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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1898
Page
6
Readable scraps offer aphorisms about charity happiness and imperialism. The piece muses on money loss from cockfights determination of character and the impact of actions on future joy. It references Spain and empire with reflective social commentary.
A reflection on virtue arguing that weakness can become strength. Cowardice may yield courage, rash temperance may foster self control, and dogmatism may temper into gentleness. The message promises blessing to those who overcome, not to the already endowed.
Paris scientists attribute the past summer’s extreme heat to sun-spots. Astronomer Flammarion cites a huge sun-spot six times Earth’s size and a visible group over 200000 kilometers long, warning of violent solar envelope agitation.
The queen regent of Holland issued a proclamation marking the end of her regency. She expressed the wish that the country become great in every domain a small nation can excel in, stressing greatness lies in righteousness, honor, courage, and sympathy rather than size or population.
Willet and Gray report 2000 pounds of cane yield 130 pounds plantation granulated sugar and 30 pounds seconds at $7.16 per ton while 2000 pounds of Nebraska beets yield 220 pounds granulated at $11.55 at the factory. They note cane extraction costs are lower than beet processing costs per ton.
Helena report credits favorable conditions for Montana wool industry with an exceptionally strong season. Growers foresee ample feed at low cost due to a large hay crop, keeping lambs in good condition. Total Montana wool clip estimated at about 22.5 million pounds, with some estimates ranging to 25 million.
A German physician lectured a class of ladies on how to prepare and preserve food using bacteriological methods. Emphasis on absolute cleanliness, boiling water cleansing, and special overhanging lids with cotton disks to prevent germ entry. Demonstrations showed preserved food remaining unchanged after one to two weeks in a warm room.
Present indications suggest Canada's wheat crop will be the greatest in the Dominion’s history. Ontario’s bulletin estimates fall wheat at 25,000,000 bushels and spring wheat at 6,500,000, both up from last year. Manitoba harvests underway with crop likely 15,000,000 bushels higher, totaling an estimated 40,000,000 to 50,000,000.
Des Moines October 7 Judge Gamble in Knoxville district court declared no municipality may levy a daily license fee on itinerant physicians or surgeons. The ruling affects cities that imposed a $5 daily license on traveling doctors dentits and surgeons, and it stands to influence similar cases statewide.
A derailed special freight train near Coralville Iowa City kills Fireman F Starkey after switch was tampered with by train wreckers. Engine 804 driven by Al Hibbard and Conductor W Straw horn, four grain cars derail. Reward of 500 dollars offered for the criminals.
Mrs James Ramsey wife of a Chicago Rock Island Pacific car repairer was instantly killed in Atlantic Oct 9 when a caboose struck her as she passed near the yards likely to see her son. Four wheels passed over her as crew moved cars during routine work. Her husband had long served the company and was visiting a son at Guernsey at the time of the layoff.
New Hampton reports the Wm. Christoph murder case ended with a guilty verdict after four hours of deliberation. The jury sentenced him to life imprisonment in the penitentiary and he will be taken to Anamosa. Minnie Boos was the murdered girl central to the case.
Two more suspects tied to a Gifford gang are charged with robbing a Union millinery store. R H Kennedy arrested at the Pilgrim hotel while bathing. Gordon Smith detained after visiting Kennedy. Both men rode a suspicious train from Gifford to Marshalltown and are handed to Hardin county officials. Kendall and Ryan remain in Marshalltown awaiting trial for robbing a safe at Vancleve.
Patrick Kennedy, a farmer from near Albany, was struck by a passenger train while crossing the Chicago Warlington and Quincy tracks at East Clinton. His wagon was hit, one horse killed, Kennedy thrown from the wagon with grave head and left side injuries. He was brought to Mercy hospital in an unconscious state and is not expected to survive.
Charles Gingrich of Lancaster Wisconsin fell from a moving passenger train at Arispie at midnight and was killed instantly. He was en route to Oklahoma to seek farming land and authorities note he appeared heavily intoxicated, about 50 to 55 years old.
Jacksonville Fla Oct 7 Deaths in the Forty ninth Iowa list H H Staminger of Tipton E Frahm of Reinbeck and David M McCord all soldiers named in dispatches with brief service details from the squadron and company listings
Private Kirk Bates of the Pitty-first towa dies at Camp Presidio due to complications from typhoid fever.
Five masked men forced saloonkeeper George Moetsch of Devon to surrender money at his Devon saloon in New Hampton on October 7. They locked him in an ice box, he escaped but was badly injured. no clues yet.
After a fierce contest the proposal to tax to aid the Duluth and Gulf railroad passed in Ross township by 12 votes.
In Sueis Rock on October 7 a neighbor boy with a wagon frightened John P. Hall's children as they walked home from school. One boy jumped from the wagon, struck a stone, and died hours later while the other escaped injury.
