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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1891
Page
2
Tur Itata has paid Uncle Sam $500 for violation of the navigation laws. The question of violating neutrality laws remains to be adjudicated, but it is believed the Chilean ship will not suffer materially at the hands of the United States.
The inventor’s device could render outdoor scenes unnecessary as a pneumatic system would blow fresh air from the waters into the panorama. The remark envisions summer scenes without travel, using improved motion picture tech to capture lakeside atmosphere.
Jack Hexyner a Scotch dog belonging to Henry Benner of Macon gained fame for rat killing. He killed twenty one rats in fifteen minutes and fainted after finishing. The rats were described as monster sized, nearly as large as an ordinary squirrel.
A Chicago man claims to have invented a gas generator to rival natural gas from Pennsylvania. Public interest follows past Promises and performances of Mr. Pennington in air ships, as spectators doubt Chicago schemes.
George Smith argues before the Boston Scientific Society that heat and gravity tie together by mass. He contends that heat is a form of gravity, so a larger body should be hotter, implying greater discomfort for the fat man than the lean one.
Le Baron RusszLu Brices, about thirty five, appointed Dean of Harvard University. Known outside as writer of farces and comediettas published in magazines, his promotion signals a shift to placing young men in positions of responsibility.
Mapemiga king of Segon appointed by Archinald insists his royal post remain subordinate to his telegraph service. Mademba, native ruler and former Senegal telegraphs controller, holds authority and seeks to preserve his employment status on the telegraph list. Progressive hammocks trend draws crowds with swinging games and a bell system, plus fines for powder or long hair.
In Philadelphia the lone surviving original continental flag is believed held by the City Troop. It is displayed in two large plate glass panels to protect it, and removal might cause it to crumble. The flag resembles the English jack, was designed by a committee including Benjamin Franklin in 1776, and the first American standard later approved by Congress followed.
Reports from Sierra Leone claim suppression of the slave trade along the coast has sparked fresh bloodshed. Coomassie is said to have seen as many as 300 killed in a single day. Wangaru raids into Dagomba devastate villages and seize over 2000 captives for a three day sacrificial feast.
J Hoyton of the agriculture department in San Francisco reports significant irrigation progress east of the Rocky Mountains. Private capital funds plains projects and wells drainage gravitation and surface methods may supply water for portions of every quarter section and sustain crops and families. He notes northern New Mexico irrigation could add about 50 million acres to arable land at elevations previously thought unsuitable.
Porters figures show fewer paupers in the United States. The treasury bought 195000 ounces of silver at about 1.07 to 1.08. The offers reached 1091000 ounces. France’s Bastille anniversary was celebrated in several cities. Secretary Wantox sent instructions to Profs Mendenhall and Merrian for Alaska seal fisheries inquiry. A libel over arms and ammunition was filed in Los Angeles. Keystone bank stock assessment could reveal ownership. Government buildings plan Chicago consultations. Spoutorne forbids import of cancelled stamps. duty rules apply with fines for >10 cents.
Mrs Langtry sustains serious injuries after an assault by a jealous admirer. Secretary Blaine proclaims himself in good health. Count William Bismarck, son of Prince Bismarck, resigns as Hanover regency president and plans retirement to his father’s Warren estate. The Hamlin will, dated Aug 3 1876, is filed for probate with no public bequests. A Bangoree movement seeks a popular subscription monument to the ex vice president. General Powderly declines the Worlds Fair commission seat after Gov Pattison appointment, seeking freedom to critique public action.
A 3 year old girl dies in a fire at 268 and 278 State Street New York. A violent wind storm topples a large West Superior Wisconsin hotel killing five. Hanlon brothers athlete is killed at Lyons Iowa by a trapeze collapse. A landslide at Skeena river North Pacific cannery destroys Indian lives. Injuries from a Kilkenny Minnesota runaway. two mortals confirmed dead. Aspen Colorado railroad accident scalds thirteen passengers with seven deaths. Pittsfield Massachusetts Bracken brick block fire harms Bent Brothers carriage works Canfield hardware millinery stores. Ravenna Erie wreck report by M J McInanna removes most blame from flagmen, pins on freight crew. Topeka Kansas fourteen year old Robert Ellis shot dead near church. killer unknown.
A string of violent cases spans multiple states, including a Tacoma saloon shooting with one death, a policeman killing an attacked burglar, suicides and murders in Arkansas, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Tennessee. Notable events include a teacher slain by a pupil in Monticello, and a Utah or nearby shooting spree involving officials and civilians. The reports sketch a turbulent period with robberies, duels, and public shootings across locales.
Curran insurgents are defeated. A Lunatic shoots at President Carnot of France but injures none. Russia opposes American pork. Tur Chilian insurgents badly defeat the government at sea. Detectives seek a Greek prince's stolen watch in Havifax. Portugal cuts wheat duty to seven reis. Prince Edward Island legislature endorses US Canada reciprocity. Admiral Walker's closure of lobster factories provokes criticism. Russian papers dissatisfy over the German king's England visit. Russia and France urged against English Egypt occupation. Vera Cruz judge holds American schooner William Karem for contraband. France Haiti accord settles Rigaud shooting and indemnity. Metz election: 9 Germans, 23 Protestants. Alsace-Lorraine concern. Costa Rica seeks US reciprocity. exhibit planned for Chicago. Dowcay acquitted by insanity, detained for disposition. Glucose plant control rumor denied. Britain’s world fair commission: Arts Society council, Prince of Wales, Sir Richard Webster. grant to reach 1 million. Exhibit expected to outshine rivals.
