Time Machine Trip to March 1893

 

Kaukauna Times – March 1893

By Lyle Hansen

March 3, 1893

About 40 different companies have made inquiries for a copy of the Kaukauna water works franchise. It is evident there will be lively bidding on the 15th, the date set for receiving bids.

SWIFT MEXICAN JUSTICE – Phoenix, Ariz., Feb. 24 – Edward Sopez, one of the most noted desperadoes on the border, has been confined in jail awaiting extradition papers to take him to Mexico, where he was wanted for murdering a prominent citizen. Six officers arrived to take charge of the prisoner yesterday and he was turned over to them. Within a few hundred yards across the border, he was tied to a post and riddled with bullets.

 

While Frank Reichel was driving down Beaulieu hill last Monday morning the sleigh overturned, and he fell onto a pitchfork that lay in the sleigh piercing him in the leg. Dr. Tanner dressed the wound.

The worst snowstorm of the winter raged in the northern part of the state and Michigan Monday night. All railroads were blockaded.

High Cliff Park on the East shore of Lake Winnebago is for rent. The house has been thoroughly renovated, painted, papered and fitted up. The park is fenced and a new outside floor with refreshment stand built for the season. This is one of the finest places for a business in the state and the right man to make a fortune in five years.

Diphtheria Epidemic Feared - Iron Mountain, Mich., Feb. 24 – The public schools were closed here yesterday on account of the prevalence of diphtheria. About 50 cases were reported to the Board of Health. The authorities are making vigorous efforts to improve the sanitation conditions of the city and compelling house owners to connect with the sewer and water systems.

March 10, 1893

Out of a total enrollment of forty-eight pupils in Principal Nye's room of the north side public school, only fifteen were in attendance last Thursday, most of the others being at home sick.

The exhibition of educational work for the world’s fair which has been for some time a course in preparation by the high school pupils was completed last week and on Friday shipped to Chicago to find a place in the liberal arts building at the world’s fair. The Kaukauna School was one of 15 in Wisconsin that received an invitation to prepare an exhibition.    

Mayor Lindauer says there is at least one thing about his administration to which he can point with pride. Taxes are lower this year than they have ever been since the city was incorporated.

Snow fell in this region of the country on 17 November 1892 and up to date March 10 of 1893. 114 days, there has been continual good sledding.

OUTLAW’S BODY PETRIFIED – Kansas City, Mo., - Mar. 6 – Several months ago in New Mexico a body was discovered in a cave by miners. On examining it they found that it was a human corpse and petrified. About 15 years ago, when officers were hot on the James and Younger boys, Bruce Younger left his home in Missouri and took refuge in the mountains of southern New Mexico. A Negro, whom the Younger family had raised, went with him and regular carried food and ammunition to the fugitive in the cave. It was in this cave that the body was found. The body was identified by family members as Bruce Younger and it will be taken to Boston to the museum.

Jackson, Miss., Mar. 7 – News has reached here of a sensational killing and trial in Sampson County. A Negro who was suspected and against whom there was strong circumstantial evidence of having entered the apartment of a Miss Tulias with the purpose of assault was hunted down and shot to death by her three brothers. Justice of the Peace Slaughter tried the young men; giving them the benefit of a jury and of course, acquitted them very properly, as it is the custom here in such cases. 

Washington, D. C., Mar. 4 –Grover Cleveland, of New York was today inducted into the office for President of the United States for his second term with all appropriate ceremonies and in the presence of a mighty magnitude with the accomplishment of a blinding snowstorm.

March 17, 1893

The boy who has the freedom of the street after nightfall without business is cultivating a dangerous habit. A boy who is right will prefer his home, friends, books and newspapers to the low class found upon the street. Don't be looked on as a "dead beat."

