Kaukauna Times – November 1882 & 1892
By Lyle Hansen
1882 -
November
November 3, 1882
One of our policemen, we learn, has resigned
his position on the force. It is reported that about twelve o'clock, one night
this week, he took after a deaf man who is employed in the Union Pulp mills,
and who is obliged to go in at midnight. He ordered the man to stop but the man
kept right on his course. At this he fired a shot from his revolver. The shot
seemed to have no effect, so he fired again, but the mill hand still paid no
attention. This so worked the feelings of our policeman that he has resigned
and now the question is who will be the next man to fill his position?
Mexican troops had a severe fight with Indians
near Alamos, Mexico. Over 100 savages were killed and wounded, the troops lost
23.
A shrewd farmer wanted to keep people from
fishing in his trout pond, but he didn’t care to go to the expense of hiring a
man to watch it. He gave the one man the sole right to fish there and he in being
so jealous of his privilege spent all his time keeping others away didn’t have
time to catch fish himself.
November 10, 1882
Two tramps were arrested this morning by
Policeman Schraw for stealing boots from the store of W. H. Gray.
The accidental killing of an Alaskan chief
incited the natives to capture a launch and two sailors of the United States
Cutter Corwin and upon refusal to return the prisoners Captain Merrian
destroyed their village and killed several of them.
November 24, 1882
On Monday last a man came to the livery stable
of Mr. Dell Ferguson and hired a horse and carriage for the afternoon. The rig
was later found near the railroad depot with the horse badly beaten and the rig
in a broken and useless condition. Officer Schraw pursued the runaway down the
tracks and captured him between here and Appleton. Being brought before Justice
Schwin on a charge of cruelty to animals he was fined twenty-five dollars or
ninety days in the county jail. He took
the time having no money.
Ithaca, Michigan - A band of Indian
hunters composed of Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack, Wild Bill, Merciless Ben, and
California Joe, started for the plains from Ithaca, Mich. Their ages range from
12 to 14 years. They were overtaken and captured by pale faces before they had
gone far and taken back home.
1892 -
November
November 4, 1892
The heavy wind of last
Friday badly mixed up the electric wires about the city and, as a result, many
homes were without light that evening.
Darkness now sets in
shortly after five o’clock and daylight does not appear much before six in the
morning.
Wm. Schwendel, a farmer
of the town of Kaukauna, met with a runaway accident on the south side last
Thursday afternoon. While crossing the Lake Shore tracks his horses became
frightened by the cars and started to run across the canal bridge and down the
road leading to the island. As they were about to cross the bridge, over the
Kaukauna waterpower tailrace, the wagon collided with the electric light pole
and Schwendel was thrown out. Dr. Tanner was immediately summoned but Schwendel
recovered consciousness. On Friday morning the farmer's team took a lively run
up Crooks Avenue. As they went up the hill the wagon box flew off and turned
over with the farmer’s wife underneath. Fortunately, no one was injured, only
badly frightened.
Winter is coming. Go
out with a hammer and drive down the nails in your sidewalk. It is much easier
to clean when the snow falls.
Milwaukee, Oct. 31 – 465 buildings destroyed. 358 families made
homeless. Four persons killed and 10 injured. Such is the result of fire which
threatened at the time on Friday night to sweep Milwaukee off the face of the
earth.
The fire boys went to
bed last Thursday night with one eye and both ears open. They thought of the
hole that would be made into Kaukauna's buildings if a fire ever starts with
the gale of that night.
The pupils of the North
side public school are contributing their pennies to form a purse which would
be sent to Milwaukee to add to the benefit fund for the poor people who
suffered loss in last week's fire.
November 11, 1892
The second case of
drowning in the Kaukauna Waterpower Company's canal occurred Tuesday evening resulting
from not having the sides railed. The victim was Alfred Killanse, who worked on
a farm in Hollandtown. It is not believed the Belgian had any relatives on this
side of the great pond.
