Kaukauna Times - January 1883 & 1893
By Lyle Hansen
January 1883
January 5, 1883
During the past week
coasting on Wisconsin Avenue has been the great sport of the boys. Commencing
near the Kaukauna House there is a regular incline plane around to the draw
bridge.
Pioneer, Cal. - Wm. Hartley bumped into a man at a bar then
drew a gun and shot him dead. The man was unarmed. A jury of twelve men were
then formed and Harley was found guilty. He was granted time to write a letter
to his family. He was then led out to a tree at the end of town. Another request
that he not die with his boots on was allowed. He was then hanged.
During the year 1882,
114 murderers were executed in the United States. The hangman, as usual was
kept busiest in the Southern States, which furnished 78 of the victims.
January 12, 1883
Abraham Lincoln
Matthew Wilson, who painted Lincoln’s portrait just before the assassination, says he was requested by a number of ladies to warn the President that there was a plot to kill him. He did so; the President turned to his desk and pointed to a pigeonhole. “In that place are eighty letters threatening my life, and I know I am in danger. But I am not going to die a thousand deaths worrying about it.
The weather this week
reminds one of "Greenland's icy mountains," that the wood pile is
getting low and that the neighbors, for some reason or other, keep their woodshed
locked.
Henry Baetz, secretary
of the Wisconsin Immigrant Association announced in his annuary report that
during the past year 57,952 immigrants arrived in Milwaukee to make their homes
in Wisconsin. About one half of the immigrants who arrived were Germans and
settled on farms.
January 19, 1883
Little Chute News: Quite a large, invited gathering occurred at
the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Schaefer on Monday evening. The young
people always know they anticipate a good time when invited by Mrs. S.
January 26, 1883
Everything is now in
readiness for the telephone exchange. The instruments have arrived and about
seventeen subscribers have been secured.
January 1893
January 6, 1893
Kaukauna was the scene
of quite a disastrous conflagration last Friday evening, at which time the
large machine shop of the Milwaukee Lake Shore and Western Railway was
destroyed. The loss will run in the vicinity of $21,000 to the building and
machines. The railroad has announced plans to rebuild a $10,000 addition to the
remaining structure.
The state of Texas court of appeals has
recently decided that a room signed to a guest in a hotel is not a public
place, and therefore is not a crime for a person to be intoxicated in such a
room, inasmuch as the statute is only designed for to punish drunkenness in public
places.
Another diphtheria victim that Charles
Schurr, age 16, son of Mr. Mrs. Lewis Schurr, of the south side, he died early
Tuesday morning. He will be missed by his family, relatives, and many of his
playmates as well.
The Emperor of Morocco has 1,000 wives and
always spends the family washing day at his club.
An ordinance was introduced at the Council
meeting Tuesday evening forbidding the running of large horses, cattle, sheep, goats,
and swine.
January 13, 1893
On the first of
January, Luther Lindauer began cutting ice on the river and he now has about
200 cords in his icehouse. A corps of 52 men hustled the job through.
Give
your boy a trade. The so-called professionals are all overcrowded, and hundreds
of colleges are turning out every year doctors, lawyers, and preachers of whom
the country has no need, while the trades suffer from our skilled workmen.
While
1892 has gone into history as one of the most prosperous business years ever
known in the United States. It has been marked by dull and losing trade in
every country in Europe.
Indianapolis,
Ind., January 7 - General agent Oran Perry of the Pennsylvania Railroad of this
city called up 20 union freight handlers and told them to take their choice
between the company and the union. Fifteen stepped to one side choosing the
company, five stepped to the union side, and these men were at once paid off
and discharged. “This company will not furnish bread-and-butter to men who are
likely to prove unfaithful to it”, said Mr. Perry.
Edward Beard, of Antigo, was killed at the
Kaukauna Electric Light Company plant about 9:15 last Monday night. Mr. Beard
had been at work around the plant for several days putting in a condenser and
on the fatal night was whiling away a few hours before going to his hotel. In
stepping sideways to get a view of the engine of the drive wheel he slipped and
fell into the mammoth wheel which was making about 80 revolutions at the time.
The engineer saw Mr. Beard fall and at once traversed the engine in an attempt
to stop the mammoth drive wheels, but it was futile. He was whirled to death.
Fred Krahn, 67 years of age, who for many years
had been employed in Milwaukee Lakeshore and Western yard here as a car wheel
inspector met with an accident about 7 o'clock Wednesday evening which may
prove fatal. Coming out of the oil house located near the coal sheds he stepped
onto a sidetracked just in front of the building and was struck by a line of
cars which were being switched. A switchman saw Mr. Krahn fall and said he was
dragged along the tracks about 20 feet the wheels of one of the cars caught his
right leg and large piece of flesh at the thigh was severed. He was placed upon
a stretcher and carried to Dr. Tanner's office where the limb was dressed.
A five-cent postage stamp issued in
Alabama during the Confederacy was recently sold for $780.
Father Honeyman, pastor of St. Augustine’s
Catholic Church at Chilton has gone insane.
John Radermacher of the town of Kaukauna
has been granted a patent on a potato harvester.
A sleigh ride party from our sister city,
Little Chute, met with an accident at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Lawe
Street last Sunday morning. They sailed down the Avenue and prepared to make a
turn at the corner, but the box wagon refused to curve, and a gay and festive
crowd was precipitated to mother earth. No one was injured, however.
January 20, 1893
Fremont Ohio, January 17 – Ex-president Rutherford B Hayes died
at 11 o’clock tonight. Earlier reports stated that his condition was improving.
His family was at his side the announcement was made by his son Webb Hayes.
Fred Lindauer has been
awarded the contract for building a new bridge over Konkapot Creek.
There was surprising and startling news in
store for the parishioners of St. Mary's Church last Sunday morning as they
gathered at their place of worship. Before they departed from church Father Nicholas
Hens had informed all that he was about to leave Kaukauna such had been the
decision of the Bishop and he must abide by it. The announcement fell like a
thunderbolt upon the congregation.
The new Congregational church on the
Southside was dedicated Sunday. Rev. Q. L. Dowd is organizer and first pastor
of the church.
Duluth Minnesota January 14 - It was the coldest
morning of the season with the government thermometer at 25 below zero. Lake
Superior has frozen about 5 miles out from the shore, an earlier freeze up then
for many years.
23 vagrants were sent to the county jail
from Kaukauna last week.
January 27, 1893
The number of murders committed in 1892 reaches 6,792, as compared with 5,906 in 1891, 4,290 in 1890 and 3,567 in 1889. These shows an increase in the greatest of crimes out of proportion with the increase in population, and that capital punishment exist in every state of the union but one. Is the gallows a failure or isn’t it working hard enough?
On Monday last the Muench Brewery Co. purchased the plant of the brewery in the fourth ward from Mrs. M. Heid for $35,000. The company already housed 1400 cords of ice this winter and has 40 men at work.
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