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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1891
Page
2
A New York physician reports millions of bacilli on streetcar straps and advises riders not to grip the straps to avoid contamination. He urges using hands elsewhere to reduce exposure and protect public health.
Hansipar Hamu is noted for a strong aversion to music and will not enter a church while opening musical exercises are underway, choosing to wait until after the performance concludes.
Vick President Morvon says presiding over the Senate was the hardest work of his life. The duty left him nervous and timid, reflecting the strain of the role.
The father of the groom, F. L. Ames, has settled one million dollars on his son as his share in the Ames West wedding in Boston.
NaTuaniet Pace returns from Europe and says Americans most valued by English observers are James G. Blaine and Grover Cleveland.
Gex B PF Benner spoke at Tremont temple in Boston on Wendell Phillips and announced this would be his last appearance on the lecture platform.
The roller skating craze is spreading in the east and some predict it may move west. Many see it as the only practical skating activity for this region at present.
A brief note explains that at meals with Queen Victoria guests spoke only when spoken to. Otherwise conversations occurred in whispers among the diners.
A gathering of twenty nine railroad presidents at J Pierpont Morgan's New York residence discussed railroad competition with a collective capital around 3 billion dollars.
Six foot tall Wyoming figure Sexator Warrex described as straight and tall with blonde hair and sharp dress sense. He is forty six years old and noted for his handsome appearance and articulate speech.
Mrs Jefferson Davis works in New York on completing a life account of her husband. She plans to stay until April and then move to Colorado Springs for further steps.
The article notes George Washington as the wealthiest president with an estate valued between 300000 and 590000 dollars at the start of his presidency, equivalent to a large fortune in modern terms.
Miss Nelly Kelly of the Ohio State Journal, a regular first wire operator for the Associated Press, earns the same salary as other first wire men. She handles about 15,000 words in a night and leaves for home alone at 2 30 A.M. without incident.
The Pittsburg gas supply is dwindling quickly with major factories converting furnaces to coal. The city may reclaim its nickname Smoky as industry shifts back to coal to meet needs.
In 1881 Boston had 20000 women registered to vote. by 1889 the list showed 10000 and this year only 8000 have qualified. The decline is noted as evidence that women’s rights may not be as appealing when distance or effort matters.
The Wisconsin vote shows that every voter must check their ticket and that last names on ballots suffer from errors. The two leading candidates for governor exceed eight down-ticket names by over 10 000 votes, while electors are roughly split between parties.
The Salvation Army in New York has toned down its noisy street displays and is making converts, especially among women. It is now focused on visiting the poor and sick in the slums, largely abandoning former street theatrics that appealed to children with bean shooters.
Experts say the world need not fear hunger for years if people apply intelligent culture to soil. Only a small fraction of arable land in Argentina has been cultivated. The United States could double crops if all farmers tilled soil as intelligently and industriously as the best in each state.
The Bell company speeds work on a new system as the 1893 main Bell patent, controlling the tube-like listening instrument, nears expiration. After 1895, others may manufacture the devices and they are expected to spread for home and neighborhood telephones.
Under a ruling by the secretary of the treasury the taxes remitted for the Kentucky Distilling company on its whisky burned at Louisville last summer amount to 981,267 dollars.
Dr Burleigh a former Baltimore college president died at Blockley alms house Philadelphia at eighty six after a long Blockley tenure since 1888. H H Drake in Sioux City learned his uncle Sir William Drake’s death brings him a large English estate and cash of one hundred fifty thousand dollars. Mrs Maria T Kimberly mother of Admiral Kimberly died in Chicago at eighty one. she and her husband arrived when Chicago was a small settlement and lived in its first frame house.
Twelve girls crossing the Holstein ice fell through when the surface gave way and all drowned. A Union salt works boiler in Cleveland exploded injuring several workers. Names include Martin Scheamy killed Frank Geiner fatally scalded Thomas Fox injured and an unknown man swept into Lake Erie. An Omaha electric car derailed injuring passengers. Mrs Dennis O Halloran suffered deep cuts and internal injuries. Auggie Mc Naughton was head injuries and bruised. Recovery expected for others.
A long list of criminal cases spans arrests for publishing lottery ads, a bogus divorce mill operator in New York, killings in Kentucky and Indiana, robberies in Missouri and Illinois, embezzlement sentences in Pennsylvania, and other legal troubles across multiple states. The items name defendants, victims, locations, and outcomes, reflecting a broad roll of crime and punishment in the period.
Reports say a radical congress in Brussels adopted resolutions in favor of universal suffrage and minority representation. Other items note French tariff impact on textile trade, a Paris Y M C A property venture, a duel plan between French officials, and William’s Alsace Lorraine autonomy idea under Hohenzollern rule.
Fairfield Texas reports severe spotted fever with many deaths. Toronto council bans Sunday streetcar service. New York sees American doctors arriving from Berlin with Dr Kogh lymph bottles. Argentine plot rumor confirmed but deemed unimportant. Oklahoma's first legislature adjourns after passing a code of laws drawn from Dakota Indiana Nebraska and Illinois statutes.
