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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1890
Page
4
Brainerd voters eye upcoming alderman and mayor races with rumors of relections. Demeules likely unopposed for treasurer and Walters seeks alderman at large. Stivers contends for mayor while Koops and others chatter of candidacy. A lyric closing note on aging public life ends the column.
Henry Vittaro has been injecting the elixir of life into St. Paul and Minneapolis business circles during the past week. Brainerd is patiently awaiting her dose.
The article notes many candidates seek the mayoralty while only one candidate runs for city treasurer. It contrasts the roles, calling the mayoral salary a so called glory and the treasurer job a lucrative position given its work.
Evocrxe M Wirtox, the late democratic candidate for governor of Minnesota, died at Nassau on the 10th inst of malarial fever. Wirtox was a man of ability and foresight, and his death is a severe blow to the democracy.
The late Samuel J. Randall's personal appeal and tariff stance secured a congressional seat in a Republican district. Likely successor expected to be Republican. In Minneapolis, city officials including the clerk and two aldermen face grand jury indictments as boodlers with sensational developments anticipated. Brainerd city aspirants warned that the salary may not justify the risk.
Graceville on April 17 reports the death of A. Dewey once active in Brain erd and Duluth newspapers. He reportedly starved to death from dyspepsia, leaving only skin and bones.
Charles Shaw of Aurora Illinois pleaded guilty to one year in the penitentiary for grand larceny in Sioux Falls. He allegedly stole diamond earrings from Cora Belle Chaska after visiting on the Sioux reservation and fled with the jewels following a several week stay.
Wassietos April 17 Special Senator Washington told a press representative that Maj McKinley’s tariff bill aligns with his long held policies and that moving toward free sugar is key for the Republican party. He says the measure would favor farmers over manufacturers and would boost a profitable sugar beet industry, noting Minnesota as best suited for beet production based on his study of Bohemia and Austria and plans to distribute seed via the agriculture department to over 100 Minnesota farmers.
In an August noon the narrator and companions shelter in a cottonwood grove as a wild prairie fire races toward them. A wall of flame fifty miles long sweeps the landscape, forcing boats of animals and people to flee. Buffaloes antelopes wolves and a lone mustang seek shelter then escape as the blaze passes.
Miners at Homer California drilled into a cave forty feet square and high. The walls and roof glowed with chalcedony and iridescent gems. Inside, petrifactions of animals birds and reptiles appeared, including owls bats and snakes. Some relics were moved away in perfect condition.
A 17 feet 3 inch crocodile was slain in the Houghly river at Utterpara India. Baboo Sivrarayan Mooker fired four shots aided by Baboo Joykissen Mookerjees library witnessed. The reptile collapsed after a fourth bullet. Boatmen displayed the carcass to locals.
Roscoe Whitcomb of Waldo Missouri prizes his shepherd dog. When a haltered colt became strangled in the stall the dog ran to the house and dragged Mrs Whitcomb by her clothes toward the barn. She reached the barn just in time to rescue the colt.
A Lewiston Maine man recalls how he chased a thief and, after two years, a neighbor woman learns of the missing eighty dollars and pays him back with interest. The incident unfolds in a police station as a man recounts the tale with a humorous twist.
An explosion in a college dorm room at Albert Lea Minnesota injured or alarmed occupants. Miss Bessie Underwood, a student, witnessed the incident without screaming or fainting and acted to help suppress the fire using a nearby extinguisher. Fire crews responded and restrained the blaze.
The biennial conclave of Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias will convene in Milwaukee from July 8 to 12, 1890. Excursion tickets to Milwaukee are selling from western and northwestern points at a single fare. The Wisconsin Central line runs two through trains daily with Pullman vestibule sleeping cars. The camp ground is on the Wisconsin Central line for easy access. For details contact F H Anson in Minneapolis or Chas E Dixon in St Paul or Louis Eckstein in Milwaukee.
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