Ames Area Directory Details Local Officials and Churches
An old somber directory lists local officials from sheriffs to tax collectors and road commissioners, plus a long roster of judges and board members. It also notes church services, prayer meetings, and secret societies with meeting nights and locations.
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E. E. Pomp
T. J. Lane
J. W. Car- Retichael
LB. P. Bailey
T. M. Furlow
SD Methodist
C. W. Bell
Ilam
Ma Baptist
G. W. Gardner
Pas- Elier
Lla. N
Jack Aresbyterian
Phar
Pasork
Storttym
Teamng Am AM
Blue Lodge
Istpi
Explosion Wrecks Chicago Hotel Injuring Seven
A sewer gas explosion blew the cover off a manhole at Harrison street and Fifth avenue in Chicago. The Lincoln hotel suffered heavy damage with seven people injured. Proprietors Mr. Stafford and his wife were thrown from a room on the third floor as debris and shattered windows spread chaos.
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Chicago
Harrison Street
Fifth Avenue
Lincoln Hotel
Stafford
Johnson Skeptical Congress Will Pass Financial Legislation
Representative Tom Johnson of Ohio says financial legislation is unlikely this session due to a lack of agreement in both houses. He likens Congress to Cleveland’s Crank Club where members refuse to agree, noting only one prior pair ever agreed. He jokes that all house members could join his club on the issue.
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Washington
Tom Johnson
Ohio
Crank Club
Cleveland
Johnson
Boys Find $600 Gold Hidden Since Civil War Era
Willie Peterson and Weeks Carlson, ages 12 and 16, found $600 in 20 dollar gold pieces under a pine stump near Ryerson Creek in Muskeeton Michigan. The coins dated to 1861 are linked to Ted Boyce noted for storing large sums of gold during the war. Ted was brother to Grand Rapids magnate John Boyce.
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MuskeEgton
Mich
Willie Peterson
Weeks Carlson
Ryerson Creek
Ted Boyce
John Boyce
Grand Rapids
Ted
Fatal Accident Involving Bath Society Members
Bath Missouri January 3 A Pullman train struck a hack carrying William Thompson nephew of Judge William L Putnam Miss Catherine N Putnam and Miss Jennie Harvey Miss Putnam was killed Thompson badly cut and Miss Harvey slightly injured Catherine Putnam daughter of George Putnam aged 6 a leading society young woman in the city
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Bath, Mo
Pullman
Bath Station
William Thompson
William L. Putnam
Catherine N. Putnam
Jennie Harvey
Putnam
Thompson
Miss Harvey
Catherine Putnam
George Putnam
Train Plunges After Open Switch Collision
Train No. 11 on the Chicago and Northwestern ran into an open switch near Fullerton avenue after leaving Union depot at 11:45 p m. The engine struck a freight car and the tender telescoped the first coach. Two killed and about a dozen injured, some seriously.
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Curiaco
Chicago and Northwestern
Union Depot
Fullerton Avenue
Banks at Savannah Report Loans and Reserves
Comptroller Eckeles compiled bank condition data as of December 19. Savannah two banks held 1.29 million in loans and discounts, 191,990 in lawful reserve including 45,800 in gold, and 65,577 in deposits with average reserve at 44.13 percent.
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Wasa Hineton
Eckeles
Savannah
Peace Not In Reach On to Pekin Slogan Hypes War Risk
A Japanese drive in the China Japan peace talks looms as hostilities threat grows. Foster, the Chinese advisory counsel, may arrive too late to avert delays. Chinese ambassadors slated for Shanghai then Hiroshima face pressure to begin negotiations without Foster, risking a breakdown and renewed advance toward Peking.
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WasuinoTon
China
Japan
Peking
John W. Foster
Foster
Aioshana
Vancouver
Yokohama
Hiroshima
Shanghai
Mr. Foster
President St. John In Charge Of Seaboard Air Line
E St John newly elected vice president takes charge and says no layoffs. He issues a circular to agents and employees urging best effort as Hoffman and department leaders begin a two week inspection tour of railroad properties.
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Ricamonp
E. St. John
Seaboard Air Line
Hoffman
Legislature to Probe City Officials in Albany Move
Assembly member Conklin introduces a resolution to appoint a joint assembly and senate committee to investigate every department and public records of New York City officials. The measure was laid on the table. A parallel proposal by Mr. Wray targets Brooklyn departments.
