The St. Paul Daily Globe, January 4, 1889, p. 2

OUT OF THE WORLD.

A Newspaper Venture Comes To Grief.

A glib tongue, persuasive manner, unparalleled nerve and a penchant for journalistic experience were the characteristics of H. B. Brand when he alighted in the Twin Cities from Kansas City several months ago. He first appeared before the public as the manager of a series of base ball games by electric light, which were dismal failures. His next move was to associate with Morris Koenigsberg, formerly editor-in-chief of an establishment on Fifth street known as the "Bee Hive Intelligence Office and Bureau." Through the combined efforts of these two intellects in the Twin Cities Amusement World was ushered into existence to alleviate the wants of a long-suffering cummunity. A business office was equipped, publisher secured, and, commencing Nov. 17, the paper was issued for seven consecutive weeks. Then the publishers, McCasker & Streeter, refused to get out the paper without the settlement of a bill of $100 for work done, and the proprietors were sorely troubled. Their natural resources came to the front, however, and McCasker & Streeter were quieted by a bill of sale upon the office fixtures of the World. These had been previously bought on the installment plan from an E. Seventh street firm and were yet to be paid for, notwithstanding the fact that Brand had mortgaged them to appease another creditor. This fact subsequently became known through an examination of the records, and the career of the Twin Cities' Amusement World was brought to an abrupt end. The creditors of the concern embrace all parties who had any business with them, principal among them being McCasker & Streeter, the American Press association, A. M. Bachelder, the circulator of the paper, and several adverstising solicitors and contributors, among them Franklyn B. Ashley, the sporting editor of the sheet, who worked three weeks for the firm at a salary of $8 per week, and to whom they are now indebted in the sum of $25. He loaned them $1.