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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1893
Page
2
In Gray's Harbor Washington a shingle mill ran all day on one cedar stick producing 188 500 shingles. The latest fad in autograph books features cooking recipes with each formula signed by a contributing friend.
The militia of the United States numbers a little more than 112,000 men. Every state and territory in the Union, except Utah, has a militia organization.
Adolph Sjobrim a Marquette Swede built a life size castle clock frame with a jack knife from various woods over two years. He shaped the frame carefully reflecting an ancient castle design and spent long hours on the project.
A Pendleton Oregon sack sewer at a local flour mill aims for Northwest championship by sewing 600 fifty pound sacks in under five hours, averaging about two sacks per minute.
The Minnesota Historical Society states the river’s source lies in a partially enclosed basin with many ponds, directly south of Lake Itasca and about three miles from its head. The description emphasizes a basin south of Itasca containing multiple ponds as the Mississippi’s origin.
A historical note states New Guinea hosts about 2000 plant species, a count learned over sixty five years since Lesson first sent home specimens. This figure rivals the total species known from the entire nation of Germany.
A late Centralia Guard item notes the editor reached fifty on November 20 while his wife turned twenty nine on January 2, marking a pair of family milestones within the paper’s circle.
The piece alleges that Chinese gamblers ruin themselves by betting finger joints. It claims they cut off joints with a hatchet, oil the stumps, and continue playing until all joints are lost, detailing a brutal cycle of self harm in gambling.
Cavalry troops frequently rest while mounted after long marches and even during continuous duties. Artillery crews have been recorded sleeping beneath their firing guns, enduring the bombardment as their guns rattle on.
A man weighs less when the barometer is high though atmospheric pressure on him grows. Air pressure on an ordinary man is about fifteen tons. a mercury rise from twenty nine to thirty one inches adds roughly one ton to the burden he carries.
The marquis of Breadalbane, new lord steward, will chair Buckingham Palace’s small law court with jurisdiction to settle disputes solely between officers and servants of the royal household.
A London High Court decision holds employers are not legally required to provide a written character or testimonial to a domestic servant when services end. The ruling dispels the common belief that such a duty exists in England.
The Royal Marines have raised their entry standard with a plentiful supply of recruits. The minimum height for light infantry is now 5 feet 7 inches for ages 18 to 20 and 5 feet 7 1 2 inches for those over 20. Artillery recruits must be at least 5 feet 9 inches, a high benchmark not seen in years.
The science and art department reported 1891 figures: 207 art schools with 47 316 students across 1 063 art classes with 52 715 students and 6 212 elementary schools teaching drawing to 1 170 340 children and pupil teachers. Direct payments on results stood at 131 393 pounds.
A description claims the Tinto River in Spain has waters as yellow as topaz that harden sand into stone. Stones resting together supposedly fuse in a year, plants wither, tree roots are dyed, and no fish inhabit the river.
A late Lincolnton, Georgia News issue prints a humorous personal advertisement by a 21 year old man six feet tall with auburn hair and a mustache seeking a wife. He notes education at the University of Georgia, southern upbringing, good looks, affection, no property but wealthy relatives, and asks for full description in responses.
In the Hoodoo district of the Yellowstone region stumps are fossilized into stone with knot and bark details visible as living trees. Yellow stone beaches hold vast fragments of fossil wood. In the Dakota badlands leaf impressions appear in hard clay and at Little Missouri near Burning Mountain a coal seam has burned for unknown time, yielding several thirty foot tree trunks. The stark lack of current tree life makes these finds remarkable.
The ten days’ treasury statement shows gold in the Treasury at 106,575,000, up about 4,000,000. Rot ter dam has had no cholera since November 1892, and the Netherlands since Jan 12, 1898. Ex Sheriff Ceedy of Three Rivers becomes White House usher, and Hoke Smith plans steps to implement the Cherokee strip cession act. Treasury denies Morgan loan fabrication. Carlisle declines to discuss it.
