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Atlantic Telegraph (Newspaper) - May 2, 1888, Atlantic, Iowa The Atlantic volume May number the weekly Lafayette Ditoh and news and congressmen Henderson and of been re Nomina the presbytery of has adopted a Resolution against the proposed consolidation of the general Northern and Southern presbyterian heavy frosts in Virginia have destroyed the Early vegetable and fruit 1hu High liquor License passed the new York Senate by a vote of 17 to it had already passed the House and now awaits governor Hills the Bill provides for a License of 6100 to 8ico for the Sale of Beer and to for a general liquor License to run one year from Date of a democratic newspaper declares with a groan that in pen Sions have been paid to Union was it not Worth that to save the Union Boulanger visited the United states in he came Over Hen As the chief of the French Mission for the Celebration of the Centenary of lie says it is a pet idea of his to make an other visit to America for the purpose studying our form of he expresses the opinion that the United states is a Model and says his highest ambition is to give France such a Constitution As if a United states Manofar should bombard the Sultan of his six thousand wives and his he will to Salt Lake As he possesses the necessary he will be appointed a Bishop of the very highest no improvement in the condition of the Winter wheat crop is fears Are expressed that the crop will prove a failure while in and Pacific slope the Plant looks in regard Toj the Spring wheat the weather is and seeding is about two weeks Hattie Green Lias at last agreed to the reorganization of the Houston and Texas Central and has sur rendered her proxies for Mort Gage Bonds to the Herbert on trial at new on charge of murdering his child by Millie was acquitted at Nicholas whose mind was deranged by pain of Burns received two Days committed Owen Jack and George Moses were hanged Friday at fort for murders committed in Indian John Biscoe paid the extreme penalty at Jack Prater was strangled at and Jasper Davis met death at the hands of the sheriff at at Friday wife of master in chancery died of Quick con aged of who was Worth three years ran through it and forged a note for it is to get for which offence he was committed to jail the Iowa sportsmen annual tournament will be held at Des Moines june 0 and Leports from Sauck county and other parts of Wisconsin indicate that the chinch bugs survived the Winter in great numbers and Farmers Are thursday night at John a juror in the Cullen murder was taken sick at the jail and found to be the West Side and building association with capital of was granted a License of incorporation three months ago a Young coloured Man named Aiken mysteriously one of three coloured men who were suspected of having murdered con fessed the implicating the and All three were on the Burlington and mis Souri River near gave Way Friday its supports having been weakened by As a through passenger train was and the mail and express cars went Down with and All passenger coaches except one left the of grand was Charles of seriously and Mcloren of Kansas seriously and a conductor and brakeman slightly in Frank real estate notary Public and at was arrested thursday night for forging Mort gages decline in business led to the Dis charge of 150 men from the Pennsylva Nia Railroad car works at fort Burt an aged and corpulent Farmer near while burning Brush Friday accidentally fell into the fire face not being Able to burned to at the Peoria and Western railway settled the last unpaid claim of damages against it resulting from the Chatsworth wreck by paying Leo of the total amount of claims paid was about the Chicago and Alton depot at Lex was burned Friday fire at Early Friday morning destroyed the residence owned by Blodge tand occupied by Brank the loss was insure near Henry killed his wife from whom lie had been separated for two injured one of his Young sons fatally and another seriously and then killed John Carlock of a patient in the College Hill sanitarium at was found hanging to a tree in the Woods near at thursday Wil of the Chicago and car of the Pittsburg were arrested for fighting with three the entire party were lined each 810 and Captain Anson has not fined but says he will leave the matter in president spa dings the baseball signed a contract Friday to play in new York at a salary of Thomas an inmate of the sol Diers Home at was Bru tally murdered in a Low Saloon in that thursday the old soldiers threatened to raid the but officers sonic Royal it has been announced from Rome that Andre the 80year old grand master of All italian lodges of free greeted the German Jem Perot Frederick consoling with him on the loss of his distinguished and at the same time congratulating him on his accession to the the emperor Frederick was initiated into the grand Lodge of in at a time when the or Der in Germany was attacked from Many and the initiation took place in the Palace of the Prince of in the presence of the officials of the Prussia grand and was passed and exalted in the three degrees on the same at the end of his acceptance his the then King of made to him the following address since Many years you have expressed the wish to be accepted into the order of free your wish has been you have been accepted into the order in the same manner that i and in the Way that i wished for will notwithstanding the symbolical forms through which you work of the order is one of great and excellent and there is Only one object life of a has known Juthe highest and truest of the principles of this greater and to the Correct Xinde standing of life this order will Lead provided it is your constant Endeavor to accept the High and to practise them in deed and there is no Lack of loud voices outside of the who give themselves much trouble to suspect and As i give to no Man a right to speak of an order of which he is not a because of my own knowledge of will i Ever refuse to give Earl to such they attack the order because of its secret sessions but will not take the trouble to con Vince themselves that this is like those who Are satisfied with superficial and on that Are anxious to so the opponents act and intentionally remain and put knowledge away