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From The Past - 1872
OCONTO COUNTY REPORTER
Feb. 3, 1872**
ACCIDENT. - Our friend, James McDonald, was recently quite severely
injured, and narrowly escaped the loss of life, by the busting of a gun
in his hands, while hunting, receiving a number of wounds about his
face and head, that will necessitate his remaining in doors for a
number of weeks. We regret the happening of this accident to him, as
severs him from the out of door life he enjoys so well in the midst of
winter's finest weather. We hope for his speedy recovery.
** Sometime during
the present week, a young man, named Vick Soler, while engaged in
unloading logs from a sleigh up on the Peshtigo River, with a hand
spike, had his shoulder broken by the logs rolling upon the hand spike
before he could free himself from his position. He was attended by Dr.
Adams, of this city, who dressed and cared for his injuries.
** The past few
weeks seem to have been more than ordinarily characterized by the
happening of accidents to the men engaged at work in the woods, and the
utmost caution needs to be exercised to avoid the danger of life and
limbs in the vicinity of constantly falling trees. We hope the injuries
of Mr. Soler may not prove of a dangerous character.
** Little Suamico
A sad accident occurred at Little Suamico last week Mr. J. Lucas'
logging camp, a short distance from Peter's Mill. A young man from
Watertown, by the name of Jerry Smith, was struck on the head by a
falling tree instantly killed. His friends were telegraphed for and his
sad crushed remains were taken to his former home for internment.
OCONTO COUNTY REPORTER
Feb. 10, 1872
** BEATEN. - We
are informed by J. Winslow, that Mr. McCarthy, foreman in the Co.'s.
Camp on the Peshtigo, banked 23 logs at a load, with one horse, scaling
a little over 5,000 feet. How's that Chancey?
** ALL AROUND
TOWN. Fast driving will soon be prohibited in the city; our city
fathers have passed an ordinance prohibiting driving faster than six
miles an hour. Alderman Porter will have to hold up his fast colt while
passing through the streets.
** Logs still continue to go by our office in large quanities every day.
OCONTO COUNTY REPORTER
March 2,1872
** Old setters say this has been the best winter for lumbering purposes of any within their recollection.
** All our
business men are anticipating a lively time and good trade generally,
when the boys emerge from the pineries, which will be in a few days.
OCONTO COUNTY REPORTER
June 22, 1872
** The good work
of creating fine residences and business houses still goes on in our
young city, we are happy to say. Among the former are residences of
G.T. Poter and Warren Kelligan. Both are to be fine residences and very
pleasantly located. Among the business houses is the fine new block of
Don Levy's, just finished, and which now yields him a revenue
sufficient to pay for it's creation in three years.
OCONTO COUNTY REPORTER
August 8, 1872
** Next to the
expulsion of the Jesuits, the subject most discussed in Germany just
now is the necessity of reducing the flow of emigration to the United
States. The vast increase of emigration, this year, seems to have
awakened the Government to the realization of its loss, and the one is
given to the semi-official and conservative press to raise the cry of
alarm. The Cross Gazette fills it's columns with doleful accounts from
various districts, where villages have been completely reduced by the
"American fever", and asks "why does not the state levy am emigration
tax! Let there be a tax of 50 thalers per head for every adult," In
similar strains a large number of journals are daily uttering their
grief over the prevailing emigration fever, and Bismarck's organ joins
in the complaint, though it lays the fault on emigration agents, who,
it says allure the credulous victim by fraud and deception, and bring
woo and ruin on families and entire communities. It particularly points
the window of scorn at a certain agent William L. Rowland, who a man of
attractive exterior and engaging matters, came from the United States
with a sort of power of attorney to engage emigrates for the unsettled
districts. "Look out for him," says the Nord Deutscho Zeitung; "he is
not a licensed agent of Germany, and should be denounced by all well
disposed parties whom he approaches with his deceptive offers." The
Vossische Zeitung reports that orders have been given to arrest all
individuals who persuade people to emigrate. All persons not supplied
with papers saying they are fully entitled to emigrate; that they have
left no indignant family behind, and that they are not liable to
military duty; shall be stopped at their expense at the shipping port.
It further cites a law, visiting an evasion of the military duty with a
penalty of 50 to 1,000 thalers, and imprisonment from one month to one
year.
OCONTO COUNTY REPORTER
August 24, 1872
** By many of our
citizens (when the iron horse reached Oconto) it was supposed that the
city proper would gradually work it's way up toward the depot, and some
of our citizens actually paid exhorbiant prices for lots adjacent to
said depot; but now that the Rail Road excitement has died away the old
routine of business is once more resumed, and all the good substantial
business houses are built as in other cities- some distance from the
depot. We might say that at the time think that the old order of things
and passed away, and the new era had begun. But we would like to ask
those speculators what profit they would take on their investment.
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