Kaukauna Times – March 1894
By Lyle Hansen
March 2, 1894
Bishop Messmer, of
Green Bay, has issued an address to the Catholics of Kaukauna, relating to the
recent railroad union workers riots here. He called upon them to “be guided by
charity and forbearance, and never to use unlawful means.”
Cleveland, O., - Twelve foundry firms of this city have
decided to withdraw the proposed 10 per cent reduction of their employees’
wages and the strike will not take place.
John Weisgerber, a
Menasha boy. Received a comic valentine on St. Valentine’s Day and sent it back
to the supposed sender an Appleton girl adding to it some obscene writings. He
was arrested yesterday on the charge of sending obscene matter through the
mail. He pleaded guilty and in default of $500 bail he was sent to jail to
await trial in June.
March 9, 1894
Joe. Vilas, president
of the Kaukauna Waterpower company, has applied to the council for a reduction
on taxes claiming the property of the company has been assessed too high. “The property
has been taxed in an unjust assessment of valuation so much so that it can be
no longer tolerated.
March 16, 1894
Quite a number of
Kaukauna boys returned from the woods this week, and some of them have been
doing the customary "town painting act."
Orders for German
printing of any kind will receive prompt attention at this office.
Seven thousand silk and
flax workers are on strike for higher wages in New York. They are making a
grand mistake in going out in these hard times when mill owners do not care
whether the mills run or remain closed. They should accept what they can earn
and strike for higher wages at the poles in 1896.
At the council meeting
on Wednesday evening the question of salaries was considered, and a resolution
passed setting the amounts for the ensuing year. The only change will be an increase for the
clerk from $550 to $600 per year. The marshals will hereafter get $600 per
month and turn over all fees to the city. Heretofore they received $45 and
retained all fees.
The gale of Monday
night caused considerable damage throughout the city.
Work in the shaft of
the gold and iron mine at Hortonville has been stopped owing to the fact that
the miners have struck water and cannot proceed until a steam pump is provided.
Arrests have been made
in various towns of the state of persons charged with operating gambling
devices in the form of “slot-machines.”
These machines are now being placed in stores and saloons. Nickels and
dines are being dropped in them with little or no chance of getting anything in
return.
The new German paper, Die
Kaukauna Zeitung, will make its bow to the public next Friday morning.
Kaukauna is to have a German newspaper in the near future. It is edited by Mr.
Carl Brenner, a young man of practical experience in the newspaper business.
Asking for a new trial
for a convicted murderer on the ground that the prosecuting attorney was too
eloquent is a unique idea fathered by a Michigan firm of lawyers.
The first blow toward
the new Hotel Brothers was struck last week, several trees being cut down on the
site and an old store building and barn are being moved to a different
location.
March 23, 1894
Heaven’s artillery
played havoc on the north side during the storm last Saturday morning. At about 7 o'clock a.m. John Peat's residence
was struck by a bolt of lighting and damaged almost beyond repair. The bolt
struck the chimney on the main part, demolishing it completely, scattering the
bricks throughout the house, and even driving them down through to the cellar.
The lightning descended the chimney breaking the stove, tearing off
plaster and splintering up the floor and rafters, so that the rooms look as if
a can of dynamite might have exploded within.
Clean up your back
yards. Remove the ash piles, pick up old tin cans, brush up the chips pile and
commence to get ready for summer.
New York – The arrest of four Italian boys for
“shooting craps’ caused a riot in “Little Italy.” Fifty policemen were required
to quell the disturbance. More than fifty arrests were made.
Owing to the hard times
and also the low price of flour, I have decided to reduce the price of bread to
five cents per loaf until further notice. - - Peter Kohler South Side Baker
Rhinelander will be
incorporated as a city. At the recent election only 18 votes out of 900 polled
were unfavorable.
March 30, 1894
A fire broke out at
Larson's Livery last night and spread rapidly along Wisconsin Avenue. Before
the flames could be contained, about 400 feet of Wisconsin Avenue was in ashes.
The blaze caused an estimated $15,000 in damage to seven businesses and no loss
of life occurred.
Lynn, Mass., Augustus Sutherland, a veteran of the civil
war, was last evening seized with a coughing fit, during which he ejected a
pistol bullet which had been imbedded in his neck for the past thirty-one
years. During the battle at Culpepper courthouse on October 11, 1863, he was
wounded and taken prisoner.
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