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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1887
Page
1
Sioux City readies for a planning mill and furniture factory threat to settle, while Sioux City capitalists probe cable car prospects. Keatley named editor of the democratic Herald to start in Sioux City this month.
A Helena dispatch reports a major hotel annex fire destroying four buildings with $55,000 loss and a possible fatality. Congress debates livestock disease powers with a $100,000 appropriation. Indiana elects Judge Turple US senator. Texas to send Reagan to the Senate. Jersey City burglars fail to loot a post office safe. Minooka Illinois loses its business district to a $30,000 fire. Missouri Supreme Court halts execution to April 1. A Kansas lynching follows an assault, while Chicago firm probes embezzlement. Ferris accused of pension fraud. Adams estate totals $1,026,000 with vast provisions. Melborn Texas endures two minor earthquakes.
The Senate approves George Paul for postmaster at Iowa City. Congressional offices report petitions from Allison and Quasqueton citizens seeking aid for common schools, and Keokuk resident Frank Allyn is named Associate Justice of the Washington territory Supreme Court. Des Moines razing old Methodist church for a six story Iowa Loan and Trust building.
In a Boston visit, Lafayette recalls Yorktown with Americans as “Amerera.” He tells how American troops and French forces stormed sieges, and how a crowd cheered Capt Smith. To draw attention from French, he had the band play Yankee Doodle, changing the crowd’s gaze.
Des Moines residents hear a hopeful forecast as a conservatory of music is named among promised spring blooms. Washington county supervisors raise the wolf scalp bounty from one to three dollars. Mount Pleasant residents reportedly favor barb wire as a popular drink.
In Washington, the Senate advanced the Civil Appropriation Bill and the Neuss Bill to bridge the Missouri between Council Bluffs and Omaha. It amended Yellowstone Park provisions and delayed the Pacific railroad funding, then adjourned after executive session. The House later passed postoffice and District of Columbia appropriations and approved various measures including Owenboro building funds and French spoliation claim extensions.
Senator Van Wyck offered a resolution asking the Secretary of the Treasury for a report on whether any national banks are lending money or discounting notes payable in gold. The Senate adjourned after considering the civil service appropriation bill. A separate resolution urged the President to outline steps to defend the coasts against a belligerent zone. The House discussed agricultural and navy bureau consolidation bills, then rose and adjourned.
Washington reports several amendments to the sundry civil bill. Highlights include Sherman’s $50,000 for Marietta Centennial Monument Association, Miller’s $250,000 for Middletown property, Hoar’s $125,000 for a Worcester public building site, Mahone’s $40,000 for Harrisburg and $100,000 for New Bedford, Sewell’s $40,000 for Camden site, Frye’s $35,000 for International Congress entertainment, Spooner’s $50,000 for LaCrosse public building, and Plumb’s $40,000 to finish Fort Scott. The Senate adjourned at 4:45 pm. The naval and invalid pensions committees reported. Whitman pension bill advanced. pensions for widows of Logan and Blair opposed. The House, at night, approved several military and private bills and adjourned at 10:40.
A afternoon session featured Allison predicting a very small or no surplus for the next fiscal year. Wilson of Iowa urged detailed info on Iowa railroad land grants. The Senate moved on sundry civil bills, and a naval and army appropriations plea followed. The Missouri river bridge bill advanced and Ship Island quarantine station funding passed. The House debated pensions and naval construction measures, with amendments on pleuro pneumonia funding and civil service checks, before adjourning.
Ella Peyton, a society belle, secretly wed Felix Blankenbaker on January 27 after a planned ceremony with Rev. G. K. Berry. The couple eloped after a club dance and boarded a night train toward Mattoon, with plans to settle in Chicago. Family and society learned of the nuptials through a note to Ella's mother and reports from a boarding guest. Blankenbaker, a former grocery clerk, had secured a sewing factory job in Chicago.
Edward Unger, confined at No. 22 Ridge Street, confessed to Inspector Byrnes after seeing the murder trunk and implements. He detailed the Jan 20 struggle with August Bohle, the disposal of the body, and the trunk shipment to Baltimore, amid a broader discussion on blindness statistics.
A humorous scene from a ball at the Mansite louse recounts a provincial master presenting himself to the Princess of Wales. He is gently refused due to children recovering from measles, while he bows and offers to take a token from such a charming source.
Text fragment mentions a character Carrie and a cryptic question about who in a region live well but disagreeable. It hints at a crisis over papers to be vetted and references a subscription cost tied to a person named Seandier.
Statistics from Russia show 750000 convicts sent to Siberia between 1854 and 1854 with a high escape rate in the last twenty years. Most exiles are in the life plane, complicating government control. about one-fifth are women over 40, marriage banned during exile, and two thirds of Siberian crimes attributed to exiles.
A post office starts at Cleonville in Wapello county with Wm. O Malley named postmaster Rena toot named postmaster at Toots Siding in Butler county and a new fire incident reported Otto Otton, who assassinated John O Schon last September near Vocahontas, indicted by the grand jury, pleaded guilty and received life in the penitentiary from Judge Carr.
Lieutenant W H Scheutze recalls his trip to Veroyansk in Siberia delivering gifts to natives and describing Arctic life. He notes the town's brutal cold with thermometers at eighty six below zero, icy windows, shared bunks, lice, and extreme cleanliness challenges. He details clothing, heating, food like reindeer meat and bread, and vodka as a prized drink traded for garments.
The piece argues the family is the strongest agent against vile writings. It urges parents to unite in promoting daily lessons that cultivate love of good and useful study. Laws and societies help some youth, but early home training is far more effective.
The Tribune advertises comprehensive printing services including estimates on pamphlets and brief work. It solicits work from any part of the state and highlights commercial stationery as a specialty.
Sullivan says a fighter must have pluck skill endurance and a good head. He explains targets for punches and notes Dempsey’s head wounds reveal his generalship weaknesses. He recalls a sparring tactic to surprise an opponent and describes his own training aversion and routine.
The United States hosts a large, growing class of wealthy invalids traveling from Moosehead Lake to Tacoma and beyond in search of health. They roam seeking cures at springs and climates, leaving no permanent home and facing uncertain futures as they await wills and endure lifetime illness.
In National Review, Countess of Jersey argues the best educated woman understands her powers and the limits of influence, noting women will pursue roles suited to them and politics will not draw all to direct government. She cites Penelope and Cassandra as archetypes, forecasting varied female roles and cautionary foresight.
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