By Lyle Hansen
April 6, 1883
About half past ten on Monday evening a fire was discovered
in a small building at the rear of the Vilas House. The fire was believed to
have been under control through the use of a little hand engine belonging to
Reuter Bros. At about eleven o'clock a telegram was sent to Appleton for a fire
engine, which arrived at 3 o'clock, which was just in time to sprinkle down the
ashes of the Vilas Boarding House, the Sprangers building, Lawler & Hickok
Saloon, and D. W. Krebs & Son dry goods merchants.
Arizona - More than twenty men were killed by the Apaches last
week. It is expected that the Indians are concentrating at a point about forty
miles from Tombstone. They have set fire to the grass and the country there
about is in a blaze.
April 13, 1883
Ledyard & Kaukauna are now connected by telephone, but
the sidewalk which they need much more is still a minus quantity.
The TIMES has been informed that one large brick block will
be built in place of the four buildings destroyed in the fire last week.
April 20, 1883
Forty-one men are at work repairing the break which
occurred in the government canal last October. Mr. De Witt Johnson of Appleton
is overseer of the work.
Virginia - About one hundred masked men attacked the jail at
Wytheville on the 12th. The sheriff was compelled to deliver up a
murderer named Wm. T. Crockett. After hanging the prisoner, the mob riddled his
body with bullets.
April 27, 1883
During the high water a
watchman is required at the headgates of the canal constantly, to keep the
water in the canal from rising and overflowing the banks. There are two
factories using the water at present. The level of the river above the headgates
is about one and a half feet above that of the canal.
At last, we learn that steps have been taken which will soon
bring the completion of a sidewalk across the river between Ledyard and
Kaukauna. Jas. F. Driessen, chairman of the town board, has this week
circulated a subscription paper among the businessmen on both sides of the
river and already there is nearly enough subscribed to build the walk. The walk
will be four feet in width and will extend from the south end of the river
bridge to the Lake shore.
Over 18,000 head of buffalo have been killed east of the
Yellowstone River, in Montana Territory, this season.
Buffalo skulls
Washington D.C. – A man named King has invented a suicide pellet. They are
the size of a capsule, and flavored to suit any taste. When swallowed by the
victim the moisture of the stomach causes them to explode, and the man is blown
to atoms.
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