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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1897
Page
10
Saturday notes from Atlantic and nearby towns recount visits, arrivals, and departures. Cass county residents attend weddings, funerals, and church services. Local officials arrange a K of P lease, open G A K meeting, and a July 8 Sunday school picnic is planned in Grove township.
President Jeffries of the Denver and Rio Grande travels toward Chicago to discuss rates in the territory. The G A R and W R C O C committees meet June 28 at YMCA rooms to finalize the Endeavor picnic arrangements at B Cuppy’s grove near Avoca. Attendees from Shelby Harlan Avoca Walnut Maine and Atlantic join the event with 75 cent round trip carriage and rail fare details noted.
One and sixteen hundredths inches of rain soaked the ground, boosting raspberries and blackberries and promising strong corn, with peas also planted more than last year. Local reports note a half million cans expected, library gifts from R G Phelps, and praise for Elgin Creamery Co. improvements. Shaker Digestive Cordial touted for digestion, Laxol praised as Castor Oil. Fire at Carl Phares home extinguished quickly. Electric Bitters recommended for constipation and headaches. Hedrick Bitters praised by Mrs Annie Steble for renewed health.
The R L Celebration announces a July 8 picnic at Hammond's Grove one mile west of the city. Bring paraphinalia and family for a day of amusements and ice cream sales by the G A R to fund a cemetery monument. Also reported is a large temperance meeting led by Rev. Henrietta G Moore of Springfield Ohio at the Congregational church urging protection of Iowa's boys and young men with a Esther theme.
Brussels reports from a reliable source claim Baron Dhannis and his 6000 men in the Congo Free State have been massacred during a secret Anglo Belgian attempt to reconquer the Soudan. Earlier notices placed Dhannis at Lado and near Victoria Nyanza with talks of advancing toward Khartoum.
Perry Heath selected by the United States Court of Claims as sole referee in the Western Union Telegraph Company versus United States dispute over government telegraph tariffs. Heath will determine exact figures from a nearly $1,000,000 mill rate case and report to help decide if the postmaster general may set telegraph rates for public business. case may reach the Supreme Court.
A warrant was issued for Robert Q Heydelauff chief engrosser of the Wisconsin state senate on forgery charges. The case stems from county orders paid by County Treasurer Nelson that were fraudulently altered from small amounts to large sums including 4081.24. Heydelauff denies the accusations amid an ongoing inquiry.
The House mourns the death of Representative Ek D. Cooke of Illinois who died suddenly at his hotel from heart disease. A memorial service and funeral committee are named as House members prepare to attend an international arbitration conference opening August 6. Also notes John Sutcliffe of Merrimex, a wealthy local entrepreneur, and the 10th annual Black Hills Grand Army of the Republic reunion in Beatrice, with a storm causing damage to encampments.
Senator Matz on the legislative investigating committee says the Beatrice Beatrice Institute for feeble minded youth management inquiry is nearly finished and a report will show a Feb balance of 3 625 27 with credits reducing it to 2 214 91 unaccounted for by the late superintendent. Meanwhile other brief items report a cocaine test aiding firefighters, a Bronx barber heir to 250 000, an interior department pension ruling equating name on pension rolls with honorable discharge, Kuhl heading to Detroit as secretary, Standard Oil gaining control of Bay State Gas, and a Logan statue ceremony invitation in Chicago.
An editorial opinion rails at tariff factions and populists over state rights and trade policy. It argues free silver and free trade views fail to hear southern senators, cites collapsed U S Cuba trade, and mocks Debs Coxey contrasts while warning about Hawaiian and Alaskan reach. It criticizes the Populist three-ring circus and calls for decisive action on tariffs and commerce.
A series of conveyance notices show transfers and deeds by sheriff and various parties including Juneau and Massena properties. Entries include Alice A Cavanaugh, Armeida Jones, Eliza McFarland, J N Deer, Amos Warfield, Rebecca Woodward, Amelia Daly, Anno M Everitt, and George W Parham among others, detailing parcels in Atlantic and Massena with amounts from 175 to 2000 dollars and dates around late June.
Anela Frith Saemisch of Noble township argues against importing rags for clothing and calls for a moderate wool duty and a ban on woolen rags. She urges limits on ragged shoddy manufacture, paralleling controls with oleomargarine. The note also mentions Hansen & Co painters receiving two positive testimonials for frescoing at the MEB church street Audubon.
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