Iowa news items spand from schools to mining in 1880s
The report lists diverse Iowa items: Dualuje public schools employ 87 teachers. Methodist conference meets at Newton on September 7. Davenport Baptists oppose a saloon opposite their church. Shenandoah forms a $10,000,000 coal prospect company. drowning of J R Updyke near Jessup. Andrew Harris found dead in Delaware county garden. a Davenport clerk, W J Hudson, claims a forgery letter to the Bulgarian throne. St Louis shooting of burglar Henry Langer by Dr H Marx. National Conference of Charities opens in Omaha with 500 delegates. a new Dubuque railway firm with $10 million capital. murder clue from Indian Creek in Council Bluffs. Sioux City harvest jubilee planned with $85,000 funding. Emmet Hazel injured in wagon wreck. 27 fatal and 48 nonfatal coal mine accidents. Gen George W Jones in demand at 83. August Warnebold suicide near Davenport. Des Moines baseball costs vs churches. Milton apple trees dying. Farengo forms $20,900 hotel stock company. Waterloo chartered baseball. Dubuque governors drilling for Philadelphia trip. Hagerly minstrel burglar in Cedar Rapids. two new Grand Army posts in Creston. Keokuk real estate man suicide. What Cheer population grows to 5,000. Le high hand-car accident kills 12-year-old daughter. Iowa to fast for rain vice. drained land yields better crops. Waukon iron mining projects with $4,000,000 capital. hog cholera absence in Floyd County. Des Moines poker fines for toys. city fashionables play poker nightly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
W. J. Hudson
Washington
Hudson
St. Louis
H. Marx
Flenry Langer
National Conference of Charities and Corrections
Omaha
United States
J. A. Gillespie
State Institute For the Deaf and Dumb
Thayer
Saunders
John M. Thurston
Colby
John C. Corwin
Broatch
Edward Rosewater
H. H. Giles
Wisconsin
Fred H. Wine
Illinois
Frank Branborn
Massachusetts
Dubuque
Dusbuque
Iowa
Missouri
J. P. Farley
Wmn. L. Bridly
Frank D. Stout
J. H. Childs
B. J. O’ Neil
Tom Connelly
Peter Kienne, Jr
D. D
Sioux City
Emmet Hazel
Creston
George W.jones
Milton
John A. Rawlins
Keokuk
Waukon
Rockford
Allamakee Iron Mining Co
Henry W. Price
George Roper
John B. Line
Waukon Iron Mining Co
Capital
Davenport Fisher
Milwaukee
Fisher
Floyd County
Des Moines
Puntancall
State Street
Seattle
Washington Territory
Vasser College
San Francisco Alta
Egypt
Justus H. Schwab
Philadelphia
J. H. Doolittle
Eckerty
Ind
Paris
Yale
New Art Museum
Princeton
San Francisco
Cuba
L. B. Goldsmith
Great Lakes
Oakland
Mich
R. H. Whittaker
Salem
Ill
Jennings County
Indiana
Christ's Own
England
Foreign Power Struggles Stir Europe and Bulgaria Crisis
Reports from Europe describe Germany considering higher cereal duties to pressure Russia over iron, raising potential ruin for German industry. Russia rejects Prince Ferdinand’s Bulgarian throne election, while French British friction over New Hebrides persists. Austria orders 200000 rifles for Bulgaria as Irish National League branches vow to keep work going despite proclamations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reichstag
Germany
Russia
Silesia
Prince Ferdinand
Bulgaria
Ferdinand
St. Petersburg
Berlin
England
France
New Hebrides
Many Links From Across the Nation this Week
A roundup notes bail for Mrs. Fannie Roberts in a Manhattan bank embezzlement case. Prohibitionists nominate Simeon B. Chase for Supreme Judge in Pennsylvania. Land restoration orders issued for indemnity lands tied to the Missouri Kansas & Texas line. Multiple rail wrecks and fatalities reported including a Jersey Central collision near Cranford and a Baltimore & Ohio crash near Baltimore. Fire destroys Martins Ferry stove works. The will of Levi Rosenfeld is probated with large bequests. The death of actor Austin H. Morris is announced. Arrests and indictments in Gardner Illinois and Woodstock Virginia. Desperado John Laws wounded in Missouri. Henry George comments on Socialist exclusion at Syracuse convention. A fatal shooting in Indiana and a postmaster’s son fatally shoots a burglar. Winnipeg road building injunctions discussed. A hailstorm in Kansas causes extensive damage. Whisky trust details emerge with peoria as hub. Kid Esau Simms and Bassett Simms in a severe pistol incident. A Charleston murder found, and antitrust actions against AmEx and telegraph firms. Kentucky returns show Buckner leads Bradley by 17,015.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fannie Roberts
