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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1888
Page
1
The Tribune notes Fairfield Iowa publication details with C M McElroy listed as publisher and weekly Thursday issue cadence.
Pere Hyacinté hopes to come to this country next year to lecture and raise funds for his religious movement in France. Apravam M Burbank, a Pittsfield mason, died recently leaving real estate valued at $1,000,009.
Claus StorcEKELS tours California advocating his theory that beet sugar can be produced domestically in sufficient quantities to meet national needs.
In Central Africa a king praises Wlusky and brandy calling them sweet soothing medicines. Christian medicine men are always welcome in his kingdom.
An estimate suggests more than two thousand young women in New York find regular profitable work as typewriters. The figure highlights employment demand and social shifts for women in the city.
The United States receives a record setting glass installation as a thirteen foot across beveled plate, three-eighths of a foot thick, is mounted as a front display in a Detroit saloon.
A group of former Ohio residents who relocated to Topeka Kansas have formed a social society. They adopted a humorous motto claiming the sun of Ohio never shone on the face of an ugly woman. The organization plans meetings and community events.
Mrs Keniock mother of Clara Louise Kellogg-Strakosch was once a professional spiritualistic medium and labored to provide her daughter's musical training, shaping the artist's early education.
Mr L M Barry the general investigator of Woman's labor is in Baltimore Maryland urging the oyster shuckers of the locality to form an assembly of the Rights of Labor.
Charles Dickens the younger states that if he settled in America he would choose Commonwealth avenue in Boston for his home. He finds Bostonians only slightly different from English people.
The statement says Senator Senaton Camenon is not hostile to Mr Blaine. dhbat is at stake as the Senator favors the Republican party and doubts success with Blaine as its candidate. It presents the matter as a straightforward political stance.
Propasty the sole remaining horse from the rebellion rides with Col. Galligan of Illinois during the war. Now owned by Mrs. Galligan in Geneseo the horse named Club is about 30 years old and still serves as a carriage horse daily.
The narrative describes a maternal grandfather who valued quiet dining and had custom plates made with silver discs in the center to cut meat silently, avoiding the clamor of knife-edge on dish.
The only copy tells of Mayor Hewitt of New York reading letters and papers at his desk in his office on Wall Street. He sits for hours from forenoon until after 3 o clock, receiving callers and handling writings with a stooped, pallid, spare figure.
Buenos Aires reportedly has more millionaires than any other city. Private houses cost over 1 million dollars each and a leading bank shows pay-up capital of 357,099,090 with deposits and discounts totaling about 95 million dollars.
The grave of Tom Marshall, famed Kentucky orator, lies in an open field about one and a half miles from Versailles. The mound is uncared for and hogs have trampled it. A small headstone reads Thomas F. Marshall born Frankfort June 7 181 died September 22 1864.
The defendant defended by Senator Addleberg er faced contempt charges and jail. After acquittal on rail theft, he was sent to an asylum where weeks passed. Doctors later ruled there was nothing wrong but laziness.
The article notes major mining booms in 1819 California 1859 Pikes Peak 1869 Comstock Nevada and Leadville with a forecast that 1889 may see another major mining excitement as history repeats itself.
The Queen Regent of Spain is praised as a wonderful woman with charm and strong administrative skill. Many claim she could become one of history’s great female sovereigns, though some doubt this, noting she cannot keep the baby king quiet in public.
CaTuEnive Bunsin aged 69 received seven years penal servitude at Liverpool Assizes for stealing a pair of drawers. During sentencing a loud crash occurred when a shot was heard and two warders carried out the sentence. D 1 Jay, previously convicted, was sentenced to five years penal servitude for fraudulently obtaining a shilling by claiming it was for a curtail act.
A Jan. Sioux City item reports Thomas Murray killed his wife at Madame Doyle’s house of ill repute after she fled a jail stay for liquor selling and he shot himself. Fire damages Waterloo’s Daniel Nauman Co. and nearby shop with losses around 25 000 dollars and 37 000 fire with little salvage. Other notes include barbed wire patent case, a harsh school paddle incident in Council Bluffs, Colesburg arson, medical death from windpipe ossification, insolvencies, frauds in Des Moines, a murder charge in Waverly, rail depot talks in Sioux City, and various local officials and crimes across Iowa.
Mixyeapouts Minn Jan 3 The Barrett trial ends with a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Sentence set for Thursday. death penalty. Tim Barrett found guilty on testimony from his brother. Tim likely to hang. Henry Barrett aka Reddy turned state's evidence. Tollefsen was killed on a street car July 16, with two bullet wounds and a stolen change box. $2,500 in rewards offered with no early clues.
