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Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1894
Page
4
Post Office Profit Scene Across United States
The piece notes about 68,000 U.S. post offices with roughly 67,000 not covering running costs. It highlights New York City’s post office generating about 4 million dollars in annual profit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New York City
Stylistic clash over hat brim in Japan sparks debate
A satirical observation notes that in Japan fashion remains constant while a privileged Japanese individual resents paying eight dollars twice yearly for a minor hat brim difference. The remark contrasts cultural rigidity with costly personal accessories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Cabinet officers pass over to the majority in Arthur era
President Arthur appoints Frank Harron as the fifth cabinet officer to join the majority in his administration. Previous picks Frélinghuysen Folger Timothy Howe and Benjamin H Brewster are listed among the others who have moved to the majority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Harron
Arthur
Frélinghuysen
Folger
Timothy 0. Howe
Benjamin H. Brewster
Economic Toll of Narrow Wagon Tires Cited
An agricultural writer claims narrow wagon tires cause massive losses to farmers, citing wear and tear on horse carts and wasted time, estimating an annual toll of 300 million dollars across the country.
New York Doctor Denies Drowning Surface Myth
A life-saver in New York states after twenty years of observations that the superstition of a drowning person rising to the surface three times is entirely unfounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Insurance firms write $879574 Alaska business
Last year fire insurers reported $879 574 in Alaska business and paid only $1 125 in losses. A wave of insurance men is expected to move into the moist land of the Siwash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska
Siwash
ExsGuano Faces High Apo Plexy Death Rate
The nation reports that 270 of every 10 090 deaths are caused by apoplexy, a proportion higher than any other country. Authorities cite statistics showing apoplexy as a leading cause of mortality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ExsGuano
Medical quip on coccygeal harm and restraint
A satirical note cites a medical line warning against extirpating the coccyx for hysterical coccygodynia. It advises leaving the joint alone and responding with a police call if a man exhibits coccygeal distress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tue
South Carolina Upholds Absolute Liquor Prohibition
The South Carolina Supreme Court rules that the state maintains absolute ban on liquor traffic since the dram shop act was overthrown and that intoxicants cannot be sold given away or consumed without penalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court of
South Carolina
Emperor William aids fire relief at Gatow
An imperial account notes Emperor William of Germany helping extinguish a Gatow fire by carrying water and using a wedge and axe. The piece contrasts him with Nero and praises modern rulers over medieval rulers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William
Germany
Gatow
Nero
Rome
Pension checks sent to Americans abroad totaling millions
About 4,000 U S citizens living overseas receive quarterly pension checks. Canada hosts 2,000 recipients totaling 345 000 yearly, Germany 600 with 95 000 yearly, Great Britain 756 amounting to 126 990 yearly, and Fiji islands have a single recipient drawing 24 every three months. Additional cases send checks four times yearly to other expatriates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Quarterly
Canada
Germany
Great Britain
Fiji Islands
Maude Burke Refuses Prince and Sets Example for Americans
The New York Advertiser hails Miss Maude Alice Burke for declining Prince Poniatowski, asserting that a woman cannot be bought by a title. It claims other women will follow, noting that monarchs cannot win consent in republican America as once possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Niagara Falls power to reach Buffalo early next October
Electricity from Niagara Falls plant will be sent to Buffalo by October start via underground wires. Output will be about thirty thousand volts with direct current for street railways and industry. Costing roughly two thirds of steam power, the system promises a major saving for manufacturers and transport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niagara Falls
Buffalo
Salvation Army Founder Gen Booth Anniversary Inaugurated
A new anniversary event will inaugurate this year to mark Gen Booth's conversion and the Salvation Army's worldwide influence. The article notes the movement's controversial dress and methods yet asserts its substantial good in spreading religious truths to the poor and forsaken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gen. Booth
Salvation Army
Salvationists
New York constitutional convention debate in Albany
Discussion centers on revising the state organic law since 1846. Proposals include woman suffrage by striking the word male, separating municipal from state elections, enlarging the court, increasing supreme court justices, abolishing capital punishment, biennial legislative sessions, and defining municipal taxation rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Albany
Supreme Court
Newburg Women Vote Down $50,000 Court House Bonds
In Newburg New York women voters rejected a bond proposal for a new courthouse, marking their first participation in a taxpayers election. A Gotham paper quipped that bond advocates should have slashed price to $49,999.98 to lure voters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newburg
N. Y
Gotham
Electric ventilator powers fresh air with heated wire system
An electric ventilator draws in cool air and can heat it by passing it through a high resistance wire network. A commutator changes the air temperature delivered. The setup is adaptable and reportedly yields good hygienic results.
