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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1896
Page
2
A mosaic of short items notes language instruction in Harvard courses, Weyler’s military actions, San Francisco sumptuary laws for conductors, and an Egyptian royal marriage proposal unearthed in Britain. It catalogs libraries, Irish wedding customs, German compound terms, Danube improvements, new English sleeping cars, rainmaking schemes, a Kentucky revival led by Mrs. Munn, asbestos, and Tesla’s underground communication chatter.
Increasing numbers of Germans Italians and Swiss cross into France border provinces competing with French workers for jobs. The migration trend adds strain to the stationary population as natives face reduced employment opportunities at the frontier.
England has finally agreed to implement the road at sea rules drafted by the maritime congress years ago. Her assent, given previously, shows a fluctuating stance described as fickle like a child in following the matter through.
The Turkish government effectively says missionaries in Armenia will not be expelled as long as they behave. Yet Ankara views Christian teaching as flagrant misbehavior, leaving missionaries feeling insecure despite the assurance.
The claim that prosperity is increasing and unrest is dying out in Ireland challenges prior beliefs about a Tory government. Ireland and the wider world will be no less grateful for this development.
African advices report Matabele forces defeating a British unit under Captain Brand. The Africans reportedly neutralized the Maxim gun with precise rifle fire, illustrating effective combat tactics for other nations to study.
A German professor, cited in the Electrical World, warns that planting poplar trees near buildings to act as lightning rods may increase danger. He says lightning can jump from trees to the house, especially when trees are within 6.5 feet of the structure.
Dr A C Amundson of Cambridge Wisconsin has been offered the government physician post at Teller Deer Station near the Bering Strait Alaska. The new colony aims to import and domesticate reindeer from Russia. the nearest doctor is 800 miles away. He will not accept.
A weekly digest compiling notable domestic and international events from telegraph reports. Highlights significant developments across politics, economics, society, and culture with emphasis on events shaping public interest and policy.
The Nation's Capital notes President Cleveland has accepted an invitation to address the 160th founding anniversary of Princeton college. A Chicago seed firm accuses Secretary Morton of preferred charges over contract awards. Iowa parties sue Morton for libel in the same matter. United States Consul Hammond reports on Hungary’s millennial exhibit in Budapest.
M Tricoupis former premier of Greece dies at sixty four. Miss Eva Booth daughter of Gen Booth becomes commander of the Salvation Army in Canada and Newfoundland. Louis Benziger founder of Ben ziger Brothers Catholic publishing dies of pneumonia on Staten Island aged over sixty.
A Detroit fire destroyed the Michigan Beef and Provision Co plant with losses estimated at 85 000 to 90 000 dollars. Sag inaw’s Central school building, built in 1866 for 90 000 dollars, burned down. two grandchildren of Nelson Bishop died in their bed, while their grandfather escaped severely burned. An explosion at a Willington Eny colliery killed several miners. eighteen feared dead. A Sedalia Missouri Pacific bridge collision wounded four tramps and damaged a bridge span. The Alaska steamer Willapa reports a tunnel explosion near Treadwell and Mexican mines. four men severely mutilated died. An American Glucose plant converter explosion in Peoria killed John Hoey and Burns. John Wilson, Matt Connolly, and John Dooley injured.
Reports detail a penn bank wrecker captured in New York who broke jail in Iowa, a Tacoma man tied to a $600000 St Paul heist, and a string of murders suicides and sensational crimes from Danville Alabama to Brooklyn New York. Also noted are indictments in Atlanta and assaults in Kentucky Missouri and Oregon.
Sealed orders signal a significant warship sailing amid tensions. Prince Sagan contrasts with M Hermant over a critique of a play. France readies increased supplies and arms for posts in South Algeria Tunis Senegal Timbuktu due to Sudan events. Honors trigger across Europe and debates rise over a new land bill and newspaper shipping rules to Britain.
Judge Joseph H. Blair of Omaha takes on the Union Pacific receivership in Idaho. A shower of red yellow clay and near black mud occurred in Lander Wyoming. Governor Drake calls an Idaho 1897 January extra session. Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association trains reach Los Angeles. The Cincinnati cooks and waiters convention debates a full constitutional change. Aseptolin cure shows promise in Western Pennsylvania penitentiary. D. J. Flynn dies in Denver at 33. Albany Bishop Gaines bans ministers who drink smoke or chew. W Linton declines candidacy for president. Oregon Short Line bond stock vote supports reorganization. Jr O U A M pushes immigration bills in D C. Pennsylvania district convention nominates Charles W Stone. W B Wheeler & Co suspends on NYSE. Philadelphia Kennel Club dog show opens big names on show. Cincinnati cooks and waiters convention adjourns to Detroit Sept 28. Max Meadows workers riot for higher pay. one killed, another wounded. Steel mill secret meeting in Cleveland seeks pooling. no agreement. Clara Heppenstall wakes in her Freehold N J coffin and regains consciousness.
