Tree That Smokes Baffles Japanese Village
A Japanese village reports a tree that emits smoke from its branches. Residents wonder if the phenomenon hides a larger tale of mischief or mystery surrounding the ancient tree.
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1894
Page
4
A Japanese village reports a tree that emits smoke from its branches. Residents wonder if the phenomenon hides a larger tale of mischief or mystery surrounding the ancient tree.
The notice hints at a dealer in rags with assignments announced, suggesting business as slow and quiet rather than brisk activity.
Won Yur Hone aged 70, long time California resident, imported from China a 16 year old wife. The report notes his fifty years in the state and the unusual marriage arrangement drawing attention in the local press.
A council of educators proposes removing the cube root concept from basic arithmetic instruction. The move aims to simplify early math learning and reduce student confusion.
A new invention creates five distinct views of a single individual in one sitting. Mirrors provide the differing attitudes, producing a gallery of reflections and expressions from a single subject.
Since the Fifty third Congress convened on March 4 1893 there have been six vacancies in the Senate and sixteen changes in the House of Representatives due to death and other causes.
Greveanp Gape, the American consul at Christiania, Norway, appointed in 1869 by Gen. Grant, is noted as the oldest consul in service except for Consul Sprague at Gi.
The steerage fare from New York to Liverpool is cut to 12.50 dollars, described as a grand chance for many foreigners dissatisfied with this country and its institutions.
In New York legal proceedings a woman was paid five thousand dollars and the court affirmed that she can keep a secret, suggesting the principle remains intact.
The new Georgia senator Mr Walsh has offered a bill making it a crime punishable by imprisonment from one to twenty years to obstruct a train carrying the United States mails. Cattle that persist in getting on the railway tracks should take due notice and govern themselves accordingly.
Venice officials arranged a special Sunday entertainment for White Emperor William at the leading theater, but he did not appear. He later explained he has not attended a theater on Sundays since ascending the throne.
A Winchester Kentucky group of girls formed a matrimonial club offering $50 to the first to wed. Four members are already engaged, racing to set the wedding date, with risk the idea may fail if all choose the same day and hour.
Prof DuHarteris of Glasgow argues experiments show a teaspoon dose of chloroform as a gastric sedative is a seasickness cure. He predicts steamship firms will advertise free chloroform for travelers on voyages.
The Susquehanna and Western railroad completed a nearly two mile tunnel through the Palisades in New Jersey at a cost of 3,000,000 dollars. Construction began about eighteen months ago and twelve workmen died during the project.
A new series of postage stamps is in process of engraving by the Mexican government and will appear for sale in September. This first issue of pictorial stamps shows stages of mail transport with drawings of man, burro, stage and steam train in 1, 2, 4, 5 and 10 cent denominations.
The noted astronomer spent twenty five years on a scientific manuscript which was nearly ready for publication when he died. The work will be issued by his daughter from Chicago who had shown great interest and aided in his investigations.
The St Paul Globe condemns opium as a major source of misery though it notes its medical uses. It warns that even moderate taste leads to irretrievable addiction and that cultured individuals can become brutalized by its influence, often destroying lives rather than saving them.
The Tur Hurontario Ship Canal Company of Canada is incorporated to build a canal from Toronto on Lake Ontario to Georgian Bay near Collingwood. The capital is 965 million dollars with 1 million paid and 10 percent subscribed to gain legal existence. Directors must be British subjects, drawing interest from American capitalists in a revived long advocated project.
A census bulletin reports total wealth for the United States at the close of 1890, with real and personal property valued at 65,073,091,197. Real estate with improvements stands at 89,544,544,335, personal property at 25,492,546,864. The prior assessed value was 25,473,173,418, with real estate 18,956,556,675 and personal property 5,516,616,743.
Liachron Russo tires of her latest husband, the Italianized American tenor John Chatterton-Giovanni Perugini, and casts him off with little ceremony. Statistics suggest scarce husbands, especially those with fine voices and compliant dispositions.
A Senate bill proposes allowing several American citizens to accept decorations and testimonials from the Hawaiian government. Other measures pass. House not in session. Reports cover tariff debates, civil service changes, presidential election plans, and multiple regional political events and incidents across the United States.
