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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1893
Page
6
Tue Maharajah of Joudpore forbids his subjects from wearing clothing made abroad. He opposes goods produced by foreign pauper labor and discourages import of foreign fabrics.
In Winnipeg it costs two cents for a street car ride yet riders find it hardly worthwhile to travel far or to such a place to test the economy.
The government owns and operates Japan's railways, generating substantial revenue while travel rates remain relatively low.
A species of eyeless fish was discovered in a subterranean boiling spring within a Nevada mine. The creature cannot survive in water at ordinary temperatures and would perish if exposed to typical conditions.
Three new crematories were built in Germany last season and Italy now runs 22 crematories. In France 3741 bodies were disposed of by burning in 1891, reflecting rising cremation activity across the region.
A fragment notes the first envelope ever made rests in the British Museum. It laments the man who creates the adhesive used on cheap envelopes, alleging he should be jailed for his work.
The article asserts that Holland's cellular prison system, with complete offender isolation, is most effective in repressing crime and reforming criminals.
Frank Vincent the African explorer has departed Rangoon to push into the interior. He has already covered over 300000 miles without any serious disaster or accident.
A large crematory is to be built in St Petersburg to burn fallen animals and flesh banned by Health Commissioners. Previously carrion had been dumped into the water.
Queen Victoria sent cordial congratulations to Mr. Gladstone on his birthday. It notes the ease of forgiving a person for turning eighty three and suggests Her Majesty anticipates reaching the same age.
The text explains a somatotopic map in the brain where distinct regions correspond to senses and movements. It asserts separate brain areas for light perception, hearing, and finger motions, describing a organized cortical representation.
Several accomplished young women in New York are earning good salaries coaching society women on current topics. They advise on new books, attracting attention to new works of art, and interesting novelties in various other lines.
The article notes copper and brass melt in iron melting pots because their fusing points are below iron. It explains most metals are melted in earthen pots called crucibles, which are earthware jars of various sizes able to withstand high heat.
The city of Avignon inherited nearly 500000 francs from Marcelin a former local beggar who lived there for decades. His hidden funds were found on his body during burial preparations. The man’s sister reportedly starved to death a year earlier.
The estate of Prince Lucien Bonaparte offered a large and valuable library to the British Museum as a separate donation, to be kept apart from other books. The museum declined the arrangement due to its conservatism, and the offer was withdrawn.
In a tense interior dispute two or three families clinging to divine rights are seen engaging in problematic acts that raise complexity. The young duc d Orleans remains an enduring royal hopeful who may rise if the current government acts decisively and alertly.
Miss Eta Knowles was a candidate for Attorney General of Montana. A capable lawyer, she nearly won the election, but letters offering marriage have arrived from many men. The writer notes the public reaction and defers further commentary to women.
The article shadows President Hippolyte’s regime as executions replace tolerance. It wields sharp satire on his ascent from cautious diplomat to feared autocrat, noting repeated escapes from assassination and a public image sharpening into a bloody, stern ruler. The piece hints at unrest as subjects dwindle and a vast graveyard looms.
Gilbert A. Pierce of Minnesota receives presidential appointment as minister resident and consul-agent to Portugal. Chauncey M. Depew, as president of the New York Central, urged passage of the Cullom bill for railroad pooling before the House commerce committee, which will consider the matter. The War Department notes no new Mexican border policy and cites a railway along the border as key to maintaining order for troop movements.
The Caldwell and Peterson corrugating works in Wheeling West Virginia burned with losses estimated at 100000 with 45000 insured. A Chicago express on the Illinois Central derailed through an open switch at Manson Iowa but no injuries occurred. Easton Ohio financier M S Atkinson, director of the First National Bank of Alliance, was struck and killed by a freight train on the Fort Wayne line. Clara King, linked to a fatal New Year’s Eve private theatre stabbing in San Francisco, has been exonerated by a coroner’s jury. The Wisconsin steamer overcame a fierce gale at Grand Haven Michigan and the Roanoke left there for port. In Stronghurst Illinois two men were hit by a Santa Fe train. Moore died and Dixson was mortally injured. both horses perished. The Baxter heater exploded in a Davenport sleeping car but caused no damage except to the car. Col French of Davenport severed an artery while thrusting his fist at a window to air the car.
Personal notices detail Mrs. Anson Phelps-Stokes of New York worth 10 million dollars and Labouchere receiving 450000 for his share in the London Daily News. Elizabeth Garrett donates 500000 to Johns Hopkins to fund a co-ed medical department. Pioneer banker William H. Ladd of Portland dies. Commissioner Brennan gains 2192000 to clean New York streets next year. President Egan of Great Western discusses retaliation against Canadian railroads. Hon Robert Lincoln, on leave, arrives in London.
