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Newspaper
Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1893
Page
2
Imperial pageantry marked the Emperor William addressing the crowd as wreathes and pillars adorned the hall. Visiting nobles and Moorish attendees observed the formalities, with ornate floral offerings central to the ceremony and a display of loyalty to the throne.
The Des Moines supreme court affirmed the Polk county verdict convicting C. E. Shannon editor of the Des Moines Graphic of conspiracy to blackmail Doc Kirkendall of Stuart Indiana into paying 100 to prevent publishing details of an affair involving Kirkendall, Cora Fogg, and a husband who was shot. Shannon, jailed for 18 months, fled. bondsmen seek him. He is known in Omaha and Denver newspaper circles.
Charley Mitchell receives notice Kings County sheriff will not permit the December 18 bout at Coney Island. He says if legal in one state it is elsewhere and suggests Mexico or Havana for a bare knuckles match under London Prize Ring rules. Each man would receive 15,000 if the fight fails to occur. Corbett plans continued training and refuses to confirm a later signing.
Survivors of the New Orleans storm seek relocation to Colorado or the Northwest. Register Childs of the state land office is asked to provide lands available, with estimates that 15 000 families could be settled in Colorado. Settlers demand absolute title to lands, a point the board may grant.
New York dispatch reports the Corbett Mitchell championship bout will be staged only at Coney Island or New Orleans, with San Francisco ruled out and the world champion insisting on choosing the ground. If Coney Island collapses, New Orleans becomes the likely venue.
Seven members of the Indiana Women’s Christian Union and officers toured Chicago’s levee district under police protection. The trip aimed to reveal vice to bolster calls for local purity and temperance, with escorts from Central Station and prominent Indianapolis and Richmond members aboard. The tour began at Harrison Street Station and lasted three hours.
The fair drew smaller overall crowds this week but Sunday saw a large East Coast turnout at the White City exposition. The Old Guard held divine services at their headquarters with an abbreviated Episcopal morning prayer and a Stradella overture from the band. Dr. John W. Brown preached and Rev. William Stevens Perry, bishop of Iowa, gave an address on “Character of Washington.” The report also notes various local incidents and notices from across the region, including a triple murder-suicide in South Dakota, financial irregularities in Nebraska, campaign speeches in Kansas, and other regional updates.
Promotes comfort and health by cleansing the system through a liquid laxative. Claims include relief from colds headaches and constipation with no weakening of kidneys liver or bowels. Manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co and sold in 50c and 1 bottles by druggists. buyers advised to accept no substitutes.
Chicago reports show the October storm increased disaster tallies on the lakes. Forty one declared lost, ten vessels wrecked, twenty nine more adrift or beached, with total property losses around 657000 and possible further recoveries. Two schooners unlisted may be lost at sea.
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