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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1896
Page
2
The item surveys early literary prodigies Coleridge Schumann Pope and Richardson, traces Galway Roscommon and Irish clan names, explains Fiji Bible orders and missions, notes Alaska mining prices, Chinaman superstition about amputees, animal chewing mechanics, Thomas Guy hospital founder, salt in dough, England debt in ranks, and historical livestock and population growth.
A group of Philadelphia capitalists announce plans to build a two story colosseum in the city. The structure will seat 20 000 on the second floor and include an artificial ice rink on the first floor for horse dog and cat shows bicycle exhibitions athletic games conventions and concerts.
The Stilton cheese secret was kept within the original inventors family who sold exclusively to Cooper Thornhill of Stilton, giving the cheese its name. It should have been called Wichcote cheese, first made in the village of Wichcote on the eastern edge of Leicestershire about thirty miles from Stilton.
General Guzman Blanco recalls two promises from Lord Granville including a pledge on the boundary with Venezuela and a separate Russia agreement. Lord Salisbury later rejected the Venezuela pledge though he claimed responsibility for the Russian promise. The episode reflects power determining right in the eyes of Salisbury.
A London woman advertises willingness to provide sympathy to people with grievances who have no one to tell their sorrow. The piece frames listening as a possible solution to a great life problem, suggesting a professional ear could aid those seeking relief from injury or complaint.
In 1895 the American ship canal carried about ten ships daily, while the Soo canal saw 72 daily on average. The Suez passage dealt with 3,454 steamers and thousands of vessels in 231 open days, with tonnage favoring the Soo canal by nearly two to one.
Summary of global events including a bill to curb beer adulteration and raise barley prices, railroad deals reshaping transport, President Cleveland at Woodley for spring, Nashville exposition duties on exhibits, a treasury clerk's remark about clean money, a 19 year old in Elgin surviving a self inflicted gunshot, and a Wyoming mother killed her husband with an axe before neighbors intervened.
A roundup notes various dignitaries and public figures linked to recent deaths and life events. Entries include Mrs. Sarah Mercur widow of a Chief Justice, Capt James Mercur of West Point, Gen Maceo’s Cuban insurgent leadership, former Lowell mayor Francis Jewett, and others such as A K Butterfield, Samuel Messer, Charles S Osborn, Aunt Sally Crane, Gen E L Jeffries, Gilbert L Elliott, with brief details on ages, roles, and notable actions.
Floods wash away thirty two buildings at Three Rivers Quebec and a large portion of Woodfall Ontario is burned. Fires ruin Omaha stores including Green and Bently wholesale drug store. The British Park Republic, bound for San Francisco, is believed lost after ninety two days at sea. The countess of Aberdeen narrowly escapes drowning near Ottawa. Marsden collides with Firth of Solway near Kish lightship. thirteen dead. Private George A Parkhurst killed at San Antonio. Fire at Toronto injures four firemen. Train crash near Mt Vernon Indiana leaves one dead and two seriously hurt.
A Detroit church melee drew police response while a mob lynched Robert Chambers in Cranberry North Carolina. Others faced embezzlement charges in Columbus and forgeries in Memphis as riots, burglaries, and mob killings ripple across multiple states. arrests and bail set amid a flurry of sensational incidents.
Sweden minister of public works Herrn Ingerseley is dead. Nine Russian warships sit at Nagasaki awaiting six more. Typhus spreads in Armenia per Dr Hubbell from Marash to Miss Clara Barton. Tudor plate at Sandown Park honors L de Rothschild. British detachments ready to go to South Africa. Say funeral in Paris reflects simplicity. Casey death near Cork linked to Land League. German Reichstag backs dueling crackdown. Marquis of Bath dies in Venice. Protests over Layson to wed Laura Bucknell in Paris. Canadian PM Bowell says ministers to resign. Tupper may become premier. Japanese envoy asks Russia to guard Corean palace and provide advisers, instructors.
The report mixes business failures and assignees in Chicago with new royal diplomas at Columbian Expo, a Pittsburg pottery meeting, Carnegie art prize, and a Hot Springs treaty. It notes Port Orchard dry dock success, a whisky sale in Chicago, Paderewski prizes, a trust forming for shovel factories, and Tesla’s fluorescent screen advancing heart visualization.
A Berlin firm introduces compact pendant telephones for domestic use with a detachable transmitter and receiver, enabling one person to speak. The system, lightweight and versatile, suits hotels hospitals and ships cabins. An American kitchen telephone service offers one way calls to merchants at about 2 cents a day.
Across Galena Boston Rochester New York and Pittsburgh festive events honor Ulysses S. Grant. Cannons unveiled in Galena with Gen. Longstreet eulogizing Grant. Banquets feature prominent leaders and reflections on his leadership and Republican ideas.
Great Northern Railway offers a half-fare round trip excursion to points west of Willmar and Sauk Center plus Great Falls and Kalispell and intermediate Minnesota and Dakota branches. One fare plus 2.00 dollars, valid for return May 5 12 14 19 and 26 only, with fifteen day stop over. Apply to local agent or F I Whitney G P and T A St Paul Minn.
