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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1895
Page
1
The Brainerd Dispatch notes University of Virginia fundraising for fire damage, a Portland boarding miss steps in street address, arboriculture curiosities about the Life Tree of Jamaica, Professor Lee of Chicago reports Ophnicus star triple, Nellie Bly’s renewed publicity, Spain’s top bullfighter earnings, and Chicago street cleaning cost shifts impacting ward politics.
Under a law passed by the last Rhode Island legislature the state must build a sample half mile of good road in any town that petitions for it and pay one quarter of the cost. So far fifteen towns have petitioned for such roads. The governor of Arizona says the territory will produce this year 10 600 000 in gold, up from 4 000 000 last year. If gold resources were capitalized on the Katlir basis, millionaires would be small and be replaced by billionaires. The Spain Campos news is seen as favorable to Cuba as Campos, if accurate, would likely settle quickly rather than a new commander.
The passage suggests Dunraven should be erased from sports records while Corbett has effectively retired and urges Maher not to challenge him. Yet observers believe Maher could pose a credible threat to Corbett, with James J. possibly sharing that view.
A new practical extension study in Ireland sees teachers in technical schools offer extra classes for working women and girls. They learn domestic science sewing cooking and housekeeping details as part of a hands on program.
A large coal field is believed discovered within fifty miles of Juneau. If confirmed, the find will aid development of the region, as Alaska has known coal but previous discoveries were distant from settled areas.
A quaint current in Australian social life features grapes artfully arranged in baskets with leaves served during afternoon calls. Visitors receive the fruit as refreshment, a practice termed grape tea in fashionable circles.
Jeffrey Hudson born in 1619 grew from eight inches at eight to three feet nine inches by adulthood. He served in a cold pie for Charles II and later died at sixty three in prison after arrest on suspicion tied to the popish plot.
The article cites Bulwer's The Artificial Changeling describing John Simonds born without arms in Berkshire who learned to write with his mouth, thread a needle with his toe, tie knots, and perform tasks usually done with fingers.
An exceptional knife displays a blade for each year since year 1 AD, totaling 1805 blades. The blades are added five at a time every five years. The article also notes Japan's population and broader imperial context, mentioning Port Arthur and Foo-Chow as strategic interests for Britain in China.
A compact weekly roundup of major global events drawn from telegraph reports. Highlights include political developments in Europe and Asia, economic shifts in trade hubs, and notable conflicts or diplomacy updates shaping the week.
The briefing aggregates diverse items: Postmaster General Jones annual report and construction estimates, Carlisle seeks new revenue legislation, and agriculture shows cotton yield 155.6 lb per acre. Reports from Naples warn Italian citrus crop down two thirds. fraud order targets lottery companies. Cuban policy talks loom in Washington. (continues) Renfrew honors Michigan demand for Oscar Smallet in a train robbery case. Ottumwa reporter faces revenue-law charges. Other items include Mayne found guilty of assault. a duel between Warren Ratcliffe McVeigh and Paul Wilkes. grisly murders in Eldorado Arkansas. Laing wounded in Leavenworth dispute. bond jumper Carr blamed for jail escape. gal-lantry suspects linked to Miss Minter and Noack. jail inmates threaten self-harm. Ranger desk broken in Indianapolis. Indianapolis Episcopal congregation noted.
Obituaries report deaths of Milton Rogers of Omaha. Maj. H Grant Weidman of Lebanon. Dr Basall Norris of San Francisco. Mrs Lucy Wight of Galena. J Niven Hegeman, Irvington. Dr W Holmes of Chicago elected to National Geographic Society. Political notes include J R McCullagh seeking Senate seat. Josiah Quincey nominated for Boston mayor. acting NY officials Conlin Cartwright and McCullough to be formally appointed. Major civic and political figures mentioned with ties to Princeton, Galena, Boston, New York, and Washington.
A string of fatal accidents reports from across the country including John Guren killed in a friendly bout with I J Collette in Columbus Ohio. Other deaths include a fire near New York, a motorman killed in Aurora NL, and a Lehigh engine boiler explosion in Warwick NY.
