Hello Fellow Time
Travelers,
Well it’s time to fire up the old “Time Machine Chair” and travel back in time to April of 1888.
For
today’s trip
Don and Carol Frank, 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.
Your old newsman - Lyle
April 6, 1888
Washington, D.C. – Elizabeth Stanton address yesterday stated;
“I have often said to men of the present day that the next generation of women
will not stand arguing with you as patiently as we have in the past”. “Men if
you do not do justice to women, women will strike hands with labor, with
Socialists and Anarchists”.
James Freeman, alias Thomas Worth, alias
"Slippery Jim" one of the worst desperadoes and jail breakers of the
Northwest, was captured at Antigo and brought here by Marshal Mike Mulloy. Mr.
Mulloy deserves the highest praise for work in making the arrest, as the average policeman would not dare to
tackle so hard a case.
An electric light
company is desirous of putting in a plant in Kaukauna.
Mayor Peter Reuter was re-elected in last Tuesday's city
election, to that post, narrowly defeating challenger, Aug. Mill.
April 13, 1888
Considerable difficulty
in reaching town has been experienced this week by farmers throughout the
country. On account of the large amount
of snow which has melted, the various creeks have swollen to such an extent as
to carry away several bridges.
Benjamin Harrison of Indiana is one of the names most frequently
mentioned among Republicans for their standard bearer in the election of
1888.
St. Johns, N.F. – The steamer ships report taking 25,000
seals and the inhabitants of Horse Island and Partridge Point have taken 58,000
seals. This is the greatest catch in years.
Cincinnati. O., - Eleven of the leading shoe manufacturing
firms have issued a circular declaring their shops free and that they will keep
them so, making no discrimination of anyone who is a member of the Knights of
Labor, but will protect their employees against intimidation.
April 20, 1888
Probably during no
spring in many years has sanitary work been as urgent as this season. The
ground is absolutely without any frost and the filth strewed in back yards and
alleys will be absorbed by the soft soil and ready to fill the air with
poisonous vapors as soon as the snow goes, and the rays of old sol get down to
business. The board of health should
take prompt action and insist that a general cleaning up be made by every
citizen on whose place the accumulations of winter still linger.
Springfield, Ill., - Abraham
Lincoln was assassinated twenty-three years ago today. The event in the
capital will be observed with impressive services which has for its object the
observation of the day through the country as the day in his memory for as long
as the country exists.
April 27, 1888
High water continues to
be the topic of conversation in this locality. The Fox River is higher at
present than it has ever been before, and fears have been entertained as to
whether the bank of the government canal can much longer stand the pressure
resulting from such high water.
Dublin – The sentence of Rev. Father McFadden, who was condemned
to three months’ imprisonment for holding anti-landlord and anti-police
meetings. His appeal was not granted and his sentence was increased to six
months in jail.
Baby carriages are
beginning to make their appearances on the sidewalks one again.
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