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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1886
Page
2
In Brainerd Minnesota a Brainerd press note reports that Russian petroleum trade is depressed due to overproduction and high transport costs. Bradstreet notes that at leading centers about 225000 industrial workers are engaged in the eight hour day movement, signaling wider labor shifts.
The State Coroners' Association reports 353 personal crisis cases versus 315 railroad casualty deaths in Millionois last year, highlighting a higher incidence of non fatal distress events than fatal transport accidents in the state's records.
Dr Frisch, an Austrian Government delegate, examined Pasteur s remedy for hydrophobia and recommended adoption of the method by Austrian physicians.
Prophets who frighten people with death threats have set 1888 as the final conflagration year. Given how often they changed the date, one would expect caution about accepting their predictions in the future.
The house judiciary committee reported against amending the constitution to grant the president power to veto individual items in appropriation bills. It warned such a shift would place dangerous power in the president, arguing that public funds are safer under Congress than under the executive.
President Cleveland commissions Mr. Simon Sterne to survey western European railway laws and report on their state. His prior work as counsel for the New York chamber of commerce aided the New York state railroad commission's creation.
The New York Sun argues it is not an alarmist paper. It cites disorders but asserts that life will continue, capitalists and laborers will remain, and law, order, and liberty will endure after the turmoil.
The signal service bureau reports the Northwest's growing season is two to three weeks ahead of the average. April was notably warm with a mean of 49.2 degrees, higher than all Aprils since 1871 except 1878 and 1879. 1878 had the warmest April on record. 1874 the coldest, at means of 51.1 and 37.5 respectively.
The writer laments lack of a extradition treaty between Great Britain and the United States to stop American thieves from finding refuge in Canada. Indicted New York Aldermen tied to Jacob Sharp may be shielded by the Dominion, with some already in Montreal. They are held on $25,000 bail, a fraction of bribes received, yet enough for liberty.
Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers cites twelve years of harmonious dealings with railroad officers in Hartford. He notes no strikes when meetings were held in a proper spirit and says recent Southwestern troubles were amicably settled, with engineers and railroads on excellent terms.
Judge Pardee of the United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of Texas declares that labor organizations are lawful but lack legal status and authority. He states they cannot issue orders that free men must obey and that individuals cannot shield themselves in court behind such groups from unlawful acts.
London professor Humphrey summarizes lifelong longevity research. He finds males have higher early mortality, women start life with greater vitality, and women average five feet three inches to men five feet six inches. He notes pulse, respiration, bone mass trends, and tooth counts above eighty, with many long-lived individuals from long-lived families.
Reports from over six hundred correspondents indicate Minnesota will sow about 5 percent more spring wheat than last year, Dakota 12 to 15 percent more, Nebraska 5 percent less, and Iowa and Wisconsin roughly unchanged. Minnesota last year planted 3,151,000 acres at 11 bushels per acre for 34,000,000 bushels. this year about 3,300,000 acres and similar yields are expected, with Dakota expanding to a record wheat area and total Minnesota and Dakota output potentially near 75,000,000 bushels if weather cooperates.
The secretary of the interior reports total surveyed land within twenty miles of the Northern Pacific railroad: Minnesota 2,837,060 acres, Wisconsin 755,482 acres, Dakota 5,561,200 acres. Company land selections total Minnesota 2,028,352.6 acres, Wisconsin 8,632.05 acres, Dakota 6,547,278.83 acres. Minnesota patents total 743,573.44 acres. Opinion holds grant in place with indemnity as backup. indemnity limited to losses from grant date to road location and restricted by state.
A roundup lists inventors and locations from Red Wing to Seattle with items such as extensible canes, fence posts, hay carriers, window cleaners, grain separators, bobsleds, and amalgamators. Also noted are political unrest, criminal cases, and notable fortunes across Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and beyond.
A deadly Kansas City storm wrecked a school building at Eighth and Main along with the court house and other structures. The death toll reaches twenty four with thirty one injured. Names of the deceased include Josie Mason Bessie Insere Nellie Ellis Julia Ramey Ruth Jamison Edna Evans and many others. Reports detail crushed students and workers at Lathrop school and the Overall Factory as well as fatalities at Smith and Moffatt's and the court house. John Flaherty died after being struck by a falling flagstaff in West Kansas City.
