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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1895
Page
12
A proclamation by Governor C. A. Culberson calls a special session of the twenty fourth Texas legislature in Austin starting October 1 1895. The agenda includes denouncing prize fighting and prohibiting it with immediate effect and providing enforcement provisions to reflect the will of the people.
Scribbled items from the period include a Republican debut in Davenport Iowa and a Kansas City convention of railway postal clerks. A Salina reunion, a Fulton assault case, and a Perry Oklahoma tax probe lead a varied catalog of 19th century events. A Dutch tone reveals oil strikes near Brazil Indiana and a Muscatine auditor’s Honolulu capture. Foreclosures target Northwestern Water and Light in LeMars. Catholic Catholicism grows via St Boniface band in Dubuque with 51 societies. A reward for painter Howard Taylor of St Louis caps the list.
Winterset Iowa September reports a Republican senatorial convention deadlock broken on the 3020th ballot with Kilbourne winning 12 votes to Price ten. Tension rose as Madison delegates clashed over betrayal rumors and ballots were recaptured, leaving the traitor unnamed. An Apple Carnival at Glenwood drew crowds despite a fatal accident to D C Reed of Blue Springs Nebraska. Patchen easy winner at Bronx City races. German Methodist conference votes against admitting women. A farmer, John Kuttler, was found dead in his hog pen, reportedly eaten by the hogs, near Faris City Nebraska.
News from Cleveland reports Henry T. Fenton, once a traveling salesman for Edwards Townend & Co, killed himself at Hunter's Hot Springs. Fenton, who had embezzled $4,000, fled south then to Montana under the name Harris Fargo and recently served as postmaster. A hunting party encountered tragedy as the edge of scale rocks claimed life of Bishop & Babcock Co. president William A. Babcock two hours after his fall. Old inquest in New York blames Captain Hulse and Pilot James Allen for naval accident. racing yacht order to Herreshoffs announced. various civic notes follow.
Sept 27 reports from Marshalltown and Des Moines cover state politics and civic events. The Republican campaign opened amid cold weather with delegates from Des Moines and Allison speaking on finance and tariffs. Drake dodged questions from the Methodist conference while charges of licensing saloons faced noncommittal answers. Also noted are Legion of Honor officers elected in Des Moines, Governor's Day at Sioux City with a 7000 crowd, an insanity verdict in the Swanson case, a Nebraska case of sudden female insanity, Senator Elkins injuring his ankle, and a diamond dealer's insolvency.
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