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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1877
Page
4
Reports describe Turkish satisfaction with Russian generals and siege plans at Plevna while intervening leadership issues surface. Updates cover US municipal reform vows, partisan nominations, and state conventions with calls to restore silver dollar value and oppose broad tariff policies.
Foreign dispatches report French authorities ordering interdict of Thiers posthumous address. South American coast hit by Emmy taxes causing damage. Vera Cruz suffers violent fatal yellow fever. Gouzie residence in Quebec burns killing seven children and a servant. wife and male servant survive. Famine in India claims 750000 lives in a year.
William M. Uprox has been appointed to the see of Naples Italy at age 67. He was created cardinal in 1846. Senator Sraton writes from Washington he cannot attend the special session of Congress. President Hares will attend the Frederick Maryland agricultural fair with Cabinet members on Thursday the 11th.
October debt report outlines five percent bonds and four and a half percent bonds with associated figures. The document lists bond categories and yields, reflecting the fiscal position and outstanding obligations.
A Kansas Central Narrow Gauge strike near Circleville ends in a fatal clash with a sheriff posse that kills the strikers’ leader. Incendiary fire suspected in a Patent Office blaze investigated by Washington authorities. A patrol of 100 U S soldiers led by Lieut Bullio crosses the Rio Grande pursuing Mexican horse thieves.
Art Santiago Chile reports nine houses burned, the Friers of the Merced convent and church damaged, losses exceeding 100000. The schooner Ocean Wave from New Orleans to Galveston foundered off Galveston with eight lives lost. A Louisville and Nashville freight train boiler exploded, killing three men and horses. Providence Rhode Island suffered major fires with about 1000000 in damages. Putnam Connecticut saw the village destroyed by a blaze costing 200000. Indianapolis buildings and stocks burned causing over 75000 in damage.
The Kemper County Mississippi Grand Jury indicted six for murder and twenty five for being accessories in the Chisholm massacre. Reports from Whiteshall Kentucky claim Cassius M. Clay recently killed a man named Henry White. The coroner found the shooting self defense. A forged note scheme by broker William C. Gilman hit Atlantic Mutual Insurance over $200000. Embezzlement up to $150000 exposed at Pacific Mills in Lawrence Massachusetts with clerk George R. Waterman named as defaulter.
Reports from New York and Chicago indicate brisk fall trade with growing imports and exports, while a violent Wells Fargo coach robbery near Grand Island details a 13-man gang assault, theft of gold, watches, and cash, and a staged chase with officers pursuing suspects through Sidney and Big Springs.
The zinc works of LaSalle and Penn Til are in full blast while Clinton Iowa lumber mills wait for higher water and logs. About 1,000 men work in Cleveland stove factories. Cleveland port has received nearly 400000 tons of iron ore this season. A raft of 138280 cubic feet, claimed largest in those waters, travels Lake Champlain. Iron trade remains gloomy with little hope of improvement despite a recent invention affecting buttons.
In Berlin about 100 women work in the telegraph office and many are of good social standing. Recruits undergo a rigorous course at a post authorities school with English French geography and signaling theory. The exam is demanding and includes chemistry related subjects before appointment.
The Massachusetts and Michigan boards of health are cited for advancing sanitary science. Michigan urges strict scarlet fever precautions including isolation and meticulous handling of excretions, noting incubation of one to fourteen days and danger persists with skin and eye symptoms.
Cooperstown editor Mr Shaw rebuts a Hartford report that Louis Napoleon arrived in 1834 as a fast youth. The editor states he came in 1836, stayed under a year, and witnessed his mother’s deathbed in 1837. He notes close ties with Rev Charles S Stewart and James Watson Webb and cites Webb’s influence on Mexican policy during the Civil War.
An overheated street scene from Detroit describes Tim the newsboy leaving a store with a box of paper collars while associates mock him. The dialogue hints at plans to marry and a family investing in a sewing machine and a large accordion, all amid talk of coroners juries and local candidacy commitments.
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