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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1885
Page
2
The official Brainerd Minnesota paper announces its editors and proprietors for Crow Wing Cass and Itasca counties. Oscar Wilde, famed for sunflower fame, is noted as recently having become a father.
In Verndale local authorities have ordered a stop to Sunday baseball games amid unspecified concerns prompting a halt to all play on Sundays. This action affects local teams and spectators who normally attend weekend contests.
Collector Guernon of Little Falls will begin his duties at St Vincent about September 1. He will oversee collections and related administrative tasks as part of the local civic arrangement at the institution.
The Fergus Journal notes it is premature for backwoods papers to unveil a governor candidate while signaling local interest in upcoming political races. The column suggests caution in publishing early endorsements and emphasizes measured coverage of speculative campaigns.
Brick Pomeroy nominates Thom as a presidential candidate and Fitzhugh Lee for vice president in 1888, signaling a party ticket formation and political maneuvering within the campaign period.
The Duluth Herald reports increasing pressure for an extra session as arguments in favor grow stronger and more convincing.
Doc Wheelock of Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania a colored man enticed a young white girl to marry him by claiming he was sunburned and that he would be as white as anyone when cold weather came.
We received a neat pamphlet from the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha road. It contains illustrated sketches tracing General Grant's life from West Point to Mt. McGregor.
Washington Territory wheat is set to be a market feature this season as the Northern Pacific prepares to move the bulk of the crop to Duluth in the East.
A grandson of John Roach, prominent New York ship builder, has made an assignment in the iron trade. He accuses Secretary Whitney of being the indirect cause of his collapse, arguing that Roach’s downfall frightened iron workers nationwide.
The law prescribes fines for first offense from fifty to two hundred dollars and six to twelve months of county hard labor. Second conviction carries fines from one hundred to five hundred dollars and one to two years of hard labor. It is noted there are reportedly no tramps in the state.
The St Cloud water power company receives a $100000 bonus to build a dam across the Mississippi at St Cloud. The project costs at least $250000 and is expected to yield 10000 horsepower and log rafting space for 100000000 feet between here and Sauk Rapids. Plans include a 550 foot main dam thirteen feet high, plus a joining high dam extending to this riverbank. Completion targeted before 1587.
A Watertown physician who attended a lady that bore four infants has notified Gov. Pierce and seeks official recognition of the event. The governor, like the U S attorney before Fargo’s grand jury, declines citing no applicable statute. The matter is viewed as a dangerous precedent that could burden families with limited means and deter emigration if climate linked.
Winnipeg Special reports that Riel faces a possible hanging triggering deep grief at home. His wife fainted on hearing the sentence and has not eaten well, while his elderly mother and kin remain distraught. Legal efforts by Archbishop Taehe and French influential figures are said to be trials to save him, amid claims of his apostasy conversion. Sioux chief White Cap has been arrested and taken to Regina.
A curious legal question arises in the George Miller case. Miller has pled guilty to a Grand Forks murder and a 1883 change left room for juries to decide death or life. The later law grants judges power to set sentence on a guilty plea, but it postdates the crime. Counsel moves that the judge cannot name punishment and a jury cannot be impaneled, potentially freeing the prisoner. The issue is read as interesting but uncertain if it saves him.
Editorial remark notes that supporters of C F Kindred before Congress have not yet consulted the Brainerd man. The Duluth Herald quips politics like weather as safe chatter during scarce news and a vacant mind.
In Nashville Tennessee last night Anna Davenport attacked Millie Plummer’s four month old baby, forcing lye ingestion and pouring it over the child. A policeman found the infant gravely injured, the skin peeled and a leg eaten away, with Davenport arrested amid threats of lynching. The child was dying.
The Pioneer Press reports that Col. Webster Eaton, recently suspended special agent for the Duluth and St. Cloud districts, has received no pay since the Cleveland administration took office. The monthly payroll shows four or five payments due, while other agents including Democrats and Republicans face inconsistent payments. Conflicting statements cover whether land office pay is kept, and travel expense disputes for Eaton between St. Paul and St. Cloud are noted amid political tension.
