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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1885
Page
3
Brainerd Dispatch reports in its Brainerd Minnesota edition that a bill fixing liquor licenses at zero is before the senate and appears to have a good chance of passage. Editors N H Ingersoll and F W Wieland note the legislative action and potential impact for Crow Wing Cass and Itasca counties.
The common council of Cleveland has resolved to tax skating rinks at the rate of $40 a month, or $300 a year.
The British steamer Sardony left Victoria for Hong Kong on December 10 and has not been heard from since. She carried four hundred Chinese passengers and a light coal cargo. rumors say she was unsafe and may have gone down.
Winners of prizes discover no funds have been set aside for premiums and publications signed by officers were false. Exhibitors remain with stock and little chance to collect, facing financial dilemma and possible loss.
The state eyes creating additional districts as a systematic solution to rising business and court needs. Nearly every judge in the circuit seeks an associate, signaling forthcoming multi headed courts.
The senate approved Senator Morrison's bill on Friday by a 28 to 3 vote to authorize a third hospital for the insane, a result that surprised some observers. A second measure by Sergeant to curb sale or exposure of obscene literature also cleared the chamber by 25 to 2.
Early Monday morning a fire swept the engine house and machine shops of the Burlington and Northwestern and Burlington and Western narrow gauge line near Burlington. Three locomotives and machinery inside were ruined. Losses pegged at 20,000 dollars with 22,000 insurance.
The March issue opens with a steel plate titled The Sisters by Frank Lee Benedict, showing two girls in a snow storm. It highlights rare fashion plates, a Java Canvas design, The Beleaguered Garrison, numerous wood cuts, and a lead article Washington City Its Pictorial Side. The continuing novelet The Lost Ariadne by Mrs. John Sherwood strengthens the rich content. Price two dollars a year with club discounts.
The Polk County Journal urges Crookston and Polk County to back the Brainerd and Northwestern road. It says the project, originally for 300000, is trimmed to 200000 due to a typographical error and promises a direct wheat outlet, property growth, and breaking Manitoba road monopoly, while warning hostility could jeopardize the link and even trigger Red Lake Falls.
Rossa is recovering rapidly and can walk a little and read threating letters daily pouring in. His injury was slight and he will likely continue in the inter of personal safety to keep his back to the foe.
The first breach of promise trial in this region, Haggeman versus Gazett at Sauk Rapids before Judge Collins, ended with Miss Haggeman awarded 3500 dollars by a jury after disputes over higher sums. Gazett, once engaged to Haggeman, legally married his Royalton fiancé August 12 after letters of release were unanswered, prompting the suit. The case will be appealed with a moral about engagements and mail correspondence.
The Duluth Herald reports that yesterday R C Mitchell sold his corner lot between the St Louis hotel and Fergusson block to Owen Fergusson son and used proceeds to pay off the mortgage on his office and other properties totaling over 7500 dollars. It is believed most Duluth residents, except Woodbridge, will be glad he has reduced a large portion of his indebtedness.
Telegram from Valley City details a church property fight involving Rev. S. H. Woodford and Farmer and Mechanics National Bank president Herbert Root. Root and A. P. Peak seized the church, warded the building, then were dislodged after a dramatic confrontation with vestry members and townspeople. Root claims his wife Harriet C. Root holds title to reservations in the deed.
A St Paul Dispatch summary reveals how dynamite is produced from glycerine, nitric acid, and absorbents like sawdust, with notes on nitro glycerine, Nobel’s formulation, and the ease of illicit manufacture. It recalls that no laws prevented building or handling dynamite and cites large explosive capacity and limited insurance for workers.
A shipment from St Paul to Miles City was hand led by Wells Fargo express along the Northern Pacific line. Reported rates were 90 cents to 1 per 100 pounds, yet Wells Fargo paid nearly four times that amount to haul on the same route. A few similar cut rate actions are noted, but adjustments are under way to maintain rates. Northern Pacific expresses supports keeping traffic figures.
A 48 page guide promises over 100 candy ideas for home use with a 50 cent price. The Housewife journal offers fashion cooking fancy work and domestic topics with trial six months or a year free. The National Agriculturist advertises a free one year subscription to farmers who submit names and stamps.
The figure known as El Mahdi asserts he is the re surrected Muhammad and cites a six month old prediction that he would drive the English from Sudan to justify his claim to prophetic status.
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