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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1888
Page
3
A Cleveland Leader commentary notes despair among Democratic leaders seeking electoral votes from the Republican Northwest to secure a Free Trader and pension vetoer in the White House. The piece conveys bleak sympathy for their position and the political maneuvering.
The group argues for prohibition while many back the Republican Party and seek to remove the current Democratic control. Lincoln is cited on tackling conflicts one at a time, with mixed views on local option and little appetite for a third temperance party now.
The Newark Journal, a leading Democratic paper, warns that continued apathy, lack of harmony, and disunity threaten the party’s fate in New Jersey unless radical reforms are adopted.
Beating the Vanishing Lady, Mr Cleveland’s re Election chances appear set by Mr Atkinson’s charts. Before his free trade message the outlook stood in balance, and the modeled trend suggests a shift toward stronger support or continued vulnerability depending on subsequent policy signaling.
The New York Press weighs Harrison's renomination and Cleveland's re election chances. The commentary notes publication dates for retaliation messages and acceptance letters, reflecting the sharp press scrutiny of the campaign era.
The Hartford Courant rebuts claims about Grover Cleveland and free trade, accusing Democratic allies and the Free Bureau of Intellect of distorting history. The piece notes a Spectator original and asserts its own copy remains. It also highlights a strong Republican victory in Maine with a lead exceeding five thousand.
A Bowery parrot proclaims tariff as a tax while a carpenter argues free trade prices disprove tax claims. He cites jackplanes selling for 15 dollars a dozen in England and 10.20 in the United States, plus sewing prices of 6 and 5 dollars per dozen, challenging the tax assertion and prompting the parrot to repeat the claim.
The piece notes a dramatic clash after a veteran faced slurs from a copperhead, praising the G A R leadership and a veteran who struck back. Commander Ons i gney of the local G A R unit congratulates and considers a staff role for the veteran, urging solidarity among Union veterans against abuse of memory.
The senate measure is less comprehensive than Mills on the customs list yet aims to reduce revenue by about 334 million more than the House bill. It largely leaves wool amber and salt on free lists and lowers or removes duties, with $50.4 million from tariffs and internal taxes. The St. Louis Globe Democrat notes it as a carefully drawn revenue revision unlikely to pass in current Congress.
The Philadelphia Press notes gains for Republicans in Oregon Vermont Maine and Arkansas with large votes and broadened legislatures while Democrats lose ground in Alabama and Arkansas. It cites Breckinridge in an anti Democratic district and asserts overall party shifts amid contested ballots.
An Irish World writer warns that Cleveland’s re election would yield a victorious Solid South and embolden Confederate and English interests. The piece links a Mills tariff bill, labor fears, and English colonies to a return to slavery de facto and criticizes Cleveland’s civil service reform as fraudulent.
In the Fiftieth Congress multiple sessions recount adjournment efforts. Senate debates tariff bills while House actions center on pension vetoes and adjournment resolutions. Key figures include Senator Harris of Tennessee, Gen. Clark, Mr. Blair, Mrs. Sarah Woodbridge, and Mr. Oates. The calendar notes remaining appropriations, pension cases, and a push toward sine die adjournment later in October.
Ole Anderson of Leroy suffers a fractured jaw after mule incident. Beaver Falls district court session looms with Judge Weber. Luverne Dem ocrat sale closes. new owners take posession. Typhoid feeds alarm Duluth with 200 plus cases. Rochester gas works near completion in 4 to 5 weeks. C F Kindred to move to Philadelphia for Reading Railroad role. Walter Perry wins wager horse against a pony in St Cloud. State prison inmate count dips below 409, 398 now. Andrew Bowman injured by falling earth on Duluth road project. A C Davis faced U S mail offenses, hearing in St Paul. Late harvest limits threshing. wheat around 1.05 to 1.06. Diptheria fears grow in Brainerd. child death. ward schools to close. Hotel St Louis fire contained. under $1,000 damage. Potatoes yield 29 mud turtle eggs at Stillwater. Henry Keller held for grand larceny. bail set at $500, collapse noted. Barn fire at Marshall. thefts at St Cloud. local gang suspected. Coroner rules Mrs Maggie Dunn’s death self-inflicted. autopsy corroborates verdict.