A Ham Bulletin note: June night near Muskoda a washed out track threatened a midnight train. Charles Gilman, driving cattle from New York Mills to Dakota, flagged the train with thirteen coaches and helped avert disaster. Superintendent M C Kimberly sent a thanks to Gilman for the lifesaving action and appreciation from the N P Railway.
Northwestern Lumberman notes a brewing conflict over land grants if the Duluth and Winniepeg road is not built within a year, while Brainerd and Northern push a northern terminus near the British line. B. Walker forms the Crookston Minneapolis Duluth company to run from Crookston through Leech Lake to Minneapolis and on to Duluth, aiming to revive the project and expand Minnesota’s pine region railroad activity.
On our front pages today an exhaustive account of the obsequies of General Grant is featured, detailing funeral rites, dignitaries in attendance, and the national reaction to the veteran leader's death.
A Brainerd telegraph to the Globe reports Villard is to be elected president of the Northern Pacific Railway after September. The note cites expected leadership change and timing, reflecting prevailing press speculation until formal confirmation.
Albert Treadwell, a stranger, was accidentally killed near Fargo when a gun discharged. Police labeled it an accidental death. no suspects were named. Investigators collected evidence at the scene and questioned witnesses to determine how the mishap occurred.
The Philadelphia Times exposes professional gam blers using fixed cards in faro and marked dealing boxes. It details card clipping, deck manipulation, and turnout wheels that bias outcomes and let a dealer win. The piece notes how braces of rogues and Chicago suppliers enable widespread rigging.
Statistics show deaths from pneumonia in Massachusetts increasing from 1 075 in 1857 to 3 045 in 1883. Analysts warn that population growth and better data gathering over the period must be considered to judge the significance of these numbers.
A Philadelphia church rector, Rev Isaac Nicholson of St. Marks, faced anonymous persecution by letters and obscene postal cards. The gentry of the Locust Street area supported him as he reported the abuse to the U S Post Office. Inspector Barrett investigated a long and tedious mystery in the mails.
A high social standing lady is suspected after a week of discreet vigil over obscene letters. Inspector Barrett uses a private counsel of ex judges and top lawyers to secure proof. The woman leaves the city within a day and later appears as a bride at a fashionable wedding in a neighboring city.
Captain Thomas Crummer, a veteran Mississippi boiler engineer, sought a Supervisorship of Boilers in the New Orleans district. Rep Ellis introduced him to President Cleveland, who asked if he is a mechanical engineer or machinist. The captain boasted he could build an engine to pull him into the office, proposing sixty horsepower after discussion with other officials, drawing a hearty laugh from the President.
William Flinn, a Protestant painter from Pittsburgh, falls for Jennie Hook, a Catholic. After five years of courtship and baptisms, the priest reveals that Jennie cannot become his wife due to her role as godmother to his conversion. A petition to Rome is pursued, but the couple’s hopes fade as time passes and their paths diverge.
A New York Sun piece recounts a miner and a Greaser in Oklahoma three years earlier. Around a campfire near Witchitas he shows a wax grim lit with a rag, claiming it is the natural glow dug from rock. The bar audience accepts the tale as true.
A rough exchange unfolds as a miner tries to reclaim a carpet-sack with a greasy paper and a yellow lig bottle. The bartender, crestfallen, unlocks a pottle and reveals paraffine wax distilled from shale as the miner boasts of a royal-flush haul and stacked liquor.
A collection of brief items notes Bettie Dandridge at Winchester and Tennyson’s money habits. It mentions Phoebe Vanderbilt’s death in New York, Greely’s Arctic trauma, Irving’s Harvard lecture misquoted as a Michael Angelo line, Lowell’s strong American stance, Thorne’s quip about American women, a new New York morning paper for youth, and Labouchere’s Paris Mourning News stock company with private London and Paris funding.
Articles record Brainerd Driving Park Association formed in Crow Wing County Minnesota. Key facts include date July 7 1885 capital stock 10000 dollars board of seven directors led by Carl H Douglas and Jeremiah J Howe with officers Douglas president Slipp vice president McFadden treasurer Thompson secretary notice of meetings and stock details filed August 1885 in Crow Wing County and Minnesota state records.
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