Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

A HUMAN leg and foot were found in
the river at Eau Claire, on the 4th.
HOMER FETTERLY, painter, died of
blood poisoning at Monroe on the 7th.
HE original commission issued by
the President, certifying to his appoint
ment OF Timothy O. Howe as postmaster
general, has been presented to the fam
lily OF the dece lsed.
IHE action of fros6 during the winter
forced two collins containing human
skeletons to the surface of the earth
near the Catholic Church at Mansfield.
They were discovered few days since
and properly reinterred.
THE Hudson Star and Times reports
that Nels Nelson, IA years of age, hung
himself IN the town of Little Black. His
parents sent him out with q rope to
carry hay about two miles. Instead of
bringing home the hay he hung himself
to limb of tree with the rope.
Mr.. A. d. Liant, land inspector for
the Central Railroad Company, has made
plans for the inspection of 81. 900 acres
OF land IN the region tributary to the
Ch1ppewaand Wisconsin Rivers. To do
this work he has employed twenty
Woodsmen, who will be divided into two
parties.
AT Sand Prairie, on the 7th inst,
while the curbing was being lowered in
TO well IN process of construction, the
lower section of the curbing became de-
tached and fell to the bottom of the
shaft where William Moon was at work.
Ihe unfortunate man was crushed in q
| terrible manner.
ON the 9TH inst, John Bonn, brother
OF Paul Bohn, had his right hand ter
rlbl mangled by accidentally getting it
against circular saw at the st. Paul
Rallroad shops, at Racine. The two
| last fingers had to be amputated, and
the hand was split from the wrist down
to the index finger to the depth of half
an inch.
JAMES PEARsALL, o freight conductor
| on the Northwestern Road, had his
head crushed between protruding tim
bers on two fiat cars in the yard at
Madison, at an early hour on the 9th
inst, while coupling cars, and was in
stantly killed. He was 81 years old, un-
married, and resided at Poplar Grove,
| Illinois.
AT Stoughton, on the night of the
30th of April, John Conboy was as
saulted and badly cut by Ne1s Dregs-
void and Lewis Iverson. On the 7th
inst, Judge Braley, of the Madison
municipal court, sentenced Dregswold
to two and one-half years in the state
prison, and Iverson, who did the cut
ting, to three years.
DURING a severe storm at La Crosse,
on the 9th inst, lightning struck the
house OF James Egan, in the Fifth Ward,
severely if not fatally, ipiuring Mrs.
EgaD. Her daughter Sarah, aged 10,
was also hurt. The women were sitting
by the stove and the lightning struck the
chimney, shattering it, came down the
stove pipe, tearing it in pieces, and went
through the floor making large hole.
A CHIPPEWA FALLS dispatch of the
9Th inst. says: can inmate of the
county poorhouse nan ed Hogan escaped
last week, and, making his way to Big
Bend, where his former wife, who OBJ
| tanned divorce, was married to q man
by the name of Decota, he proceeded to
brain DecOta with b club At the first
blow he severed an ear, and at the Sec
ond he crushed in his skull. The muir
derer is in custody"
A CORPS of surveyors has commenced
laying out the route of the new railroad
to be built between Chippewa Falls and
Eau Claire, known as the Chippewa
Falls and Southern Railway. The road
will follow the Chippewa as nearly as
practicable, and will touch at various
mills between the two places. The dis
lance is ten miles. The new road is be-
ing built by the Omaha Company.
Grading is to be completed and the road
bed ready for the ties by the 25th of
June.