Senate tariff fights and national notices highlight week
Five hours in the senate settled tannic acids and perfumery items while the army budget moved. The house debated industry investigations, Lincoln birthday holiday petitions surfaced, and a mail service obstruction bill advanced. A lynching, wreck attempts, and a deadly tunnel collapse accompanied a week of political and local disasters.
Death of Ex-Governor A C Hunt in Tennallytown
Ex-Gov A C Hunt of Colorado died at his Tennallytown residence near Washington at age 65. Brokers bankers and investors report no improvement in business and are low in spirits. Plans reportedly form to liquidate Pacific railroad debts to the government in fifty years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. C. Hunt
Colorado
Tennallytown
Washington
Pacific Railroads
Multiple copies of calamities and political notes from 1890s
The piece lists court decisions, candidacies, and disasters including McKane’s habeas corpus denial, McKane jailed for Gravesend election fraud, Perry and Wall elections in Pennsylvania, a Boston fire destroying homes, a Stoves maker facing receivership, Harvard students drowned, a New York murder suicide, a Waverly stabbing and suicide, Pawtucket and Jones Woods fires, a Philadelphia tax office loss, and the death of Edward Brient.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Y. McKane
Sing Sing
Gravesend
N. Y
United States Supreme Court
Joan Dalzell
W. A. Stone
Congress
Pennsylvania
Boston
Baseball Park
New York
Simonds Stove Manufacturing Company
Harvard College
E. 8. Beach
W. C. Truesdell
J. F. Browne
Franklin Whithall
Charles Samsmuller
Waite
Analson Hyatt
Waverly
Pawtucket
R. I
Jones’ Woods
T. W. Phillips
United States
Edward Brient
The
Examiner
Union League votes to expel Breckinridge without dissent
News brief outlines expulsion of Congressman Breckinridge by the Union League club of Chicago with no opposing votes. It also notes various other 1895 political and social items including prosecutions, arrests, and legislative actions across several states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union League Club
Chicago
Breckinridge
Northern Pacific
William Hogan
Montana Coxeyites
Fostoria
Louisiana
Don Caffery
United States Senate
Lexington
Congress
Blackburn
Washington
Bill Beamer
Nwme Hansen
Renla
Herman Peters
Great Northern Railway
Minneapolis
Citizens’ Arbitration Committee
Coxery
Commonweal
Ohio
Iowa
Walter I. Hayes
Grand Army of the Republic of Ohio
Canton
Pretty Mary Gilmartin
O'Grady
Cincinnati
Des Moines
Amos
Nim Young
Ocala
Fla
Lizzie Weems
Senate
Drought Losses Hit English Agriculture and Global Tensions
Reports show England faced crop losses exceeding 100 million dollars from last year's drought. Brazil's president severed ties with Portugal over asylum for insurgent refugees. Insurgent forces defeated by Brazilian troops near Iguazu with 140 killed. A Vienna artist Kellarz and three sisters committed suicide via poison. U S consul general William H. Edwards died of brain fever in Berlin. George Griffiths of London completed a world circumnavigation in 64 days 11 hours 20 minutes, surpassing Nellie Bly's 74 day record. The British royal commissioners praising the World’s Fair enterprise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Brazil
Portugal
Mioko
New Pomerania
S. W
Vienna
Kellarz
William H. Edwards
Ohio
United States
Berlin
Iguazu
George Griffiths
London
Nellie Bly
Storms and wrecks across the Midwest and political moves noted
A busy week in 1894 reports Senate calls for antitrust information, tariff talks, and private Bills. Wreck of the M J Cummings at Milwaukee sinks five. eight ships lost in Lake Michigan gale. Fort Dearborn tree toppled. Populist conventions planned in Indiana and Nebraska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Senate
House
M. J. Cummings
Milwaukee
Indiana
E. A. Riggins
Davies County
Congress
West Bay City
Mich
Winttam McKerit
Mobile
Ala
National Editorial Association
Asbury Park
N. J