Modern Society highlights a Burmese and Indian curio collection at Clandeboye with bronze guns gilded standards and crowing cocks, plus elegant items like Princess Louise painted fan on the staircase and Lady Dufferin’s colorfully decorated boudoir. It notes portraits of the Sheridans and a silver wedding portrait of the marchioness at Simla.
Various brief items report on Elsie the bark burning near Salt Lake Anticosti. Prof Quidde’s three month sentence for lese majeste. Sir Charles Tepper to enter Roman Catholicism before next campaign. Cecil Rhodes improving and planning march to Bulawayo. noble weddings in Vienna and London. Olympic prize olives to be used and silver wreaths dropped. a Greek crown prince funeral in Athens. a London embassy official’s marriage. a collision near Wilhelmshaven with torpedo boats, one sinking and five dead. Venezuelan warship Rivas sailing from Guayara toward the coast under Gen Paredas.
A dime museum manager questions a visitor about a display in the dining room. The Zulu Chieftain explains the glass eater injured his tongue while the cook allegedly handed him a cracked trembler, sparking the odd anecdote from Cincinnati.
In a witty exchange Miss Frostique scoffs at marrying on leap year fearing rumors about her proposing. Miss Caustique counters that gossip would still arise regardless, noting the public chatter about engagements.
Opelousas Louisiana April 22 five hundred men of both parties massed to seize the court house as a poll looms large. Regulators armed with Winchesters surround the town while anti regu lars guard the square. District Judge Perrault and local officials urge calm as shots ring out and rumors of fatalities circulate. Militia fears mount as white voters and black registrants confront a tense election stand off.
Washington reports Madrid to implement a comprehensive autonomy plan for Cuba. The law, signed March 15 1895, creates provincial deputies and a council of administration while the governor general remains Spain’s supreme representative on the island.
Havana reports from Gen Fortin operations in the province show 82 insurgents killed and 175 wounded. Lecrete’s band is demoralized with claims of intoxication and disillusion among twenty American volunteers, five killed and the rest disgusted as they fight no war, live in swamps, and lack leaders and supplies.
The first fatal accident on the Queen City Jockey Club course occurred in the third race at Newport. Jockey Joe Foster of Ireland's Bros. stable rode Tin Horn which hit the fence at the first turn. Foster, about twenty, from Nashville, died later at the hospital after being carried off the track.
Highland township farmer Joseph Gettel, about sixty, one-armed and carrying a substantial sum of money, left his home on Sunday April 12 for Forman on foot and has not been seen since. Foul play is feared by friends.
Navigation on Lake Champlain commenced with the Chateau Y crossing from Burlington to Plattsmouth, marking the start of the season for the steamer service.
In East Grand Forks, three weeks ago Miss Bounda Peterson, long employed as a domestic by C. Madson, vanished from her home. She reportedly carried about $100, and foul play is suspected as investigators search for clues or a motive.
Confident of acquittal reported as Charles and Annie Lam and Thomas Daven face trial for the brutal killing of John T. Lam born February 17 at Fall Leaf. Detective Charieser of Kansas City helped build the case but the county attorney has not completed action.
A thirteen year old boy loses a foot to a rail train in St Paul. Winona settlers plan a June 13 reunion. Fairmont murder case jurors disagree. Park Rapids man dies after being struck by a falling tree. Mankato presbytery closes session at Tracy. State Auditor Dunn urges assessors to find taxable property. Anoka Hastings contest heads to supreme court. West Point candidate exams held in Winona. Cannon Valley G A R encampment at Northfield. Seeding underway across Minnesota. Red Wing jail for Ole Olson after grain theft. Highway robbery targets Dr McMahon in Duluth. Red Lake Falls principal reelected. Tramp stabbed in Maiden. captured and jailed. Fillmore county poor farm burns. insured loss 3000. Alden thieves steal three suits. Duck hunter seriously injured at Mud Lake. Seymour buys Winona GE property and city railway. Duluth flooded. families flee lowlands. Lake Crystal votes license increase. saloons close. St Cloud cigar maker charged with attempted rape. Fire destroys large Merritt building. Wet road wrecks near Winona injure two engines. Montevideo bartender ends life. Pine county moves to relocate as sent from Pine City. Echo reports sowing and forecasts big grain crop. Red Lake Falls flour mill sold for 500 barrels capacity. Northern Pacific freight wreck near Sawyer damages fifteen wheat cars. Winona resident Jacob Mowery dies by self-inflicted gunshot. Le Sueur river finds unknown man identified as engineer for St Paul Barrel Co.
