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Newspaper
Oakes Weekly Republican
Location
Oakes, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1890
Page
2
Stanley County receives a new post office at Stansley. Reported from Chamberlain by David T. Rusk shows mineral hot water flows near Warsland adjacent to the city. Companies form to control the bonanza.
Washington dispatch reports census officials in Washington estimating St Paul Minnesota accuracy concerns over employee work and the National Bankers Association of Washington state backing a memorial. It notes amendments to land surveys, funding of $600,000 for public land surveys, and swift grant actions by new state members as the note designs and greenbacks circulate.
On and after August 19 the headquarters of the Northern Pacific express company will move to Chicago. The grading for the Yankton and Norfolk line has been let to responsible contractors, and work is now being pushed to completion.
A mix of criminal cases and mob violence from Morquette Michigan to Rutherford North Carolina and Chicago Illinois. James Connors, jailed in Detroit for burglary, fined and imprisoned. A mob attack in Rutherford freed a prisoner, wounding several Black residents. Chicago saw a fatal shooting as Freddy Hunck, 10, was killed by Slenny Heying, 19, after an altercation and gunfire at a fence attack. Heying was arrested.
A string of calamities reports a $20,000 fine to Chigags, a German widow Anna Birron killed by lightning in Chicago, and hail storms in Minnesota damaging grain and livestock. Thunderstorms near Sturcon Bay killed Louis Hayt, with bystander Shaffer injured, plus widespread wind and rain damage across Coldwater Michigan and nearby towns.
Eleven days into a drought the Prenton Town outbreak, likened to cholera, has claimed fifteen lives and sickened seventy, with Greensé inroads worsening the crisis. Only physicians attend as victims, mostly children, turn dark within hours. Mrs Fertig and her four children narrowly survived after ingesting a kitchen jug mixture mistaken for sugar.
A rambling foreign gossip column cites the jmitermaster of the steamer City of New York and his wife facing magistrate scrutiny for an alleged stone throwing incident. It covers Ottawa dispatches, British French Meuse war talks, a Cork Ireland assault on Margaret Sullivan, Swinburne in Fortnightly, a Rio Janeiro coffee syndicate rumor, and sailors on the Hohensollern mingling with English crews.
A Chicago telegram reports no shift in attitude toward the new form of Will of Lading from shippers and carriers. The Lake Shore road plans to use the new bill, while some lines report loss of business to those adopting it. The Grand Trunk has received offers from shippers preferring other lines because of the new form, and a forthcoming conference between shippers and railroads is expected to be one sided. George R Blanchard H sneer and Frank J Firth cannot attend. A letter to George F Stone notes they cannot attend due to New York meetings.
The New York Sun reports the Pension Office struggles to process over 230,000 disability claims filed after the June 27 1890 law. Lawyers and claim agents flood the system, expecting fees of 10 per approved claim while awaiting sundry civil bill funding for more clerks.
London report notes an illustrated pamphlet attacking shipowners under Mr Plimsoll, urging a parliamentary bill to ban winter sailing with deck cattle. It cites the Evin loss with 527 cattle and 74 men, the Egypt case, and claims insurance profits drive inhumane practices aboard ships west of the twelfth parallel.
News from Marfa reports a deadly ambush at Shafter Texas on the 4th. State Ranger J F Graves was killed and deputies wounded as white miners rangers and sheriffs confronted a mob of Mexicans. The clash followed long rising tensions and a planned robbery and arson of a mine. One Mexican reportedly killed with several wounded. Relatives and authorities prepared to move Graves’s body and guard those tied to the shooting.
A detailed Auburn New York report recounts the 1888 execution of William Kemmler by electric chair. The account covers the procedure, voltages from 1,000 to 2,000, convulsions, brief consciousness, autopsy findings, and comments from doctors about the method's dignity and uncertain efficacy.
A major blaze in Vermillion on the 6th consumed eighteen business structures along a wooden block after starting in a kerosene barrel at the Tear of the New York store. Police saved few, but most losses are estimated between $75,000 and $100,000 with insurance around half. Many shops including two general stores, three harness shops, a boot and shoe store, two wear houses, three restaurants, barber shops, a lumber office, two machinery stores, a music and book shop were burned. several firms named as losers. Most buildings likely to be rebuilt in brick. The post office and other residents escaped major harm.
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