Minnesota State News Highlights Inquiries and Notable Deaths
The Minneapolis estate of W. W. McNair inventories at 1.66 million dollars. Green Isle death en route to California. Wainwright windmill progress near Winnebago City. St Croix loggers gripe at warm weather. New Ulm murder in a saloon. Faribault death from throat cancer. Presbyterian shifts in Chester and Oronoco. Grain tariff talks with Milwau kee & St. Paul. Willmar manslaughter plea and Johnson murder link. Insurance paid to Clark widow. Tax services offered by St. Paul firms. Court cases over quo warranto and Bend matters. St. Vincent robbery defense, Wakefield canal bill praise. Janesville skins ship to Minneapolis. Austin fires destroy coal buildings and bakery. Lake City pastor resigns. Hawley hail loss concerns. Muskrat and mink shipments from Janesville. St Marys church fire. Utica fire risk from reflector tale. New Ulm coroner verdict on Martin death. Detroit bank organized with Holmes president. Minnesota National Guard officers promoted. Wheat ripening varieties inquiry. Denver burial of Langford. Northwest Land Co. winding down. St. Paul school building expansion. Santa Cruz Minnesota club forms. Milwaukee line grain rate cut. Annie Stone seeks Minneapolis divorce. Red Lake Falls votes aid for Lake Park road. Arlington grain warehouse planned. Wheaton embezzlement acquittal. Faribault boy injured skating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. McNair
Minneapolis
James Downs
Green Isle
Minn
Glendive
California
Erick Olson
Cokato
W. Z. Haight
Winnebago City
St. Croix
Martin
New Ulm
Hugh Smith
Faribault
William Williams
Pierre, Oak
Chester
Oronoco
J. C. Boyden
General Northwestern
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Minnesota
Boyden
Willmar
Joseph Blanchard
Brown
Stillwater
George Johnson
Appleton
Pomme de Terre
Upton
Blanchard
Johnson
Charles H. Clark
American Legion of Honor
St. Paul
Chauncey Vs. Wass
Supreme Court
Company K
Minnesota National Guard
Duluth
Henry DeWitt
H. R. Armstrong
Eugene Poirer
McLain
Hahn
St. Vincent
Woodhouse
Thompson
Otto Blitz
Congressman Wakefield
Red Rivers
Mr. Wilson
St. Cloud
Father McGorrick
Park Moore
St. Peter
M. J. Hodgson, Jr
Lou Gardiner
Herman Koop
William Trautmiller
Fairbanks
Huser
Bowen
Austin
J. W. Ray
Presbyterian Church
Lake City
Hawley
John Dickerson
Lyman Fuller
Janesville
St. Mary's Township
Waseca County
Louis E. Beingen
Bergen
Santa Cruz
Cal
Annie E. Stone
Chatfield
Powalka
Sioux Falls
Beaver Creek
Red Lake Falls
Lake Park Road
Lake Pleasant
Arlington
Bell Gordon and the Prodigal Love
The narrator recalls a childhood friend Bell Gordon, now famed as a flirt and society queen, who rejects his lifelong love as he returns from abroad. He confesses his feelings, but she warns him to forget her as she prepares to marry another. his dream of a shared future fades, though Bell remains a defining memory of youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell
William
Cousin Bell
Anden
Lincoln's First Dollar Story From New York Star
The tale recalls a young Abraham Lincoln earning his first dollar as a scrappy riverboy. At eight, he ferried two trunked passengers to a steamer, receiving two half-dollar coins as payment. He reflects that this dollar marked a turning point toward hope and self reliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. D. Kelly
New York Star
Mr. Seward
New Orleans
A Gambler's Family Tragedy in Metropolitan Life
A Louisville banker swindled $165,000 at cards, fled to Canada, then died in New York. His wife raised six daughters in ignorance of his crimes, later learned the truth, and saw tragedy strike: one daughter died, others withdrew from society, and a favored child fell into gambling and became a mistress of a faro banker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metropolis
Louisville
Canada
United States
Cook
New York
Prisoner of a Handcuff Prank in a Railcar
A New London Telegraph reporter recounted a tale of two men on a police errand who end up jailed by their own handcuffs. A Mystic jeweler, a sheriff, and a sheepish Jim illustrate how curiosity led to an escape attempt that backfired aboard a baggage car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New London Telegraph
Mystic
New London
Jim
Hartford Times
Wanderings of a Youngster In San Francisco Prison
A bright looking boy named McDougall Foster, claiming to be 11, is confined in San Francisco city jail. He says he ran away from Chicago after wanting to skip school and rode trains through Omaha Ogden and beyond, aided by travelers. His mother describes his travels to New York Washington Philadelphia Baltimore and St Louis over the past year, noting he was usually with men and taught himself quickly while attending school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
McDougall Foster
Chicago
Omaha
Ogden
Lexington Avenue
New York
Washington
Philadelphia
Baltimore
St. Louis
Chillicothe
Quincy
Mamma
W. E. Clarke
McDougall
Nebraska
Dunton &Co
Grant and crew seize howitzer to aid besieged city
An officer recalls Mexician War exploit as Grant’s troops carry a dismantled howitzer up ditches to the belfry of a church near San Cosme. The gun’s fire unsettles the enemy, drawing a notable acknowledgment from Gen. Worth and a staff officer, later a lieutenant general, to commend the action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gen. Grant
San Cosme
Worth
Pemberton
Vicksburg
Noses and Ears in Astrological Character Signs
The piece links facial features to personality via astrologer lore. It assigns traits to nose shapes such as Roman, aquiline, snub, Greek and nostril size, then evaluates ears from lobe linkage to cheek to ear width, calling large ears bad and thin ears refined, with sharp divisions indicating honesty or candor.
