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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1900
Page
2
The page debates Spain Puerto Rico policy and Yerba mate as a temperance option. It notes 10,343,152 American citizens eligible for military duty and discusses transpacific liner growth and potential future risks to European powers. The tone mixes humor with commentary on currents in US policy and industry.
News brief round up of foreign and domestic actions. Signals service manpower for the Philippines is requested. Gen Otis rumored degraded and may be relieved. senator Foster proposes a government cable line to the Philippines. interior and treasury actions on land, tax, and monuments. various incidents including fires, deaths, and a railway concession in Arakes valley to Russia.
A man discovers his wife’s remarkable patience only after illness requires her care. Her attentive handling highlights the unseen effort she provides in daily duties.
A sweep of obituaries lists D W Walker of Canton Ohio, Henry F E Hoyt of Kalamazoo Michigan, Maj L F S Viele of Prairie du Chien Wisconsin, and many others. It notes deaths by heart failure pneumonia suicide and executions, including Bear Chief Pawnee and public figures like Richard P R Miller Missouri Pacific agent, Samuel Forker New Jersey congressman, and Dean Wilfred W Cressy Oberlin.
The Fourth district Republicans nominated A. H. Freeman of Greencastle for Congress. At Fairland Indiana a quarantine attempt by medical board and Indian police was driven off by smallpox patients armed with rifles. Morgan Engineering of Ohio files for incorporation with $3,000,000 capital stock. The Fournier rescued 19 aboard the Francesco Grasso after a sea sinking near New York. Senator Wood contends with a Havana paving concession tied to Mrs Taylor widow, seeking permission to continue and claiming nearly 1,000,000 dollars in unfinished work plus 12,030 dollars in other street expenditures. The Taylor contract has operated since 1871.
London reports a cabinet member says a cable indicates Gen Cronje is hopelessly surrounded while Lord Kitchener pursues Boer retreat toward Bloemfontein. Buller captures hills south of the Tugela and presses toward Ladysmith as Boer wagon trains attempt to escape.
Washington Feb 22 Senator Clark completed his testimony before the senate committee on elections. Frank Corbett of Butte, E C Day Clark ally, and John L Wellcome Clark manager testified with denials and admissions. Day acknowledged receiving a five thousand dollar present from Clark as testimonial and compensation for services. Corbett and Judge Piggott faced a brief dramatic clash over a mortgage dispute.
Frankfort Kentucky February 21. Attorneys for Taylor and Beckham plan a joint conference at 10 this morning to decide which injunction case has priority when consolidating both suits over the Kentucky governorship contest. The Beckham suit is docketed for hearing before Judge Cantrill at Georgetown Friday.
Vienna reports rumors of impending hostilities between Bulgaria and Serbia. Troop concentrations are visible on frontiers, yet analysts doubt war due to insufficient finances and a lack of sanction from Russia or Austria.
In the house of commons Mr George Wyndham said Maj Gen Hutton, commander of the Canadian militia, has resigned to take a new post in South Africa where he had long sought employment. The statement came in response to an inquiry about his resignation.
Washington on February 22 Commissioner Wilson of the internal revenue bureau held that a special tax stamp held by a corporation as a liquor dealer cannot cover the same business carried on by any other person. This is due to the claimant having been a stockholder in the dissolved corporation.
An association of New York and London banking houses plans a seven firm merger to dominate North Carolina lumber. The group would control 600 miles of railway and mills with capacity about 1.5 million feet daily. They supply roughly 80 percent of the state's pine, totaling about 600 million feet yearly.
Judge Stover in the circuit court held labor unions may enforce a peaceful boycott against non union employers and use peaceful persuasive means to persuade customers to stop patronizing boycotted firms and shift to union workplaces.
In Bellefontaine Ohio on February 22 James Porger a stove dealer fatally wounded Robert Young a whisky dealer at Bell Center. Porger escaped then surrendered in another city and shot himself in custody. His wife fainted and remains unconscious. Young valued at about 600000 dollars.
President Barrows announced a $40,000 donation from the estate of William E. Osborn of Pittsburg for Oberlin College. Osborn died recently in Florida and the gift endows the president's chair at the Ohio college.
The Ohio Supreme Court on February 21 held the state food and dairy commissioner has no authority to require makers and dealers in foods to furnish samples for examination, ruling against the state's sampling powers in a decision handed down yesterday.
Secretary Gage stated that American securities will not suffer appreciably from the Boer war regardless of setbacks faced by British forces. He emphasized resilience of the U S markets amid overseas conflict.
London reports the Boers are withdrawing from key British positions to defend their own territory while Lord Roberts advances toward Bloemfontein. Gen Hart occupies Colenso after light resistance as Buller redeploys. British casualties rise to 11,102. Mafeking residents continue underground living amid siege conditions.
Quotations from St Paul Duluth Minneapolis Milwaukee Sioux City and Chicago markets list wheat corn oats rye barley and live stock prices for Feb 22. Prices cover No 1 Northern No 2 Northern No 3 spring and futures for May and July with cattle hogs and sheep data across multiple exchanges.
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