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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1900
Page
3
The act bans trapping shooting or killing winnated grouse prairie chickens woodcock ruined grouse pheasant wild turkey wild goose duck brant gray fox and timber squirrel in specified date ranges. It prohibits quail on public highways and outlawed ambushes sneak boats artificial lights deceiving devices. decoys allowed for geese and ducks. Hunting from boats is forbidden from gun rise to sunset.
An advertisement touts CASCAR ETS as a cure for many ailments by correcting the bowels with natural movements. It claims a 100 cent start and promotes CAS CARETS Candy Cathartic with metal boxes and C. C. C. on each tablet, warning against imitations.
Telegraph summaries record Pekin quiet with 5000 American troops to winter in China and allied debates over withdrawal. Britain dispatches another Indian brigade while France accepts Russia's withdrawal proposal. Reports note mass killings in Blagovetschenk and local suicides, including James Burnside in Chicago after a domestic dispute.
General MacArthur describes a engagement near Carmen on the island of Bobol with 1 American killed and 6 wounded while the enemy suffers 120 killed. An Aguinaldo signed order urges Filipinos to seize Manila by treachery against Americans. Four companies of the Eighth Infantry depart for the Philippines under Major Stretch. The Philippine commission plans 2 million dollars for roads. The transport Warren reached Nagasaki with Ninth Cavalry battalions and recruits for Manila in good health.
Ali Mohamet Bey and rebels are defeated and jailed after a failed bid for the throne. Boers 2000 attack Lydenburg. British 150 defend, Ladybrand remains untaken. Norwegian elections show leftists gaining 12 seats, losing 6. rightists win 16. General Buller drives Boers from Spitzkop with 13 killed and 25 wounded on his side and heavy Boer losses. Boers consider abandoning the Transvaal for German Africa.
Vermont gives a Republican plurality of about 27 000. Governor Roosevelt plans to campaign heavily in Bryan’s state. McKinley has issued his renomination letter. Odell heads New York’s GOP ticket while Foraker denounces a false interview about a 1904 run. Cummins withdraws from Iowa race. Maine Republicans win by 33 000. Tanner prepares Illinois stump tour. Bryan and Jones feud over campaign strategy. Brownlow candidate opens Tennessee race after avoiding joint debate.
Jacob Gross, treasurer of the Gross Bros. Soap Co. in Milwaukee, died by self inflicted gunshot amid mounting business difficulties. Ex Alderman Follansbee was reported to be involved in the aftermath of the事件.
The Rock Island railroad plans to shorten its line to Kansas City. The Liverpool Steamship Owners association orders an all around freight rate increase due to coal price rises. Alfred L. Reese of Fox Lake Illinois fails with liabilities of 20000 dollars. Chicago saloonkeepers form a group to oppose the brewery combine. Miners at Consoli dated Coal Co in Iowa strike. new Say lorville mine also affected. Iron ore receipts at Ashtabula reach a record 2558018 tons for the season. Cincinnati based Building Material and Supply Co assigns with 45000 dollars each in assets and liabilities. Swift and Co leases Eastmans New York plant. Fifth Avenue Savings and Loan of McKeesport is solvent. British capitalists bid to challenge Standard Oil, securing options on 1000000 acres of Wyoming oil land. Lemont State Bank fails but will resume. Chicago Milwaukee St Paul railroad reports growth signaling relief from crop uncertainty.
A series of deadly incidents reported across states includes Cassville Wisconsin quarryman Frank Smith killed by falling rock. Little Andrew Dundsen near Rhinelander Wisconsin killed by jumping from the Pacific Limited. Dalton Massachusetts baseball player Joseph Marsh dying after a foul ball. Copperstain mine manager Edward W. Dana killed in Oregon, with ties to Springfield and Lincoln Illinois. Also six year olds Frank Collington and Alfred Williams killed by a Chicago and Northwestern train at Rogers Park Illinois. two men killed near Peotone Illinois by a granary collapse. Galveston and Sabine Pass suffer massive hurricane losses with thousands dead. Austrian soldiers die and many injured from a big gun explosion. Mary Wordus dies after boiling water accident in Chicago. a farm girl near Cushing Indiana killed while leading a horse to water. Texas hurricane death toll and widespread destruction estimated between 2,000 and 5,000 with 100 towns affected and millions in losses.
