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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1892
Page
2
St Peter's church in Rome is described as the largest church in the world with Florence's cathedral as the second and Milan's cathedral as the third in size, according to a Brainerd dispute report published by INGERSOLL & WIELAND Publishers in SRAINERD, MINN.
A woman has lately been admitted for the first time to the London Society of Compositors. The society refuses to admit women who are not paid at the same rate as men.
The report notes 1839 widowers married in New York City last year versus 1574 widows. It states widowers outnumber widows by about 20 percent in marriages.
The piece urges road reform to make Jordan Road safer and smoother so bicyclists prefer it over sidewalks. It argues long-standing rough conditions hinder travel and calls road advocates to act to improve the route for cyclers.
The Siam king is described as short of funds and heavily in debt. He imports engravers to produce greenbacks hoping to settle his obligations and enrich his circle, and claims that no flies are on his majesty.
A brief, humorous note calls Turking of the Belgians a lasting gambler and suggests Albert Edward rarely visits the country. The piece implies his royal duties make such travel unlikely to be profitable.
The record notes 4,868 organizations including 4,736 churches and 456 halls in all states except Delaware and territories except Alaska. Church property totals 43,335,437 dollars with 512,771 communicants.
A credited scientific gent outlines nine different baldness remedies while noting the long history of various approaches. The piece also humorously observes that house flies have long used people’s premises as skating rinks, disregarding owners.
A Berlin chemist tested 18 kinds of Swedish and German matches and found they can be ignited on almost any surface if friction raises the temperature enough.
In 1451 at Berne Switzerland parish priests cited leeches in court by bishop’s command. Aquatic worms were placed before magistrates and the verdict ordered the leeches to leave the country within three days under threat of God’s malediction.
Ose Melchoir Farker, a convict at Szrezdin Penitentiary in Hungary, developed a patent shaving device claimed to shave a man in twenty five seconds. He reportedly used it to shave all 150 inmates, earning the governor's complete satisfaction. The prisoners’ remarks are not recorded.
The French Minister of Public Instruction plans a museum at Joan of Arc’s Domremi home to display statue models and paintings depicting her life, including portraits from the Pantheon.
The governor proposes amending a prohibitory law that has produced jail terms far exceeding the average life expectancy for numerous offenders. He urges the legislature to revise the statute to fit the crime.
A large archive of newspaper clippings covering biographical and political material was damaged by fire in Philadelphia. The owner, an invalid veteran, had mounted pages into filing sheets like a library catalogue and now seeks to replace lost editions by purchasing old newspapers.
Nicholas Gross, a farmer near Wapakoneta Ohio, brought a remarkable bird to town. It was caught in a steel trap and is the second of its species captured in the country. The bird features a heart shaped head with hairlike feathers, a monkey like face, two toes forward and two behind with sharp claws, brown color, and a cry resembling a scared pig.
A quirky compilation notes Hixpoostan about twenty five times New York's size while the Sahara equals the United States in area. It claims the Mediterranean would split the US from New York to Vancouver and contrasts Great Britain Ireland with Arizona. Madagascar allegedly matches several US states combined. It also pairs England with Iowa in area.
A concise roundup of major world happenings from across continents. Highlights include political developments, economic shifts, and notable social changes impacting nations and citizens. This digest captures key movements and statements shaping the current global landscape.
The president appointed Chas A auffe of Minnesota as agent for the Indians at White Earth agency. Harrison opened 1.8 million acres of Crow lands in Montana to settlement. E Benjamin Andrew Brown University president, a Democrat, named delegate to the international monetary conference replacing F A Walker. South Milwaukee National Bank applied for authority to organize. Justice Shiras to the Third circuit, succeeding Harlan who covers the seat after Justice Bradley’s death.
