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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1897
Page
7
Western senators Mantle Carter Shoup Warren and Burrows unite to push amendments to the Dingley wool schedule. They seek to close evasion loopholes and raise duties on third class wools and camels hair, aiming to curb fraud and misclassification.
A joint committee from Kansas Nebraska and Oklahoma met in Avallo Austin Texas on April 17 to press the federal Interstate Commerce Commission for lower freight charges on grain and other goods through Texas to the gulf for export. Governor Leedy of Kansas urged rate relief and threatened a state road project if denied. The group memorialized the ICC and planned to attend its sessions to present the case led by ex Judge Martin of Kansas.
Indianapolis streetcars will accept 8 cents fare until court ruling settles the 3-cent fare law. Mayor Taggart ordered police to enforce the 8-cent rate, as Mason of Citizens' Street Railway agreed to collect 8 cents pending upper court decision amid downtown unrest.
John one noted as a veteran inventor dies of heart failure at his city home. Born in New York in 1825, his father built the first iron plow in the United States. We note his contribution to plating on iron known as the iron center in metals.
Meiklejohn of Nebraska is named assistant secretary of war after James Martin of Vermont declined the post. Angell of Michigan, president of Michigan State University, is chosen envoy to Turkey, with West named consul at Proton Nova Scotia. Additional nominees include Wight and Rosa as D C commissioners and Browne and Wolfe as officers.
Washington April 15 Representative Ridgely of Populist leanings introduced a bill to let states and municipalities raise money for public works with 25 year noninterest bearing bonds. In return the U S treasury would issue notes, aiming to employ the unemployed and spur prosperity, echoing Coxey and his Ohio plan. A second bill to permit pooling in railroad traffic and a Senate tariff discussion followed as other lawmakers met. In Toronto the Reform League seeks to bar kinetoscope films of the Corbett Fitzsimmons fight amid ongoing censorship debates. A deadly snowslide near Ketcham, Idaho, killed three, including a six year old stepson.
Mrs Elizabeth R Tilton widow of Henry Ward Beecher's accuser died at her Brooklyn home after years of retirement. Funeral held last night with Rev Malachie Reyes of Plymouth Brethren officiating as her son and family kept the event private. The Beecher trial era echoes in the quiet obsequy.
A well dressed woman boards a Broadway streetcar at Fourteenth Street with all seats taken. A man offers his coat and, when she does not thank him, quietly says you are welcome. Passengers watch, she blushes, and departs, likely avoiding future ungracious refusals.
An old tale from Mississippi river lore frames a Yankee applicant for a New Orleans steamboat pilot post. Asked about river dangers he jokes he may not know where the snags lie but can tell where they are not, a witty defiance noted by Youth's Companion in period humor.
An excited man rushes into a health office requesting a death certificate and offers one dollar after bargaining for a lower sum. Secretary Combs insists on a full dollar, noting the deceased was "a model wife" as the man asserts he would not have her die for five.
A 1865 English Parliament act required wedding rings to be standard gold, aimed more at boosting gold duties than safeguarding the public from imitations.
A Georgia woman recounts how a small cheek pimple grew into malignant cancer before Swift’s S. S. S. remedy, which reportedly expelled poison through the skin, healed the cancer, and left her healthier years later. The notice promotes S. S. S. as a cure for cancer, scrofula, eczema, and other blood diseases, with a free treatise offer from Swift Specific Company of Atlanta, Georgia.
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