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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1890
Page
3
The crematory now handles all unclaimed hospital deaths at Pere La Chaise. Since year start, a surge of up to thirty-five corpses daily exceeds capacity, prompting rapid expansion. Officials cite incineration as the most scientific method of disposing of the dead.
An English inventor markets a hanging machine claimed to be perfectly painless for the condemned. The device uses a brass double clamp with a loop and an iron crescent to rest the shoulders. When triggered, the head tilts and the rope breaks the neck, causing instantaneous death.
Over the past year Rock county saw 135 births and 57 deaths. The next state fair opens Monday September 8, 1890 and lasts six days. A Mankato murder case stay extends to March 11. St. Paul allegedly spends 120000 yearly on the Louisiana lottery. Worthington’s ice cutting employs over 100 men with about seventy cars shipped south daily. Hunter township schoolhouse burns for about 350 loss, uninsured. Dr Edward Walther of St Paul owns an 1804 silver dollar, one of only four minted that year.
North Dakota reports include Mrs. Linda W. Slaughter named Knights of Labor special organizer for the state, a Fargo bill approving 95000 for a new building, triplets born in the state weighing over six pounds, and cadetship exams set for Grand Forks March 17 and 18. Also noted are a city bank warrant for 25000, Grand Forks saloon licenses, a Cando fire injuring Dr Faucett’s family, Moody’s lake survey proposal, Steele bond details, timber culture law repeal debate, and other state items.
Over a ton of butter was shipped to New York from Plankinton. Dakota counties list 31,000 mining claims. Examinations for railway mail service to be held at Yankton on April 22. Sioux Falls residents lose money after the Minneapolis loan failure. Woonsocket’s first protection system is being remodeled with artesian water. A New York publisher cut up Dakota geography due to state division. Potter county Farmers Alliance joins the National Farmers Alliance. Scotland votes to close saloons with a $125 license. Bald Mountain and Ruby Basin mines in Lawrence County show over $500,000 in ore. Henry Lyman, a Sioux student, excels at Yale. E L Abel named Sioux Falls penitentiary trustee. Hatton Trails County man dies from a hammer injury sustained in a saloon raid. Fossil fish found while digging a well in Sully County. Rapid City ladies form a society to prosecute saloon keepers. fund $500. State offers $300 reward for Minerva Gier murder case. Sully County basket making grows with willow resources. Carthage postmaster reports $25 from Illinois for cattle feed. Nels Paulsen faces $500 bond for stealing his own horse in Sioux Falls. Thomas Sorenson invents a wind plow driven by wind power. Effort to pardon Christian Sorenson, jailed for 24 years in Moody County, due to insanity.
Divorce in Racine as Mary Freyburg cites desertion. Shipman engine in Mt. Horeb Sun office explodes due to a defective steam gauge with no injuries. Sillers at Outagamie asylum burned by open fire. Sullivan to stand trial in Ashland for obtaining money under false pretenses. Miller rail wreck delays trains. no injuries. Effort to pardon Fred Williams, life sentence for killing near Medford, underway. Merrill foundry rebuilding after fire. Oshkosh professor’s son dies at 10. mother ill. Baraboo petition urges Judge Liebecker candidacy for spring circuit election. Ripon burglars fail to crack a store safe. Milwaukee to get new first-class hotel on East Wisconsin/Jefferson. Welton of Plover dies. veteran prisoner after Shiloh. Heirs of John Bell lose case against Stahl for property. Appleton Electric Street Car suspended. debt details. Sholes, Wisconsin pioneer, dies. noted inventor of the typewriter.
In Dubuque a doctor who filed a death certificate told city recorder the patient was not dead. Kelley, linked to an attempted kidnapping in DeWitt Clinton county, was sentenced to four years in Anamosa. A Burli nton man found an 1806 dollar on the Mississippi levee. Ottumwa jail inmate Henry Murphy stabbed fellow prisoner James Hill over table etiquette. Webster county swindler E F Gibberson drew farmers into promissory notes disguised as tree orders. Keokuk Rock Island worker’s wife Mrs Niliana claims to be among five heirs to a $48 estate.
The item lists items from Hamilton to Lucas counties including a $67,825 school building value for 144 structures with 162 teachers earning $36,610.70 annually. It notes 2,703 boys and 2,739 girls of school age, plus land use in Lucas County and a series of local incidents and inquiries such as barn and horse actions, a marriage license refusal, a jail stay for Willis Phipps, a boy’s freight-car escapade, a lamp fire near an elderly man, Noel Bradford’s transfer for trial, and financial discrepancies in G W Ashton’s records.
The passage reflects on aging in ancient times versus the present, noting lack of chimneys and newspapers for Barzillai, then contrasts hardships with modern aids. It praises glasses, tobacco, temperance, and good living as ways to keep elderly people healthy and cheerful, quoting Dr. Holmes in Atlantic.
In this excerpt a writer discusses modern biology's view of romantic love as a social example of natural selection. It cites Darwin and Wallace, contrasting female choice with species’ mating displays such as butterfly courtship and peacocks. The text links beauty to efficiency and notes wider public familiarity with the debate sparked by Darwin and Wallace.
