The Kaukauna Times - By Lyle Hansen
June 7, 1889
The Holland Catholic
Church congregation will build a new church edifice during the present year. Rev. Fr. Bongers, pastor, will give as his
own personal contribution, a fine clock for the tower, facing four directions, which
will strike the hours, halves, and quarters so loudly it may be heard over the
whole city. This will do away with the necessity of ringing the town bell by
the city officials. The gift is a splendid one, and will cause the donor to be
held in grateful remembrance so long as the bell tolls forth the hour.
About 3,000,000 bricks
will be used in the construction of the Kimberly Clark mill at the Cedars.
A Shawano dispatch says
that the daredevil who robbed three stagecoaches in this vicinity recently has
had a reward of $1,000 offered for his capture. This Black Bart or whatever he
calls himself turned up this morning in Bonduel, a little town fifteen miles
from here. He walked quietly into a general store and at the muzzle of the
usual revolver compelled Sol Kann the owner to give up all his money and his
gold watch. Then the robber jumped into a wagon that was standing in front of
the store and drove the team on a dead run on the road toward Gillette.
The London “Jack the Ripper,” has been at his
horrible work again. The terrible mutilated remains of another woman were found
in the Thames Monday.
The lake above
Johnstown, Pa. was several hundred feet above the level of the devastated towns
when the dam failed. The wall of water flooded the towns along the valley
sweeping everything away in its path. It is estimated that fully 30.000 people
lived in the torrent-swept valley that not less than 8,000 were drowned.
Another 900 persons died in a fire that consumed the bridge that they had taken
refuge upon.
Wing Lee, proprietor of
the south side laundry who had his property damaged by a mob that recent made a
raid upon his wash shop, has filed claim of damage against the city of Kaukauna
for $550.
June 14, 1889
A dispatch from Rosebud, Dak., - At a council last
night June 9, Hollow Horn Bear and High Hawk withdrew from the opposition to
sell their land. This breaks up the unfriendly element and insures the
acceptance of the terms of cessions of the surplus land of the great Sioux
reservation.
One of the elevated seats
in the rear part of the opera house gave away during the performance, causing
quite a commotion for a few moments. Fortunately, no one was hurt. Manager Hayes has
decided not to pay the $100 license and will close the opera house. This means
no more shows for Kaukauna.
Seattle, W.T., It is now estimated that the total loss to the
city by the fire in buildings alone, is $10,000,000, and that all personal
losses will reach $2,000,000. Many people must have perished in the flames. The
entire business portion of Seattle is nothing but smoking ruins.
Sitting Bull is dying of pneumonia. Many will only leave a
sigh of relief when they know he has turned up his toes and has gone to the
happy hunting grounds.
June 21, 1889
Robert Green and Gus
Geist had a narrow escape from going over the government dam. They were out in
a rowboat and getting too close to the dam; the boat became unmanageable and
was soon carried to the crest of the dam. Upon seeing that they would be
carried over and down the rapids the young men jumped into the water and clung
to the ends of the boards that compose the dam and succeeded after a while in getting
to shore.
Buffalo Bill has sent
the proceeds of one of his performances to the Johnstown sufferers, the amount
being $2000.
June 28, 1889
The machinery for the Thilmany
Paper Company's new mill is arriving daily now. The work on the institution is progressing
rapidly.
C. H. Finnegan has the
contract for hauling all the stone used in the construction of the new Thilmany
mill.
There were five to six
hundred strangers in the city Sunday. The picnic of the Sons of Herman was held
at Eden Park.
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