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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1896
Page
19
The Ames Times notes curious items from around the country including remarks on men and trouble from small frames to large fortunes such as Mr. Rockefeller earning about 1 368 an hour. It mentions a fire wiping out L Anse Michigan and a Kentucky woman claiming prowess with sheep.Chicago prize fight raids and public reaction to a policeman’s amusement are also described.
Montana mines yielded about 47.1 million dollars in minerals. The state’s production represented a portion of the national total. Gold valued at 4.1 million dollars, silver 4.5 million troy ounces, copper 212 thousand pounds, and lead 24.5 million pounds. Gold output rose roughly ten percent from the prior year and 47 percent from 1893.
Miss Kate Shelley of Moingona Iowa who signaled a Chicago and Northwestern express to warn a wrecked bridge during a midnight raid years ago has applied to the legislature for employment in the State house as a menial.
Miss M E Braddon argues in the Philadelphia Bulletin that a woman proposing incurs heavy responsibility. The lady would pay expenses for outings and confections, perhaps sharing beer and tobacco, while the old fashioned man would pop the question.
The passage discusses an individual learning to avoid executive responsibility to two chambers and mirrors American elective executive concepts. It notes advisers depend on legislative support for finances and contrasts English heredity with American independence. It questions the ease of upsetting ministries and the sequence of political memory burden.
Report discusses a pair claiming a 5,000 year old Isis ceremony as their true marriage. They deny formal vows, citing Egypt and ancient rites as their bond and hint at past lives across Greece and Rome. The piece questions whether marriage is a failure after such long shared history.
A hot day incident left Lillian with a sprained ankle after a cyclist struck her bicycle and damaged its frame. The crash marred the bike’s appearance and caused minor injuries to her left foot.
In Dunkirk a rumor spreads that William F. has finally been cornered by his supporters in New York Michigan and Ontario. The chatter describes the scene as a dramatic political turn with strong local interest and uncertain outcomes.
Des Moines May 29. Total damage from the recent cyclone across Polk and into Jasper counties is about 60000, with crops and minor losses pushing toward 100000. Eighty two homes damaged, some swept away, and barns damaged. Path runs forty miles from Granger to Ira with a corrected list of fatalities and about thirty injured.
Constables Oxley and Martin, acting on a court warrant from Justice Clogston, seized $600 worth of liquor at Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company and arrested manager W Zalesky for keeping and selling liquor in violation of the law. Mrs H Ritchie, plaintiff, has prior suits against the company. The action follows a Supreme Court ruling that wholesalers must follow the mulet law like retailers. Similar actions are expected against other city wholesalers.
In Perry on June 1 night watchman Ross shot laborer John Lessell three times after mistaking him for a burglar. Lessell was wounded in the left cheek and jaw, near the knee, and behind the left shoulder. Ross has been removed from the force.
John R. Prime former adjutant general sues Gov Drake and Adjutant General H H Wright to compel issuing a commission as brigadier general commanding the first brigade, Second and Third regiments. The suit seeks action after Prime’s March 25 election by eleven votes and Wright’s refusal to canvass. The Third regiment officers back the suit. Wright accuses officers of enlistment for campaign purposes and reports a possible court martial of Col. Guest.
Des Moines May 30 J C Yetzer president of the Cass County bank at Atlantic was overruled on a re hearing in his case. The bank became insolvent after receiving funds and Yetzer solicited deposits knowing the bank could not pay depositors the amounts due. He will spend five years in a state institution.
Cedar Rapids filed suit in district court against former City Treasurer Stoddard and his bondsmen J J Snouffer John W Henderson George W Bever and George Williams to recover 11582 the shortage revealed at his retirement after about fifteen years in office.
Dusoeur May 31 The Dubuque county supervisors report it will cost 100000 dollars to restore roads and bridges washed away by the recent storm after touring the county and noting the destruction.
May 31. The Cherokee bottling works run by E. S t endike and Son burned to the ground with a loss of 2000 dollars. No insurance. The fire was caused by a lighted match tossed into straw in the cellar.
Master Ernest Moffit ten, and Charlie Thomas twelve, play with a revolver when it discharges. The ball enters Moffit’s eye and lodges in the brain or skull, location uncertain. The physician deems probing unnecessary and officials believe the boy will recover.
Count von Bulow was sentenced by Judge Holmes to five years in the penitentiary for swindling Widow Schuah out of $200.
In Des Moines the supreme court denied a rehearing for John Hammill and George Weems. The case returns to the governor to set an execution date or commute to life imprisonment, with the governor likely choosing clemency as the murder was not premeditated.
August Vermeish a well to do farmer living two miles east of Hartwick died by his own action while plowing. His daughter found him hanging by a strap from a post at about five in the evening. He had tied the strap to his body and to the post. No motive is known.
In Belmond at the opera house a lamp fell during a school show striking Miss Celia Finch on the head. Oil soaked clothing ignited and she died a few hours later. Finch was a prominent city schools teacher taking a star role in the performance.
Dairy Commissioner Boardman visits Fort Madison as investigations continue into a cheese poisoning incident. Two persons have died and eight to twelve of the twenty affected are in critical condition.
Army worms have swept through large cornfields in Des Moines County during the recent rainfall. One farmer reports eighty acres of young corn destroyed in twenty four hours. Farmers fear ruin unless a remedy is found.
