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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1891
Page
6
The Connecticut superior court issues a second decision sustaining Governor Bulkeley as the de facto executive. A Chicago physician harms a wound after leaving it untreated due to an unpaid bill. The city features harsh penalties for rioters, while China asserts decisive action against those involved in recent riots and massacres.
The princess of Wales urged her photographer to place royal family likenesses on fine china, sparking public interest. The idea has spread nationwide with England embracing personalized crockery and New York beginning to follow suit.
Peru avoids bold forecasts about its World’s Fair exhibit and vows to do its best. The restrained stance tends to disarm critics and present a measured national image.
Herbert Spencer writes to Dr Jones of the Brooklyn Ethical Society reflecting that he once believed conclusive proofs would alter beliefs but his experience has dispelled faith in men's rationality.
The Dominion Parliament shows support for the new government with a twenty vote majority. Premier Abbott faces the challenge of maintaining unity and firm control unlike Sir John Macdonald, whose vigor defined earlier leadership.
European governments fear rising exodus of their subjects. The vast majority flee to the United States, a republic where rulers are unseen and citizens seek new opportunity.
Before departing Paris the ex Empress Eugenie greeted the obese ex Queen of Spain and paid her respects. The writer laments that empresses and queens do not add ex to their titles or limit duties to such exchanges.
Sing Sing prison will execute six murderers by electricity next week. The crimes are well known to old citizens and explained to the younger generation before the executioner presses the button.
A Connecticut man who invented a device to protect hen roosts contemplates traveling South to exhibit it, joking that the coons might hunt him instead. The piece notes Southern traditions are deeply rooted and unlikely to change.
It is reported that Gladstone, England's grand old man, is gradually failing in health. His physicians urge a complete rest from active labor, though his energy at an advanced age has astonished the world. Admirers insist he deserves a vacation after decades of public service.
Reports describe a cyclone that yanked the Baptist church steeple at Charleston, Missouri. The storm then struck the theater, removing the roof. Observers speculate the event was guided by opposing forces of good and evil.
A deaf New York man who could not express himself to a quarrelsome neighbor seized the neighbor’s pug and painted it with stripes and spots, transforming the animal into a brindle in a display of artful frustration.
A Cawpox crank in Ohio proposes a contract with the Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture to produce rain at will. He claims a method to cause rain over 250000 square miles and to continue it as long as needed. The piece speculates such rain control could affect European royalty and urges procurement of his patent.
The Marchioness of Blandford and the Duchess of Marlborough clash over social snubs as the duchess angers the queen with her gossipy ways. Royal disapproval persists while the duchess keeps stirring tensions, illustrating how personal tensions ripple through high society.
A digest of posts from Washington notes the president issues a copyright proclamation and a shift of the weather bureau to the agriculture department under Marx W. Hanxixeton from Michigan. Reports show a treasury balance of 3,506,293 dollars plus fractional silver. Secretaries Spaulding and Netteron discuss universal postal union rules and Japanese nationals related to a Chicago project. Venezuela accepts tariff reciprocity and authorizes a commercial arrangement with the United States.
Personal news from Paris reports Lavicene gravely ill. Iowa Republicans nominate Hiram C. Wuestex for governor. The pope declares he will not concede St Raphael Society demands to Cardinal Gibbons. Gianstoxe nears recovery. Morley visits en route to rest. Queen bestows dignity of rage on Lady Macdonald, widow of Sir John. Archbishop Kater begins duties. pallium due in fall. Le Baron Ressens Brrees becomes Harvard College dean succeeding Clement L. Smith who served since 1882. Queen grants Lady Macdonald a new peerage as Countess of Earnscliffe.
A string of fires causes heavy damage: Warrex and Ewrxe's Bowling Green store losses reach 40 000 with 30 000 insured. Chatillon near Lake Bourget France sees several fatalities. Seventy first regiment armory in New York burns with 320 000 loss, half insured. Lake Michigan collision sinks Storke with no deaths. Mount Tamalpais fires threaten summer homes near San Rafael California. San Francisco China town lodging house destroyed with one woman dead and five others burned. Missouri River decline eases flood fears.
Reports of multiple armed incidents and crimes across the U S. Incidents include a man shooting in Tren ton Missouri a counterfeiter arrested in Cumberland Maryland several killings and assaults in Massachusetts New York New Jersey and California plus robberies attempted bombings and a guard or detective arrival in Denver. Victims by name include William Pugh Isaac Rash and Theodore Lady among others.
