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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1888
Page
5
A total solar eclipse will be visible across the United States in August September and October 1888. This event will cross the country offering observers a rare celestial phenomenon.
A San Francisco Examiner editorial argues Republicans miscast Democratic defense aims and defends the House naval plan. It contrasts Senate delays with a proposed 6 million pound annual ship program and asserts the House bill would create a stronger navy than today, potentially becoming the world's fifth power.
In an interview cited by the Brooklyn Eagle, Congressman Felix Campbell argues that a large silent vote in New York and Brooklyn will back President Cleveland. He says Republican rivals overlook this bloc of business men who approve the administration’s cautious tariff stance and trade stability.
The Chronicle reprints editorials tracing Secretary Bayard’s stance on Chinese immigrant certificates and exclusion. It contrasts Harrison’s long history of pro Chinese views with Bayard’s coast aligned, exclusionist record, citing votes from 1870 to 1884 and a Chicago remark by M H De Young about Pacific coast politics.
The piece portrays Mr Blaine returning to champion the American workingman and defend wages, while warning against overreliance on his rhetoric. It contrasts Blaine with Carnegie noting Carnegie cut wages prior to a foreign trip.
The Chicago Herald argues Republican papers seek elderly voters who backed 1840s state sovereignty Democrat William Henry Harrison. It traces these Whigs and their forebears to Federalists, then Know Nothings, framing a long pattern of opposition to Democracy from 1800 to 1869.
The Kansas City Times questions Porters claim that Harrison needed no help to be pulled through, noting a possible 1876 moment when Harrison might have needed support. The Chicago Herald calls the governors memory defective.
Pat Ford’s paper lauds Cleveland’s British friends including Gladstone Morley and allies who joined in Erin’s battle against heavy prejudice. Lis has reason to feel proud of them. Brooklyn Citizen.
The New York World comments that trusts are largely private affairs while citing Standard Oil as a private trust with public dealings.
Gen. Ben Harrison now supports repealing tobacco taxes to avert duties cuts. He voted in 1882 against allowing farmers to sell 100 pounds of their own tobacco without a retailer's license.
The Harrison managers fear Blaine's defense of trusts at Portland and recall the fable of bell the cat, noting no one bold enough to muzzle Blaine, despite Quay's reported wish to do so, as reported by the New York World.
The Hartford Courant notes Republicans are on a grin about Prohibition moves to win votes from the GOP. The Brooklyn Citizen calls the grin of grim death, reflecting sharp political sniping amid reform efforts.
The piece urges safe reform and warns against radical remedies by an irritated public. It cites President Cleveland calling for a careful tariff study and Gen. Garfield urging measured debate over tariff policy to avoid harming manufacturing, stressing fiscal caution.
Mr. C. E. Stupps arrives in the city via the C K & YY with twenty three imported Belgian and French craft animals to join the D. P. Stubbs and Sons Empire ranch. Local political commentary follows noting rival family influence in Republican politics and endorsements for county offices.
Following is a list of uncalled letters remaining at the Fairfield post office on August 29 1588. Recipients must state letters have been advertised. Brown Alexander Hisel Mary Horrell Jennie McPherson A S Miller Jnc Mills Sarah Rice Ida Snyder B S A Tepe Joseph Whitson Francis M L Wilson J A Wright Martha C.
The Burlington Route C B Q R R will sell harvest excursion tickets at half rate from principal stations on its lines on Tuesdays August 21 September 11 and 25 and October 9 and 23 to farming regions of the west southwest and northwest. For tickets and information contact nearest agent or P S Eustis general vice president and ticket agent Chicago.
An eight mile west of Fairfield wreck claims Patrick Ready and Dennis Griffin killed, G O Rose missing and later found dead. A Burlington road crew and Ottumwa wrecking train crews respond, with extensive clearing and investigation following the fatal collision between an extra and a construction train.
Obituaries for G O Rose Dennis Griffin and Patrick Ready detail their careers families and origins in Ireland and the United States. Ready served in the 12th New York Infantry and all three funerals are set for 10 AM at the Catholic church amid an inquest by Coroner Evans with no new facts as of publication.
The Tribune omits the nomination of Charlies H. Bandy of this city as the First district Prohibition candidate for Congress. Bandy, a Parsons College student, is described as a young man of irreproachable character and excellent abilities.
Jordan solicits both old customers of Jordan Ros & Co and new patrons at the old stand just north of the C B Q railroad. The shop offers a full stock of lumber lath shingles doors windows blinds mouldings lime cement stucco sewer pipe and more with prices guaranteed as low as the lowest.
On Thursday of last week Company A at Camp Crapo Burlington hosted the visitors. The boys impressed with hospitality from Commisary Mikesell, excellent cooking, neat tents, sharp drills, and a fourth place finish in target shooting, just behind Muscatine’s crack company.
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