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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1888
Page
2
Brainerd Dispatch notes Talmage rejects a creed that equates wrongdoing with duty, citing examples of men who believed crime was their obligation to rob and kill.
A Binghamton man sat in a restaurant when another diner ate limburger cheese provoking anger. He struck him with a chair, causing severe injuries, and authorities investigated the violent assault as a near-fatal incident.
Calvin Bowker, re signed as postmaster of Savoy Hollow, Massachusetts, since his 1841 appointment under President Tyler, remains in office at eighty two years old.
A distinguished Canadian writes to the London Times urging Canada receive representation in the British Parliament to forestall annexation by the United States. The letter asserts political reform could maintain Canadian independence and hinder territorial absorption.
The longest through car service on the Southern Pacific line runs between New Orleans and San Francisco, covering 2,595 miles. The fastest through train on this route is timed at 113 hours 25 minutes, averaging about 22 miles per hour.
An eighteen inch dagger of fine steel with gold inlays and Arabic inscriptions was found by a headsman in Gillespie County Texas. It is believed to be a relic from the era of Cortez and may have been bought or captured from the Moors by a Spanish grandee.
A magazine claim from an old issue states that in England until 1770 any person using rouge white paint Spanish cotton steel corsets crinoline high heels or false hips to entrap a male subject into marriage would be prosecuted for witchcraft and the marriage voided.
Miss Wilson, boarding at J. B. Chase's in Dover Maine, stood before a dressing case to arrange her hair and extinguished the light. The next morning she found a clearly distinct profile of herself reflected on the mirror, visited by many without explanation.
In London a group of rowdies entice young boys to step into the path of passing bicycles. When struck the boys yelp loudly to feign injury while the crowd pretends to offer sympathy. The bicyclist pays compensation to the boy, then the gang shares the proceeds.
A Paris glove seller was arrested for overzealous marketing after stamping his name and address inside each glove. The ink transferred to wearers’ hands after half an hour, turning many female customers into moving advertisements for weeks, a scheme seen as self-harming and perplexing.
The Chicago Tribune reports four categories for divorced women: remarried within a year at 75 percent, awaiting new offers at 10 percent, fallen into evil ways at 10 percent, and devoted to celibacy at 5 percent. Figures derived from divorce lists, marriage registries, judges, clergymen, lawyers, court officials, and personal inquiry.
A Florida newspaper notes that removing alligators from water holes severely reduces available water for cattle. Gators once kept mud from filling banks and repaired damag e by digging, so pools stayed usable. Now cattle wait for rain as holes stay muddy or dry, relying only on dew-fed grass for moisture.
In the Milledgeville Record er story a former wealthy planter now serves as Augusta police, living on 50 dollars a month. Once his acres slaves and luxury were vast, his home a palace, his grounds enchanted. He remains thankful his lot is not worse.
In Washington the pension system sees indictments with Dr James Fulke of Baltimore charged for soliciting half payment and $100 for aiding Lydia Madden’s claim, while Mary OConnor faces false affidavit charges in a U S court. Sioux visitors doubt any agreement at the Vilas conference amid internal divisions and uncertain unity on proposals. The General Land Office cancels 24320 acres in Ashland district tied to the St Croix and Lake Superior grant, reserving land within six and fifteen miles of the first road from the Wisconsin Central grant.
A fire destroyed a Valentine Nebraska hardware store and the U S signal office with 20000 dollars in losses. A six year old boy drowned in a cistern in Appleton Minnesota. Miners Joseph McGrath and C A Swenson were buried in a Michigan mine with Swenson rescued and McGrath in danger. A Winona Minnesota post office block fire caused over 80000 in damage, with no letters lost. Duluth oil sheds burned containing 21000 barrels valued near 190000. Lehigh Valley line wreck near Wilkes Barre injured twenty six Hungarian workers. conductor Hawk and engineers Peck and Fry listed among the injured, with Peck and Fry likely to die.
John H. Knapp, president of the Knapp Stout & Co. lumber firm, died at Menominee Wisconsin. News notes indicate he led the company through significant expansion and remains a key figure in regional timber trade.
