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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1886
Page
2
St Paul has gone crazy over the ice palace as the city enjoys a rich harvest from the snow show, while smaller towns suffer. Northern Pacific earnings for January reach $480,749, up $7,800 from January 1885, signaling improving commerce.
The third annual Dakota G. A. R. encampment will be held in Watertown on March 24 and 25. Seven hundred fifty applications have been received for admission to the Soldiers Home in Erie Pennsylvania, which can only accommodate two hundred residents. Wisconsin Land and Lumber Company of Hudson announces a $150000 tax title sale, one of the state's largest.
Miss Kate Bayard dies suddenly, soon followed by Mrs. Bayard, prompting speculation that the secretary of state may resign from the cabinet. G A R commander in chief Burdett announces the national encampment will be held in San Francisco on Thursday August 2 1886.
The Fergus Falls flour mill now produces two hundred barrels daily for Duluth storage awaiting navigation. Ashby Avalanche is edited by Max Nicolaus whose name appeared at the column head last week. The people of Ashby offer sympathy.
A groundhog failed to spy a shadow on Tuesday, prompting speculation about an six week stretch of meditation or blindness. No definitive forecast emerges as observers note unusual behavior and question the creature’s vision.
A lawyer was chased by a shark during a beach bath and barely escaped. He warned that he has never before faced such professional discourtesy in his career.
The Iowa Grand Lodge A O U W holds its tenth biennial session in Cedar Rapids with sixteen grand officers and representatives from 231 lodges. Advance sheets from the biennial Miller directory show a net decrease of 6312 flouring mills in the United States and Canada since 1884, leaving 382.67 mills in operation, with a slight rise in gross capacity.
On Monday the rules were suspended and the bill increasing soldiers widows pensions from eight to twelve dollars per month passed. The action appears to set aside the bill eliminating the arrears pension act limitation clause.
The quotation asserts that labor precedes capital and enables wealth, praising labor as superior and deserving greater consideration. It emphasizes that capital cannot exist without labor and that labor is the source of all value and progress.
The Dispatch was designated as the official county paper for the coming year at the commissioners meeting. It will publish the delinquent tax list and the county financial statement, marking its authority in county affairs.
A telegram reports C F Kindred seeks to remove Valley City Postmaster C H Anderson. Charges filed today by railroad officials and citizens accuse him of neglecting duty delaying mail and causing inconvenience. A local writer says mail was held and advertised. The conspirators seek W P Clark appointment for the $1200 yearly post.
A five story brick warehouse of the Ryan Drug Co. in St Paul burned Friday evening, destroying stock and building contents. The blaze started in the third floor laboratory but firefighters confined it to the one structure with total losses around 170000. Insurance stood at 145000 and operations will continue. It was the city’s first large fire in almost a year.
In the upcoming Brainerd election a strong call favors Col. B. Sleeper as mayor. The editor lauds his long service to Brainerd, status as a top Minnesota lawyer, and belief his leadership would advance the city while guarding against wasteful schemes. Sleeper’s consent is not known.
The Pioneer Press reports that Col H L Gordon of Minneapolis and his wife plan to file for divorce after six years of marriage. Alimony and settlement are in dispute though the case is unlikely to cause much public fuss, with two children involved.
Dispatch from Schlessinger ville reports the last barrow of earth and final timber in place on the Wisconsin Central new line to Chicago with only a few miles of rails remaining. Depot buildings rise while rail crews lay steel at a mile and a half per day. hundreds of laborers and thousands of teams have supported the project and workers have been paid off.
In 1874 A. L. Brooks was named postmaster at Vineland Wisconsin for 4 a year. He served until yesterday drawing 22 annually. He said he was an offensive partisan and wanted relief. No one wanted the office and he moved away leaving two mail bags and 13 cents in stamps. Over forty Wisconsin post offices lack applicants.
A Baptist pastor preached to rail road workers on building the Royal Road in Destruction City. He tied the gospel to the law, showing the law as a straight edge that reveals sin and condemns all but Christ, then offers gospel salvation for the lost.
Mrs Garvey found a gasoline can frozen to the floor, struck ice with an ax causing a leak and a nail strike that produced a spark. The resulting fire badly damaged the building and seriously burned the woman before it was put out.
A reflection on relapse and reform in crime. Anecdotes cover a Rome ring with poison, an Indian girl’s distress, Victor Hugo's Jane Valjean, and a prison official recounting convicts who rebound to crime after pardon. The tales expose the persistence of bad habits and uneasy mercy across eras.
A stern lady passenger stops a newsmonger by tossing his caramels and threats from a Niagara express car. The vender retreats after the heated exchange, realizing the stubborn passenger has outmatched him.
A German bootmaker lives in a car converted into a shop and residence on a blank lot at Nineteenth Street near Diamond for three months. He rents for $1 a month, repairs shoes, sells small trinkets when possible, and keeps a clean interior despite the improvised cabin’s rough exterior and faded paint.
A Chicago Herald excerpt discusses pigs heads and beeves hearts with culinary claims and a tale of the Prince of Wales. The butcher cites European practices, market demand, and cleaning difficulties.
A correspondent describes Persian artisans lacking rulers compasses or levels. They use bowstring prods for drilling, adzes instead of benches, and ground seating to plane and saw. Timber pillars are handcrafted with eye and skill then plastered to form fluted columns with capitals, crowns, and decorative walls and ceilings.
Jacquin, a pat ernoster maker, struggles to honor a promise to Ursula while pursuing a miraculous iridescent mass on the Seine. He discovers a method with a fish scales paste, cures it with ammonia, and in three days crafts Ursula a radiant necklace. The note recalls 1686 and warns of earlier dangers from quicksilver dyed pearls.
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