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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1892
Page
2
Melbourne and Sydney exhibit shows expose lack of work and despair. Public display at the Exhibition Building in Sydney highlights homeless distress and community concern during difficult times in Australia.
Report suggests Prince George of Wales to marry his late brother's fiancée soon, with a bridal tour planned in the United States. The timing hinges on safety and public reception amid American society circles.
Mrs Rove of West Virginia saw a long lineage with more than 2,000 descendants across various generations. She started with 13 children, though some hold that 13 is an unlucky number.
The remark recalls Queen Victoria as a widow unlikely to be disturbed at midnight by a belated husband. the playful line notes there is no reason to expect a rush of keyholes and entry actions in the dark.
Melbourne dispatch reports the government will place relief workers on half time to extend aid and provide income for more men. Without this reduced schedule the workers would lack any livelihood.
Word spread of an earthquake awakening workers in California who realized their strength in prayer. It remains to be seen if they fulfill their pre election pledges.
The Pope Leo XIII presented a Mossac painting of the tomb of Cecilia Metella on the Via Appia to the Shah of Persia. It honored his protection of Christians in Persia and included a letter of gratitude from the Pope.
General d Andlau once disgraced by associations with Grevy's son in law Wilson in the sale of decorations in France is said to have died at Cayenne French Guiana though earlier reports claimed Buenos Ayres death making confirmation necessary due to his sentence barring travel to France.
Collectors of antique spoons will note a set of 12 genuine apostle spoons sold at Christie's in London for $2,000. The silver gilt figures portray the apostles and their value stems from a historic gift from Charles I to the wife of Sir Robert Clayton, Lord Mayor of London.
The Parisian waiter Luerer who captured Ravachol is described as plain looking and unassuming yet rumored to have profited from his sudden act as a gendarme. He is said to be receiving gifts from across the country.
Report notes that the marble palace of William K. Vanderbilt features front doors weighing 50 tons and costing $50,000. It is observed some people may leave the doors open in winter and close them in summer, similar to how they handle ordinary doors in commerce.
The Old West Church in Boston has been sold recently. It was long led by Dr Cyrus A Bartel whose fast day and Thanksgiving sermons were admired across the Hub for their quaint fervor and plain speech. Bartel, noted for eccentric dress, was praised by Philips Brooks as that dear old moth eaten angel.
In Strassburg a school for military nurse training established by the Princess Hoheniohe shares equally with all cadets in duties from binding a broken leg to taking medical exams. The 60 year old Princess is noted for strong nerves health and is an accomplished horsewoman and bear hunter.
Lord Lytton's country seat in England, leased by Henry Phipps Jr of Pittsburgh, is among the oldest estates. The house dates to Henry VII, features a famed garden with an open-air ballroom and a classical 100 garden with Horace and Virgil statues among yews, noted for cool shade and fragrance in summer.
Ex Senator Epmunns earned admiration in Kentucky during a horse venture with Senator Blackburn's party. He displayed keen knowledge of horse flesh and mounting skill with a stirrup, then proved generous to the bluegrass farmers who supported him.
Washington dispatch notes Canadian sealers plan to send vessels under other nations’ flags to evade the Bering Sea agreement. Secretaries Evings, and a large U S fortification program progress, while the revenue cutter Rush is ordered to Port Townsend to await sealing orders. First Assistant Whitman returns from Chicago Worlds Fair probe. report due to Congress with requested funds.
Gen Edwin P Goodrich who served under Burnside dies in Boston. Maj Gen Sir Lewis Polly MP for North Hackney and former Afghanistan affairs minister is dead. Nat Goodwin and wife near divorce with separation articles. Joshua Belden California pioneer dies in New York at 77. Belden and companions reached California in May 1841, two years before Fremont.
A series of calamities reported across North America include a World Fair builders eight hundred feet blown down and a reef in Philadelphia causing about one million dollars in losses with fifty injuries. Elsewhere a Bathurst Nova Scotia passenger wreck killed nine and injured twelve.
Reports detail an attempted lynching at Quincy TfL of Dr W J Jamison, an India ex-soldier tied to barbarism, and arrests at Rosebud agency. Other items note Stephene Herz sentenced to hang in Louisville for a 1861 murder, contraband opium seized from the steamer Michigan, and multiple violent incidents across New York, Cambridgeport, Plainfield, and Eureka.
A torn 19th century dispatch reports Ilarry Vane Milbank’s duel injuring a French rival, Venezuelan revolution gains, St Petersburg corn export ban extended, Prussian war minister retention, a German spy arrested in Paris, Turnebus and Karbas threatening Lagos, Hamburg Antarctic expedition planned, Vienna burned panorama loss 120000 florins, Simla civil posts opened to natives, Coxsimavion noted.
