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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1897
Page
10
Local reporters compile a week of social notes from Atlantic Iowa featuring visits from Griswold Adair Anita Massena and Harlan residents. Dated entries include travel to Des Moines Omaha and Carroll along with jail term for drunkenness and multiple relatives and guests visiting Atlantic residents.
Miss Allie Anderson visits Miss Maggie Bell at home. Breaking Home Ties debuts April 6. Stock market shows lively activity with shipments to Minneapolis and Chicago. Court house fence repaired to protect grass. Local workers depart for Davenport Bureau Junction fence gang. Justices of the peace vacancy handling discussed. Widespread city notices cover residents, lectures, and social events. Des Moines and Chicago trips noted with several residents traveling or returning.
Mike Swanson pleads guilty before Judge Woolson after changing from not guilty. Local notices report expeditions, illnesses, deaths, social events, remedies, and farm rental in Cass County with names like Dora Baker Anna Quigley Ellen Phelps R. G. Phelps and Frank Whitney executor. News items cover family bereavement Mrs. Nolan death and Baptist funeral, Hood's remedies ads, and a six hour cure claim for kidney issues.
Chicago March 24 The Transmiss Missouri freight association decision prompts railroads to plan rapid dissolution of traffic groups. Many lines are under receivership and cannot legally remain members. General Solicitor Kenna of Santa Fe orders withdrawal from freight and passenger trades. Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul and Rock Island Pacific also advise severing all association ties.
A Wellington hotel dinner honored ex Senator Dubois with silver advocates in attendance Senators Cannon Mantle Pettigrew Turner and Stewart Representatives Hartman Shafroth Jones and Newlands. Speeches followed with Dubois replying as tariff and money questions were discussed.
Frost hit frost damaged crops across Frost, Texas and Indian Territory last night. Authorities estimate the fruit crop is nearly ruined with losses running into thousands of dollars. In Dubuque, ex mayor Stewart wins a rival telephone franchise with rates set at 24 and 18 dollars, replacing current rates of 42 and 30 dollars.
A late night dispatch from Canen reports the transport Clyde with British troops arriving at Catena and to land today. The Crete blockade proclamation imposes seven articles on landing and searching ships with Greek vessels treated as hostile. The move follows rumors about Lord Salisbury and Greek prince George as Crete’s high commissioner, and a note on Russian aid to Cretan refugees. Further: an earthquake hits Montreal, a U S citizen freed in Sagua, French marines land at Sudr Bey, and the Princess of Wales sails to Copenhagen.
In Mason City Iowa a petition to permit a saloon failed by 56 signatures. The city needed 722 of the last general election voters but 124 were stricken for irregularities, leaving 676 valid names amid a bitter four fought campaign.
Sioux City report says C B Oldfield president of the Commercial Savings bank of Leeds was indicted for accepting deposits after insolvency. He claims the indictment came from spite and was released in town from Omaha without bond.
Thomas Barker, a farmer from one mile south of Nelson, Nebraska, died of apoplexy at age 56 after a life near Nebraska City. He leaves a wife and several children. In Dusugun, George Harris sues Lionwood camp of the Modern Woodmen of America for 20,000 damages over injuries from his initiation.
President McKinley hosted about 150 newspaper representatives at the White House east room on March 24 during a busy congressional day. The gathering honored Washington correspondents and local press, with mingling greetings and introductions led by Mr. Bunnell. Also presented were the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers managers and a California See Yup delegation. Rinker acquitted in Kansas for attempted assassination of George W. Gilmore. alibi defense noted amid circumstantial testimony and Gilmore's prior entanglements.
James G. Corbett secured an interview with Robert Fitzsimmons in San Francisco. They met in a hotel lobby and exchanged cordial greetings. Corbett urged Fitzsimmons to give him another chance to redeem his reputation, but Fitzsimmons remained firm he would not fight again, though he granted Corbett the first chance if he ever returns to the ring.
Persistent rumors of a general strike by Iowa coal miners surface as the State Mine Workers executive board calls a delegate convention in Des Moines for March 30 in connection with union activity. The winter scale remains in effect until April 1, and about 10 000 Iowa miners threaten to quit if the winter scale is not extended. Mrs Storey of Detroit dies. cable from Florence, Italy, notifies of Marie F Storey death, former wife of Wilbur F Storey proprietor of the Chicago Times.
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