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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1900
Page
1
Banner Missouri September 21 A report from the asylum treating Congressman Charles A Boutelle for aphasia says he is rapidly improving The brain obstruction affecting his nerve centers has diminished and he is now only slightly troubled in thought or speech His physical condition has remained steady and doctors anticipate an early complete recovery.
Minneapolis flour output last week totaled 826 585 barrels compared with 314 300 barrels a year earlier The Northwestern Miller reports Superior Duluth mills ground 11 000 barrels versus 64 755 barrels in the prior year Most mills sold their output with no market snap and exports hampered by high ocean rates with demand mainly from domestic buyers.
County correspondents report on homesteads in sections 6 and 29, hay harvests, crop prospects, and settlers visiting farms. Family moves, injuries, and local enterprises are noted while praising actual settlers over speculators and contrasting U S and English labor.
Sunday night Jack Frost visits Deerwood while Cuyler Adams and family depart for Duluth on Monday. C. J. Rathvon’s planing mill hums again as Ena McKay of Duluth visits. Deerwood Crokinole club plans winter revival. Judge Hale closes cottage and moves family to Duluth. Rev Clulow preaches at M E church. School opens with Sven Burnson of St Cloud as teacher. thirty five scholars enroll. Sievert Blum buys two Forest Road lots and builds a two story house. activity viewed with suspicion.
Visitors from Eagle Lake and Wright county discuss progress of the Emily school house which is nearly complete for the fall term beginning October 15. Locals note road bumps on Moore avenue and correct a Dispatch error identifying a passenger from Emily versus Cross Lake.
Esdon residents report social visits and several relocations. J Finnell returns from Dakota. Nora Hammett heads to Brainerd for winter. Sam Hammett hired to Mr Gergen. Connie Isles to Brainerd for schooling. Myrtle Hammett to stay with Mrs Markell and study. Wm Gergen trades farm and plans to move to town. Sharp moves from John Walker’s to Deer Wood. A surprise party at J L Hammett’s honors Nora before she leaves for school. a lost pocketbook and handkerchief are returned. music, games, light dancing after supper.
While riding to Deerwood on his weekly trip, Rev. Mr. Sharp encountered three bears. A large bear rose as if to embrace, but Sharp hurried on, avoiding further demonstrations.
Miss Catharine Hobbart of Waterville visits Aunt Mrs. Anderson for several weeks. Miss Louise Weber will teach the fall term at Deerwood starting next Monday. A city crowd visited the Noka Sebie near Sewell’s house and left cleaner. Miss Alice Coombs of Minneapolis will teach the fall term starting Oct 1. William Wendt and John Weber have gone to Brainerd to work in shops with Mrs. Wendt boarding with Weber family.
Republican primary at G A Hunts on the 21st at 7 p m. N J Coleman of West Superior visits his mother Mrs G A Hunt. Fair remarks and village chatter accompany reports of travels, a Montana move, and local mischief. Sunday school attendance around 40 with recitations noted.
Chairman James K. Jones departs for Chicago and says the situation in the East favors Bryan's election. He does not expect to return before election day.
The 1901 Dutch budget shows a 2 500 000 florin deficit. Glasgow reports two new bubonic plague cases. Ex Governor Roger Walcott declines Italy ambassadorship. Actress Belle Mingle Archer dies in Warren Pennsylvania from apoplexy. Author Justin McCarthy retires from Parliament due to ill health. Olga Nethersole fined two pounds in London for unmu zzled dogs. San Antonio population rises to 53 211 in 1900 from 37 675 in 1890. General John A. McClernand dies in Springfield Illinois. praised for Civil War service at Donelson Shiloh and Vicksburg.
Lord Roberts reports from Nelspruit that 700 of 8,000 Boers retreated into Portuguese territory near Komatipoort while others fled in various directions. Most of the force has dissolved, with only scattered marauding bands remaining at Dodomberg as Kelly-Kenny engages them.
Sept 18 report that General Viljoen successor to Louis Botha commands 3000 men moving toward Hectorspruit with 0 guns and aims to protract the war. The firebrand commander is noted for delaying efforts and continues operations in the Transvaal.