Prohibitionists
Oakland
Cal
Henry French
Santa Clara
Illinois
Wisconsin
Ohio
Iowa
Philadelphia
Tonti
Missouri Pacific
Kansas City & Beatrice Railroad
Cincinnati
Father O'Grady
Mollie Gilmartin
Nebraska
Grand Island
Lake Michigan
Glencoe
Chicago
Lake Front
Fort Dearborn
G A R Veterans Parade and Illinois Session
Rockford Illinois May 17 2 000 veterans paraded through the streets in a grand display the most imposing scene seen in northern Illinois since world war days Rockford May 18 the Illinois G A R opened its business with Maj Blodgett presiding and heard the annual address urging strict dues enforcement and political pledges to liberal legislative aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockford
Grand Army of the Republic of
Department of Illinois
Illinois
Boys In Blue
Rockrorp
G. A. R. of Illinois
Maj. Blodgett
Blodgett
Order
Jin
Mass Meeting Protest Against Breckinridge in Lexington
A large afternoon assembly at the Lexington opera house denounced W C Breckinridge as a candidate for reelection to Congress. Judge Durham Gen Sam Hill and Prof McGarvey spoke as women of Lexington and Fayette county issued resolutions condemning his renomination citing alleged licentiousness and hypocrisy. The crowd filled the opera house with 500 turned away amid county court day bustle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Opera House
Breckinridge
Judge Durham
Treasury
Cleveland
Sam Hill
Adjutant Generals of
Kentucky
Buckner
Prof. McGarvey
Ashland
Fayette County
W. C. P. Breckinridge
Columbian Museum at Chicago Opens to Public
The museum, founded by Marshall and supported with 1,000,000, is known as the Art Palace of the World Columbian Exposition at Jackson Park. It will officially open to the public on Saturday June 2 1894.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshalla
Chicago
Jackson Park
Soldiers' Orphans' Home and Grand Army Reports
The article records Grand Army of the Republic activities and pensions debates. It lists posts and membership, relief disbursed, officer reports, and elections of delegates to the national encampment. It notes Bloomington as next encampment site and various local G A R and Women’s Relief Corps officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Army
Adjt
Spink
George 8. Roper
Bloomington
A. R
The
Grand Army of the Republic
E. A. Keeler
Irving Park
J. B. Inman
Springfield
W. P. Pierce
Hoopeston
Frank C. Bruner
Urbana
Col. Lawler
M. R. M. Wallace
Chicago
Woman's Relief Corps
Cantor
Department of Ohio
Williams
Canton
E. E. Nutt
Sidney
Sarah D. Winans
Troy
Emma Kennedy
Bereapost
Boards of Education
Sandusky
Ohio
Louisville
Gov
McKinley
Col
Fred Grant
To Build a Ship Canal Amendment Noted
Senator McMillan of Michigan gave notice of an amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill. It would provide 275000 dollars for a proposed ship canal 21 feet deep and 300 feet wide in the shallows linking the Great Lakes waters between Chicago Duluth and Buffalo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washineton
McMillan
Great Lakes
Chicago
Duluth
Buffalo
Fatal Quarrel Claims Life in Harrisburg
Herman Friedman aged 33 of 908 North Second Street was killed by Joseph Kinderman during a quarrel in Harrisburg. Kinderman was arrested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pai LapeLruia
Herman Friedman
North Second Street
Joseph Kinderman
Kingerman
Fiends murder witnesses who were to testify against them
Gus Meeks his wife and two children were killed near Browning Missouri on Thursday night. A seven year old girl was critically injured. Meeks had been scheduled to testify against William F and George Taylor. The family was lured from home and killed execution style after being driven to a Taylor farm where they were buried under a strawstack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milan
Gus Meeks
Browning
Meeks
William F
George Taylor
Lynn County
Chicago election officials fined and jailed for ballot inspection defiance
