December 1882
Kaukauna Times – December 1882 & 1892
By Lyle Hansen
December 1, 1882
The small boys are feeling bad because the
river doesn't freeze over and give them a chance to skate. Several of the large
ones experience the same feelings.
Long Pine, Neb., was invaded by a gang of forty cowboys on the 22d, who rode through the streets shooting in a reckless manner. They burned the sidewalks and perforated all the saloon lamps with bullets. A St. Louis drummer was captured and compelled to dance for two hours undercover of a ring of revolvers.
December 8, 1882
Policeman Schraw spent
considerable time yesterday searching for Peter Milbach who has probably
"skipped." Schraw had a warrant for his arrest, the latter being
charged with using insulting language toward Andrew Fuhrmann.
A gang of
desperadoes who had been stealing cattle and committing other outrages near
Comanche, Texas, were summarily dealt with by the injured Texans. All four of
the gang were caught and lynched.
December 15, 1882
Last Tuesday the
citizens of Ledyard were startled by the thundering tones of a large bell. The noise was easily traced to the Lake Shore
depot, where the new bell for the Congregational church was being unloaded. The
boys all had to give it a tap just to see if it was not cracked you know.
“Have you noticed,”
said Gen. Hoke of North Carolina, “the rapid disappearance of men missing an
arm or a leg?” At the close of the war
in the south as almost every southerner was in the army-men without an arm or
without a leg were to be seen everywhere. In a few more years it will be a rare
thing to see one. It is pitiful to see how old and grizzled they look.”
December 22, 1882
No paper this week
because of the Christmas Holiday.
December 29, 1882
News from Atlanta says
that of sixty-one prisoners working out fines in the chain gang on the streets
of the city twenty-seven are women.
Yesterday afternoon as the 4:10 passenger train on the Chicago and North-Western road approached a point about one mile east of Kaukauna, a farmer named Peter Young was seen driving towards the track some distance ahead of the train. Upon reaching the track the horses come to a stand-still with the vehicle directly upon the rails and refused to move. Before the train could be stopped Young jumped from the wagon, and the engine struck it. Mr. Young was killed as a result of the accident. The horses escaped unhurt.
December 1892
December 2, 1892
The glass fronts were
put in the new Finnegan block last Saturday and a fire started in the furnace
Monday. The storerooms will be ready for occupancy soon.
Roller Skating - Manager Lawe has decided to open the Opera
house for roller skating next Saturday evening. A full brass band will be in
attendance. Smooth floor, good order and good music are the promise of the
management. Admission 15c; Go and enjoy a spin on the little rollers.
A West Washington young
lady who had been married but a few weeks had her first experience at going “to
market” the other day. After she had succeeded in making several laughable
blunders, she approached a poultry dealer and asked the price of chickens. She
was told the price by the dealer who then handed her a fine pair of live birds
to examine. After sniffing them she asked him “Are you sure they are fresh?”
December 9, 1892
A deal has been closed
this week. whereby George Mulholland transfers the Grand View Hotel property on
the south side to John Earles, consideration $11,500. The Grand View is the
leading hotel of the city and a very desirable location, convenient to the Lake
Shore Depot and will draw the bulk of the hotel business in Kaukauna.
Enough Indians have
signed the petition to open the Yankton reservation in South Dakota, to warrant
the announcement at the homesteaders will soon secure 600,000 acres of fine
land.
Taunton, Mass., Dec. 2 - Lizzy Borden has been indicted by the
grand jury on three counts for the murder of her father and mother.
Two a young Indians
from the Oneida reservation came to town last Saturday and in the usual manner
managed to fill up on “fire water”. They soon became too noisy so Marshal Kuehn
took them to visit Justice Mulloy who thought $5 in cost would be about the
right amount to pay for their hilarious jag. They objected to being relieved of
this amount and took five days in the County jail as a substitute.
RESTRICTING IMMIGRATION – Invasion of foreigners should be more
strictly prohibited. We are particularly subject in our great ports to the
spring infectious diseases by reason of the fact on restrictive immigration
brings to our surroundings large numbers of persons who surroundings make them easy
victims of the plague.
December 16, 1892
The new south side Congregational
Church nears completion. The new church is built on the site of the old one and
uses the old portion as part of the new structure. The church is located on the
hill of Crooks Avenue and when completed, the cost will exceed $6,000. The First Congregational Church was organized
by the Rev. Q. L. Dowdon June 4, 1885. The dedication is expected to take place
early in January.
