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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1900
Page
1
Bids will be received until 9 a m August 7 1900 at the county auditor's office in Brainerd Minnesota Crow Wing County for a stone crusher with ten ton per hour capacity mounted on ten inch wide trucks and a five ton roller. Bids to be accepted or rejected by the county commissioners and a committee from the city council.
A local advertisement lists plows, cultivators, and potato slitters at Hessell's corner 4th and Front. It also promotes Odontander for dental work by Dr. Ribbel, stove pipe enamel by Losey and Dean, and bicycles and carriages from D. M. Clark & Co. plus Featherstone wheels at Hoffman’s.
Brainerd gears up for a four day racing week starting September 10 at Swartz Driving Park. M. K. Swartz has posted 4000 in purses and expects over 100 horses from the state fair region and surrounding counties. Races run Tuesday through Friday with harness and running events daily and special purses to attract crowds and visitors from Northern Pacific and B N M routes.
Paris August 3 a man dressed as a laborer leaped to the shah of Persia’s royal carriage and fired a revolver but was disarmed by the grand vizier and police. The suspect, claiming conscience, refused to name his nationality and appeared Italian, about 30 years old with chestnut hair and a mustache. The shah, grand vizier, and General Paret escaped unharmed as police restrained the would be killer.
The Northwestern Cycle Meet Association will stage a series of races at Swartz Driving Park on Sunday August 5. The fastest riders of the Northwest are to participate and local riders may enter by paying the usual entrance fee.
A meeting of laboring men will be held at Labor Assembly Hall in the Farrar building on 6th street Saturday evening August 4 to make arrangements for proper observance of Labor Day by order of Committee.
Deering ideal mowers hay rakes and binders available at Hes sel's corner 4th and Front.
Change of water often brings on summer complaint. Dr Humphreys Specifics will cure it at 25 cents each. Manual free. Humprheys Company New York.
George William Hugh four teen months old son of Mrs G S McPherson died Thursday morning August 2 from cerebral meningitis. Funeral at residence tomorrow at noon. Mrs McPherson will transport the body to Toronto to rest beside her husband the late Dr McPherson. Community expresses sympathy for the family.
Mrs Mary E Bean died at her home in Garrison 18 miles from the city on Friday July 31 following stomach and liver trouble. Funeral services were held at the home. Oliver W Wicklund four months old son of Mr and Mrs Peter Wicklund died Friday July 27 of cholera infantum. Funeral at East Brainerd residence Sunday July 29 with Rev Gallagher officiating.
Ensign and Mrs Stedman take charge in Brainerd to assist the needy, visit the sick, conduct funeral services, and support God's Kingdom. Salvation meetings are held on 5th Street each night at 8 p.m. with free seating.
Rome reports the regicide Bresci remains agitated and was dressed forcibly. He told a warden the czar’s turn would come next. Bresci moved from Monza to Milan as police link him to a wider conspiracy with multiple arrests. His brother, a shoemaker, another relative Marozza and several anarchists were arrested at Prato. Natale Possansini, seized at Ancona, admits traveling with Bresci from Milan to Monza.
The United States government has not initiated arrest steps for individuals connected with King Humbert’s assassination at the formal request of Italy. The Italian ambassador communicated unofficially, and the U.S. government proceeded as a matter of international comity.
In Monza on August 3 King Victor Emmanuel III met Queen Margherita at the castle. She wept as he knelt before his father's body, kissed and embraced it, then, with his wife and mother, prayed for an hour in the death chamber.
A London dispatch to The Tribune reports South Africa nearing an end with Hunter claiming 4000 prisoners near Bethlehem and Olivier breaking toward Harrismith with 1000 men. Free State forces number two columns of 1000 each, while British troops close in. Both sides suffer hunger cold and privation as transport fails.
In Sparta Wisconsin a half dozen masked men attempted to rob the Pioneer Limited on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line. They gagged the telegraph operator and muffled the semaphore light while a traveler was assaulted. The delay from a Reeseville wreck caused the attackers to abort the plan as the train arrived at daybreak.
In Lima on August 8 the convent of Ocope, partially ruined by two fires blamed on incendiaries, was completely burned by a third blaze. Islanders attribute the fires to American missionaries inciting the violence. Government troops have been deployed to restore order amid fanatic unrest.
Supreme Court rules Hugo of Duluth the real mayor and upholds the trial court. The court reviews doubtful ballots to determine voter intent and discards some as noncompliant while affirming others. The Duluth officials’ certificate of election for Hugo remains valid.
The Minnesota Supreme Court affirms a lower court ruling in State ex rel Railroad and Warehouse Commission vs United States Express Co. The decision upholds the commission’s power to compel information from a class of companies under its jurisdiction and sustains the lower court’s instruction to furnish the requested data.
Major H. R. Beddoes with 400 men and two guns located an Ashanti war camp three days from Dompoossi and defeated about 3000 to 4000 warriors after heavy losses on both sides. More troops will be needed to finish the campaign. London reports possible disclosures implicating members of the House of Commons in Boer agitation.
A morning blaze in East Brainerd destroyed the homes of Joe St Peter Seth Maugh and W E Brockway on 4th Avenue opposite Lowell School. Losses totaled about $2 000 all covered by insurance. Firefighters lacked sufficient hose and had to fetch more from the East Brainerd hydrant vicinity.
The Northern Pacific plans to move its Gladstone shops to Brainerd after arranging new operations for the St. Paul and Duluth line. The policy favors large shops in smaller towns away from cities to cut transport needs and improve worker focus. Double tracking from the Twin Cities to the head of the lakes may follow traffic growth and Milwaukee alliance effects.
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