Judge Chetlain fined Election Commissioners P. H. Keenan A. W Hutchings and Henry Schomer one thousand dollars and ordered them jailed until payment. The court dismissed charges against Chief Clerk W. A Taylor for lack of authority. An arrest order was issued for the contumacious commissioners to be jailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chetlain
P. H. Keenan
A. W Hutchings
Henry Schomer
Twentyninth Ward
W. A Taylor
Gilbert
Fire Leaves Boston Tenement District Homeless
A cigarette butt ignited waste paper under the bleachers at Boston bases grounds sparking a fire that destroyed 140 buildings across sixteen acres in the South End. Losses reach $500,000 with more than 600 families left homeless, many without fire insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Insurance Agent Shoots Wife Then Dies in Louisiana Town
Kroxvak Louisiana May 16 reports J. H. Dygraff, a known insurance agent, fatally shot his divorced wife on a street near noon Monday and then killed himself. Mrs. Dygraff had obtained a divorce months earlier on grounds of drunkenness. The motive is given as drink-fueled despondency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kroxvak
Dygraff
Death of Prof Morley At Carisbrooke Isle Of Wight
Prof Henry Mor ley LL D noted author and lecturer died at Carisbrooke Isle of Wight on Monday following loxpox illness May 16. The obituary records his stature and scholarly contributions while noting the location of his passing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morley
Henry Morley
Carisbrooke
Isle of Wight
Storms Ravage Northwest as Tornadoes Strike Midwest
A series of powerful storms swept Minnesota Wisconsin and surrounding states causing loss of life and extensive damage. Reports detail flooding bridges rails and crops with several towns counting fatalities and millions in damages across Minnesota Wisconsin Indiana Illinois and Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Pat
Minn
Minnesota
Wisconsin
St. Cloud
Sauk Rapids
Hodson
Wis
Willow River
Trout Brook
H. T. Drake
St. Paul
FF. O. Crary
Sheep Frozen to Death in Sierra Storm Tragedy
Thousands of sheep perish in a severe May snow storm in the Sierra Nevada foothills between Sonora and Strawberry Station. The birds were shorn and the animals, trapped on the 32 mile road, lie dead in piles two to three high. An estimated one third of the 40,000 sheep entering the region have died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Minn
Hudson
Wis
Jewett Mills
Richmond
Tower
Scott
Omaha Railroad
St. Pavut
Chicago Great Western
Minneapolis
Marpes Rock
Rush River
Mississippi
Kawngie
Here
Sonora
Cal
Sierra Nevada
Strawberry Station
Representative Bryan Nebraska Declines Sixth Nomination
Nebraska Congressman Bryan announces he will not seek a sixth renomination. He cites personal reasons and long service, confirming his departure from future electoral contests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan
Nebraska
Democratic platform synopsis from Kansas City convention
The Kansas City convention adopted the majority resolutions report by 423 to 109. The platform sticks to traditional aims including tariff for revenue, income tax, gold and silver coinage, repeal of the federal election law, opposition to religious test in politics, and opposition to McKinsey taxation. Francis M. Black was nominated for supreme judge, W. T. Carrington for superintendent of public instruction, and J. H. Finks for railroad commissioner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coot Williams
Mallory
Pinegrove
Welborn
Fla
St. Paul
Minnesota City
Rockford
Illinois Department
G. A. R. J. A. Trusty
Ozem Jackson
William Hurst
Owensburg
Ind
Gavu Daur
Peterson
Austin
Tex
W. H. Seapen
Marshall
Minn
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Joseph Young
Tuscola
Kansas City
Democrats of Missouri
Francis M. Black
W. T. Carrington
J. H. Finks
Bellaire (O.) Nail Company
Monroe
Matt Adler
Adler
Memphis
Tennessee
Georgia
J. K. Hines
Atlanta
Gaudaur
Kunkle
Daniel Barrett
Myrta
