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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1900
Page
2
Illinois bride declares only two men may attend her wedding ceremony, aiming to fulfill the rites while excluding other male guests. The unusual rule prompts local reaction as guests await further details and potential challenges.
The statement says each thread contains about 5 000 fibers and that a pound of such thread would need 28 000 spiders working for a full year to produce it.
The reported case describes a St. Louis man who killed himself after failing to collect a debt owed to him, illustrating the severe toll of financial disputes and the depressing social impact of unresolved loans.
A case of leprosy in its worst form has been discovered in London. No hospital or home for incurables will take the patient in and no means of isolating him from contact with other persons has been found yet.
A Baltimore man proposes forming a Boer colony in Maryland and offers to join twenty four other business men to raise $25,000 to organize and pursue bringing the Afrikanders to the United States.
A fine example of man's triumphs over adverse natural conditions is seen in the Sahara where artesian well irrigation has made over twelve million acres fertile, replacing long-identified sterility and barrenness.
Twenty eight thousand residents of Australian gold fields sign a long paper petition to the queen praying for relief from certain grievances. The document’s size is noted as a measure of merit, not a yardstick.
Wellington women form a corps named the New Zealand Amazons. The tall, fit ladies drill to a military schedule and have drawn wide attention across the colony for their organized maneuvers.
Sanitary engineering expert Mr. Allen Hazen notes filtration of city water with sand beds reduces typhoid deaths. Britain reports over 10 million residents in filtered systems and London shows notable typhoid absence, while the United States has only about one tenth of towns with filtered water.
Scientific irrigation advances in southwestern Louisiana allow flooding dry prairie during growth and draining near harvest. Pumps canals and levees enable harvesting with reapers, replacing costly foreign labor with American machinery.
In Washington H W Olds reports bird songs follow our musical scale with intervals shaping their tunes. He shows birds echo human scales and even drift from the key, suggesting a musical evolution parallel to humans. The piece notes sweeping acclaim for McKinley and Roosevelt at a national convention.
The 1900 Republican national convention in Philadelphia crowd of about 15,000 heard Senator Lodge and Senator Wolcott praise the party record. William McKinley of Ohio was renominated for president and Theodore Roosevelt of New York chosen by acclamation for vice president amid unprecedented zeal and dramatic scenes.
Brig. Gen. A. R. Chaffee ordered to take command of forces in China and proceed to Peking. Washington confirms strong military presence to protect foreign interests as viceroys press to keep troops out. Reports note rising tension in southern provinces and Li Hung Chang’s precarious position amid calls for action. Brooklyn sails for Nagasaki with 800 marines as Logan and Princeton follow.
Quotations from St Paul Minneapolis Duluth Chicago Milwaukee Sioux City and South St Paul show gains in oats and flax while wheat trends easier. Cattle hogs and sheep prices vary by market with ranges for steers cows bulls and fat lambs noted.
Capt Leary describes Guam improvements including an evaporating plant in excellent condition a steam saw mill ready to operate and a completed telephone link between Piti and Agana. He notes Yosemite officers conducting island topo surveys and provides a financial summary with treasury balances receipts and expenditures plus a population tally of 8661 people with 3128 men 3680 women and 1853 children.
The convention adopts a platform praising the 1896 St. Louis promises kept, cites large export gains under McKinley, and endorses the gold standard, anti silver, protective tariff, and civil service reform. It supports labor rights, immigration limits, eight hour workday, higher factory age limits, isthmian canal, disarmament of tariffs, and self government for Cuba and the Philippines while upholding Monroe Doctrine.
H K Duffield a board of trade broker was robbed of 55000 while riding a Cottage Grove avenue cable car. The haul consisted of bonds mining stock and deeds. Police suspect professional pickpockets tied to traders profiting on wheat markets.
Washington June 28 Director Merriam of the census bureau denies reports that enumerators will not be paid promptly. Payments will follow when reports certified by supervisors are received. About 52,000 enumerators exist with 1,000 to 1,200 portfolios submitted. total payroll is $38,900,000.
The Frazer river continues rising rapidly from Delta to Ashcroft. It nears the peak set in 18M floods and may wash out the Chilliwack dyke. Much fertile land could flood as all streams flow into the Fraser valley. Roads bridges and trails vanish and the Lillooet to Bridge River road loses all bridges. Property damage expected to be large.
A man killed by a Northwestern train near Clinton Iowa has not been identified. A belt found on the victim held $480 in gold and twenty rare coins, plus $26 in his pockets. The deceased worked on the railway as a section hand for two months and his relatives are not located.
A large inflow of Chinese migrants from San Francisco into Mexico has spurred a strict quarantine in Chihuahua. Inspectors are posted at border points. No conclusions yet on the deaths of several Chinese in Guaymas.
In Cincinnati on June 28 a pair of William Hill’s horses drowned after they, left unattended, turned toward a river bluff and plunged over the edge into the Ohio, drifting fifty feet from shore where both perished.
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