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Newspaper
Oakes Weekly Republican
Location
Oakes, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1890
Page
3
A fragment from a lighthearted piece recalls a native-horn Elephant challenging the famous Jumbo in size and weight. A jokey scene follows with a doctor’s remedy and a family dialogue about chapped hands and Salvation Oil as a quick fix.
An old article extols malaria as a killer and promotes Hostetter's Stomached Bitters as a preventive and curative remedy. It claims the preparation fortifies the body against malaria and cures associated ailments such as dyspepsia, constipation, rheumatic and liver kidney troubles.
In Topeka Kansas the Rahrer habeas corpus case ends arguments over the Wilson original package law. The petitioner contends the state prohibitory law was invalid before the Wilson Bill and that the new act cannot render it lawful in original package cases. Judges Foster and Philips acknowledge the position, and note even a constitutional decision may require a further prohibitory measure by the legislature to be effective.
Richard Caton a journeyman shoemaker from Mankato Minn bought one train ticket to St Paul and vanished. He was beneficiary of an insurance policy held by Robert L. Lind who drowned last summer. Lind's widow and Caton were not related and tried to claim the money after the company paid Caton. They allege Caton fled with the funds, taking his household goods while his wife followed. Caton, a devout Methodist, left the community shocked by his actions.
Reported crime scene centers on Bay Settlement in Krown County, Wisconsin where the wife murderer Dean J Soquet, recently escaped from Wanpun prison, is blamed. Residents live in terror fearing his return as farmers bar doors and plead for capture. A $100 reward fails to mobilize officers. Soquet was said to have three more lives to take and fled toward his old home.
At 14 West Lake Street in Chicago on the sd inst four men entered Louisa Carbine s room on the third floor with intent to steal 160 from a clothing bundle in the closet They seized the money and an old silver watch and beat her when she screamed Mrs Carbine is expected to die from her injuries.
The Rev Peter Roberts pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church Scranton Pa is sued for breach of promise by Miss Husabee of New Haven Conn seeking 50600. Their relation turned intimate and he urged a criminal operation with a marriage promise after his ordination. He later offered money, they disagreed, and Miss Husabee never recovered from the procedure.
Supt Weir of Adams Express says the stolen amount may exceed 1000 dollars and may include diamonds. Two robbers were captured at Bellefontaine. one has confessed. A third robber is still at large with about 600 dollars.
At a camp meeting in Cumming Georgia John Hudlo attacked the crowd in a frenzied drunken assault. Leander Moore and George Waldo confronted him and were cut badly while Hudlo fled through the congregation slashing nearby attendees. Miss Dooly was fatally stabbed. Over twenty others were wounded.
Robert Maubrey missing editor of St. Louis has not been found as detectives and reporters scour the city. Foul play is the only explanation for his disappearance. A letter from the missing man mentions trouble with someone daft on Effie and two anonymous threats dated September 8 and 18 as he anticipates a meeting to settle the matter.
Fragments indicate a man linked to a crime inquiry as police pursue him and his whereabouts. The speaker urges early settlement to avert tragedy affecting a wife and potential widowhood.
In Teavenworth Kansas a saloon keeper Thomas Cusick resisted police and a city marshal attempt to arrest him over a dispute about a locked iron safe. A crowd gathered with riot fears until police chief involvement led to a temporary pause and a warrant for a minor officer action. A decision by Judge Cronley pending on rights at the premises remained.
A midnight strike by conductors and brakemen blocks all freight traffic on the Lincoln Central route into Chicago. Passenger trains run, but workers seek to recruit crews for a general walkout amid mass layoffs of about twenty conductors. Relations with management deteriorate after a weeklong negotiation ends with little pay rise. Police protect the superintendent as threats arise. About 500 workers are out of work, with engineers and firemen declining to join.
A Dublin cable notes nationalists watch the Tipperary court where Dillon O'Brien and others face charges of conspiring to withhold rent payments to landlord Mr Smithbarry. The court refused to accept defendants affidavits challenging Magistrate Shannon, seen as a possible bias, prompting renewed calls to bar his participation.
The defense led by Tim othy Healy urged removing Shannon from the case and asked the High Court in Dublin to pause the magistrate’s proceedings. Healy accused the magistrate of bias and said the conspiracy trials should be halted until the writ to prohibit further proceedings is decided by the High Court.
In the early morning ten masked men appeared at the Bakersfield courthouse demanding the keys to the fallen. They seized the jailer and abducted Sheriff Herrington then dragged him to a nearby stable fed by a coat of tar and feathers. A gunshot rang out during the raid and Herrington was left in a fenced yard with blood stains nearby.
Mother Caroline Vagoline, mother superior of Notre Dame convent in Milwaukee Wis, celebrated fifty years in the Sisters of Notre Dame on the 2dinet. Bishop Miasel of La Crosse led high mass and she received many congratulatory telegrams. Born in Paris she joined the order in 1840 and came to Milwaukee seven years later helping establish the convent. She was made mater superior in 1850 and remains a widely influential figure in her order and country.
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