Milwaukee's German papers would have reported on three ICE murders in July 2026 ...

     Milwaukee's German newspapers would have reported on the murders of immigrants Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero (Maine) and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo (Texas) by US christian nationalist government troops. That would include 3rd victim Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who had already planned to return to his home
     The first 2 victims were misidentified as immigration targets by the murder squads. What immediately followed these murders makes the stories even more horrific, following the pattern of the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and no doubt, countless other deaths attributed to ICE.

It's believed that no US government fascist employees have been inconvenienced or detained following these events.

A 'Deutsches Haus' in Milwaukee? Couldn't be built: the German 'community' was too divided.

Could a "German Haus" have ever be built in Milwaukee? A question dating back to the 1930s. 

For one thing, the Lutherans wouldn't have tolerated it.

     You'd think that Goethe House Wisconsin's 30 years of residency at the Milwaukee Public Library was a logical answer to this question. But that residency never produced a single project or event, not a pamphlet, not a poster, celebrating Milwaukee's huge, diverse, German immigrant working-class community.

     Nothing was EVER done in conjunction with the Milwaukee Public Library, nor with the Milwaukee County Genealogical or Historical Societies, nor with any of the then-fading German cultural groups of Milwaukee. To this day there is no "German Research Group" linked with the MCGS.

     That was the state of any "German" information I found in Milwaukee in the early 2000s.

My 100% German immigrant tree was NOT found in the English language papers prior to WWI, so I made a deep dive into 2 German-American microfilm archives and I found them there.

Engagements announced in the German papers! ... including this rare event ...

 

Clarice Fah Toy is engaged.

Will marry Thon Chung, a colleague of her wealthy father.

A Chinese wedding, a rare event for Milwaukee, will soon take place when Clarice Fah Toy, the pretty young daughter of Charley Toy, will tie the knot with a rich Chinese man, Thon Chung. The groom also has a restaurant in Milwaukee. [Sept. 1907]

Anniversary of the assassination of Rep. Melissa Hortman, 16 Jun 2025.

What would you expect to find in Milwaukee's German newspapers after this horrific act by an avowed evangelical christian pastor ....

Besides the news stories about the horrific political assassination of Melissa Hortman and her husband by a deranged christian nationalist self-styled preacher, Milwaukee's German-American papers might have had multiple obituaries, repeated death notices (some maybe with pending info), followed by the funeral details, fraternal notices, reporting about the funeral & burial event. Then there might be family thanks, and even later, more notices of thanks from the family, and very possibly possibly death anniversary notices in following years.

If this had been the 1860s and 1870s, you might've found an edition with this horrible news about a beloved public figure lined with heavy black borders, running vertically between the entire length of each column, as the newspaper draped itself in mourning.

Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were also shot in their home in a related attack, but survived. 

Joseph Schlitz' final farewell to Milwaukee! A poignant moment in the brewer's story.

Farewell. A heartfelt farewell to my friends and acquaintances whom I did not have the opportunity to see before my trip to Germany. Jos. Schlitz 

In spring 1875, Joseph Schlitz notified the Milwaukee community that he was traveling to Germany; he didn't know it would be his last trip. These public announcements were an occasional practice in Milwaukee's German papers, and I've indexed them in my project.

His Lebewohl (literally, Live Well!) is one of the more poignant items I've found; even more so than the tributes that followed from his, and other Milwaukeeans', tragic loss during their return voyage, 7 May 1875.

[Jos. Schlitz takes another dive! In May 2026, and Pabst Brewery has announced they will no longer be producing a 'Schlitz Beer'.]

The tragedy of washer-woman "Bridget" Daley was reported in the "Milwaukee Seebote", and the "Germania" ...

The name "Bridget" was used as a casual pejorative label for poor, or working, Irish women in the 19th c. Yet four (4) German-American papers carried this brief story to hi-lite the plight of Milwaukee's immigrant working poor.

I was relieved to find a matching church burial record for a Margaret Daley, but there is no civil death record, or coroner's report, or cemetery record, or similar story in the English language papers.

  Sudden Death. - Bridget Daly, a widow living at the corner of Jefferson and Chicago Streets, returned home Friday evening after spending the entire day doing laundry at the American House Hotel. She collapsed in the hallway and was found dead. A stroke caused her death. The deceased leaves behind five children, the youngest of whom is only three years old.  

Burial register of St. John Cathedral (Milwaukee, WI). 

June 1874. Margaret Daley. Died on the 5th of June 1874, Margaretta Daley, about 40 years old. 

The murders of Renee Good, Alex Pretti & Nurul Amin Shah Alam would have been reported in Milwaukee's German Newspapers ...

“That's fine dude, I'm not mad at you.”  Were the final words of Renee Nicole Good, mother of 3, before she was murdered, shot in the face, by a government employee of the USA.

Her murderer spoke a benediction after shooting her in the face: "F...ing b^tch".

The 'rump Administration's ICE freak was not harmed, injured, or inconvenienced, after committing Renee's murder.

“Are you okay?” were Alex's final words to a woman he was protecting who had been pushed down by government agents. He was then tear-gassed, shoved down, and then 10 bullets were pumped into him by the US government agent.

The 'rump Administration's ICE freaks were not harmed, injured, or inconvenienced, after murdering Alex Pretti.

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The intentionally negligent treatment of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Rohingya refugee, leading to his death WOULD have been reported in Milwaukee's German newspapers. It's a story illustrating the takeover of the USA by repulsive christian nationalists, a repeat of the "Know Nothing" movement of the 19th c.

These papers were sensitive to the problems of ALL emigrants & immigrants. I long-ago debunked the WASP mythology of these papers focused solely on celebrating church communities and "obituaries".

Milwaukee's German newspapers were about local, national, and world NEWS. The HORRORS of the emigrant / immigrant experience are also told, but missing from the old Milwaukee Journal & Milwaukee Sentinel.