Manhattan Bank
Teller Scott
Simeon B. Chase
Easton
Prohibitionists
Pennsylvania
D.C. Irish
New Castle
Stockslager
Secretary of the Interior
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
Jersey Central Road
Cranford
N. J
Baltimore & Ohio
Baltimore
al. Smith
Arbuthnot
Patrick Fitzgerald
Martins Ferry
Ohio
Levi Rosenfeld
Chicago
Maurice
Harry
Austin H. Morris
Laclede
St. Louis
Gardner
Sarah H Dodge
Babcock
Illinois
Miss Dodge
Minneapolis Journal
Winnipeg
Red River Valley Road
Hamilton
St. Joseph Mo
John Laws
Samuel Genn
George Brinski
Cleveland
Bath
N. Y
Indiana
Penn
Amg
Alonzo Kelly
John Kelly
Black Lick
Charles Rogers
New York Dispatch
Henry George
Syracuse
George
Wm. Byers
Young Byers
Repentant Defaulter Seeks Trial in Galveston Case
W J Burk former Galveston county treasurer appeared in San Francisco and said he is ready to plead guilty. He fled last November with a 40690 shortage and took 16000 in Atchison Santa Fe bonds held for the school fund. He has repaid 13000 and shipped bonds to Galveston after leaving. He plans to surrender if no deputy arrives by next Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
W. J. Burk
Galveston County
Texas
Associated Press
Galveston
Burk
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
Australia
Mariposa
Nominations and Platform Adopted by Iowa Republicans 1887
The 1887 Iowa Republican State Convention in Des Moines nominates Gov. Wm. Larrabee for governor and J. A. T. Hull for lieutenant governor by acclamation. Final ballots nominate Robinson for Supreme Court and Sabin for State Superintendent. The platform affirms postwar unity, opposes voter suppression, and backs a protective tariff to boost American industry and labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col
D. B. Henderson
Merriam
Nathan French
H. C. Hemenway
Charles E. Brown
Chas. Weare
Wm. McNett
Eli Wilkin
E. J. McCoy
W. F. Sapp
C. C. Chubb
Hon
I. &. Struble
Reading
E. R. Hutchins
Don D. Donnan
A. H. Fortune
H. 8. Sperry
Dubuque
Wm. Larrabee
J. A. T. Hull
Supreme Court
Granger
Adams
Ruddick
Miracle
Lewis
Henderson
Robinson
Senator Robinson
Buena Vista County
Eldridge
Werplie
Sabin
Fellows
Grumbling
Frost
Gurney
Coffee
Henry Sabin
Clinton County
Geo. D. Perkins
Committee On
Iowa Republicans Endorse Tax Cuts And Rail Regulation
The platform urges wage parity between Europe and America, calls for broad tax reduction, and supports state revenue reform. It condemns immigrant pauper labor and endorses land reclamation for settlers, civil service merit, and veteran pensions. It backs railroad regulation, free passes ban, school book relief, and Home Rule sympathy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
America
Republican Party
Grover Cleveland
Congress
Des Moines River
Democratic Party
Supreme Court of the United States
Railway Commission
Iowa
Gladstone
Parnell
Dakota
Larrabee
Lawa
Cleveland
Two Women Found Dead in Tenement 31 Charles Street
Police break into room to discover Mrs Payne age 60 and her daughter Anna 35 dead from self inflicted wounds. They lay in blood spattered bed with notes asking to be buried in Albany Rural cemetery and stating insanity and fear of asylum. Anna taught at an east side public school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles Street
Payne
Anna
Miss Weed
Thurlow Weed
Paynes
Albany
East Side
Notable Society and Arts Notes From an Era
The eldest daughter of Gen Sherman excels at sculling on Lake George while Zola’s forthcoming novel is whispered to be his vilest yet. Ingersoll and family vacation at Marblehead Neck. Robert Browning commences travel to Engadine and Switzerland for two months. Saran Bernhardt reportedly earns over 2500 dollars per performance in London. Senator Sherman named director of the Washington Monument association. A baseball grave marker reads He Made a Clean Home Run. Iceland to allow women higher exams and Reykjavik college study. Mrs Perry resides at Stratford Conn in good health. Edward Aupman, composer of Mascott, works on Mohammeds Paradise to premiere in Brussels.
