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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1890
Page
3
Reports from New Ulm to Lake City and St. Cloud detail population shifts, drownings, electrocutions, storms, fires, and accidents. Notable items include New Ulm’s 3800 residents, Harrison’s lightning death, Lake City storm damage around 10000 dollars, Mankato wage setting, multiple drowning incidents, and a petrified bone discovery near Harrison likely part of a mastodon.
Large wool shipments move daily from Bixmarck amid booming North Dakota industry. Senator Pierce appoints J W Stoddard as statistical agent for agriculture. A hail storm devastates 3000 acres near Sidney and Valley City. Gopher bounty exceeds 2600 dollars. A Fargo man injured by air brakes. Burglary rings uncovered in Grand Forks. A body found near Mandan may be Wolf the escaped prisoner. Independent Mutual Protection order formed to counter fraudulent contracts.
An electric bolt struck a boy through the roof and his toe, then traveled up his leg to the ankle and out through the sole creating a large wound. Both feet were paralyzed but doctors expect a full recovery.
William Marsh escapes Mendota Asylum by rope from an upper window. Chris Anderson drowns in Lake St. Croix while swimming. buried in Hudson after home near Red Wing. Fremont Melindy lands three brook trout near Palmyra, largest two and a half pounds. Patrick Mahoney arraigned in Superior police court after burglary attempt. bail set at 2000 dollars. C C Calkins, Seattle millionaire and former Madison law student, notes a telegraph from Atlanta about his daughter's death. Ida Bentert sues in Dodge County for a share of $40,000 estate of Herman Bentert alleging desertion and four daughters. A $3000 package of bank notes goes missing on Milwaukee Lake Shore Western line, traced to Monica, Wisconsin. detectives at work. Jacob Rupert will contested for mental capacity. widow to receive 15000 with restriction on remarriage. remaining estate about 10000 goes to Catholic priests and missions for Negro and Indian work.
A shy couple share a playful fairy tale moment. The fair maid asks Charles which flower he would become, and he replies a poppy. She promises a fairy’s aid to grant his wish before year’s end, and he asks to marry, receiving a cheerful yes.
A remark asserts the statewide population will be reported under 45,000, suggesting notable undercounting or dramatic growth constraints in Nevada. No official data yet, but the statement emphasizes the potential census outcome and its broader implications.
A man riding to F-races on a packed train shares a carriage with a frightened woman Kate and her lover Harry who seek £200. A hidden stake and a dead brother drive coercive pleas, a violent crime unfolds, and an eerie coincidence with a previous murder uneasily recurs at a country station.
A narrator recalls a haunting journey where a stranger mentions a girl named Kate Lee. The tale ends with a chilling vow as the speaker avoids empty railway carriages, fearing what the journey reveals. The account blends superstition with a lingering sense of dread and personal caution.
In a Richelieu club discussion a young English aristocrat claims the United States will be owned by English syndicates as Britain already dominates breweries mills railroads and more. Col Thompson cites a Peru dog deal selling 16 000 hairless perros for London to curb Peruvian bark costs next winter. The audience member reacts with growing concern.
A tall slim man in a faded Greeley hat and ancient linen duster enters Woodbridge street station and asks the sergeant if he resembles Capt Kidd or Charlie Ross. He laments changing style, recalls the duster’s many uses, then gives it away to a disconsolate reader as he prepares to strike Detroit.
A Winston county Alabama tale recounts a farmer Greene buying Chinese lily bulbs sold as novelty, tossing them in a hog lot. One hog suddenly dies after swallowing a bulb that swelled and sprouted in the stomach, yielding a cautionary hometown story shared by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A large crowd in Saco last week serenaded a newly married couple for an hour and a half but earned only groans and a thank you from the groom’s father. He revealed the couple were staying in a nearby village.
An English Anglican memory recalls a prank at Christ Church Oxford where fifty oak doors in the quadrangle were painted sunset red at dawn. A student in a dean costume tricked the watchman, who left to report to the kitchen, while the doors remained red on the return.
A seasoned dog handler claims a strong odor like ammonia can quickly subdue even the most vicious dog. He recalls winning a wager in a Canadian town by approaching a chained dog after wearing buckskin gloves and exposing his ammonia saturated hand. The dog allegedly retreats as it inhales the scent.
George Wild of the Seventh Ward died at 228 High Street and a death certificate was filed. An eminent physician later revealed the undertaker Henry Wedekinst misdressed the body by using the wrong coat, swapped with a Prince Albert coat found ripped at the back, prompting the widow’s protest.
Forest and Stream argues ballooning should be encouraged as recreation. It notes Europe, especially Paris, has frequent free ascents, cheaper gas, and suggests a balloon club with a fleet could sponsor excursions and races like yachting. The piece defends ballooning as accessible and less dangerous than popularly believed.
A New York Journal report details expenditure for carriage staff in Central Park with ten thousand financed coachmen and twenty five thousand assistants. Uniforms for coachmen and lackeys cost about 1.5 million dollars, plus 150 thousand more for old fashioned outfits, totaling 1.65 million dollars.
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