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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1890
Page
2
An English paper reports Barnum has proposed Gen. Boulanger join the circus for a weekly sum of $1,000. The sensational item notes the potential international spectacle and adds intrigue about the iffy pairing.
A new French invention is a smoke bomb designed to be fired into enemy ranks to use smoke less powder and obscure their view. The device aims to disrupt line of sight and coordination, giving allied forces a tactical edge in battle.
A claim urges that removing sugar from tariffs would let Mexico ship about $1,000,000 worth of sugar weekly to the United States, signaling a potential shift in trade policy and its economic impact.
It is proposed to issue certificates to all Chinamen in this country when the census is taken and thereafter banish all who cannot prove their citizenship evidences.
Cubiaco inaugurates a tree planting movement amid vast city possessions. The plan aims to expand fuel and lumber capacity by leveraging the city’s wide territorial holdings to support cultivation and production.
Lucy Wixon of Wixon Michigan and Betsy Wood of Grand Lodge claimed as the oldest living twins. Born October 20 1799 they read without glasses, highlighting remarkable longevity and sight.
Miss Agnes Barker of Buffalo sues a railroad for 10000 dollars claiming damage to her beauty from a blow in the face delivered by a train. The case seeks monetary relief and will be decided by the court.
Prince Bismarck has consented to allow his name to be borne by a new steamer of the Hamburg American steamship company, expected to be the largest and swiftest ship afloat.
A Lower Soucan, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, farmer struck a bullock with a sledge hammer during butchering and left it for dead. On returning from breakfast, the animal was finishing a chest of meal, indicating it survived the blow.
Mark Twain says he has spent about $100000 perfecting the Page type setting machine and is the principal owner of the manufacturing company. The device is 16 feet long and 9 feet high at the middle and is claimed to set justify and distribute 45000 cms of type each day.
A New Yorker notes a recurring trend of men marrying secretaries and typewriters in New York’s business sphere. He cites multiple examples, including four within his own household in the past year, suggesting the novelty has worn off and such unions are commonplace.
Two or three years ago the Russian Government established credit banks to aid large estate owners short of money. The result is a marked rise in mortgaged estates, with many holdings of high nobles expected to be sold this year due to missed loan interest payments.
Mr. George Parker hosted a Christmas dinner for tramps in and around Boston. After a reading of the prodigal son and a temperance address, 330 diners rose and signed the pledge for one year.
In Warsaw authorities order removal of telephones from restaurants coffee houses and liquor saloons amid similar actions in Polish towns. The cited danger is political not moral, aimed at curbing potential dissent.
The article notes a rapid rise in New York Jews with four new synagogues opened in ten days, totaling forty seven places of worship the largest in any city. The Hebrew population has doubled in ten years and Jews are increasingly influential, with several trades nearly in their control.
William K Vanderbilt, often seen as the head of the Vanderbilt family by the public though his brother is the principal financier, moves about town briskly with notable popularity. He displays no ostentation, is of medium height, ruddy faced, bright eyed, and has abundant good humor.
Grerce N Evans of Springfield Til learns through attorney William Tailmage in Washington that he is one of six heirs to $2 million deposited in the Bank of England by his great grandfather. Executors had sought him for years. his location was found by accident after most heirs emigrated and were lost sight of.
A young Sumter County Florida schoolteacher awoke from a nightmare in which she whipped a scholar. She cried out for the others to be good and study, prompting her mother to rush in and find her standing in bed, beating and kicking a pillow.
A St. Louis based synopsis of a Cherokee commission report urges risked price for lands and removal of Indians. It cites Secretary Noble noting potentially protective changes for settlers. A test case in the West concerns receivers bonds after homesteader Neff paid for land but no patent issued.
A report states Joshua C Knickerbacker a famed Chicago probate judge is stricken with apoplexy and may die. A national loan and savings association is proposed with headquarters at Yale and branches across Northern and Eastern cities. Capital set at 50 90 600. Proj ectors include J W Woodruff of Buffalo and Mr eree of Iowa. A Columbus Ohio dispatch notes Senator Robertson near death from paralysis in Sidney with Representative Lawler dangerously ill in Newark If Robertson dies Democrats may face a tight vote without Republican aid.
