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Kaukauna, Wi 54130
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Kaukauna Times
September 4, 1885
The residence, which is
now being built by A. D. Grignon on the old homestead in Kaukauna, will be the
third which has been constructed by the Grignon family, all which structures
will be yet standing and each built by a different generation. The first of
these is a log house and was erected over 80 years ago by Augustine Grignon.
Here was born Charles A. Grignon, Sr., who in turn erected the present Grignon
residence, and where all his children were born. Augustine, the grandson, now
builds the third which will outshine in architecture the dwellings of his
ancestors, but it cannot, in all probabilities, be anymore substantially
constructed.
Samuel Collins was hanged at Bowling Green Mo., on the 28th for the murder of Owen Utterback. The widow and two small children of his victim witnessed the execution.
New York Sept. 1 – An electric motor was attached to a regular
passenger coach with thirty people on board and with sparks flashing started
out from the Fourteenth Street station. It went up the grade smoothly without
the least jarring. Hundreds of people along the route cheered and waved as the
silent train sped by.
The board of directors of the Kaukauna free
public library held a meeting Monday evening and opened bids for furnishing
books for the start of the new institution. Several bids were filed of which
George Brumier’s of Germania Publishing Company; Milwaukee was the lowest and
he was awarded the contract. His bid was $437 for a total of 618 volumes. The
list is an assorted one, consisting of references. Mythology, government,
sports, arts, literature and poetry children's stories and a number of picture
books with large variety of works of fiction biography and American history.
September 11, 1885
D. J. Brothers has completed an
insurance map of Kaukauna which he had lithographed. The work on the map is
very fine and would be a credit to an expired civil engineer. It shows the
exact location of nearly every business house, dwelling and other building in
the city and will be of great value to insurance companies.
The first locomotive
was turned out of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western railway machine shops
in Kaukauna on the 15th. It is a splendid piece of workmanship by
the workers in this splendid city. This
was the first locomotive built in Wisconsin outside of Milwaukee where
locomotives were built since 1852.
The cause of temperance
in the South has made much greater headway than in the North. There are dozens
of counties in every state where prohibition is well complete, and temperance
men united to keep it so.
Knoxville, Tenn., Sept.
5 - A group of about 200 masked men passed down the street in the direction of
the jail. The jailer surrendered the keys to the cell and Lee Sellers the young
man charged with murder was then taken out to the middle of the bridge. He stood with his arms folded and never
flinched when the rope was placed over his head. His hands were not tied, and he was hoisted
up by his neck over the cross beam. He then pulled the rope loose and crawled it
up to the top of the bridge. While he crossed
at least fifty shots were fired, none hitting him. A ladder was sent for and
four men climbed up to get him. As the group was coming down, the ladder
tipped, and Sellers when into the river and has not been seen since.
September 18, 1885
A social gathering was held on the Oneida
reservation last Monday at Union Park, under the auspices of the old soldiers
of the reservation for the purpose of raising a fund with which the Oneida
Indians are to start a Grand Army Post. During the war with the union there
were about 40 Oneida Indians who volunteered and fought bravely for their
country. An application will soon be made for their G.A.R. post.
Street Commissioner
Posson has placed signs on the South Side bridges warning drivers to pass over
no faster than a walk if they wish to avoid paying a fine of $3.00.
Three of the original
seven men appointed to guard President Garfield’s grave have gone crazy.
The worthlessness of
the murdered man was the only plea made by a Wyoming lawyer in defense of his
client, who deliberately shot a bully for merely annoying him. The judge
pronounced it unsound in law, but the jury let it justify in their minds a
verdict of acquittal.
The contract for
building the Catholic Church and schoolhouse in South Kaukauna was awarded to
Thos. Solar. The price of the work is $4,450 being $82.50 lower than the next
bid.
September 25, 1885
Mr. Bullen, a well-to-do
farmer living about 6 miles east of Kaukauna, while driving on Wisconsin Avenue
last Monday, met with a terrible accident caused by his team running away. When
near the drawbridge the horses became frightened and broke into a run, going at
full speed across both bridges and stopping suddenly near John Schultheis'
Island Hotel, throwing Mr. Bullen from the vehicle against a hitching post. Dr.
Conner attended to him and found the man's jaw badly broken and otherwise not
badly injured. The wounds were dressed
as soon as possible and the injured man taken home that same evening by his
neighbor, Mr. Sam Beach.
St. Thomas, Ont. -
Jumbo, the $30,000 elephant, was struck and killed by a freight train on the
night of the 15th. Jumbo weighed 6 tons and consumed 500 to 600 lbs.
per day. His keeper was leading him
along the track to load him when the train came up from behind.
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An excursion party of
about 200 members of the New England Veterans Association visited Harrison,
Va., on the 18th. They were met by a large delegation of
ex-Confederate veterans and treated to an open-air banquet. The best of
feelings prevailed, and an enjoyable day was shared. The group visited a
Confederate cemetery where they decorated the graves of the dead soldiers.
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