A Virginian tested smokeless powder that proved superior to all prior samples. Two commonwealth leaders, Coxey Browne and Jones, received twenty days in jail for displaying partisan banners in the capitol grounds. Mr. Fiske warned in opening remarks before the Pan American Bimetallic association that relief and free coinage could spark a revolution.
Floods in western Pennsylvania caused boats bridges and homes to be destroyed with ten deaths and $1.5 million in Williamsport losses. Niagara Falls Buffalo Dansville and Rochester report great damage. In Albany petitions with 32000 signatures push woman suffrage at the constitutional convention. Governor Northen of Georgia elected president of the American Baptist Educational Society.
A diverse array of incidents dominates the report including a Cambridge, Massachusetts murder suicide, a deadly railway collision near Princeton, Kentucky, and widespread storm losses offshore Chicago. Other items cover fires, political adjournments, legal shifts, drownings, labor strikes, and political revolts across continents.
Senate debate on Hawaiian sovereignty and tariff measures dominates the session. House passes appropriations with changes. Knights of Pythias charter approved. Indiana Democrats renominated a congressman. miners strike suppression by troops reported. National and local upheavals include shootings in Pennsylvania, a major steel works shutdown in Braddock, and a gold standard move at a German banking meeting. Local indictments and vetoes also noted.
A northeast gale from May 21 near Curia co drives waves to hurricane force. Thirty eight lives lost across Chicago harbor area after ships Myrtle Evening Star Cummings crew of six dead near Milwaukee and life-savers off Port Huron. Jack Thompson and others sinking.
A frost swept the nation from the Dakota line to the Gulf injuring crops over a large area. Fruits vegetables wheat corn and cereals suffered severely as reports came from the Dakotas Minnesota Iowa Nebraska Kansas Missouri Wisconsin Illinois Indiana Texas Kentucky and Tennessee.
Reports from May 22 to 23 describe devastating floods across Pennsylvania and nearby areas. Kittanning, Lock Haven, Bradford, Huntingdon, Johnstown, and Altoona faced rising rivers, washed-out tracks, submerged streets, and widespread property damage. Tens of millions of feet of logs lost, several bridges destroyed, and towns grappling with inundation and evacuations.
Widespread flooding forces evacuation as trees are toppled and cellars flood in South Potts town and Schuylkill Haven. Easton and Bethlehem factories inundated with eight feet of water. Bridges on Pine Creek division carried away, halting traffic. Genesee Valley reports the worst flood in years with Canaseraga area devastated and Can Weill Creeks sweeping grain. Williamsport records water levels higher than in 1889 with vast property losses. Northwest lumber boom bursts as logs break loose near Anoka causing damage to booms and structures.
In Airlington Georgia local residents stormed Miller County Jail on Monday morning freeing a captured Black suspect. The mob hanged him from an oak in the public square and fired about 300 bullets into his body following the assault on Washington Smith and his 14 year old daughter. The father died Sunday and the daughter is not expected to live.
Fire at M Shaddon home in Meminville destroys the largest house in town. A 10 year old girl dies from burns, her mother Mrs Shaddon suffers shock, and her 45 year old blind son is badly burned. The son asks to end his suffering as he lies near death. The fire started from an open grate and also badly damaged Judge Galloway’s residence.
In Barcelona on May 2, six anarchists Codina Cerezuella Sears Bemat Villarbua and Mire were shot at Mont Juich for complicity in the Pallas plot against Gen Martinez de Campos. They stood facing the wall as troops fired. four died on the first volley and Logas and Codina died after a second volley.
Three judges Tuley Adams and Sears ruled that election commissioners Keenan Hutchings and Schomer were discharged from custody by sheriff. They held Judge Chetlain lacked authority to fine them for contempt for refusing to produce ballots before a grand jury, citing ballot burning provisions in election law.
In Danville Illinois on May 22 Judge Ferdinand Bookwalter sustained the Democrats. He denied James P. Fletcher Republican candidate for the legislature relief from the disputed senatorial apportionment law of 1595. The court dismissed the suit for want of equity and ordered Republican costs.
Paris May 24 Doctor Bernoit of the Ecole de Medicine, after examining Emile Henry, says Henry was already dead when the knife fell. He believes the death occurred from syncope due to intense excitement prior to the release of the blade.
Curacao May 21 P. D. Armour reports the country is in better shape than many admit and his firm is doing as much business as last year.