Prxim reports on September 21 that the Dutch cruiser Gelderland will proceed to Delagoa Bay to take on board former President Kruger and convey him to Holland as a diplomatic transfer and asylum arrangement.
Sioux Falls dispatch reports editor O Heron of the Flandreau Herald was shot and wounded by William A Bell of Dell Rapids. Bell, a Roosevelts Rough Riders member, accompanied the vice presidential tour through South Dakota after Herons criticism of Bell’s speech at Flandreau.
The Times confirms Mr. Charles T. Yerkes of Chicago and New York has purchased the Charing Cross Easton and Hempstead under ground railway franchise. Yerkes will sign contracts next week. construction starts soon. Original directors retire. new board appointed. Line to be completed in two years.
London reports the dissolution of parliament sparks Liberal alarm over South Africa policy with Lord Salisbury expected to again be prime minister and retain the cabinet. In Lincoln, Nebraska, W J Bryan arrives home to cheering supporters and plans a brief stay before a final campaign tour.
After a Danville rally, the Prohibition special moved to Chariton where at 8 40 a m a committee led candidates to Covert Hall square for an open air meeting. Woolley attacked the army canteen vigorously. In Creston a grove meeting was held near the depot.
In Frankfort on September 21 the defense began presenting evidence as the defendant testified about his arrival in Frankfort and movements on January 30 to establish an alibi.
Secretaries John D. Long and Lyman J. Gage left Portsmouth at dawn for Washington. They reportedly received four summons to return, signaling ongoing government business.
Galveston Texas September 21 workers pressed into service clear wreckage from the tornado. The revised Houston Post death toll lists 4754 with 273 bodies recovered Wednesday. City aims to restore industries and retail business as supplies to workers end after next Saturday.
In London on September 21 a letter signed by Barings Rothschilds Speers Brown Shipley and Co offers to receive subscriptions for Galveston sufferers and forward them through the New York chamber of commerce.
Captain Page of the Dallas Rough Riders surveys Galveston, finding about 1,000 bodies yet to be removed from the ruins surrounding the city. The figure reflects the extensive destruction and ongoing rescue operations after the disaster.
John Sherman, in feeble health, left Mansfield with his daughter Mrs. J. S. McCallum and Dr. W. N. Loughridge for Washington and will not return. The ex-senator, once a national figure, is not recognizing friends or relatives after the death of his sister Mrs. Sherman Reese in Lancaster, Ohio.
Joseph Mrozin ski, 59, was shot and killed near Pigs Eye by deputy game warden Edward Corbett after an altercation over alleged illegal fishing. Corbett is jailed at the central station on murder charges following the incident with Mrozin ski and his son John.
Forty two fishing vessels are ashore in the Straits of Belle Isle and as many as eighty may be totally lost. Shipwrecked crews totaling seventy nine are brought south by the mail steamer as the disaster expands. Immense stocks of codfish have been lost with the shipping.
Lincoln Neb Sept 21 Attorney General Smythe with consent of the supreme court filed quo warranto proceedings against United Starch and Argo Starch Nebraska City operation. He alleges National Starch is a trust restraining trade and should be prohibited from doing business in Nebraska.
Three men robbed the First National bank in Winnemucca Nevada taking about $14,000. They entered by the front door and forced five people inside to surrender. The trio escaped as officers and armed citizens pursue them.
General Miles Mrs Miles the general's son Sherman and Colonel F Michler passed through Kansas City en route to Chicago. The general has traveled three weeks in North and South Dakota Nebraska Montana and Kansas inspecting army posts and hunting prairie chickens.
Caracas reports the Venezuelan government asked U S minister F B Loomis to press Washington to urge France to cancel the extra duty on coffee. France imports about one third of Venezuela's coffee crop.
A Lokal Anzeiger dispatch details a September 11 capture and burning southwest of Peking by a German naval battalion with 40 Bengal lancers. The force faced about 6,000 Boxers and Chinese regulars, with 880 enemy killed in the engagement.
An explosion at the Frisch Gluck mine in Dux Bohemia on Wednesday left thirty five dead and fifteen injured. Five workers are listed as missing in the aftermath.
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