A Honduran schooner wrecks with thirteen dead while a Texas waterspout floods 400000 acres. Sailor A H Sullivan arrives in San Francisco with six crew from the W A Campbell. A six year old boy in Michigan is fatally injured by a switch engine. A 19 year old in Illinois shows hydrophobia symptoms. An Indiana pump firm worker dies in a gas explosion. A Billings Park keeper dies after a elk attack. A Logansport man kills a plumber by mistake. A Sioux City street car accident injures the motorman. a Jersey City tenement fire damages several firms. Fire losses exceed 125000, insurance covers. Danbury fire damages another block. Dayton electric plant accident injures an electrician.
Judge Seymour of the Connecticut supreme court dies of brain fever. Senator Leland Stanford improves in health while abroad. Rev Dr Hoffman, owner of the Hoffman house in New York, is touted as the richest clergyman. Albert 8 Berry of Newport is six feet six. Curtis Hicks of Racine dies after twelve years as an invalid. Nihilist Reinstin plans to move to America. Archbishop Vaughan of Westminster served in the Crimean war. Mrs. Alice Shaw protests for her money in Ceylon. Ann O Delia Diss Debar claimed alive and thriving in New York. Frau Theresa Vogl bids farewell to the public. Emin Pasha is destitute and living with an Arab in Tabora awaiting aid. Juan N Contreras, seismic prophet, spurs alarm across Southern Mexico with predicted earthquakes. Col Jacob Child recalls lending Poe 50 cents and describes Poe as tall and younger looking.
A Richmond man is held for complicity in the Borden murder as a wave of crimes spreads across the nation. Reports name D L Ruiz of Ecuador arrested in New York for forgery, while Kloeber faces threats after killing several Dalton gang members. Other incidents include a Dixon Kentucky shooting, Dunlow Pennsylvania drugstore murder tied to a family quarrel, a Toledo bribery verdict, a St Louis homicide, Chicago diamond thefts, and a Milesville race war with deaths and injuries. A Prescott Apache known as Kid is again active, pursued near Ft Huachuca by 3rd Cavalry.
The recent death of French historian Camille Felix Michael Rosset is reported. A Rome cable notes the cruiser Bausan has been ordered to the coast of Venezuela to protect Italian lives and interests in the republic while Emperor William approves Count von Caprivi's military bid and grants empowerment.
Across Europe and the Atlantic, reports indicate the chancellor plans to dissolve the Reichstag if it refuses to approve the treasury. Royal and diplomatic moves involve Greece, Britain, and the Vatican with views on honors, marriages, and fair exhibitions.
Whitelaw Reid accepts the Republican nomination for vice president while Wayne MacVeagh joins the Democrats in Philadelphia. Charles F. Joy is nominated for Congress by Republicans in Missouri's Eleventh, and Gen Daniel E Sickles is named by Democrats in New York's Tenth. Duane Freeman withdraws from Kansas Sixth as Democrats back Baker. The Republican National Committee delays a campaign document on wildcat money pending investigations into printing facsimiles of bank notes.
The Northern Pacific directors approved President Oakes report at a lively stockholder meeting in New York. No figures were released. The Chicago Railroad Association finished its passenger rate sheet set to take effect Nov 1 with many changes including higher rates from Chicago to St Louis and Missouri river points and across the western territory to the Pacific coast and Gulf region.
Joe Goddard pursues Blower Mitchell while Curt Welch works free. Corbett aims to build a wheel track at Asbury Park. Anson backs doing away with gloves for fielders. Daly quits Corbett team amid quarrel over treatment. Boston blames poor handling for season. Griffin must meet Dixon at 118 pounds or not at all. Dixon resists future weight talks. Sullivan and Corbett clash in papers with show plans. Von der Ahe reports Anson’s offer to swap Billy Dahlen for Glasscock. Dahlen valued higher than Glasscock.
In Homestead Pennsylvania a non union boarding house owned by Mrs O Neill was set on fire but narrowly escaped total destruction. No clue to the fire’s origin was found. Telegraphers on the Denver Rio Grande have ended their strike and arbitration will settle the dispute. Trouble with the Missouri Pacific has been averted.