Kansas City releases Prrcuer Conway while Denver sells Right Fielder Curtis to Cincinnati. Ruvey and Longstreet race for 1000 dollars with 5000 on the line on an unseen date. Oxford University Boat Club invites Harvard Boat Club to a Thames rowing contest scheduled for early September.
The Lake Street elevated railroad stockholders vote to raise capital from 3 million to 5 million dollars to fund proposed extensions. The Western Traffic association holds a New York meeting, adjourns without progress, and is expected to fade from view.
Workers in Toledo 482 street railway employees strike from 1.65 to 2 a day. Glass blowers withdraw from Knights of Labor in St. Louis. Convict mine labor in Braceville Tennessee leads to a mob and prison guard clash. Governor asked to send aid. Railway unions threaten general walkout if Paris Orleans company rejects demands.
Numerous items advance as a serialized news digest. The National Editorial association begins its annual convention in St Paul while the corner stone of Minneapolis city courthouse is laid. Several business and legal notices follow including insolvencies and asset liabilities from firms in Boston Pittsburgh and Kansas City. The period reports other civic and health notices with brief confirmations of cures at Koch hospital Denver.
Supt. A. W. Rankin of Red Wing schools resigns his post. The news is part of a broader Minnesota Wisconsin Iowa North and South Dakota briefing from Nutshell covering local events, agriculture, court matters, and infrastructure incidents across the region.
Reports of a death in McIntosh county a lightning fatality near Larimore and a drowning of Peter Farmoe’s 10 year old son in Bismarck. Arrests in Grafton for theft, militia encampment updates, bridge repairs east of Mandan, and legal actions against blue pig keepers in Fargo.
E Lassig of Codington county is held on $1000 bail for liquor law violation. A soldier named Walters was arrested at Ft. Sully by Elkader Iowa sheriff on forgery charges. Tax Potter county commissioners have expressed
The Missouri river ferry franchise for Forest City is cancelled as F B Bullard loses rights. The First National Bank of Blunt buys 112000 in Hughes county bonds at par, backing the Northern Pacific route from Oakes to Pierre via Blunt and Aberdeen. Nine Huron residents are sick from tainted dried beef, with Fred Leipold remaining ill. Yankton servant Katie Chaup commits suicide after taunts from her mother. A Pierre merchant receives a 5000 dollar order of Indian goods from Chicago firms, aiding local employment. Turton farmer George Munson is struck by lightning while returning home on horseback. the bolt wounds him and his horse.
The census records 383 children of school age in Durand. Other notes report a winter wheat harvest at its most promising in years and a busy schedule of teachers institutes conducted by John Brier Riv er Falls and D E Cameron Pepin. Burglars seized 25 dollars from Hunt Ghastin's dry goods store in West Superior after blowing the safe. Wm Williams’ clothing lost two years ago at Chippewa Falls is resurfacing with river men. Michael Gallagher 30, a Wisconsin Central freight conductor, was killed at Oshkosh. Ole Olsen of Eau Claire drowned at Ashland. No arrests yet in Ashland for government pine thefts. US marshal promises more. Attorney Smith Oshkosh seeks to revoke murderer French life sentence. French claims insanity at Waupun. Quo warranto suit in West Superior challenges John Housen's school board seat. Wisconsin underwriters elect Main Briggs Northank McClur Hegbun Steel. new exec committee named. G F Hurd of Eau Claire seeks prosecution of Eau Claire Sunday baseball. county officials balk at costs.
A serious cattle disease breaks in Des Moines county. Several incidents and legal actions include W. Barnum convicted of forgery in Mason City, and W. C. Reynolds killed by a horse in Ottumwa. A storm harms Fairfield crops,Anthony Brunsman dies during surgery at Jefferson House, Duabuaque. Union veteran reunion in Mason City. A traveling man from Boston cuts his throat near Savannah. Illiinois Central brakeman killed near Ft. Dodge. Ottumwa Y M C A cornerstone laid. W E Blake delivers address. A fight after drinking in Algona leaves two men wounded. Cedar Rapids man Elias Doty challenges licensing law. Deputy Francis arrests Tony Lasso for tax law evasion. Gasoline stove accident at Burling ton injures Mrs. Wambsgans. A man killed on Rock Island tracks in East Des Moines. body found with note listing Chicago address.
U S Grant Jr spends time at his Halrem valley farm near New York and resembles his father. His brother Jesse works in Mexican mines with democratic equality and is on a path to fortune, while businessmen doubt the other brothers’ ambition.