Six prisoners escaped from an Atlanta jail. Leoia Dilles, a young woman, committed suicide in Topeka by stepping in front of a moving train. Burglars raided the Bank of Lawrens, securing $500 but did not open the vault. In Louisville, Frank Sims died after a voodoo charm, and voodoo doctor George Fremont also died. Mrs. Tinkler, wife of ranchman John Tinkler, shot herself while en route to Billings from Wyoming. In Boston, Louis Wagner killed Mrs. Fanny Spear and then shot himself after she refused marriage. In Pittsburg, 11-year-old Stewart Rogers faces murder charges for the stabbing death of 12-year-old James Stiveson on Oct. 18. John May, son of legislator Capt. W. H. May, is missing with $5,000 in bonds. Albert Lancaster accompanies him. City Improvement Company bonds are at issue. May, a turf enthusiast, is believed to be returning.
Reports from across Europe and the Americas depict a wave of fear and turmoil. London reports cholera in Hamburg, deaths in Altoona, and a mine disaster near Retchitza. Wilmington notes a wedding of Miss Wayne Cuyler in London. Paris factory laws cut wages. strikes erupt in Nord. Quebec jail scandal surfaces amid alleged abuse. Elder John Stuart arrives with Mormon colonists to St. Rosalie. Quebec workers face destitution as rock-work delays loom. London Rome desk notes papal irritation over US appointment project. Buenos Ayres reports mediation failure in Corientes with battles possibly ongoing. Warsaw worries over brigandage in Russian Poland.
President Von der Ahe outlines the Browns outfield trio Brodie Dowd and Waruthers as primary fielders with Dick Buckley and Pietz catching. The report also notes fights, wagers, and plans across boxing, cycling, and athletics, including purses, challenges, and upcoming races. Cully Ferguson knocks out Arthur Stackpole in 26 rounds for a $200 purse. Goddard considers boxing match ventures and a move toward U.S. citizenship. Malana breaks 1,000 glass balls for a world record. several club purses totaling $82,000 are listed for upcoming events. The Metropolitan Club event in Providence is canceled due to city ordinance.
A set of legal and civic items from the era include a request for a rehearing in the Indiana apportionment matter, New Mexico seeking statehood via its legislature, a high court decision in the Stryker seminary taxation case, and an Interstate Commerce Commission ruling adverse to railroads in Minneapolis. Other notes report plans for a St Paul good roads convention January 25, a Leeds Improvement Company syndicate with $3 million capital, and several local incidents including a 117-year-old slave-turned-colonial-era figure’s death in Columbia South Carolina and a convict’s death in Arkansas.
A weekly Minnesota, North Dakota, Iowa, and Wisconsin brief reports indictments and sentences. John Flood, indicted for grand larceny at Hastings, is sentenced to the State Reformatory at St. Cloud. Charles Jones, Hastings larceny case, sent to state prison for 10 months. Also noted are riverman Ole Olson near Fountain City left with grave injuries, Brakeman Hawkins killed near Clontarf, and the Bank of Canton starting with $25,000 capital led by C Abbott president.
Wisconsin items report land purchase for a switch yard at South Superior by Omaha Railway, a West Superior contractor’s divorce, a Watertown woman’s fatal fall injury, a logging railway death near Marinette, a Thirty-second Regiment reunion at Ripon, Gov Fleck’s appointment of Samuel Johnson as surgeon general, Zion Lutheran Appleton to build a $20,000 church, a Convalley farmer found frozen, a Marshland boy’s shotgun accident, Ignatius Wogtaiches accused of stealing $1,150, a Madison adjutant nomination, a Kenosha pastor rumor, a Marshland dance shooting near Highland Prairie, a fire at Binder’s saloon in Antigo with major losses, West Superior WCTU pursuit of Harry Vanness’s 6 week old baby, and an Armourdale accident.
William Schultz of Cumberland received a two year sentence in the Waupun penitentiary after conviction in a United States court for taking a money order from Hayward post office belonging to Henry Rod eau and misappropriating the funds. Robert Moore of Hub City suffered a devastating loss as his dwelling and all contents burned, with his family narrowly escaping death. his granddaughter Rena Fullerton was thrown from a window to save her life and sustained a broken arm. W L Watson, claiming kinship to ex Governor Hubbard and a Harvard and Boston Conservatory background, was jailed in Madison for selling liquor in violation of law, with grand jury action pending. R F Hodson of Milton, Rock County, was severely bitten by a horse, losing part of his jaw and teeth and fearing blood poisoning.