Alfred Gillam known as Victor and younger brother of Ber nard Gillam, attempts suicide in Brooklyn amid ill health. Wisconsin suspects bound over in Hawthorne murder. A Grand Forks lightning rod man encounters a thief with ether. Helena and Lincoln figures in embezzlement and German clubs. Rawlins indicts brakemen for freight train robberies. Rawlins locals resist liquor law with mass drunken outcry in Thompson. Barron sits chase for adultery with Morrison arrest. Pauline McCoy, 19, hanged for murder of 14 year old Annie Jordan in Alabama. Cokato saloon row ends in fatal shooting of John Anderson. Wealthy Thomas Wardell shot by striking miners in a carriage incident.
Amid the North Side strike chaos, grip cars switched to new operators while old workers protested. A riot at North avenue and Halsted left cars damaged and passengers hurt as a patrol wagon intervened. In Buffalo, a sweeping mail robbery yielded unreadable drafts and checks, with a $19.90 check intact. John Shields, a bank clerk, was arrested for post office theft, linked to the mail robbery.
Dr Mackenzie book sparks indignation in official circles over alleged slander against Chancellor Bismarck. Rome dispatch notes a mar dial interview with Emperor William and papal caution on German Catholic issues. Flood near Pekin claims 10 000 lives and livestock with villages at risk. Pacific Mail contract signed for Canada to East route via Vancouver to Yokohama Hong Kong Shanghai with subsidies.
News briefs report Lewis Chandler a Jackson County Wisconsin teacher convicted after a prior arrest for obscene mail, sentenced to one year at a farm school. A Fargo Manitoba hotel robbery yields $150 cash a gold watch and chain and a revolver, with thieves binding two boarders and stealing their money.
Blackwood's Magazine notes navies are in a transition driven by armor and heavy guns. It questions which ship types meet future needs and debates torpedo value for offense and defense. Civil war torpedo defense saw strength in fleet disruption. broader lessons remain elusive for ocean trade defense.
The passage mocks a Good Housekeeping claim about kerosene poisoning remedies and diverges into crude humor about birch oil and stern lessons. It contrasts childish remedies with adult drinking, noting men drink worse whisky than oil well output, in a sardonic tone.
A night rail crash near Hazleton leaves eighty dead and many injured. In Wilkes-Barre crowds gathered at the Lehigh Valley depot as officials counted victims and transported bodies to White Haven. Funeral trains carried fifty seven dead to Wilkes-Barre while responders tended the living and searched wreckage. The Lehigh Valley Railroad faces losses exceeding one million dollars.
John Lee and Martin Moe were found guilty of first-degree murder in Douglas County for the June 19 killing of Charles Shaleen in Brandon. Judge Searle sentenced them to death after a trial in Alexandria, noting their youth and shared violent history. Moe proclaimed the verdict as expected, while Lee was captured later and both men faced solitary confinement before execution under governor-set timing.
James Flood, the bonanza king born in Ireland in 1825, died in Heidelberg, Germany. His early life was plain, and after arriving in California in 1851 he endured years of hardship before rising to wealth with partners owning a liquor saloon and related ventures in San Francisco during the mid-1800s.
In 1862 these men invested in the Comstock lode Nevada. John W. Mackay joined next year and in 1869 James C. Fair became the fourth partner in the mining property. Flood and associates emerged ahead after the Comstock boom collapse. Flood protected the Nevada bank and, with Fair and Mackay, issued a heavy call on the California bank leading to its suspension and to the death by suicide of William Ralston.
Minneapolis and St Paul markets report futures for Wheat No 2 Oct to May ranging 1.11 to 1.14 per bushel with Corn No 2 Oct around 44 to 52 cents and Oats 21 to 29 cents. Cash quotes list Wheat 1.11 1.12, Butter 20 21 cents, Eggs 18 18 4, flour prices varied by grade, and regional quotes appear for Milwaukee and Millwaukee area markets with fluctuating lard pork and hay prices.
The Minnesota Farm and Labor state ticket is withdrawn by the executive committee. It cites lack of organization, funds, and statewide support, and urges supporters to back local Farm and Labor tickets and elect the legislature. Ignatius Donnelly, 8. P. McGaughey, William Welch, and J. G. Lehenbeck are named as candidates.
The Chicago strike continues as police arrest a car driver after a stone hits a bystander. The mayor issues a citywide peace proclamation urging residents to work and avoid street scenes while 125 officers keep crowds from disrupting two West Side streetcar runs.
Gneisbach, under fifteen years for mail robbery at Qu Appelle, escapes from Stony Mountain after gaining wardens’ favor through exemplary conduct. He vanishes in chaplain Goulding’s house, leaving a note and taking money and the best horse. In Minnesota, Indian Cut Face is acquitted in the Banville murder case after a sequence of visits to a wigwam and violence that led to Banville’s death days later.
