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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1900
Page
3
The author touts a vegetable antiseptic remedy claiming all natural origins and flawless results. He guarantees money back if unsuccessful and offers trial at set prices with payment by draft or money order. The piece appeals to sceptics who have tried other treatments and promises a risk free trial.
English war office reports 21 657 British soldiers killed since the Boer war began with total casualties at 48 640. Lieutenant Rundle captured near Pretoria on July 4. Boers greet envoys in Paris after return from America. A Chicago carpenter for work starves his family and tries to drown them. A Kentucky white woman beaten by white caps. Robber Callahan fails stealing a Chicago cash register. Dyer hospitalizes him. An 18 year old Black man lynched near Columbia Alabama for attempted assault. Trial of A J Jester for murder begins at New London Missouri.
Desperate conditions reported in Tientsin and Pekin with legations under fire and foreigners ordered to leave. Chinese forces push entrenchments near walls while allied troops clash at Lang Fang. US and British leaders weigh action as 40 000 troops expected in China. Filipino oath swears and civil service duty in the Philippines amid scouting deaths.
The United States Court of Claims settles a 102 year old case. The sufan agrees to pay 100000 dollars indemnity in settlement of American missionary claims within ninety days.
Delegates from the Democrats Populists and silver Republicans reach a pact to insert 16 to 1 into the Democratic platform as the convention faces tumult. William J. Bryan is nominated for president and Adlai E Stevenson of Illinois for vice president. The platform emphasizes anti imperialism anti trust measures and a reaffirmation of the silver plank. Hib’s refusal to run for vice president is seen as a Croker setback.
Silver Republicans name William Jennings Bryan for president and leave the vice presidential nomination to the national committee with plenary powers. Senator Spooner of Wisconsin withdraws from reelection. Arkansas GOP nominates Herman Remmel for governor. Wisconsin Populists decline fusion with Democrats. National committees plan Chicago headquarters within thirty days. McKinley expected to limit campaign speeches.
Mrs Elsie Tessel claimed her husband robbed and deserted her before committing suicide in Kansas City. A H Ross barber at La Grange Illinois shot himself in an apparent self-inflicted death.
Russell Sage of New York sells the Wabash elevator in Chicago to the Wabash Railroad for 275000. Reports show commercial failures totaled 5332 in half a year with liabilities of 74747452. Exports and imports in the Porto Rican tariff era shift markedly.
A compilation of fatal and injurious events across cities including Hoboken Chicago Tacoma Parkersburg and Philadelphia reports multiple deaths from a tenement fire a street car plunge an oil tank explosion a fireworks blast and train incidents. Early Fourth of July totals show thirty dead and 1325 injured nationwide.
Sir Thomas Farrell sculptor and president of the Royal Hibernian Academy dies in Dublin. Colonel Anthony A. Kelly prominent Fond du Lac attorney collapses. Henry Barnard Hartford writer on education dies aged 92 in Hartford. Franklin McLeay Canadian actor dies in London brain fever. Colonel David Urquhart New Orleans father of actress Mrs James Brown Potter dies. Hon John A. Williams US district judge Eastern District of Arkansas dies in Manitou Springs Colorado.
A Boston lumber yard fire at C. W. Leatherbee Lumber caused $125,000 in damage. The Phever Paper bag mill at Stevens Point Wisconsin burned due to spontaneous combustion, with $75,000 loss insured. Bayonne Standard Oil works struck by lightning suffered $20,000 damage while Hartford Congregational church in Michigan was wrecked by lightning. Total losses approach $2.5 million with two Newark slaughterhouses destroyed for about $85,000. The Bayonne Standard Oil plant fire has nearly burned out.
American tourists in Edinburg celebrate Independence Day by dedicating a statue of Abraham Lincoln. The report notes buoyant crowds and ceremonial remarks marking the event.
A cyclone hit Steamboat Rock Hardin county at 4 p.m. felling hundreds of trees and damaging oats corn and wheat across thousands of acres. No confirmed deaths yet but several may be killed. A Marshall county downpour at St Anthony flooded the Illinois Central line a mile washed away and river and creek crested, sweeping telephone poles and flooding farmland.
A federal court dispute questions whether city bond funds for street improvements should be kept by project and used to liquidate specific assessments. Sioux City faces about 800000 in unsettled claims. Otis A. Vickery of Los Angeles filed suit for 20000 and a restraining order halted further payments from the bond fund.
The week was hot with a few cooler days on the 7th and 8th. Excessive rainfall hit central and east central districts, while extreme southwest saw insufficient moisture. Haying slowed and some hay spoiled from showers. heavy rain and winds damaged grain fields in central areas. Overall damage was minor compared to moisture benefits. Barley harvest advanced. oats and spring wheat started. harvesting may crowd hay crews. Apple crops harmed by winds. extreme heat and winds bent corn blades in southwest counties. Crop prospects remain good. County figures for July 1 show corn 104, spring wheat 91, oats 92, rye 89, barley 94, hay 73, pastures 84, millet 98, flax 92, potatoes 98, apples 76, pears 60, plums 68, peaches 67, grapes 65. Last year at the same date: corn 83, spring wheat 93, oats 96, rye 80, barley 97, flax 94, hay 82, pastures 98, millet 97, potatoes 40, apples 60, plums 65, grapes 42.
