15 Jul 1886
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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1886
Page
1
The passage urges limited speech and measured pleasure. It extols self restraint across life stages, notes healthful sleep and clean speech as standards, praises grandmothers, warns against overindulgence and excessive talk, and honors humble gratitude and enduring love.
Maudie and relatives travel to San Francisco Chinatown where Maudie buys cigars as a gift for Georgie. He desires a cigar and soon receives a box, but years later he lies bedridden, aided by a faith cure and a cane, with Peck's Sum noting the change.
A youth named Conley near Independence lost a hand after being run over. Mississippi River water levels are unusually low. An Omaha merchant was arrested in Council Bluffs for confidence man activities. Youths ignite powder on the Fourth in Council Bluffs. one may lose sight. City debts per capita vary across Iowa with several rail towns nearing or surpassing. Trinity and Christchurchs of Davenport played a baseball game 27 to 2 in favor of Christchurch. A Clinton dispute left one with a broken nose and black eyes. Pomeroy marshal seized two kegs of whisky from Fred Gentz’s restaurant. Gentz faces July 30. A Des Moines main exposition worker, J L Halquest, died from a fall July 7. Inter national distillery fireman Richard Harwood died of sunstroke. Northwestern Iowa endures drought. crop yields are low. A farm fire near Knoxville destroys a two story house with substantial loss. Mrs Mary Cavanagh’s long charity aid ends as a bank deposit is discovered. A 6th Iowa Infantry reunion is planned at Chariton in September. Lyman and Mrs. Babcock of Davenport celebrate long marriage. Wesleyan University at Mt Pleasant seeks 100000 for endowment chapel and debt relief. A Waterloo Fourth fire destroys two barns and three horses. Des Moines Governor’s Guards win prize at Carroll drill. Odebolt’s J Geo Buehler found dead near Taylor. presumed natural causes. Maude Gilchrist named assistant in Wellesley College botanical department. Cedar Falls proud of her Iowa origin.
Canadian man John Warner and his son living in a New York flat killed by Warner before he took his own life. An Oakland Street Railway Co. suit seeks recovery of 22,635.96 from ex treasurer D. W. Bidwell over alleged shortages. Union strikes, fires and violent incidents across the country are reported with multiple losses and legal actions.
From over four thousand reports the Rural New Yorker forecasts winter wheat at about 295 million bushels with higher acreage than last year. Spring wheat suffers drought and blight with a likely 140 million bushels. Total wheat around 435 million, oats up slightly but damaged by drought and pests, rye and barley fair, corn good, potatoes promising especially in the west.
A July 7 fire in Muncie Indiana destroyed a block in the business district with estimated losses of 70000 and multiple heat injuries reported as critical. The Oconto propeller struck a Rock at Fisher’s Landing New York on July 7 and is a total loss worth 15000 with cargo losses around 590050 and insured losses at least 50000. The Adjutant General received notice of First Lieutenant W S Gay’s resignation from Company E 2nd Regiment at Centerville. Second Baptist Church of Dubuque has paid 4000 debt leaving its books clear with 229 members, eight years after a 108 membership and 12000 debt.
Foreign intelligence reports indicate 496 members elected with 174 to be chosen and a solid anti home rule majority of 106. Returns suggest no reversal of the government verdict, raising the prospect of Marquis of Hartington forming a new ministry if counties sustain the trend. The unions of conservatives and unionists may further threaten Gladstone and Parnell if allied against home rule.
The senate read the river and harbor bill with amendments including a million dollar plan for New York harbor and an increased Savannah appropriation. A secret session followed before adjournment. The house debated deficiencies, paid flowage judgments, and approved extra pay for members and staff, plus Hendricks widow’s $8750 pension.
Belmont New York offers a resolution asking the president for copies of correspondence about Julio Santos, a U S citizen imprisoned in Ecuador. Springer Ohio seeks all talks with Nicaragua and Costa Rica since 1876 on Lake Nicaragua canal. Post office expenditures require comptroller and auditor review. House debates tax refunds to railroads on alien bond holders. $22,000 approved. House adjourned at five after partial bill consideration.