In Marshalltown on May 31, Thomas C McMillen a blind 38 year old man hanged himself with a clothes line from a grape arbor near his home. He left a wife and a young daughter. a little boy who had previously guided him in town had recently left.
In DupouQue on May 31 the baseball grounds custodian uncovered bones of a days old infant. The remains were on a large china platter wrapped in paper.
Benj Mayer, the fireman badly burned and scalded in the Augusta saw mill explosion, has died. His body was described as a mass of raw flesh, closing the fatal injuries from the blast.
A 14 year old boy Menchek hanged himself at Ely. George Lewis held to grand jury without bonds for killing Sam Porter field at Muchakinock. Bert Graves sentenced at Des Moines to six years for attempted murder. Dubuque dispatch notes 25 to 30 drowned at North McGregor after a storm. Eighteen people drowned in three families. Floods swept away lumber yards houses and cars between Bula and North McGregor. about a dozen cars washed into the Mississippi with horses grain and furniture.
Secretary Olney announces Cuban leaf tobacco contracts made before the export ban will be honored. U S citizens who prove bona fide ownership before the order publication may export the tobacco as previously allowed.
Nicholas II is proclaimed ruler before a global assembly at the Assumption Cathedral in Moscow. The seven hour rite included holy water, the crowning, and the czarina crowned by her husband. Proclamation follows with major reforms including tax relief, exile remissions, and restored civil rights.
The M. E. church general conference in Cleveland adopts a resolution to create a large church insurance company to compete with major insurers. General Rusling warns the move could backfire, likening it to entering the dry goods or drug business and predicting a scandalous outcome for the church.
Great Falls Mont May 28 Two cavalry troops are ordered from Fort Custer to seize Cree Indians for deportation to Canada under federal law. The Crees refuse to go without an amnesty for their Riel rebellion involvement, fearing death sentences if sent north.
The schooner Albion reaches San Francisco with news that the Lincoln is probably lost in Alaskan waters. About thirty people were aboard, all presumed dead, most of them gold seekers.
Chicago reports H H Kohlsaar receiving a cable announcing Kate Field death in Honolulu on May 19 from pneumonia. New York also notes the peaceful death of Mark M Brick Pomeroy.
Moscow June 1. A coronation day fete on the Hodynsky plain drew an estimated 500000 people. The crush broke barriers. hundreds were killed or injured as crowds surged forward. Officials report 1138 dead and 470 injured.
A sham fight near Esquimault drew crowds as two streetcars left Victoria with about 100 passengers. The second car collapsed the Macauley Point bridge, plunging 150 feet into the water and drowning all aboard except a few on the platform. Rescue complete by May 30 with fifty five dead and possible missing, amid accusations of civic negligence.
The Prohibition party met at Prrrspurne and nominated Joshua Levering of Baltimore for president by acclamation with Hale Johnson of Illinois chosen as vice president on the first ballot. The convention rejected woman suffrage. St. John’s silver platform failed 387 to 427 as the party adopted a narrow prohibition platform.
The May cyclone in Michigan has killed thirty eight and injured many more. It struck Macomb Oakland St. Clair and Lapeer counties affecting Mount Clemens Oakwood and nearby towns. Oakwood village was wiped out with all buildings destroyed.
The Presbyterian general assembly plans its next meeting in Winona Indiana. A storm near Cairo Illinois capsized the ferry Katherine resulting in eleven drownings. The Albany appeals court ruled the Raines liquor tax law constitutional in Kinsfield v City excise board. Cyclist Johnson was defeated by Jacquelin in a two kilometre match with Johnson third in 2000 metres heats and Johnson winning the second heat.
M. Gump, juror in the Henry Bolin city theft case, is arrested on bribery accusations after a first trial ended in a hung verdict. James Fitzpatrick and G L Sweeney face related charges for bribing and attempting to influence the Bolin jurors.
A late May cyclone struck St Louis and East St Louis, killing hundreds, injuring many, and wrecking buildings near the river. Reports from May 28 to June 1 show unknown dead, rising totals, with losses estimated in the millions and a major effort by authorities to restore order and aid victims.
Reports from Wasinixorox and Washington outline passage of the general deficiency bill with 10.5 million dollars. The Senate and House clash over alcohol provisions and tax adjustments on beer. Johnson and Stokes contested election case dominates debate with Johnson defeated. President vetoes river and harbor bill urging delay on expenditures and contracts totaling 62 million dollars.
The notice touts the Iowner Tornado Cyclone and Wind Insurance Association as a cheap, benevolent state institution with 30 000 members and over 38 000 in risks. It reports annual growth of about 100 per day, a $4 per $1 000 assessment, and a $70 000 four year loss payout. Secretary J B Herriman invites applications at 62 Cla block.
Drs Mores notes rising patent activity in 1895 including cotton balers straw packers excavators pneumatic drills and toy designs. Des Moines residents Willie and Harvey Timms receive notices for works on county annals bicycle stands and cultivators with adjustable teeth. W Foote Casey and T J Hook Jr Manila listed for a two horse evener and a two key typewriter with visible characters. Smiser Brothers Webster City seek a patent typewriter with instant visibility and mixed case use.
A fragmentary item notes Lieut Peary claims a $200,000 wager to discover the North Pole. Another blurb mentions a Paris exhibited talking watch that speaks the hour without a dial. A Buffalo bank card or token hints at a promotion for the ladies, and a garbled line suggests a bank in the “shortest pay out” context with change offered.
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