The piece notes an upcoming Nebraska lawmakers bill to relocate the state capital from Lincoln to a western site this winter. It also records varied items from crime to health and industry across several regions.
The piece counsels bachelors to align with a bride’s father in politics and the mother in religion, to watch rivals, limit flattery, avoid long goodbyes, and finish nights at home. It warns against cryptic letters, early deceit, and concealing finances, stressing honesty and restraint to win a wife.
A San Francisco dispatch says King Kalakaua, visiting aboard the Charleston with Admiral Brown, faced financial ruin after withdrawing the Sherman resolution. He emptied the royal treasury of 103.5 and, during a poker game at sea, naval officers collected much of it. Officers, from the captain to the flag lieutenant, loaned small sums and left with kingly IOUs as they reached the Golden Gate.
In Freedman's Town Houston a Black woman named Caroline Jenkins aged about thirty, mother of seven, is described as a human Samson who defeated Officer John Baxter and three assistants and broke a handcuffing attempt. Witnesses note her physical strength as natural and extraordinary with feats including carrying a barrel and breaking a thick rope. Local gentlemen plan exhibitions of her strength.
A report from Woorpen Kyex Creek describes an 1876 style clash where Big Foot's band of about 150 warriors and two women surrendered, then opened fire as troops surrounded the camp. The fighting lasted over an hour, with no quarter given and estimated fifty soldiers killed or wounded and many Indians slain, including Captain Wallace. Lieutenant Cartington was wounded.
An incident near the agency followed by a skirmish with Indians from Rosebud camp near Pine Ridge. Two soldiers of Col. Forsyth's Seventh Cavalry were wounded as return fire by Indians. Scouts report few of Big Foot's men left alive, stirring trepidation in the area.
Special Telegram reports Rev N D Witham of the Alliance Aid association visiting Jamestown to announce all contributions of flour fuel and money for Dickey county have been distributed. He says the claim Dickey county can care for its own poor is false and that aid will be used for seed wheat and statewide canvassing in the Red River valley and beyond.
Doland issues opinion on whether the county register of deeds may keep fees from making abstracts of title after January 1. He states such fees fall within the register’s official duties and the register must account for them, cannot retain them.
West Superior Wisconsin December 31 special telegram reports George Hull the Cardiff grant map is not dead and was alive yesterday despite earlier dispatches. The clarification stems from Superior’s Associated Press file.
The 1,500 Pullman car works employees are notified of a Jan 1 wage scale with about a 10 percent reduction, except for some, as two hundred blacksmiths strike while arbitration is sought. Manager Sessions says railroads press for low rates and long time, forcing acceptance or plant closure.
News from Roseville Nebraska reports a chaotic scene at Pine Ridge as 5000 Indians gathered near the agency clash. Friendly Red Cloud forces join Gen Brooke while armed Reds push toward burning the agency and threatening nearby settlements amid rising tensions and warning dispatches.
Nels Peterson, an agent for Frederickson & Co., was brought to Stowx City from Windom Minnesota on fraud charges. He allegedly defrauded A. T. Larson of 2500 in property through false representations tied to a land trade in Cottonwood County. County officials plan bail and pursue further action as Peterson faces indictment alongside an associate named Olson.
In Broderick Patch a Hungarian named Tirello shot Mrs Curley and Michael Curley in a saloon. He killed Hodek and fired at Curley before fleeing. The room held five people, including Curley’s child. Tirello has eluded officers while locals debate who fired first.
A morning paper reports Wisconsin Democratic editors favor Col. William F. Vilas for the U.S. Senate to succeed John C. Spooner. Respondents list Vilas 38 votes with Gen. E Bragg 6 and 3 as scattering.
Wacraca Wisconsin December 31. Banker E Coolidge who failed recently and was arrested on a charge of receiving deposits when the bank was insolvent was examined today and discharged by Justice Woods who held there was no reasonable ground for holding bills for trial.
The North Dakota state board of boiler inspectors met today in Fanso Nober, comparing notes and drafting changes they deem advisable to implement in the upcoming session of the laws.
The sheriff took possession of the general merchandise stock of Vahle & Westhoff in Maxkarto under claims totaling about $9,000. The pair estimate total assets at $14,000 with more seizures expected.
A winter legislative effort in Minnesota aims to reduce Goodhue county officers salaries by 25 percent. The motion comes from the Alliance and targets officer pay across the board.
Michael Hansen of Cold Springs died today at age fifty nine from dropsy. He was an elderly respected Stearns county resident and leaves grown sons and daughters.
In Rochester an election on 45 000 bonds for the Rochester and St Paul railway resulted 254 in favor and 652 against. The item sits among a stream of regional notes including labor, crime, liquor actions, and local business shifts across Fergus Falls to Minnesota frontier counties.