A line of railway will be built to Roseland and the Trail Creek gold camps this summer with through connections from Spokane via the Spokane & Northern. It will bridge the Columbia river at the boundary line.
Buenos Ayres reports that both Argentina and Chile have signed a protocol fixing the boundary between their frontiers. The accord formalizes decades of talks and sets out the agreed line for the border frontier between the two nations.
A morning blaze leveled the Lavell lumber yards and planing mills in Butte Montana causing an estimated loss of 50000 dollars. The fire is believed to have been started by a tramp who slept on the premises.
A washout east of Port Arthur caused the Canadian Pacific express to derail into a ditch. Engineer Daniel McNeill was killed, leaving a wife and family.
Cape Town special reports telegraphic links to Bulawayo cut at Fig Tree near Mangewe southwest of Bulawayo. 15,000 hostile Matabeles surround the town causing anxiety. A repair and scouting squad heads toward Fig Tree. cause of break unclear, possible accident or marauding action.
Judge Jenkins issues a decree of sale in Milwaukee in the Jarvis Congling Mortgage Trust foreclosure against Waukesha Hygeia Mineral Springs. The court sets due on mortgage bonds plus interest at 1 315 830 93 dollars and grants ten days to redeem. The mortgage insured a 5 000 000 bond issue for a Chicago pipeline project begun in 1891.
The supreme court this morning affirmed the lower court in the state versus Charles Ayres of Beadle county. Ayres was convicted of seduction and, after his sentence, claimed a conflict with Christian virtue over the sentence. The ruling upholds the prior judgment and sentence of the court.
Chicago April 20. Rev John Lee presents a report showing a long Vatican correspondence on Protestants in Peru Ecuador and Bolivia seeking freedom of conscience and marriage rights. Rampolla Gibbons letters and papal replies are cited with Satolli and Leo XII involved in the discussions.
Fond du Lac Wisconsin April 29 The body of Lloyd Wallace the boy believed to have drowned in Lake Winnebago around March 26 while bicycling across the lake has been located.
Minneapolis April 29 George L Reynolds a driver for McMullen Co contractors was found dead yesterday on the Cottonwood road. It is thought he fell from his load of lumber with wheels passing over the upper chest in the accident near the lumber yard.
Omaha April 29 The jury in the ex City Treasurer Bolln case was discharged after failing to agree on a verdict following an extended sensational trial.
At the Brookings South Dakota regents meeting Dr McLouth was removed from directing the experiment station James H Shepard named as director and chemist Secretary Hewitt replaced by F G Orr with a $900 salary Mathews named physics professor Palmer and Collins named trustees Grattan tasked to defend removal charges Sheldon and Boucher appointed to prepare complaints for proceedings Monday next to show cause None of the other details altered in this sweep of personnel actions
A cyclone with hail and heavy rain struck Salem seven miles west of Roanoke. It toppled barns and trees, demolished two houses, including one occupied by eight colored persons, killing Jane Harris and her five year old son. Four others were badly hurt, and a four year old girl died.
Sixty polishers walked out of the Garford bicycle works in Elyra Ohio in protest of a twelve hour day. The firm faces a fight as the strike unfolds amid union rules and worker pressure.
The disappearance of Attorney J B Ogle and his stenographer Mary Winch shocked Mankato Minnesota as Mrs Ogle suspects an elopement with Winch. Ogle sent a Chicago resignation letter while Winch left with him after spending years in his office. The case centers on family inheritance tensions and uncertain whereabouts.
In Owatonna Minnesota Mrs J Smith attempted suicide by cutting her throat and arms after heavy drinking and despondency. Three Pillsbury academy seniors were expelled for liquor violations with another student downgraded to ranks and drill. The men reportedly bought whisky at a prominent restaurant.
Fre mont Parkins twenty two year old single man in Royalton Minnesota attempted suicide last night during a temporary aberration of mind brought on by illness stabbing himself twice in the left breast with a pocket knife. Doctors say the chances of recovery are poor.
Two men named Charles Watson and J. F. Duncan were arrested at Margaret Street station in St Paul and will be arraigned in municipal court on a charge of passing counterfeit money.
Pretoria April 29 The trial of the national reform committee of Johannesburg resumed with John Hays Hammond the American mining engineer pleading guilty to high treason following the other leaders.
April 29 report notes F L Stewart, a prominent Iowa pioneer and one of the state’s wealthiest and best known men, has died in Council Bluffs Iowa. He was a leading figure in local affairs and an influential builder in early settlement days.
A small cy clone near Sanborn destroyed the Gray school house and Nels Munson's farm buildings. The family escaped to the cellar as the path burned for about thirty minutes, lasting sixty feet wide.
The strike among drivers at the Diamond mine of the Keeler Coal company was declared off today and about 200 workers returned to work.