A boiler explosion at a mill near Carmi kills John Moore and Sam Cozart and injures two. A Westham England industrial school fire claims twenty four lives. The Commonwealth steamer sinks near Sea Island City with total loss of vessel and cargo. An unfinished Brierfield rail trestle collapse at Birmingham, Alabama kills David Webb and Carl Clark and injures twenty others. A hydrophobia death in Pine City, Minnesota follows dog bite. A Russian fisherman, Antonio Nicholas, is rescued after a capsized fishing boat near Point Bonito lighthouse. comrades drown.
A wide-ranging crime round up reports Giuseppe Ignatius de Lucca given fifteen years for murder in Tennessee. Havana official Luis Osteiza arrested in New York for forgery and public money embezzlement. Death by own action noted for Isadore Garr in Georgia. Kansas City janitor Robert Roberts shot after a long quarrel. Pugilist Frank Herald and con man Fred Mason nabbed in Philadelphia. Numerous other embezzlements arrests assaults and murders across the country including a shooter in Mitchell County North Carolina and a dynamite bombing in Iowa. The New York Supreme Court upholds electric chair method. A mass brawl in Moulton Iowa ends with many injured and a brutal case of Mrs. Eliza Holbrook’s death in Petersboro Canada drawing public ire.
The aged hermit known as Ham the Hermit was found burned to death in a lonely Wilmington hovel on a country road. The body showed death by fire during a paralysis stroke. A clay pipe with ashes lay near him. He lived alone, ate herbs and wild plants, and children visited to hear his tales of life as a supposed Roman.
Advices from Rio Janeiro state commerce is paralyzed amid worsening affairs with Vatican talks on Catholics in India. Southern Russia faces depression from poor crops, Black Sea grain trade halved since 1888. Crete sees more fighting as insurgents rout Turks and seize ammunition. Queensland floods submerge Normanton and surrounding areas up to twenty feet deep across 300 miles. Rio’s heat and a new yellow fever outbreak feared. A Milwaukee elevator system worth over 1,000,000 dollars sold to an English syndicate. The Harlow schooner reports 180 starving families at Flower’s Cove. relief may reach them via the west coast if ice clears.
A train of eighteen cars from Wichita Kansas carried clothing and food including flour meat and groceries to Stevens Morton and Hodgman counties. Suffering from cold and hunger is reported as relief efforts continue.
The Barnwell South Carolina lynching scene is described in graphic detail as eight Black men and two White men are found dead. The jury concludes death by gunshot wounds inflicted by unknown parties. No more trouble is reported.
Wheat and corn bids across New York Chicago Minneapolis reflect varied market levels. No. 2 red feed wheat rests around mid eighty cents, with oats soy and eggs showing modest shifts. butter and lard prices also noted, while Minneapolis lists flour, wheat, corn and flax figures alongside regional price ranges.
George Handler shot saloonkeeper David Sarvis and two policemen, Frank Hotz and Robert Truax, in Merrill Wisconsin after a tavern dispute. Sarvis died soon after, Hotz was wounded but expected to recover, and Truax was seriously hurt. A mob formed, lynching fears grew, and police fortified the jail as crowds gathered nearby.
Col Wilbur F. Sanders won the first U S Senate seat from Montana by unanimous vote in a noon joint session of the Montana legislature. Lee Mantle and others trailed for the second seat as Democrats failed to form a quorum. Knowles declined to run. Sanders, born 1834 in New York, pursued law in Ohio, fought in the Civil War, practiced in Bannack and Virginia City, and held multiple public offices before moving to Helena.
In the Forest Gate district of London the paupers school known as the boys' section at Whitechapel and Poplar unions burned during the night. Twenty six upper story inmates suffocated before rescue. Fifty eight boys were saved amid great excitement. two matrons escaped by water pipes. The superintendent and staff recovered several others. Six hundred persons housed in the institution. Bodies carried to the main hall as the blaze continued.
A deadly blaze ripped through a reform school leaving twenty six dead, mostly suffocated in beds. A vigilant boy monitor led evacuations, dragging and carrying several classmates to safety while others were driven out by flames. Thousands visited the scene as police managed the crowd.
