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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1897
Page
5
The piece warns of a flu outbreak and urges preparation. It touts Dr Kay's Lung Balm as a cure and promotes a 43 page book with full treatment details. Testimonials claim rapid relief from coughs and grippe and mention Dr Kay Medical Co Omaha Nebraska and a renovator for liver trouble.
Mrs Nancy Allison McKinley the aged mother of President McKinley died shortly after 2 am Sunday. Funeral services will be held at First Methodist Episcopal church in Canton at 1 pm Tuesday with interment at Forest Lawn. President and Mrs McKinley attend the bedside. officials from Washington plan to attend. Pallbearers include long-time church members and local leaders.
News from Dawson reports more than a thousand ill provisioned men stampeded from the Yukon during late October and press onward over the mountains. Auk the Indian mail carrier says the vanguard is a few days behind and 85 percent may not survive the ordeal. Dyea parties led by George F Ulmer plan to relieve Dawson with 50,000 pounds of provisions within 60 days for 76000 dollars after starting, already holding 5,000 pounds cached at Lake Bennett to be carried over the Chilkoot pass.
The Burlington and Missouri railroad will change livestock freight charges from cents per 100 pounds back to dollars per head on Wednesday Dec 15, followed by the Missouri Pacific. The shift prompts freight officials from other lines to gather in Chicago for a conference, with Union Pacific weighing its stance for Wednesday. The move follows Nebraska Kansas and Wyoming stockmen protests after the Aug 10 1897 rate by weight. Prince Henry Bon Voyage Berlin Dec 14. Delegations wish him well while he departs for China, stressing Germany's unity and patriotism.
The American Federation of Labor began its annual session in St Louis with over 100 delegates and equal visitors. Gompers presided as he noted an increase of about 84 000 members in affiliated unions and discussed unskilled labor, shorter hours, and calls for compulsory arbitration and postal savings bank proposals. Morrison reported receipts up by 2 549 dollars, with 34 280 new members enrolled and 276 tribes noticed involving 165 407 workers. 217 charters issued and two state federations newly granted. A separate note mentions a 60 day postponement of the Kansas Pacific railroad sale.
Telegraphic brief notes the death of Mrs Janet Carlyle Manning sister of Thomas Carlyle aged 85 in Toronto on December 18. Also reports General William F. Draper attended Rome ceremony for a Logan monument to be erected in Washington.
Boston dispatch reports the American Board of Foreign Missions 87th annual review noting 642,981.07 total receipts. It details Turkish massacres, Armenian slaughter, and rising Christian numbers, plus famine and bubonic fever in India. It also describes growth in Foochow China and outlines a planned ecumenical foreign missions conference in New York for April 1900 with broadened Protestant society participation.
Dry weather hits Fort Heatt Fort Scort as water service ceases with the city unable to operate pumps. Company employees refuse to work, engineers are unavailable, and officials accuse the former engineer of spiking the pumps. The superintendent warns the pumping station safety is at risk, leaving hotels factories and residents to rely on private sources. The dispute centers on the city forcing a sale of the water plant.
In Chicago on December 14 attorneys Harmon and Ries outline a trial strategy for A. L. Luetgert. They argue that conviction requires direct proof of both the corpus delicti and the offense, and will challenge the use of circumstantial evidence unless the body is produced or murder is proved by direct testimony.
Sioux City December 14 Democrat John Games won the Woodbury county shrievalty contest by 16 votes. A pending contest seeks reversal of a board decision that awarded Games 18 votes after an initial 11 vote majority for Davenport.
A Marshfield Maine man credits S S S blood remedy with curing a six year scrofulous neck gland enlargement after six months of treatment by physicians in Washington Springfield and St. Louis. He urges others to try the vegetable tonic and notes the druggist offered books from the Swift Specific Co Atlanta Ga.
An advertisement promotes Grain-O as a coffee substitute made from pure grains. It claims it suits both children and adults with no stomach distress and notes a rich seal brown color like Mocha or Java. Packages cost 15 and 25 cents, sold by grocers.
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