A Chicago York line test pleased. Cleveland hosts American Street Railway session with Milwaukee chosen next. Attacks on Gov McKinley stir politics. a Chicago bill seeks a receiver for Western Manufacturers Mutual. Briggs row at Union Theological Seminary. New York stage children form Anti Gerry Society to oppose state opponents. Zalinski gun firm now Pneumatic Torpedo and Construction Co. Dessar assigns assets in NYC. Middlesborough Bank fails for 28000. assets near 78000, deposits at risk. Pinion Tailoring Co in St Louis collapses. key members missing. Bristol Mills stockholders plan assignment. liabilities 110000, assets 70000. new company rumored. Augusta Chilean bark fired near Port Townsend by US cutter Oliver Wolcott. Gossip about Misses Lusch and Grace in Odin IL ends in public horsewhipping. Colorado Coal & Iron and Colorado Fuel consolidate as Colorado Fuel and Coal Co with 9.25 million cap. Cunard to resume steerage travel for US citizens and families. Pubuque IA reports first human lumpy jaw case, 6-year-old Iga Lange, with dire prognosis. Monmouth NJ grand jury indicts Pittsburg police chief O Hara for kidnapping in Frank Merlick case. transfer from New Jersey without requisition.
The death of Mrs. Harrison at the White House marks the second time a president's wife has died in the residence. She faced death peacefully with family by her bedside and treated with patience and Christian resignation. The president and most family members were present.
The article recounts the death scene at the White House with Mrs Harrison surrounded by family and caregivers. It details the prelude of reporters and police at entrances, the funeral plan to Crown Hill Indianapolis, and sketches the life of the Scotts and Harrisons from 1832 birth of Caroline Lavinia Scott to Benjamin Harrison’s rise, his marriage to Carrie Scott, and their early years in Oxford and Indianapolis.
Descriptive portrait of Mrs. Marvison Harrison focusing on appearance, domestic virtue, and social grace. The piece highlights her art tastes, watercolors, generous hospitality, reluctance for notoriety, and steadfast devotion to family. It cites The Evening Star praising her common sense, temper, kindness, and self restraint.
Capt. T. C. Lamotte recalls a close call during the Civil War when he posed as a deaf mute beggar to gain access to General Grant in his camp before Shiloh. Grant suspected him, ordered search and imprisonment, and a sergeant fired near his head. Lamotte answered Cincinnati questions on a paper, earned guard-house protection, and narrowly escaped.
The Pall Mall Gazette notes Isaac Holden, a member of parliament, as the inventor of the lucifer match. He describes the moment he combined sulfur with an explosive mix to create instant light during his chemistry lectures, noting a London chemist's son promptly informed his father and matches were soon issued worldwide. Holden says he did not patent the idea, deeming it a small matter.
The Brandon Banner reports in Mandchoury northern China dogs are bred for skins due to extreme cold. Hair is long thick and fine. connoisseurs prize the pelts. Dogs eight months old are killed by strangulation when fur is at its longest. Mantles sold for $3.50 require about eight skins, with color matching and tailoring to produce a finished garment.
Immense gathering witnesses dedication of the expo’s empty structures in Chicago on October 22. Leaders, dignitaries, and 15,000 troops march as Vice President Morton dedicates the buildings, with Depew and Watterson praising Columbus and American progress.
A St Louis Globe-Democrat tale recalls a French impostor who posed as Jacques Barere in Toulon. Latrete describes how the man mimicked Barere, wore a hat in the office to mask identity, and vanished after a mistaken signature and a missing hat reveal.
A Southern railroad conductor explains harsh methods to eject riding tramps, mostly Black, describing how they jump trains at speed and how crews stop or shake them off. He mentions dropping them on grades and notes fatalities occur when struck by locomotives.
