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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1889
Page
3
Eyewitness accounts describe Johnstown's nightmarish flood aftermath with thousands feared dead. Trains and mills swept away, streets and buildings crushed, bodies recovered by morgues and improvised crews as survivors wander amid debris and smoke. The toll dominates the scene.
Twenty seven Pennsylvania locomotives and countless freight cars and coaches lie under debris at the Stone Bridge. Woodville and Conemaugh borough are described as erased, with only a handful of Woodville’s 1500 residents accounted for. Hungarian Cambria City colony is said to be looting as eleven car loads of unspecified cargo are reported.
John Date, son of the renovation painter, witnessed the attack on the victim and was forced to swear secrecy. His father informed Dr. Bowers, prompting formal charges against two attendants. Warrants issued. the pair jailed as grand jury considers murder in the second degree.
The Sioux commission arrived at Rosebud and postponed the first council to tomorrow to allow distant Indians to travel. Despite initial favorable sentiment toward separate reservations, hostility from outside factions challenges the talks. Gen. Crooks and loyal scouts bolster the commissioners as emissaries from Standing Rock Cheyenne River and Pine Ridge arrive with supplies for the council.
Lawrence Murray aged forty six and his mother seventy two were found shot in the back of the neck in their bungalow seven miles west of Lanpew. Their bodies were thrown through a trapdoor into a small cellar excavation. The murder occurred last Wednesday night with robbery considered unlikely. The son was described as quarrelsome when drinking.
Eleven men rode into Prestox divided into three groups to raid saloons. At Specht hotel liquor found in garret locked up, at Scott’s saloon liquor found in barrels and kept openly, at Long’s alcohol hauled out. Permanent injunctions stand against Specht and Hallermann, with Scott likely in trouble after fleeing.
Dr Grassi shows flies can ingest parasite eggs such as tricocephalus dispar oxyuris and taenia solium and excrete them in feces or harbor them in intestines. He notes mould in flies after feeding and suggests naturalists study to find ways to destroy flies to prevent infection.
The Rochester insane asylum becomes the scene of a suspected murder. Inmates Taylor Combs died after being beaten by two attendants Ed Peterson and August Beckman who assaulted him for nearly an hour during a cleaning task. Autopsy found a broken sternum and head injuries, with the inquest suspended awaiting further information.
A Detroit man shares a curious tale from Second avenue in which a one legged passerby swaps his wooden leg for use in a con. He visits a doorstep and, with a sympathetic host, retrieves the leg to continue his scam, remarking on the coincidence that matched his aim with the same household.
Byron L Smith receiver of Traders bank meets Chief Hebbard and State's Attorney Longenecker in a drawn out session. The conference signals a broader inquiry beyond the Cronin murder, with Grand Jury status uncertain and focus on nationality implications. Sullivan the ice man is linked in testimony, while Coroner Hertz adjourns the Cronin inquest to Monday.
On a Wisconsin Central line between this place and St Paul a dining car waiter named Joan Ayotte assaulted a young lady in the sleeper. Conductor Clark intervened, Ayotte threw a stone, injuring Dora Kroger. Supt. Horn led to arrest and Judge Conell sentenced him to one year in the penitentiary. Ayotte claimed he thought he knew the lady.
Mrs. Herman Brunscher wife of a carpenter created a sensation by attempting blackmail with a drawn revolver on several Fort Dengs Iowa businessmen. She first threatened W H H Colby horse dealer and livery owner demanding 2000 accusing him of ruining her reputation then visited ice dealer J C O Laughlin and other residents before targeting families of the would be victims. The incident caused great trouble and is now with the police.
Twenty masked citizens attacked a Marinette dive where the watchman fired on the assailants. The watchman was slightly wounded as the attackers fled. The inmates were turned out and the venue burned. The dive, previously raided a week earlier, resumed operations and other similar establishments are to be cleared soon.
William C. Lally, a former post office employee, is held in the criminal court in Chicago on $3,000 bail for the alleged theft of eighty-six registered packages. Postmaster Sexton says he is nearly certain of Lally's guilt. Discharged from service ten days ago on suspicion of earlier offenses in the registered letter division, Lally sought to sell a $1,000 government bond valued at $1,250 for $900, triggering his arrest.
George Schneider of Altoona has signified a desire to plead guilty to forgery and obtaining money under false pretenses for manufacturing bogus checks on St. Paul and Denver banks. He will be given a June 3 opportunity to plead. His father Conrad Schneider and Charles Withey, also charged, remain jailed in default of bail. They are accused of obtaining about $300, most of which has been spent.
George Hill a well known Jackson county Prohibition leader vanished early and was found dead in the woods from a self inflicted act during a temporary mental lapse. He leaves a family and was formerly a classmate of ex Secretary Vilas.
A lone bandit boarded the Milwaukee and Northern train near Beaver Wisconsin and robbed passengers as the coachs emptied their valuables. Victims include EC Allen John Wells James Hogter K D Butler and others. The robber fled on foot into dark timber as Deputy Schuck led a posse in search.