Reports detail Richard C. Rowe to be brought back from Mexico. John Linberg found dead in St. Ignace. Mormon elders forced from Kentucky into West Virginia. frauds tied to ship scuttling near Newfoundland. riots halted at Ishkota mines with fatalities. Urbana salesman sickened and killed. midwife Lena Cross charged in Michigan death. Baltimore brewer Schlaffer charged with fraud. several murder trials slated in Illinois and Ohio. a Washington Courthouse riot trial set to start anew. a Chicago trolley clash. Bill Gay condemned for murder in Helena Kansas City area. multiple incidents across states.
London news notes Dr Herring sues for insurance on the burned yacht Mohican with expert testimony of four fires. Paris dedicates Messenier's statute at the Louvre infant garden. Baron Tirsch sells 140000 acre Bohemian hunting estate to Prince Frederick Charles of Hohenlohe. Grace receives £5000 from Daily Telegraph subscription. Dobbs rules $1.5 million reinvestment for Lady Ensley properties. Ernest Curtius titled Excellency by Emperor William. Veladan seeks wealthy widow as mystic writer cuts hair. Venezuela minister to publish 900 page boundary study. Louvre Egyptian collection rearranged after 30 years. Beaver Steamship subsidy to St John Liverpool service. Delage scales Rosengarten Dolomites peak. 1904 Europe rail buildup noted. Britain tops fast speeds.
The boxing match in New York ends in a first round knockout as General Peter Maher defeats Slim O'Donnell. Across the country reports detail exhumation plans for executed Chicago anarchists and various far reaching business and legal moves.
Friday report notes M M Madigan on parole arrives in Redwood Falls welcomed by friends. Scheen racer assigns at Princeton with J L rady as assignee. Royalton wreck injures three hoboes. train loaded with wheat. Lanesboro Mitchell block fire destroys Evenson saloon. adjacent blocks burn but stock saved.
Mrs Anthony McCoy of Gray Cloud dies of consumption at age fifty Edwin Capple dies of apoplexy in St Cloud He arrived in St Cloud in 1857 leaving three married children A freight wreck between Royalton and Rice Station damages railroad property Four tramps injured but none fatally Knights of Pythias hall dedication in Mankato draws large crowds from St Peter Waseca Lake Crystal Mapleton and others Grand officers attend and give five minute speeches A banquet and ball followed the services
Miss Mary Hanlon of Le Sueur and John Sheehy of Montgomery wed in Le Sueur and will reside in Montgomery. Other items note a not guilty verdict for Volk in a Pine City murder case, Elias Miller’s guilty plea and fine for running a blind pig, a hunting party ice rescue at Lake Itasca, a fatal accident near Houston, and the death of 6 year old Tenius Jackson under a wagon.
Smoke and fire caused heavy damage to stock at J. F. Burke's clothing store in Stillwater. A fire engine en route to the blaze tipped over, sustaining major damage.
Mrs. Thomas Brown dies at 72 in Lake City from pneumonia. Geo N. Baxter sues Louis Gale. jury awards Baxter $907 in Faribault district court. Northwestern Telephone crew reaches Royalton. line expected operational by Sat Nov 23. Hinckley Enterprise sold by A C Hay to J Folsom. plant rebuilt after 1894 fires. Reports of illegal liquor sales in Marshall County prompt Warren grand jury venire ordered for Jan 4 by Judge Ives to investigate alleged crimes and illicit liquor activity.
Mrs. C H Nixon dies of diphtheria in Hector leaving a husband and two grown children. A Madison boy loses his thumb and finger after a horse hoof injury. Diphtheria cases rise in Faribault with teachers sick and several deaths recently. A Belgrade maniac shoots himself to avoid recommitment. A southwest Anoka stable burns with livestock and farm equipment. fire deemed incendiary. Moorhead mayor police dispute found to be unfounded and settled.
K L Burfield suffers the loss of an eye and a hand in a dynamite explosion while wiring a fuse. Thomas Slough is tossed fifteen feet but unharmed. Captain Fred Holmberg and 15-year-old Andrew L. Dibbell separate on Thomson road. Dibbell is found dead from accidental gun discharge two hours later. Sheriff Barncard returns to Owatonna with Charles C. Ives, charged with failing to return a livery rig.
Thursday reports show O. B. Turrell bound over to the May term on $2,000 bond after pleading not guilty to grand larceny in Redwood Falls. Also, Dell Hammer pleads guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon and is fined 25 dollars. Rail wrecks and local court actions fill the day’s notices.
