30 Jul 1885
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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1885
Page
1
The Second Iowa Infantry survivors hold a reunion in Cedar Rapids on Monday August 10 the Wilsons Creek battle anniversary. Committees will report on each company history amid other exercises. Drowning deaths and local health, oil sales probes, and various local incidents fill the rest of the notice.
Coverage of Princess Beatrice's July wedding at St Mildred's Whippingsham with King George V era pageantry. Details include royal procession, guards, church ceremony led by Archbishop, the bride in ivory satin, Beatrice's bridesmaids in embroidered silk, and a grand royal salute.
The Veterinary Surgeon in Washington reports pleuro pneumonia in cattle from Minchton Virginia with quarantines. Reports of fights, riots, lynchings, suicides, and murders spread across states including Georgia and New York. Execution orders issued in Louisiana for multiple murder suspects. Buffalo Car Manufacturing faces shutdown. Mormon Day in Salt Lake marked by quiet observance amid tensions. Telegraph res poorly detailed but notes a historically calm Pioneer Day overall.
The Treasury holds the Immediate Transportation act of 1880 and a 1885 regulation authorizes approved express firms to receive and forward passenger baggage to named ports. The American Express Company has filed bonds totaling 1,000,090 dollars and is the sole authorized carrier for baggage to European passengers without New York examination. Interior ports include Du Luque, Burlington and Keokuk in Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska. The Times dispatch notes Russian advances and Afghan concerns amid a wider Near East tension.
General Grant died after a long vigil as physicians and family gathered in the cottage. Drs Douglas Shrady and Sands led the bedside vigil with Mrs Grant Col Fred Grant A S Grant Jr and others present. The death occurred around 8 PM with the dying man breathing softly and his eyes closing peacefully.
Quiet Mount McGregor holds vigil after General Grant ends his long struggle. Families retreat to private rooms while Gov. Hill’s deputation offers Albany’s state capitol for laying in state. War veterans guard the cottage as reporters bivouac near the Needles.
A reflective aphorism asserts that religion must be the primary object of devotion. It warns that God will not tolerate a rival priority, and that assigning Him second place leaves no place at all for Him in the heart.
The nation mourns as General Ulysses S. Grant dies at Mt McGregor New York. President Cleveland orders executive departments closed at 1 PM and flags at half mast. Cabinet meets to plan funeral honors while Mrs. Grant receives the president's condolences.
A mob of about one hundred horsemen in Minden Louisiana took over the sheriff’s jail at about 11 last night. They seized John Figures and Cicero Green and hanged them after rounding up the town’s citizens and arresting guards. Moses Fort, editor of the Democrat Tribune, was abducted to the woods during the scene.
The article outlines W J Arkell’s timetable for the Mount McGregor remains transport on August 4 and 5 to Saratoga Albany and New York. The body will lie in state at the capitol and city hall before public obsequies Saturday August 6 with interment in Central Park. President Cleveland and cabinet members will attend.
A Columbia man heard a noise in a wardrobe and found the interior afire after a rat ate matches on a shelf. The incident suggests accidental ignition and local concern for home safety.
The document lists various funds and balances including ending total of 2 799 930 89. It shows amounts from Ag Col End Fund 125 558 31 From swamp land indemnity fund paid to Humboldt county 2088 86 From permanent school fund TAALTZ From temporary school fund 33 169 77 and a June 30 treasury balance 185 211 398 90.
David Duane Young a farmer linked to the Catherine Thomas and Hanna Sheehan murder near Cork eight years ago has confessed his complicity. The case had led to arrests of William Sheehan and David Brown, who were charged in the same crime. In Cologne France a collapsed row of houses killed forty five and wounded twenty five others.
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