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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1887
Page
4
R H Paine guards the fair main gate while H J Spencer oversees sewer work and Brainerd Street railway prep begins. Chas P Davis to perform at the opera house Sept 20 in Alvin Joslin. Pat Murphy returns to duty after a Vendome assault. Pyke's Comic Opera Company to perform Oct 24. Tony Fairbanks dies in Spokane bakery fire.
Hawkins delivery team fled East Brainerd and wrecked a wagon. Miller of Mille Lacs fell from hayrack, four ribs broken. Martin Hawkinson, 24, died of typhoid at the Sanitarium. funeral held. Narrows, Ankeny, and Dodge acquitted of selling liquor to Indians after returning from Winona. City schools half holiday for county fair. shops may close. Wedding announced for Charles Thompson and Miss Sarah Jackson on the 14th at Milton McFadden’s home. John Clark, typhoid victim, died at the Sanitarium. he worked for Howes & Co. no home details known.
Bay Lake cooperative farm news reports Nick Christianson fatal saw mill accident after stumbling into a saw severing his foot and leg. doctors could not save him. He leaves a wife and two children. Also notes the death of Mrs. F Seymour at age 60 and the burial of Josephine Lowe age 16, with nearby obituaries for Carrie Mooers aged 20.
Patrick R Patrick the governor appointed boiler inspector from Brainerd faces removal after Duluth charges that he took a five dollar fee for inspecting boilers and issued certificates to incompetent engineers. He admitted taking the fees but did not refund them, claiming he would do so on his next Duluth trip. The Duluth group pushed to oust him, though Patrick is described as a first class boiler maker.
The Fergus Falls Journal notes Dewey, then enrolling clerk of the senate, started a daily paper at Brainerd with funds from an unknown source. It recalls his earlier life as a Graceville newspaper man and mentions a House file 157 altered to read and others before last winter.
Monday's council meeting reported receipts of 487.75 with 466.66 payroll, net 21.09 to support police. Ordinances 57 stalled by Mayor’s veto. Laurel street grading approved. 300 for street work. 1500 sewer bonds sold at premium 100 with six months interest abated. Adams re allotments and park actions. Adventists ordered from Gregory square within 24 hours. Cemetery and fair funding approved. hose house site remonstrated. sewer committee duties set. jail break details reveal three inmates escaped via rope and sawn bars with outside aid. suspects Connors Francisco Butler Petrock linked to west/east movement.
Brainerd officials announce rapid progress on the dam with 75 to 100 workers, sewer construction from Broadway toward the high school, and early installation of electric lights. Brick work starts, pipes to be laid, and street railway upgrades planned with electric motors replacing horse power, aiming to boost manufacturing and city prominence.
Crow Wing county exhibitors like Sam English and Hitt display vast vegetable collections with a squash weighing 195 pounds and fine potatoes from John DeGregg. J M Martin touts 90 day corn. Local merchants fix up displays while painting and racing programs are planned for tomorrow with 25 cent admission.
Sheriff McLaren captured Connors at the depot as he arrived by train. Butler fled but is pursued. Connors admits paying others to aid escape and that the Kid fled to Glendive. Butler’s capture is imminent as officers close in. Dewey’s former paper, the Fisher Bulletin, is suspended.
Brainerd is to have electric light and the city will be brilliantly illuminated as soon as the plant is ready. The city in the pines has not enjoyed much prosperity recently but is awakening to renewed activity and will soon be classed among Northern Minnesota's five progressive towns.
Proceedings show the Minnesota county board meeting on September 6 1887 with all members present. It lists salaries audits repairs roads school district formation gas fence bid and town Daggett Brook creation plus adjournment to October. Additional local notices report residents and civic events including state fair battles and commercial items.
The Perham Bulletin reports soap fakirs staying at the Grand Pacific hotel last week fled town to avoid a board bill. Deputy Steve Butler traced them to Little Walls where they offered to pay Schroeder's claim with 24 dollars worth of soap, which they redeemed at once.
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