The Bismarck Tribune notes Standing Rock and Grand River camps in South Dakota. The Herald reports a Grand Forks druggist bought a $2500 soda fountain. Eighteen imprisoned in Casa county jail released due to witness absence. sixteen rearrested for theft. Senator Manderson seeks inquiry into Indian tribes in North and South Dakota and beyond to disarm them. Pillsbury notes Soo lines extending to Bismarck and Jamestown with 800 miles of Dakota railroad to boost lumber and coal distribution. J. C. White, longtime temperance figure, ill at Casselton. pension increase sought. Fargo Argus recalls Editor Emmons and Emmons County legacy. Eight Michigan farmers near Ypsilanti now head 400 cattle and horses, thriving after hardship. Col. Plummer named Great Northern immigration agent to tour East with a state products car. Fargo jury verdict awards Louise Patrick $2000 in breach of promise case. likely appeal. Dickey county reports deny widespread suffering. crops poor but sufficient for subsistence. seed needed next spring. John S. Murphy seeks troops protection as Berthold Indians join ghost dance under renegade influence.
The Vermillion river water is identified as especially fit for linen production. Other notes report Mrs. A J Drake of Iroquois becoming a Congregational preacher the first woman in the state with that role. rumors claim an ice bridge may be built by a railroad this winter and state beet sugar bounties are set at one cent per pound for sugar and two cents per gallon for syrup or molasses.
Officer Peterson of Neenah cited as assaulted by tramps and left in bad condition after being struck with a loaded whip butt. Lorenzo H. Dow, ex Berlin resident and manager of a Union Pacific hotel in Pocatello Idaho, dying of pneumonia. Alfred William near Janesville set off a hay stack and was impaled on a three tine fork. recovery doubtful. Dr H A Clarks book accounts sold Beloit. $8000 bills sold to a lawyer for $160. $15,500 iron stock sold for $6. Henry Hensel convicted of second degree murder at Green Bay but not sentenced as new trial motion pending. statue penalty fourteen to twenty five years. Hortonville friends of Rev A M De Ford who went wrong recently presented him a purse at Oshkosh Northern Insane Asylum. Col Byrne obtained evidence in Perrin case via a tube from Ed Baker’s cell in Ashland County jail. Oshkosh trial used this evidence. Peter St George who murdered his wife at Cadett and then died by suicide was once president of La Crosse County and resides in Holland Town.
Fort Dodge residents plan to remove fences from their properties to rid the town of a troublesome cow at large. Davenport laid brick paving nearly a mile and a half this year at a cost of 55 261 66 dollars for street improvements. There are 413 convicts at Fort Madison penitentiary with 22 currently serving life terms. Joe Matthews, 50, the oldest inmate, was housed after killing his wife in Jefferson county 23 years ago. John Killinger of McGregor killed his eight year old grandson by accident while the grandfather chopped wood. Mrs. Irvin of Kirkville, thought murdered by her husband, is found working in a hotel at Oskaloosa. she seeks divorce and garnishment of 970 dollars in an Ottumwa bank for alimony. The Marshalltown glucose works cut hours to half, about 125 workers laid off. Abner Peeler of Lehigh, jailed for counterfeiting, was released after five months in Omaha with no evidence. Peeler is credited as originator of the typewriter and other inventions. Richardsville has seven occupied saloons in forty houses. a man moved a frame saloon toward the village, but the wheels froze in the mud and now the saloon sits in the road boosting rapid business.
Chicago Herald reports John Quincy Adams, a 65-year-old widower on Last Adams street, survives by eating rats he traps in the neighborhood. His dishes include fat young rats for pie dough, with older ones boiled for lard. He claims poverty led to the diet, pays $1.50 weekly rent, and shares his “la grippe” illness as context for his concealed quarters.
In Buffalo a crowd recalls a midnight escape tale about a drowned group after a car wreck on the Moline river in 1883. A tester uses a notebook to refute the claim, pinpointing August 17, 1883, and exposing the story as false while a brawl erupts.
A 3 year old boy, son of Leonard Mather, was blinded when a broken mirror reflected light into his eyes. The sudden flash caused a seizure like swoon and doctors diagnosed retinal paralysis from the shock, leaving him totally blind.
A House bill would empower the Secretary of War to lead a three year expedition into central Alaska to survey topography resources and capabilities. A $100,000 appropriation is requested to support the interior exploration from a central base with expeditions to all regions.
A spoof ad style piece touts self defense, elixirs, and household products including Dr Bull's Cough Syrup Johnson's Anodyne Liniment and Dobbin's Electric Soap. It mocks gullibility and consumption with quirky lines about cures and everyday goods.
A British iron worker notes that visitors sense a heavy cloud of gloom over New York City. He contrasts New York with Chicago and Boston, where business and leisure moods differ, saying city residents appear preoccupied like criminals, dampening visitors’ perceptions.
The San Francisco Argonaut describes the sultan's meals prepared by one man and aides with each kettle sealed and inspected by the High Chamberlain. Food is served in the cooking vessels, often gold, or in golden bell fold ers. The sultan eats directly from kettles, never using a plate or table.
Salvina in Magazine Century argues that a strong actor should feel emotion when preparing and performing a role, but must control its intensity to move audiences. He compares emotional susceptibility to training vocal apparatus and graceful movement.
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