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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1899
Page
8
Matt C A Murnan visited Omaha. Mrs J W Roberts and other locals traveled to Atlantic. Various residents, visitors, and business matters noted including millinery at Mrs Bates, Griswold visits, baby births, and baccalaureate plans. Community events and commercial notes span Lewis Griswold Atlantic Milford and surrounding areas with several named individuals and places.
W F Rickey of Griswold arrives from the train en route to Atantic. The Endeavor Society will host a weigh social at the opera house Friday. Park Disbrow is ill this week. Mrs Carrie Archer visited Extra Saturday while her husband works on a bank block contract. Various locals noted for fencing, real estate reps, and heating updates. Seven cars of cattle shipped, and a hen tea at Oakwood Cemetery. many social trips and school notes follow. Sheriff Hill seeks reelection. Parish sells his home, family moving to Baker.
An advertisement extols the Bissell sweeper the only one giving satisfaction and praised for health and carpet care. It notes Thorley’s as a place to buy. Also mentioned is Hood’s Sarsaparilla proverb advertising drawing discussion in a company. A four year old boy of Mr and Mrs Fred Wilson died of spinal meningitis with funeral set for tomorrow at 2 pm.
In Crenvislla Pennsylvania on May 18 a mine accident at Centralia colliery trapped sixteen miners. Four men died James Caughlie John Koko Joseph Samoneck and John Comyock. Two others were fatally injured and six more suffered cuts and bruises as a 70 foot bank collapsed trapping workers. Rescue teams removed tons of dirt to recover the trapped men.
Cuicano May 16 Donald McLean western railroad promoter fell from the fourth floor balustrade at the Palmer house landing on stone below. He is 66 and badly injured with a fractured skull. feared fatal. His latest work built a road between Sioux City and San Francisco. China Refuses Russia's Railway Request.
At Princeton on May 15 Princeton students clashed with Pawnee Bill's Wild West show personnel after a parade violated a half‑century old rule. A man was left unconscious and several others wounded as bands worked amid thrown missiles and whips. President Patton summoned a mass meeting that cooled tempers and halted further riotous action.
Des Moines May 10 trustees and students at Drake University confront charges of heresy against Oscar W. Morgan professor of biblical languages and literature. Morgan questions higher criticism and divinity of biblical text while orthodox students mobilize against his teaching prompting a reassignment to Hebrew and classical Greek.
Reports from Buffalo show hopeful movement toward settlement as Lake Carriers association and Connors offer concessions while grain shovelers argument is tabled and Bishop Quigley might appoint a superintendent. In Mississippi a quarrel over a bill ends in four deaths and a pistol duel between brothers. In Chicago stock shippers win a court ruling on railcar charges, while Oklahoma and Jamestown events involve tax disputes and a fatal accident tied to a prank.
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