Hello
Fellow Time Travelers,
Well it’s time to fire up the old “Time Machine Chair” and travel back in time to August of 1887.
For today’s
trip Cindy
McKeever Gerend 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 Kaukauna Baseball team easily defeated New London
29 to 8
- Farmers have given up all hope for
rain.
- The city council must now decide on what to do about
the law suit filed by G.W. Lawe about the land the new bridge is built on.
Charles Raught, Times owner, has left the newspapers on the
chair out front.
Your old newsman - Lyle
PS: “Words
can hurt more than sticks and stones.”
August 5, 1887
Bernard
Grogan, a brakeman, was sent out at Ashland to flag a train. He sat down on the
track and went to sleep. Both legs were cut off and he will die.
New Orleans, La., July 27 - A fatal duel was fought last evening
on the banks of Yazoo River. The men selected double-barreled shot-guns. Only
two paces apart they stood when the word was given to fire. Both men died
instantly.
Atlanta, Ga., - The state education committee voted
in favor of the Glen bill, which makes it a penalty for any teacher to teach a
white child in a colored school or a colored child in a white school.
The
New London baseball team met the Kaukaunans, in this city Sunday afternoon and
was easily defeated by the home nine. The score tallied 29 to 8. Kaukauna’s record
so far this season is 6 wins and 1 loss and has scored 11 or more runs in each
of their games.
August 12, 1887
The
fire alarm was sounded thought our city just after midnight Saturday evening
along with numerous whistles at the factories made the night hideous and many
people believing the entire town was at the mercy of the flames. The alarm
however proved to have been by order of the chief of the fire department for
the purpose of asserting how quickly the department could be at work in case of
fire. The actions of the chief are severely censured by many of our leading
citizens, as well as the common council.
The
farmers of this section have given up all hope of rain. No rain of any
consequence has fallen here for several months.
Young trees are stripped of leaves and many farmers are in a bad
condition. The supply of milk is decreasing, even to a point below the winter
supply. It has been reported that in many sections that even if it should rain
now it would be too late as the grass is scorched to death.
The
city council was called to order by Mayor Reuter for the purpose of discussing
the case of G.W. Lawe vs. City of Kaukauna. The understanding was that Mr. Lawe
should give land to the city for bridge purposes and nobody pretends to say that
he objected to the bridge being built. Nobody thought that he intended on
charging for the thirty feet of river bank.
Mr. Lawe sent a letter to the city attorney at the time the bridge was
being discussed. The city attorney Roemer stated he received the letter and
responded with a letter to Mr. Lawe which Mr. Lawe says he never received.
Rome – The funeral of the late Premier De
Pretis took place last week with twenty thousand persons in attendance.
Religious ceremony was denied by the church owing to the fact that De Pretis
died without having received the last sacraments.
August 19, 1887
Accidents
occurred frequently this week. On Wednesday afternoon a portion of the third
floor of the Badger paper mill gave way, precipitating part of the contents of
the room to the second floor. Thursday evening a switch engine on the Lake
Shore road "jumped" the track at the Fourth Avenue crossing.
An
Alma farmer told a party of acquaintances at La Crosse that he had killed a
partridge with his whip while on his way to the city. Among his listeners was a
game warden that arrested him. He was fined $5.80.
August 26, 1887
The
sound of the hammer and saw is heard in every part of Kaukauna, there being a
large number of new dwellings in the process of construction.
The
White River Utes in Colorado are putting on their war paint, and things are
getting decidedly warm. All sorts of outrages are reported and state troops
have been ordered to the scene and the regular army has been called on to
assist the settlers.
Jake
Pettijohn, who was sentenced to death thirty years ago in Georgia and escaped.
He has just been arrested in Indian Territory, and will be sent back to Georgia
for execution.
Texas Rangers -1887 - The state of Texas now has a law making
it a misdemeanor to carry revolvers, bowie knives and other dangerous weapons.
Weapons under the law must be checked before entering towns. If this law is
enforced, Texas will turn over a new leaf. The lawlessness of the state has in
the past repelled men and women from its borders. The danger of carrying
concealed weapons was injuring its prosperity that has induced the sudden
change.
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