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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1900
Page
2
A collage of satirical and humorous quips from Brainerd Minnesota editorials. Witty lines on gender wealth and ambition reflect early 20th century social mores while hinting at broader world events and opinions.
American grain handlers push to build storage elevators in Montreal as canal deepening grows. Montreal legislative ban on log exports forces Michigan lumbermen to move saw mills toward Georgian Bay, signaling potential retaliatory measures to challenge Canadian policy.
In 1896 a party of thirty men left Chicago chasing a legendary El Dorado said to yield 280 ounces of gold per ton. The quest proved false. survivors endured starvation and illness and now seek to return to Lake Michigan shores where winter life offers only shoveling snow to survive.
An actress halted a New York theater performance to quiet chatter in a box. The moment drew a stern rebuke and the audience reflected on whether the rebuke was deserved. Madame Marchesi recalled a similar incident when chatter interrupted her singing.
A Chicago plan seeks a two year course in domestic science for seventh and eighth graders. It covers not only cooking but purchasing hearty economical foods, table layout, menus, and total house management. Backed by educators and sociologists, it aims to raise living conditions and serve as female manual training.
American energy and enterprise are stamping themselves on the European and Asiatic mind and stimulating effort as never before. A mechanical turn is being given to the awakening mind of all the people with whom we come in contact.
General Butler shows no marked superiority over other British officers in advance but proves notably candid in recounting events. He speaks clearly and intelligently about what occurred, offering a refreshing willingness to disclose details.
A roundup of late reports includes W J Law of Chebanse killed by a train in Illinois. Fires in Chicago and Elizabeth N J cause substantial losses while a gas well blaze in W Va threatens vast output. Deaths include Will Morgan near Stillman Ga and Alonzo Hempke in Detroit. others note political and military developments in Alabama and Manila.
John E. Baldwin receives a full pardon after twenty two years in Sing Sing for murder. Louis Kraus and T C Lord of Joliet Illinois die by their own hand. Kraus hangs and Lord poisons. A four year old child burns in Irving Michigan near an open stove. Peter Borey, afflicted with illness, dies by suicide with a shotgun. Allen M Kent Jr extradited from Japan pleads guilty to forgery in Jamestown New York and is sentenced to three years. George A Wilson of La Salle Illinois duels a burglar. marauder wounded and escapes. Edwin Ray Snow pleads guilty to murder in Yarmouth Massachusetts and faces execution March 18. Ross Raymond an Eastern newspaper man gets sixty days as a vagrant for possession of illegal papers in Milwaukee. Jerome Descio of Washington identifies Charles Hoyt as a gang member who robbed a Pittsburg store of eight thousand dollars in diamonds March 16, 1907.
A digest of 1900s era items notes Kaiser Wilhelm's expanding navy, Pope Leo XIII designating Cardinal Gotti, Panama canal labor plans, Paris pro and anti German views, and ongoing trials. It reports Cuban and Guam events, China open-door debates, a Bombay plague resurgence, and monarchic engagements, with royal amnesty decrees and naval reorganization pledges cited.
A roundup of prominent figures who died, including Rev. John G. Fee founder of Berea College in Kentucky at eighty four, Frank Schnadhorst longtime Liberal party organizer, Arnold Schneider once Belgian vice consul now in an asylum, Hiram J. Bailey Omaha dry goods pioneer, and captains and officials linked to Morgan line and U S steam vessel boards. Also William H. Putnam the undertaker connected to Lincoln funeral history, Gen Israel Putnam descendant, ex consul O F Drentzer of Norway, and A Studer long serving U S consul at Sorrento Naples.
A pension system starts on the Pennsylvania railroad. California gold and silver output rose in 1899, Alaska's glela doubled, Michigan may see another special session. Fire engine makers form a $9 million capital group. Chile exports nitrate over 30 million quintals. A Chicago zinc combine forms to control US output. Astor donates £1000 to the Prince of Wales hospital fund. Ohio seeks $800000 for a Toledo 1902 exposition. Inducements for trusts to move to Canada are individual, not government driven. Johns Hopkins marks Dr Gilman’s silver jubilee. Brazil Indiana miners send seventeen delegates to Indianapolis. Capt. Concas cites Sampson reports as misreported, Schley praised. Mass sympathy gathering for Boers in New York with Mason, Sulzer, Cummings speeches.
London dispatches report rumors that Gen Buller crossed the Tugela with twelve guns and moves on Ladysmith. Gen White holds out near Ladysmith as Boers pause, ammunition scarce, officers and men lost, while reinforcements and guns prepare, with heavy Boer losses noted by the Buller dispatch.
London reports scarce war news from Natal since Sunday. Press editorials urge larger forces and call for mobilization of militia and volunteers. Officials discuss transport shortages, censorship, and possible leadership changes as casualties near 7,214 killed or missing.
In a maiden Senate speech Indiana's Juni or Senator Beveridge argues the United States must hold the Philippine archipelago and administer a strong government. He condemns calls to quit and blames anti expansionists for American casualties. Senate foes reply that policy, not Opposition, fuels the fighting. King Leopold seeks intervention talks. no Ladysmith bombardment reported.
In Chicago on January 10 strikers attacked workers at the intercepting sewer on Thirty ninth Street near Wentworth Avenue. A striker named Roger O'Brien was fatally shot as the fight drew more than a dozen shots. Several strikers were arrested.
In view of bubonic plague in the Orient and in South America Surgeon General Wyman requests 25000 dollars additional for quarantine service to be appropriated as an urgency deficiency item.
Foreign bankers in Caracas propose to advance 16,000,000 bolivars if salt mines are pledged as guarantee for repayment of the government loan.
Latest quotations from St Paul Minneapolis Duluth Milwaukee Chicago and Sioux City. Prices show wheat No 1 Northern around 63 1 4 to 66 cents per bushel and corn No 2 about 30 to 31 cents. Oats and barley follow regional variations with rye and spring wheat also listed. Cattle hogs and sheep trade summaries include crossing prices at Chicago and regional buyers. Market activity notes steady to higher tones in many centers.
Generals Rabi Miro Lara and Castro arrived from Havana to Santiago Cuba greeted by 5000 at the wharf. They spoke at Cuban club receptions and a plaza gathering about their conference with Gen Wood with differing views but shared hope that independence may be achieved. Cubano Libre urged a hard policy and pledged readiness to shed blood to expel the intruder.
A boiler explosion at Bishop's shop in Dubuque Iowa wrecked the boiler room and part of the workshop. One man was killed and another badly injured.
Hutchinson Kansas January 11 Alexander McCord a cattleman is arrested on a warrant charging him with killing H Davis a fellow cattleman. Davis was well known in Kansas and the West.
Gloucester Massachusetts reports four crew members of the Fishing Schooner Edith F Wall were drowned while trawling off the Newfoundland coast on New Year’s Day.
New York report says actor Roland Reed was doing nicely at St. Luke's Hospital last night after an undisclosed illness or injury.
In Chicago on January 11 Mrs Maude Johnson, a Black resident, was shot dead by John M Toner who then wounded himself fatally. Toner, a 54-year-old white wealthy man, had lived with her and they had moved from Terre Haute Indiana three weeks earlier.
Three men were injured by an explosion at Gottfried's brewery located at Archer and Stewart avenues in Chicago on January 11. One man is believed to be fatally hurt as a result of the blast.
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