Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-09
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES


Bradfeld, La Crosse, burned on the LIST
INST. Loss, $500.
BRAHDoN elected its prohibition ticket
with the exception of one candidate
The supervisor is democrat,
A FIRE caused by defective chimney
destroyed the residence of Michael
Wortz, at Taycheedah, on the 30th nit.
Loss about 81 900.
HE charter election at Waukesha re-
suited IN the election of the entire re-
publican ticket with the exception of
Nelson for marshal, who was elected by
Is majority.
PAUL OIEsoN, of Weyauwega, lost a
valuable COW recently by poison. The
bovine partook of dose intended for
rats. PauPs friends generously con-
tributed $33 toward supplying his loss.
A YOUNG man named Davis shot a
wild swan In Diamond Grove, Iowa
County, which measured 7 feet from tip
TO tip OF its wings, and 4 feet from foot
to beak. It was pure white and soft in
plumage.
A KILBoURN CITY dispatch says:
''Last Friday, while Hans Davids was
driving through the country, he observed
some animals playing on knoll. Fur
ther inspection disclosed them to be a
family Of timber wolves. He procured
shovel and proceeding to their den dug
out and killed six wolves, the bounties
on which (about 500 will repay him for
his work."
CoNGREssMAN-ELECT WINANs has Sc
lected Beloit as the place, and has
named Friday, May II, as the time
when applicants for examination for ap-
pointment to to the military and naval
academies will take place. The exam
nations will take place in the council
chamber In that city. Ogden FL. Feth-
ers, of Beloit, Prof. FL. G. Winslow, of
Racine, and DR.. FL. P. Strong, of Beloit,
will constitute the examining committee.
BENJAMIN F. BoRMAN, proprietor of
the Waukesha, Forest City and Pc
waukee FIGURING Mills,i is financially en-
barrassed. He says he can liquidate his
Indebtedness if his creditors, are lenient.
His total Liabilities are abodt $45, 900.
The Waukesha mill is valued at S45, 600,
and the Pewaukee mill at S25, 600. Aside
from these Mr.. Borman owns several
valuable pieces Of real estate.
THE residence Of VIM. Jackson and
blacksmith shop belonging to F. Who'll.
man at Bailey's Harbor, Door County,
were destroyed by fire on the I'd inst,
with all their contents. Two of Mr..
Jackson's children, Bertha and Olive.
aged II and years respectively, were
IN the upper story of the house, and per-
ished in the flames. The loss is 81 900;
no insurance. A defective chimney is
supposed to have caused the fire.
On the 10Th ult., Michael Moriarty,
aged u years and nearly blind, at
tempted to cut his Wife's throat and
then his own, at the family residence in
Osceola, fifteen miles from Fond du Lac.
In his blindness he missed his wife's
throat and slashed her in the jaw. His
strength failed him when he essayed his
own destruction, and he was unable to
sever the important blood vessels.
Moriarty is now In the Northern Hos
pital for the Insane, at Oshkosh.
A FRAME building at Watertown, oc-
cupied by a. & S. Samm, grocers, and
T. Schiebel, milliner, burned on the
Both ult. An adjoining building, owned
and occupied by T. Kurzweg, boot and
shoe dealer, was also consumed. The
total loss amounts to about 81, 900.
During the progress of the fire,
distressing accident befel Mary
Butcher, highly respected young lady,
daughter of Joseph Butcher, clothing
merchant, whose building adjoins Kurz-
weg's. She was standing at glass door
overlooking the fire, when the fremen
accidentally turned the stream against
the door, SCATTERING the glass in the
lady's face, so badly cutting her eyes
that it is feared she will become blind.
WHILE the GAINESVILLE freight on the
Chicago, Milwaukee and ST. Paul Rail-
way nearing Beloit Junction, on the
night of the 28th, the train divided,
leaving but one brakeman In front with
eighteen cars to handle. In consequence
that part of the train rushed through an
open switch, ditching six loaded cars
and smashing them up. The engine
passed over the small bridge IN safety,
although off the track, but the six cars
went through, two of them lying in the
bottom of the creek. The engineer and
fireman both jumped. the former, Ed.
Flynn, of Chicago, receiving serious in
ternal injury. The fireman escaped I'M
hurt.
A DISPATCH from Spring Green, Sank
County, dated the Both ult., says:
"Last Satu1 day, a week ago, Rinold
Sthwanke, of the town of Troy, this
county, was working near his house with
his little child playing near him with
the dog. Having occasion to go to the
house for moment, he left the little
boy and dog, not thinking of any danger.
When he returned, both were gone.
Search was made that afternoon without
success. In the evening the dog came
home, but without the child. The
neighborhood was by that time thor
oughIy alarmed. and the hunt was kept
up all that night but without avail.
More than week has now passed with
out tidings. and, of course, it is scarcely
probable that the little wanderer is
alive"