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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1902
Page
2
A garbled, wide ranging clipping from Buffalo Center Tennessee and beyond cites rumors about Tolstai, royalty, taxation, and society figures. It mentions Japan arming China, Car Show in Newport, mergers of Rockefellers and Rothschilds, and various odd anecdotes about public figures, marriages, and politics.
A garbled Iowa newspaper page reports multiple incidents and notes including a shop theft, a shooting death, a drowning misfortune, a man entering a monastery, a fatal mower accident, a boy with a splinter injury, and legal actions. It also mentions Mabel Scofield murder coverage and the Des Moines News circulation. Names include Ravenport, Oelwein, Mascow, Davenport, Fort Madison, and Fairfield. The text is fragmented and difficult to parse fully.
A string of tragic and unusual events across eastern Iowa is detailed. Individuals include Rea Ida Maud Johnson who died after taking carbolic acid by mistake near Cedar Rapids. Mossberry gored to death while driving cattle. Peter Thien who discharged a revolver by accident. Ernest Timin who committed suicide. E R Silman assigning his Colo bank for creditors. Mrs Ezra Walker who died by selfinflicted carbolic acid. Frank Letchworth robbed on a Mason City street. Senator W H Berry injuring his arm at Simpson College. and head brakeman Paul Rockhrand killed in Ames yards. The report also covers a collisionwith a Reel Island train incident, a painter scene at Mitchell Bros store, and various other mishaps and local enterprise notes.
Ames Aug 15 W T Proudfoot of Proudfoot Bird architects for the State Agricultural College at Ames reports inspections of college buildings. Plans now call for two buildings instead of one main structure. the agricultural building may stand alone with administration space in the surplus. Additional construction for language botany and mathematics departments likely.
A riot at Warnke washery near Wilkes Barre Ang 15. Deputies fired on strikers at a barricade. a Slav was shot in the leg and later treated. Two near misses when bullets passed through throats. The crowd retreated after blood flowed. Deputies faced stone throwing earlier. one head struck by a rock. No other serious injuries reported. situation quiet afterward.
The south wing of the Main building at the Town State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts in Ames burned early yesterday, destroying the structure but saving the botanical collection and equipment. The loss to the building is not yet estimable, with total damages likely in the thousands. no insurance coverage existed on the damaged buildings. The fire started in the freight elevator shaft, discovered at 4 am by a night watchman, and rapid efforts were made to save contents amid three prior campus fires in 29 months.
A European travel record reports Mr and Mrs Charles Fair, Americans, died when their fast automobile swerved and struck a tree fifteen miles from Evereux near Paris. They had been touring from Trouville to Paris and back, with the car drawing attention during racing week. The chauffeur went insane after the collision. The report also mentions prior travel from San Francisco to Europe and a family estate connection, but many details are garbled in the OCR text.
Notes from Des Moines report on national GALR committee appointments, Memorial university opening September 10 with 190 to 290 students, and hopes for the US president to attend. Also covered are Chicago Milwaukee St Paul railroad flood damages, Clayton county tax collections totaling 2887.08, reappointments at the state school for the deaf and Clarinda hospital, infant insanity cases, and a judge salary case involving a district judge appointment and related procedural details.
The Et. James Gazette discusses twenty five years of progress and warnings for America and the nation’s commercial future. It questions whether the current path will resist foreign pressure or yield to overreach as a “stand old Watt” era ends and the United States faces potential shifts in wealth, power, and domestic industry.
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