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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1898
Page
4
A fragment from a 19th or early 20th century newspaper ponders values in desert performance, revenge, and national mood. It recalls Roosevelt transitioning from cavalry to policy work and notes lingering American vigor while mocking annexation chatter and Oklahoma mob justice questions.
Advice urges prudent management of wealth as with health, enjoying gains, exercising patience during downturns, and avoiding violent remedies except in extreme necessity. Emphasizes restraint and measured actions over rash, drastic measures.
Lillian Russell plays to full houses in Berlin with strong prospects of a German husband. A German delegate at the next international convention of Russell's former husbands could bring variety to the proceedings.
A sweeping dislike for political bossism grows from crowded city wards to the national stage. Voters express disgust and readiness to root out boss control, starting in ward precincts and culminating at the White House.
The piece notes Cu ban flags as a growing drug market issue with dealers facing losses. It argues Americans may no longer buy Cuban flags, but cautions against forgetting Cuba as the real trouble lies ahead.
Sir Hugh Nelson premier of Queensland Sir George H Reid premier of New South Wales and Sir George H Turner premier of Victoria met to discuss a Pacific cable. They proposed that Britain and Canada guarantee five ninths of the cost and ask their legislatures to contribute one ninth each with New Zealand covering the remaining ninth.
The article contrasts brave women aiding soldiers with a minority of self serving critics. It praises sensible women who help bear wartime burdens and encourage fortitude rather than mutiny or desertion.
An English laborer boasts he dares spend his last garden, while a German girl selling violets in a western city shows thrift and effort. She earns money, helps her family, and saves three hundred dollars to fund college, prompting a Harvard graduate teacher to rethink value and opportunity.
Two alien powers dispute each other's right to build railroads and exploit China's resources, viewing expansion as a path to real control and a source of potential warfare. The text links peaceful progress with preparation for conflict and warns of paradoxical rule.
Iowa day at the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition drew about 25 000 Lowans to Omaha. A parade led by Iowa cadets and Dodge Light Guards preceded speeches by Governor Shaw, R G Cousins and S H Mallory. Souvenir programs featured images of Shaw and the Iowa building.
Jacob Moyers killed James Raymond after catching him with Moyers wife in a bedroom. Raymond fled to the dining room where Moyers followed and fatally stabbed him in the right breast. Raymond died on the porch moments later. Moyers was taken into custody without resisting.
Charles A. Schaeffer, president of the State University of Iowa, died in Iowa City after a brief illness. Born 1843 in Pennsylvania, he studied at Penn, Harvard, Goettingen, and Berlin, taught at Cornell, and led Iowa University since 1887. He leaves a wife and three children.
Des Moines report says a third member of the Fiftieth Iowa regiment refused to serve at the Red Cross hospital in the sanitarium to care for sick comrades. Two soldiers initially refused duty, charges were filed, and Captain Olmsted has filed charges against the third man.
Des Moines reports thirty five stores taxed under the mulet duty with many resisting per orders from the American Tobacco Company. Other items note two men jailed for obtaining money under false pretenses near Avon. A Bank in Hastings was robbed of over two thousand dollars. Iowa volunteers at Camp Cuba Libre receive a positive report. Guthrie Center records a first murder in the county. Drake University receives a 26000 endowment check from ex Governor Drake.
In Des Moines the Scottish Union and National Insurance Companies of Edinburgh and London file an appeal arguing the 3 percent gross receipts tax is unconstitutional. The case affects foreign and out of state insurers and hinges on discriminatory rates against non resident firms.
In Clinton on Sept 25 the Howes vs New York Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association case was removed from jury trial and decided by the court. The judge ruled the defendant, holding that non payment of annual dues cancels the policies, reversing a previous decision in favor of the plaintiff.
In Des Moines district court George F. Knopp was granted a divorce from his wife Alice Adamson Whissen Knopp who had married for $3000 and then refused to live with him.
An advertisement urges readers to avoid surface water and sewage borne illness and to drink Colfax Mineral Water. The Colfax Mineral Water Co. of Colfax Iowa promotes its product as a safe alternative.
Cedar Rapids dispatch reports Charles G. Beckley a Milwaukee brakeman was run down by a switch engine in the Milwaukee yards at Marion. He sustained mangled leg and abdomen injuries and died at the hospital from those injuries.
Ames, Sept 22 Fred N Meyers a student at Iowa Agricultural College shot himself through the temple with a revolver in a act of despondency. The tragedy occurred in this city and follows a period of personal distress.
Secretary of war Alger condemned camp conditions and hospital care as misrepresented by reports from camps. He told officers at Gen. McKee's headquarters that commanding officers bear responsibility for sanitation and medical supplies. Other officials cited failures at Chickamauga and criticized quartermasters Ludington and Lee for unreleased requisitions.
Washington reports a peremptory message to the Cuban military mission used as the basis for a note to the Spanish commissioners. The note warns Washington will not tolerate further delays in Cuba's evacuation and that Spanish sovereignty must be relinquished as per the protocol.
London dispatch reports a Hong Kong source detailing a Pekin signed convention of March 27. China ceded Port Arthur and Ta-Lein-Wan with only Russian and Chinese warships allowed at Port Arthur and access to Ta-Lein-Wan’s inner harbor. Russia gains administration of ceded lands and a buffer zone north of Ta-Lein-Wan.
It is stated that Havana reports Spain cannot start evacuation before November and cannot finish before February. The president wired commissioners that evacuation must begin by October 15 and end by December 31.
The United States peace commissioners arrived in London after disembarking from the Campania on Saturday. They are in good health and proceed to Paris for the duties ahead, having left London earlier today for the next leg of their journey.
