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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1900
Page
3
Fairfield Markets Grain and Livestock Price Reports
Prices show mixed changes across crops and livestock. Corn ranges 29 to 32 cents a bushel while oats rise to 20 cents, rye declines to 42 cents, wheat holds at 0 to 65 cents, hay bids drift from 7.00 to 6.50 per ton baled and 6.50 to 7.50 loose, clover seed up to 4.50, hogs fade to 4.50, fat steers 4.50 to 5.00, heifers 3.00 to 3.50, fat sheep 3.50 to 4.00, hides 7 cents, bells 18 to 20, lard 6 to 6.4, potatoes 40, onions 60 to 75, turnips 40 to 50 cents per bushel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairfield
History of Week in Short Telegraph Reports
A condensed week in telegraph form lists battles, casualties, and public incidents. Notable items include Lord Roberts advancing on the Orange Free State, Brabant and Gatacre engagements, and Buller reporting casualties. Other entries note accidents, fires, strikes, and deaths across multiple states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roberts
Lord Roberts
Orange Free State
Dundonald
Natal Carbiniers
Ladysmith
Brabante
Jamestown
Clements
Colesberg
General Brabant
la Buschagne
Nek
Brabant
Dordrecht
Gatacre
Stormberg
Buller
Puerto Rican tariff bill passes House after division vote
The House approved the Puerto Rican tariff bill 172 yeas to 161 nays with the motion to recommit failing 162 to 172. Congress considers statehood for New Mexico and expands cable completion dates to Honolulu 1902 and Manila Japan 1903. Bank accounts of Montana legislators surface in Clark inquiry. President McKinley attends Ohio Society banquet. Nome Alaska to receive postal service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Yeas
Ways and Means Committee
John G. Shortall
Cullom
Mason
Congress
Depew
Territories
Honolulu
Manila
Japan
Montana
Clark
Washington
McKinley
Ohio Society of New York
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
New Mexico
United States
Nome City
Alaska
Multiple Homicides and Trials Across Cities Reported
A series of crime notices from Chicago Kansas City Dodson Me and other locales details Mrs A E Synon found dead with skull crushed police arrest her husband Albert Hoskins in Kansas City pleaded guilty to robbing a streetcar conductor sentenced to twenty years. A train thief Lea Curry killed resisting arrest. Battles between cowboys and Mexicans at Pilares de Tierra with casualties. A milkman H R Moore survives a shooting due to a saved account book. Ex soldier Sandy Calhoun arrested for murder in Yale Kaw. Ex treasurer Charles Rogersoll arrested in Iola Kan for embezzlement. Fa jah Stanton stabbed to death at Texas Confederate home in conflict over Boer war. A Philadelphia bookseller jailed for selling Sapho. Masked robbers assault a Chicago woman and set her house on fire. Madison County officials report a 15000 shortage in county funds. In Chicago Charles E Lutz shoots his brother then kills the brother’s wife. Monarch Nail treasurer Laurent Cook held in Boston for 5000 theft. John Willard Adams, builder of Union Station St Louis, dies by suicide in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. Synon
Green Street
Chicago
Albert Hoskins
Kansas City
Lea Curry
Dodson
Pilares de Tierra
H. R. Moore
Sandy Calhoun
Twentieth Kansas Regiment
Yale
Kaw
Charles Luogersoll
Tompkins County
N. Y
Iola
Kan
Texas
Fajah Stanton
Julius Maner
Philadelphia
County Revenue Commissioners
Madison County
Tean
J. Lt. Hunt
Charles E. Lutz
Alfred
Laurents
Cook
Monarch Nail Company
Boston
John Willard Adams
St. Louis
New York
Continental Creamery formed by five large Kansas Oklahoma firms
Five of the largest creamery companies in Kansas and Oklahoma consolidate under the name Continental Creamery Company with headquarters at Topeka. Reports from National Carbon show first year net earnings of 451 687.71 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simpson & Co
Glovers and Batters
Boston
Kansas
Oklahoma
Continental Creamery Company
Topeka
National Carbon Company
United States
Joliet
Lrs
Business Men’s Association
Notable Clergy and Leaders Die in Midwest and West
A series of obituaries reports the deaths of Rev. Anthony Robinson at Ottumwa Iowa aged 90, Most Rev. John Hennessy former Dubuque archbishop, Dr Pliny L Lawrence Chicago dentist and former state health board president, Dr E A Guilbert Dubuque Iowa 72, Rev Charles Secombe Northwest missionary, Jacob O Chance Illinois Supreme Court clerk southern division, J P Baden Windlelu Kansas miller and merchant, all noting death from various causes including pneumonia and stroke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anthony Robinson
Iowa
Ottumwa
J. F. Higgins
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
John Hennessy
Dubuque
Pliny L. Lawrence
Chicago
E. A. Guilbert
State Board of Health
West
Charles Secombe
Northwest
Springfield
S. D
Jacob O. Chance
Supreme Court
Southern Grand Division
Ilinois
Mount Vernon
Ill
J. P. Baden
Windlelu, Kan
