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Newspaper
Weekly Wisconsin
Location
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1886
Page
4
An old Wisconsin periodical advertises classified space pricing and rules for the Weekly Wisconsin. It notes per line rates, space occupied, and deadlines. It warns readers about ad integrity and offers to investigate swindles, with instructions for address changes and manuscript copies.
Our Readers section promotes expanding THE WEEKLY WISCONSIN to every Northwest household while asking readers to renew and recruit subscribers. The Industrial Facts report cites Wisconsin’s acres improved and woodland, farm data, wages, and factory values from 1885. A Terrible Mistake recounts George Wilson's 1880 murder conviction overturned by Gov. Rusk, noting state injustice and lack of redress after twenty years in prison.
A critique of state error in legal punishment, plus Lowell on English estates for Americans. The piece notes the high cost of missteps and cites Lowell’s findings on British estates, then surveys Congressional views on silver-dollar coinage with a snapshot of House and Senate positions and regional patterns.
Trustees of Tutts College Medford Massachusetts vote twelve to two to keep the college men only. They acknowledge importance of women’s higher education but deem it inexpedient to open the college at the present time.
A long anecdote contrasts social ambition and wealth, noting William K Vanderbilt’s ostentatious living beside his father William H Vanderbilt. It recounts a banquet hall dispute over size, with the elder imposing changes to outdo his son, highlighting wealth, envy, and status in Gilded Age society.
Milwaukees news recounts a 32 year old wife smothering her 8 month old infant during a mental breakdown and subsequent admission to the county asylum. A Schlitz malt house fire on Christmas destroyed over 120000 bushels of malt, causing about 46000 dollars in loss with 59000 dollars insured. A Mrs L A Brapiey died from blood poisoning after puncturing her thumb on a fish fin, with linked injuries to her husband. A Hubbard will case in Orkose Wisconsin partially sustains the will, the estate valued around 200000 dollars. In Lancaster a threshing machine boiler exploded near New Providence, killing two men and severely burning Frank Edwards. the barn and stock were consumed in the blaze.
A private letter from Lonvoy details a mutiny on a British Mercantile Marine steamer carrying 2,500 Black Flag troops from Amoy to Hankow. Disorder, fighting, and killings led to over 50 bodies onboard and lethal deprivation of water and food. mutineers surrendered after a British sortie. Six leaders were beheaded, with hundreds bastinadoed.
Thomas J. McAfee a 38 year old Irishman from St. Paul was convicted of bigamy after leaving his wife in Ireland. He married a French widow in New York, then moved to St. Paul where his first wife pursued the charge. He served as a clerk in prison and was pardoned, reuniting with his second wife. He used the name James Murray in earlier years.
A broad survey lists violence and disasters from Elkhart Indiana to Gainestown Alabama, Gloucester Massachusetts, and Kentucky. It notes cattleman and rail issues, a gas well explosion in Pennsylvania, drownings near Spirit Lake Iowa, fires at Peacock Coal Mine and Greenville Mississippi, political corruption cases, and a French president reelected amid economic details.
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