Low water and a break
in the wheel at the electric light plant Tuesday resulted in the necessity of
hunting up lamps that evening for lighting purposes.
Boise city, Idaho, Dec. 9 – A party of surveyors who are at work
at the site of the proposed dam on the Snake River made a great discovery.
Finding a large number of white stones they thought may be of value. The quality
was sent to Portland for examination who assured them they had run across
genuine diamonds.
Many of the TIMES
readers would remember an incident last spring in which we reported that a
young girl came to hail from Appleton had been picked up in the road near the
Northwest depot in a very sick condition. Upon being taken to a neighboring
resident, she gave birth to a child before medical aid could be summoned. It
was discovered afterwards that her name was Ellen Smith and she lived near Little
Chute. Recently she sued a young man from Appleton, charging him with being the
father of the illegitimate child. He has settled cost paying the girl $200.
The streets are crowded
with teams six days out of the week and each day there are 50 to 100 of them.
They come to the city with potatoes, hay, wood or produce and can all find a
ready market in Kaukauna.
The leading Democrat
papers are demanding the repeal of the late pension laws. If this is done
business as well as veterans will feel the results. – Neenah Times
Mrs. William Glaff of
the Southside was arrested Tuesday morning on a complaint by her 16-year-old
daughter charged with assault and battery. The complaint claimed her mother
knocked her down with the club and beat her while she was lying on the floor.
Mrs. Glaff pleaded guilty and was taxed $6.13. As this is not the first time
such an occurrence has taken place, humane agent Wilkie has been notified and will
proceed to investigate the case.
The Sultan of Morocco
has 6000 wives, while the Sultan of Turkey as only 300. The defendants of
Ottoman must feel quite lonesome and contemplates the social condition of the
African potentate.
December 23, 1892
The railroad bridge and
needle dam in the rapids below the river bridge became blocked with ice and
backed the water up four or five feet, overflowing the banks of the Meade and
Edwards' canal, covering the flat below with water which was soon turned to ice
owing to the extreme cold weather.
Most all the engineers
on the Milwaukee and Antigo division, who reside here, were home with their locomotives
Christmas Day. The round house, with room for thirty-two engines, was filled
and nearly a dozen locomotive that could not be housed stood on the sidetracks
all day.
If the Canadians continue
come over to this side in droves as they have been doing the past two months,
the Dominion will have to annex to the United States are go into bankruptcy.
The Kaukauna Electric
Light Company has sent out notices to the customer of electric light notifying
them that after January 1, 1893 all broken or burned out globes must be paid
for at the current rate of $.50 each. The announcement has created quite a
feeling amongst the merchants and most all of them have signed a petition to
the company notifying them that unless the order is recalled they will discard
electric light and return to lamps.
December 30, 1892
A large delegation of
the tribe a Bad River Indians at Odanah, visited Ashland and made complaints to
the Indian agent there that logging was being done at the reservation contrary
to existing orders from the United States authorities. The Indians made written
complaint to the agent that a logger has four parties at work cutting timber.
They claim they had made repeated protest to the logger on the reservation
without success.
D. Monger, a Lake Shore
brakeman, has had a couple of fingers on his right hand smashed in the yard
here by coupling cars last Friday morning. Dr. Tanner amputated them.
Most all the engineers
on the Milwaukee and Antigo division, who reside here, were home with their locomotives
Christmas Day. The round house, with room for thirty-two engines, was filled
and nearly a dozen locomotive that could not be housed stood on the sidetracks
all day.
Taunton, Mass., Dec. 24 – There is no hurry by the government
in regard to the time of arraigning of Miss Borden for the murder of her father
and stepmother because of the belief that she is insane. If she is insane, the
enormous expense of a trial will be avoided and the ends of justice practically
obtained.
Diphtheria Again – It begins to look as
if Kaukauna is in for another siege of diphtheria. On Monday Charles Schurr was
taken down with the disease also a child of E. Creveir. On Wednesday five new
cases reported, four children of the family of Alex Steger and one of Mr.
Carney's. It is to be hoped that everyone will organize into a committee of one
and investigate the sanitary conditions of the premises thus aiding clinching
the disease. The recent run of diphtheria resulted in about 15 deaths and the
cost to the city $700 in caring for the inflected.
Nose Armor in Football – One of the most serious drawbacks in
football is the liability of players to receive broken noses. Valuable players
who are on right in other respects are unable to play because of an injured
nose. This fact has led to an invention which makes it possible for a player
with a broken nose to continue in the game.
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