Time Machine Trip to November 1899

By Lyle Hansen

November 3, 1899

The strike which inaugurated by all the third hands at the Union Bag & Paper company's mill in this city quitting work last week was soon settled by Manager Ormsbee who hired an entire new set to take their places. The boys who quit work all wanted higher wages, an advance of 25 cents per day was asked.

Officer Mankosky in making his rounds Friday night found a man quite a distance down Lawe Street whom he thought was acting suspiciously. He arrested him and held him until morning at the police station and by this time concluded that this man was a little daft. An inquiry was sent to the northern hospital by telephone soon explained the fact that a lunatic had escaped. The warden from that institution came down Saturday and had no trouble in identifying the man and returned him to his quarters, having been absent less than 48 hours.

November 10, 1899

Walter Kilgas, aged 18, met with death in a horrible form at Combined Locks Paper Mill about 4 o'clock Sunday morning. Young Kilgas was engaged in the sulphite department thinning stock at one of the tanks near the digesters, when, without warning, the valve gave way on one of the digesters and its contents of boiling hot acid and pulp burst out into the room. The funeral was the largest ever held in the city, the teams following the remains to the church having reached from Park School to Second street south side.

Jackson, Miss., - Hunter Johnson, of Jackson, Miss., while hunting in a swamp, discovered a box containing nearly $50,000. The money was inside an iron case and is in gold pieces, nearly all $20 denominations. It is thought the money is a civil war treasure. 

November 17, 1899

The new Hollandtown church is well under way, the roof and cornice having been completed this week, and nearly all the outside work will be finished within a week so that with the approach of cold weather it will all be enclosed, and work proceed under cover. It will be finished complete in January.

The Kaukauna common council has declared the Kaukauna Electric Light Company's contract annulled, due to the company's failure to comply with certain requirements.  All of the poles and wires on the streets must be removed the council ordered.

November 24, 1899

Skunks are the nearest to being tame and domestic of any animals that live in the woods; but they sometimes cause a heap of trouble. A young lady in Kimberly heard a noise in the hen house one night. She got up and proceeded to kill the "white cat" with a poker; she did it, but it will be several weeks before she will receive company.

A fine town clock has been set in the tower of the Holy Cross Church this week.

Garrett A. Hobart, Vice-President of the United States, died at his home in Patterson, N. J., Tuesday morning. He had been severely ill for the past two weeks.

N. Simon of Neenah, who started last August to buy up all the cheese hereabouts and hold it, just closed out his holdings of 59,000 pounds, clearing over $23,000 in the deal.

Frank Verstegen's store in Little Chute was entered by burglars early Wednesday morning and many items were stolen. Marshal Conlon of this city was summoned and notified all the police hereabouts to watch for the thieves.

David J. Bedore, a switchman employed in the South side yards was run over and killed early Thursday morning. He must have been walking along the top of a box car and fell between the cars. Bedore, about thirty-two years of age, leaves a wife and two small children.

Lieut. Winston Churchill

An intelligent report reaching England convey that the Boers successfully assailed a scouting party and captured over 100 British including Lord Randolph Churchill's son, Lieut. Winston Churchill.