Kaukauna Times
By Lyle Hansen
June 5, 1885
On Thursday of last
week Jos. Koch watchman of the Renter Hub & Spoke Co., came up to the Bank
building to see if everything was all right at that place. Anton Gerharz had
been stationed to watch the Bank while the vault was under process of construction,
unbeknown to Koch who mistook Gerharz for a burglar and was prepared to open
fire upon him before he discovered his mistake.
Orange, Mass., - Willie Prentiss shot his father dead on the
night of the 26th. The father, while in a drunken fit, ordered his
son to shoot at a cup which he held on his head.
Milwaukee – The case of the youth, who swallowed a silver
dollar, still holds the attention of the doctors. The position of the coin was
located with the aid of an electric battery.
June 12, 1885
Read ordinance No. 5,
passed by the common council of Kaukauna their last meeting, and published this
week. Look out for your animals in the future. Cows are allowed to run at large
between the hours of five o'clock, a.m. and eight o'clock, p.m.
At police court on the
4th Wm. Goltz was brought before Justice Mulholland to answer to the
charge of using abusive language towards Mrs. J Green. He plead guilty and was
fined the usual amount and costs.
Pickens County, Ga., has a post office named “Talking Rock”. The
post office got its name when someone discovered a large stone upon was painted
the words “Turn me over.” It required considerable strength to accomplish the
task. On the bottom of the stone were the words “Now turn me back and fool
someone else.”
The St. Paul Globe “So
long as our laws continue to give murderers the presumption of innocence in
their favor and then permit hair-splitting technicalities to rule out the
evidence against them, just so long will there be lynching and mob law.”
June 19, 1885
The businessmen of
South Kaukauna have decided to build a grain elevator. A fine location has been
secured, nearly opposite the post office, and the work of construction will
begin at once. The R. R. Co. will build a side-track to the elevator.
On Tuesday last the
citizens of Kaukauna had the pleasure of witnessing an exhibition of steam fire
engines. The competition was between two machines and lasted five hours. Good
work was accomplished by both engines, each throwing a heavy stream a long
distance.
A telegram received by
the War Department confirms the reports of an attack by Apaches near Guadeloupe
Canyon in which five soldiers were killed.
New York – Ships blew their horns in the harbor as the
ship carrying Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty arrives. More than one hundred ships crowded with
spectators crowded near the French Ship carrying the Goddess. The day broke
suspiciously for the formal welcome to Bartholdi’s great statue of “Liberty”.
The sky was cloudless, and the rays of the June sun were shining. Along the
river fronts great crowds gathered early in the day. Over the waters all sorts
of gayly decked brightly decked craft sped hither and thither. The tall
buildings and even the Stock Exchange displaying the stars and stripes. When
the vessels that were to escort the Isere to Bedloe’s Island arrived in the
lower bay the water was swarming with craft as far as the eye could see reach.
The French man-of-war LaFlore headed the procession. Soon her gunners opened
the salute of honor by firing twenty-one guns in the short space of sixty-one
seconds.
June 26, 1885
The Bank of Kaukauna has recently built a vault in their building, which for proof against fire and burglars is equal to any in the country. The vault is built of stone and brick and is seven by nine feet in the interior. It is provided with shelves, etc., for storing books and papers. The entrance is guarded with two large, heavy doors both of which, of course, have combination locks attached. In addition to all this is a small steel burglar proof safe placed within the vault, which will protect the funds of the bank against any attack. This safe is provided with a time lock in addition to the ordinary combination.
Foreign dispatches tell
of story of a native African prince of the Brass River territory, who was shot
and slightly wounded by a native of an interior village. The prince took nine
villagers as hostages, when the villagers failed to find the assailant, he had
them all cooked and eaten.
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