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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1893
Page
10
In a tense drawing room scene Amelia Norcross berates Nora Hemway for earlier subterfuge while Eugene Norcross confronts a letter exposing Amelia’s past. A lurking sewing woman hears the confrontation as Nora hides, and Amelia's fragile calm shatters into fear and threat.
Amelia’s sister Nora confronts Eugene Norcross in his Esplanade library over the fatal letter and the murder of Amelia. The talk reveals trust shattered, suspicions cast, and Norcross denies guilt while offering five thousand dollars for the killer’s identity.
Des Moines report details brutal murder of Anna Wiese near Greene Mountain August 26. The crime involved ambush, a cudgel, knife wounds, and a severed head with ten knife stabs. Witnesses Henry Russo and his son heard her screams. the sheriff organized posses and began a manhunt while Weisse’s background notes her German parentage and status as a respected farmer’s daughter near Gladbrook.
A reflective poem titled The Unlearned Lesson by J. T. Connor printed in the Ames Intelligencer on September 14 1893. It meditates on parental regret for rushing past gentleness and love toward other duties after considering a child in slumber and the lesson of kindness.
Guidance from Farm and Fireside urges honesty with ill children about medicines. Explain displeasure and necessity plainly to foster trust. Truthful, firm instructions are said to reduce struggle and build a healthier, honest next generation.
In a Town Topics style exchange Miss Bunting and her father discuss energy costs with humor. He notes electric light is pricier than gas and she counters with a quip about turning it out. The brief vignette captures domestic lightheartedness.
Richard M Hooley born 1822 in Ballina Ireland dies at 2 40 pm in Chicago at his home 17 Delaware place His death closes a career spanning minstrel shows Niblo’s Garden Hooley’s theater and Hooley's opera house He built the Grand Opera House site after 1871 fire and leaves a legacy of patronage and industry friendship with figures in London and New York
The president sent to the Senate a slate of nominations for US diplomacy. Runyon to Germany as ambassador, Willis to Hawaii as envoy, Smythe to Hayti as minister resident and consul general, Mills to Honolulu as consul general, Carroll to Dresden as consul general. Consuls named: Willis at Port Stanley and St Thomas, Mobley at Acapulco, Maciver at Denia, Keenan at Kiel, Astwood at Calais, Moore at St Christopher. Annexation stance noted as Hawaii not to be annexed, Blount report expected in about two weeks.
Mrs. James of Chicago visiting her daughter Mrs. Herbert West was thrown from a carriage on Fullerton avenue when the horse frightened. She died instantly after striking her head on the curb. Mrs. West and her child were slightly injured. In Indianapolis, John H. Dines protested a railroad property assessment before the state board of equalization saying bonds and stock yield no value, seeking lower per mile valuation.
Special Agent Babcock reports that twenty thousand people on the South Carolina sea coast face starvation. Previous reports fail to capture the severity, and the entire country is urged to help alleviate the distress.
Frederick Buck holze a wealthy Illinois farmer was killed at Mokena station when struck while crossing the tracks. Ex-King Milan of Servia aged 39 has apoplexy and is seriously ill in Belgrade. William Mawher was acquitted in Bluffs County Ia of murdering his wife by poisoning, the third wife to die similarly.
Chicago hosts a Catholic congress with leaders like Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop Corrigan discussing labor rights public and private charity temperance women’s work and education. Delegates adopt a memorial urging peaceful arbitration and denounce war as a Christian blot.
Graphic reminiscence of a Sixth Cavalry division engagement at close range. The narrative describes a risky right flank move to support a battery, a fierce melee with overwhelming enemy numbers, and heavy casualties as they break through smoke, sabers, revolvers, and horseflesh. The piece also recalls ghastly battlefield aftermath and the Brock road’s grim role in that Civil War ordeal.
Des Moines, Iowa September 9. The Democratic central committee after discussion reached an understanding that Governor Boles should be candidate for senator. Upset by a Gate Shelton Connecticut September 9. Alfred Bragg his wife two daughters his son Silas and Henry Welton of Birmingham were at Smiths Point cottage when wind overturned it. Bragg found paralyzed under a door and died Friday. Mrs Bragg and one daughter were bruised and confined to bed.
Jack Skinner, described as desperate, was arrested here by Sheriff Unger of Cherokee Iowa for the murder of Martin Schultz and his wife near Cherokee on August 16. A Cherokee reward of 1500 was offered for the killer’s arrest and conviction.
New York reports Claus Timmerman, associate of Emma Goldman, jailed six months for inciting to riot in Union Square on August 21. Also notes Cunard steamship Campania’s record eastward voyage and Belgrade earthquake damage with casualties.
The narrator recalls the Wilderness as a dark forest of memory from Chancellorsville to Mine Run. The land remains somber and tangled, a silent stage where history and nature intertwine, with roads piercing its depths and wild creatures at play along the lonely highway.
An Indiana soldier recalls May 1862 near Farming ton where his company built corduroy road when a conflict with the Ninth Louisiana broke out. Capt. Davis urged skirmishers to hold, and Hoosiers rallied with grit as they fell back in order. One man bore a heavy load and survived to report the others were killed.
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