In a Mendacity Club talk at the Laclede a man recalls a Nashville store crow known for thefts. The bird stole a $100 bill and silk thread, hid loots in a hollow tree, and despite a mock death sentence, vanished without further mischief.
In Bermuda Mrs Rollir notes daily flower deliveries from driver and washerwoman, valued in New York at five or six dollars, yet no rush to alter schedules. Local shopkeepers resent customer demands as inventories vanish rapidly, with one seller claiming constant demand wiped items out as fast as stocked.
A collection of short items notes Justin McCarthy finishing a novel on the Irish question and Emperor William sending congratulations to President Harrison for Columbus quadricentennial. Also mentions Prof William Swinton's sudden death in New York and a St Louis San Francisco train wreck near Phillipsburg with fatalities and injuries.
Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Milwaukee report wheat prices for No. 2 spring around 141 to 734 cents, No. 1 hard or Northern futures near 71 to 75 cents, and corn, oats, rye with varied bids. Barley and malt prices listed. flour and bran values included. figures cover multiple grades and market descriptions.
New York Oct. 26 Rev. Dr. John Halt and Rev. Dr. Robert Russell Gooth resign from the Union Theological Seminary board amid disputes with the Presbyterian church. Secretary F. M. Kingsley says one resignation was tabled to seek reconsideration, while Dr. Keeth’s departure had been anticipated. Dr. Booth says he withdraws after thirty years, unable to see how the seminary compact can be abrogated, but he will remain active at Princeton College and Riversite Church.
A trio of marriages is planned at St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church in Williamsburg with Col. J Kennedy Stout of Spokane Falls Washington to wed Ida Homan, Currie Homan to George Tidball of 154 Clymer Street, and Mollie Homan to Lloyd Longan of 473 Bedford Avenue. The child actress Gertie Homan is credited as the inadvertent matchmaker through letters and photographs.
Buffalo N Y Oct 26 the express train broke the railroad record by reaching ninety miles per hour shortly after leaving Rochester. The run to Buffalo covered sixty nine miles in seventy one minutes, and the train arrived on time despite a late start of forty minutes.
Rumors in New York on October 26 claim the county Democratic ticket may withdraw. Reports allege ex-Congressman John W. Gort will not run again and mayoral candidate ex-Congressman Quinn would retire from the field, though county Democrats deny details.
An investigating committee has made discoveries about transfers of property linked to management. A directors’ meeting was scheduled to hear the report but it was postponed for the present.
Des Moines reports the death of General J M Tuttle at Casagranda Arizona after paralysis struck him last Saturday. He was a prominent Iowa wing war officer. He died yesterday.
The Supreme Council of Scottish Rite Masons for the Southern and Western States meets in St Louis for a biennial session. Proposals to amalgamate with the Northern Council are submitted but deferred for two years. A German order seeking recognition was unanimously rejected.
A six inch gas pipe loaded with gunpowder exploded during a firework event in Los Angeles, killing twelve people and wounding many others. Emergency crews responded as investigators search for the exact cause and assess the scene.
Private Percy Goull of Fairmont died suddenly of heart disease at the Minnesota national guard headquarters. Two other guardsmen were injured by cable cars. Edward Colen of Company N was struck and cut on the head, taken to St Luke's hospital with uncertain prognosis. Fred McCaskell of Company E suffered a severe calf wound after being struck on Wabash avenue, also admitted to St Luke's hospital.
The report lists total locomotives at 109000 and breaks down by region and country. Europe leads with Britain Ireland at 17000 Germany 5000 France 11000 Austria Hungary 4000 Italy 4000 Russia 3500 Belgium 2000 Holland Spain 1000 each with smaller counts in other nations.
Washington special reports Secretary Foster transmits a message from the German emperor expressing sincere congratulations to the United States on the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery. The chargé d affaires conveys imperial appreciation and goodwill on October 21.
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