A string of fires and explosions caused widespread damage from Honesdale Pennsylvania to North Easton Massachusetts and beyond. Notable losses include 30 000 in Honesdale, 200 000 at Morse & Co s factory in North Easton and multiple deaths in White Plains Champagne Rochelle and Long Island City. More than a dozen buildings burned or wrecked and several lives were lost or severely injured in industrial and railway incidents nationwide.
Personal mentions include Indiana University plans, Langley’s flying machine claim, and Arlington death of John J Audubon. Wisconsin G A R commander Shorer’s early drummer boy service. Cairo accident halts Carl Peters’ travels two months. Mile Lind, Jenny Lind kin, shows musical promise in Paris. Arctic expeditions loom with Peary Nansen and Jackson. Seattle widow Lovejoy Aldrich linked to Revolutionary and 1812 wars. Mrs Carroll Arctic voyage in 1891. Capt Healy’s Bear cruises noted.
A roundup of midwestern and eastern crime and legal cases includes Dr. R. W. Buchanan on trial in New York for wife murder, a man burned to death in Honesdale Pennsylvania, robberies and poisonings across Illinois Indiana Michigan and New York, a Denver youth on trial for life, a fatal shooting at Alton Illinois over a ten cent quarrel, a bank robbery verdict in Leechburg Pennsylvania, a Niagara Falls bomb incident, Fort Russell Wyoming saddle theft and ensuing guard shooting, and drug smuggling arrests in Buffalo. The report notes various trials, arrests and a two week bond settlement.
Cleve land Ohio city treasurer fled after bondsmen turned over 279413 to the city treasury. They agreed to cover litigation costs and forgone interest. J E B Mordaunt arrested in Denver on Chicago telegram. indicted for embezzlement. Mordaunt served as confidential bookkeeper for Smith Webster of Chicago plumbing firm. Also noted, Will Fry, seventeen, attempted suicide by laying on track near Shelbyville Kentucky after unrequited love. severed leg.
Prof. Wolff of Heidelberg discovers a fifteenth small planet this year. The English commons approve a world’s fair appropriation. Reports deny fighting in Rio Grande do Sul. Berlin marks 1848 patriots with a quiet memorial. Riots in Amoy, China injure Christians. Rome hints at a Baltimore co adjutor for O’Connell. Solon J Viasto named knight by Greece. Bering Sea commission defines territorial waters as within ninety miles. Galician emigrants clash with Russian guards. some shot or drowned. A train accident in Calais da Rainha injures none. A Rome bomb causes no damage. no arrests. Moscow mayor Alexieff dies. nihilist plot suspected. A March hurricane hits New Hebrides and New Caledonia, $600,000 loss. New Orleans men commit suicide at Monte Carlo after gambling losses. Mrs Langtry to inherit $200,000 yearly plus racing property. Bandits raid Mexico City home. Miss Martinez abducted. Salazar involved. Honduras cabinet member Vincente Williams assassinated. Rosendo Aguerri plots to declare dictatorship.
Gossip notes Stovey to captain the Baltimores while Foreman seeks a trial with Washington. Ewing takes first base for Cleveland. new Washington additions include O Rourke Mulvey and Maul. Young sets three league umpires for next season as Hot Springs plans a spring tour of Ohio and Indiana smaller cities. Brooklyn Eagle claims no New York player will reach 2500 except Ward who will earn 4000 as manager captain and second baseman, a 3000 drop from 1892. Cleveland struggles to finalize.
The Knights of Labor and Federation of Labor in New York City clash as a strike brews among operators of the Milwaukee Lake Shore and Western railroad north division. Reports say workers are ready to strike on April 1, with potential spread across the line.
