Saturday, November 30, 2024

Time Machine Trip to December 1884

 

Kaukauna Times - December 1884

December 5, 1884

Roller skating has become "all the rage" in Kaukauna and Ledyard and almost every evening finds a large crowd of young people at the Twin City Rink.

 

On the evening of the 1st flames were discovered in the dormitories of the State University building at Madison and it soon became apparent that Science Hall was on fire. The building contained the finest scientific equipment of its kind in the West and many years’ worth of scientific studies. The fire department volunteers seemed paralyzed and could do nothing to stay the flames, and the entire building was burned to the ground in front of a crowd of 10,000 persons. 


December 12, 1884

Col. H. A. Frambach made an extensive business trip to many of the larger eastern cities last week. He reports a dull trade everywhere he went, but nevertheless, managed to obtain numerous large orders of paper.

The completion of the Washington monument, after nearly thirty-six years of effort, was announced on the 6th by a salute of twenty-one guns from the District artillery.

 

Great excitement has been caused in the South Newmarket, N.H., by the discovery that a 7-year-old boy has died from the effects of repeated whippings at the hands of William Gilpatrick, a farmer who took the boy from his widowed mother to bring up. Gilpatrick has disappeared.


December 19, 1884

A woman was arrested by officer McGray, on Saturday last, she being found in a drunken condition. She was tried before Justice Mulholland who gave her twenty days in the county jail for vagrancy.

 

Following a fire that destroyed three Kaukauna businesses, a meeting was held at Hamer's Hall for the purpose of discussing the possibilities of organizing a fire fighting company. A paper was circulated and about 40 citizens signed it as volunteers in such a company. A committee was appointed to raise money for the purchase of an engine and other necessary apparatus, and the meeting then adjourned.

 

A Paris dispatch of the 15th says: French General Negrie’s forces have captured 10,000 Chinese soldiers then took 200 of them and set them up for his riflemen to practice on. All were killed.

 

Washington, Dec. 13 – The Prohibitionist seem to have their appetites whetted at the polls last month and fancy they see victory looming up in the future. They are reaching out to congress for an amendment to the constitution to prohibit the manufacture, importation or sale of alcoholic liquors.

 

Chicago, Dec 11. – At a meeting of Socialist last night, a speaker named Griffin declared that workmen must be incited to resistance; that all monopolists were enemies to the country and ought to be hung; and that peace and order could be better sustained if they were abolished. Famine was the result of over production and not poor crops. The only way to stop it was to pay nothing, receive pay for nothing, take everything and without price.

 

December 26, 1884

A large crowd attended the masquerade at the Roller Rink on Saturday evening last. The only people to appear "in costume", were from, Ledyard who came with the expectation that the people on the north side would disguise themselves also. The north side people considered the affair of Ledyard entertainment held in Kaukauna.

 

New York was never so overrun with beggars as it is now, and many make from $2 to $5 per day.

 

A Saloon at Laredo, Texas recently received a turtle measuring 3 ½ by 6 ½ feet and weighing 550 pounds.

 


 

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