Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-04
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES
SPARTA is to have a match factory

500 ia silver secured.
FRANK ALBEE, Of New Richmond, had
a thigh broken by corning in contact
with the machinery of q saw mill at
Hudson several days since.
The people of Lone Rock have pur-
chased for the Sixth Wisconsin Battery
q tract of land suitable for permanent
camping ground.
z. f. LEWIS recently shipped lot of
knit underwear to Turkey from his fac
tory il Lewistown. The goods vera or
dered by a missionary society
Guy BIRD, son of Col. G. w, Bird,
Of Jefferson. was drowned while in
swimming III Rock Rock, at that place,
about 5 o'clock on the evening of the
Goth.
HENRY CHAPMAN, of Stevens Point,
unexpectedly received a check for 5000
from Alaska. Eighteen years ago he
had enabled the sender to move to
Oregon by loaning him SIS,
JOHN DoUGHERTY, who resides
about four miles southeast of Elroy,
Juneau County, lost four children with
IL few days of each other from diph-
liberia.
JAMES Lowe, of Manlzato, MINI. while
bathing with twenty young companions
IL a Lnlll-pond at Hazel Green, was seized
with cramps and drowned before assist
ance could reach him.
a YOUNG man named Joe Lessard was
drowned at o'clock PM. on the oath
ult. while bathing in the river a short
distance above Prairie du Chen. He
leaves a wife and four children.
D. p. EVERETT, of Monroe, while
pruning trees several days since fellfrom
q ladder and struck his arm against the
keen edge of an axe, cutting o terrible
cash IL the muscular part of the LIMB.
JOHN PARR, an employe of brick
yard at Edgerton, while bathing in q pit
II the yard on the 20th, was taken with
cramps and drowned. His remains were
taken TO the home of his parents In Ore
gon, Dane County.
A EAU CLAIRE dispatch Of the Goth
says: ''An employe of the Omaha Rail
way Company named T. Reidmiller had
his foot run over by locomotive IN the
Altoona yards, necessitating amputatlon
near the knee.
The Meriden Lumber Company's new
lumber and shingIe mills, sixteen miles
FROM Eau Claire, IL the Chippewa River.
were destroyed by fire on the Doth.
Loss $50, 900, on which there was an in
surance of 10000.
The Free Masons and the Guppy
Guards, of Portage, have massed their
funds to erect a building which shall
serve rs a lodge-room and an armory,
the guards TO occupy the ground floor
and the Masons the second story.
WN. KAUFMAN, employed in the mill
Of L. Roher, at Clintonville, was caught
In . belt and severely, If not fatally in
iured. His jaw was broken and several
teeth knocked out. He has a wife end
four children at Menasha. Wis.
The Custer monument is now ready
for inspection at Montello. It is a
square pedestal and base, polished on
al four sides, nlargined off, and has
lettering on every side, the letters being
1,400 IN number and Egyptian il style.
The weight of the work is eleven tons.
The business place of G. Bilstad, al
Cambridge, Dane County, was entered
by burglars on the night of the ed
and the safe was robbed of S865-S425
IL bills and $40 in draft. The book
and draft were found back of the
premises, near the creek.
AT Luck, Polk County, on the 18th
ult., while J. Vt. Smith and his sol
were examining a revolver, one Of the
cartridges in the weapon, on which The
lock had been snapped about five min
utes previous, suddenly exploded, the
bullet entering the neck of a twO-year
old son Of Mr.. Smith, inficting fata
wound.
a YOUNG man named Frank Emery
has been forging and uttering due-billl
ran ging from $50 to 800, at points along
the North Wisconsin Railway. He vic
timized parties ct Willow River, Dee,
Park, Hudson and New Richmond
The last seen of him was at Roberts
Station. The rogue's home is IN Still
water, MINI.
HENRY PETERSON, Of the defunct firm
OF Peterson & Larson, which failed. a
Kiibourn City. in February last. was ar
rested by Special Deputy United State
Marshal Hillon on complaint Of Eddy
Harvey & Co., Of Chicago, who charg
him with making false representation
for the purpose Of obtaining goods o.
credit Bail was given to the amount o
$4,000
tERD. BREuENFELDT, Who shOt Geo
Cla-kin recently at Butternut, has hat
his preliminary examination befor
Judge Ellis, at Ashland Breitenfeld
was neld for trial at the coming Jul,
term of the circuit court. His bail ha
been fixed as 1900, in default Of whicl
he has been lodged IN Jail where b
must stay until court meets.
JAMES BLAKE, an old resident Of Ash
land County, who attempted to commi
suicide some two weeks ago by shooting
himself through the bowels with q re
volver, succeeded in killing himself, a
his homestead at Silver Greek, on tn
oath, by cutting his throat from ear Il
ear. He was a man of about 40 year
of age, and of sober disposition.
AT Waupaca on the 18th two brothers
Peter and Christian Peterson, got int
an alteration, when the former knocket
Christian down and proceeded to poun'
him. Christian released himself, and
getting a revolver, hunted up Peter ans
fired ryyO shots af him neither taklu!