North Dakota report notes Mrs. Fred Falley dies in Wisconsin. Adams resigns as agri culture and labor commissioner with Nelson Williams named in his stead. Bismark Odd Fellows building gutted. Braithwaite shoe stock ruined by water. Ellendale merchant Frank Jerabek assigns to Citizens Bank with $10,000 liabilities and $20,000 assets. Insanity ruling sends Marase Berg to Jamestown. Lisbon soldiers home near completion awaiting legislature funds. Jamestown judge's term clarified. World’s Fair board approves ND decoration plans. Young highwaymen from Devils Lake attract comment at the penitentiary. four youths sentenced for robbery or grand larceny.
A string of Iowa items reports H C Partie shot at his Ida Grove home while family suspects murder and public doubts a known cause. Danton Olney sues Chicago & Northwestern Rail for life-altering injuries. Des Moines hosts Iowa Press Assoc meeting with a banquet. J F Winter’s Mason City residence burns in an explosion while filling gasoline. B F Harcourt dies from injuries at Morning Side well collapse. Judge Dewey reduces Sam Peco’s murder sentence to 25 years. Des Moines learns of Judge Williamson’s death in Guthrie Okla at 72. William Berry shot dead near La Porte City after dispute with rival. Davenport men injured by steam on Rock Island sleeper en route to Des Moines. O’Leary and Ward arrested at Sioux City for burglaries with stolen goods and dynamite. Stolen goods tied to Charter Oak Otho Luton Salix Sloan crimes. Safes blown at Luton and Salix. stamps found in O’Leary’s clothing.
Chicago dispatch reports Ada Rehan’s rival Exie De Lambert from Minneapolis as the true model for a Montana silver statue. De Lambert alleges Parks chose her measurements, contradicting Rehan’s prominence and exposing competing claims about the sculpture’s proportions.
Redwood Falls Minnesota Special reports Judge Baldwin and attorney Beard and Gray attend New Ulm for the examination before Judge Webber of the imprisoned president and cashier of the P L Nunn, a partner of Judge Little and a Gray relative. They seek to prove illegal imprisonment under a habeas corpus writ.
Cheyenne Wyo Jan 10 Meeting of Johnson county residents in the city seriously weighs dropping the prosecution against the cattlemen or raiders. If carried to conclusion the case could bankrupt Johnson county. Some settlers feel cattlemen have already been punished with defeat imprisonment and losses of time and money.
Cotton Park Ark Jan 10 Ruban Atkinson a Russian farmer ten miles south of the town sold cotton Saturday and returned with cotton pickers to find his house ashes a charred woman and child body and the crime suspected as murder and robbery A partial confession from Paul Stubbs a Negro is reported with strong talk of lynching.
Early today a fire at Tetard & Carlinke store in Crested Butte spread rapidly due to a weak water supply, destroying a block of wooden buildings. Thirteen firms and several families were ruined, with losses around 70000 dollars and 50000 dollars insured. A powder explosion halted the blaze. Flying timbers injured three men.
In Tacoma, Jan 10, John D. Denetro attacked his wife with a hatchet at Roslyn, thinking her dead he fired a bullet into his own head. Domestic trouble was given as the motive. Mrs. Denetro is expected to recover. Denetro, an Italian, formerly ran a wholesale liquor business in St Louis before moving to Washington six years ago.
A major fire at Centerville New Brunswick on January 10 wiped out Wilkinson and Burtswood's working factory Mackenzie's blacksmith works Capt D G Perkins' residence Fitzgerald and Son's shoe factory and H G White's store. The estimated loss is $150000 with partial insurance.
Washington Jan 10 Mr Watson introduced in the house a bill to create the office of national inspector of cotton and grain to oversee post office money orders issued on those commodities and to provide for payment of such orders.
Berlin endures heavy snowfall as sleighs replace cabs and wheels. A Saar district miners strike tightens coal supply, worsening hardships while the temperature drops to six degrees below zero.
In Dubuque Iowa the bill of exceptions was completed today in the Graves case the Commercial National Bank president convicted. An appeal has been taken to the United States Supreme Court.
In Lincoln Nebraska the Senate met and pressed bolted Republicans Clarke Everett Lobeck and McDonald into line for the first ballot. Future votes will pit monopolists against anti monopolists as anti monopoly Republicans and Democrats may team with Independents to pass railroad and stock yard regulation. No decisive action yet on the senatorial fight.
