October 2, 1896
A great demonstration
was held in Kaukauna on Wednesday. More than 1,500 people gathered at one of
the largest Republican rallies ever held in Outagamie County to listen to
Ex-senator John Spooner speak. Many of the top Republicans in the state were in
attendance for the all-day event.
Local politics in Kaukauna were at a fever
pitch ahead of the 1896 presidential election. The local "Sound Money
Club" erected a 110-foot flagpole in the middle of the street to raise a
massive American flag, while rival Democratic clubs held grand rallies at the
Opera House featuring prominent speakers.
October
9, 1896
The steamer Evelyn has gone into winter
quarters at Oshkosh.
A city football team to
oppose the high school eleven was organized by a number of the boys who met
last Monday evening at F. M. Charlesworth's drug store.
James McFadden, of this city, fell from a
freight train coming into Kaukauna Thursday afternoon and was instantly killed
beneath the cars. A companion who was with him says the young man got on the
train at Green Bay and was somewhat intoxicated at the time.
A bus load of
Republicans from here went to Little Chute Wednesday evening and attended a
meeting called for the purpose of organizing a McKinley and Hobart club. The
speeches are received with applause. A club was then organized with the
following officers elected: Pres. C. H. Peters; Vice Pres. P. N. Van Handel,
Sec., Charles Germanson.
Mrs. Edward White of
New York City is a remarkable woman. She has challenged heavy weight champion
Jim Corbett to a boxing match and she fights regularly with her husband two
times a day and makes no secret of it. In other words Mrs. White holds her own
against the champion welterweight boxer of the world. She is willing to enter
contest with male professionals and fight to the finish.
October 16, 1896
First Kaukauna High Football team
The newly organized high
school football team won its first match last Saturday, when they met the Ryan
High School team of Appleton on the gridiron in this city. Miller secured the
first touchdown for Kaukauna and C. Frambach scored the next two touchdowns and
Hallock kicked goal making the score 22 to 14.
Theodore Hesselberg, an
elderly and well-known resident living alone on Kaukauna’s north side, was
discovered dead in his bed after neighbors grew suspicious when no smoke was
seen coming from his chimney.
On account of the
scarcity of room at the high school building, a great many pupils, especially
the seniors, have to sit two in a seat. This is not very convenient, so the
seniors are allowed to leave school immediately after their recitations.
The interior of the
Savings Bank has undergone quite a change this week. Large new shelving has
been added alone the middle of the store. The Savings Bank is fast gaining in
favor in Kaukauna.
Spiral Submersible illustrations detail a
revolutionary submarine design invented by Mr. Apostoloff. Instead of using a
traditional rear propeller, the submarine itself functions like a giant
Archimedes' screw or boring worm, spiraling through the water. It features
thick glass observation ports and electric floodlights for viewing ocean
shipwrecks.
A number of monuments or headstones furnished
by the government to mark the graves of several union soldiers hereabouts,
arrived recently and on Monday a delegation of members of the Paul H. Beaulieu
Post No. 247, G. A. R., drove out to the Buchanan Cemetery to mark the places
for the stones on the graves of the old soldiers who now answer to the roll in
the great army that has been mustered to the other shore.
A tramp who gave his name as J. C. Smith was
arrested on the south side by officer Earles last Saturday night for stealing a
coat from the Grand View hotel. Smith is a believer in the adage, “God helps
those who help themselves.” The tramp lost the coat and got 30 days in the
county bastille.
October
23, 1896
Following the
mysterious disappearance of Kaukauna City Treasurer W. T. Rambusch, an
examination of his books revealed missing funds and altered records. Unofficial
estimates put the shortage between $25,000 and $30,000. Shortly after fleeing, Rambusch was found
dead in a hotel in Carrollton, Missouri. It was determined that he took his own
life by drinking carbolic acid.
The Kaukauna football team won its second match
game last Saturday afternoon at Appleton by a score of 12 to 4. At the close of
the first half the score was 4 to 4. If Appleton people think the Kaukauna game
was interfered with by spectators, they certainly cannot say that the Appleton
game was free from this interference. The spectators resembled a mob. If the Appleton people stayed out of the way
one half the distance that the Kaukauna people were in all probability the
score would have been different and not in Appleton's favor either.
On the 1st of November, Charles
Welter of the town of Kaukauna, will start a new milk delivery wagon in this
city. Mr. Welter says the price of butter and cheese is very low and therefore
decided to deliver full cream milk for four cents per quart.
October
30, 1896
The eight-hour working
schedule went into effect at the railway shops Monday. The employees now quit
at 4:30 in the afternoon.
The high school
football team won its third match at De Pere by a score of 24-0. In the evening
the high school girls gave a social and reception for the two teams and made
great efforts to make the evening enjoyable.
The great one-man show has made its farewell tour,
and Kaukauna has seen the elephant. William Jennings Bryan touch at Kaukauna at
10:15 this morning for about 15 minutes, talked about it’s and supposes. A
large crowd of perhaps 2500 people turned out to greet Willie but it was an
awful frosty mass of humanity. No one
joined in the cheers at the reception. The railroad shops and most of the Mills
were closed down so that all laborers could go and see and hear the great and
only Bryan. As the greater part of the population of Kaukauna saw and heard the
candidate who will be buried under an avalanche of ballots next Tuesday, it is
not necessary to further comment on his appearance here for The TIMES press
hour has arrived.
While boarding a crowded streetcar on Chicago's
West Side, a young woman felt a thief reaching directly into her dress pocket
for her purse. Instead of panicking, the young woman grabbed the thief's hand
through the fabric of her skirt, twisted his wrist, and forced him to drop both
the purse and a costly diamond ring he was wearing before he managed to break
free and flee into the crowd.