The Senator Dolph led delegation arrives in Victoria B C and contemplates whether to proceed north or return East. The committee aims to study United States Canada relations geographically commercially and politically and to report to the senate. Louis W Knapp new Alaska governor visits before sailing to the North to bolster Alaskan mail facilities militia organization telegraph access schooling and development of fishing mining and lumber industries.
The civil service commission announces special examinations to secure an ample registry of applicants for railway mail clerk positions. Exams will be held on June 12 in Denver Cheyenne Fargo Bismarck Yankton Wilmington Jacksonville Atlanta Savannah Macon New Orleans Shreveport Vicksburg Jackson Oxford Providence Charleston Columbia Martinebare Charleston Parkersburg Boise City Miles City Helena Carson City Albuquerque Portland Roseburg Salt Lake City Spokane Falls Seattle and on June 14 in Spokane Falls and Seattle.
Special Telegram from Victron B C May 29 reports quiet moves of war vessels to Alaska. The Amphion Icarus two torpedo boats and the Champion now en route from the South will depart with the British sealers as soon as the Alaska voyage lands on June 10. British war vessels would protect sealers if American cruisers confront them during seal hunting within the league limit. The ships are being stocked for a long cruise.
The president appointed Orion W. Chapman of New York as solicitor general. Chapman, a 55 year old lawyer from Binghamton, previously held a state office. Interior Department also named W. C. Sheley of Tennessee, Lorenzo D. Montgomery of Galesville Oregon, Thomas J. Staley of Missouri as special agents for depreciation claims, Frank M. Thompson of Arkansas as superintendent of Hot Springs, with Charles W. Field of DC removed.
Officials in the state and navy departments report alarm over Victoria B C news that the British North Pacific Squadron was ordered to Loehringssea. Commodore Walker says no U S ships are ordered to Alaska except Thetis, patrolling the Alaskan coast for several summers. He doubts Britain and the United States will clash over seal fisheries.
Captain Norman S Farquhar of the ill fated Trenton returns to Portsville Pennsylvania after a voyage ending in tragedy. He is greeted at home by the Third Brigade band and local National Guard companies who escort him to his residence for a serenade. He thanks the crowd in a cheerful speech.
In Brooklyn May 29 President Harrison Gen Tracy and Gen Lew Wallace landed in Jersey City and were met by a G A R committee led by Grand Marshal J Knapp. They were guided to Knapp's Brooklyn home where the president will spend the night and review the Brooklyn parade tomorrow.
Minnesota items report Lac qui Parle County moving the county seat to Madison, a Duluth church building project, and multiple tragic deaths including suicides, accidents, and an attack. Other notes cover bank consolidations, weathered blizzards, meteor fragments, and local political and legal developments across towns like Mora, Mankato, St. Cloud, and Chaska. The miscellany notes sensational trials, rail freight issues, and a shifty suitor’s schemes in Wahpeton.
A fragment notes instant relief from dull aches pains and weakness by the CUTICURA ANTiseptic treatment. The line suggests a claim of rapid soothing effect and pain relief. The text centers on the product as a remedy.
The account recalls a wall of flies a mile long and ten yards high at Fort Tel el Kebir after the 1882 battle. A rider notes a loud hum, a dark pall over unburied Egyptians, and the pressure of the swarm as he guides his pony through. The scene ends with the mass fading into the desert sun.
The queen, dressed in scarlet, sits on a red velvet throne as a rolling tub is heated by fire beneath. Prayers and a hymn precede a brief fifteen minute ritual ending with water sprinkled on spectators, symbolizing shared danger as the queen, crowned and attended, returns with a horn of bathwater.
A New York Sun report details a prominent New York City fire department member who possesses a double stomach and an internal pouch. He can swallow coins or small objects, retain them at will, and regurgitate unharmed. Doctors call the condition remarkable and he has drawn big offers to donate his body after death.
An elderly Wisconsin town banker, after years of private operation, was asked to publish a statement and replied by posting on his bank door a blunt notice declaring the bank has $50,000 behind her owes no one a cent and pledging no cuts for Mexico or Canada, per the Brooklyn Eagle.
Despite efforts to curb scalping and despite ironclad agreements among railroad officials, scalpers hold ample bona fide tickets valid on most roads. It is believed many passenger agents still sell tickets at large commissions to scalpers.
On a train Judge James J. Lindley shared a light moment with a Kentucky stranger from Cynthiana who claimed his father had taught Lindley. The judge quipped that many in the area did not learn to read until after the war, noting the man’s youthful appearance and the age gap.
From Australia to Arabia, several self styled saviors have captivated publics then collapsed. A Australian claimant failed, a Russian woman Gabaciewicz sparked peasant miracles before prison, and a Bedouin Jew in Arabia impressed some before exposure. The Sun notes such Messiahs recur across two millennia and multiple lands. The Northern Pacific wins Manitoba line, a Minnesota man kills his sister in law, and ads promote Dobbin’s Electric Soap and Allen’s Lang Balsam for coughs and lung diseases.
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