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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1898
Page
6
The Jefferson County community recalls Maine Dewey and urges buyers to choose a good serviceable binder or mower. Emphasis is on lasting quality, avoiding yearly changes, and ensuring easy access to repairs.
The Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers unite for a Fairfield performance on Thursday July 14 featuring three great elephant herds. Forepaugh's ancient herd contrasts with Sells Brothers’ vast, intelligent ensembles including Asiatic African and other regional elephants with soldiers policemen boxers and clowns in drills concerts and pantomimes.
A vintage remedy ad promises healing salve with guaranteed satisfaction or refund. It lists numerous ailments including cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, and boils. Sold for 25 cents per box by J. D. McDowell.
Des Moines Township reports sermons by Rev C Springer and Rev Minear with services planned in two weeks. Community events include Krum ice cream social, Eldon Fourth of July planned by W C T U with Hon W A Work as orator, and Hidey Tinsley’s show at Eldon on July 4. Local visits, baptisms, a new bridge at the sand hill, and various residents’ travels are noted.
W S Vaught and wife started Monday to visit daughter Lizzie Linsey near Chicago. Deaths: Mrs. Anderson formerly Mrs. Jacobson east of town. James Henry Byers of McCune Kansas died June 28. Aunt Bell Rodabaugh leaves Thursday for Waterloo. Bridge dedication at Douds Station on July 4. German Baptists hold love feast at Pleasant Hill church July 4 starting 4 PM. Garber’s twenty ninth anniversary celebrated with neighbors. Visitors include John Blair of Pennsylvania and Harrison Cornell of Ohio. Prescriptions correctly compounded at D G Higley.
The shah of Persia enforces a ban on Persian lambskins to protect a shrinking supply. After cooks were beheaded for failing to provide spring lamb, advisers vanish, and the ruler decrees heavy fines for possession of lambskins, halting export trade with a blunt jar of consequence.
A professor, described as Irish, leads an English literature class. He asks for a sentence using impediment, defines it from Latin and mocks a student by joking that the impediment belonged to the man who never spoke without putting his foot in his mouth.
Cassier's Magazine notes that during the 1585 siege of Antwerp by Spanish forces, the Dutch built an ironclad flat bottomed vessel named Finis Belli. Heavily armored with iron plates, it was intended as an impregnable battery but ran aground and fell to the enemy, never used in combat. Alexander of Parma kept it as a curiosity at the end of the siege.
A man tells a rival that he fears his daughter would be unhappy in marriage, doubting harmony over small daily frictions. The lover suggests pragmatic solutions like hiring a purse to ease worries.
General Shafter and Admiral Sampson met with General Garcia at his camp near Acer raderos west of Santiago. Troop landings planned along the coast. Cable linked Camp McCalla Guantanamo Bay with Washington. Transports lie anchored off Santiago. Blanco sends six battalions to Santiago coast. Peace negotiations reportedly planned. Puerto Rico occupation on hold until Shafter’s position is secure. Zafiro ordered to leave Chinese waters.
Advices to the navy department from Admiral Sampson tell of successful landing of troops while warships diverted Spanish attention with a lively bombardment of Cabanas. Secretary Alger received a cable from General Shafter at Playa del Este saying troops had landed at Baiquiri. First reinforcements for Shafter leave Camp Alger for Newport News. Six ships will sail with troops for Manila next Monday. Naval repair ship Vulcan sails to join Sampson's fleet with skilled men and tools.
Reports from Madrid say the situation at Santiago de Cuba is critical as Spaniards retreat under pressure from American and Cuban forces. Dispatches claim sixty Spaniards killed and sixteen wounded near Guantanamo on Tuesday. Madrid notes Spanish reinforcements being concentrated at Santiago while monitors head to Manila and a third expedition with General Merritt may be delayed. Representative Lacey complains 29,000 of 45,000 Chickamauga troops lack rifles. The auxiliary cruiser Yale sails with 1,400 Michigan troops to reinforce Shafter’s army.
