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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1895
Page
3
A Brainerd Dispatch digest notes Spain’s bold stance amid Cuban troubles and U S friendliness, cites British imperial lessons from India to Africa, and covers varied odds and ends from a Belgian inventor to Chinese dog farming and a Vienna executioner’s vacancy, with regional curiosities and colonial debates.
In Ledyard Connecticut locals recount a house built before 1710 said to bear a curse. The belief cites a string of deaths in the present century, many violent or particularly sad, as proof of the haunted claim.
Edison envisions an invention showing a life size speaking image on a screen while the phonograph provides words or both music and movements for grand opera. The future of music may surpass Wagner. The Shiloh veterans reunion recalls a Civil War battle testing northern and southern soldiers. The clash highlighted remarkable courage and resolve on both sides.
The town curfew ordinance for after percent o clock nights earns general commendation. It argues that roaming youths become criminals and that parents must enforce limits or society may impose compulsory measures.
The Weather Bureau records 784 storm and lightning deaths since 1801, averaging 196 annually. In the past eight years insurance data show 3,516 lightning fires causing over $12 million in losses. Most damage hit farm land and rural areas, with 34 percent of struck trees oak, 22 percent elm, and 15 percent pine.
A proposed American railway aims to run within 110 miles of Havana with a terminus at Key West. The route would connect by island trestles and bridges, bringing trains to Key West within two to three years. The note hints at the era's grand transport schemes and vast military tech claims.
A condensed weekly digest compiling major events from around the world. Highlights include political developments, economic trends, and notable cultural happenings affecting multiple regions. Read for a rapid overview of international affairs and key incidents from diverse countries.
From the Nation's Capital the report notes widespread counterfeit two cent postage stamps in use. Agriculture reports winter wheat condition at 14.0 against 86.7 last April. Cleveland denounces a Massachusetts minister over intemperance claims. Carson mint melter Ernest Harris and assistant melter John T. Jones suspended amid a mint shortage of 5800000. The Northern National bank of Big Rapids, Michigan, receives a 5 percent creditor dividend. Oklahoma judges Springer and Kilgore cannot be paid until confirmed.
Ex‑controller of currency Charles Mansur ill in Washington. Minister L A Thurston sails to Honolulu. Nebraska pioneer John Wallace dies in Tekamah. Pioneer Jane Visseber dies at Holland Michigan. Mrs David Joyce of Lyons Iowa dies leaving son William. Mrs Miles near death after heart failure in New York theater. Curzon to attend wedding with Leiter. Lamington to be best man. Alger arrives from Orient. William Henderson of Anchor Line dies in Chicago. Wood plans Montpelier VT art gallery. Edison swamped with autograph requests. J J Reed sermon audience distracted by newspaper reader. Twain autographs noted. Lew Wallace adds “written by request.” Spaniards lose 490 men in Cuban clash. China Japan peace talks near end. Gully elected UK speaker. Li Hung Chane wounds healing. British troops advance on India fronts. De Lesseps ships Colombian exiles to Colon. Venezuela thanks US over British-Venezuelan dispute. Wilde works in British Museum holdings restricted. Kotar mines explosion kills sixteen in Bangalore. Armistice nears between Japan and China. Peel honored by unanimous Commons address. British relief brigade faces Swatis at Malakand pass. 30 killed. Pheasant to patrol Bering Sea. fishing season opens May 1. Turkish embassy: no massacre feared in Syria. order qpreserved.
A string of fires and ship sinkings reported nationwide. Sutter's general store at Lake Linden Michigan sustained $17 000 in damage. Despondent farmer Robert Boyer killed himself in Abingdon Illinois. Tonnes of other losses include houses burned at Lively Grove Tennessee and Hudson Illinois, river steamer sinks on the Cumberland, Columbia Pennsylvania mill destroyed, cattle dead along Wyoming tracks, a church fire in Washington DC, a boiler accident at Peoria Illinois, a fatal farm blaze near Goshen Indiana, a sinking schooner near Gay Head Lighthouse, and Rocky Ford English colony destroyed by wind.