Iowa Adjutant General Byers tours Camp Merritt noting Iowa regiment hospital care and a personal link through his son-in-law Henry Barnett. The report covers dismissals in a murder by poisoning case involving Prof Herman Brueckner, a store burglary in Blockton, a fatal gunshot at Iowa City area, and multiple legal actions including Radamacher Ware and Clare jail fire.
Dewey cables that Spanish troops have reached Singapore en route to the Philippines to bolster the Tiololo garrison. The action tests the protocol suspending hostilities and may hinge on whether Spain confines moves to defense or offense, with peace commission decisions pending.
Garcia, acting as an American government agent, sails from New York with sixty men to visit Jiguani Bayamo and Manzanillo and others to secure a peaceful disarmament of Cuban soldiers. The three week tour is supported with rations from General Lawton.
Government vows further force if needed to arrest Indians suspected in soldier killings near Bear Island. Gen Bacon and 250 troops move to the reservation, seeking twenty men with bench warrants. The confrontation follows a prior clash as Bear Island Indians countered near the mainland, with seven killed and eleven wounded among troops and Indian police.
George D Saxton brother of Mrs McKinley was shot five times in front of a Canton residence as he visited Mrs Eva Althouse widow of George Althouse. Three bullets struck him. Anna C George is under arrest on suspicion of murder. Saxton had recently won damages from a man for alienation of his wife's affections.
General Bacon and his troops reach Walker Minnesota with no trouble in embarking. He notes white flags along the lake suggesting surrender at several points. Fear remains among locals that the uprising may not be over as natives may regroup for another attack. bodies of Major Wilkinson Sergeant Butler four privates and eleven wounded soldiers sent to St Paul.
Great Work by Hobson in Playa Del Este shows naval contractor Hobson returning with several guns from the Spanish cruiser Almirante Oquendo. Five more guns have been landed at Santiago. Guns recovered from Infanta Maria Teresa Vizcaya and Almirante Oquendo are valued at 300000 dollars.
A detachment of sixty six Russian soldiers with two 7pounders, 200 British marines and 30 German marines arrived in Pekin and marched to their quarters. They will protect the legations of Russia Great Britain and Germany.
Des Moines reports patents allowed though not yet issued to R F Fleak of Stuart Iowa for a rotary pump with pivoted valves producing uniform flow and preventing pounding. One third of the patent is assigned to G Laird and J B Grove. Also, D F Walker of Adair receives a patent for an automatic check row mechanism for corn planters using a journal cross bar, a convex wheel, chained sprockets, and a clutch to operate as described.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel site in New York City, though the building is gone, could command about 2 000 000 dollars on the real estate market. In 1848 it formed part of a five acre tract bought by Parson Stevens for 5 000 dollars. H C Worth sent a carrier pigeon from San Francisco to Manila via Honolulu and Nagasaki, Japan, returning to California. the bird reached home well before the ship arrived near port.
Warrants issued for United States Senator Matthew Stanley Quay his son Richard and others in a conspiracy with John S Hopkins to divert public funds. Hopkins killed himself before the bank failed. Quay and his son surrendered in Atlantic City and posted 5000 bail each. They were bound over for the November term after a three hour hearing.
Paris October fourth reports the peace commissioners meeting from two to four with a believed American demand for the whole Philippines. Madrid consultations forced adjournment and a month was seen to finish the work. October eighth notes nothing of importance occurred with written proposals exchanged and both sides to deliberate in recess.
General Grant's brigade comprising the Third Illinois and Fourth Ohio is ordered to sail for home from Ponce around October 16.
The British foreign office reports no news of the Chinese emperor’s death and rejects the circulating report. Also noted are unrest and arrests in Paris amid Dreyfus controversy and calls for a European conference on suppressing anarchism.
The War Department inquiry progress covers testimony from General Wheeler, General Boynton, General Lee and others. Findings discuss Camp Wikoff Camp Thomas Camp Merritt and Jacksonville conditions, supplies, water, sinks, and disease causes, with plans to tour Meade or Jacksonville starting the night of the 16th.
Jacksonville reports orders for the Seventh corps to assemble at once for departure to Savannah and embarkation to Cuba. The item also notes unrelated historical and industrial facts including Tartars drinking horse blood, a Scottish coal mine fire, and a modern engineering efficiency claim of 50 000 workers aided by machinery once requiring 16 million people.
War in Minnesota reports a dawn clash at Bog Up Me Go Shirk s Point fifty miles from Walker where 6 US troops led by General Bacon battle Bear Indians 150 to 200 strong. Four soldiers slain and many Indians killed in a chaotic fight with reinforcements sent to Bear Island and nearby towns.
Hon. Joseph Simon of Portland won the U S Senate seat in a joint legislative session to fill the vacancy since March 4 1897. Ballot totals were Simon 64 Kincaid 23 Bennett 2 absent 1.
A fish missing scales from a wound or abrasion cannot regrow them. The text warns such fish may carry mourning for the healthy kin. It cites Calcutta jute mills running 4 30 a m to 9 p m and Sundays for repairs and cleaning. A mob in Leland Mississippi blundered into the jail and lynched the wrong man after confusing cell numbers.
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