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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1889
Page
6
A Pennsylvania resident, Joan W. Dwicut, holds a North Dakota farm nearly as large as Rhode Island. Ax Omoman, thrice married, had to elope each time due to opposition. Mummies are priced to reach buyers, with Europe offering a 5,000 year old specimen for $85.
The estate of the late Stephen L. Pettus of Brooklyn is valued around 1 million dollars after a Fulton Street shooting by Mrs. Hannah B. Southworth. The forthcoming trial is expected to be sensational.
Miss Caroline Hillegas died in Charleston at age 115. A veteran public school teacher in Charleston for many years, she outlived all her relatives.
A humorous note lists 48 languages spoken in Mexico including Nahuatl Huasteco Mame Totonaco Tarasco Popoloco and Juba and jokes that a political candidate must drink pulque in every language or leave politics.
The great bell at the foot of the Kremlin is the largest bell in the world. Its bottom circumference is about sixty eight feet, height twenty one feet, and its weight is estimated at 443 772 pounds.
Andrew Watson of Crawford County Pennsylvania paid a high price for selling without a liquor license. He received three months in jail and a $500 fine in connection with the case reflected in this brief crime notice.
Amelia B. Edwards argues that Egyptian exploration is practically unlimited with authorities estimating 2 500 years produced about 500 million mummies entombed and countless buried cities and temples still awaiting discovery.
The Sisseton reservation, among the West's richest lands, spans about 1,000,000 acres. Roughly 200,000 acres would secure Indian property in severalty, leaving about 800,000 for settlement by non natives.
A sandbagging incident in New York prompts police to hunt the assailants after a severely injured man reported his sensations to the newspaper. The force had previously denied the practice existed, but public danger is now evident as investigators pursue suspects.
The Pall Mall Gazette reports a girl of four who writes with her left hand and reverses every word. Friends read her script through a looking glass. Taught by a sister, she persists in this unusual technique, producing fluent but reversed text.
Inventor M Evrre unveils a temporary steel bridge for rail lines to replace damaged structures. The 150 foot long unit weighs about 86 tons and carries a full track. It freights into position from either end with no machinery, by hand.
France plans higher taxes on strong liquors as a reform effort, aiming to curb consumption while the ministry pursues reform during favorable public mood after the exhibition. The measure could harm German producers who supply much of the impure liquor consumed by Belgians and the northern French poor.
A Burlington lawyer contends that Iowa marriages may remain valid despite the circuit court abolition because the code assigns license issuance to the clerk of the circuit court. He notes marriage records and related formalities function as social safeguards, and that errors in ceremony or record do not void the marital contract itself.
Mr and Mrs Homer Grieve of Homer Georgia long estranged by a neighbor's remark finally agree to reconcile. After twelve years of silent meals and social gatherings the church brothers advised a remarriage and the couple will wed again.
Bonds totaling 1.6 million dollars were sold to treasury department through national bank depositaries as part of regular bond purchases. A Washington special reports plans to reorganize the Supreme Court within about eighteen months with Justices Miller Field and Bradley signaling retirement. Attorney General Miller is to remain in place for four years. Senator Pettigrew received a letter from Charles Foster about Sioux commission rolls. proclamation by the resident may open the reservation without a congressional ratification, with Congress to ratify altered treaty portions.
A series of accidents and disasters blanketed the Midwest and Pacific coast. A falling slate crushed workers in an Oskaloosa mine injuring several. Chicago fatalities rose from coal gas asphyxiation of Mrs. Knudson and Miss Lee. A Chicago Limited wreck near Frankfort Ind left passengers injured. In Salem Ohio a street car shop collapse mangled three men. A New York dock fire at Pier 39 burned to waters edge with four bodies recovered, many burned. Seattle men hunting on the lower sound are believed drowned after their boat disappeared near Whidby Island. a missing party boat and oars were found.
A widespread roundup reports Silcott a desperado and forger, Polsky and son fatally shoot landlord Robert Kennedy near Stockton, Chinese forces crushed in Formosa, and a murder near Rome New York. Other items note bank coupon theft in Wilmington, a Fort Pierre Herald assault, Holyoke White Caps whipping, and a Milwaukee school board secretary’s suicide amid embezzlement exposure.
Foreign cullings report the execution of Na Con Qui Say and Kah Dos La in Florence Arizona. Other items note an Australian Confederation plan under Canada’s model, confirmation of a Zanzibar massacre, a lethal Somali assault, an English spy’s arrest in Sebastopol, and a Russian passenger arrival in Vancouver aboard the Batavia.
A former Russian newspaper editor known as Brant, exiled eighteen years, escaped Siberia after six years solitary confinement and twelve years parole. He traveled via British ship to Nagasaki, then boarded the Batavia to Vancouver and obtained a ticket to Washington, D. C. He is forty five but aged by years of hardship.
Representative McCord's bill opens 200000 acres of Wisconsin water lands for settlement drawing pine land men into excitement. Globe Oil plant sold to Standard Oil for 4000000. Cherokee council backs lease refusal for Independence firm Outset. Capital Bank loses school district suit. Cherokee talks with US Indian commission about sale of the Cherokee outlet. Northern Pacific settles $11000 in a $20000 claim with Adele Nelson over a Missouri railroad crash. Sisseton Indians council debates scouts' claim and reservation opening, with leaders opposing opening. North Dakota boundary typo to be corrected. seventh parallel error noted. Farmers alliance and Farmers' and Laborers' union plan confederation. Powderly visits alliance. Knights of Labor committee to be formed. amalgamation unlikely this year.