The grand lodge Ancient Order of United Workmen opened its tenth annual session in St. Paul with over 125 delegates. G M W E H Stevens presided. Reports show 26 new lodges, 23 in Dakota and 3 in Minnesota. Financials include beneficiary fund 44,126, general fund 5,520, balance 7,877.55. Membership rose from 2,908 to 3,325. Debates covered new constitution and officer installations. Rochester to host next meeting. The A O U W Guide adopted as official organ with $1,000 support. Detailing officers elected and committees formed. An entertainment fund and cyclone relief noted.
Minnesota gains access to a river and harbor fund while St Paul and Minneapolis report major local events. Notable items include church gifts for Italian missions, a St Paul forgery case, a fatal shooting on a farm, cyclone relief sums, labor tensions easing, and civic developments across Minnesota and nearby states. Addresses various figures, places, and institutions such as Grace church, St. Paul, Mulberry street, Deerfield, Auerbach Finch & Van Slyck, and the Broadway Arcade Railway project.
The Literary News presents a curated list of Hawthorne quotations for a prize question, including lines from Marble Faun Scarlet Letter Twice Told Tales House of the Seven Gables Blithedale Romance American Note Books Journal of a Solitary Man Our Old Home and Grandfather's Chair. The selections emphasize themes of virtue fate art and mortality with multiple authors and works represented.
The article surveys Southern vernacular and pronunciation quirks across states south of the Mason Dixon Line. It notes dropped final letters in words, phrases like half past four, like as if, funny used for strange, rye cheer for right here, and djear for you hear. It also covers do to go, do not, reckon, pretty usage, and the plural you all as y all in social practice.
From M C Masters History of the People of the United States. A vivid account of an 18th century river voyage from Pittsburg to the Ohio frontier. Describes keel boats and flat boats, dangers from trees, rapids, and Indian threats, and life at Marietta Wheeling and beyond.
A visiting Englishman defines a gentleman as one who lives idly and avoids labor, but an American lady retorts that such people are tramps. The tale recalls historic biases where gentility depended on birth and social acceptance, not wealth or deeds, ending with a courtroom verdict that Kelley, deemed a gentleman by Blackstone’s standard, wins the racing cup despite controversy and satire.
Deputy Marshal Phillips recalls the 1878 Peek house confrontation with moonshiners. Amid siege by 50 to 100 men the house was pelted with gunfire through cracks while two defenders were sent for reinforcements. Wounded men and damaged gear marked a tense, drawn out standoff ending as locals pacified the mob.
A New York letter recounts George W. Vanderbilt son of the late William H. Vanderbilt, who held about 30 million in estate shares and pursued journalism briefly. He sought a reporter’s role at the Sun but his father opposed the move, leaving him to pursue other aims. Vanderbilt remains the wealthiest bachelor in America.
The author recalls a ball at a Chinaman's house in Samoa attended mainly by white men and mixed-race guests. A striking half-caste woman, Martha, engages him with a foreign name, offers rum, and soon seeks his shirt studs and straw hat in a bold, transactional gambit amid garden talk and flirtation.
Ben Perley Poore quotes a courtroom appeal urging justice over technical law. Judge Dudley’s charge emphasizes common sense and honesty, rejecting legal jargon in favor of fair verdicts and plain truth.
Boston Herald reports a yearly custom in the western Carpathians where 5000 to 6000 feet above sea level at the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul a marriage market on the Gaina crest gathers all marriageable girls with parents to display dowries. Families bring cattle bees and household goods, each tent showcases the dowry amid girl viewing by suitors and kin. Girdles of gold or silver accompany suitors. betrothal is marked by an embroidered handkerchief and led by a hermit.
Parson Brownlow's son John recalls a May canvass for congress in Tennessee where Pettibone's eloquence and Latin references failed to sway mountaineers. A joke filled exchange about risibles ends with Pettibone defeated in a district that previously leaned Republican. Ben Perley Poor in Boston Budget.
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