. Dubuque woman Theresa Lehmer dies by poisoning from a toothache remedy. Ottumwa Masons buy land to build a 75000 temple. Mt. Ayr horse dealer Joh Miller killed in carriage crash. Monroe resident Geo Kipple dies by own act. Coalville school election void for improper notices. Garden Grove seven businesses burned, about 10000 loss with little insurance. Floyd County grand jury probes alleged false oaths by capitalists to assessor. Tillie Crawford drowns, daughter of Wayne County farmer, long troubled by religion. Mrs. E A McFarland dies in Jacksonville at 75. McFarland learns news while at state convention. Early farmer J W Stone struck by train while in wagon. hired man seriously injured. conductor and engineer jailed. Dubuque editor B W Blanchard defends reputation amid libel cases after raid remarks. Meteor lights Burlington sky. Diagonal road plans 12 mile extension to Mason City. Shenandoah fire at Lafayette hotel. six or more buildings burned. loss about 25000 with full insurance. Governor Boies pardons John Little, serving life for Newton murder in 1874. Little’s victim was colored and close to his wife. Little, an old soldier, pardoned as act of justice.
Regular Des Moines correspondent reports on the State convention to select delegates for the National Republican convention. It notes A B Cummins returning to the party fold, praise from GOP presses, rivalries with secessionists, and mentions of J S Clarkson and C C Lane. Also covers bills on City Marshals, women voting for municipal elections, electric railways, paving, and rising streetcar ridership and suburban shipping.
The Iowa area notes a Towa Inter-Collegiate Baseball schedule with games in Marshalltown Ames and Des Moines, plus a June 4 field day at Athletic park. Other items include Gilbert A S Needham of Boone visiting, a mission band entertainment at P Church, postmaster E B Stuart to resign April 1st, and Spencer anniversary celebrations.
Obituary notices for Thomas Grayson near Oakley Kansas and J Tilden of Ames with praise for character and church ties. Community death reports include Mrs. Ross near Ontario with pneumonia. funeral details and family expectations follow.
The Iowa Lowa sheep breeders and wool growers association votes to hold a summer meeting at Ames on the college grounds around May 1. A sheep shearing contest and exhibition will feature seven college breeds plus many from state sheep men, with liberal prizes and practical demonstrations of breeding, wool quality, and market preparation. The event aims to boost the state's sheep industry and attract all interested.
A clippings page shows multiple health cures and remedies including Chamberlains Cough Remedy and Ayres Cherry Pectoral, with farmer migrations and ads for Hall’s Hair Renew and Closson’s Pain Relief. It notes Mrs Gladstone birthday, Wermath fair space apps, and various testimonials and sample offers.
Professor Veblen and assistant Mr A L Arner promote rapid progress with expanded space and new equipment in the Physical Laboratory. A doubled physics space follows chem lab move, new electrical engineering course, batteries and galvas integrated. Westinghouse to install alternator and transformers. new spectrometer and precision instruments. Talbot collection volumes and waterfowl specimens noted. Montgomery Schuyler’s American Architecture ready for Harper & Brothers with illustrated studies.
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