Time Machine Trip to July 1889

4^th of July Parade down the Lawe Street Bridge

July 5, 1889  

There were a great many surprised acquaintances in Kaukauna Monday when the news was imparted to them that Clerk of the Court F. C, Friedrichs had absconded, taking with him about $4,500 that was in the treasury of that office. No one seemed to believe the statement, as he had always seemed to be a strictly honest and upright man. But gambling has at last done its work for him, and today he is a fugitive of justice.

July 12, 1889

Ninety-eight degrees above Monday.  It is more or less dangerous to wear an inferior grade of spectacles during these hot days—they may melt and do harm! If you cannot get real good ones you had better take the glasses out and simply decorate the nose with the frame.

The usual number from here attended the Kermis held at Little Chute last Thursday and Friday.

A party of a dozen masked men “white caps” visited the house of Albert Belz Sunday night in Appleton and endeavored to punish him for beating and non-support of his family. They had a rope and tried to put it over his head but he fought desperately. During the struggle, he pulled a knife a slashed the nearest man. The men left with the wounded man. It was thought that the men only intended to punish and not hang Belz.

Kimberly Clark company is about to erect a 40-room hotel at Kimberly, furnishing in fine style with all the latest improvements.

John L. Sullivan still holds the championship belt having defeated Jack Kilrain last Monday. It took seventy-five rounds to settle the contest.

John Brill has a 2-years-old colt weighing 1465 pounds. Can you beat that?

July 19, 1889

At the Holland Catholic Church, just as the pastor, Rev. F. Bongors, was taking up a collection prior to the benediction, an ominous sound was heard indicating that some part of the church edifice was breaking. Terror seized those in the gallery as well as those in the audience below. For a moment, the entire congregation was panic stricken, those in the gallery plunged pell-mell downstairs and some downstairs tried to make an exit through the windows. Bishop Katzer and the priests present however reassured the people that there was no immediate danger and the congregation resumed their seats until the benediction was given.

Once again, the waters of the Fox River clasped a victim in fatal embrace. When the 10:10 train on the Lake Shore road arrived here last evening, Mrs. Francis Tenbush of the south side was among the passengers who stepped there from. Little did she realize at the time that her career upon this earth was about to be cut short but such proved to be the case. Upon leaving the depot platform she got turned in the wrong direction. Thinking she was at the end of the train she walked off into the Kaukauna Water Power canal.  Her cries for help soon brought many to the canal but the darkness and rain at the time prevented them from seeing her. Her body was recovered twenty minutes later from the flame of the Badger Paper mill at the end of the canal. The jury summoned consisting of six men rendered a verdict of accidental drowning.  She was 63 years old and had just recently come here to visit. Her husband is in that country.    

July 26, 1889

The Kaukauna paper mill has shut down and for several months the water of the Fox will not pass through the wheels of that institution. A coffer-dam is now being built in front of the flume so as to shut off the water entirely.   The machinery throughout the mill will be overhauled and much of it replaced with the latest improved apparatus.

Manager Babcock is arranging a northern tour for the baseball club. If successful games will be booked at Hurley, Ironwood, Bessemer, Ashland and other towns that support good teams.

The Union Cornet Band will give its second excursion to Green Bay next Sunday on the steamer Hutchinson. The proceeds will go toward the purchase of the new uniforms. The usual price of 50c for the round trip will be charged.

A London dispatch of the 16^th says that the community has been greatly startled by another horrible murder thought to be committed by the butcher of fallen women, known as “Jack the Ripper.”  The body of a woman mutilated in a frightful manner was found to-day in Castle alley in the Whitechapel district. Police have used every means to apprehend the murderer, no trace of him has yet been found.

 

Nelson C. Dewey, Wisconsin’s first Governor has died yesterday morning. He has suffered a stroke in March and his death was expected. He came to the territory of Wisconsin from New York in 1836.   

Kansas City, Mo., on the 22d, 600 to 800 carpenters struck for a nine-hour working day, instead of the ten and eleven-hour day. The strike was not ordered by any labor organization.