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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1900
Page
3
A speaker describes a lifetime of experiments and tireless study to reveal a new antiseptic named Neodern Antise Thea. He emphasizes years of effort behind the claim and promises forthcoming revelation to the reader.
Corn holds at 35 to 38 cents, oats rise to 18 to 19 cents, rye falls to 40 cents, wheat steady at 65 cents. Hay sold baled 7.00 to 8.50 per ton, loose 6.50 to 7.50. Timothy seed steady at 85 cents per bushel, clover seed 4.08 to 4.25. Hogs steady 4.75 to 4.80, fat steers 4.50 to 5.00, cows and heifers 3.00 to 3.50, stockers 4.00 to 4.25, fat sheep 3.50 to 4.00, lambs 4.00 to 5.00. Hides 5 cents per pound. Butter scarce 16 to 17 cents, lard 7 to 8 cents. Eggs higher 9 to 16 cents per dozen. Potatoes 25 to 30 cents per bushel.
Telegraphed weekly digest reports General Buller gaining the pass to the Transvaal after a costly battle. Dewet defeated by Methuen and Kitchener restoring English lines. Roberts fails to dislodge Boers near Pretoria. Botha retreats to the Delagoa line. Baden-Powell arrives at Pretoria with no action noted. Steyn asserts Orange Free State endures as war winds down. Local fraud claims of 75 000 dollars surface. Kansas City judge funds McLaughlin. multiple suicide attempts and deaths reported in Wisconsin and Iowa. Memphis insurance figure Ben E Stewart dies by suicide.
Boxers kill Japanese secretary and threaten foreigners in Pekin while Chinese guns guard missions. France and powers plan joint action to suppress the revolt. U S troops move from Manila to Taku. Yorktown carries messages to Admiral Kempff. British marines clash with Jang Fuh Siang forces as the relief effort retreats toward Tientsin.
General Grant leads four hours of fighting to seize the Filipino stronghold. Filipino generals Hizon and Cavestang are captured. Macabulos, key leader in Tarlac and Pangasenadi, surrenders with eight officers and 124 men to Americans. Funston and Grant troops rout the Filipinos, kill six and take 200 prisoners.
The court of claims ruled New York participated in the destruction of Cervera's fleet and that Sampson is entitled to his share of the prize money as commander. Admiral and Mrs. Dewey have arrived safely at Washington from their Western trip.
The Wisconsin and Ohio state conventions named delegates to Kansas City instructed for Bryan. The Kentucky Missouri Georgia California Vermont conventions also backed Bryan and McLean. Cuban mayor Rodriguez Nationalist wins. Havana quiet. Roosevelt urges support for New York governorship, not vice president. Iowa GOP meets in Cedar Rapids after Des Moines Auditorium fire.
Gertrude Roth 20 of Allentown Pa died by self harm in Whirlpool Rapids Niagara. In Kansas City clash between two detectives and a crowd of blacks Rufus Bennett and Ora Childs were killed. Max J. Lasar of New York held for alleged diamond smuggling at Niagara Falls. Pettus shot Stephen Stewart in Hopkinsville Ky after reprimand by James Radford. Charles P. Packer, ex banker, arrested at Lake Minnetonka Minn.
May net earnings for the Baltimore and Ohio system reached 1 004 506, up 593 792. Kansas City Southern telegraph operators receive higher pay. Milwaukee hosts the National Association of Credit Men advocating federal bankruptcy uniformity. Fred Pfeffer wins back salary suit against the New York baseball club. A Minneapolis syndicate buys the Mississippi Valley Telephone from J L Hubinger. The Denver Times transfers control to Charles E Hasbrook and associates.
A roundup of fatal and injurious incidents across the United States. Samuel Davis of Sioux City was killed by a streetcar. Governor Shaw and others injured in a Northwestern train collision at Des Moines. A child dies after chloroform during surgery in Racine. Two railway workers die near Atlanta with eight hurt. George Baker dies from Providence electric car crash. A Hale mine dynamite explosion kills five in Minnesota. A widow suffers hip joint trouble in Los Angeles. Ten die in a tenement fire on Jackson Street, New York. Multiple electrocutions and wrecks punctuate the grim list. Two men lost when City of Rotterdam sinks near Eddystone Light. Thomas Dunn in Appleton loses both legs in brake accident.
A list of prominent figures who died recently includes Mme. Augusta Lehmann at 80 in Santa Cruz California, Elbridge W. Locke known as Father Locke in Chelsea Massachusetts, Belle Boyd the Confederate spy in Kilbourne Wisconsin, D J Spanniding a Black River Falls lumberman, Mrs. George H Baker widow of a former Rus sian minister in Philadelphia, Miss Lucretia Peabody Hale in Boston, Horace C Disston of the Disston family at Seneca Point Maryland, Rt Rev Richard Hooker Wilmer bishop of Alabama in Mobile, Mrs Gladstone widow of the English leader in London, and John Henry Hoffecker Delaware’s lone House member who died Saturday.