Reports claim Brazilian troops quashed revolters led by Col Barbosa with many deserters. Haiti fears a new uprising against President Hippolyte who vows to stamp out rebellion. Brazil denies Sao Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul secession rumors while Montreal live stock shippers push a dominion wide amalgamation to control trade and rates with steamship lines.
Ogarrman Clarkfon of the Republican national committee is too ill to consider political matters. Miller Depew Platt and Hiscock will represent the New York Republicans in the national convention. Maine Republicans praise Buaiye and Harrison while the delegate to the national convention remains uninstructed. Colorado Republicans adopt a free coinage plank and defeat a resolution endorsing President Harrison. North Dakota calls a special session to fix the law for presidential electors. Ohio Republicans omit Harrison instructions in deference to Gov. McKinley’s contingent candidacy.
The piece notes Tas Canadian PacificSoo and Western railways clashing while Union Pacific holds a Boston election. Jay Gould and Missouri Pacific officers stay in control as W H S Clarke becomes president. United States Rolling Stock is rebranded as United States Car Co with David Cornfoot of Loudon at the helm. The Big Four markets a World’s Fair station at Jackson Park near Exposition Grounds, a first in announcing such a station in time cards.
In Indianapolis the first annual convention of the National Brotherhood of Boiler Makers is in session. Reports of a Reading railroad strike are denied by workers and officials. In Detroit a boycott against non union bakers is declared. La Crosse mill workers strike over alleged blacklisting. New York hosts a first national convention of shirt makers, shirt cutters and laundry workers forming the National Shirt Trade Association with plans for a Philadelphia meeting on Sept 4.
Police in Easton Pennsylvania ban Sunday bicycle riding. Jem Mace visits again. American coin show likely attraction. Country trap shooters plan a monument for Al Bandle. Arthur J Meccey of Cambridge turns pro. St. Louis set dates for six furlong races with paddock near ready. The Irish horse Tasmania breaks the London jumping record. Pete Browning re-signs with the Colonels. Weaver to bat. Sip Thomas sets amateur 15 mile record at Stamford Bridge on April 9 in 1 hour 22 minutes and 0.154 seconds. Jack Wilkes of St Louis challenges Tommy Ryan for 500 dollars a side and 31 200 offered by South Omaha club. Brighton bicyclist meet sees Fowler beat Arthur Zimmerman by nine yards. Patsy Carpier and Billy Keough fight. Keough wins in 13 rounds for 80 dollars. Miss Lillie Arlington's Cincinnati Reds women face local male team in College Point but police barred exhibition.
Immigrant arrivals surge in New York with 16 240 landed in a week the highest of the year. Grant monument corner stone laid in New York with President Harrison and Chauncey Depew speaking. Keokuk Electric Street Railway Power Co plant sold for 21000 to B Townsend of Harford Conn.
Minnesota and neighboring states report a broad mix of news. Arthur Fretten dies of whooping cough near Skyberg. Morristown votes to incorporate by a large majority. Forest fires threaten timber west of Little Falls. E Young fined for running a blind pig in Morristown. a dog is poisoned in Stillwater. a fatal runaway near Belle Plaine claims an 8 year old child.
An important mining sale is reported at Rapid City by Humphreys and Stenger. They bonded the Spokane mine in Squaw Creek district and sold out to Omaha parties for 151000 dollars, making a fortune in the deal. The Spokane is regarded as one of the Black Hills most promising silver mines.
A string of incidents from Prairie Du Chien to Ashland, Hayward, and West Superior includes burglaries, fatal train accidents, a rape accusation in Prairie Du Chien, a stabbing, and a new longshoremen’s union. Also reported: a son injured in a planing mill accident, city officials reappointed in West Superior, and La Crosse Lumbermen’s Exchange closing mills amid labor troubles.
Miss McDonald of Buchanan county recounts a week of terror ending in Des Moines when Bain abducted her at gunpoint and forced marriage in a church. She details binding gagging and threats before the pair traveled to Cedar Rapids and back, while detectives pursue the suspect Bain.
A string of local incidents and curiosities from Iowa includes the death of Horace Orendorf on Second Street in Ottumwa, a large wild eagle captured by Davidson & Eckerman of Sibley, and a quarantine response to a Scarlet fever outbreak in Charles City. Other items report Hancock county grand jurors targeting prohibitory-law violators, verdicts and fines for Britt and Goodell residents, a Chicago man crushed by a scaffold in Dubuque, Ottumwa school bonds sold, and a church property dispute in Cedar Rapids. Also noted is a boy’s fatal head injury in Independence, a Ft. Dodge tax dispute affecting railroad workers, a sensational self-inflicted gunshot in Cherokee, and various local civic actions.
