Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-03-14
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES


mill.
THE next state funniest will be held at
Racine on the 18th, 10Th and 18th of
August.
THE Knoll murder case at Fond du
Lac has been continued till the Novem-
Der term.
CHAs. ATME, sewing machine agent,
has absconded from Racine with $500
stolen from the head agent and the COM
pany.
JOSEPH HODGES, of Winona, Mimi,
had his left leg terribly crushed In
lumber camp near Eau Claire. He will
recover.
FRED. SCHEMER was arrested at Ra-
cine, on the 9th inst, for attempting an
outrage upon Mrs. Mary Haselith. He
knocked the woman down twice, but she
was not severely injured.
A VEIN of iron ore has been discovered
on the farm of John Lord. in the town of
Vinland, six miles north of Oshkosh.
An artesian well borer found il. The
specimens brought up by the well-borer
are said to be very rich.
A YOUNG man named Fred Gowan
was instantly killed, and two others,
names unknown, serious injured at
Weeds mill, Amigo, on the 9th inst,
by log falling from the slip-way upon
them.
FRED RoCKENDoRF, boy living near
Fish Greek, Door County, received
bad wound in the leg by the accidental
discharge of a revolver. The ball
lodged so near the femoral artery that
no attempt was made to extract it.
EDGAR P. S1ADE, formerly of Berlin,
but latterly publisher of the Park County
Bulletin, at Alma, Colo, died in Alma
of smallpox contracted in the office of
friend-a doctor who had thrown his
coat upon lounge after visiting pa
tient.
EAU CLAIRE Free Press: Thepositien of
travelling engineer on the trans-conti-
mental railroad Of Mexico, has been
rendered to our former townsman, Lyeu
f. Mead, and is accepted. The salary
is s., 800 per year. Mr.. Mead will
shortly enter on the duties of his new
position.
The Clay Banks postofice, regarding
which such bitter fight was made by
the two applicants for the position of
postmaster, has finally been given to f.
Psarmann, Postmaster Minsker receiv-
ing orders from the departmental Wash
ington to turn the Office over to that
gentleman. But the matter does not
rest here, as Mr.. Minsker and his friends
are still making efforts to again obtain
possession of the Office.
ONE of the Oldest raft pilots on the
Chippewa River, Pat Cassidy, while en-
gagged in rolling logs on a skidway at
the camp under his management on the
upper river, had the misfortune to
get his jaw broken, head badly injured
and several teeth knocked out by tim
Der on the skidway tipping and striking
him. He is receiving care and attention
IN Eau Claire.
EAU CLAIRE Free Press: A distress
ing accident occurred Friday afternoon
to an employe at one Of John Robson's
camps near Westbrook, named James
Hodge, whose home is at Winona, MINI.
While he was engaged liz loading logs
one of them slipped. and before he could
get out of the way his leg was crushed
badly by getting caught between the
moving and another log.
w. IL. Aplin, has been arrested for
stealing surgical instruments and books
on q heavy scale. The dispatch says
Aphn stands well In the medical depart
ment, and would have graduated Tues
day with honors. He claims to he the
victim of plot, but the circumstantial
evidence is strong against him. He
halls from the northern part of Wiscon-
sin.
EAU CLAIRE Free Press: Several
farmers residing in localities south and
west of the city, where Eau Claire sports
men are wont in the proper season to
pass several hours, or probably a day or
longer for sport and recreation, report
that the present winter is unusually fatal
for small game. Quail, prairie chickens.
cartridges and rabbits have suffered
frightfully from the dearth of food and
the paralyzing cold, and many of the
birds have been found frozen.
CHARLES RAvENsTEIN, Martin Finn,
Adam Koch, and Anthony Haggerman,
in the Town of Sharon, Walworth Coun-
ty, vented their spite against Philip Ba-
ker, by shaving the tails of his horses
and COWS and burning the woodwork of
his buggy. Ravenstein was sent to Jail
for four months, Koch was fined $40 and
costs, and Finn and Haggerman were
each sentenced to jail for ninety days.
1t appeared that Ravenstein had hired
the boys to assist him, paying each 81
for the job.
A BAD accident occurred on the Mil
waukee and Northern, at Hayton, sta
ton "a miles north of Milwaukee, on
the 9th. A freight train was derailed,
fifteen cars ditched and seven of them de-
molished, by broken rail. Only one
car jumped the track at first, but ran a
mile and quarter off the track, over
ties, bridge and culverts, tearing up the
track considerably. This ended in the
entire train leaving the track. 1t took
nine hours to clear up the de6ras and
the loss occasioned will amount to
great deal. No one was injured
On the Sd, John T. Coleman, an In
huential farmer of Crawford County,
was the victim of a singular accident
while chopping wood, which resulted in
his death. He had felled large tree
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