United States Marshal Pratt seized Karl Franz on a Maryland district attorney warrant for obtaining citizenship papers by false representations. Detectives testified Franz admitted the scheme and described plans to vote Democratic and travel to Milwaukee. Bail set at $1000. failure to post may return him to Baltimore amid expected more arrests.
Senator David B. Hill will headline a lecture in Chicago on Friday night December 6 at the Auditorium. The event marks his first appearance in the city and will cover the topic Liberty.
A boiler explosion at Stanton Bros in Gibson killed one man instantly and mortally wounded two others. Several more were injured as investigators seek the cause with the plant halted.
Clinton New York special report states Joseph S. Avery aged sixty nine former sheriff committed suicide by drowning in his cistern today.
Special-Miss Ma Jorie Rhoden of Stockton, California, says M. P. Burdick married her after meeting in California and desertion followed. Burdick’s prior wife testified he married in 1892 and lived with him one day.
Police believe Adams Express Company theft in Colorado Springs totaled 55000 dollars, not 20000 as initially reported. Company officials remain reticent and investigators have not found a tangible crew behind the robbery.
Grinnell Iowa special detective force from Mexico arrives with Richard Rowe charged with complicity in Chester Rowe's embezzlement of 38000 dollars of county funds. Chester was treasurer. Rowe was arrested July 19 and extradited last week.
Charles Lowery, jailed for assault with intent to do great bodily harm, escaped last night from the county jail in Whitehall Wis by digging a hole through the wall with a poker and an iron rod. There is no trace of him.
Italian and British squadrons converge in Salonica bay with French and Russian units expected soon. Armenian massacres intensify in Van and other districts. American missionaries protected by Turkish gendarmes under orders. Turkish authorities blame Armenians for attacks on Mussulmans amid reports of large revolutionary gatherings near Tchoukmerzen and Adana.
A letter from Erzeroum confirms a massacre of Armenians, with estimates up to 2000 killed. The writer notes Turks did not suffer casualties and blames Turkish orders and officer led looting, while foreign consuls warn of worsening winter misery for remaining Armenians.
Sir Philip Currie, British ambassador to Turkey, travels from England to Constantinople via Vienna to resume duties amid Turkish Armenian tensions. Lord Salisbury and his wife visited Windsor Castle, as the Post signals a policy to preserve the Turkish empire and restore order while reforms may be pursued with the sultan's cooperation.
The article debates assigning blame for Turkish Christian tensions. It notes ambassadors like Sir Philip Currie gain leverage to support reforms slowly, warning naval pressure could worsen crisis. Francis Seymour Stevenson calls the sultan showing monomania nearing insanity and fears the fate of Murad.
Reports from Constantinople and Scutari describe anti Christian placards torn down and Armenian leaders forced into hiding. Turkish police reportedly imprison Armenians and conduct secret executions while a minister distrusts the navy. Dispatches warn of widespread massacres in Asia Minor and Sassoun relief being limited.
Aden dispatch reports the Iman of Sana leading 45,000 Arabs to defeat Turkish forces in three engagements. Turks are confined to Sana, a walled city about five and a half miles in circumference.
A Berlin dispatch says the sultan of Turkey may have been poisoned, though unverified. Constantinople reports panic among Armenian traders, closing shops as danger deepens. French squadron reaches Smyrna while Armenian mission losses reach ten thousand pounds. Kurdish revolts near Aimtab and unrest across eastern tribes signal broad instability in Anatolia.
Lord Salisbury disclosed a note from the sultan expressing regret at his claim that Turkey would not implement reforms. The premier offered no change in stance, but affirmed continued unity of the powers to ensure reform execution.
In St. Cloud Minnesota on November 21 two alleged train robbers believed to be ordinary tramps held up the Great Northern passenger train. Five men are detained on suspicion as detectives scour the region east of the incident. Otto Sparland of Fergus Falls identifies the two men and describes a masked rider inside the train. Authorities deploy riders, carriages, and revolvers as they pursue leads and question Sparland’s story.
Michael Reynolds, a brakeman for the Great Northern road, died in Southeast Minneapolis after a portion of a moving train backed down on him during a flying switch. He was attending to one part of the train when the accident occurred.