A roundup of notable deaths reports several prominent figures: Zach Montgomery former assistant attorney general under Cleveland dies in Los Angeles. Arthur Sewall former Democratic vice presidential candidate dies in Bath Missouri. James Seymour Grinnell dies in Greenfield Massachusetts after a long illness at age seven. William J. Morgan New York state comptroller dies after renomination in Buffalo. Mathias Psehorr founder of Hacker brewery Munich and famed Psehorr beer dies. Gustav Fauh a noted liliputian actor dies in Goldberg Silesia while preparing for a US tour. Judge Jacob Slagle of Pittsburg court of common pleas dies. Edwin B. Clarke longtime Coldwater resident dies.
The R A M mine in Leadville reports a blaze as a five story brick factory at 149 151 Huron Street Chicago burns. Loss is estimated at 1000000 to Newberry estate, owner of the structure.
A volatile mix of global and domestic items includes a new eruption in Mexico, Chicago gas price controls proposed at 80 cents, Crescens lowering a world trotting record to 2.04 percent, English cotton mills facing closure due to a short U.S. crop, a Des Moines judge ruling unions as a form of trust, and West Point's freshmen class reaching 175—the academy's largest to date.
Mrs Chas Kuhn of Delta is jailed in Sigourney after a What Cheer trip ending in her husband’s death from suspected poisoning. He cried You have poisoned me before dying. a postmortem followed an inquest amid strong evidence.
Mattie Mash shot and fatally injures William Foster after a failed marriage promise. A buggy pursuit by Sergeant Morris and Fire Chief Burnett collides with another carriage at Sixth and Locust, injuring Mrs. Hayes who later dies. Mash is jailed.
Justice Halloran ruled in Ryan vs. Charles Weitz & Son that a labor union is a pool or trust violating section 5000 of the code of law which bars organizations maintaining or regulating any commodity. Ryan is backed by the Teamsters' union of Des Moines and will appeal to district court, possibly to the supreme court.
The Central States Waterworks association ends its session in Columbus and schedules next year’s meeting in Evansville Indiana. Elected officers include President Harvey Cockell Columbus Ohio Vice Presidents For Ohio Joseph Peter Hamilton For Indiana Quincey Waller Muncie For Michigan F Catlin Flint For Kentucky W T Glore Covington For West Virginia Clark Howell Charleston Secretary W Allen Vench Newark Treasurer Charles Rowe Dayton The constitution now allows Iowa and Tennessee to join the association.
Ottumwa Iowa Sept 10 The St Paul Coal company formed recently filed articles of incorporation in Ottumwa with 300000 capital Glen W Trner of Chicago named president The announcement links it to Whitebreast interests though denial is offered Judge Mitchell of Ottumwa has been taking options on mineral land seen as related to Whitebreast parties
In Dubuque Louisiana on September 11 John Arthofer attacked neighbor Antoine Lothi during a dispute about their children. Arthofer struck Lothi on the head with a club, causing fatal injuries that led to death within hours.
Des Moines Iowa September 11 425 delegates from the United States and Canada attend the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen international convention. Sessions are described as secret.
Hedrick Iowa on September 8 19 year old Guy Cowgill took his own life by shooting himself in a despondent state. His father discovered the body in the bed the following morning.
James Burnside, a Baptist deacon and Afro-American society figure, shot and killed his wife after she refused to attend the mission at 8442 Cottage Grove Avenue. He would have killed himself but for police arrival from Stanton Avenue Station near 3456 Rhodes Avenue.
A critical analysis contrasts the Philippine and Porto Rican costs of war with Spain. It cites 186,000,000 in war expenditures, 2,053 disabled, 1,005 deaths from other causes, and about 57 deaths in action, arguing the empire push harms national honor and wastes funds. It criticizes war taxes and links surpluses to political motives.
A recent W. J. Bryan speech quotes a Republican chiding a Filipino appeal to Democrats for rights. The reply notes that nations fighting for liberty do not seek aid from the Republican party in this era.
We are convinced of Mr. Dryan s sincerity and earnest purpose to secure independence for the Filipinos. His position and declarations in his party platform on the campaign issue meet our unqualified approval.
On September 1 Judge Taft leads a commission that will become the insular legislature with power to appropriate funds and establish judicial and educational systems. It will authorize no insular spending without its consent. The body will appoint judges and officials, with General MacArthur as executive head enforcing laws until a civil governor is appointed by President McKinley.
A declaration urging removal of a chief magistrate who used temporary authority to subvert government character and national ideals, arguing a self governing people must purge public life of such leadership to protect liberty.
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