Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

VIM. A. GEORGE, editor of the Hart
ford Republican, has sold his paper to
j. NJ. LIE Count and FL. K. Butler, who
will enlarge it and print it on new
press.
A FIRE caused $1,000 damage at Wa
tertown, on the 1st inst. Ell. Boland, j.
Kartsten, r. Bogie, j. W. Preston, @.
III. Collins, and J. Hangelfeld were the
sufferers.
The seventeenth annual meeting of
the Southeastern Wisconsin Sheep
Breeders and Wool Growers Associa-
ton will be held at CaldwelFs Prairie,
Thursday, January 18th.
MAJ. S. S. RoCKwooD, of the Elk
horn Independent, has purchased a
quarter interest in the GAINESVILLE Re-
corder, buying the interest of Carrot
Veeder, the founder Of the paper.
HENRY 81. STEENsLAND, son of Halle
Steensland, of Madison, was run over
by the cars at Wonewoc on the 1st inst.
One leg was amputated, and the young
man now lies in precarious condition.
Two wooden buildings on Main Street,
Waukesha, burned on the 31st ult. Loss
$4,000; we'll insured. The buildings
were occupied as follows: Prindle,
harness shop; Mrs. Brown, hair goods;
Peter Vogt, tailor; Capt. Baker, restau-
rant; Swartz, shoe shop. Also milli-
merry store.
As a German by the name of Wadell,
Of the Town of Newton, was returning
home from Richford in an intoxicated
condition, his team ran away, Throwing
him under the sleighs, where he was
dragged for some distance. He was
shockingly mangled and died in few
hours. Deceased leaves a wife and four
or five small children to mourn his loss,
WILLIAM Foss, of Wiota, was shot and
seriously wounded by his son, Wallace
Foss. Mr.. Foss, who is the surveyor for
Lafayette County, had ordered Wallace
| to leave home and earn his living, and
had threatened to shoot the boy on non
compliance with the order. Wallace
subsequently entered the house, called
to his father to hold up his hands, and
| the old mans hands and struck his fore
| head, passed around the head and lodged
at the base of the skull. Young Foss
! mas not since Deen seen.
| ABOUT II o'clock on the night Of tn
! 18th ult., the barn of John Conrad
| living about two miles north of Hart.
! ford, was burned. When the fire was
discovered it was so far under way that
| but little could be done to save the
| building and contents. Thirteen head
of cattle and five horses, one of them 6
stallion worth $500, were consumed by
| the flames. The total loss is estimated
at between So, 900 and 81, 600, on which
there's an insurance of only $500. There
is no doubt but that the fire was the
work of an incendiary, as several acts o.
vandalism have been perpetrated on Con.
RAIDS premises. A man named Nick Miller
was arrested the day previous and con
! fessed to being guilty of having com
mitted some of the acts complained of
but the charge of incendiarism canno
be laid against him, as he was under
arrest at that time.
IT was an erroneous report that Der
| Myers, who lives on the Porcupine, Ill
Pepin County, was frozen to death while
that on that day, as he was starting
rom Lake OlIy, Iuluu., lie u6G AuuIo'
johnson, Bette Lundell and Frederic!
Peterson. As they were also about t.
cross the lake, he accompanied them tc
Central Point, helping the girl
along on his sled, the ice be
tween that point and Stockholm
being older and stronger than below
He left them there, as, being on skates
he could go faster than the girls an(
their escort, and having some distance
to go, it was necessary that he SHOULD
make haste. Shortly after leaving then
he heard cries from the direction he hat
come, but not being able, on account O
the falling snow, to see the situation o
those he had just left, and not thinking
them in peril, he continued on bi
course. As the parties have not sine
been seen by their friends, there is NJ
doubt Of their death by drowning.