Kaukauna Times - June 1883
By Lyle Hansen
June 1, 1883
Next Sunday the depot
in Ledyard will be removed for the new foundation which has just been
completed. A freight depot will be erected near where the building stands now.
A man named Harvey
Cool, 24 years old, employed in the sawmill at East Saginaw, Mich., fell
against the circular saw and was cut in two.
Alexander Alexandrovitch, czar of all Russia, was formally
crowned at Moscow on the 27th. The ceremony took place in the
Cathedral of the Holy Assumption, within the wall of the Kremlin palace. The
ceremonies were most impressive.
June 8, 1883
During the past week
the old sidewalk on Wisconsin Avenue from Lawe Street leading toward the canal
has been replaced by a new walk about eight feet in width.
Franklin, Nebraska – On the night of the 1st a mob
tarred and feathered a resident clergyman. He had been accused by his daughter
of criminal conduct with a female domestic. The man it was alleged had
horsewhipped his daughter for exposing his conduct.
The best scholar of a
class of ten that recently graduated at the Lane theological Seminary, at
Cincinnati, was a colored man.
June 15, 1883
The sunset scene in the
vicinity of our village in the evening this past Sunday was witnessed by
hundreds of our people. The beauty of the sky and land is too lovely for a pen
to describe.
June 22, 1883
During the
thundershower on Saturday last, a large number of quarry workmen crawled under
a flat car for protection from the rain. After the storm was over all but one
left their place of shelter. The one remaining under it was soon learned had
been stunned by lightning but regained his sight and movement after a
considerable time.
The foundation for the
new Kline Bros. flour mill has been completed, as well as the flume for the
same. The latter is a very substantial piece of work and like the balance of
the flumes in this canal (with one exception) is built of stone. The main
building of the mill is being pushed to completion as rapidly as possible.
A Washington girl 12
years of age tried to shoot her father the other evening because he told her in
the presence of her beau that it was time she was in bed. She will probably run
away and join a circus.
June 29, 1883
Remember small boys now
have in their possession firecrackers—which frighten half the life out of the
farmers' horses.
Friday the 21st
was hangman’s day. Four men who had robbed and killed a conductor on a train
died together in Clarksville, Ark. In
Jerusalem, Va. a man was hanged for killing his wife in February.
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