By Lyle Hansen
May 4, 1894
Columbus, O., A
bill has been introduced providing that the legal heirs of any person killed by
a lynching party in Ohio, shall recover the sum of $15,000 for injury. Persons
found guilty of the crime shall be sent to the penitentiary for not less than
three years. The money for the payment shall be levied by the state in the
county where the crime occurs.
The Times was made the official paper of the city by the
council Tuesday evening.
A few straw
hats made their appearance on the street this week and fishing is a favorite
pastime of a large number of our citizens now-a-days.
Three saloon keepers were arrested this week for keeping
open after 11 o’clock contrary to the city ordinances. They paid a fine of one
dollar and costs for the first offense.
May 11, 1894
Yesterday afternoon, Mayor Tanner and Street Commissioner
Posson, were seen carrying a crosscut down Crooks Avenue. The mayor had served
notice to the Electric Light Company to move a pole which caused lines to be
strung dangerously close to the sidewalk. Not having complied in the period of
time provided the mayor took care of the problem.
Iron Mountain, Mich. – Five hundred miners carrying a red flag paraded the
streets demanding food. They ordered Mayor Crowell to telegraph the Governor to
send aid for 500 starving families immediately.
The common
council has taken into consideration the matter of placing fire alarm boxes in
several places on both sides of the river.
In all
probability, the question of a system of water works will be taken up by the
council at the next meeting, a Chicago firm having been corresponding this
week relative to a franchise. The citizens will by no means object to
any move along that line.
Gatesville, Tex. May 8 – Sheriff Hammack today arrested an ex-state
representative and a constable for complicity in the lynching of Edward Cash a
few weeks ago. Cash was dragged from his bed and lynched outside his home in
front of his pleading wife. There are now eleven alleged lynches in jail.
Sturgeon Bay officials recently sent to an asylum a real
wild man of the woods. He lived on herbs with little clothing and no fire to
speak of. Enough was gleaned from his chattering to fix the fact that he was a
veteran of the Civil war.
Scottdale, Pa. May 4 – Wives of striking miners made a raid on the
McClure Coke Company this morning. They were reinforced by the strikers and a
pitched battle followed. Shots were exchanged between the strikers and the guards,
firing several volleys. Thirty people were hurt in the encounter, several will
die.
Forest fires
reports from the north woods are early this year. Dead wood dries rapidly and
serves as kindling wherever there is carelessness in burning brush or whether
there are sparks from locomotives or sawmills.
San Antonio, Texas, May 8. – Another appeal to the world for assistance has been
received here from the suffering people of Zapata County who are starving. The
people have become so desperate that a band of 20 made a raid upon a general
store for food supplies. The drought in that County has lasted for four years.
May 18, 1894
Hundreds upon hundreds of swallows nightly occupy the large
chimney of the Holy Cross school. It is quite a sight to watch them drop down
the flue just at dusk in the evening. At seven o'clock the air in that vicinity
is literally filled with birds and then they commence to string down to their
nightly abode. It is a mystery how so many of them fit in there.
About a year ago W. C. Kneibush, a brakeman on the Chicago
& Northwestern road, had a coupling break while coupling cars and a piece
destroyed one of his eyes. He brought action against the company to recover
damages. A verdict of $2,500 was awarded to him.
A resident who
never used slang admitted that in learning to ride a bicycle he had to be
humble to it.
T. H. Relly, of
Appleton, has the contract for putting in the foundation for the new addition
to the Little Chute Catholic Church and has made much progress on the job. The
church stands in the midst of an old burial ground and when the excavations
were made for the foundations a number of old graves were encountered,
containing skeletons and traces of burial cases. They were carefully
transferred to consecrated ground. – Post.
Two tramps held up a young Hollander at DePere, telling him
to put up his hands. He complied with the request tightly grasping his
pocketbook in one hand thus managing to save it while the highwaymen went
through his pockets without success.
May 25, 1894
Last summer City Clerk Hamer and Peter Feller spent several
hundred dollars driving in piles of filling in the rear part of their Wisconsin
Avenue properties but the heavy rains of late have completely demoralized the
retaining wall. Since its building, the wall has been known as "Fort
Hamer" but it has now surrendered to the weather after two weeks of
lightning and rain.
Antigo is now lighted with arc lights. When can we see the
same for Kaukauna?
The contract for building the new Holy Cross Church and
parsonage was let last Monday morning, Jos. Schwenderman securing the job at
$2836. The building will be a two-story structure with heavy stone foundation
of good basement and brick veneer. The old parsonage will be removed from the
lot owned by Fr. Rohde and fitted up for rent.
Raleigh, N. C. May 22 – The Confederate soldiers’ monument in this city was
dedicated today accompanied by a celebration never before witnessed in the
South. It is estimated that over 20,000 visitors from outside points witnessed
the dedication.
The largest loan
ever made to a single individual at one time by the Building and Loan
association was made Monday. One thousand dollars was the amount.
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