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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1888
Page
4
President Cleveland delivers a lengthy address summarizing economic, tariff, and fiscal policy. He critiques monopolies and corruption, urges tariff reform, land and Indian policy improvements, and calls for better consular and postal service management. He notes naval, agricultural, and educational advances and stresses national unity and prudent governance.
Dr Francis Tumbety an erratic American linked by London authorities to Whitechapel atrocities arrives in New York aboard the La Bretagne. Detectives, not charging him with crime, monitor him at a West Street boarding house for several days.
Sroxam W T reports that on Tuesday afternoon near Cocalla Idaho a construction train collided with a freight train wrecking both engines and several cars. Brakeman H Mor ton was instantly killed and two other train hands fatally injured.
Fire at Cortland Wagon company in Cortland New York early Wednesday morning gutted two main buildings and the blacksmith shop. The blaze spread along a 400 foot connected complex. Insurance stands at 711000 with losses expected to exceed it. Finished cutters and large stock of materials were burned.
A major blaze in Muskegon Michigan destroyed 9,000,000 feet of Hackley and Hume lumber with tramways docks and bridges loss near 1750000. Fire spread from wind driven embers and minor blazes occurred citywide. In Montreal two firemen were badly burned and others injured while battling a warehouse fire causing about 150000 in stock and building damage.
A large blaze at Woods Jenks & Co on the west end of Cleveland destroyed five acres of lumber. The fire started at 4 O clock Wednesday morning and was brought under control later. Insured value on the stock is estimated around 41,000 dollars with coverage for 5,001,000 to 6,000,000 feet of timber.
A negro woman on Lt. O Colquitt's farm six miles from Lexington left her three children inside the house while she visited. The home burned to the ground upon her return, killing the children.
Syracuse brick and shoe manufacturers A E Nettleton & Co Shoeware J C Weston Tricycle Works and several smaller concerts burned at Lamon Wednesday total loss 60000 dollars Local officials report the blaze caused extensive damage to multiple downtown properties.
A Cincinnati centennial drummer reports Kansas corn towering over others and recalls an old lady remarking that such height likely came from several years of growth, not one.
The Century circulates on strength of excellence not ads as it launches its thirty seventh volume with Lincoln history by Nicolay and Hay and new papers on Siberia and the exile system. The publishers aim to keep the magazine indispensable to readers seeking culture and timely insight.
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