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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1893
Page
3
Silver mining and smelting in Colorado will cease as prices sink. A state meeting of mine owners predicts 8],000 to 80,000 workers will lose jobs. Stocks like Mollie Gibson plunge from 7.75 to 3.00 and toward 1 as mining markets freeze.
A digest of short items notes World’s fair admissions, Marion Iowa annexation talk, a farm hand quarrel turning deadly, a Blo omington man struck by a train near Normal, a St Louis 16 year old girl’s poisoning death, and political maneuvers in Iowa. Also reported are a Mississippi River mishap survivor returning home, railroad consolidation rumors in Detroit, a Des Moines convention call, a moonshine trial bound over in Georgia, a Wisconsin pension case, Chicago switchmen excursion, a fatal hayload accident in Mascoutah Illinois, and miscellaneous local incidents including a Scranton cherry picker fatality and a Sunday fishing law interpretation in New York.
A contemporary quotes a critic decrying a new interviewing style where the interviewer airs personal opinions during questioning, challenging the victim centered approach. The item notes other varied observations on crafts, glass use in rail stations, nutrition claims, and idle education, with brief local notices of deaths and public figures.
The cabinet spent two hours debating the silver issue and other matters, concluding Congress alone can act on relief. The president plans a special session in September to address the financial crisis, keeping silver purchases at 9 million ounces until then. Chicago financiers fear the India action will force a currency shift and prompt repeal efforts.
Crop reports from Missouri Illinois Indiana Iowa North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska and Kansas show favorable conditions with harvests progressing and crops generally fine amid drought worries in some counties. The bulletin also covers a bitter court case in St Laws with Maud McKibben, judicial contest delays in Providence, potential World’s Fair excursion rates, soldiers’ home family cottages, an elopement in Marshalltown, a Milwaukee rail reorganization, a mining death, a US Indian sentence, a lynching after a crime, prison escape clashes, Army of the Potomac meeting, a poisoning attempt at a jail, and drownings in Chicago.
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