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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1900
Page
2
A column of pithy maxims and social observations on honesty, industry, laziness, and civic virtue. It notes the Mississippi governor’s stance against lynching, jokes about Aguinaldo, an eel’s water needs, and the ideal of cultivating honorable fame in youth. It ends with a vivid image of the Duke of Marlborough’s grand frontier entourage.
A French writer who insulted Queen Victoria in a pamphlet has been jailed by a French judge. The piece notes little sympathy for the imprisoned scribe and praises prompt action by France, while avoiding blame for the queen in England’s Transvaal actions.
Miss Sewell, author of Black Beauty, sold the manuscript to a publisher for twenty pounds. Through the American Humane Society, over two million copies have circulated, with Mr Angell of Our Dumb Animals arranging 220000 copies and guiding translations into several languages. If horses could know their benefactor.
A new 500 foot steamer named John W Gates was launched at Lorain Ohio. Built for the American Steamship Company it is the largest lake vessel and the first of four ships of equal size. The ship will cut time and costs in transporting freight between Buffalo Chicago and Duluth.
Mrs Stanford signs deeds transferring all real estate to the Leland Stanford University trustees. The transfer includes cattle ranches, horse breeding, vineyards, farms, country houses, and wild land in a sixty six page deed costing 7000 in revenue stamps. She also transferred personal estates including stocks and bonds valued at 15 million, while securing a life annuity of 25000.
A messenger boy followed and pointed out three would be robbers to the police, helping save a victim and ensuring the men were jailed. He dismisses counterfeit thrillers and asserts real life offers more gripping dangers than any novel.
The Hague peace treaty has been ratified by the senate. A number of policy items are under discussion in Congress including pension reform and tariff measures. Navy and public works projects proceed with various appointments and social relief efforts noted amid international affairs and domestic legal actions.
William Henry Gilder explorer and Richard Watson Gilder’s brother dies at his Morristown home after a Philadelphia birth in 1838. Rev. Booker Fox, famed Negro evangelist, dies in Ottumwa at 104, born in Nashville in 1706. Emily Huntington Miller named Northwestern University dean of women, repeating term after Miss Bowen’s death. Gen. Caleb J. Dilworth of Omaha dies at 70. Civil War veteran, Nebraska attorney general 1876–80, leaves two married daughters.
London feb 14 lord roberts has gathered 35000 men to strike the magersfontein line near jacobsdal enter the free state and compel cronje to lift the kimberley siege as he plans a first move toward bloemfontein. new divisions and staff changes are announced with censorship rules tightening for news from the front. mortality rates in kimberley remain high amid fever and bombardment as troops prepare for continued deployment to south africa.
Cairo reports a special investigation finds only a small number of young Egyptian officers urged lower ranks to refuse orders to surrender cartridges. They were inspired by Anglophone articles in the Lian praising the Transvaal and British distractions in South Africa. Senior officers are cleared. A court of inquiry will convene immediately.
The Marquette club held its fifteenth Lincoln day banquet at the Auditorium hotel with 500 guests. Henry B. Wickersham chaired as pictures of Lincoln and Civil War generals adorned the hall and toasts followed including Gov. D. S. Russell and Hon. Murat Halstead. In New York the Republican club's Delmonico dinner drew 1000 attendees with L. S. Chittenden among notable guests, while Senator Depew delivered the principal address.
The National Anti-Trust League wraps up day one at Central Music Hall with speeches and a busy resolutions committee. Proposals include government ownership of railways and telegraphs, repeal of special privileges, free list for trust goods, and direct popular petition legislation. An amendment to tax all franchises was rejected as legalizing special provisions.
Bob Fitzsimmons, seen in a Brooklyn theater box, challenged Jeffries to a rematch. He announced plans to post a $5,000 forfeit in Manhattan and proposed a bout for any amount, preferably $10,000, after replying to a taunt about Corbett.
The New York presbytery voted 77 to 39 not to try Dr. Arthur G. McGiffert of Union Theological Seminary on heresy charges. It adopted a resolution stating its December decision to disavow his teachings was sufficient and the charges would not be pursued.
Chicago reports that ten American workers were sent to Paris to build the steel skeleton of the machinery building for the exposition. They began on February 2 and completed the structure rapidly, astonishing Parisian workers and meeting the required haste.
Vladivostok February 14 The czar issues an imperial decree granting foreigners mining rights for the first time in Siberia. The Clarkson company of America wins a concession to conduct general mining in the maritime provinces except Okhotsk and Kamtschatka.
A string of disasters includes a million dollar fire in Tam pico Mexico and a deadly blaze in Little Rock with property losses of 265000. Wyle Hall at Indiana University was damaged by fire. An engineer at Joliet Federals steel plant died in an explosion. A wagon accident near Kankakee Illinois killed Edward Hess. A derailment near Detroit killed John Pugh of Lima. St Louis fires destroyed two large stores and several outbuildings, killing a firefighter with total losses around 1500000.
The American Anti Imperialistic League based in Chicago reports seventy two districts are close. The group will press public sentiment against candidates deemed antagonistic to its cause in those districts.
The Indian office received Lord Curzon's dispatch noting famine distress rising with 3,864,000 people already receiving relief. The Viceroy warns the situation grows more severe as aid efforts continue.
Kingston Jamaica Feb 14 reports say Colombian insurgents are pressing toward Bogota to force a government crisis. Officials fear army and civil service disaffection and expect an end to the tension soon.
The British ship County of Edinburgh ran aground around 10 p.m. near Manasquan life saving station by Point Pleasant on the Jersey shore. It sailed from Cape Town on December 23 for New York under Captain I Webster.
New York report states Rev. Johr sell Wilde, recently released from confinement, was recaptured yesterday and returned to the insane hospital where he had been committed for one month.
The home of Martha Smith near Stoney Creek burned Sunday in Petersburg Virginia. A colored woman and her six children perished in the blaze. The origin of the fire remains a mystery.
The Andrew Carnegie of the Wilson Transportation Company, last vessel trapped by Friday's flood ice jam near Buffalo, New York, was freed yesterday. Estimated damage from the incident is $15,000.
Report from Rensberg on February 15 details severe fighting during British retreat with outposts at Bastard's Nek Hobkirk's Windmill and nearby points overrun. Casualties unnamed. Colesberg district loss feared and Dutch rebellion fears rise as Lord Roberts prepares for possible advance.
Louisville reports a break in Democratic lines as Senator Triplett introduces a resolution to move the next legislative meeting to Frankfort if conditions are safe. Republicans have already reassembled there, with expected session in Frankfort within days and broader political answers pending federal court decisions in Cincinnati. In Yardmore, Gov. Taylor’s authority is recognized as Porter Fletcher is surrendered to Kentucky authorities.
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