The harvest in Russia this year is expected to be the worst on record. Lord Sauissury told Irish geers he will not pursue further quenchment of the Irish land bill, and his stance has effectively quelled the measure.
Reports describe insurrection casualties at 280 killed on May 28. Emperor William decorates Marquis Di Rudini. Russia invites participation in the world’s fair. Wales tin plate stoppage may remove 750 000 boxes monthly. Arturo Garcia found dead near Artemisa Havana amid uncertain killers. Buenos Aires bloodless revolution in Santiago province. President De Lestero resigns. Commons debates anti slavery pact Brussels meeting. Sir William Gordon Cummings remains deputy lieutenant of Elginshire. Napolon Ney named in Chicago fair commission. Art freight policy eases display at the fair. Russian policy toward Jews sparks debate in Frankfort. Lacrame, ex president of Hayti, seeks Hayti via Kingston. Berlin director Vervex seeks English art purchases. Calderons St Elizabeth of Hungary painting controversy persists in Parliament.
Reiy of the Pittsburgs plans an appeal of his Elk expulsion. A tax race narrows to Boston versus St Louis. Billie Bante denies stepping down as Baltimore club manager. Kilrain drew first blood on Slavin in a recent bout as Jere Dann bets. Kesster of Butte seeks $500 against La Blanche after a prior Marine victory. Pitchers Schultz and Smith released. Piteler Spaulding and Ed Cassian signed. Reppy Gallacher and young Mitchell set for September bout at $5,000 purse with Occidental club San Francisco.
Receivers Eddy and Gross of the Missouri Kansas & Texas will turn the railway over to stockholders, with new officers in charge. Boston and Maine directors approve a 5.5 million dollar stock issue to cover debt and fund improvements. A 4 million dollar bridge will span the St Lawrence to link with the Quebec canal.
Labor activity spans Cleveland, New York, Huntington, Fingley, and Chicago with strikes and suspensions. The Cleveland cloakmakers strike ends while New York printers and glass factory workers face wage and schedule battles. 35 workers lose jobs in Huntington as a Pittsburgh company suspends operations. The Knights of Labor and Federation of Labor clash over Washington bureau plate printers. Thousands idle in Colorado and Chicago longshoremen join a widening strike.
A Baltimore receiver case stalls in New York with J Hill denying failure and planning action by Jan 1. A new Queen Insurance Company of America is formed in New York with $500 000 capital. Minnesota to close Equitable Insurance for questionable methods. Rockford mill sold for 200 000 to American esregl pompan amid trust absorption. Philadelphia judge Butler orders Centennial Finance funds to stockholders. Private claims court held first meeting in Denver. J K Ganner named receiver for Edward W Green in Savannah. Hollins Co claims total 101 000. Free Russia transfer from London to New York eyed with George Kennan to edit. June Pennsylvania oil field shows production drop and Ohio shows decline. Colorado notes disparities. five feet of water at Selton. artesian wells in basin. New York Life Insurance plans libel suit against the Times. claimed damages about 1 000. Jesse H Luren, American Graphophone sole licensee, files liabilities 1 191 050 with assets 3 471 938 nominal and 168 050 actual. most assets held as collateral.
A rear-end collision near Ravenna Ohio injures twelve and kills twenty-one as a freight plows into an Express and baggage car. Fire rages through wreckage as rescue crews battle flames and pull survivors from burning timbers.
Dispatches report a burst water pipe during a royal banquet at Windsor Castle attended by the queen and emperor of Germany. Fire brigade extinguished the leak after wall flooding, guests resumed dining despite damp conditions and delay.
Reuben Thornton aged eighty six and a Cottage Above resident died this morning. He stood as an old resident of Cottage Above in Hastings Minnesota, and death occurred at four store. The notice appears in the July eight issue.
New York July 8 Young William Duncan alias E Valdes who in January stole $30,000 in precious stones from Lewesohn Co Maiden Lane was arrested last night at the Astor house. He deposited a box in the hotel safe and was seized after the police searched the hotel. He hails from St Louis.
