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Fairfield Tribune

Location

Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 05, 1888

Page

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Iowa Clergy Form Temperance Society In Dubuque Diocese

The Dubuque diocese retreat ends August 31 with 135 priests present. A temperance organization is formed under Rev Father Sullivan with Execu tive Committee members and funding to distribute literature and organize societies statewide.

Democratic State Convention Nominates Iowa Officers

At Des Moines on August 29 the Iowa Democratic State Convention nominated officers and adopted a platform. Key appointees included permanent chairman Fred W. Lehmann and permanent secretary C Harrington, with Healy presiding earlier. Nominees selected included Heberling for secretary of state, Ockerson for auditor, Amos Case for treasurer, and Lund for railway commissioner, amid party platform passing affirming opposition to prohibition and support for railroad regulation.

Iowa Des Moines Hunter State Central Committee Geo. C. Ienry Michael F. Healy Webster County Joseph Eiboeck John Springer Johnson County N. C. Roberts Lee G. A. Thayer Pottawattamie Reading T. O. Walker Marshall Healy Walker Osceola Cleveland Committee Fred W. Lehmann Polk County C. Harri Committee On Craig Cato Sells W. W. Dodge Burlington George C. Heberling Jackson M. F. Healy Webster J. J. Snouffer Cedar Rapids America W. H. Johnson Muscatine Ockerson Johnson Amos Case Chickasaw County Kinne Democratic Party of Iowa St. Louis Town Congress Chicago Republican Party Democratic Party Phil H. Sheridan Marshalltown Graiser Ida Mike Miller Carroll D. A. Farrell Council Bluffs John P. Allison Sioux City Moses Bloom Iowa City Peter A. Dey G. L. Johnson Dey J. A. O. Yeoman Fort Dodge C. F. Lund Kossuth County Adair County Allison Lund Hulbert Wills Bayliss Hotchkiss Mandershield Clinton Decatur Sioux O’brien Woodbury Scott Polk James Grant Scott County John F. Duncombe

Forest fires sweep across Michigan peninsula railway line

A line of forest fires stretches nearly a hundred miles along the Michigan peninsula division of the Chicago & Northwestern railway from Negaunee to Stephenson. Fifty fires, many large, damage Nadeau Mumford and surrounding farm buildings. One Mumford family of seven is missing after their house burned. Fires drive residents to Powers Bagley Daggett Stephenson and other towns as hundreds become homeless and crops are destroyed. Trains were delayed Saturday but resumed on Sunday as fires spread on both sides of the tracks.

Michigan Peninsula Chicago & Northwestern Railway Negaunee Stephenson Nadeau Carney and Mumford Bagley Powers Daggett

Chicago Murder and Other Briefs Across States

A Chicago murder report details Fred Schuneman slain by footpads after a robbery attempt near Ada and Randolph. The robbers took his watch ring pin and scarf pin, his pockets rifled, and fled. no solid clue emerges. Separate notes recount a Georges Miss Maggie Punzle killed on a Chicago Northwestern trestle near Janesville. Wm. F. Park, a forger, arrested in New York with $10,000 in forgeries. Peter Nelson’s pistol misfire wounds Swan Olsen at Holdrege. recovery hoped. Grand Island cannery employs 255 workers, producing about 59,090 cans daily and 115 tons consumed.

Fred Schuneman Chicago Phillip Best Brewing Company Schuneman Ada Randolph Janesville Wis Chicago & Northwestern Maggie Punzle Wm. F. Park Cole New York Holdrege Peter Nelson Swan Olsen Grand Island

Doings in Congress and Senate Actions in August

Senate debates on public lands taxation and army appropriations. House moves on deficiency and sundry civil bills. conference reports and adjournments mark daily sessions with ministers, amendments, and leave requests. Key figures include Allison, Blair, Anderson, and Forney amid Oklahoma land and transit discussions.

Washington Committee On Public Lands Senate Michigan Marquette Ontonagon Allison House Plumb Gorman Judiciary Committee Jackson Miss Wilson Iowa Walthall Messrs. Hovey Matson Indiana Yost Virginia Hoar United States Great Britain Edmunds Hale Beck Blackburn Washrneton Reagan Committee On Finance Committee On Appropriations Stewart Secretary of the Interior George Forney Illinois Cobb Alabama Peoria Breckenridge Kentucky Blount Georgia Committee On Foreign Affairs Outhwaite Ohio Richmond Augusta Kansas City

IOWA STATE FAIR OPENS WITH BUSY FIRST DAY

Des Moines reports a fine opening to the Iowa State Fair with finished permanent buildings and improved exhibits. Farmers bring stock and equipment as trains run hourly. dairy, floral and machinery halls fill and crowds pour in for a grand exhibition.

Des Moines Shaffer The Agricultural Society Iowa Union Floral Hall

Diverse 19th Century Gossip and Notables Across Nations

A collage reports on Henry Ward Beecher visiting Ithaca, Chapman possibly heading Dickinson College, Justice Bradley vacationing in Vermont, Miss Ella Leben named Portland schools superintendent earning 3000, and Gladstone’s donation to The Nineteenth Century. It covers births deaths, scholarly pursuits, marriages, wealth, and curiosities from Europe and America including Vanderbilt land deals, sturgeon sizes, and a Caspian Sea fishing tale.

Henry Ward Beecher H. W. Sage Ithaca J. A. M. Chapman Philadelphia Dickinson College Justice Bradley Supreme Court of the United States Vermont Ella Leben Portland Oregon Gladstone M. Houzeau Brussels William Henry Humbert New York World Ireland Edward Everett Sale Chautauqua Assembly Weirs Nhs Co. Lamont Bar Harbor

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