The Baldwin Works builds soda powered locomotives to replace fire under the boiler. Copper boilers hold five tons of dampened soda to generate heat, exhaust steam reactivates the fuel, and the engines, with no smoke, will pull four light cars on Minneapolis streets where steam engines are banned.
Dr Schliemann continues excavations at Mycenae revealing pre Homeric tombs carved in rock not earth buried or cremated. Finds include glass crystal ivory and engraved stones. Artifacts suggest a thousand year leap before Christ and indicate Greek art borrowed from the East for symbols and materials.
A boiler explosion aboard the Ville de Calais caused severe alarm in Calais Maine with deafening blast and shattered windows. Many people were injured and several are reported to be in critical condition.
Sing Sing Warden Brush told the New York Times that the large number of idle convicts will lead to very unpleasant outcomes. He said the men are discontented, depressed, and writing for work, fearing close cells and hot weather. Some have already shown mental strain and been hospitalized.
The worst disaster in Quincy history followed a grand stand built for 5000 spectators collapsing during Paine & Sons fireworks. An estimated 500 plus injured crowd the ruins as 800 feet of seats slid down. Adolph Reich, who killed his wife, was sentenced to death with mercy recommended. Fire at Walkerville Montana’s Alice sixty stamp mill started by a candle amid shavings, damage around ten dollars.
A traveling agent deserts an inn to visit his betrothed Alice. On a stormy road he confronts legends of the haunted rock and a fiendish figure. He seeks shelter in an abandoned hut where a masked man corners him with a rope, threatening death.
A man recounts a terrifying night of torture by a deranged captor, a fire set to the hovel, and a dramatic rescue. He regains life in his sweetheart’s room, learns the madman escaped, and he and Alice marry, cherishing their survival. The narrative appears in Columbus Sunday Morning News.
A column from the Boston Herald warns against baggy trousers and prescribes a nightly folding technique to prevent the knees from bagging. It advises folding from front to rear, aligning creases, and laying trousers flat, with frequent changes and a board for smooth storage.
Sioux Falls presses a humorous travel tale about a traveling man who offered his watch as security for a $4.55 train fare. A Sioux City jeweler valued the watch at $1.75, prompting speculation that the Milwaukee collectors may be out or the drill is ahead. The piece notes several watches in the hands of such travelers.
Besant recalls how swagger appeared fifty years ago among officers garrisoned towns Eton pupils undergraduates and gentlemen in clubs and streets The fashion included cuff and collar stock and breastpin and a loud display of gallantry contrasted with modern restrained dignity wealth wit and quiet manners become more valued in the narrator’s view
A fashion column argues that a girl with limited means can dress well by making her own clothes and careful budgeting. It cites a schoolteacher who spends about fifty dollars yearly, tailoring pieces herself, studying style, and choosing economical fabrics to outshine peers who spend far more.
A promotional vignette extols the American ideal of power from brawn and brain over noble titles. It likens the body to a complex machine needing regulation, warns of modern life’s irregularities, and advocates Warner's Log Cabin sarsaparilla as a blood purifier to sustain health and vigor.
An article extols Warner's Log Cabin remedies developed from old time herbal knowledge. It claims formulas for sarsaparilla cough and consumption balm and other products like hair tonic and plaster. The piece urges readers to ask their druggists for these preparations and trusts public approval.
Sheriff Hugh J. Grant of New York says he is ready to withdraw as the Tammany Hall mayoral candidate if Mayor Hewitt, the county Democracy nominee, will also withdraw in favor of a union candidate. He cites anxiety for the national ticket and a desire not to jeopardize that effort through local conflict.
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