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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1896
Page
5
The Wilson tariff year closed with poor receipts far below prior laws. Bond sales added about 100 million to the national debt, while general revenues under the Wilson act fell to 826.9 million. June receipts were the lowest in two decades, signaling reduced importations and economic hardship.
The record compares tax receipts under McKinley and Wilson bills from 1880 to 1896, noting higher total government revenues during the McKinley era. It cites first twenty two months of each act and pages deficits or surpluses, with a projected small surplus for the current period. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat summarizes that the Wilson bill underperformed vs 1883 law and the McKinley act.
The Indianapolis Journal quotes a mother comforting her son after his trousers are patched. The boy sits, declaring he feels better and that he is on the mend, reflecting a homey moment of recovery and reassurance.
The DeWitt’s Little Barly Risers wake Vic Enymert with the line Wake up, Jacob, day is breaking as the group shames the man who had brought them to test his sluggish liver.
Riot at Brown Hoisting works erupts as 250 police guard 600 nonunion workers. Strikers block trains, throw bricks, and clash with officers injuring several. Albert Saunders, a Case student, shoots to defend himself, killing striker William Rettger. Militia deployed. mayor to proclaim riot act.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, famed authoress, died at noon in Bartford Hantworp. Three family members, including Isabelle Beecher Hooker and Dr Hooker, were at her side as friends gathered. Funeral and interment details remain incomplete with private Hartford services planned. London papers note sympathetic remarks on her death.
In Clatskanie Wash July 2 the internal revenue commissioner began sending approved sugar bounty claims under a 5 million dollar appropriation to the auditor for treasury payment. Most claims should reach the auditor by week’s end with only two or three unsettled. Warrants likely to follow at 65 percent payout, leaving a small fractional cent retained until final settlement. Total claims amount to 7,489,388 dollars.
Miss Lillian Ashley of Boston faced trial in the Superior Court for seduction and promise of marriage against capitalists and horseman Baldwin. During the session she walked to Baldwin, fired a revolver at his head, a bystander diverted the shot, Baldwin was grazed, Ashley was jailed as possibly unbalanced. In a separate federal ruling Judge Jenking rejected the heirs of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes claiming rights to the Autocrat of the Breakfort Table.
Judge Thomas Re. Esisterstone of Iowa faces renomination by the Fourteenth district convention without a ballot. In Sioux City on July 2, Judge Shiras disposed of pleas in abatement by railroads in a case brought by William Smiley against the Chicago St. Paul Minneapolis and Omaha. The court sustained Smiley's demurrer, likely forcing trial at the upcoming term for extortion charges from the Northwest Iowa Grain Dealers association.
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