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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1900
Page
3
The Meat Line advertises its range with tender steak choice chops sweet ham and a complete meat market assortment. Bologna sausage dressed poultry fresh fish and every meat line item are offered as the store’s standard.
The Fairfield markets show varied shifts with corn steady at 32 to 35 cents per bushel while oats rise to 21 cents. Wheat remains at 50 to 65 cents, hay price ranges from 6.50 to 8.50 per ton, and livestock values edge lower for hogs and steady for cattle. Hides fetch 6 cents per pound. butter remains scarce at 18 to 20 cents. eggs rise to about 7 and a fraction cents per dozen. potatoes range 30 to 40 cents and onions from 0 to 75 cents per bushel.
Condensed telegraph report summarizes major war events in the South African conflict. British actions around Mafeking Bloemfontein and Karee Siding. Kruger plans to retake Bloemfontein. Boer forces concentrate north of Bloemfontein. engagements and ambushes noted. Also reports on Philippine unrest, American military defeats, and various criminal cases in the United States.
In the house Mr. Sulzer calls for official sympathy toward the Boers. Secretary Hay reports all major powers back the open door in China. Senator Davis pushes tariff shifts to tax rum and tobacco while relief for Puerto Rico. Congress may adjust the war revenue act to reduce funds. The house rejects Pennsylvania’s $3,000,000 Confederate damages bill.
The report notes multiple political moves. In South Dakota the Prohibition convention at Huron nominated F A Carlisle for governor. Des Moines corrected city election returns show John MacVicar the only Republican mayoral nominee defeated. St Paul Republicans nominate Chester R Smith for mayor. Virginia Democrats nominate Francis Rives Lassiter to fill the late Sydney P Epes’s unexpired congress term. Michigan Prohibitionists hold a two day convention at Grand Rapids. Alabama Prohibition convention at Birmingham heads a full state ticket led by W B C Crumpton for governor. Judge J C Moody says he will run for US Senate as a Republican from South Dakota. Jesse Black seeks Democratic nomination for Congress in Illinois Fourteenth. Ohio towns push Republicans to win in Cincinnati and elsewhere. Rev Washington Gladden elected Columbus councilman. Michigan contests mostly featureless with few changes.
A warrant for D B Clawson treasurer of Barnard Odd Fellows seeks $1200 theft. Louis Harris lynched in Belair Maryland after assaulting Annie Mellvaine. Arthur Wheat 17 Chicago commits suicide over a love affair. Burglars chloroform Mrs Bandemer and five children in Melrose Park. Wing Smith hanged at Deer Creek Bridge Mississippi after Johnson murder. Charles Massey Rutland bank embezzlement bail set at 100000. Gottschalk defends against striker assault at Swift Co. Wenzell brothers stabbed by Joseph Scaffa.
The article notes lawyer James B. Dill is said to have earned a fee of 1,000,000 dollars for settling the Carnegie Frick controversy. It lists multiple business and bankruptcy actions including a Watervliet Michigan paper mill shut for lack of orders, a receiver appointed for Indianapolis grocery firm William Buschmann & Co and for Louisville broker Joseph J. McCloskey, and a Scoten tobacco plant closing May 1 with 1,000 jobs lost. It also reports W B Given named receiver of Loder Brewing in Columbia Pennsylvania and summarizes first quarter 1900 business above expectations.
A new York school house collapse killed one and injured another as iron girders fell. In Chicago a doctor operated on the wrong eye, leaving Miss Anna Dudley blind. Joseph Stahl died when eleven dryers exploded at an Erie mill, with five others gravely harmed. A French steamer sank near Santo Domingo, drowning four passengers. Two crewmen died when a French torpedo boat boiler exploded.
George R. Sands dies in New York once hailed as world champion clog dancer. Philetus Sawyer, former U S senator, dies in Oshkosh Wisconsin. James O Owens ex representative dies in Newark Ohio at 62. Archibald Forbes war correspondent dies in London at 62. Andrew D Cramp of Cramp Shipbuilding dies at Dr N Emmons Paine sanitarium West Newton. Charles H Gibson former U S senator dies in Washington at 57. Dr St George Mivart renowned scientist dies in London aged 73. Sidney A Kent Chicago broker dies at his West Suffield Connecticut summer home.