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Albany
N. Y
Conklin
Senate
New York City
Wray
Brooklyn
SIOUX NEBRASKA RELIEF PLAN QUICKLY BACKED
Baltimore January 3 The suggestion by Mr R H Edmons of this city that the south ship a full train load of corn and meat to Nebraska farmers suffering from corn shortages has drawn a rapid nationwide response with generous support and backing.
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Batimore
R. H. Edmons
Nebraska
McMillan Nominated by Michigan Republicans for Long Term
In Lansine Michigan on January 3 Republicans in caucus placed Senator James McMillan in nomination for the long term United States Senate seat from Michigan. The nomination is effectively an election since Democrats hold a minority in the legislature. Short term nomination to be decided today.
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Lansine
Mich
James McMillan
United States
Michigan
Atlanta exposition building contract bids opened
Bids opened at the treasury department for the Atlanta Georgia exposition building. Twenty bids ranged from fifty nine thousand nine hundred seventeen dollars to twenty seven thousand four hundred forty six dollars with N W McAfee of Atlanta the low bidder and likely winner. Weather forecasts for Georgia and Alabama, a drowning on James River at Lyncasure, and higher express money rates were also reported.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Atlanta, Ga
N. W. McAfee
Express Companies Wrangle at Fort Wayne Station
In Fort Wayne Indiana January 3 the United States Express Co won right to operate over the Fort Wayne Findlay and Western railroad. American Express Co resisted but messengers occupied the cars and a clash ensued with trainmen officials police and patrols. The dispute ended with American officials ordered to leave and the United States company taking possession.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
American Express Co
United States Company
Young Sweethearts Die Skating on Maumee River Ice
On the Maumee river near Defiance Ohio Henry Clemens aged 26 and Lillie Diels aged 21 skated into an open space near Independence dam and drowned. Witnesses heard the splash and searchers recovered both bodies within thirty minutes. The couple had been keeping company for years and planned marriage soon.
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Defiance
Maumee River
Henry Clemens
Lillie Diels
Independence Dam
Rescue of Three Fishermen From Frozen Lake
Martin Frank and John Woesniak were rescued from Menominee Michigan on January 3 after being carried out on an ice float early Monday. They were found by a local fisherman and others, who towed them to shore through slush ice and brought them to land in a badly frozen condition.
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Menominee, Mich
Martin
Frank
John
Woesniak
Here
Abduction claim surrounds Bartlett Scott case in Nebraska
Despatches from ONeill Nebraska report the Scott abduction theory as theater. Bartlett Scott is under a 70000 dollar bond awaiting a supreme court decision. Word is he crossed the Niobrara and Missouri rivers into the Indian country to evade capture.
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Omauaa
Neb
Oneill
Hoit County
Bartlett Scott
Scott
Supreme Court
Niobrara
Missouri
Indictments Hold Good Against Mutual Loan Officers
Judge Allen of the United States circuit court denied the motion to quash indictments against Ex-Governor Beveridge and other Mutual Loan Company officers. They face charges of fraud linked to a scheme akin to the Guarantee Investment company, whose president McDonald served eleven months in jail.
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CubacGo
Allen
United States Circuit Court
Beveridge
Mutual Loan Company
Guarantee Investment Company
McDonald
Demented Son Sets Fire. Father Perishes in Blaze
Port Washington Wis January 3 The insane son of farmer Charles Buebries set fire to the barn yesterday. In efforts to extinguish the flames the father was burned to death and his wife the boy's mother was seriously injured. The house and barn burned to the ground. The boy was arrested.
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Port Washington
Wis
Charles Buebries
Prominent Californian Kohler Dies in Suicide
Charles H. Kohler, head of Kohler and Frohleing Wine Co. in San Francisco, killed himself at midnight taking morphine. He carried life insurance reported at 125000. Also reported Philadelphia grand jury indicts English anarchist Charyes W. Mowbray for seditious speech.
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San Francisco
Cal
Charles H. Kohler
Kohler and Frohleing Wine Co
Philadelphia
Charyes W. Mowbray
Mowbray
Turned the Tables The Two Train Highwaymen Recognized
Two robbers of an Alabama Southern express on Monday night elude arrest after a confrontation near Macon Mississippi. A Mobile and Ohio agent and a deputy marshal tried to seize them. the men disarmed the officers and escaped toward a river swamp as a Meridian detective unit with dogs searches for them.
