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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1888
Page
3
A historical note states that all states ban profane language by telephone with Connecticut as the exception. It outlines the general legality and enforcement stance across jurisdictions.
Kansas City residents are divided over allowing children to play marbles for keeps, fueling heated public discussion and municipal response as the issue stirs local concerns about games of chance and childhood pastime limits.
In New Orleans the teachers benevolent association led by a well funded bank account now confronts questions about its investment strategy and member interests.
A three year old Maine boy slid down a hill two or three weeks ago and ran into a barbed wire fence. He cut the corners of his mouth fully two inches on each side.
A candidate for Alderman in Cincinnati pledged a petty office to fifty six men and after winning awarded it to his brother, the fifty seventh person in line.
A scientific journal asserts no properly recorded instance of a locomotive exceeding eighty miles per hour. It claims higher speeds are mythical, challenging popular legends of ultra fast trains.
Indians on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona are described as fond of sweets. In one store a barrel of sugar can be sold in a day in small purchases of 5 and 10 cents' worth, just enough to serve the Indian for candy.
William Wills, a Galveston merchant, believed burglars were below stairs and pursued them with a cocked revolver. He slipped on a banana peel during the ascent, discharged the weapon, and died from his own gunshot wound.
Willie Pullman a Nashville lad went out on a raft to drown a cat. The cat clawed his sleeve and he lost balance, falling beneath the raft. He and the four footed victim were drowned in the break in the surface water.
A man who left Louisville fifteen years ago returned as a ruined tramp and was fatally shot on his first night back. The killing is thought to involve a woman he had previously compromised, with retribution cited as the motive.
A tornado near Ninety-Six in South Carolina left dead, unidentified creatures scattered across the area. The black, pointed, rough-coated varmints appeared to be an unknown species and died upon ground impact, baffling residents and local observers.
A Philadelphia speaker linked parks to social order, arguing public spaces foster virtue and prevent uprisings. He claimed unrest does not arise from park-adjacent populations, noting anarchists tend to frequent crowded alleys and courts nearby.
A Dartmouth freshman interested in electric experiments tapped Western Union lines and linked them to a room instrument. He enjoyed monitoring distant news from home but the scheme was discovered by the company, casting the student’s prospects in doubt.
A man was found dead atop a Liverpool tramcar with two carrier pigeons. One bird bore a note directing the detective office. A man later identified the deceased as his ill father, who had gone out for a walk and to fry the pigeons.
A West End burglar with a morbid sense of humor robbed homes in St. Louis and staged gags after each break in. He ate a meal at one scene and left a dummy clothes figure on a kitchen floor in another. He was finally captured while attempting another prank and is now in jail.
Editor Willard Cobb of Lockport recounts Roscoe Conkling memorably reporting a Utica speech. In 1866, Conkling provided a full advance copy to the Herald the afternoon of his Utica appearance, and delivered the address nearly word for word that evening as if extemporaneous. The feat filled over eleven Utica Herald columns.
Lee Mackey unearthed a pot of gold coins worth nearly $3,000 while plowing at C 8 Maxwell’s farm near Buffalo Village Pennsylvania. He quit his job and headed to Greene County to claim the fortune, believed hidden by long-ago resident Robert Dryden.
The statehood committee calls Dakota farmers and business men to a July 10 11 convention at Huron with a July 12 ministers gathering. It urges county meetings to elect delegates contribute funds and secure reduced rail fares. The ministers list follows with many church leaders from across Dakota.
In Judge Jamieson’s court Mrs Meckie L Rawson fired a Smith and Wesson revolver at Col H C Whitney, injuring him and prompting her arrest. The incident followed a dispute over lawyers fees amid a contested divorce from Banker Rawson. witnesses described her as deranged and exhausted after the attack.
The House passed the bill promoting Lieut. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan to general, amid dramatic debate and rapid action. An enrolled copy was signed, a messenger went to the White House, and by 2 45 Sheridan was commissioned general of the army after a brief Senate confirmation.
United States Senator Hawley and Senator Manderson carry a ceremonial commission to Gen. Sheridan’s home and deliver it to Mrs. Sheridan as the Senate merges the lieutenant general of the army into a general of the army role. The event follows the dying general’s approval of the measure and ends with Sheridan's oath administered by War Department Chief Clerk Tweedale.
St Louis prepares for a grand Mississippi valley festival with the Convention Hall set as a vast 300 by 100 foot space in the north nave of the exposition building. It will seat 10 000 with 13 500 possible standing, multiple entry points and rapid egress to ensure safety, while acoustics promise all speakers audible to the crowd and lavish interior decoration planned.
Andrew Granstaff twenty five years old, accused of killing the Drake family after a demand for money ended in gunfire. A mob broke jail, dragged him to the porch, and hanged him after a brief struggle. His confessed involvement with Frank and Elisha Carey was disputed.
The Evansville steamer of Le Claire Navigation suffered a boiler flue collapse near Blacksmith Slough ten miles below Winona Minnesota. Five deck hands slept through the blast. Two men were blown overboard and badly scalded. Engineers Jack Scanlan and Don Scanlan were among the worst injured, with extensive burns. George Galloway and Con Scanlan also suffered severe burns, with Con saved by a floating mattress.