A broad roundup reports eight more officers indicted in New York, plus a string of violent deaths and legal actions: Mansford Bailey in Omaha, Philip Gaffron in Denver, John Stevens in Noble County Ohio, a double murder at a Houston dive, jealousy driven stabbings in Natchez and other fatal assaults. Also noted are suicides, lynching fears, political shifts, labor unrest, political corruption probes, and legal rulings from New York to Montana and Alaska.
Archibald Snyder was shot by Buckshot and Warner was arrested while Snyder’s recovery is doubtful. Annie Schiltz and Marie Launenberg dueled in New York City over Pat Dwyer’s affections. fight ended in a draw with police interference. George Sharpe, a black man, shot Fred Crowe, a white man, at Illinois Glass Works in Alton. Crowe alleged insult to his sweetheart. William Conners, leader of a band of robbers who looted a rambling house for 615, was captured in Denver. two other gang members were seized at Aspen Junction.
The judiciary committee sent majority and minority impeachment reports on Judge Frank Ives to the House desks for a vote, the House read and debated the reports, and both chambers moved through calendar and committee actions on immunity, constitutional questions, and public notices.
In St Paul on April 16 a proposed primary election repeal law was postponed indefinitely and killed by a large majority. Senator Knatvold chaired the afternoon committee session while the insurance bill progressed, with amendments adopted including a Salvage corps tax and changes to standard policy forms. The salary section was altered to adjust the commissioner’s pay.
The Minnesota like legislature, at midnight, adopted a resolution by 17 to 17 to discontinue impeachment proceedings against Judge Frank Ives of the Fourteenth judicial district. J. D. Jones and other speakers urged different votes as the house passed several bills and a large omnibus appropriation.
In St Paul on April 18 the senate spent much time in roll calls as the insurance bill drew fights by Senator Greer during both sessions. Several measures advanced with votes ranging from 28 to 11 and 42 to 3, including reforms on liquor tax redistribution, monument removal funding, debarment proceedings, county assessor creation, ballot improvements, and land sales in Kandiyohi.
The legislature approved numerous measures including funding for elementary normal school instruction and state high schools, land laying roads and drainage, and county road powers. Several bills passed with votes across parties. ordinances cover courts, ceme teries, elections, education, and public health. A memorial to Congress on deep waterways was read. bill on election districts tabled. free traveling libraries bill defeated.
In a Minneapolis courthouse scene outside Judge Jamison's chamber a confrontation occurred between Charles Ebert and a juvenile witness from the William J. Kelly versus St Louis Railway case. Ebert grabbed the boy by the throat and struck at him, a deputy sheriff intervened, and Ebert was taken to the sheriff's office before returning upstairs. The boy says he will swear out a warrant for Ebert.
The Tretz building in Gloversville New York collapsed due to defective foundations. Painters Adam and Wellington Veeder from Johnstown were buried in the ruins and two plumbers were badly injured. Nearby houses suffered damage but tenants escaped. Firefighters work to recover the bodies.
Chicago April 18 report by government examiners under Receiver McNulta shows a discrepancy of 510,134 dollars attributed to losses from the old management in stock jobbing operations. The second report also discloses other important findings related to the whisky trust accounts.
Officials of the Japanese legation in Washington dismiss the London Standard claim that field marshal Count Yamagata is actually Archduke Johann of Austria who vanished years ago. Counselor Stevens confirms Yamagata is a Japanese native from the Chosun element and has spent his life in Japan.
Secretary Smith ruled against the Northern Pacific railroad claim to lands in Idaho that were withdrawn for the Coeur d Alene Indian reservation and later ceded back to the United States. Congress confirmed the ceded status, denying revival of original rights.
Grand Forks North Dakota April 18 Adjutant General Topping resigns. Leading applicants for his post are Major Fleming Fargo Captain Hughes Lisbon and Colonel Miller Jamestown.
Springfield special report. Representative Jones of Green proposes a joint resolution to submit to voters the question of giving Cook County a separate government from the rest of Illinois, effectively severing Chicago from the state.