Susan B Anthony Plans Equal Suffering Convention Tour
Miss Susan B Anthony will spend October in Kansas holding an equal suffrage convention at the home of each of the nine congressmen of that state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan B. Anthony
Kansas
Prince Napoleon to Publish Napoleon et ses Detracteurs
Berlin correspondent notes Prince Napoleon plans release of Napoleon et ses Detracteurs. In New York, the controversial Brick Pomeroy launches a monthly journal titled The Advance Thought, stirring local attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Cologne Gazette
Napoleon
Pomeroy
New York
The
Advance Thought
Senator Puen Builds Washington Home Before Congress
Senator Puen of Alabama spends his second Washington summer supervising a handsome new residence project intended for completion before Congress reopens. The oldest U S Army general is William Selby Harney born near Nashville in 1800 and commissioned in 1818. he was breveted major-general on March 15, 1865.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puen
Alabama
Washington
United States Army
Wm. Selby Harney
Nashville
Tenn
Wall Family Noted For Public Attention At Sea
Berry Wall attracts notice while his aunt by marriage Mrs. M W Wall of New York City is acclaimed as the best dressed woman at Manchester by the Sea. Mrs Wall formerly was Miss Chaffee of Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berry Wall
M. W. Wall
New York City
Manchester-by-the-Sea
Wall
Chaffee
Boston
Noted Gunman Seret Mason Living Quiet Life in Virginia
Seret Mason, known for firing at Guiteau during the Garfield assassination trial, resides in Orange County Virginia. He has become a prosperous farmer, enjoying life with Betty and several babies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seret
Mason
Guiteau
Garfield
Orange County
Betty
Description of King Minan of Servia in The London Times
The London Times portrays King Minan of Servia as in the prime of life and robust in appearance with dark complexion and sparkling eyes. He is described as energetic and animated, fond of Parisian jokes, a mechanical cigarette smoker, and a speaker of excellent French.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King Minan
Servia
London Times
Mrs Steur Henn Strolls in Bar Harbor Sailor Suit
Mrs Steur Henn of the Galatea strolls each evening at Bar Harbor wearing a dark blue sailor's suit and a Tam O Shanter cap. She carries a stout cane and appears ready for mountains though her costume is comfortable rather than attractive.
Ex Gov Cornecy's Yonkers Home Reveals Domestic Life
Ex Governor Cornecy of New York lives in a large mansion beyond Mount St. Vincent in Yonkers with expansive grounds. He shows strong devotion to his wife, who is noted for social tact and popularity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornecy
New York
Mount St. Vincent
Yonkers
Hudson
Palisades
Ouida in Florence Reflects on Solitary Later Years
A Florence letter describes Ouida living largely alone with her dogs and one old lady as companion. Dud is about 60, and her solitary life shows in her eccentric style including bright colored checolette dresses and hair worn loose as if a 16 year old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence
Italy
Ouida
Dud
Berlin Pathology Lab Leads to New Medical Chemistry Chair
Prof Salkowski director at the Pathological Institute of Berlin is set to receive the new professorship of medical chemistry. His three predecessors now hold notable science posts Hoppe Seidler at Strasburg Wilhelm Kuhne at Heidelberg and Oskar Liebreich at Berlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salkowski
Berlin
Hoppe-Seidler
Strasburg
Wilhelm Kulhne
Heidelberg
Oskar Liebreich
University of Berlin
Mrs Louise Chanpler Moulton Visits Oscar Wilde in London
Mrs Louise Chanpler Moulton describes visiting Oscar Wilde known as the Apostle of the Beautiful. She praises his wife and home noting a pristine all white dining room with white walls chairs cabinets and a glass and china display. She wittily cites Wilde’s storytelling as among the best and nearly too good to be true.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Chanpler Moulton
Oscar Wilde
London
Tribune Job Printing Services Offer Improvements
The Tribune announces comprehensive job printing services including estimates for pamphlets and brief work. It promises neat, prompt execution at reasonable rates from the Tribune job rooms, serving customers across Commercial Station and surrounding areas.
