Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-04-04
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

The barn of G. L. Wing, at Fond du
Lac, burned on the 27tn ult. Loss
So, 900.
MRS. MARY KUEPPER. of Oshkosh.
was found dead in her bed on the 9th
ult. Heart disease.
The Sawyer County Times is the name
OF newspaper started at Hayward by
Fl. o. Johnson of the Clear Lake News.
SAMUEL TAYLOR, an Eau Claire woods
man, has been held to answer to the
charge OF passing forged note for $780,
A HEAVY sale of logs was made at Osh-
kosh, on the 9th ult., at So less per
thousand than the price at this time last
year.
ANDREW MULLEN has won his suit for
So, 900 against the assignee of r. T. Nc
Kee, at Baraboo. Fourteen other suits
are pending. The trouble among these
suing creditors arose from questionable
preferences given by Mckee when he
| failed In January last.
HAzEN, part-proprietor of the Tarbell
House, in Weyauwega, sold out to his
partner and then left for parts unknown
IN company with the servant girl he had
married. The cause of his sudden de-
parture was the arrival from Maine of
Mrs. Hazen, No. l.
AT La Crosse on the 26th ult., J. B.
Humphrey, employed in rafting lumber
from the cars to the river by Mcdonald
Bros, was struck on the head by fall
ing pile of boards and his neck broken,
killing him instantly. He was 40 years
old and unmarried.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN G. G.. WILLIAMS
and family have gone from GAINESVILLE to
WATERFOWL, OAK, where they will here
after reside, at least during the term of
Mr.. Williams as register of the land of
ficein that place. It is not understood
that Mr.. Williams intends to live perma-
nently in Dakota. He still regards
GAINESVILLE as his home.
A FIvE-YEAR old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Oliver Church, of GAINESVILLE, fell
into a cistern on the 9th and was
drowned. The cistern was frozen over,
the ice being about SIX inches deep, but
a hole had been made through the ice to
admit pail, and, in falling, the little
girl went through the hole. Before the
child could be rescued life was extinct.
A MAN by the name of Frank Codding-
|
Rumerys camp, on the Wisconsin Riv-
er, was killed on on the 22d ult. by
a log rolling over him from skidway.
The body was forwarded to Beaver Dam,
where his folks reside. Deceased was
married just before he went to work in
the woods and leaves a young wife In
Beaver Dam.
FRANK PALMER, a young farmer living
in Spring Prairie Township, was killed
and frightfully mangled on the oath
ult. by the bursting of balance wheel
of a wood-sawing machine, a piece of
the wheel blowing off the back part of
his head, other portions passing through
his body and one through his leg. A
fragment of the wheel was found a
quarter of mile away from the scene
of the accident.
A CONTROVERSY of considerable i'm
portance to the state exists between the
United States land office and the secre-
tary of state The land office claims a
fee of So as registering and receivers
fee is due it for every quarter section Of
swamp lands which have been selected
by the state under the act of congress In
1850. The secretary of state contests
the justice of the demand, and has taken
an appeal TO the secretary of the inter-
or, whose decision in the matter will be
! final. The issue involves more than Is
apparent on its face, as had the secretary
of state acceded to the claim no limit
would exist and the state might be called
upon to pay thousands of dollars as fees.
The result of the appeal is awaited with
interest.