The Twin City Rapid Transit Company held its annual directors election at the National State Bank building in Elizabeth New Jersey. Thomas Lowry and C G Goodrich of Minneapolis were elected along with Jhn Kean Jr Elizabeth J Kenneny Tod New York and Charles Pairchild Boston.
May 4 ballot in Deapwood and D. Special produced a bitter by election for mayor and four council seats. Mayor Starr won a eighth term by forty one votes while the fourth ward alderman race yielded a sixteen vote margin. Total turnout reached 1,24, the city and Hills precincts saw record participation. The opposition organized across Independents Democrats Knights of Labor and labor unions.
Henry J. Escherich formerly a Chicago businessman died suddenly of heart failure at his farm home near Negruwoop Iowa at age forty six. He was active in politics and G A K circles and served in the Fifteenth Illinois cavalry later merged into the Tenth Illinois. He was an orderly to Maj Reynolds and later Gen John A Logan. His mother and other relatives live in Chicago and a brother in St Paul.
Dr. J. B. Hatcher files a suit against State Oil Inspector Dann and Deputy M. P. Healy of Tipton for nearly 5000 dollars. He claims a fire at Tipton in December burned his barn and several horses due to an explosion of a lamp allegedly filled with illegally inspected oil.
Count Holsteinberg and Yates Carrington die while Ambrose Thomas and Miss Anna Dickinson are ill or improving. A quarry strike in Conu and a Kingfisher cyclone cause damage and fatalities. Steel ship construction comes to Bath, and editor George W. Childs visits Chicago. Plumbers in Boston gain higher pay, Newfoundland taxes advance, and an array of legal, political, and industrial items fill the news.
The article argues memory improves through steady daily practice, not elaborate systems. It urges careful attention to small tasks like tracking daily expenditures and personal details, insisting consistent effort builds discipline and yields gratifying results.
Markets report wheat corn oats and rye prices by grade in Minneapolis St Paul and Milwaukee. Prices show small increases for spring wheat and northern spring while oats and barley hold. Regional notes include hay values and miller's flour product pricing.
Cepar Rarins Iowa Special May 4. C. E. Glass of Gladbrook is under arrest at Traer charged with obtaining money under false pretenses by writing insurance applications for several citizens and business men, collecting premiums and not delivering policies. He claimed to be an agent of the State Insurance company of Des Moines.
Shinnes and Greene of Churches Ferry are signed for creditors with assets around 8000 dollars. A fifteen member committee in Cass County seeks funds for the state exhibit at the world fair. about 6000 already subscribed. W H Garver of Ramsey county dies of lung disease in Dry Lake township. Seeding is progressing in Larimore with good ground but too soft to thresh yet. J W Bowman of American Surety plans to redeem the bond tied to Nelson case in Grand Forks. Western North Dakota stockmen form a large organization spanning from the Montana line to the Mississippi River. Andrew Simpson, an elderly Grand Forks settler, dies in a rural fire at his farm. he left a widow and sons, and perished at 74.
Joseph Kramer, a worker at the Empire Louther company plant in Eau Crarne Wisconsin, was instantly killed yesterday when caught in operating machinery. He served in Company 1 of the Fourteenth Wisconsin Infantry and was a member of Eagle Post G A R.
Two boys aged thirteen and sixteen, sons of Thomas Curry, drowned Monday in Richardson Lake while fishing from an old scow near Litchfield Minnesota. The accident recalls a familiar tale of venturesome youths on a forsaken craft.
The Ashland Lighting company paid 13,000 dollars to J. Pennbrecker and wife to settle injuries from the gas explosion a year earlier. The plaintiffs agree to drop the action.
Excerpt depicts the sea as a predatory force with waves like talons and a lion’s paw. It portrays wild disaster beyond human science, emphasizing relentless mangling and devouring power of the ocean.
Harrison delegates elected at Farrocey Illinois convention with Hamilton N Wheeler named congressman candidate. Eight A Wilcox W Rankin chosen as delegates to Minneapolis for Harrison. Menser Gomes E selected for presidential ticket. Texarkana agitation drives black migration threat to Africa worrying planters in Arkansas.
Steamer Arizona lost its tow Plymouth last night during a violent squall near Asmano Wisconsin. The crew of Plymouth is feared lost while Arizona struggles to reach port then resumes pursuit to search for the schooner.
Ottawa reports G H Campbell arrives to discuss immigration with Minister Dewdney. Government agents are operating in the Dakotas Minnesota Kansas Nebraska Maine Michigan and Massachusetts. Forty seven carloads of settlers and effects have left Minnesota for Canadian territory this spring. Two parties have left Michigan and a large party departed Maine. Some newcomers settle in Southern Manitoba with most moving north to Yorkton Prince Albert or Edmonton districts.
