Saturday, April 1, 2017

Time Machine Trip to April 1888


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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