Four troops from the First Cavalry and four from the Tenth and eight from Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, under 1 000 men, attacked 2 000 Spanish soldiers near Santiago. Americans drove the enemy back into the city, suffering eighteen dead and fifty wounded. Admiral Sampson warned Admiral Cervera of surrender if Santiago held. the Spanish commander refused. General Shafter’s forces move on Santiago with a planned joint naval land assault in days. General Pareja and his troops near Santiago face defeat or surrender. Washington reports a possible American sweep if Cadiz ships reach the Suez canal, with a Mediterranean bombardment hinted. The Spanish Cortes suspends its duties as queen regent signs governing decree and deputies adjourn without throne cheers.
General Shafter closes on Santiago as battle looms this week. Wheeler says 22 Americans killed and 70 to 80 wounded at Sevilla with Spanish losses likely higher at 39 dead. Camara squadron reaches Port Said awaiting Madrid orders. Chickamauga troops including the Third and Fifth Illinois ready to reinforce Shafter. Fighting Bob Evans death report unfounded. Four thousand troops embark for the third Manila expedition and may sail today. Spain braces for attacks on home cities as port lights go out.
A US squadron under Commodore Watson sails to attack Spanish coastal defenses while General Shafter closes on Santiago. Madrid reports Premier Sagasta plans a coalition ministry and siege to push a peace settlement, with military buildup in republican and Carlist strongholds.
Twenty seven regiments are to be moved south from Chickamauga for reenforcements to Cuba. Blanco declares that all malcontents in Havana shall be shot. Terror reigns in the city. President McKinley sends a message to congress naming suitable rewards for Hobson and other naval heroes. Four transports carrying 4,000 troops sailed for Manilla. General Merritt will follow Wednesday.
Summary of brief items: John Thomaschuetz hanged in St. Louis by strangulation. Retired Col. R. E. A. Crofton dies in Washington aged about 63. Vermont Republicans nominate Col. E. C. Smith for governor. Storm Lake IA judge Lot. Thomas nominated for Congress on the 217th ballot. Robbers strike Montgomery IN post office stealing 150 and 60 government funds. Wreck near St. Joseph MO kills Eng. J. W. Fuller and injures Fireman George Christman. Millville NJ opera house and surrounding stores burned, $60 000 loss. Mayor Harrison of Chicago receives $3 000 donor check for Army Navy League relief. Leopold Brill indicted for embezzling $13 000 from Northwestern Brewing Co.
Train No. 49 on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy line was held up north of Whitehall Illinois. Engineer Fred Dempsey was shot and died after the robber fired as Fireman George Savage leaped from the engine. Bloodhounds tracked the suspect, possibly with a confederate, but both fled. Dempsey, a ten year Burlington veteran, resided in Beardstown.
Pink Coat captured the American Derby in Chicago with a time of 2 42 and a half seconds. War Renton finished second, Isabel third, in a notable jeweled stakes race. In New York at Sheepshead Bay Jean Beraud won the Great Trial Stakes as Kingdon placed second and Mr Phinizy third in the $20,000 event.
A dispatch from Lemberg to The Neue Freie Presse says Friday saw anti Jewish disturbances in fifteen places with houses looted and burned. The report notes widespread anxiety over the deteriorating situation.
A fire in Peoria Illinois discovered at 1:30 this morning wiped out the dry goods stock of Hysinger and Rosenthal. Loss on stock 80000 dollars with 80 percent insurance. The building sustained about 10000 dollars in damage.
Walter Shores, Elwood saloonkeeper, convicted of manslaughter for the March killing of Taylor Endricks in Kokomo Indiana. He received a two to four teen year indeterminate sentence.
It is announced in Peoria Illinois that the Great Western distillery will be rebuilt to the size of two large distilleries, with capacity of 95,000 gallons daily and a cost exceeding 500000 dollars.
The report notes hog receipts about 49 000 with pigs to heavy packing selling 2.60 to 3.90, cattle receipts around 15 000 with steer quotes 5.05 to 5.40 for top grades and various ranges for others, and sheep lambs receipts about 13 000 with westerns 4.00 to 5.20 and lambs 4.10 to 6.60. Milwaukee grain lists wheat quiet at No 1 northern and No 2 northern 88 to 88 1/2 cents, oats lower, rye lower, barley steady.
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