Time Machine Trip to July 1894

 

Kaukauna Times – July 1894

By Lyle Hansen

July 6, 1894

John Timm succeeded in pumping the government quarry dry by Sunday last, and during the afternoon invited all his friends down and treated them to a regular old fashion fish barbecue. Large numbers of bass, pickerel, perch, pike, etc., were captured in the quarry hole.

The Sun has passed the first decade of its existence, this issue being the first number of the eleventh year. The present management proposes to keep abreast of the times and keep the craft in the middle of the channel of current events.

 

The American Railway union boycott of Pullman cars has resulted in the most widespread and complete tie-up of railway line in the west in the history of railroad operations.

 

The glorious Fourth throughout this portion of the state and especially along the Fox River was an ideal one. The weather could not have been more perfect. With the booming of the cannon the day opened at 9:30 at 75 degrees. The business and homes throughout the city were arrayed in “old glory”.  The Fire Department held a picnic at Eden Park and Holy Cross held a picnic at City Park. The groups passed through the main thoroughfares being viewed by large crowds. Quite a number of merchants had decorated advertising wagons in the parade.   

 

 A quartette of drunks were run in on Fourth of July evening and paid fines the next day. 

  

July 13, 1894

The little son of Chris Hanson got his right hand caught between the revolving grindstone and the iron rest, at the railroad shops Monday afternoon.

PS: It was common to hire children to oil machines as they had small hands and could reach in tight places. 

 

Hass & Merbach will open their new hardware store for general business next Monday.

 

The Kaukauna Electric Light Company has posted notices forbidding tying horses to its poles.

 

A.I. Burbank was a Shawano visitor last week, returning home on his bicycle, riding a distance of about 80 miles during the day.    

 

While hoeing on his farm the other day, John Brill dug out an old English coin, which upon showed the date of 1797. It was coined at the time of George III.

 

July 20, 1894

Northern Wisconsin is at present being plagued by swarms of grasshoppers which moved about as thick clouds, eating gardens bare of everything. To make matters worse, forest fires are raging in sections of the state in several locations.

Chicago, Ill., July 15 - Patrick Prendergast the assassin who murdered Chicago Mayor Carter Harrison, was hanged in the county jail today.  

 

The new pulp mill at Little Chute was the scene of a phenomenon Tuesday night similar to the “earthquake” which visited Combined Locks several years ago. In this latter instance several hundred feet of rock was pushed up in a ridge from the bridge to the tail race under the mill.

 

New flag coming, on Tuesday the President signed the bill to permit Utah to hold a constitutional convention and be admitted into the union as a state.

 

July 27, 1894

War between Japan and China has begun as the two countries lock horns over control of a little peninsula called Korea. The guards at the imperial palace at Seoul are assuming the most hostile attitude toward the Japanese troops in the capital.

 

T.M. Kellogg has resigned as manager of the Kaukauna Telephone Exchange after twelve years of service.  The exchange has been for a long time in poor condition. The exchange will be placed temporarily under the Appleton management.

 

The Advocate says that Green Bay has 80 saloons and a population of nearly 12,000 or one saloon for every 150 people. Kaukauna has about the same proportion, a population of 6000 with 40 saloons.