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Newspaper
Weekly Wisconsin
Location
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1885
Page
1
In a domestic Parisian tale, John plans a night with an old friend while Maggie suspects infidelity. A letter from a supposed confidant outlines modern marriages, inspiring Maggie to stage a dramatic ruse. At eight, the truth emerges as a playful test of fidelity and cunning.
Charles Kingsley of Mansfield, a war veteran jailed twenty years in an insane asylum in Washington, returned home in Mansfield. Wounded twenty three times, he lost use of a leg and an arm, and survived a mouth wound with a plate in his head. A plate pressed on his brain caused insanity, later corrected. He regains reason after the operation. pension potential totals about seventy five dollars monthly plus nearly twenty thousand dollars in back pay. He found his family in destitute condition.
Madison paper notes Pump Carpenter, early settler and editor of the Carthage Patriot, visiting Madison. He spent six weeks in Chicago testifying in a patent case over his 1861 grain-binder, later sold to McCormick. The Appleby patents suit involves about 13 million dollars, with corroboration from local figures. Also reported are a railroad worker fatally crushed at Eden Station and a four-year-old drowning in Mexasna River.
Heavy rain flooded grounds at Madison on the opening day of Wisconsin State Agricultural Society’s 32nd annual fair. Races and speeches were halted, revenues fell short, and officials faced financial strain. By Wednesday the rain eased, crowds returned, and the cattle and machinery displays drew praise though overall funding remained tight.
A gale wrecked the scow Milton off Two Rivers, killing Captain Julius Mathiason, his two brothers, and two sailors. The schooner Advance capsized near Sheboygan with Captain Jons Paulson, Geo Paulson, Martin Pierson, and Harry Holt drowning. Jacob Baum survived. Other items note a Worces ter man fatally shooting his wife and himself, a Swatara death by suicide, a Panama Canal opening segment, a deadly freight-car collision, fires at Hot Springs, a Minneapolis lawyer’s death, and various rail and river reports. The report also covers floods, labor in iron and steel, legal notices, and local incidents including a fatal domestic case near Livermore California and a Dakota murder query with lynching threats. The Mississippi reservoir project updates claim increasing water flow and near completion of multiple reservoirs with four-foot rise projections.
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