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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1885
Page
2
Gov Hubbard to attend Grants funeral in a body. The Northern Pacific has reopened the Jamestown & Northern road. Local item from Brainerd Minnesota with editors Ingersoll Wieland and Crow Wing Cass Itasca counties. Friday morning terms listed at $1.50 per advance.
The ledger records fifty five thousand emigrants departing Liverpool for America this year. Philadelphia suffered a disastrous tornado in the past week causing damage and distress.
Report suggests a formal alignment between England and Germany to counter Russia and France. The assertion notes a shared strategic stance and potential cooperation in diplomatic and military terms.
The barque Isabel of 2000 tons arrives at Tacoma from Yokohama carrying a tea cargo bound for St. Paul.
Riverside Park, where Grant is to be buried, attracts large daily crowds of visitors. A new odd fellows lodge is to be opened in Detroit this Friday evening by Grand Master Marvin A St. Paul. A Wisconsin German girl and a man from Chinaman origin were married in Detroit on Tuesday.
Duluth now has another outlet to Chicago via the Northern Pacific and Wisconsin Central routes expanding regional rail connections and freight capacity between the Great Lakes port and Illinois commerce hubs.
Every elevator in Duluth has secured the license required to operate as a public warehouse under the new law, marking a broad compliance move across the city.
Thief has taken a gold screw from the inscription plate on Gen. Grant's coffin, disturbing the historic demise and triggering a probe into the theft. Security teams guard the monument as investigators search for the missing piece and clues.
The jury found Riel guilty late Saturday night and he is to be sentenced at Regina on September 8.
A man arrives in New York asserting ownership of the Fergus Falls townsite and its residents grow fearful as his claim spreads.
Spain reports a rapid daily rise in cholera cases with little sign of containment and mounting alarm among officials and residents.
Governor Hubbard selected Minnesota delegates for the River Improvement convention on Wednesday. Col. C. B. Sleeper of this city was named among the delegates.
The president commissioned Dr Grennon to be collector of customs for the district of Minnesota on Monday. The kick among the Little Falls democrats availeth naught.
T. F. Oaks of the Northern Pacific escaped harm when a midnight intruder surprised him at his St Paul location Sunday night. The thief fled with only a small amount of booty.
The Northern Pacific began east bound cattle shipments on Tuesday receiving two trains of forty cars each carrying 800 head of cattle from Sprague Washington and Miles City out.
Bill King defeats Remington in a prolonged Minneapolis court suit likely to reach the supreme court. The case involves about 1,000 acres of land within the city of Minneapolis.
The legislature passed acts favorable to women including a measure that punishes a husband who fails to support his wife or minor child with a fine up to 20 dollars or a jail term up to six months.
Special Timber Agent Webster Eaton is suspended after ten days' notice. he completed work and quit July 31. Described as an excellent officer, critics say his diligence uncovered many frauds but he may have been careless about victims. He began in St. Cloud district in June 1883, appointed by Senator Van Wych of Nebraska.
The Unkindes dispatch notes Cat C F Kindred issued a map of the St Paul Brainerd and North Western railroad. A quick glance suggests Kindred promised to reward legislators by having their names painted on station weather signs, listing Pattee Burlingame Myers Warner and several counties pending.
Ex senator W. J. Ivzz told a St Paul Dispatch reporter that a new apportionment would not add seats and that northern Minnesota deserves a new deal. He warned a special session would mean an all winter session and a new geographic and political division.
The Duluth Herald ridicules the city aldermen noting they meet twice a month yet accomplish little. They allegedly stretch out sessions audit bills, vote on motions, smile at each other, and adjourn as the recorder copies actions into a big book.
In a Colorado town Laura E Dainty stars as Sincerity Weeks in A Mountain Pink. The plot reaches a climax when moonshiners are raided by revenue officers and a cowboy in the audience fires a pistol, prompting the curtain to fall amid applause. Dainty appears again at the Sleeper Opera House Saturday evening August 8th.
A recent Saint Etienne trial revealed a fatal lovers tale. Auray, a medical student from Beaujon, killed Marguerite Vagnair and shot himself in a bid to die with her. He survived, losing his jaw, and was sentenced to life hard labor for murder and attempted suicide.
Miss Clara Dubois of Philadelphia visits a quiet village hotel on a Saturday. She charms landlord and guests, befriends Aaron Huntley, the widowed postmaster and shopkeeper, then helps cover the theft of $10,000 from Huntley’s safe. A staged reunion reveals Miss Dubois with two accomplices and a NY detective, Capt Joyce, leading to her arrest.
Aaron Huntley recovers $10,000 after a long pursuit involving the famed Liverpool Jack masquerading as a woman. Capt Joyce teases that the rogue will be sung to Sing Sing, while Huntley’s wife remains lost to him for four weeks before the money is found.
In a courtroom scene an Arkansaw traveler named Gregg faces a year in prison after being found guilty of making illicit whisky. The judge pressed for defense while Gregg argued about knowledge of the law and his willingness to endure punishment, joking about a longer sentence.
An amusing Chicago Tribune account of Sunday school misadventures. Teachers notice poverty and cold outside, swap stories about cloaks and torn jackets, and pupils tease with earnest but humorous questions. A South Side class debates the Sermon on the Mount and Easter expectations with lively, literal answers.
Lafayette Indiana resident Mrs Mary Breneman claims birth in 1778 in Lewiston Delaware and life travel from 1801 to Circleville Ohio. Andrew Carnegie praises New York society where wealth alone no longer grants social entry unless paired with culture or science.
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