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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1893
Page
5
The poem urges kindness to the elderly, praising patience and gentle speech as their final miles are near. Affectionate lines by A. Dayton, Christian at Work, emphasize supporting grandparents and honoring their memory with tender acts.
In a Kentucky classroom, a mad dog threatens with jaws dripping poison. Fannie Leslie uses a cloak as a shield, grapples the dog to the floor, and, with help from two men, crushes the dog’s skull. The students escape as the heroism is praised by locals.
A London Spectator anecdote recounts a boy caught with two dead rabbits on a strictly protected southern England rabbit shoot. He used a crab with a candle to lure rabbits from burrows, then retrieved a trapped rabbit with the coat. The boy fled the darkness as events unfolded and escaped with the rabbit.
A man in sailor clothes visits a proprietor and offers cigars claimed to be unseen by customs. The dealer buys a box for four dollars and samples the goods, noting the cigars are domestic tobacco and not far from home.
The procurator governed a province with duties on revenue and taxes. Pontius Pilate served as a procurator, yet due to Jewish rebellion he was granted proconsular authority.
A Washington Star quip notes idleness makes a man talkative, as Uncle Eben jokes that doing nothing and saying nothing at once is unlikely. The line captures rural dialect humor and social observation.
Senators clash over changing the rules during a heated session on repeal and silver coinage. Nevada Republican Stewart and others condemn delaying tactics while Peffer argues for free coinage and broader fiscal reform amid warnings of constitutional liberty and minority rights.
The record outlines congressional debate on the free coinage of silver and unconditional repeal. Rep Stewart criticized gold influence in Capitol decisions and urged caution against tyranny of powerful interests. Rep Pugh pledged to oppose repeal, while Rep Jones supported silver miners and warned against surrendering liberty to a "giant" Senate. Recess periods extended the session across dates.
Fire losses in the United States from January to October reach 121.8 million dollars, with nine months of 1893 showing a sharp rise over 1892. Dozens of strong companies may go out of business by January 1 as rates fall and state laws tighten.
In San Francisco on Monday night an unexpected explosion at a quarry on Twenty first and Church streets killed Gus Swansen and Charles Nolan whose body remains unrecovered. Mat Deasy suffered a broken leg and internal injuries while Michael Kelleher was painfully wounded. Foreman Dan Rone was arrested and likely to face criminal negligence charges.
Mrs Miranda Anderson of Shamokin leaped to clear a Reading express on a long trestle over a gorge. Her foot caught between rail and guard rail as the train approached, the locomotive passed over her foot, she fell headfirst into the brook below. Doctors say she will recover.
In Pirrssure Pennsylvania at 9 am on Wednesday Mrs Dora Clayton wife of James Clayton a traction line motorman was fatally crushed by car No 1 of the Pittsburgh and Birmingham line at the Carson and Thirteenth streets crossing. She failed to notice the fast approaching car while carrying bundles from a store. Her skull was crushed by the guard rail.
The article outlines mixed public beliefs about resurrection from Epicureans to Platonists and argues for the biblical claim of Christ’s resurrection. It cites Paul’s proofs from witnesses, the church’s faith, and the implication for immortality, then explains the transformation of our bodies into spiritual forms like seeds growing into plants.
Mrs N E Bronson of Atchison Kan learned typesetting in her fathers office as a child and has worked over forty years. The International Association of Women Pharmacists reports 523 active and 186 honorary members. Emma Leverine age twenty one elected president of the Women s Aid Societies of Maine and a Warren descendant who fell at Bunker Hill. Mrs Lerano Stanford s family allowance from Senator Stanford s estate rose to ten thousand dollars a month. A St Louis woman has perfected an invention for making sweet potato flour.
Trey notes Kipling earns not less than five hundred dollars for each ballad he writes. Gen. Van ALEN is praised as a warm hearted, bluff, and delightful American of a generation ago. Misses Eprie M. Kernston and Carrie L. Hodson, two newspaper women, arrived in Boston after spending the summer biking through the British Isles.
A column argues that government now relies on the minority to wear down the majority through endurance. It contrasts past senate rules with modern filibusters and criticizes Democrats for blocking votes to preserve minority power. It suggests a shift toward majority rule as vital for national policy.
The Ways and Means Committee faces accusations of dark lantern tactics as a restricted, in-house bill is shaped without Republican input. Critics blame David A. Wells for pushing a plan aligning with the president and Carlisle, warning of harm to key industries and a rushed McKinley act revision tied to silver questions.
In a field hospital the two lifelong friends, Damon and Pythias alike, face death together. One loses fingers in battle. the other has a bayonet wound. They pledge to die side by side, and the surviving comrade dies after grasping the hand of the fallen. The Toledo Blade reports their unity in death.
Sergt Morris recounts a worn night on duty in which fatigue nearly cost him life. He slept two hours on a key post but awoke to a dream of a roaring lion and was awakened by the Grand Round. He resumed vigilance, thanked God, and vowed not to sleep again on sentry.
Mrs. Peter Thorn of Gettysburg, living at the entrance of the borough cemetery, volunteered to guide Gen. O. O. Howard and his horse through the roads during day one of the battle. Despite initial refusals, she persisted and led him along the routes while under fire, eliciting cheers from soldiers for her bravery. Her husband was away serving in the Hundred and Forty-eighth Pennsylvania, in Virginia, leaving her with two young children.
The lone survivor of Gen Fremont's exploring battalion is Gen W K Swasey who began as a Sutler's fort clerk in 1815 and rose to lieutenant and regimental quartermaster of the Second California on September 2 1861. He became captain and assistant adjutant general of volunteers on November 26 1862 and was mustered out October 19 186.
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