Time Machine Trip to August 1886

Hello Fellow Time Travelers,

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

For today’s trip Bill Coffey is 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.

 

• Raining days and warm temperatures make for fine crops
• Forest fires near Hortonville has filled the air with smoke here.
• The test of the first electric street railway has taken place.

Charles Raught, Times owner, has left the newspapers for us on the chair. 

  

Your old newsman - Lyle 

PS: Marriage is a lot like algebra.

Have you ever looked at your X and wondered Y?

August 6, 1886

The whole country in the vicinity of Hortonville is enveloped in smoke caused by forest fires.

On Saturday evening August 21st the corner stone to the new Methodist Episcopal Church will be laid.

The Spanish chamber of deputies on the 28^th moved a resolution that the government free, as soon as possible, the remaining 26,000 slaves in Cuba.

Decatur Ill. on the night of the 2d, Eva Clements, age 16 and Eddie Robinson, age 14, were married. Neither the girl or boy looked over the age of 12. The parents of the children were present and gave their consent.

August 13, 1886

The trial run of the first car on the electric street railway at Appleton, took place last Friday with a load that is estimated at ten tons. The power was found fully adequate to the requirements. It is expected to have the line in operation next week.

Last valentine’s day George McClure of Jeffersonville, Ky., received a comic Valentine that made him angry. He accused pretty 18-year-old Margaret Botts of sending it. She denied it. George didn't believe her and after a while sent a messenger to tell her that his mother wanted to see her. The unsuspecting girl went to the house where George and his brother William were waiting. They locked the door and wouldn't let her go home until she confessed to having sent the Valentine. She screamed and begged and at last said she sent it. Then they let her go. Now Margaret's father is suing the young men from $5000 damages to her wounded feelings.

A story out of New York that ex-Congressman Dorsheimer and Editor Pulitzer are to fight a duel. Dorsheimer weighs 300 pounds and Pulitzer weighs 125. The Irish scheme of chalking out the little man's outlines on the big man's body, shots outside a chalk line are not to count, ought to be adopted for the affair.

August 20, 1886

J. H. Crowns has taken two views of Wisconsin Avenue, one from the top of the Kaukauna Paper Mill, the other from an elevated stand at the crest of the hill, both taken while the improvements were being made.

Huron Station, Ind., on the 17^th. A tramp entered the Railroad station and became offensive. Mr. Davis, the agent, tried to eject him. The tramp stabbed Davis to death. Neighbors soon caught the tramp and he was quickly hung to a tree. He has not been identified.

August 27, 1886

Officer Malloy shoots dogs and has saved the owners fifteen days or two dollars apiece by destroying the yelping night watchers. The city wants less days or more money, and the marshals are interesting themselves in the matter.

Chicago, Ill., Aug. 20 - The courthouse was surrounded by police early this morning to prevent any attempt to break in upon the privacy of the jury. In front of the main entrance to the courthouse there were 30 policemen in three lines. When the jury returned, seven anarchists charged with murder were sentenced to death and an eighth was sentenced to 15 years in the penitentiary.  Over two thousand people had gathered in the street in front of the court house. 

 

One Dollar Note - 1886