Delegates of the Knights of Pythias Northern Wisconsin regiment held a convention in Ashland last evening in Castlehall. A postconvention banquet for the delegates followed at the Knight hotel hosted by local knights.
The Sea man and Smith company, a long established boot and shoe firm in Ohio, made an assignment today in Cleveland.
Perry Oklahoma special agent Carl Shaw Blaine county treasurer is jailed on charges of embezzling seven thousand dollars from the county funds.
London dispatch reports from Simla that Umra Khan is believed to be negotiating surrender terms with British authorities. The element of peace talks highlights a possible end to active hostilities and a shift in control dynamics in the region.
In San Francisco the Emanuel Baptist Church on Bartlett Street becomes the scene of two brutal murders. Miss Blanche Lamont was found nude in the tower and Miss Minnie Williams in the library, both 21, with detective work pointing to W H T Durant as the suspect who is in custody.
Theodore Durant endures hours of interrogation with cold-blooded calm, while inquest details reveal a mutilated Miss Williams and Durant's alleged advances to Marian and Minnie. Testimony places Durant at Emanuel Church and at a secluded Fruitvale spot. The inquest resumes tomorrow.
Milwaukee April 18 new rates from Wisconsin Telephone Co. go into effect. Green Bay old 1 for five minutes. new 70 cents for three minutes and 25 cents per extra minute. Madison Oshkosh old 75 cents for five. new 50 cents for three minutes and 15 cents per extra minute. Other rates in proportion. Chicago rate unchanged.
The thirty seventh annual meeting of Minnesota’s Sunday school association opened in Faribault on April 18. About 300 delegates are expected. R A Mott of Faribault gave the welcome address and Pleasant Hunter of Minneapolis gave the opening address. The convention will run for two more days.
Grat ton Wilson, one of the desperadoes who robbed and tortured the old Childs couple at Peters' Mill, Pas, last March, was captured in Friendship New York today. The Maybee brothers, who escaped with him from jail last Saturday evening, are believed to be in the woods and efforts will be made to capture them.
Charles R. Mansar assistant controller of the treasury department and former Missouri congressman died at 7 this morning at the National hotel after a week of expected illness.
A severe storm swept Eastern Colorado Kansas Oklahoma and the Southwest with extraordinary darkness and lightning. Destructive winds damaged crops and homes. A tornado or cyclone destroyed Frank Good's house near Cherokee Kane injuring him fatally and badly burning his wife while several nearby farmhouses were leveled.
The weather bureau reviews the week ending April 15 and notes heavy rains in New England causing serious damage and delayed farm work in the southern portion of the region. It adds that rain is badly needed in North Dakota and Northern Minnesota, while North Carolina's work was held up by the prior week’s downpours.
Washington April 1 The state department published diplomatic correspondence for the past year showing the United States failed to obtain Chilean claims submission to another commission after the last commission ended without ruling on all cases.
The Chinese and Japanese peace commissioners meet with Viceroy Li Hung Chang submitting Ching's reply to Japan's propositions. An agreement on the subject is reached and the conference will not reconvene until the treaty ratifications are exchanged.
Jefferson City reports that unless Gov. Stone acts seven men face execution on Saturday. The condemned are Jacob Heinz Henry Kaiser James Murray and W Af Taylor of St. Louis John Burries alias Joseph Dusty of St. Joseph Edward Murray of Gasconade County and Jaimes Crisp of Webster County.
Dannie Nugent a pickpocket and Minnie May a Chicago shoplifter on a wedding tour were arrested in Dayton by Chief Farrell this morning as known thieves. Reports say May stole goods valued at about 150000 dollars.
Alderman T H Wheeler will introduce an ordinance at the Westport council meeting to prohibit bloomers worn on the streets, a move expected to provoke consternation among women riders and bicyclists in Kansas City.
Washington Pennsylvania April 18 Vive mines on the Wheeling division of the Baltimore and Ohio started today at the 60 cent rate. The move practically breaks the strike with no trouble reported. It is expected that all the old men will return to work this week at the reduced rate.
