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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1896
Page
2
The item catalog notes curious bits from the Ames Times headed by quirky lines about divine healers and a Denver juror, plus playful quips on a nautical bicycle crossing oceans and a Mississippi boast. It mentions Mrs. M. A. Warren serving on a Denver jury as the first woman chosen in Colorado.
The city plans a centennial celebration next summer and has formed a committee on noise. In Missouri Polk county business leaders promote their locality with envelopes printed The land of the red cheeked children. Mrs McSweeney of Chicago won 2000 against Dr Ireland after a dental chair encounter. St Joseph ladies held their mayor to back curfew and against cigars. Michigan women race ahead with timely action.
A Chicago theosophist reports that two New York couples who believed they were 5000 years apart as husband and wife are actual strangers. The tale raises a comic fear that future long past spouses may sue for bigamy when found.
Harvey Salter and his wife were shopping in Portsmouth Ohio when he was arrested for bigamy after a passerby recognized him. Mrs Salter later learned she may be the ninth or second wife in his alleged sequence of marriages.
The movement led by the National Association of Manufacturers to establish a department of commerce with cabinet representation spreads. The New National board of trade, Boston chamber of commerce, and New York boards have increased support with resolutions urging Congress to create the department.
The London Pall Mall Gazette reports a deputation of Norfolk farmers and graziers pressing the government to drop the cattle diseases bill, arguing no Canadian cattle disease exists and import risk is nil, signaling government difficulty in passing the measure. The Daily News agrees the bill, tied to restricting Canadian cattle imports, will likely be abandoned by the government.
Dornbusch Lon notes world potato output increased in major European producers in 1894 with three of them reporting larger crops. Great Britain Ireland and Germany also show gains while the United States harvested a notably large crop, underscoring a broader rise in potato supply.
Report notes about about 2000 Italian immigrants reaching New York this week with most sent back. The author questions why the remaining few were not repatriated and implies racial bias against Chinese immigrants.
An Osage group reportedly seeks a Seeley cure at Perry in Oklahoma Territory, hoping to develop a strong affinity for the sky and its effects, and to become better Indians. a failure to cure would be disappointing.
Nelson Wilkinson, an engineer at the Sioux City Starch works, lies near death at Samaritan hospital after a quarrel over a woman named Della Ryan. C. F. Norfolk claims self defense as the two fought in the factory with a plane and a pocket knife.
Mrs Harlan Scott wife of a Paris minister in Davis county killed herself in Centerville after a period of mental distress. She used a double barreled shotgun placing the barrel end against her abdomen and pushed the triggers with a stick. Death followed quickly she was the daughter of a prominent stock man of Appanoose county and mother of six children.
S K Winne a respected and likely wealthiest Humboldt resident commits suicide at his home. He leaves three grown sons Salem Edward and Lawrence. His wife died recently while he was away for health reasons, and his ill health is cited as a probable cause.
Armtrond May 15 J W Fritz 32 a farmer died while plowing on his farm ten miles south of Armstrond He suffered fainting fits and it is believed his team frightened causing the plow to strike his head tearing brain tissue and scattering it several rods He is survived by his wife and two children.
Fire at Perry roller mills burned the building to the ground after 1 a.m. Firefighters struggled to save nearby corn cribs and structures. The Kenworthy and Capen mill, valued at 8,000 dollars with 3,000 dollars in insurance, is a total loss. Origin of the fire is unknown.
Peter Youngreen, a painter, fell from a ladder while painting and landed on a picket fence. He was taken to St. Francis hospital, operated on, but cannot recover. The incident occurred in Berurxeron on May 16.
Atlantic May 15 ex president J C Yetzer of Cass County Bank is dying amid legal woes. He faces a five year penitentiary sentence and is on bonds pending appeal to the supreme court over the bank robbery charge.
In Avoca in the Rock Island waiting room W Cuppy was tried for assault with intent to murder pension agent E C Brown. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
In Dupreve on May 17 Judge Husted instructed the grand jury to indict the keepers of the wine rooms whose presence in Dubuque was a campaign issue in the recent election.
May 14 Muscatine defense in the Mahin dynamiters case raises a challenge to the grand jury's legality. If upheld, indictments against the dynamiters could be dismissed with no chance for renewed charges. The case moves to the supreme court on a writ of habeas corpus.
In Centerville May 14 a 16 year old girl Mame Peterson was shot on the highway after an ice cream social with George Shutts. A suspect Ned Hemphill, aged years, held in jail as jealousy motive is suspected.
Cedar Ramips May 15 At the meeting of the Ancient Order of United Workmen officers were elected Grand master workman R L Tilton Ottumwa grand foreman John D Blain Cedar Rapids grand overseer C H Churchill Fort Dodge grand recorder B F Redkoph Des Moines grand receiver William Wilson Jr Washington grand watch man B F Bigelow Walnut grand trustee J P Moncise Mr Pleasant representatives to the supreme lodge H S Toole Clinton William Wilson Jr Washington A W Weeks Winterset The next annual meeting will be held at Keokuk.
John Young, long noted bootlegger in Worth county, is accused of luring Herman Myers's 12 year old daughter into his barn and debauching her. He is bound over to the grand jury amid local outrage in Crafton where worries rose over possible execution.
Sioux City May 18 The damage suits of some members of the Association of Grain Dealers of Northwest Iowa against various railroads in the northwest part of the state to recover alleged overcharges have been filed for record in the clerk of courts office.