A string of fires and explosions causes extensive damage across cities including Kingston Wisconsin Columbia Pennsylvania Hamilton Ontario Chicago and St Louis Fire at Grand Avenue hotel Owosso Michigan and a nine story New York building causes substantial losses while one blast kills a partner at Hand Co fireworks factory Walter Teale is reported to have been killed in the Hamilton blast The losses cited range from thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars including a $200000 theater fire in Chicago and a $150000 Owosso property loss
A collection of brief items notes that boxing protection by law ends in New York on September 1 due to unresolved issues with President Romano. Other items include resignations by Peru’s minister of justice and Chicago presbytery official, a failed jury verdict for two Philadelphia journalists, and various international notes.
North central Iowa miners resume work next Monday after a strike that began December 11. A state conference in Des Moines between the United Mine Workers and operators granted a 5 cent per ton wage rise, with local scales up 1 cent from the strike start. The six teen week lockout yields about 3 cents per day for each miner based on a three ton daily output.
Facts reveal William McIntyre jailed ten years for the Oemig murder may have been innocent. A Sioux City woman, now living there, allegedly killed Oemig during a robbery. McIntyre confessed on train and in prison, claiming a second man aided. a police informant cites evidence the woman wore his clothes. McIntyre died in prison.
Fort Dodge residents face a social shock as Count Fountain of France is revealed a counterfeit swindler who deceived churchgoers and society leaders. He lured patrons with entertainments and fled after taking funds. Des Moines protests over Sappho play at Foster’s Opera House prompt efforts to curb sale and potential police action.
Sioux City Iowa March United States circuit court of appeals affirms six years for Frank M Dorsey brother of ex Representative Dorsey of Fremont Neb bank wrecking He faced thirteen counts for false statements on the First National Bank of Peona Neb tried twice in Omaha the first jury failed to convict him.
In Muscatine S Tobias home burned and Mrs Tobias was away locking three children aged 5 4 and 1 inside. Firemen saved the youngsters but all were unconscious from smoke with the youngest prognosed to die.
A Baltimore News piece quotes a young married woman asking why no laws exist to guide men in kindness and cheerfulness when returning home. She notes prevailing advice targets women to keep husbands pleased, while men face fewer expectations. She reflects on her husband John’s gentleness and fears exposing his fragility if he learned how fragile he can be.
A Detroit Free Press piece quotes a male boarder arguing that men enjoy children and the homy atmosphere they create. He notes many men seek out places with youngsters, repair toys, and tell stories, finding affection from the children and aiming to become a familiar, even fortuneable, storyteller.
A Philadelphia Inquirer anecdote shows how a small action can alter fate. A clerk’s choice to strike a match on his shoe rather than a marble column impressed an employer, leading to hire and a successful month in the office.
An exchange describes M Leon Say and a small commission delivering a war fine of 8 million pounds to German commissioners in Bismarck's presence at Versailles. The money was laid out on a billiard table and a sealing seal failed until Bismarck pressed wax with his hair to confirm the impression.
In a playful exchange a girl announces she will not go to school because she has to visit the dentist. The other girls react with mock sympathy as the moment underscores education's role in childhood woes as described in Chicago Lost.
Aunt Gertrude asks Tommy what he will do when he is a man. Tommy replies he will grow a beard so he won’t have as much face to wash. The exchange captures a playful wartime style from Colier’s Weekly.
A rubber goods man recalls a Chicago winter mishap where he swapped coats with a total stranger. Both men headed to Detroit and shared the same hotel and business ties, revealing the city’s knack for odd coincidences. The anecdote ends noting a past encounter in Mexico and a long‑ago debt.
The first negro minstrel troupe appeared in the United States around 1545 led by a man named Johnson. Their hit melody That Old Gray Goose drew great applause with a tenor solo and a multipart chorus. They also performed Oh Mamma I Must Be Married to Mr Punchinello with call and response lines.
A Detroit Free Press vivid excerpt recalls a trolley conductor’s reflection on luck and progress. He remembers his friend Jim who, despite equal beginnings, ends up ahead as Jim becomes a motorman and the conductor rides the back car.
A brief anecdote from the Atchison Globe describes a husband rising to offer his wife a chair. The wife beams, seen by other women as proof he idolizes her and would die for her.
A historic note suggests dried currants given to horses as a substitute for oats may boost endurance. The claim links fruit feed to improved stamina in equine work.
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