Six Boone ministers led by Rev. Wilcox and Deputy Sheriff T. P. Holmes raided a stash of intoxicants near the Northwestern bridge. They hauled two loads of beer to the courthouse and later found more cases and kegs buried in the river sand and under a house floor.
Police take custody of the middle-aged man whose body was found on the Northwestern railroad tracks west of Lolville. Officials believe he fell from an east-bound passenger train and was ground into jelly by passing trains. A $112 bank check and money were found, and letters on the body point to Lewis Oleson a wealthy farmer from south of Stanhope as the likely identity.
Davenport announces W R Benk ett says Francis B Clark of Rock Island is the presidential candidate and Rev Charles H Sheldon of Topeka is the vice presidential choice for the United Christian party. Both attend the Christian Endeavor conference in London.
Des Moines July 7 The Retail Grocers association of Iowa led by president Eugene Bottles of Burlington meets to organize a merchants mutual fire insurance company. It will insure only members and any merchant may join.
In Ackley a railroad brakeman named Ripley was killed while coupling in Illinois Central yards. He fell and was crushed between draw bars, dying soon after. Ripley's home was Water loo.
Sioux City grain brokers Leach and Connelly shut their offices following F. G. Logan's closure of their Chicago account due to recent fluctuations in wheat and market tensions in July.
A man cutting weeds in Gard Ner streets in Fort Dodge Iowa cuts off both feet of Mrs Becker's young son. The prominent citizen's child is in critical condition and may not survive.
Lexington man M. A. Hogarty suffers jaundice turning yellow and eyes to yellow. Doctors fail to help until Electric Bitters is tried. After two bottles he is cured. Trial proves its merit for stomach liver and kidney troubles. Only 50c. Geo. D. Clarke sells it.
Mary E. Bryan notes in the Macon Telegraph that the old maid of the past is nearly unknown. Modern unmarried women in their twenties are cheerful busy and useful. They pursue business arts professions and charitable work with culture and refined aims.
A Bradford Star item tells of a clever tame snake roaming a house that night and catching a burglar in the dining room. The snake coiled around the thief and used its tail to ring a bell on the table, alerting the household and aiding the capture.
A witty dialogue frames Cleverton and Dashaway as Cleverton boasts near access to New York's exclusive literary circle while Dashaway laments financial ruin and a lack of funds ending their intimate terms. The exchange highlights social cachet versus economic reality in a sharp reverse.
The dialogue notes Hills at the depot preparing to depart with Mills on a fortune seeking trip. Mills agrees to go, Hills declines joining, and Ave returns from a mining trip. Hills asks for a one dollar loan until Mills returns.
The Pu Yuan Pen jen women in the Shan states wear colored cloth gaiters as a key part of their costume. Without them it is thought they could fly away, a belief echoed by mentions of Carthaginian metal gyres at marriage. The Akkas of the Woni also wear similar gaiters.
A quip about a snap shot portrait leads to a tense claim that Mr Curmudge would whip the man who took the photo. The dialogue highlights ambition and bravado in a small scene.
Lee Webster and the Plow recalls a Marshfield gathering where Daniel Webster watched farmers christen a huge plow. A dozen Boston teams paraded to the site, Webster shouted Let her rip, the crowd roared, and the plow is now displayed atop Faneuil Hall market as a notable relic.
The article notes talismans arise from superstition shared by many, worn by Muslim and Jewish women, and copied from old patterns. Efficacy depends on benefic planetary alignment and the bearer’s birth date. Napolean and the Rothschilds are cited as famous believers associated with talismans.
A barrister riding a bicycle was stopped by a policeman. The man urged a talk at a nearby public house over two beers. He quipped about not wanting to be charged, but the officer warned of duty rules, revealing the man as a sharp lawyer who later rode on.
A man reports to an irate father after an altercation last night. He explains he was kicked down stairs and the family dog attacked him, ripping a large piece from his trousers. He asks for the torn cloth as compensation.
Spatts chides Bloobumper for missing dinner while Sammy notes a repeat of a dinner boast told to Mr. Taddells yesterday. The exchange hints at family banter and recollection of previous meals in a Detroit Free Press item.
A Philadelphia Press comic exchange features a man and a woman bantering about a proposed engagement. He jokes she used him as a walking prop, prompting a lighthearted jab about the outcome. The banter ends with a pun on being walked over.
Recounted exchange ends with a playful jab as he admits missing the lips and kisses the chin. The woman quips the kiss was under done, prompting a lighthearted continuation of the moment reported by the Troy Times.
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