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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1890
Page
2
Prince Henry of Battenberg ends three months of banishment and reconciles with his wife and mother in law before returning home to Brainerd.
Jay GouLp expresses keen satisfaction at the assertion that the earth is continually growing in size.
Two hundred admirers gathered in Washington to celebrate Susan B. Anthony’s seventieth birthday with a banquet and public tribute amid headlines highlighting the suffrage leader’s milestone and enduring influence.
Stonington, Connecticut reported a recent snow storm while morning glories bloomed in house yards along the main borough street. A. P. Squires gathered apple blossoms pansies and dandelions from gardens.
Advertisement from a Washington paper offers a handsome suite of rooms suitable for senators representatives or members of legation and additional rooms for gentlemen indicating a lodging option likely aimed at political or diplomatic figures in the capital.
In Hartwell Nebraska two men share a complex kinship as each man’s second wife is the other man’s daughter. Both wives have children, creating a tangle that invites readers to untangle the family ties.
Baron Boruscnto, the Paris ban er, lives in fear as a commune threat looms. His cellars are nearly impregnable and his pictures and jewels are safeguarded to thwart any mob. He lives in a constant state of fear.
The $1,000 license fee now in effect in St. Paul is said to devastate saloons. Authorities expect 50 to 100 establishments to close. Last year 386 licenses were issued and now only about 200 have been renewed.
An officer traveled from Cass County Michigan to Williamston to arrest W. D. York, a local lawyer, for burglary. The plan was dropped when it was shown that a hat left by the burglar bore York’s name, and had allegedly been given to a tramp by Mrs. York last summer.
A report notes there were thirty six car building firms in the United States in 1889 turning out 70 546 cars. Railroad workshops built enough cars to raise freight equipment additions last year to about 100 000 units across the nation.
James Russell Lowell remains secluded at Elmwood Massachusetts this winter as he works on a life of Nathaniel Hawthorne. No full biography of the famed novelist exists and Lowell’s work will fill a literary gap.
A black birch tree about 35 feet tall near York Maine has lifted a granite boulder weighing at least 20 tons from its resting place. The rock is still moved by the tree, rising and shifting about an inch per year as the tree grows.
A Carro correspondent notes Stanev's striking presence guiding Zanzibaris. The observer recalls his method: he appears ready to eat them, then when they yield he seems grateful for the interaction.
In Brooklyn New York three prominent grocers were arrested for selling adulterated coffee. An analysis of the article shows about forty percent consisted of cracker dust. The note warns of severe penalties and calls for sharp-eyed detectives to seize offenders.
Mr C J Jones of Garden City Kansas advocates reserving part of No Man's Land or Utah Territory for buffalo breeding and crossing. He reports several distinct crosses including woolly fur variety that sheds yearly and yields cloth suitable for robes or overcoats. If enough crossbred buffalo can be produced this could lead to a new important industry.
Physicians in Springfield Ohio examined a young man named Breslin whose heart sits on the right side yet he remains healthy. He recalls a farm wagon accident in childhood when two wheels passed across his chest and he believes the heart was displaced by the injury.
Superstitious residents whisper that misfortune follows the Blaine family as long as they inhabit the ill-fated Washington mansion. The house witnessed Seward's assassination attempt and the place where Key was killed by General Sickles, giving it a notorious reputation and sparking fear of bad luck for its occupants.
Washington briefs report the House committee on Indian affairs will favor a bill authorizing a commission to negotiate the removal of Turtle Mountain Chippewa Indians to Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota. It is said they would be better off with the other Chippewa than in North Dakota.
Thomas Lowry completes a two million dollar contract to equip the St Paul and Minneapolis electric street car systems. The deal covers electrical equipment and related systems for urban transit expansion.
A heavy Sierras snowstorm blocks Summit with eighteen feet of drift. A 12 year old near Glidden Wisconsin dies after a stallion kicks him in the head. University fire in Toronto puts losses at one million including library valued at one hundred thousand. A Kingston Ontario tenement blaze kills four of five children. Sioux City, Iowa dry goods store fire destroys half the building with heavy stock loss. A seventy five year old woman near Aberdeen South Dakota freezes to death after wandering from home. A Wichita Kansas farmer loses wife and children in a house fire. husband rescues, but children perish. Pierre South Dakota gas worker Otto Lindof suffocates in open trench as gas blows out pipes.