Forty-Three Skeletons – Albuquerque, N. M., Mar. 13 - While prospecting in what is known as “Devils Gulch” miners were astonished at a discovery they made in the way of the skeletons of a company of soldiers that had been missing from Fort Mary since an Apache raid on September 9, 1879. It was supposed they had been massacred by the Indians as not one of the 43 ever return but it seems they all must have died from the poisonous spring waters where their skeletons laid bleaching for the last 13 years. The skeletons of 45 horses constitute the extent of the ghastly discovery. 

Naronic is Lost – London, March 20 – After long continued anxiety regarding the fate of the white star line steamer Naronic, which sailed from Liverpool on February 10 for you New York in which had not since been heard of. A British steamer reported that on March 4 she passed a lifeboat bearing the name “Naronic”. The boat was empty, and the passengers may have been picked up by another ship.

Bidding on the waterworks franchise was not very lively Wednesday evening. Several bids however were presented and are now in the hands of the special committee for consideration.

“Why did you arrest this man?” asked the Judge sternly. “For practice” returned the policeman. “I’m new on the force and I wanted to learn how your honor”.

An Aeronaut Killed – Victor Valazie, a well-known aeronaut, who has given exhibitions all over, met with a frightful death at Saigon on January 8. He went up 2000 feet in a balloon and then prepared to make a descent by parachute. The latter did not work well resulting in him falling with a sickening velocity to the earth. The body striking the roof of a house with such force that passed through the roof to the floor below.

St. Joseph, Mo., March 9 – Yesterday Judge David Lee died of a short illness. Two physicians examine the body and pronounced life extinct. Three hours later undertaker Byers had stripped the body and was dressing it for burial, when the supposed dead man opened his eyes. Recognizing the undertaker, he explained: “Byers what in Gods name are you doing?” The old gentleman is yet alive and will probably get well.

March 24, 1893

The common council has recently ordered street sign boards put up, now what is needed is a law providing for punishment for anyone tampering with them.

Knoxville, Tennessee March 20 – Jesse Jones, who shot and killed Sheriff John Burnett, was taken from the jail at Jacksboro and swung from a tree. There were not over a dozen men in the mob and the lynching was done as quietly that the citizens knew nothing of it until this morning. 

THE TIMES new Pony job press is now in running order and turns out at a rate of 2500 per hour with ease. We feel proud of our new outfit. Come in and see us.

There seems to be considerable talk up the river of an electric railway from Neenah to Kaukauna. While the subject is being aired thoroughly by newspaper correspondents at the upper end of the line very little has been heard of the scheme down here. Kaukaunaites want to know about it.

March 31, 1893

The latest hat is bat shaped. It is of course, a women's hat and is expected to accommodate the whole brick.

Part of the Wisconsin exhibit at the World's fair will be three miniature locks and two dams made after those on the Fox River.

General Beauregard’s death is an event in the history of this country. The Union Army had but one full general and he, Grant, was such only about the time when the war closed. The title was continued for Sherman and Sheridan and became extinct with their deaths. The Confederate Army had a number of full general's, including Lee, Joseph E Johnston, Stonewall Jackson, Beauregard, and others. Of the great Southern military leaders Gen. Beauregard was the most skillful military engineer on the American continent and was but little if any inferior to the great European masters of the engineering science.  

A meeting of the Kaukauna Bicycle Club will be held at the Club House next Saturday evening for the purpose of reorganizing for the season of ’93.

The Nebraska Legislature has been investigating the state prisons and finds that shocking cruelties perpetrated. One case is cited in which a convict was killed by hard treatment. 

Dispatches from two points and the eastern part of the Indian Territory indicate that an Indian uprising imminent among the Kiowas, Otoes and Missouris. They have been dancing for a week and a performing old time superstitious cruelty.

Decided in Favor of Edison – Trenton, N.J. March 28 – Judge Green of the federal court has filed a very important opinion in the case of the Edison electric light company against Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co., in which he upholds the Edison patents. The court virtually decrees that millions of dollars are involved in these rights throughout the United States and will accrue to the Edison companies. The patent in question is that covering the consumption and feeding wire method of distribution. Edison obtains it 10 years ago.