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Newspaper
Dubuque Sunday Herald
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1900
Page
8
The annual and large poultry show in Cascady Iowa concluded with a wide display of birds and premium awards. Winners included many named birds and exhibitors from Dubuque and nearby towns, with prizes distributed for best pullets cockerels and pens. Overall attendance rose despite high expenditure and mixed reviews on event hospitality.
Ce Ae GOODNOW reports that Williams will be promoted to general manager of the Milwaukee system, with authority over the road and western lines. The appointment follows Goodnow and Collin’s prior roles, pending vacancies, based on competence and loyalty.
The text notes Mr Underwood will go to Chicago and CA Goodlow, assistant general superintendent, may become general superintendent, a position once held by Mr Garling who was elected president. It marks them as fully capable to step into the duties.
A minstrel show titled Burnt Cork Tonight will be staged tonight in the school hall at 16th and Jackson by the HL Bonignee Young Men's singing society of Mt. Mary's church. The group, active in the past month, promises a performance nearing their best, with proceeds benefiting the society’s treasury.
The university announces a summer session to benefit high school teachers. Courses in Latin, German, English, history, economics, philosophy, psychology, physics, geology, botany, math and astronomy will be offered. The program aims to advance methods and provide university courtesies for work completed. Old People Made Your Sherman promotes Electric Bitters for health and appetite with testimonials.
A strong program at the Stout Auditorium features Prook Barnard to Sto and WH with a 3.0G spend, plus Frank W. Havened and W. TR Stewart addressing the audience. Pierpont leads the boys meeting at 2:30 PM, attendance rising as the auditorium change proves desirable. Mary invited to attend. ads promote a plant-based stomach and bowel remedy from I.W. Rude’s Drug Store.
Durban reports the German steamer Itertog, seized by a British vessel, was brought to port. Details are incomplete due to fragmented OCR text but the capture appears confirmed with Itertog now secured at Durban harbor.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat summary recounts General Wood using tact to win Cuban trust for civil office. A storekeeper's boastful tale about local pride triggers a private, revealing exchange. The plan yields a Cuban mayor who accepts the post and governs diligently. Also notes a dining car water provision with Waukesha Spring Water at no extra cost.
A U S labor bureau bulletin compares costs per capita across Sioux City Davenport Des Moines and Dubuque. It shows total expenditures per capita Sioux City 9.50 Davenport 8.48 Des Moines 10.01 and Dubuque 7.37 with figures for each department and city population and staff.
The Mexico tour offers 54 Pullman's Palace Train Div Lux travel on a vestibled, luxury hotel on wheels. The Egypt of the New World trip features a dining car, observation parlor, library, barber shop, social room, and prereserved sleeping accommodations.
The Rev Dr Edward McGlynn pastor of St Marys Roman Catholic Church is confined to his room with illness. He was reported improving after being admitted weeks ago, but has since grown weaker. A mysterious growth on his right hip is troubling his physicians and his condition may prevent an operation.
Historic boxing card in New York and Chicago yields a six round decision for Young Griffo over a local opponent while a later Pelican Athletic Club bout in Brooklyn ends in a fast twenty round draw between Har ry Forbes of Chicago and Young Simister of Philadelphia.
The Dubuque Savings Bank will open Tuesday January 9 with a paid in capital of 60000.000 dollars. Prominent stockholders include Geo B Burch Jacob Rich William Allison D B Henderson W H Day Dr Allen Staples and many others. The bank will operate in a new Main and Sixth streets building with temporary quarters at the Second National bank. Deposits earn 3.5 percent interest and loans will be made on farm or city property or other first class securities. Theodore Ris, formerly teller at Town Trust and Savings, to serve as teller.
London reports Rich ard Croker fractured the small bone of his left leg near the ankle while riding to Berkshire fox hounds. The injury is not serious, though walking will be delayed for several weeks after the horse threw its rider during a hunting excursion.
Waterloo news notes former Lieutenant Governor Matt Parrott and his wife have booked steerage passage and expect to depart March 31 for England and the continent. They plan a stay at the Paris exposition after visiting several ports. the trip was postponed last spring due to health but he is now reported strong and well.
In Pana on January trial day Henry Brunot and his mother faced murder charges in the killing of Tanne Brunot last April. Henry Brunot confessed, his mother was exonerated, and Brunot received a life sentence.
In New York on January a man formerly confined in an asylum killed his wife at her father’s residence, attempted to shoot the father, and then shot himself, likely fatally wounding himself.
Boston firm G Horace Partridge and Co, manufacturers of sathletic goods, assigns today with liabilities at £100,000 and assets nominally sand, citing financial stringency as the cause.
Reports allege Charles J. B. Sutton editor of Logansport Reporter shot himself in his city tonight with no known motive. In Muscatine Albert Mordinic died by self-inflicted stab wound, believed due to despondency, as details remain sparse.
AA dispatch from Herschek Cape Colony reports Lady Grey deserted by the Boers. Families from Lady Grey and Tiarkly-West face displacement as Boers construct trenches between Lady Grey and Tiarkly-West, signaling escalating regional strain.
It is stated tonight that the British note in reply to representations by the United States government on the seizure of American goods by Great Britain will be given to Ambassador Choate on Monday.
In Whterloo, January, George RR, among those jailed last November to await action of the grand jury on horse staking charges, escaped from the county jail yesterday afternoon and remains at large.
St Louis January 6 Admiral Dewey accepted an invitation to visit the city for the last week of May. The Second Presbyterian Church led by Rev Owen Davies will host services with morning sermons on The Power of the Gospel and an evening talk titled Immediate Action. Sunday school and Bible classes follow, with a meeting at 7 30 pm at 6330.
Cleveland reports from the Iron Trade Review indicate about half of 1900 iron production sold in advance, with no dramatic market swings expected for weeks. Prices remain stable despite Wall Street’s crash and holiday dullness, as many buyers postpone purchases while freights and ore deliveries influence next six months’ demand.
Julia Marlowe Tabor, famed actress, was granted a divorce from Robert Tabor in Hyde Park New Hampshire on the grounds of cruel and intolerable severity. The court awarded Mrs Tabor three thousand dollars alimony amid the action. Lawrence Gonner was a Illinois Central passenger for Chicago at the time.
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