Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-06
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

The Wisconsin Granite Company, at
Montello, are getting out material for an
elegant mausoleum at Chicago.
ONE of Alex. Syme's large stave sheds
burned On the 30th at Clear Lake, con-
tanning some IS, 600 worth of stock.
Miss FRANKIE STEVENS, of Madison,
while attempting to aIight from buggy
at GAINESVILLE, on the 29fh, fell and frac-
tured her left leg between the ankle and
knee.
JUDGE BUM has sentenced the Ash
land counte1fe1ters to the state prison
Hector Craig for term Of one year
and Julius Marcott for nine months.
The men were also fined 81 each.
DURING temporary fit of insanity
man named Carrigau, living a short dis
lance west IF Eau Claire, entered an IN
occupied barn, set it on fire, and
persisted in the flames. His remains
were found burned almost beyond recog-
milton.
JUDGE BUNDY, rendered his verdicts
on the Goth, In the cases of Lon Davis,
the forger, and John Rudolph, the
would-be brother slayer. He gave them
two years apiece at Waupun. Rudolph
has already served out term Of five
years on conviction of rape.
Miss LAURA HARNDEN, daughter of
Gen. Harnden, collector of internal
revenue at Madison, died at Washington
on the 18th, of neuralgia of the heart.
She was about 30 years of age and had
been employed in one of the government
departments for several years.
ALL of the swamp and overfowed
lands in Monroe county, belonging to
the state Of Wisconsin, which have not
heretofore been offered for sale, will, if
not previously pre-empted, be offered
for sale at public auction, at the capitol,
in Madison, on September 4th, ard con-
tlnue from day to day until all shall
have been offered.
On the 10Th man named Frank
Dempsey, living two miles east Of Eau
Claire, accidentally shot himself Oy the
premature discharge of a musket. The
charge passed through Dempsey's
shoulder, making a horrible wound and
necessitating amputation of the arm
clean from the shoulder. There is no
hope Of his recovery.
Col. W. B. BRITToN, of GAINESVILLE,
who commanded the Eighth Wisconsin
(Eagle) Regiment during the war, has
been relic hunting in the vicinity of
Nashville, Tenn. He secured several
battered canteens and tin plates, besides
pieces of crockery which be recognized
as remnants of dishes which his troops
carried from Missouri.
SCARLET fever is prevailing among
children to an alarming extent in the
town of Shields and vicinity, about five
miles west of Watertown. The disease
appears to have assumed an epidemic
form and many fatal cases have oc-
Cured. At Redwood the school has
been closed in consequence of the
scourge. A number of families have
from three to five children down with
the disease.
The rates of licenses in a few of Wis
cOnsin towns are as follows: Milwaukee
nah $75; Waupaca $75; Portage 500;
Waupun 500; Erin 800; Fort Atkinson
S112; Palmyra SIP; La Crosse $3.50;
Appleton 1925; Oshkosh $3.50; New Lon
don $3.50; Marshfeld $137. 81; Kenosha
5000; Tomah 5000; Berlin 5000; Clinton
vile 5000; Menasha 5000.
WORK on Janesville's new cotton fac
tory is progressing rapidly. It is ex-
pected that by the LIST of September 800
looms will be in operation. This will
make 700 looms including the 400 now
running at the old factory. The latter
is running night and day and turns out
ITO, 900 yards per week. The new cot
ton factory will at first be operated only
in the day time. Its capacity will be
$4,000 yards per week. The two fac
tories together will employ between =
four and five hundred hands.
THE question as to whether E. ".
Chain, of Waukesha, is a legal justice
of the peace or not has been settled by
a decision in the circuit court Justice
Spencer sentenced an offender to ten
days in jail on charge of being drunk
and disorderly. Chain, though broth
er member of the bar, contested the
validity of the sentence by suing out
writ of habeas corpus, as sentence was
not passed by Chain, the village justice
before whom, according to the laws of
all such cases should be
brought. Judge Sloan entertained the
plea and discharged the prisoner.