A fire this morning destroyed the Tinz block, the city’s finest business district area, causing estimated losses of 100000 dollars. Fire crews fought the flames but containment was unlikely for hours.
Ironton Ohio November 20 Miss Clara Campbell of this city who years ago won a 40000 judgment against Arbuckle the millionaire coffee dealer in a breach of promise suit is dying at Dr C G Gray's sanitarium three miles below Ironton.
The Northwesten Immigration convention opened with delegates from every state and major Northwest cities. Gov. Clough and Mayor Smith welcomed participants, and J. R. McGinnis was named temporary secretary as T. L. Schurmeier served as temporary chairman. J. J. Hill urged settlement and growth, recounting Minnesota’s development and urging state-led immigration effort.
In St. Petersburg Rome on November 21 Cardinal Bonapart died of apoplexy. He was a cardinal priest, the second in order of precedence. Born in Rome in 1828, he was created a cardinal to S68.
November 21 report says the Housesmiths and Bridgemen's union strike continues in New York City and work is at a standstill on most new buildings under construction.
In Birmingham Alabama on November 21 a family feud among the Handley Jones and Kilgore clans left Joe Kilgore and John Jones dead and John Handley fatally wounded.
A large forest fire sweeps the Little Kanawha above Parkersburg West Virginia burning vast tracts of woods barns and fences as authorities battle the blaze.
Oaton Ball reports Myron T Herrick and S Warner signed a 15000 bail bond while August Rogers the motorman on the car that plunged through the Central viaduct was granted liberty.
In Little Rock on May 21 officers Brown and Farrow were badly hurt while trying to arrest Will Ward a Black man who was fatally shot during the confrontation. Ward died later or at least appears fatally wounded. The incident occurred early this morning.
Report from Nich teroy describes the execution of twenty seven political prisoners on Sunday morning including two colonels. The incident sparks broad excitement as sympathizers with the monarchical cause gain momentum among army and navy officers. Rumors claim England and Germany back the movement and a German prince may be placed on Brazil's throne.
El Paso reports that Dan Stuart obtained a five year concession to run bull fights horse racing boxing contests and a large gambling house in Juarez Mexico near the Rio Grande. He would offer a $20 000 purse to Corbett and Fitzsimmons, though he declines to confirm the rumor.
A cautious estimate puts killed outright at 15,000 in Constantinople with up to 40,000 more expected to die of starvation in the coming period. The scale of suffering across Europe is described as unimaginable.
Indianapolis Governor Matthews rushed to Atlanta after receiving news that his only son Seymour Matthews, who led the government exhibit there, died. The governor left immediately and news of Seymour's death was announced an hour later.
A persistent New York Post profile chronicles Mrs. Rover, a multi talented woman who pursued college study at Aurora and explorations in chemistry wood carving carpentry and nursing to support her family and aid other mothers, showcasing resilience and broad skill.
A brief note highlights Mw WissLow's SooTHina Synur for Children Teething as a well tried remedy referenced in a vintage advertisement. It emphasizes using the product for infants cutting teeth without detailing dosing or safety warnings.
The London Real notes that for cyclists content with eight or ten mile rides Paris feels like paradise. The boulevards lack safety, yet the exhilaration of speed through Rue Royale and Place de la Concorde, past the Arc de Triomphe toward the Bois, yields rare happiness.
A travel cartoon quotes an English tourist arguing travel is safer now, contrasting it with anti travel alarm and train robber anecdotes. The piece notes Indian summer as a seasonal backdrop and contrasts safety with sensational fear.
Advertising talk shows the baking powder reading notice valued at 150 dollars. The Fresh Reporter remarks on the football story as the paper's best item this morning, while the Advertising Manager's Assistant suggests the baking notice stands out for revenue.
An old newspaper brief notes Hanson’s Magic Corn Salve with a warranty to cure or money refunded and price listed as 15 cents, urging readers to ask their druggist for it.
A quoted exchange highlights a man seeking marriage with a woman who responds ambiguously. The woman says I will, but adds doubts about respect, illustrating miscommunication and pressure in marital proposals. The note appears as a brief cultural reflection from the Indianapolis Journal.
Jacqueminot velours with ribbed patterns and cut-jet gimp edging decorate the bodices of handsome black winter costumes.
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