November 4, 1887
Jos. Towns, age 12 years, met with a bad accident about 3 a.m. Monday morning, while
helping a friend oil some cog machinery. The wheels caught his hand and drew it to the
elbow, badly crushing the arm. Dr. Tanner amputated the member a little below the elbow
joint.
Otto Runte’s store windows presented a very attractive appearance nowadays now shows
his goods through a plate glass which calls forth much attention from the passersby.
November 11, 1887
The water was let out of the Meade Edwards Canal yesterday and the mills stood idle for
a short time. The water was let out in order to make improvements on the different mills.
The boys had immense sport catching sturgeon in the canal. During the low water four of
the monsters were captured, the weight of each averaging about forty pounds.
A Minneapolis woman was fined $10 for breaking her umbrella over the head of a street
masher, but the public sent her over $200 to pay her fine.
Next year (1888) will be a peculiar one in this respect, that the last three numerals will be
the same. This only occurs every 111 years the next being 1999.
November 18, 1887
An exchange says: Fortune knocks at every man's door, but it doesn't go hunting through
beer saloons for him if he happens to be out.
Chicago, Ill., - At precisely 11:54 the afternoon of November 11 the drop fell and the four
Anarchists paid the penalty of the massacre at the Haymarket on the night of May 4,
1886. Seven policemen were killed and sixty others were injured by the bombs set by the
six Anarchists. Two of the six men killed themselves in their cells while being held.
The Times reporter was informed that a lady on the south side of town has one of the
children that was left homeless by the killing of the policeman at the Haymarket riot in
Chicago.
November 25, 1887
Two of our largest pulp mills went up in smoke last night. Gone to ashes are the Kelso
Pulp Mill and the Union Pulp Company. The fire started near a stove in the Kelso Mill
and spread to the Union Pulp Company. The flames had gained such headway that in less
than an hour and a half all was lost. The burning of these mills will prove very disastrous
for our city, as a large number of men have been employed in different ways.
Newark, N.J. – There are about 500 Anarchists in this city and police are engaged in
locating them. The city has withdrawn the license to hold Sunday meetings.
We are sorry to hear that Buffalo Bill is having a demoralizing effect upon the English
youth, and that a number of boys, heavily armed with revolvers and knives, have been
arrested as they were about to leave England to fight Indians in Boston. It is time Buffalo
Bill should come home.