Kaukauna Times – September 1893
By Lyle Hansen
September 1, 1893
Marvin Hughett of the Chicago Northwestern
Railway Company has announced the consolidation of the line with the Milwaukee
Lake Shore and Western Railway Company.
The result in Kaukauna will be that both stations will be under one
agent and one railroad.
The city now has deeds
to all of the property necessary for an approach on the north side of the proposed New
River Bridge. It cost the city $3,625.
The weather has been
cold enough for frost this week, and had no wind been blowing last Monday and
Tuesday nights, vegetation in all probability would have been napped.
Russell D. Sidmore, of
this city, a Lake Shore brakeman who lost a limb last winter by being run over
at Brillion, has commenced a suit against the Lake Shore company for $13,000.
Searching parties at
Johnstown, Pa, have been finding valuables lost during the flood. A few days ago,
a valuable gold watch was found, and a young man named Brown found a diamond
ring said to be very valuable. It is also stated that some of the most valuable
recoveries have been kept secret for fear the claimants might make trouble.
The farmhouse of
Theodore Van Bloomer, near Freedom burned at an early hour last Saturday
morning. Two children were badly burned, one fatally dying the following evening.
The work of putting in the sewer on Desnoyer Street was greatly delayed at present, a bed of quicksand in the spring of water having been struck between Brothers and Division streets. Planks 16 feet in length were driven down to shut off the water and hold back the sand. Commissioners have concluded to raise the sewer 3 feet from the plans first adopted in that area.
The indications are
that the mines of the Comstock, from which between 300 and 400 million dollars in
gold and silver has been taken during the past 30 years are pretty nearly
exhausted.
September 8, 1893
Springfield, Mo., Sept. 4 – At 4 o'clock yesterday morning, three
desperate men held up the St. Louis & San Francisco passenger train. They
shot and killed the express messenger but failed to secure any money from the
express car. They then robbed the passengers in a manner much after the style
of the James–Younger gang. They secured about $500 in cash along with watches, diamonds,
and other valuables. One passenger was made to give up a quart of whiskey.
In attempting to save
the life of a small child near Parrish, Wis., E. H. Rummele, chief engineer of
the Milwaukee Lake Shore lost his life when a train was backing into a siding
near Parrish. Mr. Rummele noticed a little child playing on the track, some
distance ahead. He jumped off the train and was running ahead to the child but
slipped and fell onto the rails, the train passing over his arms near the
shoulder. The child had left the track before the train got to him.
Walter Oleson, of
Neenah, unearthed the skeleton of an Indian on his father's farm near
Winneconne. The skeleton was in a sitting position, with hands clasped across
the knees and an arrow halfway through the skull. It is considered one of the
most valuable Indian finds ever unearthed in Wisconsin.
This week THE TIMES
enters upon the 14th year of its existence in Kaukauna. THE TIMES was issued
for the first time in a village of about 500 inhabitants, today it is issued in
the city of nearly 7000 population. When THE TIMES first started there was but
one building on the South side of the River that was an old brick residence
situated near the site of the railroad shops. From that day to this THE TIMES
has ever been ready to advance the interests of Kaukauna and it has undoubtedly
done its share of up building the city. THE TIMES passed through financial struggles,
two of its editors have died and others have given up in despair and lastly a
fire tried to down us, but the Times is still in existence with a promise today
of long life.
September 15, 1893
There has been great
excitement for the past two days at Little Chute over an alleged monster which
has been seen several times between the Kimberly and Little Chute dams in the
Fox River. It is described as 6 feet long and shaped like a walrus with
extraordinarily large fierce eyes. Men are all patrolling the river, hoping to
capture the animal. It may be the sea lion which escaped from a circus into
Lake Winnebago many years ago.
THE TIMES office has
frequent visitors these days to see our new Hercules gas engine work—it being
something new in the way of motive power.
Several of the marshes
around Kaukauna are on fire and the smoke in the city is very blinding and
suffocating. When will it rain?
September 22, 1893
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Divorced for Laziness – A Missouri Judge has granted a
divorce due to the laziness and idleness of a wife. “Mrs. Hattie A. Davis has
stated in her testimony that she lived a life of idleness and leisure.” Mrs.
Davis’ laziness seems to have consisted in preferring the ease and luxury of
hotel life to the cares of housekeeping.
Merrill, Wis., - Last night was one of fear and anxiety to many
of the residents of the wooded districts and northern Wisconsin. A high wind
was raging, fanning the forest fires into huge rolling waves of flames which
swept everything before it as rapidly as a prairie fire. In the Pine River
settlement east of this city the fire nearly swept everything off the face of
the earth. There is no sleep for citizens.
Charles Faust, while
returning from a tour in Kimberly last Friday night, was held up by a Highwayman
on the road and relieved of his pocketbook. Mr. Faust says the fellow stopped
his horse and jumped into the buggy, pointing a revolver at his head, and demanding
his money. The lone bandit did not wait, however, to have the money handed to
him but ripped it from Faust’s vest.
September 29, 1893
The railroad shops are running
again six days in the week, commencing Monday. This is good news, and it is
hoped, and undoubtedly it will not be long before the old, time crews and full
line will again be on.
Mortimer Bosworth, a
former resident of Kaukauna and an employee of the Ashland division, has got
himself into a rather warm place. One wife he didn’t consider sufficient, so he
had taken two new ones until he now has three living Mrs. Bosworth’s. He is
under arrest in Port Washington for bigamy.
Fifteen thousand Union Pacific
employees have been voting no on a 10 per cent reduction in wages. The answer
is unanimous against it. If the wage cut should be adopted a big strike will
follow.
The red flag of the
Anarchists has disappeared from the Labor Day parades. “It never will be
missed.”
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