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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1899
Page
7
A compact roundup lists residents visiting, house renovations, farm activity, and small town errands. Notables include Dr Rishel repapering a home, Prof Strickrath visiting, cattle sales by J K McElroy, and bridge work by the Rock Island crew. Also noted are weather effects, a May 6 sermon, and local deliveries by Silas Wilson Nursery.
Hopping clods for Billy Burnside and Rev Knoody breaking colts noted. John Jones returns to Ft Madison to visit parents and child. Rev Evans to give lecture at M I church on Facts and Fancies next Sunday night. Livestock shipments to Chicago. several with cattle cars. Local workers sought with good wages and warnings against dead beats. Church services after May 1. Bible school Sundays. Kennedy Gardner show hundreds of chickens hatched in incubator. Prayer meetings at Fair View charge ongoing and fruitful. Mrs Hopley and daughter Edith return from Florida. Beckwith Nayea form blacksmith partnership. plow work offered. Storm injures cattle. several head struck by lightning. one killed. Hides sold by J H Baker. Tenth grade debated on reading vs traveling. both methods urged. WEC Partridge and Miss Jk Walter wed at M BE Warson age in Lewis. Victims of tornado in Birxxville numbered 33. two died yesterday. Five hundred thousand visitors viewed ruins. Sand storm sweeps Kansas. Abilene fields injured. Newton wind at 60 mph obscuring sun.
Our prescription department uses latest appliances for precise preparation and only purest drugs. With a reputation for careful practice, we serve Atlantic and invite new trade, promising accuracy and trust.
A mile wide fire along the northern Nebraska counties swept 26 miles across the state, destroying farms and stock. Several families fled to safety as homes and cattle were lost. lives included Mrs. Rolla Livingston and her 45-year-old son. Losses totaled tens of thousands for named residents and stock. A second storm near Avoca caused extensive farm damage, with many barns and cribs demolished. A separate Nebraska tornado near Vacaraiso damaged property and killed stock, with one child slightly hurt. An electrical storm in Dubuque caused heavy rain and widespread flooding with bridges swept away.
A Rochester and Lake Ontario excursion train derailed near Rosenbauer's Corners injuring and killing multiple passengers. Three dead include John Helberg and J. Peerney, with numerous serious and minor injuries reported among survivors. Second item notes factories struck by lightning and a fatal explosion toll rising to six at Dupont works. Additional reports cover Missouri River rise and returning Nebraska and Iowa soldiers.
Reports from Cape Town indicate growing unease as Kruger's frontier forces prepare for potential hostilities with England. Petition by 21,000 Transvaal residents to Chamberlain sparks concern over Anglo Dutch relations amid British troop augmentation. Also details on Mulford's promotion in Lincoln and returns of U.S. soldiers from Cuba and Puerto Rico. General Grant arrives in New York after Porto Rico governorship. Coghlan reprimanded by Navy and Frye honored at Waldorf Astoria dinner for river and harbor bill gains.
A terse Telegram notes Austria declares no plans regarding Chinese land. Cut Eddie Burns defeated Walter Burg in six rounds at Youngstown Ohio. Silver certificates rose to 6214 on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. An Odessa barracks explosion killed four soldiers and wounded six. Princeton received a $100000 anonymous endowment for a politics chair. Marblehead cruiser sailed from San Lucia toward Barbadoes en route to the Pacific station. Richard Chilcoot of Seattle wins mail route to Circle City on the Yukon. New York state canals opened for navigation, earliest in 14 years. Mr and Mrs Antonio de Navarro arrive in New York from Liverpool. Jack Moffatt defeated Frank Purcell in a 20 round bout in St Louis. Hillary Starr disappears from Oak Knoll ranch, suspected murder. Secretary Alger reports on Manitoba beef destruction at Porto Rico. Yellow fever appears at Bahia per Consul Furms. Coining inside Colorado State Penitentiary uncovered, silver dollars seized. Supreme Court voids Pingree Atkins equal taxation law. Lookout Inn on Lookout Mountain sale to Railway Conductors. to be converted into a university. US bicycle plants near 100 may come under one giant firm worth $50 million. Leiska, Simmons and Billings sail for Manila to join their regiment after riot at Presidio. sentence postponed.
Reports from April 28 detail Admiral Kautz in Apia reporting quiet at the Samoan capital and US consular protections. Also noted are coal supply arrangements from Auckland, a Samoa rebel clash at Vailejo with about 100 enemy casualties, and Abraham Moore of Superior Nebraska arrested for $4,000 fraud. Other items cover George Case jury readiness, Judge Caldwell’s retirement, and investigations in Albany and Georgia memorials.
In Paris advocates and opponents of Dreyfus revision hold rival meetings as violence erupts with several injured. The anti revision press rallying against the Beoret dossier and Onignet testimony, while Paty du Olam is branded a forger and staff scapegoat theories circulate.
Reports from grain men indicate heavy damage to winter wheat east of Toronto Ontario with many fields total losses. Farmers plan to plow and plant spring wheat or barley as conditions worsen.
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