Dan Ryan the recaptured burglar pleaded guilty to burglary in the third degree in Minneapolis. He appeared with his attorney L R Thiaga who urged leniency, citing a turning point in the young man’s life. Ryan told a deputy he planned to be straight and accepted reformatory confinement.
On the final day of Shakespeare's birthday celebration in Stratford on Avon crowds filled the streets in holiday attire. American visitors funded the window in the Shakespeare church, unveiled as the noon train arrived and bells tolled.
A powerful storm hit Fremont Ohio and Sandusky County last night causing extensive damage. Hail up to hen egg size shattered tanks and derricks in oil fields, with widespread destruction and property impact reported.
Ben L. Hill of Minneapolis was sentenced in Oakland to be hanged for the murder of his wife. The court ordered detention at the penitentiary until execution date. a stay of transfer to prison was granted. The sentence was pronounced by Judge Ogden. Hill appeared pale and disconsolate. His brother, Sergeant E. D. Hill, learned of the ruling in Minneapolis.
Word from St Louis says the United States court of appeals has affirmed Judge Nelson ruling in favor of John Williams of Chicago against John McKinley of Duluth. Williams gains 160827 dollars for breach of trust over Mesaba range iron properties during the 1891 1892 boom.
In Minneapolis on April 26 a nine year old girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sanborn, died after overexertion while skipping rope with friends on Sixth street and Sixth avenue north. She collapsed during a counting attempt and died before a doctor arrived. The death was caused by a rush of blood to the heart from excessive exertion.
Prof. W. M. Hayes of the state agricultural farm and Supt. Pendergast visited the Grand Rapids site yesterday. They praised the lands and buildings and said preparations to start the project will move forward next week with equipment from the Twin Cities.
In St Paul on April 26 Mrs Lizzie Wadleigh filed suit against Miss Helen M Hayes alleging alienation of her husband's affections. Wadleigh says her husband lived with her for twenty years before Hayes used wiles to win him away. Hayes counters that Wadleigh did not cause her to fall and that his efforts were unsuccessful.
In St Paul on April 28 the board of managers of the G A R encampment and the directors of the state fair association debated moving the state fair dates. After three conferences in as many weeks they concluded no change in the dates is likely.
In Lake City Minnesota on April 28 creditors of the defunct Merchants' Bank were paid ten percent of their deposits. This marks the second dividend declared since the bank's failure.
Gregory Ritt, a well known St. Paul citizen, died suddenly yesterday morning of apoplexy. He was not well when he went to bed and awoke the family with groans, dying before medical aid could arrive.
At Eau Claire on April 28 Judge Bartlett bound John O'Donnel over for trial after a preliminary examination. He stands charged with murder for allegedly administering strychnine to his wife.
North Dakota conference narrowly rejected admitting women as lay delegates to the general conference. The final tally was 7,515 for the change and 2,520 against, a shortfall of 18 votes, leaving the proposal defeated under church disciplinary rules.
Special-Albert Willis, the minister from this country to the Hawaiian Islands, arrived from Honolulu in ill health and plans to spend a three month leave with his family in Louisville. He denies rumors of being persona non grata and says he was not summoned to Washington or reproached by Secretary Olney. He vows to return to his post after furlough.
Cape Town report that President Kruger cannot travel to England to discuss Transvaal grievances, as his presence is required by the volksraad. Governor Sir Hercules Robinson cabled the reply to Mr. Chamberlain’s invitation.
A split in the Salvation Army in St Paul follows Booth Tucker’s visit while a new creamery opens at Montrose and the state agricultural society offers favors for women’s clubs. Judges order recounts in Moorhead mayoral race. Anoka asylum site warrants paid. various accidents, crimes, and civic actions reported including embezzlement arrest, farm emigration, deaths, and a major Pillsbury mill output burst.
An anecdote from a voyage tells of an elderly passenger who, after circling the ship, spots a sailor pumping water from below and exclaims in astonishment that the vessel has a well aboard.
An unnamed residence scene reports a man forcing entry at 3 a.m. and a woman replying after a long period of silence then speaking at length. The Westchester Globe notes the exchange as a notable moment in a domestic incident.
An advertisement asserts Hall's Catarrh Cure is a squid remedy taken internally and acting on the blood and mucous surfaces. It offers testimonials free and lists druggists as sellers for 75 cents, with J Cheney & Co, Toledo, Ohio, as proprietors.
A sign painter reads his copy and notes the words "Mrs. Dr. Browne" would be incorrect grammar. He decides the sign should read "Dr. Browne" to be proper, explaining there is no use of all them words. The anecdote appears in the Minneapolis Journal.
A terse exchange quotes a man describing himself as a convict and anarchist. The inspector evasively suggests road blasting as a possible assignment. The source is a fragmented Neue Filegende Blatt item.
An Indiana newspaper quote presents a social statistician’s remark that striking clients after dinner is best. The begging gentleman answers that it is when they eat at a hotel, noting the home dinner figure is prone to anger.
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