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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1908
Page
8
Sac City May 9 William H Pettis county treasurer is reported short 27000 in county accounts and has resigned. The commission is examining the books and will hire an expert for a full review. Pettis says the expert will prove no default and pledges to cover any loss. The case has caused a local sensation.
Des Moines reports Mrs. Alice H. Butler Moore renews plans to build an electric line from Belmond, Iowa to Fairmont, Minnesota via Britt Crystal Lake Buffalo Center Elmore. The route would serve lake resorts south of Fairmont and act as a feeder to existing railways. A separate loan of 2,000,000 is filed in Blackhawk County for the Waterloo Cedar Falls and Northern line extension to support new routes toward Villisca and Grant projections.
Milo Adams, a well known Route Insurance agent from Kennett, committed suicide by hanging in the Board of Trade room this morning. A letter to his wife explained the planned tragedy.
Movies Iowa May 2. With the 2 cent fare law in effect in most of Iowa the representative roads report a net gain of 383,057 in passenger earnings for the year ending January 1, 1908. Despite a fall in gross earnings by 386,000 the reduction in mileage price is seen as benefiting both railroads and the public.
Marshalltown May 2 The car men and blacksmiths of the Iowa Central railroad struck yesterday in resistance to the schedule cutting wages.
Ten acres north of Fort Dodge, Iowa, sold to Henry Engholm for 10000. Engholm already owns five adjoining acres and plans a clay products plant with other buyers. Experts call the clay premier and Fort Dodge clay industries expected to spur city growth.
Des Moines observers report John B. Hammond, state Prohibition Party chairman, announced a renters league in Des Moines to demand lower rents and better sanitation. The movement, the first of its kind in the Midwest, aims to improve tenant conditions and ease living standards.
May 2 Chicago reports earnest talks on a middlewest deep waterway. W. K. Kavanaugh of the Waterway Association proposed a radical federal cabinet backed step. The discussion centered on harbor problems and potential federal leadership for the project.
Des Moines reports reveal the Independent Citizens league of Iowa seeks repeal of the prohibitory and mulct laws and adoption of a high license system. The group, based in Davenport, led by Dr August Richter and John Richter, is mailing literature statewide and pressing candidates for legislature to declare their stance and pledge to act.
Fort Dodge Iowa May 1 gypsum managers struggle to reopen mills as the Plymouth Gypsum company files for an injunction to stop miners from interfering. Workers from Omaha refuse to work after news of the strike. The Mineral City and American Independent plants operate with limited crews. The miners remain stubborn though likely to lose.
Puck's Soap company announces it will relocate from Des Moines Iowa to Omaha due to failure to secure local capital needed for expansion. The firm was organized ten years ago with a capital of eighty five thousand dollars.
Des Moines Street Car company announces it will expend 50,000 dollars to rebuild its cars into a pay as you enter system. New cars will be adopted across the system following a two week trial with a car of the new type.
Rev Edwin Schell of LaPorte Indiana has been elected president of Iowa Wesleyan University in Mount Pleasant Iowa and has accepted the post. A longtime Methodist leader he previously served six years as secretary of the Epworth League.
A fire in Laurel Iowa destroyed the Farmers' Exchange stock pavilion causing an estimated four thousand dollars in losses. Nine horses and fifteen hogs were burned. The origin of the blaze is unknown and insurance coverage is listed at one thousand five hundred ninety dollars.
In Fort Dodge Iowa on May 1 a Lehigh banker showed his new car to local miners who accused him of buying it with their funds. He denied it and the miners reportedly withdrew money from his bank, motive unclear.
Crandall's cross street area suffered a major fire that destroyed the Crossey drug store and several small frame buildings. Loss estimated at 10000 dollars with 3000 dollars insured as volunteers aided the blaze response.
A boy in Council Bluffs drank water containing dissolved match heads hoping to breathe fire. He died from the poisoning.
United States District Attorney Sims has briefed a suit challenging railroad and transportation companies' practice of exchanging transportation passes for newspaper advertising space. If successful, Judge Kohisaat may invalidate existing contracts between railroads steamship lines and publishers. Arguments set for May 4.
Police guarded the First Methodist church in Memphis during the marriage of Miss Mary Pepper to S. A. Ketchum after the bride feared her former suitor W. G. Cavette, who sued to recover presents, would disrupt the ceremony. The event proceeded without incident.
