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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1901
Page
3
Dispatch from Peking reports the winter palace of Count von Waldersee and staff destroyed by fire. General Schwartzkopf, chief of staff, is believed killed after returning to the blaze. von Waldersee escaped through a window with military papers alone intact. Incendiary suspicion surrounds the incident.
Missionary Killie reports San Ho killings of converts and demands for execution thwarted by Li Hung Chang. A court order and a Li letter spared the prisoners, while French authorities threaten action. Foreign ministers discuss indemnities and the Franco-German expedition looms over possible hostilities. Chinese troops mass near Shan Li frontier as the crisis deepens. Captain Reeves observes for the U S. government.
News from Seoul reports Yi Non Ho the Korean minister of justice was arrested April 1 for conspiring against the empress. He was condemned to death April 5. The Korean assistant minister received 15 years hard labor. Other implicated ministers were acquitted. Many thousands unemployed in Odessa and Kharkoff due to stagnation.
The Mall and Express reports strong authority that prominent Pennsylvania figures have purchased over 200,000 shares of Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe stock, largely preferred, signaling plans to place directors and safeguard transcontinental traffic interests as rivalry shifts with Burlington and Quincy and potential Northern Pacific control.
The Committee of Fifteen conducted several raids on alleged pool rooms in New York led by Justice Jerome warrants. Detectives under Superintendent John McCullagh assisted by committee members and local police arrested suspects in most raids, with one location not arresting anyone due to a police tip to inmates remarked by C. C. Brewster.
A special agent from Wausau has orders to investigate Wisconsin river islands near Portage to determine state or federal ownership. Timber cutting sparked the probe, amid half a century of correspondence with Washington authorities.
The United States treasury records show gold holdings surpassing 600 million dollars for the first time. The report notes 500,278,506 dollars total with 262,078,960 against certificates, 150,000,000 as reserve notes, and remaining free assets, a record with Russia and France among peers.
A dispatch from Indianapolis reports Secretary Root issued the discharge of Colonel Russell Harrison after a White House conference with the president. The discharge took effect December 1 due to inadvertence, with Corbin acting in his official capacity. Harrison was released as the Porto Rico transfer reduced the volunteer force and no other assignment was available.
Surgeon General Sternberg approves the special medical board report on the etiology of yellow fever. The study declares the mosquito transmits the disease and calls for a radical shift in treatment and prevention methods by the army medical department.
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