A broad array of items from the era includes a floating faro bank built in San Francisco and Cunard Steamship line earnings at 860000. Tompkins Fassett Crocker of Elmira, N Y fails for 125000 while Texas Assembly backs Jim Crow depots for railways. James Walsh Mercantile in St Louis suspends business with deed of trust for 140000. Massachusetts convicts resume work after two weeks of confinement as military discipline spreads in the prison. Dobbins Darey of Nashville and affiliates file assignment for liabilities about 700000. Satolli will attend the world’s fair opening in his role as commissioner. A giant shaft weighing 89320 pounds ships from Bethlehem Iron Works to the Chicago fair. Armor diagonal plates for the Oregon leave for Union Iron Works San Francisco. Harry S Thornton Jr son of Judge Thornton of San Francisco is missing in Arizona after July trip to Wilcox to move cattle to San Pedro River. He had money. disappearance prompts fear of death.
Wisconsin brief items include Charles Riley of Chippewa Falls badly crushing his leg in a logging camp near Osceola. The Sheboygan new Methodist church near completion at three dollars. James Sharpe of Manston injures arm on slippery walk. Jeremiah McEvilly fined ten dollars in Madison for illegal fishing. Samuel Hale arrested at Neenah for minor offense, sentenced to three months. Phillip Sweitzer of Washburn adjudged insane and committed to Oshkosh Northern hospital. Pioneer Christian Walthers of Fond du Lac dies at eighty nine. Unknown man struck by Milwaukee and Northern train near Pembine, killed. Patrick Regan Madison grocery burglars enter.
William Haines and Roddy Roe were captured at Sanborn for burglarizing Jabergs store. Haines confessed and goods were recovered. J W Bishops Ellendale store also robbed with about $100 in money and papers taken. a clue exists and officers pursue.
A series of fires devastated blocks in Clarion and Spencer causing losses estimated between twenty and thirty thousand dollars. Other items include a man’s suicide attempt near Gladbrook, a farmer badly injured by a kicking horse near Lima Springs, and a barber fined for cutting a child’s hair without the father’s permission. Additional reports note a death from apoplexy of J N Noyes of Atlantic, a fatal skull injury in Malvern, mail obscenity arrest at Stitson, a libel suit in Des Moines, a diphtheria outbreak in Newton, manslaughter charges in Fort Dodge, and a lumber company formed to develop Oregon land. A couple elopes and is jailed in Carroll amid family disapproval.
A routine summary of the past week in the Minnesota Legislature detailing actions and debates from both chambers. Highlights include committee activity, bill introductions, and procedural approvals across sessions, with emphasis on key votes and leadership remarks shaping upcoming legislative priorities.
On Wednesday March 22 the Minnesota Senate advanced capital repairs and village annexation bills under suspension, and debated road tax, bridge projects, and village incorporation. The House moved on penalties, records of marriages, delinquent taxes, and town plats while a committee probed Judge Brill’s conduct in Rumsey County Court.
Thursday session considers amendments to general laws on farmers mutual insurance, married women's conveyances, land descent, and log liens, plus establishing a state normal school at Tracy and a soldiers relief association. Bills on liquor licenses, railroad swamp lands, prison parole, and road repairs move, while the calendar clears.
Senator McMillan seeks AG opinion on constitutional reapportionment legality. Dedon pushes inquiry on needed general legislation for towns and counties. Glacer's City of Blaine bill indefinitely postponed by finance committee but on general orders. S F 346 allows village councils to order hard labor for violators. H F 95 passes 41 to 0 for worker protection. House adopts senate amendment renaming Moonstone to Grindstone in Big Stone County.
Bills introduced include amendments to general statutes on abatement of actions and town meetings. Passages noted for H. F. 629 on licenses, coal combine measures, and amendments restricting scope to members and officers. Debates over H. F. 48 bonds for municipalities and road and bridge bills are highlighted, with opposition from Morse and J. D. Smith. Also discussed are Chinese citizenship, defense funding for coal committee members, village electrification, and elevator warehousing plans.
On motion of Mr. Fuller 8. F. No. 452 regulating the delivery of railroad ties and cedar posts to railroad companies was placed on the calendar.