from on the death of the grand master in the emperor succeeded to the High Honor of grand master of the installation occurring on Johns Day of that after the death of Frederick William he also be came the protector of the order and 1861 he handed the office Over to the present his who became the head of the order in with the right to preside Over the Berlin grand go out and Tell Johny to quit filing that he aint filing a saw its Bister Liz singing to de a striker a Scab Engineer kills a brother Hood Man at april Only thing talked of Here tonight is the kill ing of Herbert Newell and the danger Ous wounding of George both q1 by one of the new q the shooting occurred last night close to he bergs the murderer is in the county to guard which extra precautions have been Tak while the strikers say they intend to let the Law take its there is a deep undercurrent of feeling that May produce Hedberg claims he was assaulted by Newell and Cable when on his Way he Drew me revolver and fired the first Ball passed through newells heart and the second struck Cable in the Center of the glancing around the Skull and issuing behind the there was but one Eye wife of one of the new she partly corroborates he bergs there is considerable testimony against Hedberg to be it will be sworn that while in a Pool room a Short time before the shooting he made the threat that he would shoot any Man who followed it is alleged that Newell and Cable were on the Way to Alderman Erickson House to ask him to come to a and that they did not follow Hedberg or did not Start a Row with Newell avas one of the oldest engineers on the Burlington and leaves a Joe Johnston joins the april announcement is made Here that the highest in rank of Liv ing officers of the Confederate was on thursday unanimously elected an honorary member of Baker Post of this the election was brought about by the receipt of a letter Reading for the purpose of enabling me to participate in the Noble work of Charity performed by the comrades of the i Here by make application for a contributing membership in your enclosed please find the sum of for one years the petition was unaccompanied by any other and when presented to the members of the Post for their it went through with a amid John Ston is the Only Exco federate Soldier who has Ever been received into the ranks of a the state the arrangements for the legislative Iowa april Rich mat Dunning and governor of the state uni were Here today to consider the catalogue and certain changes proposed and to consider matters that will come under the the desire be ing that charges Small be fully and most thoroughly investigated once for All and the investigation by the special committee of the Legisla Ture will begin on the loth of at 10 at the University building and continue All persons hav ing any complaint against the general management of the by its regents or the moral character of the institution against the influences and moral atmosphere by which it is against the character of state buildings and against the conduct of any of the professors of the instil against the action of the Board of in entering into an alleged contract to discharge a part of the professors in consideration of any a against the general efficiency of the any other matter whatsoever relating to the said its officers or Are notified and requested to appear before said at the time and place with such evidence As they May desire to present bearing upon the subjects above referred of Chicago nominated Fen chief april president has just sent in to Senate the nomination of Mellville Fuller of Illinois to be chief Justice of the United the whole train City of via Galveston april evening a passenger train on the inter Beanie railway was stopped by fourteen highwaymen three Miles beyond the passengers and train men were systematically the company lost from a treasure Fannie and Eddie Are Nav april d Price ceased yesterday afternoon to be the manager of Fannie in his place Marc who for some years has been identified with the interests of Effie begins today and will Pilot the tour of Davenport to the Pacific the intentions of miss Davenport Are not but he will have nothing further to do with the Ladys business yellow fever in april general Hamilton today officially published the full text of the reports on file in the Marine Hospital Bureau on which he has based his statement of last sat urday that late inspection at Micanopy Plant City and has prove the recent existence of yellow fever and that several other places in the Southern and Western portions o the state Are to be looked upon As bus the surgeon refer ring to the attacks made upon his office by Florida papers and doctors since the first report was says Persona while it May be an amusing diversion to Florida will neither clean up their arrest yellow nor restore Confidence in them he Hopes the reports will Stii the Florida authorities to a proper sense of the obligation they owe other states by prompt enforcement of vigorous sanitary measures and the establish ment of a state Board of which they have not abstracts from the reports made to the surgeon Genera from appointed show there have been cases of yellow fever at Plant City and Tama As late As april and reports from these and other places state the fever has prevailed More or less violently since last but that systematic efforts have been made by local physicians to conceal the sent up for such is the Fate of of april court convened at y Oclock this morning a Large crowd of interested spectators was in the room waiting with intense anxiety for the sentence which judge Ruddick was to the first thing done after court was called to order was the taking up of the motion for a new which had been made by the attorneys for the the defense had made Nineteen distinct objections the principal one of which was of the effect that there was no evidence tend ing to show that Billings had shot Kingsley judge Ruddick reviewed these objections seriatim and gave a careful and very Lucid analysis of the had been introduced motion for a new trial he then i think the jury made a mistake in the verdict instead of being murder in the it should have been murder in the first he then proceeded to sentence Billings to imprisonment in the Penitentiary at Anamosa