The Dubuque Daily Herald Wednesday December 7, 1887 THE SITUATION. What Some of the Prominent Business Men of the City Say. In a Business Point of View the Milwaukee Road Could Not Afford to Remove the Shops. The principal topic of conversation on the streets still is the possible removal of the Milwaukee shops […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Sunday December 4, 1887 THE SHOPS. The Committee of Aldermen and Citizens Leave for Milwaukee. The Inconvenience of Location Probably the Cause of the Action of the Company. The committee appointed to go to ,Milwaukee to interview the officials of the road determined to leave last night instead of this […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Friday December 2, 1887 UNEMPLOYED. Some of the Reasons Assigned for the Order of’ Discharge Issued by the Company. The main topic of conversation on the streets yesterday was the threatened removal of the Milwaukee shops from the city. Various causes were assigned for this action on the part of the […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Sunday November 20, 1887 THE CITY FINANCES. A Timely Communication of the Incapacity of the Council to Deal With Them Written by a Man Who Knows Whereof He Speaks. To the Editor of the Dubuque Herald. Although the city taxes for 1887 will not become delinquent nor bear interest until February […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Sunday November 20, 1887 SECRET GOVERNMENT. Another Showing Up of the City Council and Its Strange Methods of Procedure. In a session of the council held not long since it was announced that a member of the police force had been discharged. In making the announcement to the city council […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Sunday November 13, 1887 THE LABOR PROBLEM. An Exposition of the Relative Positions of Labor and Capital. Legislation Advised and the Benefits of Co-operation Shown. A Paying Audience Listens to a Political Harangue at the Close of an Interesting Lecture. Last evening a fair sized audience gathered in the Universalist […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Wednesday November 10, 1887 Labor Men Leave the Labor Party. The Knights of Labor of Dubuque, the thinking men among them. will readily discover in the overwhelming defeat of the Labor party, not only in Dubuque but in New York as well, that the verdict of the people is not aimed […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Sunday November 6, 1887 “Bounce Out the Politicians.” The leaders of the Union Labor party in their papers, their speeches and their campaigning say they want to free the public offices from politicians, that they themselves are no politicians, and not used to the ways of politics, and so on. This […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Sunday November 6, 1887 What the Knights Should Consider. Because the Herald does not believe that the best interests of the people of Dubuque and their city will not only not be benefited by the supremacy of a little coterie of a few men who call themselves the Union Labor party […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Sunday November 6, 1887 Indictment of the Labor Party. The Labor party asks the people of Dubuque to put them in control of the county. Last spring they asked the people of the city to do this in the city, and it was done, every candidate on their ticket was […]