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Horn Griffin
Meridian
Macon
Textile plant construction surges in 1894 report
The American Wool and Cotton Reporter notes a six month rise in textile plant builds with 113 new mills in early 1894 and 147 more since mid year. The yearly total hits 263, led by New York and Pennsylvania with 21 each, followed by North and South Carolina.
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Boston
American Wool and Cotton Reporter
New York
Pennsylvania
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Massachusetts
Maine
Virginia
Rhode Island
Texas
Connecticut
Gold Reserve Drops to 84 Million in Round Figures
The New York sub-treasury shipped 1.5 million to Europe, squeezing the gold reserve to 84 million in round numbers. December 1894 debt statement shows a net public debt rise of 31.82 million, with interest bearing debt up 40.21 million and non interest debt up 0.126 million. Cash in treasury increased by 8.81 million.
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Washington
New York
Europe
Treasury
Georgia counties vote in bad weather
Georgia held county officer elections statewide with light turnout due to snow sleet and rain. Democrats held overall gains and redeemed several counties won by populists in the governor's race.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Carriers Prohibited From Performing Clerical Postoffice Labor
First Assistant Postmaster General Jones issues an order to postmasters banning carriers from clerical duties. The decree also restricts collection service staff from entering office work rooms except to deposit collections.
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Washington
Jones
California Building to Show at Cotton States Exposition
California will have a building at the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta. President Collier secured an agreement with a Los Angeles representative to erect a typical California building and fill it with a superior exhibit from the state. The Sunny South is Too Chilly for the Howe and Cushings Menagerie.
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Atlanta
California
Collier
Los Angeles
Cal
Howe and
Cushings
Talk of the extra session in Washington
Democratic House members will caucus on return to Washington to decide on an extra session with a currency bill likely. Senate canvass underway to gauge support, while the administration coordinates action. Gold reserve fallen to 86 million, Carlisle to present treasury relief plan after recess.
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Washington
House
Senate
Congress
Carlisle
Treasury
Army Salvation clash renews street meetings in New York
Police clash with Salvation Army as officers stop a street meeting and arrest a singing soldier. A year ago the army won rights to street meetings and parades with music on weekdays, now Sabbath sidewalk meetings at busy corners are halted by police.
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New York
Salvation Army
Bidwell Death in Brooklyn May Be Self-Direct or Accidental
New York January 3 autopsy by Dr John M Clayland for Coroner Creamer found William E Bidwell 387 Jefferson Ave Brooklyn dead from carbolic acid poisoning The finding suggests death by own action or accident Bidwell was executor of the $60000 estate of the late John Thompson and was to render an account of his fifteen years executorship yesterday.
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New York
William E. Bidwell
Jefferson Avenue
Brooklyn
John M. Clayland
Creamer
Bidwell
John Thompson
Marshals Close In On Bill Cook and Gang Werks
Deputy marshal Simps Bennett arrived in Muskogee reporting Bill Cook Jim French and four others found in the bottoms three miles west of Fort Gibson. Six marshals set out to the locality after Bennett. Cherokee Bill killed his brother in law with seven shots on Sunday.
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Muskogeee
J. T
Simps Bennett
Muskogee
McAlester
Bill Cook
Jim French
Fort Gibson
Bennett
Bill
Underground Transit Plan to be Studied by New York Board
Rapid Transit commissioners start immediate work on an underground system plan. Engineer William Barclay Parsons is expected to present new plans as meetings open to speed decision making.
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New York
Rapid Transit Commissioners
William Barclay Parsons
Keene denies illness rumor amid Seattle reports
Tragedian Thomas W. Keene of Seattle rebuts rumors about his health. The tariff act provisions on wool and the item doll passed by Congress last session took effect Tuesday. The first annual convention of the National Board of Trade of Cycle Manufacturers will meet January 21 to 26 at Madison Square Garden. A fire gutted the Prince knitting works in Chicago on Belmont Avenue and Herndon Street, affecting 150 workers with thirty missing a Magrow escape.
