Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-17
From OUR STATE EXCHANGES

A COLD wave swept over the state on
the night of the 9Th inst. Reports give
the.range of the mercury between ID and
30 degrees below zero.
SMITH MoREY, farmer of Florence
township, was run over by his team on
the night of the 9th inst. and horribly
mangled. When found life was extinct.
EDDIE KIMBALL, of Pine River, Wau-
shara County, IS suffering from a pistol
wound IN bis side, accidentally occa-
stoned during celebration of New
Years Day.
GEORGE L. LORD, who was murdered
in Kansas In $780, and for whose muir
der a woman named Mrs. McHurin has
just been arrested at Kerwin, formerly
lived in Oshkosh.
The Kewaunee Enterprise was sold on
the 9Th inst, by Decker & Mashek, to
August Voshardt, Of Two Rivers. J.
NJ. Shea will soon begin the publication
OF new democratic weekly at Kewau.
nee.
The late Joseph Lunn, of Ironton,
Sank County, on the breaking out of the
great rebellion visited Madison and
loaned the state 81, 900. He was the
first man to assist Wisconsin at the time
| OF its greatest need.
RECORDER JENNINGS, of Marshall
County, Ia, vino died suddenly from
the effects of a paralytic stroke, former
ly resided at Hartford and served dur
ing the war as a member of Go. I.
Twenty ninth Wisconsin Volunteers.
On the 18th of December man was
killed in a saw-mill at Whitefsh Bay,
Door County, and boy named Willie
Hayes, who witnessed the horrible acct
dent, was frightened SO badly that he
has since died from the effects of the
scare.
DURING the railroad celebration at
| Markesan on the 9Th inst, Austin
! McCracken assaulted and injured his
father. He then attempted to serve his
uncle II the same way, but got blow
on the head with a mallet, and is now in
a critical condition.
FOND DU LAC Commonwealth: Den
mis- Hardiman, of Forest, met with a
serious if not fatal accident Friday af-
ternoon. While on hay stack engaged
ID cutting hay, he fell, striking on the
knife, infiicting a bad wound in the
stomach of about three inches in length
and entering the lungs.
PRAIRIE DU SAC News: John Mathews,
lad of ten years, son of Mrs. F.
Mathews, living on the prairie near
town, fell from a straw stack and broke
his arm near the wrist Wednesday morn
ing. About the same time woman
(name not known living in Stones
Pocket, fell down cellarway and had
leg broken.
JOHN DONAHUE, of the town of Free
dom, was nearly frozen to death at APP
pie Greek, on the night of the 9Th inst
He became intoxicated and went into a
stable to sleep. He was found next
morning with his hands, feet and face
frozen stiff, and was taken to Appleton
for medical aid. Both of his feet will
have to be amputated
A WEST BEND dispatch of the 9th
inst. says: "Maxon Hodvey, a Cana
dian FrenchmaD, was injured by the
night passenger going south last night.
He had walked from Oconto on the
track, and, overcome by hunger and ex-
posture, could get no further. When the
train was about half mile from the sta
ton the engineer discovered him. The
snowploW threw him from the track
His leg was badly cut and bruised, and
he sustained other injuries, although no
bones were broken. He was taken in
and cared for at the Washington House."