Kaukauna Times April 1891
By Lyle Hansen
April 3, 1891
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Lawe
are both confined to the house with an attack of the grippe. Last week nine hundred and thirty-four deaths
occurred in Chicago mainly from the grippe.
The death role in Oshkosh last week was so large that funerals had to be
postponed until hacks and hearses could be secured. - Grippe is the cause.
Washington D.C., March 20 – A sensation has been caused at the
treasury department at the discovery of counterfeit two dollars silver
certificates so nearly perfect as to be almost impossible to detect it is
estimated that there are nearly 40,000,000 of these notes in circulation.
Corral, Mich., March 31 – Alonzo Ainsworth has been caught
several times during the past year window peeping. Monday night he followed the
daughter of a well-known farmer home from church, and he was caught window
peeping again. The farmer gave him a sound thrashing. Citizens decided that forbearance
had ceased to be a virtue and the committee waited on Ainsworth and told him to
take his choice between leaving town in a half an hour or taking a coat of tar
and feathers. When the half hour was up fully 50 men and boys with drums, tin
pans and whistles gathered at his residence and Ainsworth left by a via the
railroad track, the crowd following playing instruments and pelting him with
snowballs and mud. He will be tarred and feathered if he returns.
April 10, 1891
Mayor, L. Lindauer - Election Day dawned
bright and clear last Tuesday. This happening is very unusual in this section.
From early morning the thoroughfares were almost thronged with citizens. What
have judged from appearances that the day was a general holiday or celebration
that all labors had been cast aside. When the votes were counted Sullivan is
laid on the shelf and Luther Lindauer goes in with a good majority as
Kaukauna’s Mayor. Election results: Mayor, L. Lindauer; Clerk, C. H. L. Hamer; Treasurer,
John Dietzler; Assessor, James Driessen; Justice, N. Side-J.J. - Wirtz; South
Side-M.N. Mulloy.
Shiocton, April 4- By far the most sweeping and disastrous fire
that has ever scorched Shiocton occurred last night. The main business portion
of the village was completely swept away, only two stores remaining. 11
buildings, all together were entirely, destroyed involving a loss of probably $20,000.
P. T. Barnum, the veteran showman, died at his home in Bridgeport Connecticut Tuesday night. Mr. Barnum leaves an estate of over $5 million, which will largely go to his legal heirs.
The Minnesota
legislature has passed a law prohibiting the wearing of tights on the stage, or
any garment that shows the female limbs.
Murphy McCallum, of
Neenah has invented a new contrivance for coupling cars, which is intended to
remove the necessity for a brakeman to go between the sections of heavy freights.
The coupling is done by means of a lever to be used either on top or the side
of the car. It is Mr. McCallum’s intention to secure a patent upon his
invention.
Chicago suffered a million-dollar
fire Sunday night, the most destructive conflagration since the big fire of
1871. A number of buildings were destroyed. Forty-five engines and 300 firemen
were called into service.
April 17, 1891
Neenah is having a
lively time to secure a mayor these days. Wm. Hessen democrat won by two votes.
George A. Whiting, a republican demanded a recount, and three votes were found
for him in the first ward, giving him the majority. Now arises another point.
Hessen has already been declared mayor and has taken the oath of office.
Scottsdale, Pa., April 14 – The dreaded evictions
began today in a most determined way. Families were thrown from their houses
and their poor furniture piled up in the road while great crowds of strikers
silently watched the proceedings. The families, living in company homes, were
evicted having taken an active part in labor demonstrations. This is a powerful
weapon in the hands of the operators, and it looks as if they are now playing
their last and winning game against the men.
The man who invented
the game of tiddlywinks has been sent to an insane asylum – flopped into the
“ding-pot” so to speak.
Washington, Pa., - Three small sons of Michael Munce, a well-known
citizen, found a partly empty nitroglycerin can, and not understanding the
dangers threw stones at it. A stone struck the can and a terrible explosion
followed, which was heard for miles. Two of the boys were blown to atoms, while
the third was severely injured.
Kenton, O., April 10 – A mob of about 75 to 100 men this
morning at 2 o'clock overpowered the Sheriff and found the keys. William Bales,
who had been arrested for the murder of a policeman, was removed from his cell.
He was hurried across the road, the noose adjusted, and a rope drawn over a
limb. He was pulled from his feet and left hanging; the mob was an orderly one
and did no further damage. They wore black hoods concealing their faces.
William Rabideau, who
for several months had been employed in the switchyard in Milwaukee was caught
between the “bumpers” at that place Thursday noon and crushed so badly that he
expired almost instantly. The deceased was a young man 22 years of age. The
remains of the unfortunate young man were brought to Kaukauna on the evening
train and conveyed to the home of his parents on the Southside.
April 24, 1891
The state of Delaware
has recently passed a law by which all vagrants found loitering within their
borders are sentenced to 60 days labor on the roads. If they work as well as
Outagamie tramps that were sentenced to crack stone during the past winter, the
Delaware roads will be fixed up around the year of our Lord 3001.
The Beckwith house fire
which occurred in Oshkosh years ago has been vividly recalled by a discovery
made last Friday. When that building was burning fireman Thomas Rief, of the
Oshkosh fire Department, went in and brought from the flames the dead body of
Mrs. Simon B. Paige. At the time Ralph claimed Paige offered him $5000 to bring
out his wife remains. After the fire however, the millionaire refused to pay
the money. Rief sued him collecting only $600, Paige has since died. Today Rief
discovered that just before his death Paige had deeded him the property in
Green Lake County valued at $6000.
The school board of the
South district of Kaukauna made an examination last week of the foundation
walls of the new $20,000 school structure which were laid under contract last
fall and finding the quality of stone that had been used not of the kind
mentioned in the agreement and ordered several sections in a wall torn out and
replaced with better material. The building will from this time on will progress
as rapidly as possible until its completion.
The Sun is progressing
quite rapidly on a work to be called the “Lion of the Fox,” consisting of a pen
and picture history of Kaukauna. The book will consist of 90 pages, with 55
illustrations. The addition will be a valuable one for our booming town.
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