Tom Buttsfield a young farmer near Palmyra Neb arrested on January 6 charged with murdering his parents by poisoning their whisky after bringing it home on December 24 The father died last Sunday and the mother followed last night under similar circumstances Motive unseen but suspected to gain property The neighborhood is greatly excited
Burlington claims a population of 27 000 but Sanborn closes saloons as temperance reform spreads. Local officials report shifts in law and civic pride as residents vote on prohibition measures and urban vice controls.
Fire destroyed the Atchison Kansas Union railway depot on January six. The upper story housed a hotel with furnishings saved and estimated losses around $125000 with $50000 insured. Harry Hall a life convict at Lincoln Nebraska State penitentiary escaped and is believed to have boarded a Missouri Pacific train south. Joliet Illinois reports insurers seeking indictment against Whyte Lambert Bishop and others for arson at the Lambert and Bishop factory after loss by fire.
Edwin Lee Brown of the Citizens' Association talks of cutting a granite shaft from Rockland Maine into a monumental obelisk intended for Haymarket memory. The target height is 115 feet with a 35 foot sub-structure and an estimated weight of 650 tons. Transport and placement costs are projected at at least 100000 dollars.
In Pirrswure on January 2 a riot between rival boy factions left ten year old Joseph Johnston fatally wounded. about fifty youths eight to fourteen joined, stones flew then revolvers were used. Five boys have been arrested on suspicion of involvement. the shooter remains unknown.
Alfred A. J. Wannschaff of the Bank of Atchison County, 30, German-born, shot himself in his Reechport home between 9 and 10 this morning, leaving a note to his wife. Despondency from rheumatism and a family history of suicide cited. he left $10,000 life insurance. Funeral planned under Masonic supervision.
The tenth biennial report from Iowa's Industrial School trustees thanks the governor and General Assembly for support. Since opening in 1868, 1,260 boys have been committed, 930 discharged, 330 remaining. 165 admitted in the biennium, with Polk County supplying the most. At Mitchellville the new superintendent is C. C. Cory. 73 commitments in the period, with 39 aged 15 on admission. Expenditures totaled $91,359.09 for the period and $27,651.18 for Mitchellville. The girls' department highlights success stories of reintegrated former inmates.
Washington army officers deplore a senate bill titled For the relief of Marcus A. Reno proposing to restore Reno to the army as a major. Reno, once in the Fourteenth Infantry, faced two courts martial and was dismissed in disgrace for failing to relieve General Custer.
Cincinnati January court proceedings revealed that Julia Twachtman, an eighteen year old, was placed in the Convent of the Good Shepherd on Bank street after her mother learned of her engagement to a doctor. Edward Twachtman, her cousin, secured a writ of habeas corpus claiming detention without cause. Judge Kumler ordered Julia released with freedom to go where she pleased after testimony was heard.
Congress sees a flood of bills introduced in both houses including postal telegraph measures and education probes. In the Senate petitions address fishery treaty rights and interstate law, while the House lists Oklahoma organization and postal telegraph goals with public building projects across multiple states.
In Cotumues Texas on January 2, sheriff deputies captured William Washington, a colored boy charged with murdering Mrs. Mary Miller near Ellinger. He confessed to the slaying after finding the woman alone with her children and attacking her in her bedroom. Washington claims Mrs. Miller struck first, but he pursued her outside, overpowered her, and cut her throat. He was brought to Ellinger under guard with lynching threats and calls for severe punishment.
In Baltimore on January 2 Stephen Conroy killed his mother with an ax during a drunken dispute with Patrick O'Donnell at Conroy's home. O'Donnell, beaten and found unconscious in the street, accuses Conroy. police arrest him as the crime scene reveals a gruesome, blood-splattered room. O'Donnell is near death from his injuries.
An unknown man perished after being found dead in snow near Cut Of lake. Earlier Val clay Jirak a Bohemian laborer at the smelting works was struck by Burlington and Missouri passenger train No 4 killed instantly. He rode trains daily and was thrown ahead of the engine suffering severe injuries. Both deaths occurred yesterday morning and were taken to the coroner.
A miscellany of items spans science, crime, travel, and society. Topics include rising militeracy in Louisiana, planetary remarks, aging lobsters, and a New Jersey doctor receiving 590 alligators. Reports note debt deposits in Boston, old state governors alive, and peculiar local anecdotes from Illinois, Wisconsin, and Texas.
A collage of brief items spans politics and society from the era. Mentions of John L. Sullivan, Governor Foraker, Senator Fassett, and reactions to editors, jails, and public notices appear alongside curiosities about fruit yields, old trees, boats, and local wonders from New York to California.
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