Friday, June 2, 2023

Time Machine Trip to June 1883

 

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During the past week the old sidewalk on Wisconsin Avenue from Lawe Street leading toward the canal has been replaced by a new walk about eight feet in width.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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