A sequence of incident notes from Hardman Oregon to Chicago recounts a brother’s killing, a pastor’s arrest for insult, saloon upheaval arrests, a suicide burial at sea, political fights in Saxony leaving thirty wounded, two burglars slain in Crestline, and a missing funds rumor about a Liverpool lumber agent. Also covered are a Birmingham murder case dismissal, a masked attack in Erie, seance fraud arrests in Chicago, a Missouri physician shot, a Cornell freshman kidnap revelation, and New York bomb fears as well as a Baltimore execution mishap and a jealous Minnesota shooting. John Wylie’s case, Webster county jewelry thefts, and a dragged crime trail from St Louis to Chicago end with handwriting matches linked to a Cronin murder case.
Floods in Northern Queensland cause major damage with reports of extreme rainfall, noting a location receiving forty nine inches in a single week. In Europe Russia demands Bulgaria pay 3,000,990 roubles in arrears from the 1878 79 Bussian occupation, a claim long unpursued until now.
A bill to inspect fresh meat slaughtered over one hundred miles from the state was approved by the Virginia governor. In Chicago juror bribery trial witnesses testified about rapes being offered money to influence outcomes. Gomartin Doyle woolen merchants of New York make general assignment with liabilities 100000 assets 000. A Mapicoba synopsis outlines proposed school changes proving all public schools shall be free with separate Catholic schools abolished.
The New York Sun columns accuse Rev. T DeWitt Talmage of lavish advertising and selfish publicity tactics, claiming he amassed a fortune through unorthodox church methods and profaning sacred spaces. It also reports various court and political news, storms etc.
Latest quotations from West ern markets show mixed grain prices and byproducts across Minneapolis and Milwaukee. Wheat and corn values hold with minor shifts while oats and barley vary by grade, with dairy products and creamery butter trading at modest gains in spots.
Homer H. Brown, sixty, spent most of his life in asylums across the country. In Seattle his brother sought confinement again, but a probate court trial found him sane. Witnesses say family wealth and suspicion over whisky and smoking fueled past imprisonments.
After Ellison Mounts execution in Pikeville Kentucky, Hatfields plotted wholesale poisoning of jail guards. A jail cook was paid 200 dollars to drug food, tested on a cat with deadly result, and then refused to act. Outlaws fled to West Virginia as sheriff seeks warrants to bring them to justice.
Prescott special reports a devastating flood on the Hassayampa river as dams broke and a wall of water up to a hundred feet high swept the valley. Officials recount a wide list of dead and missing with wreckage strewn for miles, and warn the catastrophe may claim many more lives.
Prof. D N Harper reports seed wheat in the Red River valley yields vary with seed quality. Poor rusted wheat, even when cleaned, produced low or no seed value and dismal yields. Frozen wheat cannot produce good milling wheat, and thorough cleaning matters, with only well cleaned seeds offering any crop potential.
Hamilton Ohio reports the Miami river at the highest level in twenty years flooding the Strand hotel and west side businesses. Homes moved to higher ground as the river rose twenty four inches in a single hour with more rain expected. Ohio dispatches note bridges culverts and roads washouts and floods spreading across Mount Vernon Lima Findlay Springfield and surrounding areas. Nashville area sees minimal damage while Johnsonville Tennessee toll bridges fail partially and Cumberland rivers rise with several houses roofs lifted.
A fierce morning hurricane hit Northern Texas causing the Gainesville Masonic hall to collapse and the courthouse to lose its roof while the Santa Fe depot and about twenty other buildings were blown down. No fatalities occurred though several persons were injured. A second cyclone struck Brownsville Tennessee near Memphis damaging half of its business houses and leaving many structures in ruins.
Pietzhjoffgj the Exile and Pierszk, two Russians linked to a czar plot, are now in a hotel room under guard. Pietzhkieffgj recovered from injuries at the electric light works and allegedly recanted a confession after being muzzled by a companion Paul Scarovitchki. No interviews have been allowed and the injured man asks to retract prior statements.
Three Louisville physicians Dr J T Blackburn, Dr W E Grant and a yet unidentified third doctor aimed to dig up graves of Tom Johnson and Ed Pearce at New Albany cemetery. A colored driver was shot dead as he fled. Grant and Blackburn jailed. second colored man arrested. grave desecration described as felony with lengthy potential sentences.