Southington Man Fined After Cider Mishap
Merton A. Root of Southington Conn is jailed after an abusive quarrel with his wife. She fled to the cellar spilling two barrels of cider, prompting Root to seize a silk dress belonging to his wife and mop it in the cider. He was arrested and fined seven dollars with total costs of twenty one dollars and fifty two cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merton A. Root
Southington
Conn
Root
Record Atlantic Clip Clipper Race Ends with New Speeds
The New York Sung notes a dramatic Atlantic race as four ships clock record passages. Albert G Ropes and Commodore T H Allen from Liverpool, plus Flora P Stafford, and Belt from Antwerp, push the era of swift clipper voyages with extended sails and heavy cargo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Asia
Atlantic
Maine
San Francisco
Nova Scotia
Albert G. Ropes
David J. Rivers
Liverpool
T. H. Allen
Robert Merriman
Rivers
Allen
Royal
Flora P. Stafford
Windsor
John Smith
Stafford
Bristol
Georges Bank
Long Island
Fire Island Light
Flora Stanford
N. V. Munro
Flushing
Antwerp
Bath
J. F. Chapman & Co
The
Horn
The Steamer No 4 Disaster and a Kidney Remedy Ad
Stand back, gentlemen! Clear the track! Firemen are injured as steamer No. 4 overturns due to a neglected lin-pin in oiling. The incident costs a half million dollars and serves as a warning about basic maintenance. An advertisement for Warner’s Safe Care follows, urging kidney health to avoid fatigue indigestion and brain fog.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warner
Fire Journal
He Made the President Laugh at a White House Visit
The New York Tribune notes Gen George A Sheridan of Louisiana was mistaken for another Sheridan. At a Hayes administration reception they discussed fruit with a farmer’s joke on apples pears and hard northern fruits. A shared laugh broke the awkward moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gen. Sheridan
New York Tribune
George A. Sheridan
Louisiana
White House
Hayes
P. H. Sheridan
Correas
Sheridan
Bishop Whipple's Plea for the Indians
The New York Mail and Express praises Bishop Whipple of Minnesota for opposing removal of Chippewa from their lands. It quotes his defense of White Earth reserve rights, condemning land seizure as robbery and urging government heed to Christian Indian communities and their inheritance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bishop Whipple
White Earth Reserve
Leech Lake
White Oak Point
Cass Lake
Mille Lakes
White Earth
Ahab
Naboth
Northwest
Ely's Cream Balm touted for catarrh relief and smell return
Mrs. E. E. Grimes testifies after twenty years of catarrh that Ely's Cream Balm restored her hearing and sense of smell. The ad claims rapid relief from catarrh cold in the head and hay fever and notes availability from druggists for 50 cents or mail for 60 cents. Ely Bros. of Owego New York published the claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ely
Ely Bros
Owego
N. Y
E. E. Grimes
Valley St
Rendrill
Perry Co
Ohio
Seven Children at Four Births in Honesdale Tale
A neat woman from Gale’s Tannery near Honesdale, age about thirty, asks a Erie ticket agent for the lowest fare for herself and eleven children. The ages given are 9, 7, 9, 7, 5, 5, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3. After review, a half fare to Warren is approved for the woman and her eleven children across four births, under agent Abbott’s instruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honesdale
Harry Foster
Erie
Warren
Foster
Cullen
Gale’s
Kidney-Wort Promoted as Universal Health Aid
The advertisement touts Kidney-Wort as a purely vegetable remedy for malaria rheumatism biliousness jaundice and liver kidney and bowel ailments. It claims to remove disease causes fortify the system and prevent new attacks while noting rising lung disease and citing Allen's Lung Balsam as inferior for cure with physician endorsement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Market Reports from Colvuth Minxapol is and Milwaukee
Wheat prices across Colvuth Minxapolis and Milwaukee with No 1 Northern bids around 84 to 98 cents and No 1 hard near 89 to 92 cents. Corn, oats, rye, barley, flaxseed and flour values listed for cash, sacks, and various package forms along with live hogs and dressed hogs price ranges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colvuth
