Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-06-27
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

of age.
JOHN KLINE, a section hand on the
Lake Shore Road was accidentally
drowned In small lake near Monico, on
the 18th inst.
JOHN BERG, of the town of RockIand.
Brown County, was killed on the 18th
by being thrown from his wagon on
pile of stones.
w. b. SToDDARD, of GAINESVILLE. had
his collar bone broken and was other
wise badly bruised by being dumped
from his buggy.
Mrs. THOMAS EVANS, of the town of
Springvale, Fond du Lac County.
drowned herself in fit of temporary
insanity on the 18th.
FERDINAND GRoTH, of Cedarbrlrg,
was killed by lightning at GAINESVILLE,
Mimi, recently, His remains were in
tered at Cedarburg,
JOSEPH WINTERS, of Mondovi, recently
met with serious accident. whereby
h1s leg was badly broken by a falling
limb while he was passing through a
wood.
LOUIS WEBER, who left Monroe in the
spring for trip to Europe for the bene-
lit OF his health, died at the residence of
his sister, in Wurtemberg, on the 18th.
Deceased was IS years of age.
JUDGE BENNETT, of GAINESVILLE. refused
new t1ial in the case Of Stuart, the
murderer Of Spencer Turner, and SEN
fenced him to seven years hard labor
IN the state prison at Waupun.
The traekIayers On the Chicrgo, St.
Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad
have reached Ashland. Regular trains
will soon be put on and run in conneo-
ton with the Wisconsin Central.
A 7-YEAR- Old son Of Thomas Duprev.
OF Nicolet, died from the effects of
drinking impure water from Ashwaube-
non Greek. It is said that several
poisoned dogs had been thrown into the
stream.
A YOUNG man named Sidney B. Benja-
min WIS overcome by foul air as he was
being hoisted out of well at Dane Sta
ton, IN Dane County, recently, and fell
to the bottom of the shaft, NEE ting IL
slant death.
Four carloads of sulphur have been
shipped from Linden, Iowa County, to
Nashville, Tenn, where the material
will be reduced and used as fertilizer
OF the cotton fields. The price paid at
Edmund is 81 ton.
| SURVEYORS are at work in Oshkosh
taking the necessary levels for locating
waterwo1ks mains. The pumping
works will be erected on the shores of
Lake Winnebago, between Washington
and Merritt Streets.
A LOCOMOTIVE and three freight cars
were thrown from the track near Beaver
Dam, early on the morning Of the 18th
inst. Conductor Steese had his left
shoulder dislocated and Samuel Hodge,
man his face badly bruised.
The Green Bay Advocate warns its
readers that two or three deaths have
been caused by eating the leaves of the
common rhubarb, or pie-plant. II is
not generally known that while the
stalks are good for food, the leaves are
rank poison.
DIR. II. P. STRONG died at Beloit on
the Goth inst, aged 81 years. During
the war he was surgeon of the Eleventh
Wisconsin Infantry and surgeon-in-
chief of the Fourteenth Division OF the
Fourteenth Army Corps.
A FEW minutes before o'clock on the
| 10Th inst. the big boilers Of the saw mill
at Birnamwood, owned by NJ. A. York &
Co., blew up with a terrible crash, in
stantly killing Waterman Higgins and
reducing the building to ruins. The
cause Of the explosion is unknown.
The defalcation of d. N. Cargill, late
treasurer of the town of Sparta, has
been compromised. In the deficiency of
$13, 900 TO the town, with rebate of
81 900, Cargill contributes So, $50; to
his bondsmen the first year, $500; sec
ond year, 81, 700; third year, 81, 700.
The sale of logs cut by Indians on the
Menomonee reservation the past two
winters, took place at Oshkosh on the
18th. The logs banked on the OcOnto
River were knocked down to a Shawano
firm for 81 per thousand and those on
the Wolf and tributaries TO an Oshkosh
man for S. 80 per thousand.
AT Eau Claire, on the 10th inst,
thief named VIM. johnson, hailing from
Chicago, was arrested by Sheriff Bassett,
of Augusta, for stealing $3.50 and num-
Der of prom1ssory notes and valuable
papers from a farmer near that place.
When taken into custody, over $500 OF
the missing money and the notes were
found on his person.
A GOVERNMENT officer is taking the
census of the Winnebago Indians.
There is now in the treasury of the
United States, to the credit of these In
dams, over 800, 900 of the money appro-
priated for their removal and support,
and about $4,000 that has accrued to
them under the treaty of 1873, and these
sums and other sums which may here
after accrue to them from the sale
of lands belonging to the tribe
are to be distributed pro rata
among those members of the
tribe whose names appear on the
census roll, and who have complied with
the provisions of the Act of March B,
1883, which requires the person claim
ing share of these funds to have taken
up homestead, or the head of the
family to which he or she belongs to-
have taken up one, and with the further
provision that this money shall be used