Miscellaneous World Notes From 19th Century Gossip
A varied roundup reports drowning statistics, ancient histories, theater plans in Buenos Ayres, royal counselors, and a cautionary misprint of a Dutch painting purchase. It also covers baseball mishaps in Bad Axe, a Mormon embalming superstition, Ezra’s biblical status, opera losses in Paris, and curious odds and ends from Seattle to Princeton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth
Cecil
Victoria
Salisbury
Sanchomathe
Eusebius
Buenous Ayres
Bad Axe
Mich
Ezra
Moses
Paris
Iaro
Farseh- Madi
National Opera
Also Mentioned on This Page
Dualujue
the Methodist Church
Newton
M. W. van Warmer
Crooked Creek Railroad
Webster
Lehigh
Foreign Intelligence
Porte
Coburg
Sofia
Turkey
London Daily Telegraph
Win. O'Brien
Mitchelltown
W. H. Smith
Commons
Vienna
Journal Des Debats
Lougbrea
Armagh
Irish National League
League
Daily News
Dispatches
Woodstock
Senator Riddleberger
John Ludwig
Milton Cooper
Wm. Dinges
Joseph Holtzman
Charles Ruby
Edinbury
L. M. Hoshour
Riddleberger
Hottel
Stewart Jackson
Kansas City
James Duvall
Santa Rosa
Mexico
Atchison
Central Branch
Union Pacific
Missouri Pacific
H. P. Patcher
Great Whisky Trust
United Press
Peoria
Standard Oil Trust
Pekin
Trust
Esau Simms
Bassett Simms
Indianapolis
Bassett
Esau
Thomas Francis Crogan
Charleston
S. C
Mitchener
American Express Company
Western Union Telegraph Company
Woodruff Sleeping Car Company
Kentucky
Buckner
Bradley
Calveston
Beardley
State Central Committee
John Brennan
Woodbury County
Brennan
Credentials
H. J. Worden
van Buren
J. W. Rumple
Matt Parrott
Black Hawk
L. L. Caldwell
Winneshiek
James Smith
Cedar
F. M. Epperson
Wapello
W. H. Berry
Warren
Fighth
J. M. Milligan
Union
C. B. Hunt
Adair
Tomlinson
Taylor
B. F. Clayton
Pottawattamie
J. Fred Myers
Crawford
Woodbury
W. W. Junkin
Jefferson
W. C. Groves
Clayton County
Ed Knott
Bremer County
Gregor McGregor
S. 8
Farwell
Jones County
John F. Lacy
Mahaska County
H. J. Budd
Marion
C. E. Vrooman
Appanoose County
Smith McPherson
Montgomery County
S. K. Deal
Carroll County
J. N. Miller
Sac County
E. W. Fatlock
Louisa County
Sperry
Johnson County
South
Lake George
Gen. Sherman
Zola
Robert G. Ingersorn
Marblehead Neck, Mass
Robert Browning
Engadine
Switzerland
Saran Bernwardr
Sherman
Gen. Dunn
Washington Monument Association
Iceland
Reykjavik
Mrs. Perry
Commodore Perry
Lake Erie
Stratford, Conn
Epwardd Aupnan
Mascott
Brussels
the Tribune
Tribune
Commercial Stationert & Steciaimy
Carthage
Himilco
Netherlands
Murillo
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!