Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-09-12
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Dunn County.
THE gents furnishing store of Halve-
son & Son, Main Street, Whitewater,
was recently visited by burglars, who
took $85 worth of goods, together with
So or $40 in cash.
ABOUT mile of wire, and somewhere
about thirty poles of the Telephone
Company's toll line were thrown
down, and many of the poles splintered
by the lightning, near Herseyville, re-
Gently.
WHILE Brinker Bros, residing four
miles east of Colby, were digging a well
on their premises, and when go feet be-
low the surface, they struck fine black
loan soil and cedar logs in an excellent
state of preservation.
THE Catholic Church at Amigo. was
totally destroyed by fire on the 9Th inst.
The fire is supposed to have been
started by three boys, who were seen
around the structure shooting off fire.
crackers. Loss 81, 900; no insurance.
KNUDT LEVER, of the town of Spring
Valley, Rock County, while hauling
manure recently, accidentally fell from
the load, receiving injuries from the eff
fects of which he died on the 18th. The
deceased leaves a wife and several young
children.
AT Ableman, Sank County, on the I'd,
Abner Carpenter was severely injured.
! While loading a brass cartridge shell
the charge exploded, tearing the flesh ON
the thumb and two fingers of the left
hand, and making bad wound in the
abdomen. The wounds are not consid-
cred dangerous.
MARY LANG, aged Is, who was in
Ijured in the Racine cyclone of May
18th, and who has been an inmate of
st. Luke's and ST. Mary's Hospitals
since that time, died on the 18th inst.
When she was taken to st. Luke's she
was suffering from severe blow on the
head, also from cancer in the stomach,
and the physicians say her death is due
to the latter disease.
FRANK GREEN, the young man who
was so badly injured by being run over
by train of cars in the yards of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Rail-
way, about three weeks ago, died at Ra-
cine from the effects of his wounds on
the evening of the 4th inst. 1t is sup
posed his death was fastened by the
leap he took last week from third-story
window of st. Mary's Hospital.
EVANSVILLE Enterprise: The violin
Miss Gertie Wheeler is using was made
by her father, Chas. O. Wheeler, of
GAINESVILLE, and is we'll worth $100. He
made it from an old post in his barn that
had been there over thirty years. He
has been making experiments and study
ing violin-making for over twenty years,
though he has only made four violins.
This last one is his best and he is still
expecting to make some discoveries.
We shall soon, perhaps, heer from him
as great master in this art.
AT Abbotsford, twenty-five miles north
of Narshfeld, on the main line of the
Wisconsin Central, at 1 o'clock on the
afternoon of the Sd inst, a freight train
ran into the gravel train while the latter
was standing on the track. Four freight
cars were completely demolished and
the freight engine badly wrecked. The
engineer and fireman on the freight
jumped in time to escape being injured.
No lives were lost.
j A FIRE at WatertoWn, at noon on the
LIST inst, destroyed two frame buildings
on Main Street, owned and occupied by
John f. Bramer, agent for agricultural
implements, saloon, and by Joseph
Butcher & Son, dry goods. Bramer's
loss in building, furniture and machinery
is estimated at So, 800; insurance, 81, 900.
Butcher & Son lose on buildings, house
hold goods and damage to stock about
S., 900, covered by insurance.
TIE confiding people Of Oconomo-
woo have been victimized by an oily
tongued literary dude, who announced
that he was about to establish circu-
lating library, and, after enlisting the
aid of q well-known minister, succeeded
in receiving about $50 in one dollar sub
scriptions to his Sc enterprise" When
the consignment of books arrived it was
found to consist of lot of 10 cent edi-
tons of leading works, costing about
$500.
ARTICLES of incorporation for the
Winona, Alma and Northern Railroad
have been fled at the Office of the secre-
tary of state. The projected line will
extend from Winona to Alma and from
thence to Menominee and will be 125
miles in length. The capital stock is
$500. 600, divided into 500 shares. The
incorporators and directors of the road
mentioned in the articles are Senator Fl.
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r. Kempter, of Alma; J. G. Traer, of
Vinto, Ia; J. W. Traer, of Cedar
Rapids, H., and G. ". Tracy, of Oska-
loosa, La.
A NEW railroad enterprise under the
name of the Canada, La Crosse and
Southwestern Railway, was organized at
La Crosse, on the 1st inst, with the fol-
lowing officers: President, w. T. Price,
Black River Falls; vice president, G.
r. Montague, La Crosse; secretary, r.
Calvert, La Crosse; treasurer, Joseph
Clarke, La Crosse; directors, JAS. Wads-
worth and ". Fl. Roach, New York; G.
@. Hixon, a Hirschheimer and Geo. F.
Gund, La Crosse; @. F. Ainsworth,
Black River Falls; J. L. Gates, Neills-
vile. The line projected is from La
Crosse to the Sault Ste. Marie by the
most available route, and is essentially
a continuance of the La Crosse, Iowa
and Southwestern Line from La Crosse
to St. Joseph, Mo.