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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1888
Page
5
The excerpt mocks weather lore with red clouds and a domestic metaphor of turmoil. It laments a railroad promoter and condemns Jacob Sharp as a corrupt boodler, while expressing harsh sentiment about Nels Holong’s hanging and the gruesome crime that preceded it.
Washington April 18. Knuute Nelson received a cablegram from N P Clark of St Cloud asking him to secure a government permit to import fifty head of blooded stock to Boston then to St Cloud for shipment to Douglass Castle Scotland.
In Los Angeles Charged by local sources the city adopts a rule granting professional councilmen a monthly pay of 250 dollars and prohibits them from engaging in other business during their term. The note predicts a rise of professional councilmen and a lack of surplus to worry about.
In Washixeton on April 18 Senator Cullom introduced a bill. It would authorize the secretary of the interior to repay $1.25 per acre to parties who paid $2.50 per acre for lands later reduced to $1.25 by the act of June 15, 1880.
The New York Graphic reports a new peat fuel prospecting market entry. The fuel resembles bituminous coal in density and hardness, is formed into small cylindrical pieces, is clean to handle, smokeless, and cinderless. It boasts 68 percent caloric value of bituminous coal and contains no sulfur or similar impurities.
The St Paul police issued an order prohibiting girls from selling newspapers on city streets. A separate report notes a grand jury finding James Rut tle of Cloquet guilty of assault in the second degree for shooting an Indian last fall. About twenty injunctions were issued against liquor sellers in Fargo since the local option law took effect. Indians of Bad River reservation petitioned Commissioner Atkins to ban employment of white men on the reserve.
Byron E. Cann of Sauk Center discovered the new comet on the 3d inst and is entitled to the $100 reward offered by Dudley University of Albany New York.
Nashville American denounces Republican mugwumps as disgraceful and warns of party fracture amid GOP influence.
A St. Paul knight of labor warns of major action by the farmers alliance within four weeks. He mentions a state convention where the Lance committee's Scheffer endorsement will be reconsidered and likely nullified. He says the endorsement and its methods are scored and repudiated.
A Northern Pacific engine No 29 derailed at Rice's Point swamp after an open switch, tipping bottom side up. The 7:30 Superior short line train left Union depot on time. the coach remained upright with no injuries to passengers or crew. Conductor Mattix and a crowd witnessed the event as engineer Joe Schultz and fireman Johnny Nelson escaped unharmed.
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