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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1898
Page
3
Lot 5 advertises Syrup of Figs as superior due to its original formula and scientific manufacturing. It stresses buying only the genuine product from California Fig Syrup Co to avoid imitations and claims gentle, non irritating laxative effects benefiting kidneys, liver, and bowels without gripe or nausea.
Secretary Day announced Justice White accepted a peace commissioner role and the panel is complete. Associate Justice White and editor Whitelaw Reid join the commission with John Moore and J R MacArthur to serve as secretaries as Secretary Day prepares for Canton and the trip to Paris.
Cerpak Rapids Iowa August 25 15 year old Italian boy Jooterello unable to swim entered 18 feet deep water yesterday and drowned. The body not yet recovered.
In New Hampton on August 27 the Fourth district Republican convention nominated G. N. Haugen after seven days of stalemate and 366 ballots. Delegates remained divided over nominee choice.
The first annual Northwestern Town Tennis association tournament opened in Iowa yesterday at Sioux City and Stova City. It drew many out-of-town players and several well known competitors, signaling a promising event for the region.
Captain Olmstead received a dispatch from Secretary Alger authorizing the Fifty-second Iowa to muster out of United States service. The regiment is en route from Camp Thomas at Chickamauga and will arrive here Friday or Saturday.
Hamilton Hulse, once of Booner Iowa, returned from the Klondike with fifty thousand dollars in gold taken from a Yukon claim. He is brother in law to Thomas Lippe, the Klondike bonanza king, and his sister Mrs Lippe was among the first white women to go over the pass to Dawson.
The district court in Sioux City opened its August term with the high profile case against C. Mott, a noted gold brick operator, charged with defrauding banker J. A. Davy of Pomeroy Iowa of a large sum through the antiquated gold brick scheme.
A 120 foot section of the Mason City and Fort Dodge railroad bridge at Lehigh collapsed while a train passed. The engine and four loaded cars plunged 40 feet into the Des Moines river. Engineer White was injured in the back but not fatally. Fireman Kalde remained in his seat and was uninjured. The crew narrowly escaped death in the incident.
Jefferson Iowa awoke to news of President Stickney arriving by Great Western train. The visit is linked to the proposed Omaha line with surveying completed in several counties. The route reportedly passes near Coon Rapids and would cross the Des Moines Northern and Western between Jefferson and Cooper, continuing to Story City and into Marshalltown on Iowa Central tracks.
In Des Moines Iowa the Red Cross was granted hospital jurisdiction over Camp McKinley provoking opposition from the Iowa Sanitary Commission which argues it should not be subordinate. The Red Cross is cleaning and scrubbing quarters for Fifty second regiment members arriving from Chickamauga park.
General Corbin says no demand for supplies beyond regular requisitions has been made and that facts will emerge in time. War department officials push for investigations into hospital conditions at Chickamauga and defend officers against claims of mismanagement while warning against denting army discipline.
Readable fragments indicate discussion of losses being less than those at war’s start. Lacks clear dates, places, or named entities, but notes a comparison of casualties or material losses to the beginning of the conflict.
New York reported fifteen soldiers dead yesterday from Camp Wikoff and the city. Causes listed include malarial fever dysentery lung disease and morphine overdose for a private. Yellow fever status remains disputed as doctors clash over hospital cases while three transports were sighted, one possibly the Mexico with General Shafter aboard.
Secretary Alger arrived in New York and said Camp Wikoff's condition was not as bad as expected. He stated there are sufficient accommodations and furloughs, and that any lack of medicines or supplies is the fault of those ordering them. He spoke with sleeping soldiers who claimed they wanted for nothing.
Gen Boynton reports thorough hospital investigations at Camp Thomas Chickamauga Park Ga Aug 29 debunking sensational claims of inefficiency and shortages He notes 1500 sick in camps hospitals with 500 typhoid cases most mild and a three death toll at Sternburg hospital in two days The War Department expresses satisfaction with his findings and preparations continue for troop movements and mustering out operations
The Manila commercial men sign a memorial to Lord Salisbury asking him to avert Spanish retrenchment in the Philippines. The Times’ Manila correspondent notes the American troops’ conduct is admirable and the town has seen little disturbance since their occupation. General Greene to return to Washington with General Merritt.
The Yucatan Hudson and Catalina arrived at Montauk Point with several hundred men from Santiago. Fourteen deaths occurred during the voyage including Ralph Lachlan Charles Wheaton R A Jones Fred P Huston and Guy Thorn all listed as privates in various Illinois and Michigan companies.
Secretary Alger went to the general hospital in New York where 1,200 wounded and ill soldiers rest. He spoke with many patients about their condition and needs and took notes on what he observed.
Ex Governor Claude Matthews died after a second stroke on Saturday afternoon. He was conscious until the stroke, recognized relatives, and spoke no further. Short services were held at Meharry's home, then the body sent by rail to Clinton for funeral arrangements in Indiana with ministers Souders and Milburn officiating.
At Chickamauga Park Georgia Aug 29 nearly all regiments of volunteers are leaving Camp Thomas with only the Sixth United States volunteers remaining to guard hospitals and property. The Eighth New York is to be mustered out at Hampstead next morning and a hospital train carried 258 sick and convalescent men with nurses. Typhoid cases total 620 across hospitals with six deaths. The Fifty-second Iowa departs for Des Moines via Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis.
