R. T. Dark has been enjoying himself this week. On Monday
he filled up with "bug juice" concluded to knock out Sullivan, biffed
another man instead, was locked up for drunk and disorderly conduct and slept
in the cooler Monday night. Tuesday morning, he was arraigned before Justice
Mulholland and pleads guilty to being D&D and was fined $2.00 and costs,
total $7.40, discharged, rearrested for assault and battery, guilty again fine
$10.67.
“When I was a lad,
“said a gentleman, “my father spent $150 on me for music lessons at 50 cents
apiece. At the time I did not see any particular use for it but practiced just
to please the old gentleman. A few days ago, I asked him why he tried to teach
me music. He replied that the music lessons were only a scheme to keep me in at
night and it worked too.”
A Miraculous Escape – Pedestrians who happened along Lawe Street last Saturday
afternoon witnessed a sight that made their blood run cold for a few moments. A
baby carriage, with an occupant, was being wheeled over the crossing near the
American House, by a small boy, when a heavy load, pulled by a gray team,
turned up the same crossing. The boy in charge of the carriage saw the eminent
danger, was unable to pull the carriage back in time. The horses ran directly
into it. The baby was dashed to the ground and the horses realizing something
was wrong pranced around. All who witnessed the site never expected to gaze
upon the child alive again. The baby carriage was destroyed beneath the animals
but save a few scratches the little one was uninjured.
Winter is coming and you should see that all the nails are
driven down in your walks and that the same are fixed up in good condition. It
will be easier to shovel “the beautiful snow” when it arrives
October 10, 1890
Engineer Wm. Woods, of this city, made the fastest run,
from Milwaukee to Kaukauna Tuesday, that has ever been recorded on the Lake
Shore road. He covered the distance, 112 miles with No. 3, in two hours and
forty minutes.
Paper passed over the new machine at the Thilmany Paper Mill
for the first time Monday afternoon. Everything is now in good running order.
The merchants of the south side have signed an agreement
this week to close their places of business at 8 o'clock in the evening each day
in the week except Saturday in the evenings of the 20th and the 21st of each
month. By closing the stores at 8 o'clock it affords the owners and clerks of
the establishments an opportunity to attend entertainments in the evening or
enjoy a few hours with their families. Arrangements have been made with one of
the mills to blow a whistle at 8 o'clock thus making a uniform time for all to
go by.
In His Wife's Clothing – “Bill” Howard, who was under a death sentence for murder,
escaped from prison at Greenville South Carolina on the 7th. Howard's wife was,
allowed to spend the night with her husband. In the morning Howard, dressed in
his wife's clothing, came down the stairs in the jail with an infant in his
arms and after leaving the baby at a relative’s house, he fled before the
jailer had discovered the trick.
Killed By a Train - A Belgium named Leon Busha, who resided in Kaukauna for
a short time, was run over by the Milwaukee Lakeshore and Western train near
the Combined Locks sometime Wednesday night and instantly killed, his body
being mangled almost beyond recognition. Mr. F. Hillman had started out to care
for his horses about 5:30 in the morning crossing the track he noticed a human
leg. Parts of the body and clothing were scattered along the track for a
distance of about 200 feet. The proper authorities in this city where once
notified and remains placed in a box and brought here for burial. Busha boarded
with a family named Francis on the island and had been employed at the mill at
the Combined. During the day, after he had received his pay at the mill, he had
become intoxicated when last seen was drunk and was walking the tracks back to
Kaukauna.
October 17, 1890
Several boys on the north side who have been enjoying
themselves for a week past by breaking windows and lights with air guns and
sling shots have come to grief. They were caught in the act last Tuesday night
and promptly arrested the next morning.
Ordered His Own Coffin - William Peters, of Lukin, Ill., died on the 10th. He was
without a doubt, the largest man in the county, his weight being 400 pounds. Thursday,
he requested that the undertaker order a coffin for him, saying that he was
going to die at 6 o'clock Friday morning and that there were no coffins large
enough for him there and one would have to be made. Undertaker Stevens at once
ordered one and it came on the midnight train. Within 20 minutes of the time he
had predicted he expired. His age was 47 years.