In a district court custody hearing in Marshall Texas a shooting left Alexander Pope mortally wounded and W H Pope painfully wounded. James Turner and W T Keller were among those wounded as the defendant C W Weathersby fired two shots. Keller and Weathersby admitted the shooting after a dispute over a prior fraud claim brought by W H Pope. Alexander Pope is a state senator and James Turner a prominent attorney.
At Parke's opera house in Johnstown Pennsylvania a fire alarm triggered a deadly stampede. Five to six hundred people crowded the stairwell and doorway as they fled, causing deaths and numerous injuries. The building had long been deemed a fire trap.
The markets report a wide array of prices from New York Minneapolis and St Paul. Wheat values show No 2 red and hard plus northern grades with various elevator bids. Rye barley corn oats and eggs and butter prices are listed by region with detailed quotations for each grade and form.
An audience of 5000 indoors and 10000 outside witnessed the dedication of the Chicago Auditorium. The vast structure glowed with electric lights and decorative borders, featuring a grand proscenium arch, a mammoth organ, and ornate foyer with carved mahogany pillars.
A grand opening in Chicago celebrates the $3,000,000 auditorium with Adelina Patti in attendance. President Harrison and a host of dignitaries witness a cone shaped acoustical marvel, a 175 stop organ, and a Gleason cantata as crowds hail the event and look toward the 1892 world’s fair.
Mme Patti and the Apollo club performed in a gala opening at the new Auditorium building. Patti encoreed with Hunter's Chorus after Home Sweet Home, while the Apollo club sang America and The Heavens Are Telling. A dedicatory address by Guy Fifer and a Hallelujah finale closed near midnight. The article details the grand architecture, ornate interior, and technical features of the structure, including a 4051 seat main hall, ornate marbles, one color palette with gold, and extensive stage machinery.
A committee of ministers in Atlanta Georgia is considering the ordination of Rev. Sam Small. Small has been a Methodist minister by training, though his family adheres to the Episcopal Church.
A flood of brief items reports accidents and crimes across Minnesota and nearby. Incidents include a gun firing shattering a hunter’s arm near Faribault, a conductor’s fatal fall from a Sauk Centre train, a fire at Princeton with $5 000 joss and unknown cause, and beaver beaver Creek losses with little insurance. Also noted are marriages, arrests, jail terms, thefts, hog diseases, and remarkable local anecdotes from St Paul to Red Wing and beyond.
William Drew Washburn of Minnesota has gone to Washington to take his seat in the U S Senate. Born January 14, 1831 in Livermore Maine, he grew on a farm and earned Bowdoin College degree in 1854, later studying law. He served as Minnesota Surveyor General, invested in milling and railroad interests, and served in Minnesota and U S Congresses. He is described as tall and portly with silver streaked side whiskers.
Benson county settlers to receive coal as petitioned for the Manitoba road. North Dakota wheat markets show most gains eroding, farmers doubt higher prices. Immigration chief denies extreme destitution stories with Govs Mellette and Miller backing the circular. Wiley Mellette to train at The Dalles as master mechanic trainee. Critics claim relief supplies to Devil's Lake area misappropriated by merchants. Fred Snore resigns Benson county sheriff office to become sergeant at arms. congressman Hansbrough may push a bill to make North Dakota a customs district. Col O V Davis reports a large wildlife loss in Indiana train wreck linked to Austin Corbin. $10,000 loss.
Robert Baum near Huron claims a 56 pound turtle dated 1776 on its shell proves age of 123 years. Burglars hit Martin's livery stable in Ree Heights taking items worth 375 dollars from J. M. Fisher. Yuron grants 20 year natural gas franchise and plans immediate prospecting. Beavers unusually plentiful in Black Hills streams.
A hog weighing 1150 pounds was received at the Keokuk packing house. Small boy bootlegger Elda Knouse and Ida Grave have skipped out to avoid reform school. W L Edwards, accused of biting off a legislator's ear, is held on 10000 bond for grand jury. Burlington boasts exporting more school maams than peers of similar size. Emmetsburg citizens order all bad characters to leave.
A New York Sun report recalls a Jersey City marsh near the rail line where tramps routinely jumped from freights. The boss notes chalky ground and furrows from those jumps, explaining trains slow to four miles an hour and how men leap clear to land hard but unharmed, a practice he calls blessed for the “dead beats.”
A West Chester man who killed a young woman by discharging a gun he says was not loaded is jailed to be tried under a 1876 act making it a misdemeanor to point or discharge a firearm at another person. Penalty may be a fine up to $1,000 and up to one year in prison, or both. The Ledger notes warnings from past gun accidents.
An Antwerp jury convicts Proprietor Corvi lain and Engineer Delaunay of homicide by imprudence for the cartridge factory explosion last summer. They will serve time in a Belgian jail, a verdict the paper notes in contrast to European despotisms.
Rufus Buttery Jr of Silver Mine marries Emma J Scofield of Norwalk after crossing the Norwalk New Canaan boundary to wed at Rev D H Chappell’s home. The ceremony occurred past midnight on spring hill in a vine clad cottage with seven in attendance and a post ceremony collation.
In a Chamber's Journal piece Phillipps notes that very few authentic Shakespeare personal relics survive. He cites six title deeds from the era before 1616, including the four New Place indentures and two original Shakespeare indentures of 1602, with a possible fifth, the Blackfriars conveyance, likely in Shakespeare’s hands.
A fruit seller on Elizabeth street east cried out for bananas but stopped when he saw the crape on a door signaling a child had died. He removed his hat, placed it on his cart, and moved on quietly to the next square.
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