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Newspaper
Mora Tribune
Location
Mora, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1895
Page
1
Washington reports A K Ward a Memphis embezzler arrested in Tegucigalpa. The freed man faces U S pursuit and eventual return for trial. Civil officials note Ward’s long fraud history and pending charges as details unfold from Washington.
John D. Rockefeller gives 5.60, 000 to the University of Chicago. Pioneer carriage maker Isaac Boyd Little dies in Merrimac Connecticut. Col A L Ives departs New York after eight years on the Panama Railway. Mrs M W Dunham dies at Oaklawn near Elgin. Philip Batch of Ann Arbor dies of heart failure after a seventy fifth birthday party. Edith Rockefeller to Harold Flower McCormick to be wed November 26 at noon. Netty Green and family move to St George in New York city. Very Rev A Travis dies in Davenport aged seventy. Col W E Worcester dies in Marlboro Massachusetts from pneumonia at sixty eight. Ex-Gov David H Jerome critically ill at Watkins Sanitarium New York State.
The bulletin lists a series of calamities including railroad collisions in Edgeworth Massachusetts and Gardner Illinois, fires destroying the Decatur Opera House and a Calhoun barge with 3060 barrels of apples. Other items mention deaths, ship incidents, a Bulgarian ministry resignation, and international military missions in Europe and Asia.
John C. Crevier, a New York real estate operator, suffered a half million dollar financial blow on Wall Street and ended his life afterward. Police report the tragedy occurred in the aftermath of the large investment loss.
Jake Gaudaur wins the champion ship single scull race in Austin Texas. Multiple notices include Leadville Colorado planning an ice palace and Manchester New Hampshire planning a large cotton mill on the East Merrimac.
Week summary covers Justice Murphy’s court in St Paul where Neimi awaits grand jury action for the June murder of William Kyi. fire at W. Carter & Co. destroys flour and milk house with $20,000 loss, $29 insurance. Munsinger & Co. building damaged near $500. School presidents visit Mankato and Winona normal schools. grain still in farmers’ hands in Northfield. Northfield Light, Heat Power erects a new log building on West Water street. Alfred Neserdahl held on highway robbery charges. sheriff shooting suspect to be extradited. Apparent court activity in Mankato with civil cases and liquor-selling issues. Indian presence noted.
Reports from Leere tas on pond water incidents to serious injuries. A Chicago architect won a contract for a toll house but other mills may move to Minneapolis. Henry Munsinger, 82, fatally injured by a switch engine. Henry E Briggs, bank president, dies in Bedford England. Owatonna votes five year lighting deal with all night service at seven dollars per lamp. A grandfather loses a child and horse in Royalton. Winona settler William Hill dies in Washington with remains to be brought home. Humane officer in Winona faces arrest for horse accident injuries. Christian Endeavor rally at New Paynesville with Rev Soper speaking. Duluth mayor invited to join Great Lakes warship treaty debate with Detroit. Sheriff brings highway suspects to Shakopee. bail set. Southeast Minnesota Schoolmasters’ club meets at Rochester with leaders from Irwin Shepard and others. Presidents Lord and Kleeberger visiting Winona.
Irank Blazer was fatally struck by a train two miles west of Dover on the Chicago & North Western line. A Sauk Centre brakeman suffered a crushed hand while switching in yard work. Mahlon Blaker of Red Wing, oldest man in Goodhue County, died of apoplexy born Feb 14 1806. Miss Hannah Himmelmann died of heart disease at Red Wing aged 75. Mankato OKs Omaha railway right of way for 3500000 track removal cost. Emil Wegner lost two horses and 1400 bushels oats smothered in a barn bin collapse. Rochester sewer extension contract let to T J Thor of Owatonna for 3059.66. Bequest of 5000 from Huber Bastain to fund a separate public library building. Minnesota Butter and Cheese association in session at Waseca with welcome by John Moonan and response by John A Lumbill.
The report notes the president's address followed by a farm machinery paper by Prof. T. L. Haecker. D. W. Richards described duties for aspiring butter makers and Y. Knight outlined methods to improve their butter.
Sunday reports note the daughter of Senator E Seyat gon of Windom died of diphtheria. Other items record a Fort Keogh deserter Oscar Brazil of Troop A Tenth Cavalry detained by Chief Zidrrimgton, the Rochester Minnesota teachers meeting with Prof. George D. Aiten, and banker checks halted by Charles Grant in Caledonia. Waseca banquet honors the State Butter and Cheese association with officers reelected, parole grants to six prisoners, and Dennis Scott aged 107 dying near Shieldsville after a long farm life.
Material has been shipped to build a government school house for the Nett lake Indians on the Vermilion lake reservation. Barney Daily, who broke his parole from the reformatory at St. Cloud in 1893, was returned to the institution. He was found in West Superior. The calendar of the district court shows forty two civil cases and court will convene today in general term. No criminal business expected. Negotiations underway at Faribault to purchase Polar Star mill plant valued at $25 000. Young People's Alliance convention ended at Winona with Bishop Horn sermon on Happy Living. Officers elected: Rev H Plantikow president, Rev L Stapf vice president, Lydia Punse corresponding secretary, Lizzie Bartz secretary, Henry Simon treasurer.
Dispatches from Constantinople and Washington report Armenian unrest spreading across Asiatic Turkey with thousands killed or wounded in Diarbakir and other towns. Ambassadors press for definite reforms. international powers warn of intervention to restore order and protect Christian communities.
In Constantinople on November 10 a 1.5 million dollar Ottoman bank advance to Sabri Pasha funds urgent needs as the new ministry struggles amid Armenia unrest. Ambassadors doubt lasting reform and palace plots persist while rumors name exiled Sultan Mohammed Murad and heir Mohammed Reshed as possible successors amid a fragile political scene.
Special Shanghai dispatches say Dungan rebels in northwest China are armed mainly with Russian rifles. Their leader enforces discipline and offers foreigners protection while threatening to move on Pekin if rejected. Rebels exceed 60 000 in number. imperial forces reportedly unable to stop them and accused of abuses. Towns and villages reportedly ravaged with mass killings and corpses in surrounding fields.
Michael Cioffrial living with his family on Fauquier street became violently insane last night and had to be jailed. He had previous attacks and spent time at the Rochester asylum. He bit his son when restrained and was subdued by Officer Ryan before being taken to the county jail from Margaret street station.
A Rome cablegram reports that Mer. Lorenzetti, presently in The Hague, will become Mgr. Satolli's successor.
Armenian citizens in Chicago send a cablegram to Salisbury Nicholas II and Wilhelm II and Osborn begging urgent action to halt massacres in Zeitoun and widespread Armenian slaughter in Turkey and to secure safety for Armenians.
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