Des Moines April 30. Attorney General Byers states that corporations may not sell intoxicating liquor in Iowa. He cites the mulet law and existing prohibitions, concluding that buying selling and dealing in liquor is not a lawful business for corporations, despite certain restricted sales under the mulet act.
Lawrence O. Murray today took the oath of office as comptroller of the currency and immediately began his duties. The swearing in occurred in Washington on April 30.
Des Moines on April 30 Frank Kern asked police for protection and permission to go armed worried the killer of his fiancee Bertha Rollin may follow him. He described the assault on them in Kansas City when an unknown man killed Rollin with a gas pipe and knocked Kern unconscious for hours.
Sabula Iowa April 29 Mrs Frank Koehler of Sabula leaped onto the east bound Milwaukee freight as it approached on the adjacent track. She was killed instantly and was believed to have acted while thinking deeply and failing to react in time. The tragedy occurred half a mile west of Sabula as the two tracks ran side by side.
In Afton Iowa on April 6 a jealous dog attacked Dorothy Lee, daughter of prominent jeweler L. W. Walker, after the master caressed her. The dog mauled her face with nine serious gashes before it was pulled off. her condition is serious.
Unknown vandals damaged the Oak Hill Cemetery fencing and evergreens after its dedication yesterday. Local opposition to moving bodies to the site is cited as a possible motive. Sheriff Rowland was summoned to Coralville to investigate the incident.
In Des Moines Iowa the jury in the Mayor Davis wife murder case was discharged after hours in a locked deliberation. Juror Amos Burrell a black man caused a disruption while 11 white jurors favored second degree murder while Burrell pressed for acquittal.
The City National and First National banks of Marshalltown merge their interests effective May 4 with a combined capital of 200000 dollars and deposits of 250000 dollars. D T Denmead will serve as president, C C St Clair as vice president, James L Denmead as cashier, and the new bank will be named First National.
Dee Moines Iowa April 29 Thomas L Cummins father of Governor Cummins was operated on at Mercy hospital this morning for strangulated hernia He is 86 years old and while the operation was successful some fears are entertained for his ultimate outcome
Buckingham Ontario April 29 Half of Notre Dame de Salette on the Lievre river lies buried by a sliding mountain. At least 30 residents are known dead with 11 bodies recovered. The avalanche dammed the river and drowned others.
J Darsell Brown former manager of the California Safe Deposit and Trust company pleaded guilty in San Francisco to embezzling bonds of the Sacramento Gas and Electric company and received an eighteen month sentence.
Miss Mattie Bryant and Andrew Roll were married in Des Moines Iowa after Roll had twice tried to kill himself when rejected by Bryant. A week earlier he threatened poisoning himself. she finally consented to marry him.
Chicago April reports say Wallace H Hopkins a railroad train official left for Detroit with a young woman en route to Canada. Telegrams were sent to police to apprehend the pair in Detroit.
Chicago April 21. Indictments voted against Wallace H Hopkins once Sioux City broker at 181 LaSalle for embezzlement and fraud linked to the Consolidated Zinc company merger of Wisconsin and Missouri mines. Receivership named Edwin C Day. federal action seeks indictment by next grand jury for mail fraud. Hundreds of creditors left unpaid as losses estimated 150000 to 200000 dollars.
Judge Howell grants writ of habeas corpus to Mrs. Cora Van Guirdy seeking return of her 6 year old daughter. Before officers could serve, husband John Van Guirdy, the stepfather, took the child and fled to Des Moines.
Fire at J. H. Belle's hotel in Murray Iowa drove two guests into the street in their night clothes. The blaze destroyed the hotel worth about $6,000 with a millinery store and two vacant rooms also burned. Origin of the fire is unknown.
Marshalltown Iowa , April 21 A 96 year old Ward Weissenburger shot himself in the head with a .38 caliber rifle when his brother tried to break into his home amid odd behavior He died an hour later The elder Weissenburger a wealthy pioneer at Laurel was temporarily insane.
On April 27 in Naples Mme Anns and Mme Gould arrived from New York. Prince De Sagan greeted Mme Gould aboard the steamer with a bow and kiss. The party then moved to Bertolini Palace hotel for rooms. Rumors of a duel with Count de Castallane were denied.
A fast Chicago Peoria and St Louis train plunged into a water filled washout 15 miles above Alton UL last night. Engineer John P Walsh of field drowned in the wreck while four other crew members escaped by swimming.
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