By Lyle Hansen
April 5, 1889
A delegation of
Messer’s, H. J. Mulholland, Peter Reuter, G. H. Dawson, Fred Mundinger, L.
Lindauer, A. W. Priest and John
Schulthies took the train this afternoon for Madison, where they will look
after a bill that is now before the Senate, authorizing the city of Kaukauna to
issue bonds for the building of a bridge over the Fox River. The bill has
passed assembly, but Senator Kennedy was instructed to withhold the same from
the Senate until the delegation from here arrived.
The International
Sulphite Fiber & Paper Co. has settled with W. Thilmany in a manner
satisfactory to both parties, says a dispatch from Appleton. By this
settlement, Mr. Thilmany received the exclusive right to the patent to
manufacture sulphite fiber under the Mitcherlich process in a mill of twenty
tons daily capacity, for the entire Fox River Valley and the State of
Wisconsin. He will commence operation at once, with a paid-up capital of
$300,000, in which some of the members of the International Fiber and Paper
Co., as well as Detroit capitalists, will be largely interested.
Large quantities of
pickerel are being taken from the river here. Fishing has not been better for
several years.
The City of Kaukauna
recently voted in a new mayor.
Michael Sullivan will serve as the new mayor.
April 12, 1889
Thomas Egan, Sr., of
the town of Kaukauna was arrested Wednesday by the U.S. Marshall charged with selling liquors to the
Oneida Indians. It seems that last winter Egan would purchase the article by the
bottle in the city and then dispose of it to the Indians at his place of
residence. He was taken to Milwaukee on the afternoon train where the case will
be tried.
The steamer Hutchinson made her first trip down the river
this week.
Corrinna de Vivaldi
Coaracy has begun an action in the United States Circuit at Milwaukee, against
two Kaukauna paper mills to recover fifteen acres of land on which they are
located. The values of the improvements are over $350,000. The plaintiff is the
daughter of Mary Meade and the granddaughter of George Lawe. The claims are
under the title of Paul Ducharme to Augustine Grignon in 1834 and there is a
conflict between the confirmations at that time.
April 19, 1889
There is a large gang
of tramps working the towns south of here and are headed this way. They will
probably strike Kaukauna in the course of a few weeks. Would it not be a good idea
for our city fathers to lay out a certain point near the quarry where these harem
scarems could be put to work breaking stone? Tramps that infest this city are
treated with too much civility, getting off with a night's lodging, a good warm
meal and no work whatever.
Before - After
By order of the mayor
all of the telegraph, telephone and electric light poles in the city of New
York are being cut down. For two years, the city has been dickering with the
companies to have the wires removed from the poles and placed underground. The
streets of that city Tuesday night were in darkness as all the electric lights
had been cut off.
The most persistent
people in the country are the Oklahoma boomers. There will be, opened-up to
them by the president’s proclamation, 1,800,000 acres of land in the hearth of
Indian Territory. The land that is opened is not richer than many other
government lands, though the soil is fertile. It is simply that it has been for
many years forbidden ground that makes it so dear to the boomers.
A New Orleans judge has
decided that when a jury, with a quart of whisky, a pack of cards and a handful
of beans, played poker from midnight till 4 am, the prisoner is entitled to a
new trial.
April 26, 1889
Mrs. Josie Guriey, on
trial for kidnapping little Annie Redmond, was found guilty at Chicago. She was
given five years in the penitentiary. The child stolen by her was kept in hiding
for years. The poverty of the Redmond’s precludes any idea that a ransom was
expected.
Jersey City, NJ., A hero, clad in the brown, greasy overalls,
and the cap of a switchman, lost his life in the railroad yard, while saving
the life of 10-year-old child. He was Patrick McAtamny, 42 years old and,
leaves a wife and seven children. Patrick was waiting for a single car to be
backed by an engine. Just as the car arrived, a boy who was picking up coal,
stepped on the track in front of the car. McAtamny jumped to the track and
pushed the boy out of the way. A mass of bloody shreds and a headless body
marked the remains of the switchman.
A man named Wm.
McDonald struck town last Friday and proceeded to fill up on "bug juice."
About noon he began to get weary and made up his mind to take a nap in the hallway
leading to The Times office. Officer Rivers was sent for and took him over to
sleep on one of the iron mattresses at the Hotel de Cooler. Six dollars is all
Justice Mulholland taxed him for his behavior.
Fort Smith, Ark., has been receiving approximately $500.000 a
year for salaries and fees for lawyers. Almost everyone who knows anything
about Fort Smith thinks of it as the place where they “hang so many people” and
until recently this was its main distinction. Now however it is enjoying a
business boom and the population which was 3600 in 1880 is now set at 14,000
and still rising. 1500 criminals a year are tried before Judge Parker and in
the past 15 years he has disposed of 247 murder cases and sentenced 163 persons to death; 47 are now on waiting trial for murder.
The gallows are fixed for 11
men at a time but no more than eight have been executed in one drop. George
Maledon, who has served as hangman for many years, is proud of the fact that he
has never had an accident and all his subjects go bravely to their deaths. He
has put the rope around the necks of 71 murderers and in every case the neck
has been broken by the drop.