The senate briefly acted on three major measures in morning session including a 50000 indemnity bill for coal combine committee members, a contentious judicial redistricting bill referred back for rework, and a Davis bill reorganizing the national guard into two regiments. Budget and local options followed with votes impacting vestry seats, sewer bonding, park land deals, dairy commission salaries, and city run parental schools for at risk youths.
Detectives link a visiting young man to multiple fires in Milwaukee including Mendel Smith Co wholesale groceries with a $50,000 loss, Inbush Bros wholesale grocery at $17,500 insured, and A Meineke & Sons toy factory fire at $30,000 insured. No loss reported at Wadhams Oil and Grease Co. The suspect was seen near the scenes before flames were found.
In St Paul a mass meeting in Market hall backed the legislature's coal price investigation. Speakers including Senator Donnelly attacked judicial interference and pledged to prosecute the coal combine. Resolutions urged state and interstate action, stricter laws, and a citizen committee to aid prosecutions.
Berlin reports a new vented cloth cuirass tested at Mannheim by a Mannheim tailor. The war department approved it and uniforms on wooden effigies resisted shots at 100 to 300 meters, leaving dented figures showing strong impact. The cloth tunic weighs about six pounds and cannot protect arms and legs without hindering movement.
The Senate special committee reported a substitute pension bill for soldiers home inmates allowing withholding above four dollars or transfer to families, with governors' introduction requested. Several bills including education, religious, Scandinavian creches, soldiers home admission, town organization, and railroad fencing advanced or were scheduled, while an anti room bill faced indefinite postponement and Pope county judicial district transfer passed under suspensions. The anti trust reform measures gained prison terms, and reform school laws were codified and placed on the calendar.
Gen E Kirby Smith former full Confederate general and University of the South mathematics professor since 1874 died at Sawanee Tenn after two years of declining health. Born May 16 1825 in St Augustine Fla he comes from a long line of soldiers. his father a War of 1812 colonel and later a Florida judge. his grandfather and elder brother also earned recognition. He married Cassie Seldon in 1863. his wife and eleven children survive.
Frank Nicolin of Goes to the Wall, Jordan Minn proceeds with a voluntary assignment for creditors naming Gerhard Hilgers as assignee. Liabilities are estimated around 120000 dollars with assets about 70000 dollars. Wheat storage totals about 100000 bushels. Merchants National Bank of St Paul holds about 55000 dollars of the debt.
New York dispatch reports Dr Emil Dorn saying Prince Bismarck is in a critical condition after weeks of neuralgia and insomnia. Dorn, long associated with Moltke, notes doctors cannot conquer the two winter enemies and offers no reliable life expectancy.
The National Fraternity Building and Loan Association of Butte Montana collapsed after a year of operation with authorized capital of 20 million dollars and about 1 000 stock subscribers. Liabilities stand at 45 000 dollars. The Western Loan and Savings Association of Salt Lake was named assignee and will pay 50 cents on the dollar in its stock. Cause cited as mis management and high salaries to solicitors amid costly advertising. The company was composed of local Butte men.
Secretary Carlisle appoints Dr. Joseph A. Senner to succeed Commissioner Webber as head of immigration at the New York port. An editor at Staats Zeitung, he promoted Cleveland's interests through his paper and on the stump. Senner’s study of immigration and travel give him familiarity with arriving migrants.
Spokane special reports that the Coeur d Alene rioters are freed after the Rathdrum Idaho trial. Every prisoner and accused individual was discharged on district attorney motion. Peter Bren of the Butte Miners union is among the discharged, as is Joe Warren who faced a charge of bringing in armed guards from neighboring states.
Chicago on March 29 reports arrangements completed for a large MacLean reunion in June. It will be the first Scottish clan gathering on this side of the Atlantic inviting all MacLeans and those connected by marriage to attend.
Washington reports a high level talk on the international monetary conference. President is favorable to reassembling. Mensten of Colorado notes positive signals. Senator Teller says Secretary Carlisle confirmed plans for the United States to send delegates. Delegates likely to be appointed.