Indian Inspector McLaughlin arrives at Yankton agency to investigate charges against Indian Agent Smith brought by a Yankton delegation that visited Washington last winter.
Oskaloosa Iowa April 18 George fl Clark editor of the Keokuk Gate City brother of Congressman Sam Clark drops dead today from neuralgia of the heart at his home.
In Norwalk today Alfred Blanchard was shot and killed by neighbor Michael Artman after a quarrel over the location of a line fence. The incident occurred in Toledo area mentions but focused in Norwalk.
Dover reports no break in the senatorial deadlock today and no change expected until after the Republican conference tomorrow.
Heywood Williams formerly of Louisville North Carolina shot and killed Grace White a woman described as of bad character in Telluride Colorado during a quarrel and then wounded himself mortally. Grace White is named as the victim and Williams the suspect.
Jackson Mississippi April 18 Brakeman Jobert Biuvie of the Illinois Central was found dead beside the track in the Jackson suburbs this morning. He had been robbed of eight dollars and a fine gold watch.
The Columbian steamer Alliance under Captain Crossman arrived from Colon and reported passing within five miles of the Cuban coast on the homeward voyage. An identical barkentine gunboat that fired on Alliance previously was sighted close to the coast heading westward but did not threaten the ship.
Lake City Minnesota Special W F Holmes president of the Merchants bank here wrecked it by overdrafts was arrested last evening at his attorney H D Stocker office in Minneapolis by Deputy Sheriff Kenpebeck of Wabasha. He was arraigned before Justice Wells on grand larceny and waived examination. He gave 7500 dollars bond for the next district court term.
In Eau Claire Wisconsin special jury returns verdict of five thousand dollars for Mrs Trokey widow of a motorman killed September night 1882 by contact with a broken guy wire on the pavement. Defendant moves for a new trial.
Grace Jen Kings, known as Grace Vaughn, an actress, was adjudged insane in Chicago today by authorities. The case labels her as incapacitated and under guardianship pending further proceedings.
Samuel R. Jordan of New Portland recalls a long battle with locomotor ataxia after Civil War service. He credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring strength, enabling him to walk with crutches then unaided. The ad notes the pills cost 60 cents a box, six for 2.50, available from Dr Williams Medicine Co.
Mr Prompt reports experiments on water freezing in a bulb to study volume change on ice formation. A clear ice layer forms first, then streaked ice with gas bubbles grows until the vessel breaks. Using distilled water and oil protection, he claims freezing with no initial dilation of the original water volume.
The article argues that modern medicines replace old herbs and draughts with the pleasant Syrup of Migs. It urges buyers to seek the true remedy made by the California Pig Syrup Co. and available through leading druggists.
A five year old girl slipped on the ice in Kensington Gardens and was found badly hurt. A friend helped, asking how she fell as the girl whispered Vertically high note.
Day jokes about being on a waiting list at the club while Weeks doubts entry. Day believes eventual admission depends on the club paying off a debt.
The Great Northern Railway distributes a luxury edition titled Great Northern Country photographing territory from the Great Lakes to the Pacific. The illustrated volume targets libraries clubs and hotels with scenic views and descriptive text, aiming to showcase the rail line’s reach and value.
A Hungarian town named Gallnow avoids taxes and even pays a dividend to residents. It relies on revenue from its forests pastures and farms, with the corporation providing free fuel. Forest conservation guards against waste and fuels most income.
An archival snippet endorses Mas WissLow’s Soothing Syrup for teething babies. The ad-like line promotes using the familiar remedy to ease cutting teeth and references an established, trusted solution from the era.
Two centuries ago in July the Bank of England began with a government debt of 5 million. The government now owes the bank 55 million dollars, reflecting a sizable increase over time.
An old time product claim promises Hanson’s Magic Corn Salve will cure with a money refund if not. Warranted to cure or money refunded and patrons are urged to ask their druggist for it at a price of 15 cents.
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