25 Jan 1883
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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1883
Page
1
The Iowa Supreme Court examines whether the Eighteenth General Assembly correctly agreed to a constitutional amendment prohibiting manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. It weighs the enforceability of journals versus enrolled resolutions and concludes the amendment was properly adopted when carried through the proper constitutional process.
The court holds that a legislatively proposed constitutional amendment ratified by electors is not constitutionally adopted if two assemblies did not agree. It rejects claims that later assemblies or courts could validate such a measure by judicial action, citing Duncombe v Prindle and Des Moines Gas Co. v Des Moines. The judiciary affirms its duty to strike down invalid amendments while acknowledging legislature may attempt to enact enabling laws.
The judge submits a lengthy dissent from the majority decision outlining grounds and established principles. He grounds his disagreement in a wide array of facts and legal arguments, praising the amendment as sound logic and consistent with settled court practice. The full document cannot be printed due to its length.
Spirit Lake editor Mr Funk named postmaster. Grant township residents stock German carp. Bent on debt, Benton county Agricultural Society owes 171. Cigar shop J L Spellman Cedar Rapids burglarized for 400. Butter and Cheese Assoc holds seventh annual convention at Marshalltown Feb 22 to 24. Residence of Su perintendent Davidson Rock Rapids burned. loss 3250. ins 2253. E T Cressey elected Clerk of the Dakota Legislature. J B Anderson found guilty of manslaughter. Carroll brakeman Joseph Bradley’s hand crushed in car coupling incident. Washington birthday event planned in Grinnell by 60 plus residents. Several charters filed: Sugar Creek Lime Co Cedar county 250000, Tipton and What Cheer Railroad 750000, Plymouth Coal Co Le Mars 10000. Nominations sent to Senate for Marshal Geo D Perkins Sioux City and District Attorney M D O Connell Fort Dodge. postmaster Keokuk S M Clark nominated. Des Moines amateur L Hamilton maintains large private museum. State Insurance Company pays full policy on Clapp’s block fire. Iowa State Horticultural Society met in Dubuque with fruit displays. State certificates and diplomas exams scheduled March 31 in Des Moines and Burlington. Fire at Columbus Junction hits Paxton Horse Infirmary. Elliott barn also damaged. Midland Branch wreck near Clinton kills brakeman F L Clark. nineteen injured. Grinnell residents over 60 plan Washington’s Birthday celebration. State horticultural officers elected. districts represented.
The quote argues that being raised in a faith does not justify holding it as truth and that those most secure in wealth may suffer the deepest doubt when hardship comes. It questions infant faith and links prosperity with fragility of belief.
An advertisement touts Burpock Bicop Birrers as a remedy for blood impurities. It claims the pills promote long life and happiness and lists a price of $1.00.
A freight wreck on the Troy and Boston line at Petersburg Junction N Y leaves eight cars piled in the Hoosac river with no injuries. Other items include an eight million dollar Yellowstone Park Improvement Co formation, Tehuantepec battle losses, a Lebanon wreck on the Ohio Mississippi line with one killed, and a large Wilmington NC race starting railroad venture. A Tehachapi passenger wreck near San Francisco kills numerous, Downey’s wife among the dead with the ex governor injured. Yukon river mining prospects yield $1 50 per pan, and a National Board of Trade meeting backs the Lowell bankruptcy bill and a national railroad commission. An Atlantic Pacific collision near Fort Wingate crushes four engines with several injuries.
Thomas Johnson was knocked down in Brooklyn on January 20 and robbed of $1000 by three men who fled. Separately at Ottawa Illinois the grand jury indicted the Jack family for embezzlement tied to the Seneca bank failure, with judgments entered in about eighty suits totaling roughly $50,000.
Ireland dispatch reports twenty one prisoners arraigned on conspiracy to murder charges with a large crowd outside the police court. Informer Farrell testified about Fenian meeting links. accusations include John Devoy presiding and arms funding. Two prisoners, Higgins and Flynn, hanged Jan. 17 for Huddy murder. execution drew little interest. France note covers Prince Jerome manifesto and ruling on pretender status, with Baron Bruno seeking arrest as accessory.
A roundup of topics includes special counsel fees in star-route cases totaling 83,000 for Bliss Ker and Merrick. U S murder averages and lynchings. a San Francisco doctor performing a rare nephrectomy. Rhode Island regiments seeking back pay of 5 million. artificial leather for buggy tops. Gambetta frontispiece for Century. a Grand Forks farmer killed in a straw stack fire.
In his annual message Governor Crittenden of Missouri condemns the long hours of streetcar employees. He cites deprivation of domestic life and physical and mental well being, arguing compulsory labor harms citizens and should be remedied.
The Treasury orders a new five cent coin weighing twenty one millimetres with a larger thinner planchet. Its obverse bears a female head with a Liberty fillet and thirteen stars, while the reverse shows a wreath surrounding the Roman numeral indicating denomination.
Acting Secretary Joslyn agreed to lease 4 440 acres in Yellowstone to Carroll F Hobart and Henry F Douglass of Dakota Territory for hotels. Senate inquiry finds authority exceeded and considers a bill to extend the park east to Cedar Mountain and to the 44th parallel, withdrawing all land from settlement and reserving public access with limited leases for hotels and stores.
An article titled A check to poverty explains that poverty tends to be relieved by checks rather than harsh words, arguing that compassion and direct aid curb need more effectively than rhetoric.
Emporium resident Geo Dodge Sr notes Sam Lewis sprained his ankle in the woods and could barely walk home. After one or two applications of BOMAS Eclectric Oil he could work again the next day.
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