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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1889
Page
6
Considerable attention centers on crossing buffalo bulls with domestic cows. The effort produces a finer quality of hair and meat, signaling potential improvements in livestock characteristics and market value.
A surprising claim states Boston is the greatest market in the United States for lottery ticket sales. The remark contrasts Boston with other major cities and suggests notable consumer demand and distribution strength in the local market.
A gentleman from Americus Georgia preserves a jug that has carried liquor for his family for more than a century. The artifact is described as perhaps the country's oldest groster.
A Kentucky man digging for a rabbit uncovered a keg of whiskey about a century old. The surprising discovery is expected to boost interest and activity in local rabbit hunting efforts across the state.
A recent English issue advertised a superior house parlor maid who can teach elementary music and a plain cook under 25 who knows shorthand.
A simple fumigation method involves heating an iron shovel until very hot and then pouring vinegar on it drop by drop to generate steam that acts as a disinfectant. Open doors and windows to vent the steam.
Mr. Sweeney of Cummings Ga reports odd farm incidents with prompt animal actions. A hog surprised a large hawk devouring a chicken and killed it. On another occasion a cow chased and caught a rabbit.
The Boston Herald depicts a group of French Canadian Fall River Mass weavers living in a three room tenement. The group includes 12 grown persons. Some families in the city house 20 persons in three rooms.
A poetic reflection traces butterfly life from egg to death across seasons. It notes egg hatching caterpillar to butterfly, mating and laying eggs, then winter passage, and a new generation that lives a similar duration as its predecessors.
Upper Stratford Connecticut reports a young man who, after a love disappointment, chose isolation living in a cave beneath a rock. His sole companion is a mink he has trained to obey his commands, making him a local curiosity and subject of wonder.
A Connecticut hunter encountered a strangely looking animal on a Blue Hills mountain and killed it. The animal proved to be a young Canada lynx measuring three and a half feet from nose to tail. Such a lynx had not been seen in Connecticut for years.
In Americus Georgia J Mize woke to a dream warning of fire. He found seven or eight panels of his fence burned by an ash barrel fire, flames racing toward the house. The blaze would have reached the dwelling within ten minutes if not discovered.
A man in Albany bought a drug store item. The clerk forgot to cut the twine. The passer by spotted a string trailing from his pocket as he walked away. The shopper unwound almost a ball of twine before realizing it.
A new learning method arrives in New Haven public schools with a daily bulletin board of home and foreign news. Pupils copy items tied to history and geography topics, competing to post the most relevant items with evident enthusiasm.
In 1880 about 30 young women formed an Old Maids Club in Berlin. A 1000 mark fine for marriage fueled savings totaling 28000 marks. At the annual meeting the last member chose to split the funds, giving half to a hospital and keeping the rest for herself.
In Americus Georgia a man boasts his wife is the best in the state. He says in ten years of marriage she has never asked for a dollar. He never bought her a dress or any gift. He usually borrows from her while she earns more and runs the household trading home products and beating his store. He claims she is priceless to him.
Congressmen W. W. Phelps and other U S delegates, including ex ministers Kasson and Batés, travel to Berlin aboard the Umbria escorted by Lieut. Parker and others. They carry official instructions from Washington for the Samoan commission as a state department messenger delivers sealed enclosures before departure.
Reports describe a Malford Bracken County Ky fire destroying three business houses with losses estimated at 100000 and minimal insurance. Edinwood recalls Peter Mc Goff found dead near his wife’s grave after poisoning amid his wife’s illness. Redfield SD endures a major blaze. attorney Thomas Drake is badly burned saving a bag of gold worth 140. A De Quoin Ill freight wreck follows a collapsed track trapping cars in a ten foot drop. brake man injured.
Gov White issues proclamation for a May 14 special election to choose members of the constitutional convention meeting that day. Jay F Durham, a prominent Washington writer, returns to Washington with a new wife Miss Daisy Irwin of Mobile Alabama. The Newport Kentucky wedding is noted as romantic and Miss Irwin was a society belle.