House public lands committee favors a bill to settle swamp land claims and reimburse states. It lists Minnesota lands from the 1860 swamp grant, totaling 147 861 acres valued at 154 202, with indemnity for settlers reclaiming swamp lands and a likely passage by Congress.
Rodolphé Dubois, a beggar, murdered his wife, mother-in-law, and two children at St Alban before being captured. He used a chopping ax, then disposed of the bodies in a cellar. his blind brother-in-law Thibault aided and allegedly witnessed the attack. Dubois claimed insanity and showed no clear motive. Parishioners question his sanity.
In Washington the senate considered multiple bills including a plan to buy silver bullion at 4.5 million dollars monthly and to acquire gold bullion as offered, issuing treasury notes to cover the purchases. The measure repeals the two million silver dollar coinage mandate while finance committee support is split and opposed by Mr. Beck and likely by Sherman and McPherson.
In the Commons Mr Cobb signals that if Mr Smiths motion to adopt the commission report with Sir Charles Lewis amendment passes he will move that the house deplores evidence showing that during alleged treasonable conspiracies many government members including Lord Salisbury and Mr Balfour were in close alliance with the accused. Severe condemnation is urged for Salisbury and other government members.
A Nickel Plate passenger train at 40 mph faced a man in the middle of a Walnut Creek bridge near Swanton. The engineer chose to continue, saving the train and passengers but sending the man to eternity. The body was later recovered from the water. the tramp was penniless and unknown.
Captain Turner of the American schooner Harry Prescott reports on February 8 at latitude 34 and longitude 75 he hove to beside a water logged three masted wreck with sails gone and the crew clinging to the after house. Due to rough seas he could not assist and the wreck drifted toward Hatteras shoals.
Chicago secures the world’s fair site after an eight ballot, six hour contest, with the West and Minnesota delegation backing Chicago while New York and St Louis concede defeat. Depew forecasts a costly Chicago undertaking and pledges support if the city rises to the challenge.
The Herald and The Times critique Chicago's political handling and the prospect of a Lake Michigan world fair. The Herald calls Pratt opportunistic yet beneficial, while The Times predicts a Western show with limited global impact, noting uncertainty over a true world's fair and possible Chicago overreach.
In Eau Claire Wisconsin a horse owned by a local resident full of faith in Christian Science was treated after veterinarians failed. A Chicago Christian Science professor was asked to treat the case by telegraph after the horse seemed near death. The incident showcases the local craze and its effect on animal care demands.
A reforms committee met but heard no witnesses. Charges cite Charles Lyman promoting his brother in law Campbell to a $1,200 clerkship, Campbell leaking exam questions to a pension office copier and Flynn, and Roosevelt Thompson's limited inquiry. Also alleged illegal promotions of Edwin D. Bailey and Hamilton Shidy, and papers altered after failed exams.
Proenix Ariz Special reports a massive slide of water from the Hassayampa river at dawn Saturday. At the lower dam thirty four white workers died, three Chinese among them, while Wickenburg remains unharmed. Upper dam broke and swept the two below. property losses at the dams estimated around three hundred thousand dollars.
A convention to secure seed wheat and feed for livestock is called for 2 PM on March 8 in Huron. Gov Mellette and C T McCoy sign the call urging county commissioners, lumber and railway firms, merchants, bankers, and boards of trade to send representatives for unified state action.
A Russian exile named Pietzhkieffgj fell from a scaffold at the electric light works while repairing a smokestack and struck a main circuit wire. He was stunned and fell about 100 feet, seriously injuring both thighs. He confessed and named several Russian officials connected to a plot against the czar, claiming to possess documents to support his statements and promising further developments.
The Land and Improvement company plans multiple brick structures in West Superior Wisconsin this year. Projects include a three story brick store at Fourteenth Street and Tower Avenue facing 250 feet and 5 feet deep, a three story brick at Thirteenth and Tower 100 feet by 56 feet, a brick block at Sixteenth and Tower 1060 feet on the avenue by 80 feet deep, and three stories. Total expenditure expected around $90,000.
In Fort Cope Texas, Judge Weaver refused to hear river land litigation, stating that until the United States attorney general suit is settled any further interference with evicted settlers would be persecution. The cases involve injunction violations by settlers who returned to farms after eviction, mirroring a recent U.S. marshal action at Dubuque.