John Ridd known as Uncle Billy dies in San Luis Cal. A frontiersman, trader, blacksmith, and school trustee, he ran a saloon and store for miners. A Mexican miners’ attempted robbery led to a fierce defense in which he hurled assailants from his saloon and sustained a knife wound while leaving several men crippled.
Disorder filled the Trestox Missouri courtroom as the Spickardsville crusaders were found guilty with a $5 fine and costs per case. Justice Shanklin ruled no evidence showing abatement of public nuisance. twelve witnesses testified amid tense exchanges. Mrs Ida F Barr of the WCTU sparked further contention before the defense announced an appeal.
Washington delegation discusses two matters of importance. A plan favors locating a board of two to three engineers under the War Department to oversee river and harbor improvements for maximum commercial return with minimal cost. They also consider a reform of the customs district, creating a separate district for Washington and Oregon with a $3,000 salary collector and designating several coastal subports including Blaine and Fairhaven.
Secretary of the interior will issue an order revoking Sparks's policy requiring special inspectors to report on surveys before government acceptance. Surveys may be approved based on the surveyor general of public lands report, speeding payments and reducing land business delays. Dakotas Montana and Washington lawmakers pressed for the remedy as public land questions dominate congress.
In Maen Montana a group of mines called Mary and Agnes on Wolf Creek disclose a vast lead carbonate find the richest yet in the Belt mountains with assays in hundreds of dollars per ton The Neihart branch railway from Great Falls is awaited by farmers and miners The Spotted Horse mine near Maen shows ongoing high output earning about 100000 dollars monthly from a twenty stamp mill and is cited as America’s best developed mine among six rich veins A twenty stamp addition to the Spotted Horse mill is planned to be ready by April 1.
In Herena Montana Special Telegram reports the ongoing disappearance of O C Rinker with family fearing foul play. A search party probes quarry hills and prospect holes while a French worker tied to Rinker is jailed on suspicion as investigators expect two to three days for a thorough search.
John Elder was robbed of 800 by Lee White while en route from Los Cerrillos to Coal Banks. White and his female accomplice fled after seizing two horses and disguising as a man. Deputy Meyers and a posse pursued them. the pair fired, killing a posse member and fatally wounding Meyers. White and the woman remain at large.
In Curiticotus Missouri a man named George Dowell set a shotgun trap for a thief in his barn. The gun discharged when the door opened injuring his wife Mrs Dowell who died instantly. The couple had been married only two months.
In Greensburg Pennsylvania a blast in a kitchen killed William Stewart and seriously injured his wife and two children. William Crook and William Stenitz were reported fatally injured. Stewart reportedly placed a stick of dynamite in the stove to thaw it. The explosion ripped the kitchen apart and sent stove fragments across the room.
Riots renewed in Berne as the Swiss government bans Salvation Army meetings across the confederation. Defiant Army members clash with police, many Ba individuals injured and several Salvationists arrested with potential long terms of imprisonment.
Milwacker reports three Calumet county women, Mary Carney Sarah Carney and Miss Burns from the state normal school at Oshkosh, started for church last Sunday and have not been seen since. Authorities fear they attempted to cross Lake Winnebago and may have perished after breaking through the ice. The case was not reported to police until today.
Senator Allen introduced petitions from hundreds of Washington citizens urging a Sunday rest law. The Senate adopted the conference report on a census mortgage bill. Idaho delegates cheer as Senator Platt reports favorable terms for admitting the territory. House actions include bills on elections, Grand Forks public building funding, and postal telegraph financing. Senate considers Fort Bliss sale and freight-rate investigation.
A Clothing Man in St. Louis Globe-Democrat explains rag collection routes from house to rag buyers. Most rags now go into making shoddy fabric for cheap ready made clothing, with only a small share used for paper and other products.
A recent dispatch portrays Brazil's ex monarch Dom Pedro as anxious to resume rule while spiraling finances crumble. Despite nerve strain and looming memory of kingship he remains dignified and generous, evoking Lear as his days dwindle and fate weighs heavy on monarchies.
A stage hero speaks lofty, poetic lines about a star to a heroine who asks for simple letters. He refuses everyday communication and dramatizes romance by fixating on a distant star while promising to stop writing only when it falls from the heavens.
Dr. Bloc, implicated in the murder of Hiram Sawtelle, was arrested in Middleboro Massachusetts and transported to Boston for questioning.
The manufacturers of Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription offer a guarantee with every purchase. Either a complete cure or a full refund is promised, the guarantee acting like an insurance policy. The Golden Medical Discovery claims to cure humors skin diseases and scrofula related taints, while the Favorite Prescription targets weaknesses peculiar to women.
William P. Cody, a cabin boy aboard the Water Lily, testified after pleading guilty to theft that he was christened by Buffalo Bill Cody and never knew his parents. He said he was four when Buffalo Bill found him and brought him to New York, where he was placed with a friend, Stanford Grafton, who coerced him into acting as a...
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