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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1894
Page
2
Ingersoll & Wieland publish from Brainerd Minnesota. News notes suggest rubber heels attached to French soldiers’ shoes reduce marching fatigue. A legal limit bans buildings over 110 feet on business streets and over 90 feet on residential streets in Washington D C. Emperor William writes a one act opera likely surpassing his divine right speeches.
A Winnemucca Nevada man vanished while hunting a big bear three months ago, his worried relatives fear he may have found the bear and not returned.
A historical report notes locomotive engineers receive salaries far higher than their technically superior minor administrative officers, with some earnings so large the amounts are restricted from appearing on payrolls.
A survey of varied clippings mentions hopes for an effective diphtheria serum, questions about electric death tests for criminals, Russian Jewish policy shifts, Japanese arts and festivals, and a Crees county skeleton found with broken bones and handcuffs suggesting a prisoner’s escape and demise.
A consul notes American artificial limbs could gain a strong market in Germany if manufacturers set up agencies there. He says German makers lag behind American in ingenuity, and their limbs are heavier less convenient and not more durable. Oddly no American manufacturer has pursued entry into Germany.
A German socialist meeting proposed cutting editors pay to align with profits equality but editors threatened resignations, halting the plan. Creameries spread across the East shift farming conditions as dairy gains value. Creameries buy milk by hundreds of pounds, with farmers enjoying wholesale trade and frequent price quotations in local papers.
The text argues fashion and wealth cluster in the northwest and the west end of cities. It posits prevailing northwesterly winds push dust, smoke, and odors to the east or southern side, making the opposite quarter more desirable for residence. The author notes this rule has governed urban life across ages.
The text recalls Mexico's civic advances amid dialect and regional tensions, noting the National Library survives a recent quake with contents intact and the ancient cathedral bears scars but remains solid after 259 years.
The nearly extinct cantiniere Mme Veuve Bouvier met M. Casimir-Perier for an audience two or three days ago. Clad in her old Fifth cuirassiers uniform with a black glazed sailor hat and blue tunic she walked to the presidential chateau, moving villagers to tears as the president introduced her with respectful emotion.
Washington notes Secretary Morton orders moving signal service from Detroit to Lansing. Eckes recommends changing from bond to a safety fund for bank circulation. Justice Harlan sides on acquittal if defendant proves no knowledge of ingredients in oleomargarine sale. Postmaster General orders return of registered letters to the International Patentees agency and to Munn, Percy Willis, or Henry Martin amid fraud allegations.
A collection of brief notices details Jerry Simpson’s Indiana governorship ambitions and Mary Ellen Lease moving to California, along with obituaries for Count Ferdinand De Lesseps in Georgia and Thomas Brockway Bullene in Kansas City. It notes P A Hearst’s widow funding a free library in Lead South Dakota, Arch Bishop Corrigan’s Rome letter about Arch Bishop Ireland, John Burns’ New York welcome, I A Chapin’s illness, and George N Noonan’s Texas congressional seat shift.
A night express on the Wabash collided with a freight at Na mco ki, demolishing both engines. Fires damaged Cudahy packing house boxing department in South Omaha. Prairie fires caused great damage in Northern Indiana. Nearly 2000 tons of hay burned near Wilders. A 13 year old oil boy in Muncie was fatally burned. A 19 year old woman in Akron was badly burned after being knocked by a street car. Two men fell from an asylum water tower in Kalamazoo with injuries. one man later died after a fall while skating in Nashville. A San Pablo Avenue electric car was struck in Oakland. A Miss Coates teacher was killed. Attorney W E Waste injured. Fishermen Edgar Gebo and Chris Wicks found entangled near Torch Lake Charlevoix. Three men injured in a Rockvale Colorado mine accident. Dynamite explosion for Huntington sewer work killed two men. Charles Joyce and Guy Magwell disappeared after diving from a Sacramento River bridge. Magwell saved, Joyce missing.
