Kaukauna Times - December 1900
By Lyle Hansen
December 7, 1900
Four men and one boy
were instantly killed, and thirteen others injured by the explosion of a boiler
in the powerhouse of the Chicago and Northwestern Road at Chicago Monday
afternoon.
Mart Kelly, who was
employed at the Thilmany mills, got a small piece of steel in his hand about a
week ago. He now has blood poisoning and there is a possibility of Kelly having
to lose his hand.
December 14, 1900
The resolution passed
at the last meeting of the common council ordering all places of gambling and
houses of ill repute closed upon order of the mayor, was put in force Monday
morning, and acting under orders the police force notified all saloon keepers
and others coming under the ban to discontinue all games for money. By noon all the slot machines had their
pictures to the wall and the whir-r-r of the discs of fortune were silenced.
Charles Holtz, a farmer
in the town of Liberty, Outagamie county, has brought suit against John Hansen,
a young farmer from Stephensville, for $30 and interest for one year, for
depriving him of the services of his hired girl by marring her. The current
Mrs. Hansen was hired by Holtz as a servant girl for a period of one year.
Hansen came along, proposed marriage, and had agreed to pay Holtz $30 to
release the girl from the contract.
December 21, 1900
Under the Mistletoe
The little flurry of
snow that fell here last Friday was the tail end of a storm that piled up “the
beautiful” fifteen inches deep at Manitowoc the same night.
The 1900 census of the
City of Kaukauna sets the population at 5,115, compared to 4,667 in 1890, a
growth of 448 in ten years.
A stranger, claiming to
be a wealthy ranchman for Montana, has arrived at Appleton and says he is
searching for a wife. He said he has $1,500 and would give half to the girl who
would marry him. Come to Kaukauna, old man, you could get several for that
price here.
December 28, 1900
Bishop Messmer, of the Green Bay diocese,
has come out with an official approval of the recent order that the English
language be spoken in all the churches of the diocese. The children instruction
would be in English and in their mother’s tongue when preparing them for first
communion.
F. A. Briggs,
superintendent of the Thilmany Pulp & Paper mills was presented with a
handsome chair and footrest Monday afternoon as a Christmas remembrance from
the employees of the mill.
New York – One evening a man
came to the police station house asking if any lost children were there. Three
were asleep in the back room and the man went to see if his own was among the
number. He wakened a boy about 3 years of age and asked if he was Johnny So and
so. The little fellow being very sleepy could not make an answer and the man
turned away saying he would have to send his wife. “What don’t you know your
own child?” asked the police official. “To tell the truth, I don’t. When I go
to work the kids are sleeping and when I get home at night, they are in
bed. I never see them. Later his wife
appeared and identified one of the children, not being the one he had picked
out of the group.
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