In St Louis a divorced mother reports that Dr E H Coates abducted their two daughters Emma seven and Mamie five. He left for parts unknown after promising visitations, sending a letter claiming four and a half years of separation. Police issue descriptions and nationwide telegraphs to intercept them. Emma is described as a blonde with blue eyes and a peculiar gait. Mamie is also blonde with blue eyes.
James Burns reports in a New York paper praising English labor gains and eight hour aims, urging American workers to unite. Minnesota items note Duluth construction spend, St Paul immigration bureau push, fires, fatal accidents, a Red Wing death, and local crimes, with multiple weather and public-works updates across towns.
From Rio to New York a report portrays Brazil’s provisional junta as weak and unpopular. Police and soldiers patrol, quashing dissent while the public remains apathetic. Hope centers on Silvera Martins, jailed by the regime, with censorship masking the real situation. The Amazon loyalist flag issue spurs cadets to suicide.
Court officials report Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales are not in robust health. The queen has suffered rheumatism and general indisposition reducing public appearances. The Prince, though generally well, faces recurring ailments and limited stamina for seasonal sports, with medical advice urging moderation and care.
A long list of Wisconsin incidents reports arrests and verdicts across counties. Gritzmaecher eludes police in Minnesota while Dey ships roses from Pewaukee. Morris is sentenced in Chippewa Falls. Ward dies at Wrightstown aged 90, a former Fort Howard surgeon. Others involve robberies, accidents, railroad talks, pension grants, and a murder case at Mount Sterling.
The report tracks appointments and political moves in North Dakota including rumored revenue post and a war department recruit order. It notes Leeds to Jamestown railroad work, Thomas Ruger directive points, and immigrant survey plans. A grain grading dispute at Dazey and Hannaford shows farmer George Wright fighting No 2 grading with Cargill and Northern Dakota elevators.
Charles Reardon, a war veteran living in Alden, has become wildly insane. The Cedar Falls G A R post will look after his family.
A Muscatine county horse trade totals fifty three thousand dollars for farmers in the year. A man named Marshall fell seventy five feet while climbing a well shaft near Monroe and died from a broken neck. Elida is a town name near Oskaloosa with Evans as post office and Knoxville Junction as the railroad station. The Hickey case in Dubuque seeks twenty thousand dollars from the Chicago, St. Paul and Kansas City line after a Durango wreck. Missing Major D. E. Buck of Cedar Rapids grips attention amid family illness and financial loss. The Dwyer case in Davenport raises murder suspicions after a gled body was found under a freight car. Officer Grapengeter’s force frees tramplers in Davenport. Mason City hosts a Christmas dollar store run by George G. Home who vanished after debt. The Iowa legislature may fund grounds at the state capitol. A Carson confidence gang swindles two thousand dollars with green goods and fake bills. A Meralton dance ends in a fatal stabbing and a melee. Mrs. Anna Bradbury of Council Bluffs learns her abducted daughter has been located in Sault Ste. Marie and will visit home. Davenport relays a Christmas tale of a Minnesota family reuniting with a boy kidnapped years earlier.
A New York maiden, visiting sisters in Danbury, allegedly hid 3000 in one-dollar bills in a butter jar. The maid found the cash, the two sisters counted it on a bed, the husband returned stunned, and the funds were deposited at Paloquioque Bank in the maiden sister’s name.
In a fierce reproach, Mrs. Jimson mocks reports claiming Queen Victoria earns 1,950,000 dollars yearly. She disputes the sum and asserts she would gladly assume the role for half that amount, condemning the idea of such wealth for Windsor Castle.
A young girl fractured her arm weeks ago after a fall. The fracture was reduced and healing shows effort as the bones knit. The child, brave under pain, asks for relief as the doctor explains knitting while she feels the needles.
In Cleveland Ohio Judge Solders convicted seventeen year old Otto Leuth of murder in the case of Maggie Thompson and ordered the death sentence to be carried out at Columbus on April 16, reporting the court ruling with urged solemnity and confirmation of the defendant’s age and crime.
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