The Engineering News of New York reports the actual status of the Panama Canal, with a progress profile through January 1. Only about eleven miles of Atlantic dredging and a similar stretch at the Pacific end near completion. most work remains undone. Estimated remaining volume is 34,081,000 cubic meters, rising to 51,000,000 with river changes. Costs so far total 177,910,000 dollars, backed by 3351,150,000 in securities. To finish, at least 20,000,000 dollars more funding will be needed, potentially as 500,000,000 dollars in new securities.
The Prohibition party at Indianapolis nominates Clinton B. Frisk of New Jersey for president and John A. Brush of Wisconsin for vice president. The platform calls for total liquor prohibition, abolition of the internal revenue system, import duties with no surplus, civil service merit, suffrage universal by age and education, prohibition of polygamy, and equal pay for equal work, inviting labor and capital to unite for reform.
A Fort Benton man is killed by an unknown assailant in a cold blooded, unprovoked attack near Fort Conrad Montana. Augustus Brede and Johnny Adams, from Fort Benton, took a stranger to Fort McLeod NWT who fled after slow medical aid failed. Adams died en route. Brede and a pursuing party seek Max Hoppa Pole a 27 year old jeweler linked to McLeod and Canada.
The Minnesota Editorial Association executive committee met at the Merchants Hotel in St. Paul to fix the next annual convention location. Despite calls to hold the meeting outside the Twin Cities, Minneapolis won the bid with the date tentatively set for Wednesday August 20. An excursion to Stillwater to inspect the prison and a Soo to the lakes trip were planned with further details to be announced by H. P. Hall.
A prisoner claims Kennett confessed killing Annie Daniels with morphine and ether after luring her to bed with a nervous night scene. He allegedly used eight ounces of ether and morphine, first attempted with laudanum, then pressed the fumes from a handkerchief to her nose, causing death while Kennett slept in the room.
The town is stirred by a tale linking Daniels to repeated searches for money and a midnight torching of a house. In Petersburg Illinois he met Dr. Shipp who helped hide part of the loot in a shoe and later received $55 in jail after his arrest. The story hinges on Kennett's confession and remains contested as either truth or monstrous lie.
An accident near Bordeaux Wyoming involved a work train and an empty passenger engine. Both engines wrecked and three bodies were brought to Cheyenne with four injured sent to Denver.
James G Blaine writes from Paris May 17 denying any desire to be nominated by the Republican party for president in 1888. He insists he cannot accept if offered, to avoid misleadings, and urges unity to protect protectionist aims and American labor against European competition.
Rochester hosts a Sanitary Conference where Dr. Hewitt introduces graphic charts based on data from over 1,600 local health boards. Dr. Hunt argues three fourths of disease is preventable and promotes compulsory vaccination. Dr. Mosse calls for home hygiene and female leadership in health.
Hundreds of brewers from across the United States convened in St Paul to discuss local option and prohibition, with reports highlighting production by members and non members, and a veterinary analysis of beer not being a major crime driver. The session covered revenue laws, ethics, and tariff issues, while broader crime statistics were presented and debated by association leaders.
Memorial Day notes honor fallen soldiers with flowers and speeches. Col Kerr's oration recalls Civil War sacrifices, lessons on union, liberty, and duty, and the need for virtuous citizen leadership. The piece also surveys postwar politics with Blaine’s decline reshaping GOP delegate dynamics and potential support for Gresham in various states.
At the Indianapolis convention Bishop Turner of the African Methodist church lauded the Republicans but urged breaking from them over alcohol. The resolutions committee endorsed an uncompromising woman suffrage plank by 23 to 8, with strict rules to curb debate as St. John retains chairmanship.
A speaker expresses preference for leading the convention over becoming U S president by the rum power. He cites unity beyond party lines, foresees old parties yielding, and urges a nationwide mission to protect homes foster fraternal ties and secure a blessed future for children.
Prof Roland G Irving, geology professor at the University of Wisconsin for eighteen years and head of the U S geological survey in Wisconsin and Minnesota, died from paralysis at age forty one leaving a widow and three children. A court in Omaha awards Franklin Robinson $200000 in real estate. An elderly man near Fountain City Minn was struck and killed by Burlington Northern trains. Pierre S Dak resident P G Cretschmer comments on rumored Sioux uprising saying war path is past and the Sioux would not fight.
The administration is accused of cant and pretense by Republicans over the civil service commission. Michigan Republicans suggest Senator Palmer as chairman of the state GOP central committee, though this would breach civil service law. Questions to the commissioners about Senator Kenna leading the Democratic campaign and federal officers attending conventions go unanswered.
A temperance man with a native-born red nose, seen as an old toper by some, sought entry to a secret Democratic meeting in a Connecticut town. When asked for credentials, he tapped his red nose, and the sergeant at arms allowed him to pass. The scene was noted by Judge.
Daniel A. Grosvenor, on the G A R employment committee, testified before the House Committee on Printing about hiring of soldiers, sailors and orphans by the government printing office. He said Benedict’s assurances to G A R representatives that the exemption from discharge had been kept were not met, and in fact the opposite occurred. He frequent ly visited the office to aid comrades, finding it the most difficult bureau for the G A R to work with and the least helpful.
The New York Independent argues the Democratic candidate will be Grover Cleveland, criticizing his reform claims, appointments, and fidelity to pledges. It contends his presidency betrayed public trust, merit over party, and promised reform, warning against a second term.
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