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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1890
Page
2
Brainerd Dispatch notes that imprisonment for debt in New York will end soon. It cites ending exploitations at Ludlow Street jail and mentions a London antiquary purchasing the Cromwell death warrant table for 710 dollars.
Tur Interior in Chicago notes two social outlaw classes: those shielded by poverty and those protected by wealth. It argues systemic irresponsibility locks in crime by income.
The text notes Queen Victoria feeling she is too old to continue at full pace and considering retirement so Wales may focus on official idleness, reflecting a shift in royal expectations.
Garivavd and all his relatives reside in Italy. They are not wealthy but well provided for and highly honored.
An Englishman purchased the contents of the royal castle at Nuremberg, acquiring what is described as the most complete collection of torture instruments still in existence. The sale draws interest from scholars and curators worldwide.
The canning business is a major American industry with Baltimore producing 120 million tin cans annually. These cans are filled with fruits meats and oysters and shipped worldwide, highlighting the district's impact on global food supply.
Mr. J. E. Lewis of Culpepper reports a mule with sagacity and agility that "takes the cake." He found the mule in the hayloft one morning, access gained only by a ladder.
ConsouL Jones of Cardiff claims half of the freeholders and three quarters of leaseholders in that part of Wales are mortgaged. Dwellings shops farms and lands show mortgages from forty to seventy five percent of gross value. Wales is worse off than Kansas.
The piece notes in Siam you can get board for forty five cents a week including washing two servants show tickets three halves and unlimited cigars. It contrasts this with the difficulty of earning forty five cents a week there.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports a local man lived twenty five years with a button lodged in his nose. The Washington Post notes public interest in how long a politician from Ohio could endure with a button on his lip.
The Columbus Southern railroad runs along the old Native American path and the 1818 march of General Andrew Jackson to Florida. He camped at night near today’s village of Sasser, and his blaze marks are still visible on nearby trees along the line.
A Bradysville young couple fled to elope but parents objected. They wed once by a squire in Aberdeen, fearing illegality they returned home and the next morning the ceremony was repeated by a local squire.
Isabella Brap, 35, owner of an independent fortune, sues Thomas Miskell in a New York court for breach of promise. She claims she spent $2,000 to secure his pardon as a deserter from the British army, $17 for a wedding ring, and funds to furnish a house. Miskell counters that she did all the wooing and he never consented.
In New York a life insurance company lent 120000 to a church and insured members in the church. Each death reduces the church debt by the policy amount, while funerals let the debt disappear in tandem with the insured lives.
Workers uncover numerous old flints kept by the Hudson Bay Company for replenishing flintlock guns. Found several feet below street level in a black deposit above river sand. Nearby lies an ancient, decayed sidewalk remains just above the flints.
The Naples correspondent notes Buffalo Bill's troupe astonishes locals who know little of Fenimore Cooper. Spectators mistook riders and painted Redskins for women, but the riding and shooting impressed crowds as arena seats fill daily.
Chief Mayes plans an extra Cherokee council session to push the sale of the Cherokee strip and seeks a swift settlement of the issue. In Wichita, Mrs. Cynthia Moller, 91, appeared dead after being placed on ice but was revived. she later died following a relapse that afternoon.
The steamer City of St Paul wrecked near Cairo Illinois with no lives lost. Horace Greeley’s former homestead near Chappaqua destroyed by fire. Baychester powder works explosion injures Kilmeir and Schultz. Cameron mine Shamokin flooding, $100000 damage and lost year’s time. Fire in Cumming hill woods burns mile of territory. Black raft of 30 Alabama negroes capsized near Bogue Falya. 18 survive. Oil tunnel explosion near Santa Paula burns two, one dies, later collapse kills five. Tornado at Harper’s Ferry Kentucky devastates village. many buried. Mrs Laura Thomas found dead by a tree.