Minxrapolis
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Irish National League In America Foresees Chicago Convention Postponement
United States Commissioner Ray of Glen dive receives interior secretary order on government timber land depredations. Patrick Egan reports cable from T M Harrington that Mr Parnell cannot attend Chicago league convention in January and may postpone until after Parliament meets in February. Egan will summon national committee in January to set a definite date once Ireland’s plans clarify.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Ray of
Glendive
Secretary of the Interior
Patrick Egan
Irish National League of America
T. M. Harrington
M. P
National League In
Ireland
Parnell
Chicago
Egan
National Committee of the American League
What Would the World Do Without Women Essay
The essayist questions a world without women but asserts the human world depends on women. It argues the world would fail without the salvation of woman and a cure for female illnesses. The piece extols Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as indispensable for women’s health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Pierce
Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and other cures
An array of patent medicine claims touts Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as curing liver disorders and nervous symptoms, with other tonics like Dr Jones Red Clover Tonic, Bigelow's Positive Cure, Athlophorus, Piso's Remedy for Catarrh, and boot accessory pads advertised. Mentions World’s Dispensary, Buffalo and local merchants, a liquor distillery fire, and a criminal note about Sam McFarland. Descriptions urge readers to mail for treatises and order remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
N. 8
Ruggles
Marion
Mass
R. M. Dexte Reynolds
Ind
Brown
WM. Bruns
St. Mary St
New Orleans
W. W. Monagan
Tuscumbia
Ala
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Minnesota State News
A. D. Davis
Utica
Wm. Trautmiller
Ao Martin
First National Bank of Detroit
E. G. Holmes
D. Brown
Bank of Detroit
MacCarthy
Andrew J. Amos
Wadena Light Guards
Irwin
F. C. Thomas
Ames
Burdick
Drake Block
Denver
Col
Augustine G. Langford
Col. Bend
Harrison
M.N.G
Bend-McCarthy- Hubbard
Col. Bond
Northwest Land Company
Moorhead
Messrs
S. G. Comstock
A. A. White
Annie Vogel
Durgin
James Walsh
Fargo & Southern Elevator Ey
Wheaton
Charles McNeil
James NeNeil
Cannon Lake
Maggie
Beil Gordon
Willie
Lincoln
General Grant
Seyfu
Sultan Abdul-Hamed
Turkey
J. H. Garloch
Miles City
Montana
Russia
Geo. Rochat
St. Paul, Minn
David A. Gage
That
Albert B. Stearns
Boston
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Cent
Buckingham
Ayer
Harrisburg
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
Short & Co
Syracuse, N Y
Dr. Jones
Sam McFarland
Jack Wade
Magee
Prince of Wales
London
Bigelow
Peoria
Julia F. Hall
Frankfort
Mich
Consumers Boot and Shoe Co
Sveadvt
Piso
Saskatchewan
W. J. Abernethy
Lyon
Mensman
Caswell, Hazanv & Co
Proprietors
Cole & Co
Black River Falls
Wis
DavearmiTs
Axp
Charle
Charles 4. Vourler CO
CuTicuRra
Porter Drua@ AND Chemical Co
Drs. Whittier
7Th Street
America
Mailor Express
Brown Chemical CO
Baltimore, MD
CENT
Crouy
Allen’s
M. Harris & CO
Ciaciaasti
Ron
Croup
Taylor
Fort Price
Eser
Walter A.taylor
Atmaata
NTS
Alum! Gold and Silver Plating Company
Taylor Street
Spring- Field
Massachusetts
Standard Silverware Co
B. H. Merrill & Co
P.O
Eyeo Gaunee
E. H
Yntains
E Remedy CO
Lafayette, Ind
Tutt’s
Tutt
Murray St
W.Y
Twit
Jre
la Creuse
Wic
Best On Earth
Consumers’ Boot and Shoe CO
SALZ
Fife Seed Wheat
Dr. L. Wellman
Frazee City
Becker Ca
G. Loot
Pearl St
Swift
Nature
Georgia
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Jeffersonville
Montgomery Ward & CO
Wabash Avenue
Ilo
Sola ST. Paul
EWING
Eureka Silk CO
Chicago, IL
Lepage
Bes Manners
Pullman Pala 5 Carer
Mas & Hamlin Organ & Piano Co &c
New ¢Ans
Eady
Eor
Russia Cement Co
Gloucester
John A. Salzer
Latrosse
Wise
Wigney
ON Supply Association
UNI
Pupae Daa
Pu Paracturers
Dearborn Street
Chicago Ledger
Union Supply Association
Peper
Biden Supply Association of
Bll
A.j.tower
Mase
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