The president named postmasters for offices raised to presidential class including Charles F. Little at Glendive Montana and Mrs. Alice Shannon at Red Lodge Montana. Others listed were William A. Keister Greene Iowa Benjamin F. Bixby Walnut Iowa Thomas M. Purtell Cumberland nee Thomas Reese Kaukauna Wisconsin Cyrus W. Hitchcock Custer South Dakota Charles F. Mallahan Elk Point South Dakota Joseph A. McIntyre at Bignuey Iowa and a new postmaster at Sreа Kandiyohi county Nels N. Nelson. Also notes on railway federation council elections and reorganization of the Firemen's Brotherhood Conductors and Switchmen.
The report notes rapid growth in cancer care since the commissioner's tenure. It covers April through June 27 and cites a substantial increase over the previous year. The document also mentions issued patents and a broader departmental impact.
Jacob Leiby of Frankfort was arrested today on a charge of selling liquors without a government license. He appeared before United States Commissioner Fred Grant at Huron and gave bond of $100 for appearance. Leiby has been arrested several times on similar charges by state authorities but never convicted.
In an interview Quay dismisses the Independents' address as wholly false. He denies involvement in ballot reform, asserts the Republican party supported it, and says he knew little of Bardsley, claiming no dealings with him. He calls the accusations preposterous and false.
A McGregor to Sioux City passenger train wreck near Lansing Iowa on July 4 left Engineer Charles Todd dead after he stayed with the engine to set air brakes and sand valves to save passengers. Fireman escaped. A twelve year old is among suspects. indictments spread to La Crosse via Milwaukee rail workers report.
Fred Mixter of the St Paul board of trade was seriously wounded in Chicago in the Pickwick flats ante room on Michigan avenue and Twentieth street. Two assailants fired three shots, one hitting him in the forehead. the robbers fled the scene.
The notes list numerous grain and feed prices by grade and region including No 2 spring wheat No 4 spring wheat No 2 red No 2 corn No 2 oats No 2 rye No 2 barley flax seed and timothy seed with per bushel or ton ranges. It also covers St Paul Minneapolis and Milwaukee flour and wheat quotes with cash and futures levels and varies by grade and delivery.
Col L C Alberger, Lake Street Elevated proprietor, says an arrangement to make his line the Chicago terminal of the Canadian Pacific is essentially completed. CP would gain a right of way through the city to a planned lakefront terminal for the Michigan Central and Illinois Central rail lines. Bond guarantees for the Lake Street Elevated are implied, with construction stalled awaiting bond flotation.
Testimony before Coroner Sherman in Ravenna shows freight train exceeded time by at least three minutes, clearing Fred Boynton of the Gegmen of improper flagging. Car Inspector 8. C. Arnold of Kent testified the delay helped explain inability to stop the freight in time. Conductor Boynton and his son, the flagman, denied reports of twelve passengers being panicked.
The census bureau reports Nevada at 45,761, down 16,505 or 26.51 percent since 1880. Idaho stands at 84,385, up 51,775 or 158.77 percent during the decade.
Special Robert E. Reese a mining operator died tonight after cutting his throat in a fit of mental aberration. He formerly lived in Fairfield county Ohio where he practiced law and was twice elected to the state senate. He owned extensive mining properties in the Northwest.
Albert Parnitzke shot and killed James Warner after entering Warner’s sister’s room and making indecent proposals. Warner drove him out, then Parnitzke shot Warner with a bullet to the chest. Lynching parties scour the region seeking the suspect.
The jury, facing the fate of Col. H. Clay King charged with the March murder of David H. Poston, is secluded in the criminal court ante-room after Judge Dubuse moved to adjourn until Monday morning. The court will reconvene if a verdict is not reached.
Washington special telegram reports Governor Ferry issued orders to aid civil authorities in King County to quell rioting and break up disturbances. The National Guard may be called out if needed, after which disarmament will be followed by sheriff enforcement to maintain peace.
A roundup of Minnesota news. Ralph Calkins drowns at Fairmont, Peter Franti faces arreSt for debt in Wadena, stock thefts and burglaries reported in Kan d yonehi and Clearwater, bond issue passes in Traverse County for a new courthouse, lightning kills livestock near Warsaw, and Austin to build a $50,000 flax plant.
Prouty Livestock Company received 5 000 sheep from Idaho and placed them on Leeds range. Supreme Court affirms Steele county district court in Joslyn vs Megghan. Grand Forks Lutheran college contract awarded to M F Morgan for 13 630 dollars. An old trapper imports 40 beavers on Grand River south of Dickinson. 20 men at Walker's saw mill Grand Forks strike for 25 cents daily. some return to work. Third prairie fire case against Northern Pacific tried in Steele district court. verdict for Smith in plasheater case for 1 450 dollars, totaling 4 000 across cases with four more to try. G A R encampment at Pinions Lake in eight town hosted veterans from Central North Dakota. weeklong event with special programs daily.
