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Newspaper
Oakes Weekly Republican
Location
Oakes, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1890
Page
6
Unclear notes report unrest in North Dakota with mentions of towns and disturbances. Fragments indicate local disruptions and reactions across several communities, with sparse details on specific places or actors.
Fragmentary notes describe a special election on a waterworks system for a Bayh area on the reservation headwaters near Bayh pivee. The plan includes issuing bonds of about 3 060 dollars to fund a two mile water mains extension and wind installations. Details are unclear due to damaged text.
The report notes planned bond offerings totaling about 80 million dollars for rail lines and extensions. It mentions mortgages totaling 40 thousand dollars and record entries in New York and local trusts. The Eau Clair line aims to extend electric streetcar service to Chippewa Falls, about twelve miles, signaling a shift to electric tangents in the region.
The report lists varied incidents, from a 1840 murder in Indiana to a $7,000 lottery loss and a pistol fatality near Lebanon. It mentions Hoover and Lane’s quarrel over $1,100, a wife attacked by her husband on Third Street, and a bank robbery aftermath with Behedber surrendering gains. It notes searches in New York for a retired merchant’s wife and a German steamer voyage.
The report details a wife’s elopement with her lover, a deputy’s fatal gunshot wound to a suspect in Frankfort Indiana, and a series of robberies including a home invasion near Walpeton North Dakota. It also notes a $75,000 damages suit in Baltimore and news of a mining figure killed in Mexico after an axe attack.
A sequence of wrecks and blasts is noted from Wisconsin to Ohio and Nova Scotia. A freight engine derailed near Linwood on the Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan line, injuring Engineer James Covington. A wreck near Coney, Michigan, killed Edward Kern and injured Clark Bolly. Gasoline explosion in Cheviot, Ohio injured a man in a cart fire. Fire damaged Herring Co. shoe house in Cincinnati with $50,000 loss, and Seven’s truck collided with a streetcar. Also reports of a timber incident in Oklahoma and a major fire in Sydney N S W causing extensive damage estimated at £1,500,000. The brig Lurlin near San Francisco sustained leaks and a subsequent tug-assisted tow.
Maybury, editor of the Prospect xons in Donilan, Missouri, vanished from the Hurst hotel in St Louis while seeking his wedding mother. The article notes a Richmond Virginia death by suicide and probate details for a Grifling estate, with a large legacy and various beneficiaries. A traveling salesman, William H. Spencer, is described as dead at a Chicago breakfast table with a dated card and addresses for family and friends. The text also mentions cremation plans and a fragmentary list of names and places.
A mix of reports covers Novo Rossisk harbor grain storage plans cost in roubles and American tech aid, a fire devastates Droja in Vilna government area, and a Midwest couple from Minnesota and Spokane Falls win a Catholic-Protestant obstacle marriage tale. Also notes German socialists and lingering punitive laws amid era milestones.
Goodman & Co and Uhitago operate dry goods stores in Titus and Lima Ohio with extensive land holdings in Zaleski Vinton Pike counties. U.S. authorities tighten enforcement of a new jotterive law while Buffalo jury awards 5366.67 to Harry Ievarts Jr. in a life insurance case involving Barnum's Circus agent Harry Evarts Sr. Dr A G Larson's wife disappears in Colorado with 18000 dollars amid suspected robbery or abduction raising police inquiries in Chicago.
The small pleasure steamer Golden Eagle exploded and sank off Peoria on the third, with fifteen passengers aboard. Most escaped unharmed, with only one or two injuries. A machinery break is the likely cause amid a panic as passengers crowded the deck and the craft went to the lake bottom. Rescuers aided all on shore and saved everyone aboard.
A circulated message from the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad warns employees that membership in the Knights of Labor is inconsistent with faithful service. The company cites lawless acts and violence as the basis for possible employee dismissals and seeks to inform staff across departments.
The second day at Chickering hall saw a large English attendance though fewer ladies than the day before. J B Mackintosh led a guided tour of the Consolidated Gag works on Twenty third Street as Sir James Kitson presided. James Gayley’s paper on American blast furnaces drew interest and discussion was briefly cut short. Hewitt received the Bessemer gold medal, with Kitson praising his open hearth furnace work and public service. Hewitt replied humbly, asking to read his remarks.
Henry Bessemer awarded a special medal to a visitor who has studied trade economics and administration rather than technical details. The ceremony highlighted the steel industry’s development in the United States over the last decade, its economic impact, and the geographic reach of steel vessels and production.
New York Barge Office officials used moral suasion on 32 Mormon-arriving girls from the steamer Wyoming to deter conversion. Missionaries advised against polygamy, with spokeswoman Karen Sylvestersen stating willingness to take multiple wives. Despite effort, the girls remain undecided as the party proceeds to Newport News aboard Old Dominion Line.
Leonard Tobias of New York reportedly killed himself at the Grand hotel in Yokohama on September 4. An inquest heard he faced financial trouble and jealousy over his wife. Tobias was described as wealthy, with a reported worth of 837000 in his own right and a daily income of ten times that amount.
An officer explains that the United States maintains government stables with ten to twelve thousand horses for the cavalry ordnance and other departments. Mortality runs about five percent annually, while about ten percent are sold as unfit, necessitating the yearly purchase of around two thousand horses to replace losses and maintain forces.
Congress provides about 200000 dollars for government horse purchases. Western divisions receive the bulk, with horses bought in St Louis, St Paul, and San Francisco. Specified Army requirements include color, age, height, and weight for artillery use, with government horses lasting about seven years.
In Calveslands tenants meeting under the Land League the plan of campaign sparks church tension. Bishop Cork and priests clash with reformers as the Holy See condemns the campaign while leaders face eviction threats and famine hardship amid political strife.
Report from Woodstock notes Birchall the condemned murderer is growing quieter as his execution approaches. Sources say his former levity wanes and he contemplates his fate, with only limited visitors and strict confinement remaining in place. Mrs Birchall’s health declines as she awaits news from England.
Mrs RW Rathborne of Tica go MM seeks divorce on grounds of his alleged infidelity. Rathborne, connected to Chicago society, may counter with charges of spousal misconduct toward Dr W J Hisholm of New York. The couple have been married thirteen years.
Three year old Arthur Mekve of Kimball died after a mishap while playing near a grinder on 27th street lane. The incident occurred as the boy wandered near the tool, authorities reported no other injuries.
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