Time Machine Trip to September 1895

 

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

 

September 6, 1895

The new tissue machine for the new addition to the Thilmany Paper Mill has arrived and work of setting it up will commence at once.

 

The steamer K.M. Hutchinson was destroyed by fire on Lake Poygan last Saturday morning. Several of the crew members were quite badly burned as the flames spread very rapidly.

 

The bicycle craze is a great benefit in bringing old and young together on a common ground of interest. There is no other sport that men and women of all ages may engage on equal terms.

 

September 13, 1895

Frank Richardson, the Island photographer, runs a branch gallery at Brillion, making regular trips out there for business, but since his last visit he has been looking around for larger improved apparatus for securing negatives. While at Brillion on his usual visit, Richard Powers, wife and family came in to have a family group taken. Mr. and Mrs. Powers were a hale, hearty couple, with a rugged-looking family consisting of fourteen girls and 1 boy-the largest family of girls in the state it is believed. Richardson, sized up the party and was compelled to inform them that his gallery and camera were too small.

 

N. H. Brokaw has been granted a patent on a paper winder.

 

A little child of Mrs. Wallenstein narrowly escaped being crushed under the wheels of a train on the island last evening. He was playing on the track when the switch engine and several cars backed down. The little fellow was knocked down, two cars passing over him, but fortunately being small the space between the roadbed and cars saved his life.

 

Houghton, Mich., Sept. 9 – Smoke was observed issuing from shaft No. 2 at Calumet. About 200 miners were below at the time, all but twenty-six men and three boys escaped. The scene around the mouth of the mine was heartbreaking as family members of the entombed gathered around panic stricken by the news. Rescue crews attempted several times to ascend the shaft but were driven back by the heat and smoke.

Nezuma, an Otoe medicine man, revered by his tribe because of his divinations interpretations of dreams has actually been making rain at Red Rock, O.T. Little rain had fallen, and a crop failure seemed inevitable. No sooner had Nezuma called the people together and began his strange chant than the storm clouds gathered and Oklahoma enjoyed a phenomenal rain.  He is very popular with all the tribes as Indians have been making pilgrimages to his lodge with gifts and tokens.

 

September 20, 1895

Several residents at Dundas were entered by burglars. The thieves entered J. W. Broacher’s residence, through a window, taking out a screen, and stole a revolver and a pocketbook containing $20 in money and a $100 note. The pocketbook was found near the gate Sunday morning, with all its contents but the money. A watch, and a couple of rings near the purse on the stand, was not touched. They also entered the Mickie and Newhouse dwellings but secured nothing in either place. Mr. Newhouse heard someone in the house and discharged a revolver frightening them.

 

Train No. 2 on the Wisconsin Central Road, which left St.  Paul yesterday afternoon for Chicago was wrecked by robbers 3 miles north of Waupaca at 9:00 last night. The robbers piled rails and ties on the tracks and loosened some of the tracks so that when the train struck the obstruction the engine and several cars were derailed. An attempt was made to blow up the express safe with dynamite but on this the robbers failed. Only three robbers were in the gang and railroad, and Pinkerton detectives are now on their trail.

Sheriff Baake assisted by two deputies made a raid Saturday night on the two “resorts” just outside of the city limits of Kaukauna, capturing a bevy of ten, five soiled doves and as many men. The outfit was given a ride to Appleton and arraigned before a justice, who taxed them $10 and costs, amounting to each case to $22.22.

 

On Monday last the acting secretary of war issued an order revoking the former order of the department regarding the use of water from the Fox River for power purposes and once more at least a part of the wheels in the valley will again turn by waterpower.

 

It will probably not be long now before a fire is reported from Little Chute. The town authorities have decided to purchase a hand fire engine and when it arrives someone will want to see how it works, which of course will necessitate a blaze.

 

September 27, 1895

Anton Chopin lost his life in the wood yard at the Badger Mill shortly after 1 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon. He had just commenced to assist in unloading a carload of pulp timber, and in carrying the second stick from the car to the pile. He slipped from the plank used to walk on and fell to the ground, a distance of about ten feet. The heavy piece of wood which he had on his shoulder followed, the butt end striking his head and crushing it to the ground where he struck.

 

Capt. Locke, of the Green Bay Salvation Army, is the champion long winded, singer of the world, having sung 65 minutes at Green Bay Wednesday night, breaking the record by 5 minutes. The captain said he could have sung longer but accomplished his purpose.

 

A boy employed in a bicycle factory took a piece at a time, the parts of a bicycle until be had enough to construct a complete machine. He was arrested for grand larceny but in court his attorney proved by testimony from the complaining firm that the actual cost of the bicycle stolen (an $80 wheel) on the market was but $16.50.

 

Chicken thieves are committing their depredations on the south side, several hen-coops having been visited of late. Some of the owners of the stolen fowls have loaded their muskets and the sneaking vagabonds who are thus appropriating the property will get more than they bargain for some night.

 

El Paso, Tex., Sept. 25 – Mrs. L. H. Thompson shot and killed Hattie Baker, a woman for whom her husband was neglecting her and three children. Mrs. Thompson had used every sort of persuasion to prevent her husband from spending all his earnings on the Baker girl, but he turned a deaf ear to her. Feeling is very bitter against Mr. Thompson.