Some mischievous person showed their kind of disposition
last Monday night by tying a rope across the canal bridge and nearly causing
injury to two ladies who were driving over the bridge in a carriage. The horse
caught site of the rope in time to stop without incident.
A colored man named Howard who died at Brooklyn on the 25th
left a fortune of nearly half a million dollars.
Thomas Dunn, age 13 years, had one of his legs broken in
three places by being caught in a wheel at an Oshkosh mill.
August 10, 1883
The Kaukauna Post Office has been informed by the
Postmaster General as of October 1, 1883. The postage rate will be reduced from
3 cents to 2 cents and a new two cent stamp with the profile of Washington and
the word "United States Postage" above and "Two Cents"
underneath will be issued.
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While workmen were excavating the foundation for the Statue
of Liberty, they discovered a bottle of whisky which had been placed in a
concrete wall at the Fort in 1814. Unfortunately, a pick fractured the jug, and
the aged liquor was lost.
One of the Ford boys, noted for the killing of Jesse James,
was arrested on the 3d at Kansas City for complicity in a robbery in 1881. Ford
claims that it is a breach of faith by the law.
The new telephone system is causing a problem in Michigan.
A lady was known to place herself between the “machine” and her husband while
he conversed. She was afraid “the thing would go off” and she did not want both
heads of the family to be killed at once. Another lady screamed into the ear of
the instrument. When asked why so loudly she explained the other person was all
the way in Lansing, which was a long distance.
August 17, 1883
The two baseball nines of this city played a match game last
Sunday. The score was 48 to 9.
August 24, 1883
The canal bridge has been newly planked during the past
week. This was a much-needed improvement and will probably save the town from
paying a few thousand dollars damages for accidents as the structure was in bad
shape.
Four horse thieves were overtaken in Mississippi on the 14th
by exasperated Georgians and hung up together.
August 31, 1883
Supt. E. C. Morrison is causing the new cofferdam to be
greatly strengthened by filling with gravel, the space between the two dams recently
built. This will make one solid structure which nothing short of an earthquake
can injure.
On the night of the 25th a gang of masked men
surrounded a train in Park City, Utah. The crew was compelled to take them to a
town twenty miles away. There they opened the jail and took Jackson Murphy a
man charged with murder. Murphy was transported back to Park City where he was
hanged.
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