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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1893
Page
4
Royal Baking Powder declares itself absolutely pure by chemical tests and claims 27 percent greater strength than any other brand. It contrasts with cheaper second class powders urging consumers to pay higher prices for lower quality and weaker performance. If such powders are sold, ensure a lower charge matches their inferior quality.
Mrs Tene Lease denounces Gresham as a foe of labor and a tool of money power. She predicts a revolution as the old parties dissolve, declares Hughes must be court martialed, and says Kansas Republicans are archists. She speaks during visits to Washington from Chicago.
March 1 report from St Louis describes a powder explosion at Rawlins Bros store on the first floor of the Hotel Benson. 3000 cartridges exploded causing severe damage to the rear store area and plate glass. Clerks M Lee Goodbery Lizzi Welch Emily Melrose were seriously hurt with one fatal. Hotel guests escaped unharmed. Loss estimated at 2109 with insurance at 5000.
In Philadelphia a stormy launch of the battleship Indiana occurred at Cramp Shipbuilding with President and cabinet members among 10,000 spectators. Miss Jes sie Miller christened the bow, and the vessel drifted into the Delaware under muddy waters as the crowd applauded. A separate item notes five hundred delegates at the National Electric Light association meeting in Lots, including mayor Noonan and exhibitors for the World's Fair.
A memorial mass meeting at the Auditorium in Chicago honored James Gillespie Blaine. Judge Lyman Trumbull presided, with Judge John M Thurston of Omaha delivering the eulogy. Other speakers included Hon. Lawrence Harmon and Rev. Frank Bristol. A memorial address expressing the meeting’s sentiments was adopted.
Vice President elect Stevenson arrives in Washington with his party while Judge Gresham returns to work in Chicago. A new Washington ballot for U S senator yields no result. Hungarian flood disasters raise many lives lost near Gergely. The Indians launch witnesses return to Washington. A Chicago Western Union operator injured in a panic from burning waste baskets. An Austin asylum inmate beaten to death by attendants. Jacob Frantareb sentenced in Cincinnati for 3500 fraud. North American Navigation contracts with Panama Railroad to challenge Pacific Mail. Philadelphia killer sentenced to 12 years in solitary. $37,600 worth of Fagan brothers’ property found, their freezing deaths linked. Diamond loss at Houston pawn broker Beate’s shop. Bloomington Illinois club escorts to Washington with Stevenson. Arcola State Bank permit issued with 30000 capital.
A sensational trial concludes with John Heffner of New York City gaining custody of his two children after spending 50000 searching for them. Heffner had separated from his wife in 1886 at Higginsville Missouri and won a divorce with custody, only to learn she had fled with the children to Grove Kentucky with Edward Copeland. Heffner traveled to Grove and Judge Myers awarded custody.
A World dispatch claims Governor McKinley faced liabilities near 102000 to 200000 as maker and endorser on notes tied to Robert Walker and coal mine ventures. The governor described the notes as accommodation paper and denied partnership in local stamping works or stock dealings with Walker and Duncan.
A telegram from W H Baker of the Postal Telegraph Company reports Mackay will award two gold medals valued at 150 and 100 for the best typewriter receivers in a one hour message contest. The event at Hardman Hall in New York is set for March 1 with the second class changed to a 46 minute message test and entries closing March 8.
The senate adjourned after executive session on gubernatorial appointments. The house advanced McKesson's beet sugar bounty bill setting a bounty of $1 per ton to beet producers as a special order for Friday. Recount of constitution amendment votes largely abandoned due to defects in the recount bill.
Livingston county farmers rush to leave due to high rents with over 100 families migrating within a week. Most head to Iowa Minnesota, some to Kansas Nebraska and South Dakota as real estate agents plan viewing tours of lands for prospective settlers.
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