A roundup of violent incidents and crimes across the United States includes six murders in Michigan fueling capital punishment calls, the killings of Louis Poldert and his son by Mexican outlaws, arson attempts at Hotel Granville in Ohio, and various legal actions from Ohio to Florida. Incidents feature embezzlement charges against Capt. Howgate, assaults in Noblesville, a forgery arrest in Maryland, a hanging in Indiana, a bogus money scheme in Chicago, a gun dispute ending in a teen’s death, burglaries in Oregon, and lynching of a man near Martel Florida with other regional crimes.
Reports describe arrests and killings in Terre Haute Cecil and Memphis with foul play suspected in several cases. Emanuel, a fugitive from New York, is jailed in Memphis for embezzlement. A gang in Bureau, Illinois, linked to robberies along the railroad is named, while Wichita young thieves face possible hanging after a violent robbery.
Reports from St Peters burg note foreign royalty leaving after the czar's funeral and another royal wedding. Other items mention a Hungarian cabinet defeat, amnesty proclamations for Lutheran clergy, and German bank changes.
A crowded wire service item notes the Illinois Central considers routing lines into Louisville dependent on other links. Other brief items report union expulsions, anti discrimination efforts by coal operators near Peoria and Hil, a Valparaiso suit for 20000, and midwest industry shifts.
The record surveys debates and actions from December meetings in Washington. It notes Quay’s sugar bill amendment, Power's silver coinage bill, Lodge China Japan tensions, Peffer's finance critique, and House actions on timber, bounty land warrants, and a Gettysburg park plan. In subsequent days Bryan and Sickles push constitutional and park measures. public lands debate escalates into forest protection rhetoric and accusations of timber thieves.
Washington December 12 The senate opened without Vice President Stevenson who is in Asheville with his family Harris presiding. Senators Hill Blackburn and Carey attended for the first time this session. Mr Call offered resolutions urging US recognition of Cuban independence and payment guarantees by Spain and urging peace talks to end the China Japan war. The Cuba measure paused until tomorrow and the China Japan proposal was referred to foreign relations. The Nicaraguan canal bill was read in full and Mer-”
Washington December 13 a busy session saw the pooling bill pass 166 to 116 after defeating the Cooper substitute and all amendments. The day included local measures, a resolution for Marcus B Lisle eulogies, payrolls for December 20, and nominations confirmed in executive session. Senator Dolph urged Nicaragua canal action while Morrill critiqued inflation bills.
Five miles southwest of Ridgeway Missouri David G Spragg fatally stabbed his wife and three children including two stepchildren before killing himself. Neighbors found gruesome scenes with blood, overturned furniture, and a desperate escape by Spragg’s stepdaughter Dora Onstatt who reported the details.
George Hosford aged eighty five prominent in Masonic circles and longtime Hudson resident died last night in Hudson Wisconsin He was a brother in law of Dr John Hall New York City.
Mrs Orlando Giles and Billy Davidson, long-time Cave Hills cattle operators near Dickinson, have been arrested in Minnesota on an indictment for the mysterious 18 month old death of Mrs Giles’s husband. He was shot near their homestead while away from home. The case hinges on alleged improprieties along the state boundary.
Washington dispatches report that the Chinese government will appoint an ambassador to negotiate peace with Japan. The envoy will depart promptly for Tokio or possibly Hiroshima where the Japanese emperor and council are. Count Ito and likely Mr. Mutsu expected to lead for Japan.
Sister Mercedes Agnes Clark died at St. Theresa's convent in Hastings at age 32. She joined the sisterhood eleven years ago, taught at Immaculate Church parochial school in Minneapolis, and was the daughter of Edwin Clark of Cottage Grove Washington County.
A blue light flashed as a meteor fell about fifteen miles north, causing alarm among a few residents. Reported in the Miller area on December 11.
Ives wins the final game 600 to 456 against Schaefer in Chicago. Over six nights Ives totals 3,600 points to Schaefer 2,831.
Cedar Rapids Iowa Dec 11 The fish commission is making a heroic effort to enforce the fish law. Twenty seven persons have been arrested within the past two days.