A Coalville miner John Webloom died at Ft. Dodge during an optical operation and a coroner’s jury ruled accidental death from chloroform. In Independence a man named Frank McCoy was bound over for grand larceny and burglary after entering a private residence and stealing a gold watch. At Oskaloosa the Baumgart house burned. Francis W. Koska died in the basement fire at 86, believed to have lit his pipe and suffocated. Des Moines notes Iowa Allison club plans for St. Louis with five floors of sleeping space, electric lighting, elevators, 1000 cots, meals at 25 cents. Memorial Day proclaimed for May 30. Swirl of storms hits southwestern towns, with damage to buildings in Creston and Shelby. no deaths reported.
A Cuban letter from General Gomez to Tomas Estrada Palma describes attacks on peasants, destruction of homes and cattle, and a summer campaign. Weyler orders grain shipment to towns, Staats seizure of surplus after twenty days. Viedomosti notes Spain seeks English and French help if war with the United States occurs.
Two masked men robbed a Buffalo bank thirteen miles east of the city at noon. They bound and gagged cashier Carl Kloppenburg and fled with $11,000. A citizen later found him bound on the floor. authorities search the area.
Laura McAester I. T. May 16. Austin Pursley a negro received 100 lashes and John Prola a white citizen thirty nine on their bare backs. Pursley charged with larceny and Prola with selling coal contrary to law. Lashes laid on by the Choctaw sheriff using hickory switches causing blood and wounds washed with salt water.
Reports claim cholera was found in Marseilles with ships sailing to America potentially spreading it. Across London a barber shop shaves, washes and frizzes dogs. Osborne Kansas female students form two baseball teams. A Philadelphia barber asks a corpse if the razor hurts. Opals found near Genessee Idaho. Glass bricks used in Silesia admit light but are opaque.
A cyclone hit Sherman and surrounding towns causing about 100 deaths and 150 injuries with $150000 in damage. The black district suffered heavy losses and several towns including Denton Howe Justin and Carpenter Bluff reported fatalities and destruction.
President Burns of the National Window Glass Workers Association says the May 16 action by 31 manufacturers in Muncie Indiana to close their plants will have no effect. The strike at Marlin Hart works will not end until the discharged worker is reinstated.
President Cleveland appoints William Lochren of Minnesota, former commissioner of pensions, as United States district judge for the district of Minnesota. Dominic Murphy of Pennsylvania is named commissioner of pensions.
May 18 in Newport Kentucky seven prisoners fled the county jail where Jackson and Walling, accused of killing Pearl Bryan, are housed. Officials believe the escapees may have left the building but some stayed behind.
Cincinnati May 15 The jury returned a verdict of guilty in the murder trial of Scott Jackson and sentenced him to death.
Wyoming, North Carolina, West Virginia, Washington, and Colorado Republicans pledge support for McKinley and bimetallism while a treasury gold reserve approaches one hundred million. Ex police captain E B Carpenter pleads guilty to taking a bribe. a Kentucky storm kills a farmer and his three sons as a tree is struck by lightning. Hancock statue unveiled in Washington with Cleveland presiding. A cyclone near Omaha wipes out Panama village. one fatally injured. Chee Foo tense with Russian and US warships. Caracas battle uses bullets. one man killed.
Senate approved river and harbor measures including a 12.2 million direct appropriation and 64 million in continuing contracts. The House debated district matters and contested elections while private pension bills moved swiftly. Dupont seat dispute concluded with a Senate defeat of Henry A. Dupont.
A private telegram from Bern states that Col. Francis Rhodes Lionel Phillips J H Hammond and George Farrar of the Johannesburg reform committee have had their death sentences commuted to five years imprisonment. Fifty nine other reform committee members had two years imprisonment and a 2000 pound fine with three years banishment reduced to one year imprisonment.
Santa Barbara May 16 After months of toil and trials the battleship Oregon achieved an average speed of 16.78 knots on speed tests in the Santa Barbara channel beating the world record.
The Iowa Prohibitionists convened with J. A. Harvey as chairman and Capt. K. W. Manent. They endorsed the 1895 adoption form and reported a unanimous approval. District selections named John Lackey, Isaac T. Gibson, W. R. Benket, Daven A. Gilley, J. B. Fith, Joe Falls, H. G. Parker, W. Reber Whittemore, Dr. W. Reber, etc. Officers chosen include state auditor Wm. G. Wright, state treasurer J. W. Wonders, supreme court Samuel Holmes, Belle Mix, railroad commissioner Wm. S. Piele, attorney general F. M. Ferdbury.
Madrid dispatch reports the speech from the throne outlining a local Cuban administration and financial control, while preserving Spain’s sovereign rights. It reiterates promises to Cubans, cautions rebellion harmed Cuba’s independence, and notes foreign support must not threaten Spain-US friendship.
A Vossische Zeitung dispatch from Constantinople reports the sultan fears assassination like the Persian shah and has ordered arrests of about two hundred Armenians in the city in recent days. Prisoners are said to have been cruelly tortured.
General Grosvenor asserts 548 McKinley votes while Congressman Aldrich cites 361 exclusive of contested cases and notes these must be resolved to secure the nomination. The column also touches on detachable collars and shirt waist fashions as a social aside.
In Philadelphia on May 17 a suit was filed against James R. Powderly former head of the American Federation of Labor seeking 4225.73 in balance due for services as master workman and general executive board member of the order. The case stems from Powderly’s claimed balance and follows his tenure as head of the organization.
In Cleveland on May 16 the committee on episcopacy proposed retiring Bishops Foster due to age and inability to carry duties, and the report was adopted by the Methodist general conference.
Fragmentary report notes Spanish vessels were given to a museum and moved to a lagoon in front of the museum. Mentions Bath Maine with three mayors and a garbled dialogue about marriage and a Bachelor’s club. References a bee relief and ammonia tincture as remedies.
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