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Congress
National Board of Trade of
Madison Square Garden
New York
Prince Knitting Works
Belmont Avenue
Herndon Street
Chicago
Magrow
Ballot Box Murder Sparks Fatal Shootout in Colquitt
In Blakely Georgia on January 3 a political quarrel at Colquitt Miller County led J A Bush to clash with two Kambrell brothers. Gunfire wounded Bush, three shots hit him including a near heart wound. the Kam brells escaped uninjured. Bush likely to die. The combatants are brothers-in-law and local leaders.
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Blakely
Colquitt
Miller County
J. A Bush
Kambrell Boys
Bush
Kambrell
Charlie
Burrell Kambrell
Kambrells
Tragedy in Georgia: two men die in political dispute
In Concord Georgia yesterday evening Joe pson a White politician shot Pink Smith a white Democrat at a Georgia Midland and Gulf railroad station. Two shots hit Smith one in the hip and one through the heart. Johnson was arrested. Both men leave families.
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Gnrbrix
Concord
Georgia Midland and Gulf Railroad
Joe
Pson
Pink Smith
Smith
Johnson
Kentucky Senatorial Race Faces Big Fight in Assembly
The Kentucky senatorial contest grows intriguing as Buckner and Brown back a convention nomination. Senator Blackburn is pressed by Breckinridge in Louisville with home counties in the Ashland district seen as Breckinridge strongholds, intensifying Blackburn’s battle.
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LouisvItar
Buckner
Brown
Blackburn
Breckinridge
Ashland
Special policemen on duty after murders and robberies
Sacramento officials appoint 250 special policemen to clear the city of criminals after a series of crimes including the murder of Grocer Weber and his wife and the beating of a butcher named Atkinson. Citizens feared vigilante action if police did not act.
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Sacramento
Cal
Weber
Atkinson
Crooks Family Tragedy Near Milan Missouri
A Crooks family traveling in southern Missouri halted near Roger. The wife’s clothing caught fire during supper, burning her severely while two daughters and the husband suffered injuries trying to help.
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Mian, Mo
Crooks
Missouri
Roger
Antwerp Closed to American Beef Embargo Sparks Protests
European authorities ban imports of dressed beef and pork from the United States at Antwerp alarming packers in Curaçao and prompting threats of protest. Separately A J Brooks resigns from the Navy to become superintendent at Cramps ship yard, succeeding Nixson. Three new smallpox cases reported in Indian Town King William County Virginia. A fine imposed on the British steamer Laurel for phenacetine import.
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Curiaco
Antwerp
A. J. Brooks
Navy
Ricamont
O’ferra
Commonwealth’s
King William County
Indian Town
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T. L. Williams
T. J. Cole
C. R. Carter
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W. W. Anderson
Frank Z. Curry
Anderson & Curry
Attorneys AT Law
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Mills
Roy
Cheatey
Law
Court House
Jackson, Ga
Mr. V. McKibben
Morrison House
W. Bucilanan
Propr
C. H. Cantrell
D. Watkins
Ney At Law
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Chicago and
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Comptroller
Wryston
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B. A. Brown
Kernersville
W. C. Boren
Guildford County
Pittspurg
Ona
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Diamond Plate Glass Company
Kokomo and Elwood
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company
Plate Glass
Yosoyama
Cholacho
Kainanan
Tennessee Merchant
Memphis, Tenn
St. Petersburg
Loxpon
Earl of Buckinghamshire
Conservatives
Liberal Party
Pekin
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M’millan
Mafee
Alabama
Lyncasure
George Wightman
Reuben Johnson
James River
St. Louis
Express Companies Wrangle
Lazard Fereres
Heidelbach Ickelheimer & Co
Ladenburg, Thalman & Co
Jacksonville
Fla
Sanford
John E. Pace
Thomas E. Wilson
Miss Stev
Birnmingham
Ala
Howe and Cushings
New Beptorp
Mass
Hathaway Mills
the Sun
ARMY
Salvationists
Cook Bandits
Johnb. Dennis
New Haven
Conn
Melrose
John B. Dennis
Penes
Seventh
Connecticut Regiment
Moses
E. J. Baldwin
Earl Fruit Company
Santa Anita Ranch
Baldwin
Baltimore
Adams
United States Express
Columbus
State Assembly of the Knights of Labor
Sovereign
Hayes
Order
Panama Canal
Bogota
Columbia
Canal Company
Panama
the News BY
Telegraph
Thomas W. Keene
Seattle, Wash
Joe Johnson
Kentucky
Milan
Old Dominion
Cavin
Philadelanta
Laurel
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