The report covers various legal and criminal items including John Jackson's death action liabilities estimated at 600000 and a family in need, a Missouri elevator firm overdrawn but now balanced, Bill Ryan’s commuted 7.5 year term for Glendale train robbery, Dr J K R Gyles’s self-inflicted death after melancholia, a Prescott burglary pursuit ending in two shots fired and one fatality, coroner deeming officers' actions justifiable, West Virginia and Weston murder case with Dowell alias Shelley, a Union Pacific versus Northern Pacific rate clash in the Northwest, a New York libel suit involving ex governor Crosby and Russell Harrison, Helena figure Sulgrove under fire over alleged defamatory print, and a Marshalltown Bohemian cats note case in Merrill vs Parker.
Advices from Hayti via the Delta describe March 20 clashes between St Mary and Gonaives and a major earthquake a Port de Paix injuring several residents but causing no deaths. Reports also say 700 Danmark passengers and crew remain missing, with hopes they were picked up en route to the Azores though no vessel news confirms this.
The article notes corporations forming the sugar trust transferring property to individuals to evade prosecution. It covers a St Paul council demand on Tom Lowry to run street cars or surrender reputation, a Geneva Q dynamite case verdict of guilty with Broderick jailed for one year and Godding fined $500, plus a new trial motion. It reports Standard Oil’s Ohio investments totaling $7 million and strategic shift from Pennsylvania. It ends with a dramatic rescue near death as Mrs. Brewer saves her husband after bread became lodged and water nearly drowned him.
Winnipeg dispatch reports Gabriel Dumont, once Louis Riel’s lieutenant, holding meetings in the Saskatchewan district. Anger grows over unfulfilled railway promises, with Prairie communities ready to arm if Ottawa does not fund Northwest railways this session. Critics warn against renewed rebellion while urging swift government action.
Tremendous street car strike paralyses St Paul and Minneapolis with over a thousand drivers out. Workers protest wage cuts to fifteen cents an hour and demand loyalty to unions as Miss Mia McCurdy appeals to a driver on a Minneapolis car. In St Paul, unions pledge solidarity and push arbitration while firms offer to submit grievances to arbitration to avoid public disruption.
Reports from the City of Chester describe the Danmark wreck as afloat with decks and sails in pieces. No sign of life was found aboard, and it is believed passengers and crew have been transferred to a passing steamer and will soon be heard from.
Wheat No 2 red 87 notations, corn 42 43c, oats 34c, butter 12 20c, eggs 10 11c, lard 7.25, pork 11.90, flour steady. Chicago quotes show spring wheat 75 80c, corn 34%c, oats 25c, rye 4c, flax 1.53, hay prices 3 to 7.5, eggs 9 10c. Minneapolis forward bids and futures list prices for wheat, oats, flour, bran, and flax with multiple delivery months and regional variations.
The French senate opened the Boulangist trial with the decree naming the senate as a tribunal. A vote 210 to 55 backed immediate proceedings while right members protested and abstained, and Marshal Conrobert opposed prosecution on unfounded grounds as spectators remained apathetic.
Ellison Hatfield, jailed in Kentucky, confesses to participating in the murder of Tolbert Farley and Randolph McCoy, detailing killings at the Tug River and Logan County school site. He describes Anse Hatfield and others firing on the McCoy brothers and later vows to unmask names. Also notes Hatfield faction members crossing into Kentucky in 1888 and a Dakota land office appointment for James E. McDowell.
Prairie fire in Jackson county on the 2d inst is said to exceed 100000 dollars. Absolom Parker, killed by Frank Martin at Spokane Falls, was from Sauk Center. Route agent John Weddersdorf named for Omaha road between St Paul and Council Bluffs. Burglaries hit Northfield hardware store and Sauk Center. Drakes granite quarry eyeing Sauk Rapids polishing shops with 200 to 300 workers. Lake Benittin fire harms Henry Koweth Sr. and stock. Distress at Fergus Falls poison case. James Seeley killed at Hastings. brethren brigade handles remains. Murray county seat war brews Currie vs Slayton. petition drive underway. Family wreck at Ravine road near Cannon City. Kingsley injured. Various farming tips and rural notices populate the rest.
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