11 Feb 1886
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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1886
Page
1
The article reports Earl Granville becoming the senior knight of the Order of the Garter. It notes Mrs Browntow of Knaville Tenn and plans to attend English events. Election costs for Mr Grapstox are itemized and he was returned without personal expense. The piece cites various newspaper valuations and mentions Northamption costs.
Prince Aportin of Lippe Schaum berg marks a quarter century on the throne of a micro German principality. The territory spans 212 square miles with 38 155 residents while his private fortune totals 30 000 090 dollars.
Josery Barnsy, an eminent English musician, began as a church chorister and joined Sir Arthur Sullivan in 1854 as a Royal Academy of Music member. He leads and organizes oratorios and composes refined music.
The article portrays Leopold as highly democratic in spirit and behavior. He walks the streets of Brussels with easy, unhurried steps and is as recognizable on the Rue Royale as President Grant was on Pennsylvania Avenue. He stands about six feet tall with an angular frame and awkward bearing.
The text extols Ernst Curtius as a foremost scholar of Greek history, a robust German professor past age norms, and a patriotic figure from Lübeck with distinctive features and an intellectual brow.
Wirllam Ewart GLapstouse is three years older than M. Grevy and one year older than the pope, and he is stronger and far more active than either. Bos marck is six years younger than the Englishman, who is eleven years younger than the Kaiser, and carries ten less years than Von Moltke. Tough old men, all of them.
While driving in Windsor Queen Victoria witnessed a cab-horse collapse. An outrider inquired and the queen arranged for the owner to receive another horse from the royal stables as compensation for the loss.
Gambetta reflects after eighteen months at the Petit Bourbon that material wealth cannot satisfy. He states that pleasures of the heart and intellect are infinite and grow with use, making a rich man question the desire to be a millionaire.
S S Cox writes to a friend in New York that he has begun an historical work on the Ottoman invasion of Europe and expects full access to Turkish archives and libraries. He says access would greatly aid history by unlocking Greek and Armenian manuscripts in Constantinople long closed to scholars.
In Paris a reforming wave targets overlong meals as diners tire before full courses. Leaders of fashion cap the bill of fare at four plots to speed dining. An anecdote about composer Goldmark and a country belle adds a humorous twist to the piece.
Wapello County shows 107 registered physicians or one per 250 residents, five cannot write. Several fires strike businesses and towns, including Western Supply Co. in Cleveland and Lenox blaze with $15,000 loss. Notable events include a Woodburn merchant assignment, Jesuit entry of Father Linehan, and a Sioux City accident injuring Reuben Sisson.
Henry G. Harrison of New York sues Mrs. A. T. Stewart for 95732 claiming he served as architect of the cathedral of Incarnation in Garden City from 1876 to 1885 and was owed 113564 with 17852 already paid. Stewart has not answered. her lawyers suggest he was not employed for years.
Atyinger Bros Bank in Indianapolis fails with deposits of 350 000 dollars and real estate 290 000 dollars while other assets are uncertain. the real estate market could leave depositors with as little as 25 cents on the dollar. The column also reports a St Paul ice palace pageant closing a winter carnival preview, a Huntingdon Pennsylvania theft of 4500 dollars, and various other incidents including railroad telegraph experiments, suicides, factory fires, drownings, and a Cleveland double murder.
A bill from the Prussian government seeks to prolong the anti socialistic law for five years. Reports also cover German Polish land issues, Bismarck policy on crown purchases, and reactions from Austria and other German states amid tensions over Polish estates and colonization.
Standing committees on woman suffrage and investigations form the core of the session. Senators McDonough Clark Barrett Chubb Chambers Stephens Wolfe Bayless lead the woman suffrage panel. Petitions on alcohol schooling and suffrage surge as lawmakers push for new codes and local measures. Bills range from rail safety and hospital funding to police commissions and tax reforms. Adjourned after extensive debate and postings.
A stream of petitions urged teaching alcohol effects in public schools and woman suffrage. Lawmakers introduced bills on shorthand reporters in supreme courts, industrial statistics, penalties for intoxicated train workers, swamp land credits, and repair costs for a state school. Other measures cover foreign corporations, cattle guards, soldiers home, suffrage at municipal level, railroad safety, and joint river improvements. Multiple bills passed and the session adjourned.
Senate records show petitions on woman suffrage and public school alcohol education, plus a Jasper county request supporting the Cassatt mining bill. Bills introduced authorize mayors to solemnize marriages, widen school directors powers to enforce attendance, create tribunals of voluntary arbitration, and allocate 25 000 to cover exhibition debt.
The report lists bills from Weber Whiting McCoy Gatch Johnson Stephens and others on insurance policy details county and school matters mining and licenses and train penalties. Senate passed a bill on education about alcohol and narcotics with 29 to 7 voting and adjourned. House articles include livery restraints convict labeling prison labor road work and school text book purchases. Adjourned until Monday.
A sequence of bills addresses suffrage education, narcotic and alcoholic restraint in schools, and obscenity suppression. Proposals include mortgages relief, insurance policy regulation, funding Cedar Falls normal school, a soldiers and sailors home, coal screening, drainage law tweaks, mayoral compensation, and treating habitual drinkers as insane with staged punishments. A $2 500 grant supports publication of Town Resources and Industries amid barbed wire litigation probes. Reports from visiting committees cover Mt. Pleasant Insane Asylum and related matters.
Senate receipts include letters from the War Interior and Treasury, reports on militia Yellowstone Park and standard weights. A resolution to bar ex union soldiers from civil service exams was laid over. A Sioux reservation division bill passed. public buildings proposed in Beatrice and Morgan City. pension increase for widows debated and approved.
Petitions from Frye and Knights of Labor groups urge opening Oklahoma to settlers. Blair's joint resolution on woman suffrage advances but meets minority resistance. Kiddleberger proposes senate oversight on removals and papers for confirmations. Electoral count bill recommitted amid debate. New bills address civil service appointments and public health. Memorials mark Vice President Hendricks deaths.
The Tribune offers job printing of every description with prompt service and reasonable rates. It advertises job rooms and estimates for pamphlets and brief work and solicits business from any part of the state. Commercial stationery is a specialty.
The senate heard a letter from the attorney general requesting additional appropriations for jurors and witnesses. A Frye resolution about fisheries policy was favorably reported and placed on the calendar, while related president senate information resolutions were laid on the table. A Texas Colorado Oregon Nebraska California Kansas Nevada and Washington Idaho relief bill passed for voucher flexibility. Logan spoke on the Dakota bill but no vote occurred before adjournment. The house received a postmaster general communication on mail service compensation and Bland's treasury info resolution on silver circulation was adopted after a recommit option failed.
The Senate debated Dakota statehood with Harrison defending admission and Butler and Morgan clashing over electoral politics. A separate bill on war tax claims against states was discussed as the House prepared to adjourn after a committee session.
A group including Hoar Frye Cullom Conger Dawes and Alison from Knights of Labor presses Congress to open Oklahoma lands and establish a territorial government. The Senate approves militia appropriations amendments and debates the Dakota bill creating Dakota and Lincoln territories. The Military Affairs Committee backs Laird’s Arizona and New Mexico cavalry bill with provisions for settlers, ponies, pack animals, and supplies. House adjourns to Monday.
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