July 2, 1886
D.C. Kelley has just finished moving a house for Mr.
Jacobs, from Third Avenue to Third Street up a grade of seventeen feet and
placed it on a good foundation without cracking a wall in the house. This week
he is engaged in moving a barn on the outskirts of town a half mile and placing
it on a stone wall nine and one-half feet high. Dan is the boy that can do a
job in good shape.
July 9, 1886
Happy Birthday to the Kaukauna Sun which is one-year-old
this week. The Sun is a bright and shining luminary of this prosperous and
thriving little city.
Thomas Brown, age 96, living in Adirondacks, N.Y.,
raises his feeble voice to claim that he is the only living person who has
talked to George Washington.
Black Hills,
Dakota – A shooting in a bar left a
man dying on the floor. Moments later a man rushed in with his gun drawn and
orders the crowd back. “That sheriff is prompt,” remarked the stranger to the
barkeeper.” “He isn’t the sheriff, that’s the sheriff over there playing poker.
You don’t expect him to stop to make an arrest till the game is finished do
you”?
July 16,
1886
A band of gypsies passed through our city the latter
part of last week, but not being allowed to pitch their tent here, they
continued their wanderings with Appleton as their objective point.
A young woman in Providence, RI., was struck
speechless while giggling. There is a warning in this to the great army of
“gigglets” among our young girls.
Capt. Balteres arrived in Tombstone on the 13th.
He states Geronimo and his band evaded the army and is now doubling back toward
Arizona. On the 11th the Apaches had killed six Mexicans.
July 23,
1886
John Corcoran has purchased the balance of the Old
Catholic parochial school house, paying the sum of $50. He is now moving it to
a lot he purchased recently and will change it over into a dwelling house.
The prospect of lighting the city with gas appears to
be very good at this time. The city council, at their last meeting, passed an
ordinance granting certain rights and privileges to a gas company.
Bullock
County Ga. - At noon, on the 15th,
Jake Brasswell, a colored man, who had brutally assaulted a little girl, was
caught by a mob and given the choice of being burned or hanging himself. He was
given a rope, and climbing a tree, he fastened the rope to a limb and to his
neck, and then jumped off breaking his neck.
July 30,
1886
On Monday last, Wm. Buschman, a car repairer, was
badly yet not fatally injured while engaged in backing up an ore car. The car
canted over while Buschman was beneath it. Fortunately, he was insured against
accidents and will draw $7.50 per week until he recovers.
A pretty maiden fell overboard and her lover leaned
over the side of the boat as she rose to the surface and said: “Give me you
hand.” “Please ask papa,” she said, as she sank for the second time.
After a long wait and much concern, some of Kaukauna's
streets are finally being macadamized. Geo. Kelso was awarded the contracts for
doing the work on the streets. Work has commenced on improving the condition of
Wisconsin Avenue.
The New Outagamie County Jail
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