for the term of his natural at hard Billings was with her husband in the court room and when the sentence was pronounced wept appeared to be completely unaffected and looked on As disinterest edly As an Ordinary Spectator might immediately after the sentence was pro he Drew a paper from his swore to and signed it with out a tremor of the nerves or a change of it is understood that this paper is a plea for a stay of proceedings until the supreme court can be appealed it is probable that Billings will be taken to Anamosa at the sentence gives profound satisfaction to All those who have listened to the testimony and Are familiar with of the a ringing Massachusetts republicans conic straight out on the tem Perance april following is the full text of the Temperance Plank adopted by the Massachusetts Republican state convention the Republican party of Massachusetts has repeatedly committed itself in favor of pronounced and progressive Temperance Legisla it has demanded the restriction and suppression of the liquor traffic by every practical Means and now it Calls upon the National Republican Conven Tion to recognize the Saloon As the enemy of civilization and humanity to demand for the people in every state and municipality throughout the land the privilege of deciding its Fate at the ballot Box to insist that it shall be crippled by every restraint and disability which local Public sentiment will Sanction in to take that attitude upon the Temperance question which will win to the party All foes of the liquor traffic and All friends of Good or Der and social whisky and april a Drunken Brawl last at a drinking Pace near the Santa fes Des Moines River Bridge in this Harper a Young Man living near was shot and killed by a Man supposed to have been the Engineer on the pile Driver at work at that a fight resulted Over a game of when Harper Drew a revolver and but missed his he was in turn fired upon by one of the and with fatal All those mixed up in the scrape escaped up to this time no arrests have been notice Plano Al steel Harvester and Binder comes to the front this the finest the most Complete genuine Al steel machine in the Market by a Large it has important improvements that the old Stogie machines have we will guarantee it to run at least one horse lighter than any other machine cutting the same we invite Farmers to Call and see the new we will sell you this improved machine just As cheap As you can buy the old so called steel we have also the Pano rustler and steel mowers and rakes at Bottom prices Call and see me at the old Green Bay lumber dealers in All of Oak Cedar posts yellow noway and White Pine floor Poplar and White Pine English american be hard soft prices the give us an Opportunity to figure on your estimates cheerfully Yards at Marne and Large and Well assorted stocks of dry lumber in our Yards at Lewis Griswold for Sale at reduced Shaw drinks horrid an intoxicated brutes awful child assaulted and his wife murdered april defending the Honor of her thirteen Earold step daughter against the Lien lishness of an unnatural Muehlberg was struck Down with murderous intent by her husband at a late hour last Gigli and is now Muehlberg returnee to his Home on Law Avenue in an intoxicated condition after having been absent All he went directly to the bedroom where his children were sleeping and attempted an assault 01 his daughter the child screamed for Aid and Muehlberg wife rushed in from the next the brute was beating the child about the head to silence her and when his wife endeavoured to Stop him he turned and dealt her two blows which Cut her face and Scalp she made Severa attempts to get to the door and Call f 01 but was prevented by her husband beating in the meantime All three of the children sprang from the bed Anc endeavoured to stay their cruel parents at last succeeded in reaching the where she Man aged with superhuman Effort to cry Foi Muehlberg then Shook the child Ren from him and took a Small crowbar from the tool Chest and struck the woman Over the crushing in her for the first time he seemed to realize what he had heed the children not to Tell who did the deed and then taking some Money he and the police have As yet been unable to find the april George wife of general died Sud Denly yesterday aged her who survives was the first senator from Iowa on its admin serving from 1848 to when he was appointed minister to he was one of the earliest settlers of this coming Here in general and Jones were married in Janu and Here lived together for 49 she was miss Josephine Gre of an old French family at she was extremely courtly and a lady of the old thirteen persons april ship Smyrna was sunk in collision with Hie Steamer Hotto off the Island of Wright today thirteen persons were Cincinnatus sunday closing of april police arrested four men for keeping saloons open today in Defiance of the new these houses were thronged with about one Hundred other houses kept open and the police have information against them which will file or nearly All the Hilltop resorts were open in violation of a solitary Saloon opened on Mcmicken Avenue and sold two Hundred kegs of Beer Dur ing the at the hotels All the bars were closed but the guests at Manv of them were furnish liquors in Ali tonight a few saloons that were closed All Day have opened their this was the Day of the application of the new sunday closing Berlin april is Semi officially stated that no reference was made to the betrothal question in the interview Between Prince Bismarck and Queen the Post asserts that the discussion was mainly on the Bruns Wick succession the Oldenberg diet will meet May 8 to Grant a subvention for a construction of a port at Bodenham to compete with the Weser Zeitung reports that Kuntz and Tappenbeck expedition to the Interior of cameroons was recently attacked by natives and two offi cers severely Chicago markets afternoon report May of of cd 81i August 84 april april May june 80x 83 s354 g4ii 54 85 August april May june u7 1360 1367 april a May Short 7 m 7 june july estimated receipts yesterday leftover Light b heavy 5 rough packing grades 5 receipts 6joo at Jarley Corn each Day tilt a 60 cattle 18 to to Jam Shock his and Corn 60 10 10 1 00 10 00 140

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