In the senate petitions from Knights of Labor urged railroad land forfeiture bills. Cockrell reported a pay regulation bill for army and navy officers. Debate focused on amending river and harbor provisions, including an Edmunds objection to 150000 for the Sturgeon Bay Lake Michigan canal project amid Wisconsin land grants. The session closed after a lengthy discussion and a secret session adjournment.
Knights of labor petitions were presented by Harmer and O Neill of Pennsylvania as Taulbee of Kentucky urged the report on Carter W Tyler’s pension veto and claimed misapprehension. A deferral was agreed then the house resumed the deficiency appropriation bill and approved a two year payment for Old Colony and Pacific Mail steamship marines transport in 1885.
Plumb presents John S. Kirkpatrick petition urging passage of a pension bill over the president’s veto. The Senate mulls river and harbor funding for a canal project while a presidential veto on a Northern Montana railroad bill is read and referred. In the House, debates erupt over Harrington’s pension bill veto and references to invalid pensions committee.
The senate postponed the Dakota inquiry and moved ahead with relief for Talapoosa wreck sufferers and land use deals with Indian territories. It approved a railroad right of way through Nevada and a Missouri river headwaters forest reserve, then debated river work funding and a Ken tucky river cut. Executive sessions were set for December 8 as memorials were offered for Maryland’s William H. Cole and a funeral committee appointed.
The Senate committee reports in favor of passing the vetoed pension bill for Margaret D Marchand widow of Commodore Marchand. The House debates overturning vetoes on Sally Ann Bradley Francis Deming and Joseph Romiser, with votes on reference and a final defection over the Romiser veto in executive sessions and general appropriation actions for Fox and Wisconsin river claims.
Harold Frederic, London correspondent for The New York Times, spoke before the Utica Irish National Land League on misery in Ireland. He described Galway and Dublin as desolate, with tenants evicted from distant lands and forced to pay rents in labor, citing Eskanawheelna and a Glengarrn landlord demanding labor for rent.
A Washington correspondent reports the signal office studied April tornadoes that destroyed St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids Minnesota, killing sixty nine and causing over 200000 dollars in damage. Other parallel storms hit Iowa Kansas Missouri. theories on their cause are debated with weather observations and warnings urged.
Boston report states Moses A. Dow's will leaves 6000 to the Dow academy for a permanent fund, 100000 to the Winchester Home for Aged Women in Charlestown, 35000 in private bequests, and the residue to trustees for his widow. It also directs the sale of the Waverly house lot for not less than 390000 and sale of the Waverly Magazine property to the highest bidder.
Professor Timothy Dwight was inaugurated as president of Yale College to succeed Dr. Porter. The ceremonies at Center Church included addresses by the retiring and incoming presidents and a Latin address by Professor Tracy Peck.
The Boston Budget criticizes boxing as the manly art corrupting society. It argues prize fights breed thieves and bullies, promote gambling, and deepen violence, urging that the ring defies reason and exposes the weak to ruin.
A early 20th century Pennsylvania tale recounts a will that bound an iron chest for 75 years. Upon opening, letters and journals allegedly attacked many leading figures, but trustees burned the contents to avoid disgrace, amid debates over forgery and moral costs.
A Tallahassee Floridian interview with Thomas J. Perkins lists long-running ties to Florida life. He notes 13 years as railroad agent, 31 years as a partner, 84 years in cotton commission, 40 years as Sabbath school superintendent, 42 years subscribing to a single paper, 44 years in church roles with records in his handwriting, 45 years in one house, and 46 years of marriage, plus his grandfather's century-old eight day clock.
The Chicago Journal cynic divides kisses into three true kinds the mother’s kiss to her baby the mother’s kiss goodbye to her son and the kiss on the dead. The Springfield Union laments a man’s lack of marital happiness and states the wife’s kiss at the door with a reminder for paregoric is as innocent as honey in a hive.
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