Political tempers flare in Dakota election and local trials
Tue fight for the senatorship wages hot with talk of street cars and electricity. The Dakota school lands may exceed 25 million in value as Democrats seek to win support. The Duluth Tribune recommends R. C. Mitchell for trials. St Cloud grand jury returns twenty indictments under liquor laws. Canadian journals discuss annexation while calls to curb anarchists grow louder. Daxora’s volcano is minor next to push for territory admission. Walter Brower drafts Fifth District political history. An anonymous blast at W. D. Washburn circulates. Mrs Cleveland and Mrs Folsom are noted in broader political mood.
State Board of Canvassers Appoints Supreme Court Members
The state board of canvassers comprising the secretary of the state and four judges meets next Tuesday. Associate Justice Vanderburgh and Dickinson are named from the supreme bench for the selection.
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Supreme Bench
Sheriff Rescues Bulow From Jail Amid City Turmoil
A telegram reports Sheriff Rasicot moved Bulow from Brainerd jail to a safe location. Lynching threats loom as a mob gathers while authorities promise to maintain order. great excitement grips the city.
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Globe
Little Falls
Rasicot
Bulow
Brainerd
Raskot
First Man Swims Over St Cloud Dam and Survives
The Journal Press notes Robert Horan became the first and only man to go over the St Cloud dam. While assisting engineer Todd with soundings last Wednesday he slipped into the foaming water wearing rubber boots and a twenty pound iron bar. He swam against the undertow and reached his nearby boat, recounting the dangerous experience as not fascinating.
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Journal Press
Robert Horan
St. Cloud Dam
Todd
Con sanguinity and deafness in Fari bault institutions report
A biennial report notes twenty four families with one to six deaf children linked to consanguineous parents. Fifteen first cousin pairs yield twenty deaf children. three second cousin families have one each. four third cousin families have one each. No children of deaf and dumb parents are deaf.
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Faribault
Supt
Hayes
School For the Deaf
Ierest
Strikin
Canada
Fou
Duluth Tribune Survives Firing of Managers
The Duluth Tribune failed to publish yesterday as managers Philips and Buell discharged staff. Editor R C Mitchell rushed a late edition to print and claims the owners tried to wreck the paper to force a sale but were defeated. Mitchell fires Philips and Buell and vows to continue despite mortgage and creditor pressure.
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Essrs
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R. C. Michell
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Egg
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Telegram
Northern Pacific to absorb Wisconsin Central indicated
A Stevens Point dispatch reports the master car builder was ordered to mark all repaired cars Northern Pacific instead of Wisconsin Central. This is interpreted as evidence that the Northern Pacific will absorb the Wisconsin Central system.
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Wis
Wisconsin Central Line
Northern Pacific
Wisconsin Central
New Brotherhood Forms Among Southwest Conductors
A telegram from Los Angeles reports railroad conductors in the Southwest unhappy with the Order of Railway Conductors of Chicago have formed the Brotherhood of Conductors of the United States and Canada. Delegates will be sent to towns with division headquarters west of the Missouri to organize divisions and sever ties with the old order.
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Cal
Southwest
Chicago
Brotherhood of Conductors
United States
Canada
Missouri River
Minnesota Weather Summary for November
November brought unusually mild and pleasant conditions with a high of 81 degrees at Farmington on the 1st and a cold snap down to nine degrees below zero at Pokegama Falls on the 17th. The month’s temperature averaged three degrees above normal and was mostly mild during the first 15 days.
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Farmington
Pokegama Falls
Minnesota
Central Viaduct Dedication Shocks Cleveland Citizens
The new central viaduct in Cleveland Ohio linked the South side suburb with the business district. It stands 101 feet high and stretches about a half mile. The ceremony featured decorations with sixty six foreign flags and twenty American flags, sparking strong protests and delaying a march by Grand Army of the Republic until flags were removed by city officials.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Grand Arm of the Republic
We Have Never Posed As More Than We Are
A restrained statement asserts the publication has never paraded as something it is not and rejects any boastful self-presentation. The editor quotes the stance as a matter of policy and pride.
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Circaler
Rabbits vanishing in woods urge concern over harvest pace
Motley Register notes rabbits are being killed in large numbers and brought in daily. Cale reports buying about 1,000 rabbits in ten days, warning spring scarcity if the trend continues. Journal Press cites St Cloud with 22 saloons generating large profits from licenses rents wages and liquor sales totaling around 63,000 dollars in profits.