A blaze in Philadelphia yesterday razed the Julius Schiel company dry goods store and L. Dannenbaum wholesale millinery, causing an estimated loss of 525000. Fire crews battled the flames through the night but could not save the buildings.
In Evansville and other towns, about 250 miners from Washington and nearby counties marched to Little's mines to force workers to join the strike, resulting in five wounded and two dead. Other actions include mobs at Beard, Mission Fields, and Illinois slopes, with workers leaving mines and coal shipments disrupted amid rising Mexican coal prices.
Two robbers entered the First National Bank in Longview Texas on a Wednesday afternoon. They demanded money with a Winchester and fled with about $2000 plus unsigned notes. In a rear-alley exchange shots killed robber George Bennett and civilian George Buckingham. City Marshal Muckley and Deputy Stevens returned fire. several citizens injured.
Philadelphia May 21 ex-general master workman Terence V Powderly ex-member A W Wright of Toronto and P H Quinn master workman District Assembly 99 have been expelled by the Knights of Labor The expulsion follows an investigation into charges they sought to disrupt the organization and was anticipated by the new general executive board
Minnie Van Aiken shot Thomas Johnson at about 10 oclock Saturday morning in Leap South Dakota. Johnson, a jeweler, had courted her amid jealousy over rivals and pressed for marriage. After he fired at her she returned fire, killing him with one shot.
The Pennsylvania Republican state convention in FaRRissure packed the opera house as Gen. Daniel H. Hastings of Center county was nominated for governor. Ex-Senator Walter S. Lyon of Alleghany county was chosen for lieutenant governor amid a large turnout.
Washington May 23 Coxey Browne and Jones were sentenced by Judge Miller in the Washington police court to twenty days in jail for violating the federal ban on partisan banners in the capitol grounds. Coxey and Browne also faced five dollar fines for trespassing on the grass, with an alternative of ten more days in jail. Jones was acquitted on the trespass charge. A Test Vote Was to lay the tariff bill on the table in the Senate. the motion failed 28 to 35 with Hill and Irby voting with Democrats, along with three Populists led by Peffer.
Coxeyites captured a northern Pacific freight train at Heron Montana but halted at Arlee by deputy marshals. They are now in custody of the officers.
May 15 press from Honolulu via San Francisco outlines Hawaii's upcoming constitutional convention meeting May 30. The plan creates the Republic of Hawaii with a president and five member executive council, a 15 member upper house and a 15 member assembly, two year terms, and a veto with two thirds override. Royalist leaders warn natives may rise. ex-queen's influence limits U S reaction.
Washington May 24 The House Judiciary Committee adopted the sub committee report on Judge Jenkins of Milwaukee who restrained the Northern Pacific employers from striking The committee finds no corrupt intent and that his orders were legal though errs were made The panel will forward a resolution and two bills to limit federal judges enforcing labor contracts and contempt powers by statute and align them with state laws
Edmund Hodgson Yates editor and proprietor of the World died after a sudden fit at his residence following a theater visit. He was a former post office official, Daily News critic, author of plays and novels, and had a libel conviction in 1884 leading to four months imprisonment.
New York May 24 Cornelius Van derbilt and thirty other millionaires opened a Provident Loan Society at Fourth Avenue and Twenty second Street authorized by the last legislature. Rev. David H Greer initiated the effort to aid the poor with loans on personal property at one percent per month. Wealthy supporters include Frederick R Coudert John D Crimmins R Fulton Cutting Charles I Fairchild ex Mayor Abram Hewitt Adrian Iselin Jr John S Kennedy Seth Low J Pierpont Morgan Walter Stanton and J Kennedy Tod.
H B Martin a Knights of Labor executive board member was arrested for libel at Scranton Pa prompted by a libel suit from former General Master Workman Powderly. The charge stems from an interview in the Scranton Truth claiming Powderly was suspended for retaining office property after it was demanded. Martin posted $1000 bail for trial.
The secret session of the Senate bribery investigation heard testimony from Senator Hunton and his son naming C. W. Buttz as the man who approached him. Senator Kyle testified that Buttz offered about $14 000 to defeat the tariff bill. Maj. Buttz and his attorney attended the session.
The Republican state convention of North Dakota will meet in Grand Forks on July 11 to select delegates and discuss party platforms. Delegates from across the state are expected to attend and participate in formal proceedings.
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