Colus Ohio October 12 1888 Acces G TavMay submits a formal acceptance of his nomination for the office of president to Hon Patrick A Collins and others at the Democratic national convention in St Louis He urges re election of President Cleveland and argues tariffs must aid labor and reduce living costs while opposing monopolistic excesses and high taxes to enrich only some.
A sequence of abductions and assaults on Lena Chapin near Ute on the Sioux City branch of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line has the town in an uproar. Two attackers abducted her from her uncle Ed wards farm, tied her, and threatened to learn his hidden money. Despite a wide search by around four hundred men, the assailants remain at large.
At New York’s Cooper Institute two well dressed men argued in Italian, scuffled, and one collapsed against a street pole. A police officer found a fatal chest wound, a knife nearby, and the dead man identified as Antonio Piacciomio, 45, a clerk living with the Manasco family at 607 Third Avenue. He wore jewelry and carried cash.
Baltimore police probe a conspiracy with William A. Taffee, a Lexington Avenue lawyer, Hamilton Delahy, a confidential clerk, and Annie Herbert, keeper of a disorderly house. A mail letter offered fifty dollars to smear a face with sulphuric acid. a coded “H D” tag triggered reactions. George McLaughlin, sent for a letter, was arrested. Delahy followed. The trio deny acquaintance. investigation continues.
Jesse Mason, 80, near Stilesville Indiana, sold farm goods for 60 dollars. Logan York confronted him with an accomplice asking for matches. A struggle ensued. York fought with Mason’s daughter and was killed when Orman Mason appeared with a loaded shotgun. The second man fled into darkness.
The Minnesota piece extols William K. Merriam as a staunch ally of farmers and workers while presiding over the 1887 House. It credits him with curbing railroad monopoly influence, appointing Ignatius Donnelly to the Railroads Committee, advancing rail and grain measures, and supporting wage labor protections and convict labor reform. It notes his nomination for governor as a country, not city, choice, and asserts his integrity and independence from corporate interests.
A London Figaro note reports 136 Pekin carts outside Nanhai Palace on July 9 with candidates for the emperors harem from Manchu Mongol and Chinese banner families. The Empress selected six and ten lower rank for daimsels while one hundred ten hopefuls returned home disappointed.
The Boston Transcript notes the high price of giant guns at about 1000 dollars per ton making a 57 ton gun cost 57000. It estimates a giant gun’s useful life at around 200 discharges with depreciation and expenses per discharge totaling about 285 dollars plus projectiles and cartridges.
A pair of boys at Thirty third and Laurel streets in Chicago discovered a soap box containing five dead and decomposed babies. In Kansas, Fields the outgoing treasurer of Wabaunsee County was arrested with findings that he is a defaulter by $20,000. bondsmen are deemed solid, and the county expected to incur no loss.
The document accuses the governor of abusing veto power to obstruct legislation, defying constitutional and territorial law, and prioritizing personal advantage over public rights. It details Specifications including railroading Griggs as railroad commissioner, appointing a Canadian jockey as territorial veterinarian, denying indemnity for culled stock, ignoring musters for the national guard, and improper law compilation spending.
Senate passes a substitute bill directing three interior department appointees to negotiate relinquishments of reservation titles in Minnesota except White Earth and Red Lake. Indians relocate to White Earth, Red Lake lands allotted, remaining lands surveyed, timber valued, and homesteads opened at $1.29 per acre.
The conference report on the Senate bill grants settlers drought or casualty leaves of absence up to one year without loss of rights, and fixes the price of railroad grant lands at 1.25 per acre. The measures adjust residence requirements and set pricing for forfeited sections and adjacent lands within railroad grants.
The October government crop returns indicate corn crop condition at 92 percent, near records only surpassed by 79, is 28 bushels per acre in 79. Wheat shows sharp declines from 98.7 to 79.1 due to frosts. potato yield around 87. Winter wheat average 12 bushels per acre, spring wheat a little over 10 with quality below average. Spring wheat across states ranges 8.7 to 20.8 bushels in various counties and regions.
The National line steamer Queen collided with the French fishing schooner Madeline off Newfoundland in fog, cutting the Madeline in two and sinking it. The captain and three crew survived after an hour in the water. twenty others were lost. A separate report says two Indians fleeing a prairie raid drowned while swimming the Missouri.
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