Martha Case
George Oxinger
Charles Cole
Chloe Gipson
Nathaniel P. Crane
Belvidere
H. H. McDowell
Pontiac
Illinois G. A. R
M. R. M. Wallace
Chicago
Woman's Relief Corps
Turreee
Keenan
Hutchins
Schumer
Chetlain
Grand Jury
Board of Trade
Cleveland
H. C. Snodgrass
Congress
Sierra Nevada
Committee On Resolutions
Bland
Cleveland miners and operators end talks with no result
The Cleveland Conference of coal miners and operators concluded with no agreement. All compromise offers were rejected as too many operators refused to participate, leaving miners united against any starvation-wage compromise and prepared for ongoing and future fights. President McBride backed a vote on the operators’ proposal but warned miners would oppose it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
McBride
Electrocution of Lucius P. Wilson at Auburn Prison
Lucius P. Wilson was executed in the Auburn New York prison electric chair on May 16 after choosing to be photographed in his cell. He shot Detective Harvey during an arrest attempt in Syracuse for burglary. he and his brother were part of the Hudspeth Slye gang linked to the Glendale Missouri train robbery and other crimes. Charles Wilson faces potential death penalty awaiting trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aobary
N. Y
Lucius P. Wilson
Wilson
Harvey
Syracuse
Lucius
Charles Wilson
Hudspeth-Slye
Glendale
Missouri
Omaha
Lucius Wilson
Hollidaysburg, Ps.j
Pension increases proposed for Mexican and Indian war veterans
In Washington on May 1, a bill would raise pension payments from 8 to 12 dollars per month for Mexican war veterans and Indian war survivors. Representative Cami netti of California introduced the measure, with the committee voting to extend it to Indian war survivors, though one member warned it could open a path to Civil War service pensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Committee On Pensions
House
Caminetti
Cal
Races Interfered with by Arrests at Gravesend Track
New York May 17 Justice Walsh issued warrants for Philip J. Dwyer and others for conducting a lottery at the Brooklyn Jockey Club grounds. The arrests follow Judge Pryor’s ruling that the Ives law allowing pool-selling on race tracks was unconstitutional, viewed as special protection to lotteries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
de Lacey
Gravesend
Justice Walsh
Philip J. Dwyer
Brooklyn Jockey Club
Pryor
Ives
Battle with burglars in Woodlawn store ends with fatality
Burglars entered J H May store at Woodlawn Alabama at 2 a m Adolph Griffith Tom Whitson and Elijah McPherson officers hid about the premises After breaking in one burglar fired on the officers a pitched battle followed James Milton was killed another burglar wounded and officer Tom Whitson shot in the leg Officers pursue the escapees with dogs.
Fire at Emery’s refinery barrel house in B raprorp
A barrel house at Emery's refinery in Braprorp Pennsylvania burned Sunday afternoon likely due to spontaneous combustion. A tank car containing 4100 gallons of benzine exploded with a roar. Firemen and bystanders fled in panic. 35 firefighters suffered burns including skin peeling and singed hair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Braprorp
Emery
Senate approves probe into bribery charges and sugar trust links
The senate passed a resolution to investigate charges of attempted bribery and alleged sugar trust contributions to campaigns. It will also probe reports of senators speculating in sugar stock and other worthy matters for consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Sugar Trust
Doctor shoots farmer after alleged affair in Linn vicinity
Dennison Texas May 16 Dr O Beirn a prominent Linn Indian Territory physician shot and killed farmer Shields. It is alleged Shields visited Beirn's home and was intimate with Beirn's wife during the doctor's absence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennison
Tex
O. Beirn
Linn
I. T
Shields
Beirn
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