Mrs. W. Mayr wife of a local hotelkeeper killed herself with a revolver in her Tomahawk home. Family jars were cited as the cause in the Dec 11 report from Wisconsin.
J D Bard, postmaster of Bard town near Mitchell, died this morning. He was well known in this section of the state.
In Eau Claire two teens, Mabel Briggs and Alma Leonard, show alleged hypnotic control by Dr. Pickin. Briggs writes with a mirror reversal method to reveal events, while a crowd watches as authorities prepare for a circuit court action tomorrow.
December farm price survey shows corn at 45.6 cents a bushel up 0.1 from last year, wheat at 49.8 cents the lowest in 25 years, rye 50.5 cents, oats 32.9 cents, barley 44.8 cents, buckwheat 68 cents, and hay at 8.35 dollars per ton, with declines vs 1893 and shifts from earlier decades. Farm prices reflect local market costs and handling.
Vienna reports all foreign diplomatic action in Constantinople paused after Britain initiated talks among Berlin treaty signatories. Discussions aim to act jointly on the Armenian question. The porte anxiously notes the exchange of views and the united ministry with Kiamil Said and Chakir Pasha remained in session from Saturday noon to yesterday noon.
Berlin dispatch reports the government instructing the Hamburg chamber to investigate complaints about the poor quality of recent petroleum imports by Standard Oil. Accusations claim Pennsylvania oil fields are exhausted and the latest shipments originate from Indiana and Ohio.
Berlin December 12 Robert F Kneebs the American horseman charged with fraud on the German turf has been admitted to bail of 10000 marks and is to sail for the United States from Liverpool this week on the new lead.
In Washington on December 12, Representative Rawlins introduced a bill to annex the area of Arizona north of the Colorado River to Utah.
Bradstreet's Review notes that large Eastern cities show holiday season demand with jobbers filling depleted stocks and retailers active. Northern and western regions report weaker trade due to unseasonable weather and rain in Nebraska. Omaha Des Moines Milwaukee St Paul Minneapolis Duluth affected as lake shipments reach 1,000,000 tons above 1904 while receipts dip slightly.
Henderson Kentucky special notes Shelby and Soaper, proprietors of the Henderson homing mill, have assigned. Liabilities are estimated at 50 000 to 80 000 dollars and it is hardly thought the two estates will pay over 50 cents on the dollar of the indebtedness.
The Northwest Town Horticultural Society met in Special Session at Mars. Premiums for fruit and flower displays were awarded and officers chosen for the next year: P. L. Kinney Storm Lake president J A Dewey Kingsley vice president W B Chapin Corresponville secretary B Shantz treasurer. Next year’s meeting will be at Storm Lake.
Thomas E. Proctor president of the United States Leather Company died today in Boston. He led the firm through major contracts and his passing leaves the industry to mourn a key executive.
A Washington street tunnel collision of West Madison street and Milwaukee avenue cable trains caused a fatality and many serious injuries. Moran and crew activated brakes but could not stop the runaway cars. John Donohue died at midnight. the blaze was extinguished by an engine company.
Secretary Carlisle presented a bill to the banking committee repealing acts on United States bonds deposits to secure national bank notes. It creates circulating notes at 75 percent of paid capital on deposits of legal tender at 80 percent, with $10 denominations and uniform design. A half yearly 0.25 percent tax on average bank note circulation funds a safety reserve for redeeming failed banks. state banks meeting conditions may be tax exempt.
In Chamberlain South Dakota Justice Zimmerman staged a mock marriage between Erick Lund and a hotel employee in Oacoma. The incident raised whether the ceremony created a legal marriage without a license. The couple fears the union may be legally binding despite lacking a license and awaits clarity on its validity.
Dr. G. W. Pickin and son Abigal appeared in Eau Claire court denying criminal assault charges. The pair asked for a delay as two girls Mabel Briggs and Alma Leonard had been in a hectic spells of hypnotic influence and treatment by physicians and a mesmerist operator. The case adjourned to 9 o clock tomorrow as witnesses described hypnotic control and emotional distress surrounding the allegations.