Citizens in Minto North Dakota condemn Gov Burke for pardoning James Collins who was sentenced to life for the murder of Lyman Moore four years ago Collins has fled the country and locals fear lynch sentiment. The governor promises an explanation and residents await it.
Henry L Gregory of Jordan River Hancock County Mississippi, a storekeeper, vanished with companions while traveling to settle with merchants. He reappeared in Bay City telling how he was abducted, confined, robbed, and nearly killed by a group of men suspected to be Sicilian criminals tied to the Mafia.
Grain prices across Chicago Minneapolis and Saint Paul show bids for wheat rye oats barley and corn with multiple grades and prices. Live stock markets in Saint Paul and Chicago report prime and common cattle steers cows veal calves stockers feeders hogs sheep and lambs with varied price ranges.
James J. Brooks remains missing as authorities seek him on charges of misappropriation of $95,000 in cash in Sioux City Iowa. No further details or updates have been released as of January 10.
New York Jan 10 John A McCall president of New York Life Insurance disputes a 750000 embezzlement claim tied to Brussels saying no defalcation occurred there and Guders the Brussels manager who is a banker and millionaire would have been implicated if such a loss existed the saved branch handles little business and a large theft would be unlikely.
In Grand Forks North Dakota the chamber of commerce passed resolutions urging Congress to perpetuate the Turtle mountains reservation as a national timber park and to assure national control of quarantine regulations due to danger from cholera.
English sports official George W. Atkinson reports Charley Mitchell is in Pentonville jail. He states Mitchell is forced to treadmill work twice daily, with likely lighter duties for the remainder of his confinement.
In Madrid, the count of Paris travels with his son Ferdinand Francis toward Seville where the countess and family are expected to join. Orleanist princes and counsellors may gather at San Telmo palace or San Lucar to fix conduct ahead of French elections. Sagasta reportedly will bar demonstrations as negotiations with France for a commerce treaty approach.
The Koch Cigar company has been incorporated here with a capital stock of 1000 dollars. Henry Texton named president and Henry Kech as secretary and manager.
The remote resort at Reelsfoot Lake in Obion County Tennessee arose from the 1811 earthquake sinking land and now hosts hunters and fishermen. It features sunken timbered terrain, willow and cypress islands, and shanties on rafts. Locals dress in canvas, long boots, and sugar loaf hats. poaching is harshly dealt with and blacks are barred from hunting. Climate brings malaria like slow fever so it will not become a hunter’s paradise.
Richard Palmer, a blind man, was guided by his eight year old son in a country garden in New South Wales. A venomous snake wound around his leg as a glass of water slipped from his hand, and the glass diverted the strike. In a second incident a snake drank from a milk glass at his table, prompting help from a native servant to kill a seven foot serpent.
Trobert Louis Stevenson notes the uncivil kindness of Americans after he leaves an emigrant train. A sick traveler with a broken car door catch, he endures a rude newsboy but receives a kind anonymous gift of a pear from a reader who notices his condition. The journey ends with tenderness and shared newspapers.
M. Desire Charnay records a concert by Prince Mancou-Nagoro the fourth of his name in Java. The sixty-piece orchestra wore black gowns and turbans and played copper pots gongs and bowed lutes on bronze stands. Voices of women added haunting contrast as the prince beamed with pride.
A new signaling system for lighthouses will debut at Cape Charles. The light will show a code 45 with four bright flashes, followed by five seconds of darkness, then a 15 second gap before the next cycle. Intensified by a reflector on the dark side of the lenses, the full lamp light is utilized. devised by Captain Mahan of the U S engineers.
Northwest Arkansas pioneer Jim Hart tells how Bearskin, a bear hunter, and he treed three bears in a cave near Grindstone Mountain in winter. They torched the cave, retrieved the bears asleep inside, killed them, and skinned them on the spot. Bearskin grumbled yet ity. The meat lasted all winter and was good.
Judge Denman told of a youth who shot his drunken stepfather after witnessing the abuse of his mother. The boy faced potential penal servitude, but the judge showed mercy. The youth later served as a respected petty officer in the navy, and the stepfather reformed amid a tale of mercy and forgiveness.
M Thouar recounts six days of fatigue while guarding against a Toba ambush in South America. A sentry nods off, Thouar spots a tree that moves imperceptibly, and they feign sleep. When the disguised assailant comes close, Thouar fires and injures a Toba hunter clutching the camouflaged branch.
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