Time Machine Trip to May 1886

Hello Fellow Time Travelers,

Well it’s time to fire up the old “Time Machine Chair” and travel back in time to May of 1886.

For today’s trip Amanda Marks will be sitting in the front seat operating the Time Machine.  The big wheel is spinning, the years are clicking back and in no time we are back on Wisconsin Avenue on Kaukauna’s Northside.

 

• The new German newspaper is ready to start production.
• The muddy streets are beginning to dry up.
• Socialist and police clash at Chicago Haymarket.

Charles Raught, Times owner, has left the newspapers for us on the chair. Watch your step as we cross the street the mud is deep and we don’t want to get the Time Machine messy.

  

Your old newsman - Lyle 

PS: The union negotiator reported back to the workers that they had negotiated a great contact. “You only have to work Thursdays.”

One employee raised his hand. “Do we have to work like every Thursday?”

May 7, 1886

N.A. Stewart, of Fond du Lac, a shiftless and somewhat debauched specimen of humanity, whose room on his earth is more valuable than his carcass, visited Appleton, on Tuesday last, and entered the lake home. He then beat their six-year-old daughter. Talk of a lynching was indulged in before he was taken before the circuit judge and was sentenced to nine years at hard labor.

The eight-hour workday movement in Chicago led to a bloody conflict between the Socialist and police in Haymarket square on the night of the 4^th. The police attempted to breakup a mob being stirred up by the Socialist when someone hurled two dynamite bombs at the officers. One officer was killed and thirty were wounded. The police returned fire killing one and wounding seventy others. By midnight order was restored in the area.     

Arizona, April 28 – The Indian raid in Pima County was the first in that section in years. It is believed that the hostiles are committing these outrages in revenge for the supposed death of those captured on their land and sent to Florida. Gen. Miles arrived last night after hearing of the raids.

May 14, 1886

The fishing season has opened in earnest here. A string of bass or pickerel is no unusual sight to behold.

Erastus Sheppard, convicted in New Orleans of conspiring to defraud the government out of $25,000, testified that he belonged to an organization of counterfeiters which included ex-mayors of New Orleans and Galveston, chiefs of police, judges, lawyers, bankers and others many who are in the highest circles of Texan society.

May 21, 1886

Dan and Lon Mann, who murdered Marshal Campbell and wounded Officer McCormick at Bartow, Fla., on the 15^th, were lynched late that night. A crowd of 200 men surrounded the jail, disarmed the sheriff took the keys and took the prisoners to a tree nearby. While stringing Dan Mann, Lou got loose and ran. He was promptly winged and strung up to the same limb. 

Jacksonville. Ill., Charles Oeler was sent to prison for forty years for infanticide. Oeler was married last fall, and in a month his wife gave birth to a child. To conceal the disgrace Osler strangled the infant and hid the body.

Baseball

The two local clubs, the north side and the south side boys, indulged in a game of ball last Sunday afternoon. The game came to an end at the close of the sixth inning, owing to some disagreement, the score standing 12 to 7 in favor of the south side lads.

The Northside Baseball Team

  

 May 28, 1886

The material for the new German paper arrived here last Monday morning, and the printers are busy "laying" the type and getting ready to issue the first edition. The new paper will be called The Post-Bote. The proprietors, Messrs. Schneider & Emmers.

Many people in California are again petitioning congress to pass a bill forever prohibiting the immigration of Chinese into the United States. Most of the vessels leaving California for China each week carry away from the United States forever large numbers of Celestials.