A wide array of violent incidents and crimes fill this item. Stanley Wilcox of Carroll is fatally shot by his wife. Eugene Cornell, age eighteen, dies at Henderson, Kentucky, in a dispute with James Wella. a would-be assassin unnamed. Theodore Wilcox, Brooklyn hospital head, jailed for four years over fake patient swindles. numerous robberies, shootings, and murders across New York, Ohio, Kentucky, and elsewhere. Also noted are shipboard crime, a hotel jewel theft, and a rash of public violence involving rival factions and feuds, with broader foreign cullings detailing unrest in Russia as students are arrested and Emin Pasha joins German service.
Reports describe George Lang’s family fire in Egg Harbor after a house fire begun amid a suspected mental break, a suspected murder in Helena with knife wounds and Chinaman shoes found nearby, and John Arnold wounded by Chinn English following a star snatching. Additional notes cover Harris A Smiler’s arrest for wife killings in Harlem and Lima Ohio train assault turning fatal for Conductor Tucker as four tramps are seized.
A U S grand jury indicts P. J. Claassen of Sixth National Bank of New York for embezzlement. Trial set for May 7. Nearby, predictions warn floods on Ohio and Lower Mississippi may push migration north.
Market notes list prices for wheat and corn futures, oats rye and barley at Chicago Saint Paul Milwaukee stations. Quotations include Elgin creamery and Western creamery butter and eggs prices with regional varieties and packaging notes.
Reports show a widening crevasse at Catfish Point flooding Greenville Mississippi with water covering Washington Avenue and extending toward the race track. The displaced include many residents and enslaved workers, with relief from government ships and local aid efforts underway as other areas face worsening high water and agricultural losses.
Washington reports reveal a draft proposition to grant reciprocal tariff terms with American hemisphere nations. The plan, presented to the Ways and Means Committee, would declare U S free of duties on many foods and certain commodities in exchange for similar access for U S goods.
A proposal urges free entry of wool sugar and hides from American continent countries while imposing duties on other imports. It argues South American exports and labor practices, cites price gaps for bread flour and fuel, and frames a coastwise protection policy to boost American trade and shipping.
Fort Pierre D. A great final Sioux powwow and dance was held near the reservation. Chiefs including Sitting Bull debated land policy with John Grass urging self reliance and land ownership. The council decided to stay on the new reserve and rely on government rations, with few to pursue farming or homesteads.
The article reports European concern that Russia plans to push through Finland toward Sweden and Norway, with Sweden seeking English protection amid Finnish Russification, while Denmark and Russia hold wary opinions of Sweden. It notes Russia’s historic expansion and China’s border fortifications facing potential Russian threats.
Sir Samuel Baker writes that Britain’s policy has cost gains by individual Englishmen in Africa and argues for German advantage. He suggests stations at Victoria Xianza and alliance with king Wanga to control the White Nile, foreseeing Berber and Kassala and fall of Khartoum. The Gazette reports eight chiefs hoisting the German flag after Lieut. Ehlers’ mission success in Mandara.
In Cannes Dom Pedro deposed emperor of Brazil lies gravely ill in a coma for much of yesterday. Doctors say he is extremely weak but not in immediate danger as he slowly improves. the Prince of Wales has visited him during his Cannes sojourn.
Dr. Walter E. Reid, president of the Michigan Spiritualists Association, was convicted in a United States court of using the mail for fraudulent purposes. He published a spiritualist paper and answered questions from deceased souls for fees of $1, with higher charges for wax sealed or thread sewn letters. The offender ran a large business and profits were substantial until exposed. Verdict deferred to allow a motion for a new trial.
A chase near Irondale ends with three African American suspects dead after they opened fire on City Marshal England and Deputy Fontenberry during a railroad iron theft. England was wounded fatally and Fontenberry returned fire, leaving all three suspects dead and England gravely injured.
Ferdinand Bunke, a bank clerk, attempted to extort the ex-chancellor by threatening to publish alleged offenses unless paid fifty marks. He was arrested and sentenced to three months in prison. The same man had previously hurled a brick at Bismarck near the royal castle.
A roundup of Minnesota and surrounding region notes includes a plan to build a Swedish hospital in St. Paul, a new 1 million dollar push into manufacturing, a Brainerd man’s fatal fall, and a range of local incidents from fires to arrests.