The will of Mrs. Mary I Dayton was filed for probate in Aberdeen. A new company forms to develop cement beds near Mitchell. Nels Johnson of Canby Minnesota jailed at Redfield for stealing a nettve and carriage at Clark. A dynamite accident fatally injures a mining claimant ten miles from Rapid City. Isaac Boyer dies of heart failure aged sixty five leaving children in Chattanooga Chicago Iowa Spokane Falls. Henry Hoefert arraigned at Salem and bound over to circuit court.
The Northey and Duncan flouring mill at Woonsocket switches to artesian well power. Water started recently, delivering steady 100 pound pressure and driving all machinery through a 1 7/8 inch nozzle. Albert Kremer is mentioned in a separate forced payment case of 500 dollars.
Vessels Bissel and King load 1 500 000 feet of boards at Conors Point West Superior for Tonawanda parties. Miss Mary Moore and Frank Wyman wed at the bride’s home in Durand. Tower slip dock work to begin at West Superior with $75 000 in recent public works estimates. Ministers meet at Eau Claire to urge Mayor Ure to ban Sunday baseball and liquor sales. Buffalo man Jack Whalen injures wrist after glass breaking on a train at West Superior. Special circuit term in West Superior for state v Jack Richardson, murder suspect. Eau Claire seeks sixth normal school with sites donations and July 8 board meeting. Death of Prof H C Howland of Eau Claire. Janesville Fifth Ward school accident kills Patrick Hageney John Flaherty and Richard T Bennivitz.
Gov Boies appeals for aid for flood sufferers. In Des Moines Frank Pierce shot E H Wishart and was jailed. Wishart’s death reported. Drowned 16-year-old Robert Nix in Dubuque. Elopement arrests in Laporte Clinton bail set and released. Cattle thefts tied to Frank Evans Bloomfield. Two Dubuque rail workers injured likely to die. Names include Max Gillis Rhinhart Peters La Crosse.
A noted author argues the phonograph replaces the stenographer, noting daily use for drafting, bedside note taking, and rapid copy work. He cites yearly phonograph costs around $40 for rent and $2 per cylinder, comparing favorably to stenography.
A tale from Calcutta concerns a lady who called at a house in the Upper Ten and left her visiting card. Her husband, learning of the visit, sought its return but could not locate the card in his wife’s visiting list and tore it up, preventing a response.
A historical note claims soaking tobacco and cigars in quinine may destroy nicotine and offer a harmless influenza prevention. It advises four hours in a strong quinine solution, then drying the tobacco, presenting this speculative remedy as a possible, non harmful tonic with unimpaired aroma.
A humorous caption exchanges a boy asking if Mrs. Brownston is happy because she owns a house. The punchline notes she can have many children since she has a whole house to herself, reflecting a social joke about property and family norms.
Honorable James C. Carter argues in the U S Supreme Court that Congress exceeded its constitutional powers in enacting the lottery law. He contends the statute aims to suppress lotteries by withdrawing mail facilities, a power not supported by the Constitution and beyond incidental regulation of the postal service. He cites Marshall and Webster to claim such means fail the necessary and proper test and would unlawfully impede lawful pursuits.
The text argues that regulating lotteries lies exclusively with state governments. It warns that Congress could not ban or restrict such activities by mail, as this would usurp local authority. It questions the court’s limits if federal power expanded to disfavor occupations nationwide.
The text argues that publishing equals circulating and that Congress may not unjustly suppress newspapers by blocking mail circulation of matter. it discusses whether laws banning certain print matter amount to prior restraint and censorship, weighing the power to regulate and the danger to press freedom in a constitutional context.
A Teller Institute supervisor sought guidance after discovering a Navajo pupil had an extra toe and requested government shoes. Secretary Noble replied with a comically literal suggestion to remove the sixth toe, prompting further requests and a final harsh response.
A jury verdict in a murder trial ends with an acquittal. The exchange questions jurors about their reasoning while noting the defense claim of insanity. Kate Field's Washington reports the dramatic contrast between evidence and outcome.
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