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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1878
Page
4
Treated items reveal international finance debates and Ottoman diplomacy. Reports detail German pressure on the Porte to honor Berlin treaty obligations, while discussions on a universal monetary unit favor the 10 franc piece. Other notes cover battles, politics, and public health incidents across Europe and the United States.
The Grand Hotel suffered its largest loss with a total fire destroying the building after water supply failures. Memphis reports 156 yellow fever deaths on the 4th, with 96 interments in 24 hours. New Orleans shows 77 new notices, 212 cases. Vicksburg improves to a lower rate. Other items include land grant pre emption rules, trade dollars issues, and political conventions nationwide.
The Sacramento murder case unfolds with arrests and confessions. Dye and Anderson describe a scheme to kill A. M. Tullis for his estate using poison and violence. They planned boats and river action, then ambushed Tullis at his ranch with a sand bag and pistol, aiming to split 3,000 dollars each.
A vivid account from Memphis and St Louis reporters describes scenes of death and delirium in New Orleans. Impoverished families, abandoned coffins, and crowds of funerals reveal a city ravaged by fever, with nurses, undertakers, and charity workers struggling amid panic and decay.
A collage of vignettes shifts from a hotel rotunda to baseball talk and money orders. It compares rustic talk about a game with urban finance, lists European royal civil lists, and ends with oddball country humor and a Madrid scarf anecdote.
A Chambers' Journal vignette recalls a farm servant who compares sermon influence to laundry run through and rinsed clean. He admits not recalling details, yet insists the effect remains, like a freshly washed shirt that shows no trace of soap or starch.
A map of about 7 000 persons took a negro named William Taylor from the Sheriff of Sandusky Ohio and hung him. The negro confessed to being a servant girl. Groner Howst was hung at Greenville Tennessee for murder and forgave the court. His last words were I ought not to have don it. A pistol shot from Tuscon Arizona reports.
The Central Pacific Railroad projects about 15 million dollars in gross earnings for the current year, with roughly 8 million dollars in net profit. Past peak earnings reached 17 million gross and 9 million net. The Chicago and Northwestern does not take a preferred 3 million from the gross and Danteal Pacific has uplifted freight rates.
A U S El Paso Customs District examiner reports widespread smuggling across the Rio Grande. He says enforcement is impractical, tariffs fail, and a Mexico reciprocity treaty or free trade is the only solution while noting heavy Mexican duties on US goods and imported arms.
The New York Elevated railroad on the east side near Grand Central South Ferry opened to the public. Trains now run on the east side with hopes of less noise than the west side though residents must endure unavoidable disturbances. The era of rapid transit replaces horse cars, bringing benefits to the city despite ongoing annoyances.
The cable reports prizes won at Paris in fifteen classes of the American section with details of awards to E. & T. Fairbanks and Class 15.
Two women collide in a dry goods shop then chat of moves, marriages, and new homes. Mrs Hixley and Louise share gossip about Middletown, Hamilton, and Lawrenceburg, noting spouses, families, and Louise’s remarriage to a widower with a farm and three children.
A reader is urged to use a vegetable based life sustaining product described as safe and restorative. The notice promotes regain of vigor through this restorative aid and frames it as a reliable source for renewed energy.
Advertisements tout Grace's Sarve as a universal family remedy for scalds, chapped hands, sores, and fevers with rapid action and safety. Dr Wilhoft's Tonic is claimed to cure chills and protect against further attacks, presented as simple, scientific, harmless, and inexpensive.
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