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Cale
Motley Register
St. St. Cloud
Journal Press
What Anarchists Teach
In Chicago a system trains children from early years to embrace hate and revolution. Government is tyranny and society is a class conflict. Liberty comes only through upheaval and destruction of existing institutions, with treason taught as if by instinct.
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Chicago
Pioneer Press
Fur Garments Season Cleaning Tips From Russia
An advice note explains cleaning fur garments using rye flour heated in a pot then rubbed into the fur. The flour is brushed or beaten out, restoring luster and making the fur look as good as new.
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Russia
Urs
Young Woodbury resigns post office job to become Chippewa chief
A Minneapolis post office employee identified as Joseph L Woodbury resigns after being named chief of the Chippewa Hole-in-the-Day band. The 21 year old, raised in Minneapolis, has a wife and growing family. His brother Ignatius Hole-in-the-Day, a linguist and former student at St Johns college, was noted for lectures and a dramatic incident with a professor. The Pioneer Press records the family’s notable history.
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Minneapolis
Joseph L. Woodbury
White Bearth Reservation
Ankeny
Young Woodbury
Daniel Woodbury
Westminster
Woodbury
Hole-in
Joseph
Ignatius Hole-in-the-Day
St. John’s College
Pioneer Press
Boston man drinks 24 sherry and egg compounds in seven hours
A Boston man, famed for drinking sherry and eggs, consumed 24 drinks in seven hours at a South End lunchroom. Starting around 9 am on Tuesday, he sipped a cherry and egg every 15 minutes for five hours, then four more at irregular times, paid his bill without apparent intoxication, and vanished down the street.
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Boston
Turner County Tragedy Jerry Sullivan Struck by Freight Train
The Motley Register reports the death of Jerry Sullivan an elderly Irish native and former miner killed Thursday after stumbling onto track near the west switch half a mile from the depot. The intoxicated man failed to clear the heavy freight No. 16 as it arrived, despite the engineer’s attempts to stop. Sullivan, about 75, settled near Motley 18 years ago and was known for hard work and a noted liquor problem despite warnings from saloonkeepers.
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Jerry Sullivan
West Switch
Mr. Sullivan
Ireland
America
Motley
Northern Pacific Railroad
Minnesota in Brief highlights and local incidents
The list notes fishing season opening at uth and various local events. Reports include injuries to Wm. Cotton in Duluth, Mrs. Coon in Winona, and a Stillwater convict injury. Red Wing bonds issued to railroad, gas suffocation risk near Prescott, log plans for Fond du Lac Indians, burglaries in St. Cloud, a painter injury at Cloquet, an artesian well in Mankato, a planned department store in Sank Center, ice conditions on Lake Pepin, and a stock farm transfer in Janesville.
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Wm. Cotton
Duluth
Red Wing
Iowa Railroad
Fred Coon
N. D. McGill
Prescott
Fond du Lac
Lufkin & Kendall
St. Cloud
Chas
Long
Wm. Burns
Mankato
Sank Center
Minneapolis
Lake Pepin
Gener
Austin Corbin
Long Island
DeGraff Stock Farm
Janesville
Fries
Albertton
Estate of James Meagher Probate Petition Filed
In Crow Wing County Minnesota the estate of James Meagher deceased is handled in probate court. Elizabeth Meagher petitions for administration to John Kennedy with a hearing set January 7 1859. Notice to heirs and interested parties will run in the Brainerd Dispatch for three consecutive weeks.
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Minnesota
Crow Wing
James Meagher
Elizabeth Meagher
Brainerd
James
Crow Wing Naanty
Sai
John Kennedy
Foreclosure Notice on Shontell Mortgage in Crow Wing County
Mortgage default prompts public sale of the West half of the Southeast quarter of Section 2, Township 44, Range 31 in Crow Wing County Minnesota. Daniel D. Smith holds the mortgage. sale at Brainerd Courthouse front door on January 28, 1889, to satisfy debt plus costs and 25 dollar attorney fee.
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Mary J. Shontell
Daniel D. Smith
Register of Deeds
Crow Wing
Minnesota
Brainerd
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