18 Jun 1886
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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1886
Page
1
Strawberries in Mankato move quickly as vendors price the fruit at ten cents per quart, signaling a lively local market. Buyers flock to stalls seeking fresh, affordable berries amid rising demand.
A chaotic report notes Ludwig, the insane king of Bavaria, died by suicide. Fergus Falls has successfully raised the capital for its harvester works. US troops guarding Grant's tomb will be withdrawn on June 20. In Mankato, two men contracted glanders from a horse they were treating.
Heavy continuous rain sweeps through Redfield Andover and surrounding areas causing localized flooding and travel disruptions as officials urge caution and monitor waterways across the region.
Coats and Buckman of Sauk Rapids win a rebuild contract for the Benton County courthouse valued at 3799 dollars. The project covers restoration and expansion as agreed by county officials.
Neal Dow seeks the nomination for Governor of Maine with St. John of Kansas said to be handling campaign efforts. The snippet notes a political setup with an ally from Kansas arranging backing.
New York sustains one saloon for every 23 voters complicating efforts to go the rounds during a political campaign as candidates face a crowded social scene and dispersed support networks.
The Polk County Journal argues the bar of the district should not participate in the election of a judge, urging voters to separate legal professions from electoral processes and preserve judicial neutrality.
About 1500 delegates attended the Battle Lake G A R reunion with attendees from posts along the Northern Pacific road during the first of the week.
Moorhead resident Lyman Lovering argues the sole viable opponent to Knute Nelson in the Fifth district race is Judge Stearns from Duluth, asserting Stearns stands the best chance to defeat Nelson.
James S. Kirk, famed soap manufacturer, died in Chicago on Wednesday. The industry notes his passing but says the soap business will continue as before.
Opposition to Knute Nelson is not only at Duluth but the Brainerd convention shows little alternative candidate. Nelson and allies expect a smooth nomination, with weak challenge ahead.
Grover gave the minister who performed his marriage ceremony five hundred dollars. Ministers attending today’s city conference are asked to take note of this payment.
R C Mitchell of the Duluth Tribune reports Gee B Bolton is again sought by authorities. Once a trusted business figure, Bolton has reportedly descended into a low grade confidence man activity, per Morris Tribune.
The locating committee met on Tuesday and adjourned to September 10. Sauk Rapids is favored to host the prison due to influences and natural advantages, and it is described as the town most in need of the facility.
A Gloucester Massachusetts streetcar episode ends with a boy shouting Rat s and breaking widow glass. The observer malingers on the decline of paternal privileges and the loss of traditional restraint among free-born Americans.
A threatened lock-out of 15,000 planing mill workers and carpenters in St Louis follows the Phoenix mill boycott over adherence to nine hour shifts while others run ten hours. Also noted, Jarvie the pension agent north of Wadena was indicted by a Winona grand jury and bound over to $1,500. Bishop Sidenbush’s signet ring valued at $750 remains missing. burglars would learn its true value is under $25 and would return it.
A Washington telegraph operator, the first to know of a presidential engagement with Miss Folsom, sent a telltale dispatch to her before she left Europe. His breach of confidence cost him his job.
A Pittsburg dispatch reports iron production this year compares favorably with the same period last season. Output is 3203 tons higher than last June, while steel mills run 700 tons of metal daily. Puddling furnaces are split between double time and mixed double and single shifts across nine mills and the remainder.
Ada Journal reports Halvor Steenerson struck a political bargain with the Kindred faction promising support for a district judge candidacy in exchange for backing W. W. Hartley for a state auditorship. The piece also notes Kindred and Nelson have agreed on futures including Charley Gilman and Kindred’s congressional ambitions.
The district elects two judges this fall with eastern and western end seats. Judge Stearns risks being called higher, complicating local politics. In the west end Ira B Mills R A Wilkinson and Halvor Steenerson Crookston oppose. from the east end C B Sleeper Brainerd is suggested.
The state board of railroad and Warehouse Commissioners announces a policy to abolish passenger rate discrimination by capping fares at 3 cents per mile for tickets bought before boarding. No railroad may charge less than 5 cents, and the Duluth & Iron Range Railroad is exempt from this order to take effect July 1, 1886.
The article describes base ball production as a growing industry. It outlines forming a hard rubber core wrapped in blue yarn, baked to remove moisture, cemented for shape, additional blue yarn, white twine, and horsehide covers split into two S shaped pieces for a complete cover.
A collage of 19th century snippets covers Louis Ling the bomb thrower’s silence, Rose Elizabeth and Sammy Tildens, King Ludwig’s ministers, Fortsom and a presidential wedding, Whiteman county’s 118000 squirrel scalps worth 5900 dollars, Canadian grievances, a baseball mask scene, 700 babies named after Cleveland, Massachusetts school kindness law, saloon moral suasion, Cascade railway geometry, Abraham Clarkson’s street race bid, Beecher’s jabs at “double eared” friends, and an atheist view of Democratic votes versus European labor.
S. G. Comstock Dp G Casa and W. W. Harvey serve on a Brainerd Minnesota committee dated June 15 1586. The fragment lists names and the location Brainerd with a dated official note. The text appears as an archival notice with limited readable context.
Samuel Neff, about 30, returned from Arizona prospecting and scouting for Indians, where a scalp wound from an Indian attack left him nearly bald. He described the excruciating pain and the fates he imagined, noting the dreadful sensation and his grim vision of suffering.
The state auditor informs county officials of the law now in force following a recent supreme court tax title decision. Redemption remains available for lands sold for taxes since 1877 or where assignments of state bid lands lacked notice, with 14 percent interest from purchase date and eligibility for subsequent delinquent taxes paid. Sales under section 101 of the general tax law are suspended while a supreme court case decides redemption rights under that provision.
A Columbus bank president fined a plasterer $10 for days not completed on a project after the craftsman, a National Guardsman, went to Cincinnati to aid in quelling riots. He finished the job on return, but the bank held him to the contract, ignoring his unemployment and hardship. This reflects labor discontent.
The Crookston Journal notes Fred Puhler had a life like image of Ada lawyer D. H Fisk printed in the Pioneer Press with a self written article by Puhler. The paper remarks uncertainty about sending his own image, but the depiction serves well since neither party is known.
The forecast says the for feiture bill concerning the Northern Pacific is unlikely to pass this session. No further action expected before adjournment, according to insiders.
The Duluth delegation will act in Duluth's best interests at the Brainerd convention. They will support Nelson if that serves Duluth, or present a Duluth man to the convention.
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