Newark Fire Destroys Dry Goods District in City’s Worst Blaze
Fire swept Newark New Jersey destroying twenty firms and over a million dollars in losses. Reports say several lives may have been lost and many burned. Separate fires at Philadelphia May's straw goods manufactory and Hay Budden Brooklyn anvil plant caused additional heavy losses. The Cliff House building at Waukegan also burned with a ten thousand dollar loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N. J
May
Philadelphia
Hay-Budden Company
Brooklyn
Waukegan
Cliff House
Various 1908 news items and notes across the U S
A survey of diverse reports spans politics sports and society. Topics include a Populist convention possibly in Kansas City on July 4, Chicago’s Hart proposing an American League team in his city, Parkhurst withdrawing from reform work, Hemingway process experiments in Chicago, Joe Choynski noting a broken rib fight with Walcott, Wisconsin University president Adams improving, an Indian Mardi Gras hosted by Wisconsin Valley Advancement for editors, Lord Rosebery quitting the Liberal party, Arlington honors for Cuban War dead, a scandal involving Captain Clark of the Texas and a Cincinnati woman, Rhode Island Prohibition party convention in Providence, H B Metcalf nominated for governor, French students in Montreal rioting, Eastern rails seeking Great Lakes control, Campania arriving from New York to Liverpool via Queenston, nine white miners acquitted in Carterville killings, Jewish Women council in Cleveland session, Japan expanding army, Yale spring football practice, Intercollegiate Gymnastic Association meet at Columbia on March 23, forty Princeton baseball hopefuls, Chilean minister in Peru resigning, and artist Raffaelli praising Chicago as a future art center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Hart
Chicago Ball Club
American League
Parkhurst
Chicago
Hemingway
Joe Choynski
Walcott
Cuba
Arlington Cemetery
Washington
Clark
Texas
Cincinnati
Rhode Island
Providence
H. B. Metcalf
Pawtucket
Montreal
Great Lake
Campania
New York
Liverpool
Queenston
Carterville
Ills
Council of Jewish Women
Cleveland
Japan
Yale
Tapis
Intercollegiate Gymnastic Association
Columbia University
Princeton
Peru
Raffaelli
Centerville Miners Strike Over 22 Percent Wages
About one thousand Centerville area coal miners walk out after contracts expire demanding a 22 percent raise. Operators offer a 5 percent raise from April 1 while keeping old scale through March. Des Moines talks seek unified start dates and wage terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Centerville
Des Moines
Iown
Conference of Miners and Operators of
Iowa
Mysterious Farmington Bank Vault Breach Reported
Ottumwa Iowa March 6 Bank officials investigated a Farmers bank vault theft in Farmington. Cashier Barry Wier reported interior rifled with time lock set but robbers left gold and silver. Directors refused exact stolen total. $1700 was stated as taken by F Is Barr. Bishops Edsall and Morrison attended a reception with their wives in Davenport after Chicago events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottumwa
Farmington
Barry Wier
Farmers’ Bank
Eldon
Lightfoot
F. LD. Barr
F. Is
Barr
Davenport
Edsall
North Dakota
Morrison
Chicago
Anderson
Prairie Schooner Sail Wagon Breaks Trail to Colorado
Kansas City Kansas inventor Samuel Peppard built a sail powered wagon to reach the Colorado goldfields. The eight by three foot craft weighed 850 pounds, carried four men and 500 pounds of cargo, and sailed up to 50 miles per day with a ten foot mast and two sails. The voyage started near Oskaloosa and headed northwest through Kansas into Nebraska toward Denver, with reported speeds of two miles in four minutes on a test run.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Kan
Samuel Peppard
Lio
Plains
Oskaloosa
Denver
Colorado
el Dorado
Peppard
Noah
Mrr
Peppard Tin
Kansas City Journal
Sioux City ministers seek reform mayor in municipal race
Sioux City ministers plan to back a reform mayoral candidate pledged to enforce the Martin liquor law, hoping to influence the municipal campaign underway in Sioux City. They intend to actively support a candidate through personal solicitation and outreach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Dubuque City Votes to Sell Water Plant for 45000
In Dubuque Iowa on March 1 a special election approved a water company plan to sell the plant for 45000 by a count of 2135 to 459. It marks the city's first time women voters participated giving 275 in favor and 33 against.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuqm
Tragic Suicide of Fort Madison Girl at Age Twelve
In Fort Madison Iowa on March 2 Pazel Rogers aged twelve died by self inflicted gunshot to the heart. Authorities cite unknown causes but believe a childish love affair caused her to seek death as relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Madison
Pazel Rogers
Mysterious Dance Hall Shooting Claims Hussey Resident
