Kaukauna Times & Kaukauna Sun – January 1904
By Lyle Hansen
January 1, 1904
Word has been received today from Chicago of a
terrible holocaust yesterday afternoon at the Iroquois Theater where more than
800 people died as fire swept the structure. The fire started on the stage when
an electric light broke and minutes later, an explosion shook the structure.
Nineteen
lives were lost on the football field during the season of 1903. Thirteen
players were severely hurt, some being disabled for life. The number of minor
but painful injuries goes into the hundreds.
The
postoffice department’s interest in a matter of good roads travelled by rural
mail carriers has been made. An order just received that the post office states
that all carriers will hereby be required to report each day or the route they
are unable to cover owing to the impassable condition of the roads. And whether
or not the patrons did all they could do to keep the roads open. Rural carriers
will not be expected to break snow roads.
The
season of 1904 was formerly opened at the Kaukauna Ice Rink last Saturday
evening and large crowds were now enjoying the winter sport.
January 8, 1904
The decorations being made at St. Mary's church have
but fairly begun. The stage is not yet completed. It is an immense affair and
takes over 30,000 feet of lumber and has to be built about fifty feet high. The
work of decorations is about ready to be commenced which it will take five or
six workmen six months to complete.
The man who tells his friends about his resolutions
will probably regret it in a week or two, when they begin to give him the ha ha
because he can't keep them.
January 15, 1904
The cold storage warehouse of the Fred Miller Brewing
company on the island was badly damaged by fire Wednesday, the roof being
burned off and the balance of the building burned so that most of it will have
to be torn down. There were 34 barrels of beer stored in the warehouse at the
time, but this was not damaged.
Antone H. Hietpas crawled into a shaving converter at
the Combined Locks mill last Thursday morning to clean it. An employee, seeing
the machine at a standstill, started it up. Hietpas was carried through the
entire conveyor, then violently thrown against a wall at the dump. He sustained
a broken ankle but otherwise he miraculously escaped injury.
January 22, 1904
Red Cloud, the once recognized chief of numerous
Indian Tribes, is nearing death in a teepee near the little wooden house which
the government built for him many years, ago, at the Pine Ridge Agency in the
Black Hills of South Dakota. He led hundreds of braves on the war path
throughout his 83 years of life which resulted in the death of hundreds of
people.
George L. Filbin has assumed the management of the
Princess bowling alleys on Third Street and will commence the same the balance
of the season. Mr. Filbin is an excellent bowler and instructor and has scored
many high games of 250 or more.
January 29, 1904
A fire broke out about 2:30 Sunday morning totally
destroying the blacksmith shop of Herman Knitter at the lower end of Wisconsin
Avenue, the wagon shop of Herman Pauli adjoining was badly damaged.
The Mill and Nugent Orchestra are quite busy this
week. They will be playing for three evenings at three different locations.
One of the flues in the boiler at Kaukauna Fiber
Companies mill burst Tuesday afternoon. Albert Dreger and Frank Snyder were
scolded by the steam. Both men were standing in the boiler room. The men were
removed to their homes where they will be confined for about a week to recover.
Landlord Whitman of Hotel Brothers informs us that he
burned one ton of hard coal in 16 hours on Monday of this week. Or in other
words, a cost of a $10 bill to keep his hotel in a comfortable condition for
one day as the temperature remained at 30 below.
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