A secret A P A national meeting in Cincinnati reveals a political campaign against McKinley. Supreme officers including W H Traynor C G Beatty M L Ryan and T L Thompson discuss statements defending the order while denying religious motive and noting Linton as their chosen candidate before St Louis.
Charles Husche of Chicago, a maker of picture frames and moldings, was assigned today in a business arrangement.
In Deadwood South Dakota Kitty Deland an employee of the Green Front dance hall swallowed 45 grains of morphine after a quarrel and despondency. She grew violently ill and is dying, with reports that the dose could have killed several people.
Steamers full of German troops pass Zanzibar daily en route to Tanga in German East Africa, with reports warning of potential trouble from insurgent Chief Nbarukaziz.
Charles C Bovey and John Crosby, representing the National Millers Association, warn American flour exports face discriminatory 18 cent per ton landing charges at London docks while French flour and American wheat escape. They urge U S retaliation after meeting a Ways and Means subcommittee in Washington.
Lancaster youth Harry Gainer age 19 employed by a livery firm under mail contract was arrested for robbing the mails. He confessed his guilt.
Oklahoma City reports Chandler, county seat of Lincoln County, suffered great fire damage destroying the post office and nearly all the business district. Loss amount not yet known.
The article explains that skin beauty comes from facial nerves and surface vessels, nourished by pure air. It warns that stagnant air dulls nerves, relaxes facial muscles, and causes wrinkles, urging exposure to sunshine and air even if it means sacrificing carpets and furniture.
The text lists locomotive totals by continent and major countries. Europe leads with 63 000 engines, including Britain and Ireland at 17 000 and Germany at 15 000. America has 40 000, Asia 3 300, Australia 2 000, Africa 700, while Austro-Hungary holds about 5 000 engines.
A photographer’s mother questions charging double for baby portraits while the streetcar company grants free rides to children. The remark appears in a humorous column in the Indianapolis Journal reflecting on pricing and public concessions.
In a Washington Star quip a wife asks about birds chattering at the window. Her husband, an organist, sanctifies the scene noting the feathered choir is having a misunderstanding, signaling a lighthearted domestic joke.
The woman's department at the Minnesota State Fair will occupy an entire large building this year, doubling space from last year to showcase needlework paintings jellies and textiles. The arts and food departments join in the same area as organizers expect greater participation and clearer display of entrants work.
Three St Paul pioneers died recently including W F Dieter born 1828 in Saxony who opened a Bridge Square shoe store in 1854. Marshall Sherman born 1822 in Vermont who served in the First Minnesota infantry and lost a leg. Adam H Lohlker long operated a house furnishing business at 221 East Seventh Street for 15 to 20 years.
Leo Heilpern, local manager of the Franklin Benefit Association of Duluth, killed himself in his East Third street room in a business block. He had been said to be short in accounts. In 1891 he faced embezzlement charges of $4 000 at the Columbia mill in Minneapolis, was convicted after a lengthy court fight, and sent to Stillwater. He was released conditionally some time ago.
In Minneapolis on April 21 the gathering of insurance adjusters to review the Terminal elevator fire loss was postponed for one week. The burned wheat and timbers still smolder, seven weeks after the blaze, with much of the recovered wheat deemed worthless and sent to the dump at the stock yards.
Royston Minnesota April 21 report says C B Buckman’s driver crew on Hillman Brook walked out for higher wages. They earned 1.50 dollars and demand 2. Buckman telegraphed Minneapolis for help as water is high and quitting comes at a bad time. The strike harms lumbermen and is widely condemned here.
Minnesota veterans gather in Winona on June 2 for the Thirty first annual reunion of the First Minnesota Regiment Volunteers Infantry association. The meeting will discuss forming an umbrella association for surviving veterans of all Minnesota units who served in the war.
St Paul April 21 Assignee W B Jordan of the P H Kelly Mercantile company asked Judge Egan for a order to continue the business under his personal supervision and to contract debts The court granted the order in special term of the district court.
Appleton Minnesota reports Galen Grout Jr. was arrested yesterday on a robbery charge against J. A. K. Peters hardware store. He attempted to dispose of revolvers and confessed when confronted with the facts.
