Chicago Sun-Times: Remember when

On this date, as reported in the Chicago Daily News:

100 years ago:

*Col. Millard Hunsiker, the European manager of the Carnegie Steel company, said it would be "nonsense" to suppose that Germany or any other European nation were scheming to get in trouble with the United States.

*Rep. Coombs, chairman of the subcommittee of the Interstate committee, informed Rep. McAndrews that the Chicago city officials who were opposing the Mann resolution for the removal of the tunnels would have to "fish or cut bait."

75 years ago:

*More than 1,500 Chicago gambling house proprietors who expected a shutdown order after the bombing of the homes of two high-ranking city officials cheered up over reports that two nightclubs with expensive roulette layouts could open without political interference.

*A jobless man was shot dead as he was caught stealing coal for his family.

50 years ago:

* Scores of dikes burst under the lash of gales sweeping England and Northern Europe, bringing floods to great areas.

*Forty people, many of them Americans, were believed to have drowned in foaming North Sea flood waters that overwhelmed a Norfolk coastal resort.

25 years ago:

*Chicago's two big cab companies released audited financial statements that they said "demonstrate beyond any reasonable doubt" that the controversial fare increase approved by the City Council was justified.

*The government's star witness in the O'Hare Airport runway bid- rigging trial testified that his firm made a $100,000 payoff in asphalt to contractor Thomas J. Bowler.