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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1896
Page
9
Frank James brother of Jesse James and former James gang member is a candidate for St. Louis police commissioner. He says he would accept if offered and would perform his duty without fear or favor. Chief Harrigan predicts he would make a first rate officer if chosen.
F W Arnhold, a Missouri fruit grower north of St Joseph, awoke to three masked men in his bedroom. They tied him and his wife, heated a rod to white heat, and threatened to burn his feet. They found only 18 dollars, wrecking furniture before fleeing at dawn.
Nov 28 dispatch from Bishop Matz denies a report that he sought transfer to St Cloud Minn and that Father Daniel Riordan Chicago brother of Archbishop Riordan San Francisco was to become Bishop Matz successor in Denver. Also notes Frank Plumb Marshalltown Ind arrested at Blairsburg for seduction. returned to Marshalltown.
Dr Charles J Laffin has been committed to Bellevue hospital for examination as to his sanity. He is described as a pitiful wreck of a brilliant scholar from Africa fever contracted while accompanying Bishop Taylor on an expedition to the west coast of Africa. He married Clara Freeman of Milton Nova Scotia June 25 this year. After their wedding he acted strangely dislocating and snapping joints and took an opium dose. His wife sought protection from authorities as her sufferings intensified.
The piece extols youth as vitality and health, blaming aging on wrong living and unhealthy blood. It promotes Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a natural rejuvener that purifies the blood, strengthens organs, and restores color, with practical notes on digestion liver function and nerve strength. It also recommends Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for constipation and gentle laxative action.
Reports from North Dakota Minnesota and surrounding states describe a historic blizzard. Red Lake Falls Fergus Falls Fargo Jamestown Valley City Langdon Willison Huron and Denver report heavy drifting zero and subzero temperatures with trains stalled telegraph wires down and cattle losses feared. The storm paralyses transport and commerce across multiple states with widespread frost and drifting snow.
Thanksgiving night in Duryea near Pittston saw a drunken riot leave three men dead and several others wounded. Victims were James Motell Frank Lambert and John Batts with gunshot wounds. injured include John Toy William Mockiness and at least two Polish men. Authorities arrested several tavern keepers and others as ring leaders with arrests and flight to the mountains reported.
United States District Judge Foster appoints Dwight Braman of New York City as receiver for the St. Louis, Kansas and Southwestern Railway, a 60 mile line from Arkansas City to Anthony Kansas abandoned by Frisco after losses and bondholder Farmers Loan and Trust Company holding 890000 of bonds in default. Reepine and Ridgway arrested in Torrxa after a late night hold up near Leavenworth.
Constantinople dispatch reports a fresh massacre near Diarbekir with about 500 victims, circulating in London via the Daily News.
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