Governor Miller vetoed a bill for elections in unorganized counties. The North Dakota supreme court convenes in Fargo to hear seed wheat bond law challenges and cases including state v O H are and Devil's Lake tax matters. A missing Gilby youth concerns authorities near Grand Forks. Multiple resignations and appointments occur with county officials in Wahpeton and Sargent county. Bismarck fire causes $500 loss. wind and panic mentioned. Federal officials seek a Grand Forks government building. Northern Pacific land dispute settles in Fargo.
The page reports a Parker child burned by a hot stove while mother away, efforts to pension Yankton scouts, a large black eagle bagged near Parker, and various local notes. It notes financial intrigue, possible embezzlement, racial tensions, a baby show, estate bequests, coal discoveries, and frontier anecdotes including a Philadelphia-style capital campaign and Indians visiting a Rapid City philanthropist.
Michael Collobi of Genoa died in the Florence mine from a earth fall. Mayors move to close Chippewa Falls gambling houses. Petitions seek $50,000 for Evansville post office building. Seven hundred names push Green Lake County seat move. Frank Lucas injured in Portage car incident. W H Kennedy of Shgwano Wisconsin drinks strychnine in Marquette. Jno Q Griffith dies at 72 near Whitewater. Hugo Hiendrichs breaks arm leaping from a train. Bad River renamed Morse. Stearns renamed Morris. Nordstrom murder case to circuit court. bail set at $4,000. E H Abbot donates $15,000 for St Pauls guild hall in Milwaukee. An elderly Dodd dies from ear remedy overdose. Matt Faigle killers jailed for 17 years. Hamilton Shidy ousted from Milwaukee post office. Italian miner in Florence survives shaft fall. John Schlim deranged, kills self after attempting to harm family. Mrs Bredenski recalls past tornado fear with child thrown from window. W C Armsworth shot in Waukesha, transported to Milwaukee. death state disputed.
Reports include an old battlefield bullet removal in Harlan, a Des Moines county bounty on wolf whelps, a boy’s hand loss in Scott county, a fatal iodine ingestion in Sidney, and wolves troubling farmers near Jefferson county. Also noted are Mars-like finds, a Chinaman’s self-inflicted wound, scarlet fever near Britt, a drunken justice petition, a strange Audubon bird, an albino child in Oskaloosa, bank robbery suspicions near Hamburg, a missing man near Sidney, a double death in Jones county, and a Knox farmer's disappearance amid debts.
Maggie Duncan, a 19 year old orphan living near Greenfield, faced pressure from relatives and suitors as John Curry pursued marriage. Despite her initial preference for Asa McKinley, a midnight scheme culminated in a hasty license and Maggie Duncan becoming Mrs John Curry at dawn.
Congressman Peters of Kansas argues for retirement after his current term citing high living and office costs. He lists hotel charges 150 dollars monthly stenographer 100 dollars monthly postage 1 dollar daily and travel 30 to 40 dollars monthly. He estimates district work and incidentals bring expenses to about 450 dollars a month, 350 above his salary, and says he seeks to earn a better living by attending to his own business.
A wealthy and odd Parisian named Ramouding ordered a special coffin and built a vault for three coffins in a cemetery plus left over 1,000,000 francs to the widows and orphans of the St Etienne mine explosion victims. He spoke of ease and was found dead the next morning after drafting letters.
A Mississippi River lifer visiting a city restaurant swallows a handful of salt believing it was ground salt. He jokes that he never saw salt ground before and thought it was calomel. The amused waiter notes the saltiness and the guest confirms the misconception with a chuckle.
An old advertisement touts Salvation Oil for rheumatism neuralgia sore throat and back pains with a 25 cent price. It urges taking Dr Bull's Cough Syrup for cold cough hoarseness or chest soreness and warns delays are dangerous. It also notes West Superior plans a half million steel plant investment.
An internal revenue officer explains to a New York World reporter how dealers imitate imported cigar labels to misrepresent goods. Counterfeit stamps mimic genuine ones in size color and wording and falsely claim Havana tobacco. Thousands of fake stamps have been seized in the city over the past year.
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