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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1898
Page
3
A brief item notes vegetables and canned goods within a complete stock purchase. The report mentions quantities and categories but omits buyer details and exact totals. Further specifics are unavailable in the fragment.
Railroad excursion notices list multiple national associations with events in Naperville Omaha Denver San Francisco Sioux City and Des Moines. Tickets go on sale on various dates ranging May to July 1898 and include summer tourist rates to Colorado and Trans-M. Exposition details. Agent C. B. & Q. P. E Helfin provides contact.
Corn lower at 25 to 25 cents per bushel. Oats quoted 25 to 24 cents. Rye down 35 to 40 cents. Timothy seed steady 80 cents to 1.00. Clover seed 2.00 to 2.50. Wheat: mill men paying 0.00. Baled hay 7.00 to 8.00 per ton. loose hay 6.00 to 7.00. Hogs 4.00 to 4.25. fat steers 4.00 to 4.50. cows and heifers 2.50 to 3.00. stockers 3.50 to 4.50. fat sheep 3.00 to 4.00. Hides 5 cents per pound. Butter 8 to 11 cents. Eggs 7 to 8 cents per dozen. Potatoes 60 to 75 cents per bushel. Apples 75 to 1.00. Onions 0.75 to 1.25 per bushel.
Madrid dispatches dispute reports of a naval battle between Sampson Schley and Cervera. Miles orders troop movements. Havana blockade to continue. possible Porto Rico capture before week’s end. Troops land on Cuban coasts as ships prepare to sail.
Washington reports Commodore Schley confirmed Admiral Cervera's Cape Verde squadron in Santiago de Cuba harbor. Officials claim the fleet is bottled up and may be destroyed or blown up to avoid capture. Invasion plans for Cuba could move ahead this week with renewed certainty.
United States forces tighten grip as Admiral Cervera's squadron sits trapped in Santiago harbor after failing to reach coal and supplies. American scouts had monitored the port for ten days, preventing escape while Sampson's fleet looms nearby. The coal ship accompanying Cervera was captured, sealing the predicament.
The United States cruiser Columbia anchored off Tompkinsville reported a large jagged hole in her starboard side after a collision with the British steamer Foscolia. Both crews were saved with no lives lost, and foggy conditions were blamed by Foscolia’s captain.
General Miles and a 34 member staff depart Washington for Tampa by special train. US forces prepare for invasion of Cuba with four possible landing points and large use of insurgent support. Regulars lead, with about 20 000 troops and 13 000 volunteers at Tampa including infantry artillery and cavalry. General Shafter to command current embarkations while Miles oversees overall movements.
Two Italians traveling from Santiago de Cuba reach Port au Prince May 31 with bleak observations on Santiago. They report famine and reconcentrados dying, despondency over food shortages, and a Spanish squadron under Cervera landing 800 men, rifles, ammunition, and four big guns for fortifications. Rain and fever are noted among troops.
The British collier Restormel was taken as a prize at Key West after being intercepted near Santiago de Cuba while attempting to enter port. Log details shed light on Admiral Cervera’s plans as the ship failed to coal at San Juan de Porto Rico and was rerouted to Santiago due to a leak and safety concerns.
A special train carrying 216 Chicago naval reservists led by Lieutenant Pri ty and Ensigns Hunt and Hewitt arrived at Port Tampa on May 31. The unit will proceed to Key West today to report to the senior officer in command.
William Perrine, who murdered his daughter Anna, has been jailed for two weeks in Carlinville Illinois. He claims to suffer from rabies after a supposed mad dog bite, exhibiting violent behavior in custody and raising questions about the authenticity of his illness.
The president sent the names of several western citizens to the senate for brigadier general of volunteers. The list includes Charles Fitz Simons of Illinois Frederick D Grant of New York Henry M Duffield of Michigan Charles King of Wisconsin Lucius F Hubbard of Minnesota George A Garretson of Ohio Joseph K Hudson of Kansas Joseph Rush Lincoln of Iowa.
Key West reports Colonel Vicente de Cerujo former Cabanas commander and two private soldiers captured on the Argonauta reached port with alleged relation to Weyler. They were moved to the revenue cutter Hamilton pending exchange for Hayden Jones and Charles Thrall, American newspaper correspondents captured in Cuba.
At the New Jerry Athletic club grounds in Bayonne New Jersey McCracken of the University of Pennsylvania defeated John Flanagan yesterday in the sixteen pound hammer event setting a new world mark of 153 feet 8 inches surpassing the old record by one inch.
