Kaukauna Times - December 1884
December 5, 1884
Roller skating has become "all the rage" in
Kaukauna and Ledyard and almost every evening finds a large crowd of young
people at the Twin City Rink.
On the evening of the 1st flames were discovered
in the dormitories of the State University building at Madison and it soon
became apparent that Science Hall was on fire. The building contained the
finest scientific equipment of its kind in the West and many years’ worth of
scientific studies. The fire department volunteers seemed paralyzed and could
do nothing to stay the flames, and the entire building was burned to the ground
in front of a crowd of 10,000 persons.
December 12, 1884
Col. H. A. Frambach made an extensive business trip to many of the larger
eastern cities last week. He reports a dull trade everywhere he went, but
nevertheless, managed to obtain numerous large orders of paper.
The completion of the Washington monument, after nearly
thirty-six years of effort, was announced on the 6th by a salute of
twenty-one guns from the District artillery.
Great excitement has been caused in the South Newmarket,
N.H., by the discovery that a 7-year-old boy has died from the effects of
repeated whippings at the hands of William Gilpatrick, a farmer who took the
boy from his widowed mother to bring up. Gilpatrick has disappeared.
December 19, 1884
A woman was arrested by officer McGray, on Saturday last,
she being found in a drunken condition. She was tried before Justice Mulholland
who gave her twenty days in the county jail for vagrancy.
Following a fire that
destroyed three Kaukauna businesses, a meeting was held at Hamer's Hall for the
purpose of discussing the possibilities of organizing a fire fighting company.
A paper was circulated and about 40 citizens signed it as volunteers in such a
company. A committee was appointed to raise money for the purchase of an engine
and other necessary apparatus, and the meeting then adjourned.
A Paris dispatch of the
15th says: French General Negrie’s forces have captured 10,000
Chinese soldiers then took 200 of them and set them up for his riflemen to
practice on. All were killed.
Washington, Dec. 13 – The
Prohibitionist seem to have their appetites whetted at the polls last month and
fancy they see victory looming up in the future. They are reaching out to
congress for an amendment to the constitution to prohibit the manufacture,
importation or sale of alcoholic liquors.
Chicago, Dec 11. – At a
meeting of Socialist last night, a speaker named Griffin declared that workmen
must be incited to resistance; that all monopolists were enemies to the country
and ought to be hung; and that peace and order could be better sustained if
they were abolished. Famine was the result of over production and not poor
crops. The only way to stop it was to pay nothing, receive pay for nothing,
take everything and without price.
December 26, 1884
A large crowd attended the masquerade at the Roller Rink on
Saturday evening last. The only people to appear "in costume", were
from, Ledyard who came with the expectation that the people on the north side
would disguise themselves also. The north side people considered the affair of
Ledyard entertainment held in Kaukauna.
New York was never so overrun with beggars as it is now,
and many make from $2 to $5 per day.
A Saloon at Laredo, Texas recently received a turtle
measuring 3 ½ by 6 ½ feet and weighing 550 pounds.
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