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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1901
Page
2
The Intelligencer summarizes global and national events including bank suspensions, wrecks with fatalities and injuries, natural disasters, political moves, stock market turmoil, legal actions, and notable deaths. It notes Cuyahoga savings bank, wrecks in Thayer Iowa and Davenport Iowa, Jacksonville fires, and several other incidents along with political and industrial news.
Brief roundup of industry news, personal updates, and political tidbits from home and abroad. Notes on key firms, market shifts, and notable events affecting business and society.
The list records deaths of notable individuals including Jackson Harris in Terre Haute at 100, Raphael Straus in Cincinnati at 72, George Kellogg in New Hartford age 80, and Charles G. Seymour in El Paso at 39, plus John M. Carroll of the Forty-second Congress in Johnstown at 78. It also notes Baltimore’s first municipal election under a new ballot law delivering 18 of 24 wards to Republicans and reports New Jersey prohibitionists nominating Joel W. Brown for governor. Evan Williams, ex governor of Nevada, dies in San Francisco.
Parliament announced a withdrawal plan with indemnity and punishment of guilty parties. MacArthur to release 1000 prisoners to celebrate Tinio surrender. Filipino officers offer services against outlaws. Prado dies in Paris. Seals catch totals 350000 worth 600000 dollars. Panama Canal sale offer made to United States. Delagoa Bay railway destroyed again by Boer forces. Chinese officials back opening of China to foreign trade. Cuban industrials urge US annexation to protect markets. Chaffee says Brits and Americans won’t fight. Scadding dies in Toronto at 88. Insurgents in Infanta surrender, ending war in north Luzon.
Minister Conger lauds Pearl Calvin Titus for scaling the outer Peking wall and carrying a flag, aiding relief for foreigners during the siege. He is praised as a brave American soldier, with Titus leading the ascent as fire from Chinese troops ceased.
Attorney General Mullan sent opinions to Superintendent Barrett interpreting a vocal music teaching law. He says special instructors exempt general teachers from proving ability to teach vocal music. He also finds the normal school cannot divert fees to cover new building costs, asserting the $100 000 appropriation must fund the entire project, not contingent expenses or repairs.
A returned sailor Eri Bixby travels from San Francisco to find his parents moved to LeMars and his mother dead three weeks earlier. The feature includes testimonials for Peruna, praising its health benefits from Rose Cullen of Butte and Mrs G W Heard of Hempstead along with a dramatic recovery story of W A Mitchell of Martin Georgia and a prompt advisory from Dr Hartman of Columbus Ohio.
In Council Bluffs Judge Wheeler decides August Beresheim versus County Treasurer Arnd, upholding the right to assess personal property omitted from the assessment rolls for 1898 1899 and 1900. The ruling likely settles similar pending suits and covers the main points in those cases.
A list shows salary changes for presidential postmasters across towns. Examples include Carroll from 1900 to 2000 dollars, Dexter from 1200 to 1400, Dysart from 1200 to 1300, Elma from 1100 to 1200, Fayette from 1400 to 1300, Atlantic from 2200 to 2300, Decorah from 2400 to 2500, Dyersville from 1400 to 1300, Elkader from 1800 to 1400, Estherville from 1900 to 2000, Fairfield from 2200 to 2300, and Fort Dodge from 2600 to 2700.
Excitement grips Floris over the disappearance of A S Kendrick a well to do citizen who withdrew 900 from the bank on May 1 and has not been seen since. His wife and friends fear foul play though he was known to be well off and planned to buy a farm.
A collection of quips and witticisms from the Chicago Daily News offering satirical lines on diplomacy age and time as money. The snippets joke about judges bootblacks and rural editors prompting humorous punchlines.
Mrs. M. A. Goss of Bryant Missouri credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with a dramatic recovery from sciatic rheumatism and bed confinement. After two doctors and various remedies failed, she improved within a week of starting the pills and was able to sit up, walk, and resume daily tasks, saying the pain vanished and that the medicine saved her life.
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