In Knoxville action follows Briceville unrest as miners at Coal Creek resist convict labor. A five man committee travels to Knoxville and Nashville to seek arbitration with Gov. Buchanan while pledging no destruction of property. Troops rest after a tense day as officials debate authority and potential action.
Waseca Minn July 22 The Chautauqua assembly marked a busily final day with kindergarten exercises a boarding house plan by the Itinerant's club and an economic lecture. Diplomas were awarded to nine graduates including Mrs Bliss Mrs Dalton Miss Ginbert and others. A reception and camp fire followed with a next day lecture by Rev DeWitt Talmage on Up and Down in the Holy Land.
Madam Mounfort spoke on the Boyhood of Jesus and a Christian conference led by Presiding Elder Jordan of Sioux Falls filled the afternoon. A C S C vesper service was held by Rev William Fielder, with a Sacred concert by the T K Quartet of Omaha and Mrs Rhodes of Minneapolis in the evening. Wisconsin Dentists meet outside Milwaukee as the twenty first annual session opens in Oshkosh with Edwards of Oshkosh presiding.
The American steel steamer Charles W. Wetmore, captained by Saunders, arrived in Liverpool with 95,000 bushels of grain. Built inland, it marks the first grain cargo shipped from a lake port directly to Liverpool without rehandling, routing via Duluth Welland canal St Lawrence and the Atlantic. This voyage supports feasibility of direct Europe Chicago trade.
William O Mara of Rice County faced a preliminary examination in Northfield after his wife and daughter testified against him. Judge Pye bound him over to the Fargo grand jury in $2000 bonds. locals express strong indignation and talk of possible action before he is moved.
Dr. H Hawkins, an Indian physician, fires twice at Mary Powers of Lowell Massachusetts in Fort Riven. Powers suffers a serious right foot wound as police surround Rodman Street house and eight officers later arrest Hawkins in irons.
Ohio Senator Sherman addressed Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce stressing business as the day’s issue. He avoided politics, urging focus on taxes, sugar beet and cane experiments, tin production, reciprocity, and the silver question affecting all merchants.
News from Minnesota reports Lars Christopherson and Andrew Johnson, both aged seventy plus, died by self inflicted hanging near Lanesboro. Christopherson had been helping a neighbor when he killed himself in a granary, with strained family relations noted. Johnson reportedly died by self inflicted hanging in good circumstances. In Iowa Crean Lake a young woman Alice Cooley died of fright when a house fire broke out and she collapsed in her father's arms.
Public health groups urge stricter laws against adulterated baking powders with ammonia and alum. They cite Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder as pure and superior, free from impurities, and argue for nationwide misdemeanor penalties for sale of adulterated products.
The Lutheran Church in the Fifth Ward hosted a children’s day with flowers and bird cages. A Broad Street restaurant keeper’s parrot stole the show with jokes and quips during the program, drawing laughs from the children and delaying orderly proceedings before finally being removed.
The article argues humans existed at least seven thousand years ago, citing stone tools found in English caves and in Danish and Scandinavian peat beds. It notes dating layers and animal fossils like mammoths to estimate when humans first appeared, while acknowledging it remains partly speculative.
Gen Lew Wallace, author of Ben Hur and former minister to Turkey, speaks on Turkish tobacco and cuisine. He notes Turks smoke pure cigarettes from Smyrna with uncreosoted paper, harem women as avid cigarette smokers, and the nargileh pipe in cafes. He praises some Turkish dishes and recalls a memorable Turkish dinner.
A Rural Editor discusses finishing an editorial on the young German Emperor and a column offering advice to the King of Italy. He also mentions a long piece on national finances, intended to fill the page, and then jokes about borrowing a dollar.
A distressed passenger berates a bus conductor for not waking him, saying he woke only after a mile past his stop. The conductor explains he tried to rouse him but the man kept mumbling instructions for Maria to feed the children.
A man living west of town claims a strange mark on his left forearm predicts weather. Two red lines with blue spots travel under the skin to indicate rain or wind, shifting positions with forecast. Physicians call it pigment. the man insists temperature plays no role. Evening Wisconsin.
An elderly Irish villager who acts as a self styled solicitor hears Pat Flaherty outside his gate claiming he has made a will. The caller complains the will lacks essentials and jokes about not leaving himself a three legged stool to sit upon.
A San Francisco Chronicle report notes many pearl oysters in Ceylon were destroyed to produce pearls. The process coats foreign matter with nacre to form a gem, while some oysters yield buttons and ornaments.
Princess Maude of Wales curates a Marlborough House museum of ivory tusks and teeth. Her display includes tusks from elephants shot by her father and uncles and teeth of wild boars sent by the Russian emperor. The collection also features walruses lions tigers sharks seals and alligators. The Duke of Edinburgh helped capture a monster hammerhead whose teeth are part of the display.
Patented by John B. Cleveland of Indianapolis Indiana the Loyvat Fence Wire Lock claims to save half the posts staples and labor. It holds a 60 rod fence wire tightens adjusts tension and can be operated by a common wrench. Sales exceed 60000 in under 90 days through hardware trade. A Duluth St. Louis hotel fire damages adjoining block with losses around 450000.
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