Children Confirmed - St. Mary's Church, south Kaukauna, was filled to overflowing
last Sunday morning a vast congregation having assembled to witness Bishop
Katzer administered rights of confirmation to a class of 112 children.
One of those strange stories of coincidence that we
sometimes read about comes through a story of a family in West Virginia. The
family name is Franklin the father and the mother were married on the 14th
of October. They have had nine children, all of them born on 14 October. Five
of the nine are dead and every one of them breathed their last on the 14th day
of October. He was a Confederate soldier and was captured twice and had two
brothers killed in the War Between the States, all of these mishaps and
misfortunes of war occurred on the 14th day of October.
It looks as if matters are running very loose at Waupun
these days. Officials are becoming negligent and need a thorough overhauling. A
few weeks ago, Soquet, one of the worst criminals ever sent to the prison,
escaped through the carelessness of an overseer, and now comes another escape in
about the same manner. On Friday last Michael Fing, a convict serving a
seven-year sentence for manslaughter managed to slip away and is still at
large.
Last Tuesday in the case of Clara Van Ooyen vs. Nicholas
Beaulieu, for vile and abusive language, the jury found a verdict for the
plaintiff and gave her a judgment of $325 damages.
Agent Kelsey recently paid out $100,000 to the Menominee
Indians, being one half of the seasons pay for logging and will make a second
payment shortly.
Almost Blind – A few weeks ago THE TIMES contained a news story that
Seth Tuttle was suffering with his eyes, some steel dust having been blown
therein while at work. Since that time Mr. Tuttle's eyesight has been failing,
almost touching total blindness. On Friday last, he departed for Milwaukee for
treatment. It is to be hoped that Mr. Tuttle will fully recover.
Colored Men’s Equal
Rights – Lansing, Mich., Oct.
11 – The Supreme Court has rendered a very, important opinion affecting the
rights of colored people in public places. One Ferguson, colored, with a
friend, entered a restaurant in Detroit, of which a man named Gies was proprietor.
Seating themselves at a table a waiter informed them that they couldn’t be
waited on at that table, but if they would take a seat at one which he
designated that they would be served. This they refused and demanded service at
the table that they were sitting. The proprietor admitted discrimination
between white and black people and claimed he had a right to do so. The
plaintiff brought a suit for damages and it was defeated in court. An appeal was
brought before the Supreme Court. The court holds the colored man is a citizen
under the constitution and cannot be discriminated against in public places.
October 24, 1890
No man who is able and willing to work in Kaukauna needs to
be without employment a day or an hour. There is a demand for help at good wages
such as the city has never, before known.
Men for the woods are in great demand at present says in
northern Wisconsin exchange. From $26-$35 per month is offered and steady work
is assured good men.
October 31, 1890
Sitting Bull
STANDING ROCK AGENCY, N. D., Oct. 28 – For the last four weeks Sitting Bull has
been inciting the Sioux Indians in this facility to an uprising. He is enlisted
the sympathies of the large number of young bucks and several hundred of them
had agreed to go on the warpath at his bidding. Several of them who were in the
famous campaign at the Little Big Horn offered strenuous objections to the
foolhardy proposals. Companies G and H, 12th infantry and troops F. and G.
eighth Calvary are at Fort Yates could probably quell a disturbance put out without
other assistance. Kicking Horse, the great Sioux profit, seems to be
responsible for most of the trouble at Standing Rock. He claims to have visited
heaven and returned to earth to tell the Indians what good things are in store
for them. He tells them they must not kill the whites as the Great Spirit would
take care of them. He declares that the time will soon come when the Indians
will occupy the earth to the exclusion of the whites.
Evening School – A movement is afoot in this city toward establishing an
evening school to the benefit of many young men and boys that are at present
laboring in the various manufacturing institutions thus cutting them off from
regular day school hours. If the evening school is commenced a course of
studies appropriate will be adopted each attendant being allowed to take up
such studies desired.
