Hello Fellow Time
Travelers,
Well it’s time to fire up the old “Time Machine Chair” and travel back in time to March of 1888.
For
today’s trip Dan
Gray, will be sitting in the front seat operating the Time
Machine. The big wheel is spinning and the
years are clicking back in no time, we are back on Wisconsin
Avenue on Kaukauna’s Northside.
Charles Raught, Times owner and
editor, has left the newspapers on the chair out front.
I
have received a special request from my friends in Little Chute to pass along.
The Village is in the final four in the Best City Hall in a national contest. It
is down by a small number of votes difference. Would you help them achieve
their goal? Just click on the link to vote. You don’t have to sign up to vote.
We only have until Friday midnight.
Your old newsman - Lyle
March 2, 1888
The Atlas Iron &
Brass Works have been so pushed to fill orders for the past month that they
have been compelled to put on a night crew to meet the demand.
The Reese pulp mill
will be lighted by electric light from the Union Pulp Co.'s plant. The mill
commenced operations this week.
Fourteen Indian chiefs
from the reservation in Northwestern Wisconsin have started for Washington, to
secure a settlement of funds owed under the treaty of 1847. The sum is about
$120,000.
San Francisco - The steam whaler Orea, has just returned
from a voyage killing thirty-five whales. The 2800 barrels of oil and 48,000
pounds of bones are valued at $66,800.
March 9, 1888
The sleet storm of last
week is the severest that has visited this locality in the recollection of the oldest
pioneer.
The Kaukauna Water
Power Company commenced an action against the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal
Company, on Friday, of last week, to compel it and its tenants to turn the water
from its canal in this city, to the river immediately at the foot of its dam,
just above the head of what is known as Island No. 4.
The surplus in the
United States Treasury is piling up at the rate of $2,000,000 a week.
Elkhart, Ind., Much interest has been elicited by the
appearance of Mrs. Hooker, a well-known resident of this city as appeared
before the pension board for the purpose of obtaining a pension on the grounds
that she was an enlisted soldier of the late war, served three years and twice
wounded. When her husband enlisted, and went to the front she decided to
accompany him. She used the identity of a young man who resembled her.
March l6, 1888
There is a general
complaint from people who drive light sleighs, that men who come to town with
two horse sleighs take all the road, crowding the owner of the cutter out of
the road entirely, which in the present condition of the snow is no fun for the
lighter rig. The law gives every man half the road, and those who regard not the
law, but think and act as if they owned the whole road, may learn and pay
dearly for a lesson. If you can't give
up half the road, at least stop in a place so the other can pass without injury
to his cutter.
A Michigan man recently
stole a 50-cent piece from the eye of the corpse of one Watson Sherman and now
photographs of the thief are being sold for the benefit of his widow. This is
surely a very clever method of retribution.
Fargo, Dakota Territory – Word has reached here to day that a
man and his son were eaten by a pack of wolves last week. They had left their
house with shovels to clear the snow from a haystack. A pack of sixteen wolves
attacked them while his wife and mother gazed through the window unable to
assist them.
March 23, 1888
Dentist J. I. Jones
wishes to announce to his patrons that he has added an Excelsior Gas Apparatus
for the extraction of teeth, to his dental office, and is now prepared to pull
teeth without pain.
South Carolina - A conference of the Episcopal diocese has
agreed upon a plan for the admission of colored clergy to the convention of the
state. The plan provides for a separate missionary for colored churches.
Washington, D.C. – A decision was rendered in the United States
Supreme Court in the celebrated telephone litigation, involving the validity of
the Bell patent. The decision of the court is in favor of the Bell Telephone
Company on all points of the case. The Bell patent was challenged by the
Drawbaugh claim that he invented the speaking telephone. The court stated that
evidence overwhelmingly shows that Drawbaugh was the inventor of the speaking
telephone but he was unaware of the importance of the invention.
March 30, 1888
Somebody was the
perpetrator of a very mean trick on Monday evening. A telephone wire which had fallen to the
ground during the day was fastened across the walk on Wisconsin Avenue, and
could just as well as not resulted in a serious accident to some one, as the
wire was fastened just about high enough to strike a pedestrian in the face. Fortunately,
a Times reporter was the "victim" who walked into the wire, and as
our "cheek" was wire proof no particular harm was done. However, it was
probably just as well that the one who played the joke (?) was absent at the
time, or his earthly career might have been suddenly cut short.
Mr. Jacob Lang of West
Bend has purchased half interest in the general merchandise of John Fechter.
The new store Fechter & Lang will try to make their store one of the best
in the city.
Clinton, Ky., March 1 – A double lynching occurred on Tuesday
night. Price, one of the men hanged, was not dead when the mob left the scene,
but after being cut down by the county judge, he became conscious and talked to
those about him. Word was sent to the leaders of the mob, who returned about
daylight and completed the job by again hanging him. Two men at the same time
hanging upon each of his feet and finally causing his death.
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