Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-07
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A BABY boy of Edward Lafoure. of
Portage, was fatally scalded on the 9th
inst. by overturning kettle of boiling
tea on its person.
MRS. ROBERT LANGsTAFF, an invalid
lady III Buena Vista, Grant County, died
from the effects of burns, her dress hay
ing ignited while she sat asleep beside
the fireplace.
w. &. MOCUMBEB IS running drift
In the iron mound at Black River Falls.
A diamond drill is In operation and q
force of from sixteen to eighteen men
engaged. Good samples of ore have
been unearthed.
A DEAF mute youth named Christen-
son, about II years of age, was run over
by some of his mute playmates while
cOasting on Institution Hill, Delavan,
on the 9th ult. The young man re-
ceived compound fracture of the leg
below the knee, but his physician hopes
to bring him out all right. g..
PETER NELSON, single man of 25
years of age, was killed instantly in the
camp of John Edwards & Co., near
Stevens Point, by the falling of q linab
of a tree. The same day Henry Hill,
of the town of Seneca, was killed in
similar manner at the camp of John
Parrish, fifteen miles north of Stevens
Point. ~
EAU CLAIRE Free Press: A man
named VIM. Lasger, of the town of
Sherman, some fifteen miles west from
here, met with a serious and painful ac-
cident few days ago In one of the
logging camps near Ashland. he was
assisting in rolling logs with yoke of
cattle, and by some means got caught
under rolling log and sustained frac-
ture of his rightleg in two places, above
and below the knee.
The house committee on commerce
has decided to allow Wisconsin 1885, 900
harbor work In 1888, against 1924, 900
last year, as follows: Ahnapee So, 900,
Kewaunee $4,000, Sturgeon Bay $1O,-
900, Sbeboygan $50, 900, Manitowoc &c.
900, Racine $4,000, Kenosha $4, 900.
Milwaukee $4,000, Menomonie Sc, 900,
Superior $4,000, Green Bay $4,000.
Pensaukee, Port Washington and Oconto
harbors are cut off entirely.
Miss ELIzHBETH RILEY, a young lady
% years Of age, teacher of a country
school near New Glarus, Green County,
went to her school shortly after o'clock
on the morning of the 25th ult., to build
fire. While engaged in this occupa-
ton she was set upon and choked by
two men, apparently tramps, and robbed
of her purse containing S.. No other
outrage was offered her, but two pistol
shots were fired, and she tainted and
was found by her scholars in an uncon-
scious condition an hour after.
AT about 2 O'Clock on the morning of
the 30tb, two freight trains collided In
the yards of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul Railway, near the depot in
Watertown, badly damaging one of the
engines and injpring the other to some
extent. A number Of cars of both trains
were thrown from the track and smashed,
causing on the whole an amount OF dam
age that cannot be estimated at less than
$4,000 A misplaced switch, which
threw the train coming west on the
wrong side track, was the cause of the
disaster. Fortunately no one was hurt.
FLORA SCHIbBINe, the servant girl
who mysteriously disappeared from
Sturgeon Bay, is alive and well. When
she left Mr.. Cochem's house for home
| on the 18th ult. she was overtaken by
snow storm and stopped at farmer s
house for shelter. The thoughtless girl
subsequently entered into the farmer
! service as domestic, little thinking
than her non-appearance at her home
had occasioned any fear for her safety
! IL the minds of her friends. Flora made
her whereabouts known as soon as she
learned from local paper that she was
missing. @
D. FL. PULCIFER, special United
States postal agent, arrived in Madison
on the 29th, having In custody Joseph
A. Brown, of River Falls, charged with
the embezzlement of $3.50 worth of
postage stamps. Mrs. Brown, wife of
the prisoner, was postmistress at Gun
nison, now Cable, in Bayfield, County,
and her husband naturally had access to
the postage supply. Last May the
postoffice was destroyed by fire and
Brown claimed that $180in stamps were
destroyed by the fire. Mr.. Pulcifer
worked up certain clues and succeeded
in obtaining proof sufficient to warrant
Browns arrest, which was effected at
/ River Falls. Brown was arraigned on
the Doth before Commissioner Frank
Stewart, waived examination and was
held IL the sum of $1,000, which he
furnished.
The coroner's jury in the Apple muir
der case at River Falls, found by their
verdict that Theresa Apple became dis
abled by violent abuse and wounds
given and made by her husband, Paul
Apple, and from these and subsequent
exposure she came to her death January
Goth. Investigation shows that Apple
arrived home in the evening drunk and
his wife went to the stable to assist him
in Embarrassing the horses. While this
work was being done he attacked her
with either pitchfork or an ox-goad
and inflicted fifteen wounds upon the
woman. She crawled toward the house
through the snow, but persisted on the
way. The prisoner was conveyed to the
Ellsworth jail, but it required the de-
termined efforts of half a dozen officers
with revolvers to protect the prisoner