Havana April 21 report of a clash between Spanish forces and insurgent bands moving west to relieve Maceo ends in a severe Cuban reverse, reflecting the ongoing higher casualties in the fighting.
Pittsburg April 21 Andrew Carnegie has authorized the Carnegie art gallery trustees to offer 8000 dollars for the best two oil paintings by American artists.
Portland special reports a clash between the Junior Order of American Mechanics and the A P A over McKinley. H L Wenner forwarded a letter from McKinley denying any honorary membership in the Young Men’s Institute and stating he does not know the organization.
A major blaze in Parkersburg Iowa last night wiped out the downtown business area. The estimated loss is $20 000 with $6 500 insured. Five two story frame buildings were totally destroyed along with their contents. the post office contents were saved.
In Platteburg New York special report a work party of seven men overturned their boat while attempting to start a log jam between Keene village and Beetles. Henry Poole and Edward Nichols drowned and Walter Hurlburt was badly injured.
Fire yesterday destroyed the Forest Canning company's works located at Kingston Nova Scotia. No further details were provided on the cause or extent of the damage.
Judge Moer of Duluth formally informs Governor Clough that Joseph Soular aged seventeen and William Verrill age eighteen were found guilty of first degree murder for killing Samuel DeMars near Biwabik on the Gogebic Range. Each received separate trials with no clemency recommended. Soular described as morally degenerate yet capable of choosing right from wrong, Verrill deemed mentally competent. The governor now must set the execution date for the youths.
In Minneapolis on April 22 Mary Laird aged ? arreste? for vagrancy released this morning and Myrtle Smith four years old also charged with vagrancy was handed to her grandmother. The arrests by Officer Conroy drew public indignation as the station register listed the girl as held and questions arose about the intended court action. The two were taken from Hamilton’s saloon at 214 Washington Avenue South.
Anoka Minnesota April 22 103 year old Michael Gilligan the oldest man in Anoka county and possibly Minnesota died suddenly. His wife of 78 years 1011-2 remains with seven sons and two daughters from Manor Hamilton Ireland born. The couple lived together happily in their home and both retained faculties. Gilligan told stories of four score years.
Postmistress Mrs Una Cass and her assistant Mrs Minnie Huffman, in charge at the Oregon Arkansas post office, were arrested on charges of rifling registered and ordinary mail. They confessed, and a portion of stolen property and money has been returned. The scheme allegedly involved robbing merchants in St Louis and other cities and pocketing cash sent through the mails.
B. Church, longtime Imperial mill manager and former Duluth board of trade president, was seriously injured after his bicycle leftTwelfth avenue east, hit a fence and toppled onto the Duluth & Iron Range tracks. He was found unconscious and taken home. doctors fear internal injuries though no leg fracture is confirmed.
The new Northern Pacific warehouse on Rice's Point in Duluth was totally burned today during construction. Loss about ten thousand dollars for the building and fifteen thousand for the dock. Laborer John A. Jefferey was fatally injured and a fireman badly hurt as docks continued burning.
Minneapolis April 22 John D Buxton cashier of the post office was arrested on a warrant by Inspector James D Wood charging him with embezzling 1151 77 from the department on March 31 1896.
Edward Evans of Shanghai on the Gaelic reports Li Hung Chang owns a casket carried for burial at his death. He travels to Moscow to attend the czar’s coronation and is described as the eminent viceroy.
The greater part of the business portion of Woodruff, D C, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. Local officials say it began in a storage area and spread rapidly consuming shops and offices. Firefighters battled flames for hours but the blaze caused extensive damage and displacements.
Vancouver officials received a Toronto letter proposing to send healthy moral women from Eastern Canada to British Columbia and Northwest Territories to balance a local female shortage. The plan envisions establishing a Vancouver home to receive and distribute the women to areas of greatest demand.
Lexington Kentucky police report a banker Paul M. Goetz found hanging at home. He was cut down by Officer Baker and remained alive but not expected to recover. A letter to four secret societies claimed his wife urged him to kill himself as she no longer cared.
Hot Springs South Dakota special report says C E Bennett a young druggist and recent groom was foreclosed last night by Deputy Sheriff Eastman to satisfy a mortgage held by the Bank of Hot Springs. Bennett had run his shop about a year and was well regarded in local society.
A Columbus special telegraph reports a resolution nearly endorsing McKinley, naming him as the clear choice for Major in an endorsement move. The compact note signals strong support within local circles for the Republican candidate.
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