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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1898
Page
5
Havana dispatch reports growing unrest as rumors spread about the Maine disaster. Citizens fear a mine caused the explosion, while US officials express cautious views on foreign involvement and potential war.
Norton Virginia February 24 monitor Terror still docked awaiting orders amid changed Vizcaya plans torpedo boat Winslow ready by Monday Poole in a week Montgomery arrives Tampa cruiser from San Domingo with Chief Crowinshield on board who departs for Washington Captain Congarae reports orders to go to Key West for coal and water Mrs Whitney in serious condition with paralysis advancing doctors Bull and Mott in attendance Concerns over supply and readiness linger as naval maneuvers unfold.
Washington with Alaska and Hawaiian annexation, District of Columbia and naval bills dominate mood as Senate debates delay adjournment. House pushes rapid appropriation passage to end session. Maine disaster findings could trigger new ships and dry docks. Del Norte overdue. Watervliet Arsenal busy. Iowa vote on Revolutionary societies.
Frances E. Willard, late president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, lay in state at Willard Hall Evanston before private services at Rest Cottage. Her funeral with WCTU and Salvation Army participation followed at First Methodist Episcopal Church Evans ton, with interment at Rose Hill Cemetery and flags at half mast in Mavouir observance.
Paris reports M. Zola and Perreux found guilty on all counts in the libel case re Wsterhazy court martial, with Zola sentenced to one year and a 3000 franc fine. Other items note a fatal avalanche in South Quebec, a mayoral arrest in Ganon, a teen suicide, a billion-foot pine sale in Wisconsin, convict labor protests, Leiter wheat orders, and related regional happenings.
A board of officers aboard the US cruiser Montgomery reports Matanzas faces acute famine with 14,000 people in hunger and shelter need. About 8,000 live in palm hut settlements and 11,000 in theatres without homes. Deaths run high, with 46 per day currently.
A meeting in Des Moines set to organize the Iowa Society Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women as letters from prominent Iowa women urged immediate action. No officers chosen. a constitution was adopted and the group vows to oppose a proposed constitutional extension of voting rights to women.
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