This Trip is sponsored by:
.jpg)
Look Back in Time
Antiques and Collectables
112 E. 2nd St.
Kaukauna, Wi 54130
920-759-1985
October 2, 1885
The new bridge and roadway leading from the Island to the
South side canal is fast nearing completion under the supervision of Street
Commissioner Posson. The old bridge will not hold out much longer and the new
one cannot be finished too quickly.
The 5th ward sidewalks are now being built as ordered by a recent council resolution. Improvements of this kind the Islanders can fully appreciate after years of hard trials tramping through mud and mire whenever they wished to go in any direction.
There is small wonder that Texans adopt lynch law in the
name of justice. Cattle thieves Jim and Pink Lee are charged with forty-five
murders in the past two years. They have at last been shot down by men as
desperate as themselves and who by the act have earned $7,000 reward.
A party consisting of three men, a woman and a boy were
ambushed by a band of Apaches in Sonora on the 17th. Two of the men
being killed, the boy wounded, and the woman carried into captivity. A later
battle between soldiers and the Apaches resulted in the killing of seven and
the capture of thirty-five women and children.
The new ten-hour law of Michigan, allowing men to collect
extra pay for work over ten hours per day went into effect on the 21st.
The owners of the mill of Menominee wanted the laborers to sign an agreement
not to collect the extra and work eleven hours. The men refused, twelve hundred
men are now out of work, and the mills were not started. The Marinette mill men
are in sympathy and will stop work unless the Menominee men go back to work.
Winnipeg – Wandering Spirit was sentenced to hang for murder and a
dozen other Indians were sentenced from four to fourteen years for arson and
horse stealing. Dressyman and Charieois were convicted of murdering a squaw and
were sentenced to hang. Bright-Eyes was
given twenty-two years for manslaughter. Wandering Spirit and Mongrand are to
hang for murder on November 27th. Yesterday Big Bear and three
others were sentenced to three years in the Penitentiary. Left Hand, Poor Crow
and two other Sioux Indians got two years.
October 9, 1885
Landlord Nettekoven has placed a fine streetlamp on the
corner near the Vilas House, which makes a great improvement in that locality
on dark nights. This lamp is one which has been recently invented and needs filing
but once a week. When lighted it will burn for a period of ten hours when it
goes out automatically. This lap was purchased at the small cost of ten
dollars.
The sewer on Wisconsin Avenue has been completed this week
and is one of the most substantial improvements made in this city.
Peterburg, Va., - Senator Mahone’s son Butler was fined $50 and put under
bonds of $200 to keep the peace. He attempted to shoot a police officer, who
had arrested him for using profane and indecent language on the street.
October 16, 1885
In the blacksmith shop, at the railroad car works, there
has recently been placed a new furnace for the purpose of utilizing the scrap
iron. At these shops there is constantly accumulating vast quantities of old
iron which the company had formerly sold for a "mere song." With the
assistance of this new furnace the iron is now used for the manufacture of car
axles.
Cincinnati, O. - The rapid growth of 3-cent saloons has rather stricken
terror in the heart of the average saloon-man. Some of the 3-cent saloons also
throw in lunch. Beer prices have gone from $8 per barrel to $6.
Deming, N.M. – Reports are coming in from parts of Arizona, of men
tempted by the reward of $250 for Indian scalps, having started out on the hunt
for redskins with a view on obtaining their scalps. The $250 is merely
incidental to the hunt to pay for the whisky and tobacco used in camp. It is
believed that several New Mexico cities will adopt this plan of exterminating
the savages.
October 23, 1885
While returning from the baseball game on Sunday last,
several of the boys entered John Brill's barn and, on their
departure, left the doors open. Cattle and hogs made a raid on the premises the
same night and destroyed a large amount of grain and other produce. Mr. Brill
wishes these boys to take warning that if they are caught trespassing on his
premises in the future they will quite likely find lodging in the county jail.
October 30, 1885
The commander of the French troops in Annam, telegraphed
from Hanoi on the 26th that he had defeated the Black Flag 6,000
army and three chiefs were killed. The three-day fight resulted in only
thirteen men killed or wounded. Great enthusiasm prevails in France.
Frank Neseltrel of Racine started for town with a load of
oats with his wife and small child. He was about halfway there when the child
suddenly died. The mother carried it home while he continued the journey, sold
the oats and purchased a coffin.
A well-known farmer living in the town of Kaukauna, is
sometimes troubled by absent-mindedness, but seldom has it as badly as he did
last Sunday. On that day, after taking care of his stock, as is
his custom he loaded up his wagon with pumpkins, squash, and other vegetables
and hitching up his team started for town to sell his produce. As the streets
of Kaukauna looked rather quiet, he concluded to continue to Appleton, when in
the vicinity of Little Chute, he was informed it was the Sabbath and not market
day. This was a damper on the farmer, and he returned home.
No comments:
Post a Comment