Ex Postmaster General John Wanamaker travels in Mexico with friends while William Walter Phelps returns from Egypt and Italy in improved health. Henry J. Mowry of Syracuse named candidate for New York port collector, tied to Cleve Bishop Ryan of Buffalo. Probate fight over John Murphy will could net Ryan $30,000. Peter Smith of Peapack New Jersey dies at eighty four after Smith family reunions. Edith Day of Portland and Miss Mitchell of Chicago visit President Cleveland during a U S tour. Hugh J. Grant may not seek re election as New York mayor with Croker displeased. Queen Victoria hears a tune at Osborne titled Come Where the Booze is Cheaper.
The MAKWETS overview shows Chicago wheat levels for No. 2 and No. 3 spring and related grains with values around 764c for No. 2 red and 40%e for corn. Minneapolis listings report varied wheat, corn and barley prices by grade, with pork around 17.55 per barrel. hay prices near 7.27 to 7.20. St. Paul and Chicago figures list prime steers up to 4.50, hogs around 7.20 to 7.65, and other livestock values across multiple grades and markets.
Judge Collins ruled that acts directed by supposed spirits are not legal and voided deeds from Ira Bh Eddy to Killen McGua. Eddy, an eccentric Chicago resident, believed in spiritualism and deeded his Fulton Street property after being persuaded by the medium. The court rejected claims of undue influence and Eddy's alleged insanity, denying the husband any share.
Washington March 2 Minnesota patents announced for Melbourne Burr of Minneapolis with a clothes dryer, Joh Butler of Ellsworth with a smoke diffuser and consumer, Peter J. Caesar of Duluth with a mail bag, John E. Ennis of Duluth with a hoisting machine, Edward D. Mayo assigned half to Barnett Record Company of Minneapolis, Eugene Schmidt of Stillwater with a cigarette rolling case, Frank M. Shaw, J R Methuen and G M Sharp of Minneapolis with a self adjusting friction clutch, John E. Smith of Heron Lake with flax or hemp brake and finishing machine for flax or hemp fiber, and portable flax and hemp brake.
Christian Schwarts, a seventy year old former Economite member from Charleston West Virginia, arrived in Pittsburg to press a legal claim to a portion of the society's wealth. He cites documents he says prove his right to a share, alleging an intruder now runs affairs and noting his father's wealth helped found the society.
Tremendous fighting marked the war in Honduras with a battle near Tatumbla. Government troops were defeated, more than 100 killed on the field. About fifty revolutionary soldiers also died, and the bodies found on the field were collected and burned.
Chippewa Falls plans a north line to Lake Superior linking Cadott and River Falls for a forty mile route. The Chippewa Falls and Northern Railway Company will survey the Cadott to River Falls line this season. Sam Crabbe of Eau Claire named chief engineer and to open an office in Chippewa Falls. Cadott offers a large Nus.
Two men arriving from the West on a Duluth and Winnipeg train were injured when they stepped off near West Duluth in front of a St. Paul and Duluth passenger train. One man named D. McPhael suffered a severe scalp wound and back injuries. the other was only slightly hurt.
Cargo vessels connected to Antwerp Bremerhaven and Queenstown report arrivals and passages including Homann Saale Majestic Lahn and Diadem. Ports listed include New York New York Rotterdam New Scilly and Philadelphia. The concise listing reflects a routine marine traffic update with vessel names and arrival notes.
Burlington reports February net earnings of 108.13 and 13.30, vs 267,810.98 a year earlier, a decline of 156 thousand. Sir George Dibbes, premier of New South Wales, failed for 900,000 with assets totaling 175,000.
In Shawano Wisconsin a son of Henry Ainsworth fell from a horse yesterday evening when the animal overturned the buggy. He was kicked on the head and remains insensible with a weak outlook for recovery. Medical attendants are watching him closely.
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