President McKinley and Mrs McKinley toured Camp Meade Pa for about an hour August 29 guided by First Delaware Guards. He approved barracks and staff quarters as the camp fills ahead of his western trip.
Washington Aug 30 The following troops have been ordered out Ninth Massachusetts from Middletown Pa to South Farmingham Mass to be mustered out Seventh Illinois from Middletown to Springfield First Illinois Lexington Ky to Springfield Fifth Illinois Lexington to Springfield Sixty fifth New York from Camp Alger to Buffalo Fifth Ohio Infantry from Fernandina Fla to Columbus Ohio First Wisconsin from Jacksonville to Camp Douglass Wisconsin Third United States volunteer cavalry Grigsbys at Chickamauga Fourth Texas at Austin Texas
Governor Law received a dispatch saying the men of the Fifty-second Iowa not already sent home sick would depart Chickamauga this morning. The adjutant general expects their arrival Wednesday. Miss Delta Weeks, the nurse sent with Des Moines companies to San Francisco, has been appointed an army nurse at $30 a month and will accompany the Fifty-first regiment.
Washington August 29 An order by General Corbin directs the mustering out of the First Fifth and Seventh Illinois volunteers.
Dr. Emil Reich, Hungarian historian and British counsel in the Venezuelan arbitration, deems the czar’s peace note a dream. He argues the scheme is a feint to widen Russian influence in Manchuria while European powers face demographic and military threats.
In Kazan, Samara, Saratov, Simbirsk, Viatka and Perm regions, harvest failures push peasants to scan poverty. Government grants permission to gather faggots for fuel and dried leaves for fodder as relief lags, while cattle and horses die from hunger. Officials slow to implement aid, risking severe suffering.
Leavenworth Aug 20 Internal Revenue Collector Sutton reports a justice department decision through the revenue bureau that the Union Pacific must stamp the mortgage recorded after July 1. The tax is 5000 dollars per county and 80000 dollars for Kansas alone.
The Knights of Pythias supreme lodge adjourned in Indianapolis after electing officers. Supreme chancellor is Thomas C. Sample of Allegheny Pennsylvania. supreme vice chancellor Ogden H Feathers of Wisconsin.
Milton B B Sturges a San Francisco capitalist who died August 20 left all but 2500 of his 100000 estate to two sisters Mrs Lucertia Crowell of Toledo Ohio and Mrs Erdota Wilcox of Adrian Michigan or their descendants leaving a modest portion to others in the will with bequests noted in the August 29 report from San Francisco.
A look at notable events from recent days includes the death of Charles Burham a 20 year old trooper at Lookout Mountain his body sent to Bloomington Effie Martin of Glenbar Ills faces probable death after attempting suicide by eating match heads Farmers in southern Wisconsin harvest the largest wheat and oat crop in twenty years George Tighe a 9 year old Chicago boy loses a leg after being run over by a cable car Charles Denby ex US minister to China arrives in San Francisco after thirteen years in Beijing Mayor John M Thompson declines Democratic bid for Congress in Illinois Twelfth District.
The First Illinois cavalry leaves Chickamauga for Chicago. The 158th Indiana departs for Knoxville. Parts of the 33rd and 34th Michigan move from Thoroughfare Gap to Middletown. Frank Peters, 13, drowns in Chicago while aiding Christina Bleile, 10, with a hat. Italian laborer Toney Metrone killed by a live wire in Syracuse storm. Major J M Thompson withdraws his congressional declination for the Twelfth Illinois. Helen M Gould donates 25000 for Camp Wikoff ill and wounded care.
Three United States commissioners reach Honolulu and confer with Dole on needed congressional action. Also noted are Roosevelt delaying Chicago campaign kickoff, a New Jersey captain’s fifth Atlantic voyage, marriages licensed in Indiana, drowning accident in Indiana, a coal firm’s creditor surrender, and a French schooner collision with the Norge on Grand Banks with sixteen lost.
The Davis copper mine in Shasta county California yields ore with 40 percent copper and 4 to 20 ounces of silver plus 2 to 30 dollars in gold. Other notes mention Hoar potential ambassadorship, Bayard illness, Roosevelt 1904 club in Chicago, Fraser River gold, a large Northville hotel fire, and a sixty day furlough for Santiago veterans.
A derailment or collision at a Ware Massachusetts railway crossing killed George Whiting and several relatives while seriously injuring Harold Rich John Scott six and Mildred Scott four. Other items: Senator Davis leaves New York for St Paul as part of the peace commission. Henry Stevens of Cleveland commits suicide amid business troubles. Nantes council calls for limits on American horse imports. Lillian Russell draws crowds in Berlin with favorable press. US Jews plan a colonization effort to Porto Rico.
Tuesday August 30 reports Jules Cambon the French ambassador in Washington visiting Montreal. Bayard’s condition has improved and he is expected to recover soon. Oscar Turner wins Democratic nomination in Kentucky fifth district. Poison mushrooms kill Mrs Jeffers and her Philadelphia child in Shippensburg. Pine Creek man William Head dies by suicide in San Francisco. Chicago police kill suspect Nicholas Meehan during arrest. Port Townsend sailor Andrew Larsen shoots two Indian women. one fatally wounded. Westfield Illinois resident John Pratt dies amid courtroom dispute.
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