Time Machine Trip to January 1884

Kaukauna Times – January 1884

By Lyle Hansen

 

January 4, 1884

Yale's record in football for the past year scored 365 points to 2. Harvard being the only college that scored against her. This record is unprecedented in the history of the Intercollegiate Association game. 

 

Chicago-A little 3-year-old child under treatment for scarlet fever, was given a dose of carbolic acid in mistake for medicine on the 25^th and died in a few hours.

A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., on the 28^th gives details of the finding of a box of gold and jewels, valued at $200,000 and supposed to be part of the treasure of the confederate cabinet. The box was lost during the flight from Richmond at the close of the war. The box was found near a tree along a road taken by the officials.

California – Farmers are paying a bounty of five cents for squirrel scalps along with a $1.00 a day and board for the hunters. H. Dawley has a poison that knocks them out the first round before they reach their holes. He says he has enough on hand for $2,000 at this time.

January 11, 1884

Frank James was freed on bail according to Kansas authorities. Frank and his brother Jesse robbed trains throughout the southwest for several years. It is believed he is very sick and may yet cheat the gallows.

 

The frozen river makes a very convenient bridge for the Many workmen who have employment on the southside, making it shorter and saving a walk of nearly a mile. It is regretted that these villages have no permanent bridge across the river.

Jerseyville, Ill. A fire at the jail resulted in the deaths of all four inmates. The fire is believed to have started around 2 in the morning as result of a faulty flue. Neighbors reported hearing screams from the jail but thought nothing about it as prisoners often make disturbances. At 6 am the fire was noticed by a passerby and an attempt was made to free the men. Locks keep the rescuers from freeing the men. The jailer lived a half mile away and was called to open the jail. He opened the jail door, and the men were all found dead due to suffocation.

January 18, 1884

Martin Heindel purchased the property known as the Konrad block, on the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Lawe Street, for $4,500. Mr. Heindel, we learn, intends to open a saloon and billiard hall in the store occupied by J. Konrad.

A young lady in New York had contacted an attorney to suit for breach of promise by a former lover. “He promised to marry me four times, but he has not kept his word.” “How much damage do you wish to claim?” asked the attorney? “Well, I was blighted four times and I think $100 per blight is not too much” The suit has been filed for $400 damages for four blights.

January 25, 1884

The Indians on the Oneida reservation are nearly all affected with the grip.

Ledyard is growing by leaps and bounds.  An artesian well is being drilled at this time along with the electric lighting in the railroad shops and passenger depot. A new carpenter shop is now under construction at the railroad shop, along with a new paint shop, which will employ ten painters.

 

There is liable to be an explosion of war at any time in Europe. The German press is doing all it can to force the Kaiser’s government to commence hostilities against the French republic. France is isolated being that England cannot help her, while Austria, Italy and Spain are her foes. Russia may make a flank attack upon Germany, but the czar is short of money and many of his subjects are discontented.

The people of Ouray, Co. lynched Mike Cuddigan and his wife on the 19th, on suspicion of having murdered a child whom they took from an asylum at Denver.

 

While the funeral service was being performed over the corpse of Lucinda Nelly at Jeffersonville, Ind., on the 14^th, the undertaker discovered signs of life. The ceremony was suspended indefinitely.