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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1900
Page
6
Condensed digest spanning domestic and international items from the past seven days. Covers industrial developments, political notes, notable personal happenings, and global events shaping daily life. Readable snapshots highlight key figures, places, and dates from the period.
Tornadoes wreck business districts at Sedalia Missouri with two fatalities and multiple injuries. Other items include Grand Army of the Republic events in Chicago, naval banquet, and a wide roundup: political, military, and social notes across the United States and overseas, plus sports standings and accidents.
The First Wisconsin district Democrats nominate G F Hodges for congress. Rev Royal H Pullman of Baltimore dies at his Thousand Isles summer home. Adlai Stevenson named VP candidate by Populists replacing Towne. C J Needham re nominated in Seventh California. Michigan Prohibitionists nominate Nathan Clark for Sixth district congress and Frederick S Goddrich for governor. Wisconsin Democrats name F A Partlow in Tenth and N E Morgan in Eighth. Mme Seals, Indian woman, dies in Madison Indiana at 103.
Bert of Italy was found guilty of murder in Milan and sentenced to life imprisonment.
A multilayered summary lists moves by the United States Russia and Britain on the Chinese question with troop withdrawals from Peking to Tientsin and coordinated diplomacy. It notes census gains of Detroit and other city tallies plus notable events from crime to sports and politics across the United States and overseas.
The State Department released the Russian proposal and Washington’s reply on Aug 29 1900. Both sides deny territorial aims in China and urge joint occupation of Beijing until a stable treaty framework protects foreign life property and trade. The United States reserves right to withdraw after conference with other powers if occupation continues.
The statement requests prompt attention from the minister of foreign affairs and invites an early response. It emphasizes urgency and formal outreach to initiate timely discussions or decisions on the matter.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says the interview with Emperor Nicholas lasted five minutes and the czar stated he could do nothing for the Transvaal except urge peace as he hates all war. Dr. Leyds described the exchange in London Aug 30.
Lancaster Ohio Aug 30 Mrs Mary E Reese sister of Gen William T Sherman and ex Senator John Sherman died from injuries after a fall downstairs suffered a week ago Her husband William T Reese had died years earlier.
Kearney New Jersey August 30. After praying at his dead wife William Winters 80 a cousin of the late Vice President Hobart leaped from a second story window at his home and killed himself.
Detroit September 1 Two Wabash locomotives and three freight cars of freight train No 9 derailed through an open draw bridge into the Rouge River at Delray. The engine crews escaped without injury in a remarkable incident with no casualties.
In New York at the Broadway Athletic Club Joe Gans of Baltimore stopped Cal Hawkins of California in the third round of a 25 round scheduled fight. The Horton law limited bouts to this final round.
Center Hill Florida September 1 Luke Merritt and S M Dixon who farmed on shares quarreled over crop division. Both secured guns and fired fatally wounding each other in an instant turning a dispute into a deadly encounter.
New York reports a quieter week with 85 commercial failures totaling 7.22 million dollars in August, plus 174 manufacturing failures at 2.95 million and 519 trading failures at 3.59 million. Banking liabilities were 146 thousand. Iron and copper markets show improving tones as demand remains steady, while cotton and corn movements are mixed amid favorable weather in corn states and rains in spring wheat regions.
Chicago readers learn Commander Leo Rassieur appointed adjutant general and quartermaster general Frank M. Sterrett of St. Louis and Charles Burrows of Paterson New Jersey to those posts. A new council lists members by state with dozens of names across the union.
Adjutant General Corbin writes Senator Sewell outlining the War Department stance on the army canteen. He affirms liquor sales have long been prohibited, the canteen serving as a men’s club and temperance measure, a branch of the exchange, with over 1,000 officers reporting reduced desertions and intoxication. The army is described as the most abstemious in the country, with men spending under two cents daily on drinks.
New York reports a gate of about seventy five thousand dollars for the Corbett McCoy championship bout at Madison Square Garden. The prize money was split with 60 percent to the fighters, Corbett receiving 75 percent of that share and McCoy 25 percent.
Louis Goodman, a Russian pack peddler, died at his Pittsburgh home at age 106 from a cold. He arrived in the city at age 60 and worked steadily until 104, never consulting a physician or taking medicine in his life.
The battleship Oregon has reached Nagasaki Japan and will head to China before returning to the United States for complete repairs from grounding damage.
Reports from Shanghai detail the capture of a band of eight armed robbers twelve miles from the city with one to be starved in a cage. Amoy calm. Japanese and British guards remain at consulates.
Gov Gen Wood, after a thorough island tour, will return to Havana Sunday evening. Jails are mostly empty, reconstruction proceeds slowly yet steadily, hunger not evident, US troops healthy, foreign investment held by political tension, and school expansion promises places for 250 000 children. Gen Maximo Gomez refuses national convention nomination, staying out of politics.
Thomas A Edison, famed electric wizard, near disclosure of his latest invention a machine producing electrical power without engines or dynamos. The device is claimed to approximate direct electricity production from coal signaling a major advance in power generation.
William Q. Black was hanged at 7 41 am in Bellair Maryland for the criminal assault on 15 year old Miss Jessie Bradford who lived near Aberdeen in the county.
Washington reports August internal revenue receipts totaling 29,421,391 dollars, up 1,409,103 from August last year. The monthly statement shows gains across all sources.
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