A series of fires caused editor exits at the New York Tribune building and damaged The Journal property by water. The Paris exposition pavilion for Bosnia and Herzegovina saw minor damage. The Wisconsin Carriage factory in Janesville was completely destroyed with losses around 30 thousand dollars. Kansas City grain elevator and wheat losses reached 115 thousand and 20 thousand respectively. Smyrna New York faced near total destruction with about 90 thousand dollars in losses. Chicago Douglas School on Thirty second Street and Forest Avenue burned, incurring roughly 85 thousand dollars in damages.
Terry McGovern defeated Tom White of Chicago by knockout in the third round of a scheduled twenty five round bout in New York. The event drew attention as a key early stoppage in a historic length match.
Davenport notes report the second day of Iowa G A R encampment with about 2000 veterans in line. National Commander Albert D Shaw addresses the Confederate flags issue saying the time is not ripe to return captured banners. Madison B Davis of Sioux City elected department commander. Women's Relief Corps membership 9353. Hornet's Nest brigade to hold next biennial meeting at Anawiosa.
An Iowa auditorium used for a convention hall burned Sunday morning, destroying $50,000 structure, $25,000 insurance, and $5,000 in seats and scenery. Fire origin unknown, possibly incendiary. Directors plan immediate reconstruction for the upcoming musicians convention and August Republican state gathering.
In Des Moines on June 16 Drake University alumni from Missouri balked at a concert led by George Holt, a colored mail carrier. Despite threats to skip the banquet, the objections were overruled with General Drake present, and the glee club performed with Holt at its head while objectors stayed.
Samuel Pickett confessed to using mails for fraudulent graft involving theatrical advance agents. After jurors were seated he pleaded guilty, facing officers from four states. Judge Shiras sentenced him to one year and one day in the state penitentiary.
Dubuque Iowa June 16 Governor Botes en route east said he does not know if national gold Democrats will nominate a ticket this year and he is not identified with any movement. He would support the Kansas City ticket and will stand on the platform as a Democrat, deeming new issues vital and the money question not a live issue.
Des Moines June 15 The four teenth annual convention of the Iowa Bankers association named officers for the coming year President E B Huxford Cherokee vice president C B Mills Sioux Rapids secretary J M Dinwiddie Cedar Rapids treasurer L F Harlan Harlan Resolutions favored repeal of the federal bankruptcy law and modification of the internal revenue law to stamp drafts and money orders.
Elza Dimmitt, a colored habitual burglar with a long record, was sentenced in Des Moines to thirty three years in the penitentiary after being captured in Chicago and returned here. The sentence under the new habitual criminal act is the harshest for burglary in Iowa to date.
The Census Department in Washington extended by five days the time allowed to complete the census in Des Moines Iowa. The extension follows a petition by local commercial bodies noting the count was not yet complete.
Marcus Hanna presides as the convention convenes in Puinapetrnia Pennsylvania with 926 delegates and thousands in the galleries. The session names Lieutenant Governor Woodruff and Teddy Roosevelt as contenders for vice president while other factions push Dolliver aside.
Neal Dow at age 25 delivered a temperance speech during a fire company anniversary dinner and helped make temperance a principle of the group. He then influenced the Maine Mechanical Charitable association to ban wine at its annual dinner and ended the town bell warnings for drink. He pressed Portland employers to stop liquor supplies and spurred the creation of the Young Men’s Total Abstinence society.
A Detroit Journal item portrays a widow with 18 children warding off eviction at the threshold. The landlord challenges her and asks why not, she answers that no storm of rain and sleet rages outside, citing social conventions she refuses to break.
A short quote from the Atchison Globe notes that when a girl compliments another’s looks men present may spark a tea strike by disagreeing, reflecting social tension and wit in a brief remark.
A Times-Democrat humor piece recalls a man attempting to exit a moving streetcar near Lee Monument on St. Charles Avenue. He collides with a passenger, then repeats the stumble on another bend, embarrassing his rival and ruining his chances with his best girl. The performer laments the need for trolley car grace in male education.
A Lewis ton Journal reader recalls Boston church spires drawing witty barbs from architects. The "Church of the Holy Beanblowers" earns derision for slim trumpets, while other churches are mocked as "Holy Thermometer" and "Kindergarten Steeples" in a playful critique of design.
A young man leaves a farm for the city to pursue fame and fortune as per books. He tries to grab an opportunity by stopping a runaway horse, crashes into a wheel, and ends up in hospital and then a home for the feebleminded for obstructing a fire marshal. The Dartmouth Literary Monthly offers a cautionary moral about labeling opportunities.
An English visitor in Ruskinville asks a bookseller for Ruskin works. The clerk, unaware of his fame, admits locals seldom discuss the thinker. She only knows him as “the old gentleman who only had a clean collar once a week.”
The essay notes Paris as the center of political religious social and artistic movements shaping the nation and guiding the rise of great men and women across regions. It emphasizes the capital as the hub where education connections and careers begin, fueling national history.
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