Colonel William Jennings Bryan with Governor Holcomb and Representative Stark urge President McKinley to muster out the sick and those with special calls from the Third Nebraska volunteers. The president gave no definite promise.
It is announced that Hon. Geo. N. Curzon former parliamentary secretary for the foreign office will succeed the Earl of Elgin as viceroy of India. He is elevated to the peerage as Baron Curzon of Kedleston.
Description notes Russian soldiers wash and dress with care before combat, linking cleanliness to entering heaven. It also mentions a San Francisco suburb horse railroad where a horse drags a car uphill at 234 miles per hour and the descent proceeds at 15 miles per hour, with the horse on the rear platform.
The war commission to investigate the Spanish War met at the White House with eight members including Grenville M. Dodge as chair. Dr. Phineas S. Conner will complete the panel while President McKinley offered full support to secure witnesses and papers. Dodge named chairman Wightman secretary and Mills military recorder.
The US transport China lands in port bringing Aguinaldo emissary Felipe Agoncillo and Jose Lopez from Manila via Hong Kong Nagasaki and Kobe. They head to Washington to seek Philippine independence and may go to Paris for the peace talks. Agoncillo says insurgents expect self rule and hints at prior talks with the US consul.
The Centurion, flagship of the British fleet in Chinese waters, left under sealed orders with several squadron ships. The likely destination is Ta-Ku near the river entrance to Tien-Tsin and Pekin for a naval demonstration.
In London Sept 26 Count Esterhazey disclosed he authored the famous Dreyfus bordereau. He said he wrote it at the request of Col. Sandherr who is now dead.
Yokoya Ma September 23 reports the Japanese government is understood to have decided to negotiate a loan of fifty million dollars.
General Lawton reported most Spanish prisoners at Santiago will be sent to Spain, with yellow fever cases among the remainder. McKinley considers easing civil service rules to widen political appointments. American evacuation plans target Bahia Honda and Jucaro in Cuba. Five regiments including the Fifty-first Iowa and others to Manila, with transports repurposed. The sultan orders Djevad Pasha to meet British disarmament demands in Crete amid rumors of a British occupation. Two ringleaders in the British camp attack are among released prisoners.
A mine disaster at Empire mine in Snowden Gould & Company Pennsylvania leaves seven entombed after gas and fire damp explosions. Eight men die and three are hurt with four escaping after a gas explosion and subsequent fire damp blast amid a one and a half mile underground traverse.
The peace commissioners and staff will have ample funds with $250000 deposited to Judge Day in a Paris bank and unlimited drawing power. Daily expenses are estimated at $1000. Commissioners receive $150 a day, Secretary Moore $75, Assistant Secretary MacArthur $50, eleven attach es well provided. Day and Reid to receive $25000 each, Moore $20000.
The Havana special reports eight thousand hospital patients with forty three in the most dangerous yellow fever type and about three daily deaths. Outside hospitals cases unknown, 1263 total deaths since September 1, including 22 yellow fever deaths. Americans British and French among affected.
Admiral Cervera has arrived in Madrid and says Spain must face reality after the war. He defends his record on Santiago, arguing nations grow by victories, not defeats, and that his ships were destroyed by fire rather than battle.
In Narragansett Pier Rhode Island on September 24 the body of Winnie Davis Daughter of the Confederacy was brought to the train under escort by a G A R delegation. The tribute reinforces northern southern ties and honors the deceased.
In Washington on September 24 opponents of Colonel Roosevelt moving to nominate him governor claim he lacks New York residency. They cite affidavits showing recent declarations of residence in Washington.
Buenos Ayres reports Chile has given Argentina five days to accept the unrestricted arbitration of the boundary dispute between the two nations, per El Tiempo.
Yokohama Sept 23 The Japanese government replies to the czars circular proposing universal disarmament expressing approval of the plan and promising support.
Paris reports the minister of foreign affairs offers the foreign office for peace commission meetings starting October 1. The article notes the date and location for the diplomatic talks and confirms official support from Paris.
An accord has been signed by Chile and Argentina to submit their boundary disputes to arbitration. The agreement was announced from Buenos Aires on September 25.
Miss Winnie Davis remains laid to rest with impressive ceremonies in the local cemetery. Croesus is noted to have owned about 20 000 000 and a discussion on language mastery follows. Japanese cities feature streets dedicated to specific wares such as wooden shoes, wooden ware, paper lanterns, and bamboo goods.
A Beijing imperial edict announces the Chinese emperor resigns to the dowager empress who orders ministers to report to her. Kang Yumei fled to Shanghai. Li Hongzhang likely to regain influence as Russian leverage grows. Japan's Marquis Ito sought a China Japan alliance, affecting British interests.
Winnie Davis daughter of the Confederacy dies at the Rockingham hotel in Narragansett Pier after weeks of illness. She arrived for the social season but fell gravely ill, later diagnosed as malarial gastritis. Her death follows the loss of her father, a cause of deep family sorrow among her close circle.
General Augusti, former captain general of the Philippine islands, has reached Victoria near Bilbao. He appears ill and reticent about Manila events, but admits he contemplated surrender before capitulation and hopes the supreme court will judge his conduct.
Thomas G. Orwig discusses the U S patent system proposing repeal of Sec 4902 and the $10 caveat filing fee to aid inventors. He cites caveats’ limited protection and revenue history, questioning provisional protection and urging commission input on patents trademarks and commercial names.
Otis Allen father of the as sist secretary of the navy celebrates his ninetieth birthday in Lowell Massachusetts. A brave man remains bold even in defeat. Among rescued Spanish prisoners at Santiago Lt Luis Fajardo y Pinzon of the Vizcaya had a shattered left arm and saluted officers atop the Iowa after climbing the deck ladder.
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