The state auditor refused a certificate to Alliance Heir Association of Huron after a Freudeneid report. A Deadwood property sold for 90000 to an Eastern syndicate, the eighth big local mining deal in two months. John Winn hired a double rig and headed west, creditors await his return. Cal E George, ex Confederate officer, jailed near Rapid City for cattle theft. Lead City Miners Union elected Archie Ferguson president Sam Jeffrey vice president Robert Figgier secretary J G Lulig treasurer. Sioux Falls drew attention with a sensational claim of an attempted event.
Peat beds are common across the United States and Canada including New York New England Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana Illinois Iowa Minnesota and Labrador Newfoundland and Anticosti Island holds the world largest peat bed. The peat is high quality but rarely used due to coal cheapness.
Princeton Minnesota reports a deal with Craig and Matthews to build a one hundred barrel flour mill to grind wheat by July 1. Several other manufacturing enterprises will begin this summer.
Branded as traitors by Buffalo gathered Special-Citizens of John son County resolutions denounce cattlemen raid supporters of Cheyenne Sun or the Tribune and accuse Gov Barber of traitorous use of militia. In Montana Adolph Pieper waiter and James Moran cook at Model restaurant quarreled Moran stabbed Pieper in the left lobe. Pieper likely to die Moran arrested.
A St Louis Republic anecdote recalls an Indianapolis convention of Universalist ministers. A Hoosier jokes with a vials of pepper for fever and ague, misuses the red salt, screams fire, and asks if a preacher named Versalist carries hellfire in his breeches pocket.
A narrator recalls a dinner where a charming damsel ignored oyster and soup talk until the foot incident. He explains he wore a cork leg at dinner, accidentally stepping on her foot, prompting her embarrassment and a lighthearted apology amid social awkwardness.
A historical note observes a persistent gap with about 8 percent widows among women and 4 percent widowers among men. It questions optimistic explanations for the imbalance and asks why widows consistently outnumber widowers by two to one across lands.
Police seized eight dynamite bombs from a man and wife in Galatz yesterday. They escaped custody. The discovery appears to confirm a St. Petersburg rumor that two men left there a month ago on a mission to kill Premier Stambouloff and Prince Ferdinand.
A 3 inch weekly display ad from The Dr Harter Medicine Co features a Crescent mark on all items. Readers are asked to identify the unique word used in each edition and send it in for free lithographs of Sam Ples and other items.
An old ad style verse notes Castoria as a constant remedy across life from infancy to motherhood, emphasizing its use for a child’s feverish cries and for soothing mothers as they become caregivers to their own children.
Rev Dr downs awarded 1000 damages after suit for 50000 total against seven defendants. Four were dismissed leaving Rufus K. Noyes Abbie Campbell and Alice Nepton alias Billce Watson to face the verdict. Downs vows to pursue full vindication of his character as man and minister in a lengthy battle.
A blunt set of domestic tips suggests ignoring a cross husband with distractions like books or music. It warns against onions near him and claims the one who loves most should decide when giving in, then letting him have his way.
Milwaukee reports the death of Veter Rupp, a prominent young attorney, found in the river. Authorities say he died by his own actions after embezzling $2,590 from Dennis Kennedy, a minor whose guardian he was. Rupp, once an assistant district attorney, narrowly missed a Superior Court judgeship by 900 votes.
The article criticizes American women, arguing fashionably impure behavior in major U S cities. It ridicules the notion of a virtuous London elite and claims London society is equally or more impure, with a sardonic remark about American men and marriages.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease, claiming internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and offering one hundred dollars for any failure to cure. It directs readers to J Chenery & Co of Toledo and notes availability from druggists. Also promotes Brown's Bronchial Traches for coughs and sore throats at 25 cents.
The secretary of the treasury writes to the secretary of state praising the action of the United States consul at Victoria British Columbia for refusing to verify a passport issued by the Dominion government in the Moy Chung case Moy Chung a former resident of the United States has recently been involved in smuggling Chinese laborers from Canada
A collection of aphorisms and maxims on manners health and virtue. It includes lines about bluffs backaches mustard plasters hats Easter potatoes obesity and courtly conduct. The tone is witty reflective and moralistic with humorous contrasts and social observations.
A tramp refuses a dime after boasting of money, insisting he cannot work. A bemused gentleman questions him, exploring excuses until the tramp admits not liking the idea and valuing rest over labor, claiming he would work if paid two dollars a day for resting.
The Tur Chicago Coal Exchange received notice from the coal trust of a 25 cent per ton price rise for anthracite starting May 1. The exchange then met and approved a larger 50 cent increase, setting the new price at 7 dollars per ton on that date.
A dog owned by Fred Penz showed rabies symptoms and was killed. Several other dogs bitten were killed after rabid signs appeared. A farm hand sustained a minor hand scratch, now with swelling, and hydrophobic symptoms are not expected to follow.
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