Special Telegram reports Father Stephen reaches Jamestons en route to Turtle Mountain reservation to investigate reported destitution among the Chippewas. Commissioned by the Misses Drexel of Philadelphia, Bishop Shanley will accompany him. They depart for the mountains in the morning.
Three members of the Salvation Army were arrested today in Asmuiaxo Wisconsin on a charge of violating the Sunday ordinance. They appeared before the municipal court and the case was adjourned until Saturday with bonds set at $25 each. If they fail to post, they go to jail. They intend to fight the charges, believing they have a strong case.
The family of William Peterson are afflicted with diphtheria and a four year old son has died. Mrs Peterson and the other two daughters are ill with the disease. There have been a few other diphtheria cases in the city recently.
Special Telegram reports Public Examiner Blanchard returned from the Black Hills with findings on Custer County treasurer Flynn. He notes a devaluation of 12,000 dollars from embezzlement during Tregsyverlynn's term. Vouchers seemed accurate and auditors trusted the cash at settlements.
The senate committee on privileges and elections weighs a lengthy Montana case behind closed doors. The four applicants attend sessions daily, express hope for seats, while party factions gauge political impact as no decision is rushed.
Complete returns reveal 246 members elected across districts with 151 requiring supplementary elections. Party split includes Conservatives 52, Imperialists 16, Centrists ?, Liberals 22, National Liberals 16, Socialists 21, Alsatians 23, Pan 14, Guelphs 2, Dane 4. Central committee orders Socialist voters to back German Liberal candidates on second ballots where conflict with Cartel party candidates arises. National Jaderale urges party to oppose Socialist candidates against German Liberals.
Feared report from St Petersburg confirms the August hunger strike by women prisoners at Kara led to brutal methods to force nourishment. Madame Shida and three companions were punished and died, others perished by self‑administered poison. Male inmates warned of future flogging. deaths followed. A Siberian exile petition to the czar seeks reform and humane treatment.
A Walnut Grove storage dam on the Hassayampa river fails under heavy flood after costing 300000. Forty known dead, Wickenburg fears for nearby town. Service dam and 15 miles of flume swept away. company spent over 800000 on the enterprise. Reservoir and dam details follow as officials assess losses and search for more casualties.
An explosion in the boiler room of the Armour-Cudahy Packing house in South Omaha kills at least one and fatally wounds several others. Fire crews quell flames as workers remove the dead and injured to St. Joseph hospital. Dozens more are injured, with many likely to die. cause under investigation, but a boiler-room wall collapse is suspected.
Miss Regina Rothschild of Port Townsend plans a sixty day circumnavigation starting March 17 with a route via Havre Yokohama and Cape Flattery. She competes against Citizen George Francis Train leaving Tacoma, aided by Canadian Pacific and tugboat connections to Port Townsend.
Touroy France special report notes the ball thrown by Vice Admiral Duperre for the American squadron with about nine hundred attendees, mainly officers. Duperre urged cadets to enjoy themselves, praising uniforms as introductions. British officers praised the ships’ mounts and crew comfort. Admiral Walker dined with Duperre aboard the Chisago.
Detectives Ring and John A Gross arrested Fred A Walton alias Simpson in St Johns New Brunswick on charges of stealing 35000 from Pacific Express in Dallas Texas Over 7000 cash and a sealed money package were found Walton had traveled with John Laird and Frank Brady Montreal gamblers who aided his entry and future release plans Laird and Brady were later arrested for aiding and abetting Walton in bringing stolen money into Canada
Reported rumors say Lord Salisbury's health, after a severe influenza attack, fuels cabinet reconstruct ion talks and possible dissolution of Parliament. Denials arise, but concerns center on his condition at home and the sincerity of the illness.
William Briggs a former Congo River missionary says the Taylor Missionary Society misrepresented the country to recruit him. He spent three years there before returning due to ill health and lack of support. He claims exaggeration of results and that natives only attend schools if paid, with traders undermining progress.
Aleck Fry, about 24, was committed to jail to await grand jury action on a charge of attempted assault. He had been living with Ed Soule of Deer Creek, whose 12-year-old daughter was the alleged victim. Fry was to be married today at Deer Creek.
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