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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1887
Page
2
Brainerd Dispatch from Minnesota lists publishers Ingersoll and Wieland and mentions Brainerd, Minnesota. The brief text confirms the newspaper’s branding and publishing entities without further details.
A California university project by Senator Stanford will prohibit any building from exceeding one story in height. The rule aims to ensure uniform low skyline rather than to avert earthquake damage.
Bill Nye is now regularly and exclusively employed on the New York World. He writes about a quarter of a column daily on local topics in his humorous and original vein, and also contributes a daily quarter-column humorous editorial on current subjects.
An eastern paper notes a new bankruptcy style driven by personal crisis. It says owners wreck themselves and allies as they collapse under liabilities and then attribute their failure to the interstate commerce law.
A late issue writer from the Southern Farm argues the Southern farmer is worse off now than ten years past due to wrong headedness, un systematic methods, wastefulness, the one crop system and debt. He warns that without changing agricultural practice the North will possess Southern lands.
The fiscal reports show general business prosperity with a rise in gross earnings by 1,378,126 and net earnings by 505,524 in the first quarter of 1887 compared to 1886. Gains include 704,494 more on lines west of Pittsburg compared with the same period in 1886.
Cleveland bakers organized a pool and advanced bread prices by one cent per loaf citing rising flour costs shorter hours and higher pay for dough mixing and workers. The move shifts three hundred dollars daily from households to bakers amid a recent strike and longer staffing.
The text notes uncertainty about who built the mounds, locating them mainly in the Mississippi valley with many in the Ohio valley. Some mounds served defense or burial for notable figures. Estimates place their age at least two thousand years, with builders extinct long before European contact. tools were stone and shell.
The Utah region presents land areas equal to two to four states in size, with much arable territory alongside deserts and mountains. By 1900 most western agricultural lands may see general cultivation, though turnover to the level of older nations will take many decades.
The year 1886 saw gold valued at 25.9 million and silver at 51 million in the United States. World silver mined from the old ball amounted to 124 million. The Mint Director's report places Colorado first in U S precious metal production, Montana second, California third, with Colorado adding over twenty million dollars to global wealth that year.
The New Orleans Times reports the sale of 46,000 acres of government land at the Natchitoches land office to western lumbermen, ending government pinelands south of Red River. The once mighty timber domain is now viewed as a Northern capitalist investment, poised to multiply as timber is harvested.
The court ruled no special statute is needed for the state to sue over railroad rebates and discriminations, holding such contracts with Standard Oil abusive to corporate franchises and warranting potential loss of charters. Despite long practice and common law, penalties have not been enforced.
The committee in Washington adopts practice rules for hearings on petitions and complaints. Hearings start at 11 a.m. daily except Saturdays. Applications to charge longer distances must be in an attested petition by an agent or officer, with relief sought and supporting facts, published in two newspapers for ten days prior. Complaints must be attested petitions with copies to each carrier, verified answers due in twenty days unless extended, and provisions for deemed admissions if the carrier opts for hearing. If no answer, the commission will take proof and issue an order in the premises.
The Michigan legislature passed the Rogers bill regulating state commerce. It provides penalties up to $15,000 for favoritism in rates and sets a method of investigation by the state railroad commission. Copious rains across the peninsula have extinguished forest tires and the Lake Lindin relief fund totals about $40.
The Minnesota state superintendent issued a circular interpreting a recent law mandating physiology and hygiene in public schools. It urges students to respect health laws, develop a healthful ideal, and understand the body's structure, nutrition, and the effects of narcotics on stomach, blood, heart, and nerves, including hereditary factors.
The essay argues that educated and healthy youths can distinguish good from bad on stage just as they separate virtue from vice in literature. A Paris Times dispatch notes a new French cabinet formed with Rouvier as premier and ministerial appointments including Flourens as foreign affairs, Spallo justice, Falberts interior, Saussier war, Doures marine, Revelle agriculture, Etienne public works, Cochery public instruction, and Berthelot involvement.
The Farmers Representatives endorse the Interstate Commerce Law and issue addresses. At a spring meeting in Paul, President Barrett, Secretary Ison, and delegates discussed railroads and reform, urging enforcement of the law, fair rates, and removal of barriers to Duluth routes.
The committee announces the total abstinence convention will be held at the state capitol in St Paul on June 15 with a mass meeting at Market Hall on June 13 featuring Bishop Ireland and Fathers O Rilley and McGorrick among speakers. A banquet is planned on the afternoon of the second day at the Ryan.
The naturalist W T Hornaday of the Smithsonian led a hunt along Powder River to secure a final bison for the national museum. He mounted a prized bull, then invited critics including Prof Baird and Gen Van Vieit to view it. Critics mocked the display for being too fat, too lean, mismatched legs, and an unreal nose in the air, prompting Hornaday’s dismay and claims of a conspiracy to humiliate him.
A London journal reports the shooting in Transvaal that killed C. X. Hobbs, mining prospector, by Jefferson McClelland on March 24. Old California figures Hobbs and McClelland long knew each other from Pacific days. a past stock dispute led to a pact to settle any future danger by pistol. Hobbs, later in London syndicate work, and McClelland, once San Francisco, then Australia, met as adjacent property superintendents in a desolate outpost. McClelland fired the fatal shot to Hobbs’s heart.
The piece argues that nutrition and railroads matter more than sheer fighting. It states soldiers must eat to fight and that railroads determine campaign success by delivering troops, food, and ammunition. It notes equal fighting quality across large forces, emphasizes numbers and supply as decisive factors.
Aunt Pratt joins the Potter household as a boarder and keeper of her savings as debt and vice strain the family. Her prudent nursing of finances, Bible guidance, and a bequest to a home reveal how a hole in the bag drains a family’s wages and warns against wasteful living.
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