The Chinese population in Pekin is increasingly hostile toward foreigners with sentiment rising after recent incidents on December 13. Local officials report growing tension and calls for protective measures as crowds grow restless.
The Globe publishes a letter from a British official in China warning that a tragedy could occur any day. He fears foreigners will be massacred if Japanese advance on the capital and notes foreign ministers face peril as the port of Tien Tsin closes. He cites soldiers in secret societies ready to act at the first opportunity.
The judiciary committee authorized Chairman Culberson to ask the rules committee to bring in a special order setting aside a day after the holidays for consideration of the bond resolution.
Pleasure for Labor Delegates in Denver on December 13. The federation convention delegates spend the day sightseeing and many have joined an excursion to Silver Flume to inspect the mines. The convention will reconvene tomorrow.
Vermillion South Dakota December 13 A clear case exists against Diamond Chadwick who was held to the grand jury for attempting to murder John Hermanick. The case centers on the alleged attack and identifies Chadwick as the defendant.
A Minneapolis woman leaped from the ship and drowned while the Williams family, including John Williams and his eleven year old son, sailed from Liverpool to Wales then back to America. The husband reported selling a small property at 417 Seventeenth Avenue South to fund the voyage.
At Fultz Station Ashland Kentucky last night Thomas James a suspected whisky seller shot and killed George Fultz Sr and his son aged 25. John Phylls the son in law lies dying with a bullet in his head. James fled to the hills as a posse closes in with strong likelihood of lynching.
Kansas City reports the first patient treated with anti toxine has fully recovered while other cases improve rapidly. A further supply has been ordered from New York.
An attachment for $20 000 in favor of J W M Morrison against J T M Pierce was filed against the Yankton electric light plant and related property. Morrison holds a second mortgage on the Pierce hotel and will seek recovery from Pierce through other assets if the hotel is worth less than the debt.
Senator Washburn reports Capt. Wadleigh invites Miss Washburn to hoist the flag when the cruiser Minneapolis is commissioned. Miss Washburn will accept the invitation.
San Francisco reports Charles Johnson and Gustave Wennerberg, cigar stand owners on Fourth Street, smothered to death by gas in their lodgings this morning. Police and coroner began inquiries into the accidental or foul play cause.
Eau Claire Wisconsin special report on D Pickin charged with abusing Mabel Briggs through hypnotic influence. Hearing postponed due to nervous prostration and heart trouble. Community divided with some believers and others calling the charge malicious. Several judges and leading citizens support the accused.
A three engineer commission appointed under Senator Washburn's resolution has submitted its report to Congress. They estimate the total cost to deepen Duluth harbor to a uniform twenty feet at 3,130,354 dollars, covering the harbor inside Minnesota I Point.
New luncheon cloths appear in fall designs with matching finger-bowl and tumbler doilies. White damask sets feature large pansy borders and wreaths of pansies in wash silk. Round linen doilies and scalloped tray cloths echo the floral theme with holly and holly berries for Christmas table settings.
The report details Lady Londonderry claiming youthfulness comes from spending one in ten days in bed. She sleeps until waking, bathes, returns to bed for light meals, rests until six in the evening, and is read to by her maid. At six she dresses, dines in her room, and relaxes until ten, insisting on no interruptions.
Frank J. Cheney of the firm F. J. Cheney & Co. swears as senior partner in Toledo Ohio that the company will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The notice urges readers to send for testimonials and lists Hall's Catarrh Cure as taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces.
In Trarning Dusty Rhodes notes he slept in a hay mow the night before last and in a coal bin last night. Mrs Dogood comments that by week’s end he will be tough enough to tackle Astor’s bed.
Pa jokes about how a crank becomes a statesman after a win and flips back after a loss. The text notes tank cars in France used for wine transport and mentions eight thousand carrier pigeons kept for the German army.
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