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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1896
Page
8
Across Des Moines and several states, actions loom on a water tax resolution, a broadened power bill for the state labor commissioner, and a fire policy value ruling. Other notes report sugar beet contracts totals, a Northwestern track worker's death, Marshalltown gains a new daily, Sioux nation cash shares, and persistent Gomez rumors from Havana.
Reports from Cape Town describe growing gravity of Matabele unrest in Matabeleland. Five white men killed at Ingiti near Bulawayo after relief patrols retreated from Inyati. Selous retreats from Matoppo hills leaving threat to Bulawayo. Rhodesia force disbanded. Bulawayo field force deployed for two months. Patrols repeatedly driven back as Matabeles mass with supplies.
Lincoln Neb April 3 Three University students H P Law Jr W H Nichols and J W Peters botanizing found the dead body of County Treasurer Maxey Cobb in a ravine near Lincoln. He had been missing after an accounting shortage of about 36000 dollars. The body was identified by ex Chief Justice Amaga Cobb. Coroner Holyoke impaneled a jury as an insurance transfer totaling about 30000 was noted.
Citizens packed the tabernacle in Amanra on April six to hear Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith and ex-Speaker Charles J. Crisp discuss currency. Smith argued for a stable standard and limited silver, while Crisp attacked free coinage and demonetization, each side peppered with applause and interruptions as the campaign for the U.S. Senate heated up.
Iowa house debates McNulty manufacturing bill as a special order for next Tuesday after a roll call vote 82 to 40. Early bill on insurance for noncompliant firms faces amendments and party line clashes as lawmakers discuss tax and scope. Spaulding and mortgage tax measures are defeated amid procedural moves.
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