Bowling Brook captured the Belmont at Morris Park New York by ten lengths with Previous second and Hamburg third. Time 2 32. A Chicago grain loss of about 30000 due to fires in corn and oats and two Sibley elevators. A Du Pont powder works accident in New Jersey killed William Brown. Gladstone buried in Westminster Abbey beside Disraeli. Parnellites absent. Gas explosion at Laurel Hill mine killed Robert and Archibald McMullen. Cyrus J Carpenter ex governor of Iowa died at Fort Dodge aged 98.
Chicago led a citywide Memorial Day holiday with parades graveside decorations and speeches. Observances echoed from Washington Denver Philadelphia Gettysburg Lexington Boston Mobile and New York reflecting broader participation and a nation at war.
A grand stand at City park collapsed during Memorial Day rehearsals injuring nearly a hundred children aged up to 14. About forty suffered severe injuries, with twenty taken to St Luke's hospital. others were sent home. No fatalities are reported.
In Guthrie Oklahoma a full blood Seminole prisoner Kinder Hargee admits killing Mrs Laird and two Indian youths Sampson and MecGeisy who were burned by white men last January. He was captured after a 22 day chase and letter evidence led to his arrest. The report also notes Dewey’s fleet in Manila and Aguinaldo seeking rebel support.
Madison May 31 four former governors Bushnell Waite Adams will join Governor Scofield for a Madison banquet June 7 marking the state’s semi centennial. All living ex governors will attend except Edward Soloman overseas. Absent, the ex governor of Wisconsin.
Des Moines May 26 Governor Shaw will issue a call tomorrow for Iowa's quota of troops under the Washington call for volunteers. Sioux City May 28 Dan Boone, held by Sheriff Neill at Watertown SD, confessed to killing Alex Smith of Sioux City.
Herrick and Foulke were arraigned before Justice Barnhill in Marion and held to the grand jury after waiving examination. Marion remains quiet with no anticipated lynching. Rev. J. W. Hayden, preacher from Iowa county now in Iowa City, charged with embezzlement for selling Olive Ferrobee’s two horses for 140 dollars and taking the cash.
In Muscatine Iowa on May 8 the body of Mrs. Nagle, who died by her own actions by drowning after passing through ice in the Mississippi at Sabula, was recovered yesterday. Sabula, 125 miles north, shows the body had drifted that distance since the incident last March.
Marshalltown reports Thomas Barnes, member of the Starbuck company from Iowa, drowned in Lake Bennett Alaska on May 10. The Iowa party’s horses are believed lost with the incident.
Jonathan Merriam the U S pension agent at Chicago issued the first pension voucher of the war with Spain. It is for Mrs Elsie A Montfort of Council Bluffs Iowa mother of Seaman William F Montfort who died in the Maine explosion in Havana harbor February 15.
Mason Orry Ia May 28 The state bankers adjourned their 12th annual session and adopted a resolution endorsing the currency bill before Congress O H McNider was elected president O H Martin Des Moines vice president C B Mills Sioux Rapids secretary and J M Dinwiddie treasurer
Colonel James Rush Lincoln, inspector general of Iowa and a former Confederate officer, was commissioned as commander of a newly formed Iowa volunteer regiment under the latest call. He will lead the unit as part of the reshaped Iowa forces.
John H. Latter of Lincoln township surrendered to Sheriff O Banion in Storm Lake reporting he shot and killed his brother Fred Latter. Anton Latter of Oregon corroborated the claim, noting long standing ill feeling between the siblings.
A G Brice United States consul at Matanzas says there is little danger of U S soldiers contracting disease in Cuba and that field operations are practical during the rainy season with proper health rules observed. He spoke at Camp McKinley today and addressed volunteers from various states.
After a heavy rain yesterday at the Anamosa state penitentiary four convicts were injured when a lifting derrick slipped from its foundation. Reynolds died from skull and chest injuries. Another convict suffered a probable fatal skull fracture. W. B. Paul lost a leg below the knee and Winslow sustained a crushed foot.
The Chicago Great Western railroad is ballasting its roadbed between Marshalltown and Des Moines at a mile a day and also between Des Moines and St. Joseph Mo. Gravel from a Berwick Ia pit is used. Dirt between the ties is moved aside and the track lifted about five inches with jacks. The gravel train adds two coats of gravel and then spreads two more coats.
Colonel Bratt of the Nebraska volunteers pushes rapid drill and regiment perfection in camp. The Utah light battery conducts daily field evolutions and theoretical work with plans for service in the Philippines. If kept, ammo will be used for further target practice. The government quartermaster sent 260 pairs of shoes from Kansas last night.
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