Ottumwa reports a fatal shooting at a dance in Wier City on Wednesday night. Willlaw Thalloway, son of Dr. J G Halloway of Hussey, died from a gunshot fired by miner Davis, who was arrested on the charge of waving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottumwa
Reforestation Plan Eyed After Johns Town Flood Risk
Johnstown Florida March 5 An attempt will be made to reforest a large portion of the Conemaugh watershed to curb freshets and a repeat of the 1889 flood that destroyed 410000000 in property and cost nearly 5000 lives J W Tourley government superintendent of tree planting and another forestry expert will survey the region and decide on a plan once weather permits
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnstown
Fla
Conemaugh
J. W. Tourley
Stolen Smokestack Baffles Downtown St Louis
In mid afternoon a 160 foot smokestack was stolen from the old Commercial hotel on Pine street near Planters hotel. Patrick Plassett, under contract to wreck the building, offers a $25 reward for its return. No witnesses report seeing the theft in the downtown core.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Planters
Pine Street
Patrick Plassett
Judge Phillips Not Improved in Hillsboro Case
Advices from Hillsboro reported in Springfield that Judge Jesse J. Phillips of the supreme court, age 61, is with pneumonia and his condition has not improved. Death is feared imminent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phillips
Springfield
Hillsboro
Jesse J. Phillips
Supreme Court
Diet for Strong Effort and Endurance
The excerpt advises two diets for physical feats. For short intense work choose high protein. For steady daily, long workouts emphasize carbohydrates and fats with less protein. The guidance aims at optimizing muscular labor versus endurance performance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Home Journal
Advertising Always Necessary in Profitable Ventures
A Philadelphia Record line asserts advertising is always necessary as profits are the permanent object of financial investment. It claims that successful merchants consistently prove this, stressing the constant value of advertising to draw profits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
The Magician Herrmann Destroys Champagne Bottle
George Carroll recalls a story about Herrmann the magician at a club dinner. He demonstrates palming limits by claiming champagne cannot be concealed then hurls a bottle toward a waiter and the bottle seemingly vanishes in the ensuing confusion as onlookers react. New York Tribune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herrmann
George Carroll
St. Louis
Lie
Walter
New York Tribune
Scorpions Not Killed by Their Own Venom
A Scientific American note explains scorpions die from heat rather than stinging themselves. Experiments with circles of fire showed earlier self strangulation myths. Scorpions shed heat through defense movements while temperatures above 50 degrees Celsius kill them.
The Zulu Boy Servants and a Ticket Tale
A Household Words anecdote about a faithful Zulu boy who confuses I and rv. He queues visitors by tickets, letting two guests enter while keeping a third in the hall, remarking that two misses had tickets while he has none. He wonders why he would be admitted without a ticket to a saloon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Baas
How Persians Dine Dinner Etiquette Described
The London Globe describes a Persian dinner where pipes precede tea and desserts. Servants spread a leather sheet on the floor and guests sit crosslegged around it. A loaf is set before each guest, music plays, dishes arrive on trays, and after the host invokes God they begin eating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Globe
Meeks Stone marble cutter cuts epitaphs
In a brief Chicago News quip Meeks Stone is praised for speaking well of all. Weeks notes the trade as a habit and reveals Meeks is a marble cutter who specializes in carving epitaphs on gravestones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meeks Stone
Weeks
Meeks
Chicago News
Burmese coin superstition favors female heads
The Burmese favor coins bearing female heads, believing male headed coins bring bad luck and hinder money making.
Shore waves reach lethal force on coast
Report notes the impact of surf along the shoreline equals 17 tons per square yard, indicating extreme wave power and potential danger to coastal areas.
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Geo. Howell & Son
Southwest Corner Square
West Side Square
Merling Remedy Company
Hestreal
Parsons College
Bora
Daniel E, Jenkins
Red Cross
Vin de Cinchone Co
Des Maines
Bradshaw & Thoma
Sterling Remedy Co
New Yo
Telegraph
National Bank of Illinois
Dawes
General McNulta
New England
Oscar BR. Gleason
Aberdeen
Scotland
Pennsylvania
Nescopeck
Joseph Keefer
Charles Seeley
Hazelhurst
Wis
St. Paul
FE. M. Carroll
Nashville. Tenn
Illinois Central Railroad
Pope
Miss
France
Samuel Detwiler
Fulton County
Washington News
Odds and
Adams
University of Wisconsin
Wisconsin Valley Advancement Association
Lord Roseberry
Liberal Party
State News Notes
Dabuque
Bence
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