16 members of the
Salvation Army were arrested in Pittsburgh, Pa., for violating an order
forbidding the holding of Street meetings.
Sixteen persons
concerned in a lynching of Chris Chambliss at St. Steffens, Ala., have been
indicted for murder.
Ringling Bros. Circus
is again in winter quarters at Baraboo, after a very successful season.
Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 8 – Gen. Mills, of the Army, is in the
city on his annual tour of inspection. The general has come up from the Indian
Territory, where the Cheyenne and Arapahoe, have been allotted ground and
placed on quarter rations. The general says that it will not be possible for
the Indians to farm this winter and that it will be folly for them to expect to
live on the rations allotted. He fears trouble. “War may be looked for this
winter.” The general inspected Fort Leavenworth and declared that the Army in
the Southwest is in readiness for the expected outbreak.
A young man from Kaukauna had the misfortune of falling in the River while passing along the gates of the water wheels at the Shattuck & Babcock Co., Mill yesterday noon. He swam toward the bridge but was attacked with cramps and would have drowned had it not been for the Chief of Police coming to his assistance. Mr. McCarthy let himself down from the bridge and by the end of a rope succeeded in saving the young man who was resuscitated with considerable difficulty. It was a narrow escape and Mr. McCarthy deserves great praise for his heroism.
Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson had been elected
president and vice president of United States by majority vote. The triumph of
the people is complete. The Republicans suffered, as they had done for the last
16 years. Another strongly fought campaign passes into history and with it an
overwhelming defeat for the Republican Party. The Democrats have marched on
with mighty tread battering down every Republican citadel, capturing every
office from president to the coroner, until the cry of victory comes almost
unanimous from every state in the union.
United Confederate Veterans of Chicago, an
association now numbering about 7000 members, has contracted for the erection
of a monument over those confederates who died while prisoners at Camp Douglas
and others who have died in that southwest Wisconsin city. An 8-foot bronze
figure of a Confederate soldier will stand on a granite base. On the four sides
of the pedestal there will be inserted bronze panels representing respectively,
The Seal of the Confederacy, The Call to Arms, The Lost Cause and The Eternal
Sleep.
November 18, 1892
Quite a number of deer
have been received in this city by express this week. Kaukauna parties, who are
hunting in the northern part of this state and Michigan, have sent them home.
Winter is here and it
takes money to buy wood and coal. Pay up your subscription.
November 25, 1892
“Jim Corbett" the
sea lion which escaped from Lincoln Park at Chicago this fall, and which
frisked about Milwaukee last week playing tag with those who tried to affect a
capture, was seen in the river here this week. Various reasons have been
assigned for his taking a run up this direction. The Times ventures to say he
came up to arrange a pugilistic encounter with the ' 'Lion of the Fox."
The fire department was
called out in the storm yesterday to extinguish a few smoldering sticks of wood
in a pile at L. Lindauer’s wood yard which caught fire from an engine near by
the sawmill. One man with a couple buckets of water could have drowned the
fire, but in the excitement, someone sounded an alarm and called the
department.
Heid Gets his Ride – Seated in a wheelbarrow which was decorated with bunting and flags, John Hyde of the grand view enjoyed his ride around two blocks last Friday evening. Arnold Peerenboom, and Appleton merchant, furnished the motive power according to the terms of a wager made before the election. The procession was accompanied by Prof. Park’s juvenile orchestra and a crowd went out to witness the fun.
A cute trick played on
a Menasha Republican by a Democrat has just leaked out. The Republican had a
large number of documents printed in Polish and the Democrats slyly substituted
a package of Democrat Polish documents which Republicans circulated very carefully
among the Polaks.
Theodore Paquin’s new bus is shown at the Kaukauna southside depot. It arrived last week and was put on the road Monday morning. It is a “hummer” and no mistake. If attractiveness has anything to do with bus business, he will get a load at every train station for travelers are likely to step off just to get a ride in the new vehicle.
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