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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1886
Page
2
Daily notices list No 2 arriving from the west at 6 55 am and departing south at 7 10 am No 4 arriving from the west at 2 10 am and departing south at 2 30 am daily No 6 arriving from the west at 12 45 pm and departing south at 1 10 pm daily except Sunday No 7 arriving from Duluth at 9 15 pm daily except Sunday No 8 departing for Duluth at 7 30 am daily except.
G A R Pap Thomas Post No 30 meets Island on the third Thursday each month at Odd Fellows hall. Visiting comrades invited. A E Vrox Post Com Hi C Stivers Adjt. R A M Brainerd Chapter No 42 meets on the second Tuesday each month at the Masonic Temple on Broad. J E Wilson High Priest W Phillips Secy.
Brainerd Minnesota weekly issue issued Friday mornings by editors N H Ingersoll and F W Wieland. Official paper for Crow Wing Cass and Itasca counties. Annual prepaid subscription $1.50. Post Office entry as second class matter, Brainerd Minnesota.
Navigation is now open at Du luh. The tailors at Duluth have been on a strike this week.
Fergus Falls resident Wright Catlin secured admission to the naval academy. The item notes local pride and reports on Alaska gold discoveries and spring weather predictions for Northern Minnesota with April 1886 climate comparisons.
A bill in Congress would grant pensions to ex prisoners of war who were confined for thirty days or more. The measure targets veterans and seeks to provide financial support to those affected by extended captivity.
The Duluth Herald notes strong promotion for Zenith city and anticipates a standout baseball nine in the northwest region this season, signaling high expectations and extensive advertising presence.
Sauk Center residents approve a 14000 bond boosting a total of 93000 pledged for the Duluth Houston and Denver line in Minnesota. The board of directors has sold its bonds and will meet May 4 to set the contract for grading the first eighty miles southwest from Sauk Center.
The solicitor of the treasury instructs the United States district attorney at San Francisco to sue Serria Lumber Company for about 2,218,000 dollars in damages from the conversion of timber and lumber taken from public lands.
An Irishman faced a neighborhood boycott over his political views. Neighbors refused to trade or hire him, laborers declined to harvest his crops, storekeepers would not sell food, and his fields were left untilled. He eventually abandoned the area as life there became impossible.
Indian Commissioner Atkins may report adversely on Mr Nelsons bill to open Red Lake reservation. He notes a vast pine timber tract desired by lumbermen and argues it should be held in reserve. The bill would relocate Chippewa settlements to White Earth and open most lands to pine bidders with proceeds for the Indians.
The bill increasing pensions from eight to twelve dollars a month for widows and dependent parents now on the pension roll has become law. Pensioners due for the increase will receive it on June vouchers, to be executed and returned to agents for payment under the new rate.
A rail line passenger recalls St Cloud as the kissing station due to many girls boarding at the depot near the Normal school. He describes a daily kissing bee as girls hug and kiss a single willing victim while male passengers look on tired. the train's departure ends the spree.
The Princeton Union endorses W. W. Hartly of Brainerd for state auditor and J. D. Jones of Todd county for clerk of the supreme court and seeks Northern Minnesota support. It praises Hartly as honest and capable and predicts solid backing at the convention.
The state press denounces Mr. Nelson in Congress for seeking an appropriation for Sauk Rapids sufferers. Nelson’s motive is deemed commendable though hasty, as Minnesota can fund relief for its own unfortunates. Large donations pour in and the public responds promptly to the appeal.
Col. Sheehan received department authority to buy 2255 bushels of seed wheat for the Otter Tail Pembina and Mississippi bands on the White Earth Reservation. He has organized the reservation workforce to aid the Indians in ground preparation. One hundred teams are plowing as weather allows, aiming for greater self support.
John Hutchinson, convicted of Lochie McLean's murder in East Grand Forks, had his Dec 23 1885 hung sentence commuted by Gov. Hubbard to life with hard labor. A later Good Friday delay and a growing petition influenced the clemency action.
General Master Workman Powderly declares against rum sellers, calling the liquor trade a ruin to labor and insisting the Knights of Labor bar admission of any liquor dealer. He condemns rum as evil and vows to resist its influence within the union.
A mixed train on a Dakota road suddenly sped up while a passenger asked the conductor if the train was running faster than usual. The engineer denied wind aid and drunkenness, saying he planned to catch a man walking ahead on the track to compel him to ride and pay fare, despite the danger to the cars.
A Baptist church sermon revisits the parable of the vineyard to argue that God’s paymaster gives what is right. It contrasts divine justice with earthly wages and urges repentance, noting eternal life as the gift for believers and eternal punishment for the unrepentant. The speaker stresses impartial justice as the foundation of salvation.
A collection of brief notices highlights Bettie Dandridge, daughter of Zach Taylor, living in Winchester Virginia, and Tennyson's money habits. It notes Mrs. Phebe Vanderbilt’s death at seventy six in New York, and Lt. Greely’s Arctic ordeal affecting his sanity. Henry Irving quotes Hawthorne and Michelangelo echo a Tribune remark, while Lowell defends American loyalty amid English insinuations.
Arsene Houssaye reprints Victor Hugo's recent profession of faith from L Artiste after a dinner. Hugo bids farewell to belief, asks what death means, and argues science must be governed by a powerful ideal beyond nature. He says infinity and unseen realms accompany the living world.
An elderly Georgia man living in Simmons Gap has led a long domestic life with nine marriages, reaching the patriarchal age of four score years and now facing the ninth wife.
Obituary recalls O E Garrison as an early Northern Minnesota settler, surveyor, and naturalist. Born in New York, he came to Minnesota in 1850s, survived the 1862 Indian war, and platted land at Mille Lacs Lake. He left a vast natural history collection and died of stomach cancer leaving widow and adopted son Earnest.
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