Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

KRAFT u SEvERsON, dealers in agri-
cultural implements at Menomonee,
Dunn County, have assigned.
JOHN BARRETT, young farmer of
Princeton, ILL.,, mysteriously disappeared
from Racine on the Sd inst. He had $4OO
on his person.
DAVID EGG1EsTON, carpenter en-
ployed at Littleiohn's lumber yard in
Whitewater, was killed by a railway
train. He was " years of age.
WIZ. BALL, an old and highly respect
ed resident of Heart Prairie, died sud
| denly IN Whitewater. He was about to
start for home when he was FRUSTRATED
by heart disease.
AT an early hour on the 4th inst fire at
Chippewa Falls destroyed 100 barrels of
pork and six horses. The camp sup
plies belonged to lumberman and the
horses to Mr.. Wood.
SEVEN deer-hounds were burned to
death in their kennel on McCausIin
Brook, Oconto County, by Indians who
had been ordered off the Holt & BalcoIm
farm,
JOHN HALL broke Duncan McPhee's
neck while sparring in the yard of the
Woodman House at Chippewa Falls.
The men we're old friends, McPhee hav-
ing come from Michigan to visit Hall.
A MAN named Kausake, while pulling
stumps near Fremont, Waupun County,
had one leg broken in two places, be-
tween the knee and hip. He was other
wise severely hurt. A stump fell upon
him.
HERMAN ZTTKA was arrested at New
London for a forgery committed while
he was the agent of tho Appleton Manu-
featuring Company. He had turned in
bogus note tor $100 as part payment
for harvester he had sold.
A TRAVELLING agent for Aikens & Lam
bert, New York jeWelry manufacturers,
lost valise containing $500 worth of
goods on the Milwaukee, Lake Shore
and Western Railroad, between Mani
towoc and Ledyard on the I'd inst.
JOSEPH BURsINeER, the Watertown
brewer, has failed. It is thought his
liabilities will reach S10O, 900. His as
sets are figured between $4,000 and
$4,000. Bursinger has been in the
brewing business at Watertown for
about thirty-three years.
The wholesale paper house of Hin
man, Moody & Co., Beloit, made an as
signment on the 9Th inst. The assets
and liabilities ore not stated. The firm
were Intimately connected with the Rock
River Paper Company, whose troubles,
it Is understood, brought about the
present assignment.
IT has transpired tn vt Miss Bailey,
who is under arrest for the murder of a
wealthy paramount in Indian Territory,
was not only married to Robert Reise.
of Waukesha, as stated last week, but
was also married to Eugene Sweet, Jr..
son of the woman at whose house Miss
Bailey visited. Young Sweet says he
was married to Miss Bailey IN Milwau-
kee previous to her marriage with Reise.
Next .f 49, s-o-
MATT HOEPPA, alleged to be the hus-
band of female shoplifter named Zim-
norman, was arrested at Racine on the
9th inst, and search of his house re-
suited in finding about $500 worth of
stolen goods, consisting of groceries,
dry goods, etc. The merchants and POI
lice of Racine are iubilant over the cap
ture, as they have been annoyed and
plundered by the woman for about a
year. s ai-. so vi
HERMAN HmDERMAN, of Manawa, re-
Gently started to look up his COWS, car
rying his baby and taking his gun to
kill few partridges. While waiting at
the gate for his wife, the child on his
arm, the gun on the ground, with both
hands on the muzzle, his little dog
jumped on the lock of the gun and it
went off. Five buck shot went through
both hands and one shot struck the baby
on the side and came out at the top of
the shoulder. s-
The trial of Herman Knoll, charged
with the murder of Charles Rhody in
the town of Black Greek, Outagamie
County, March 3, 1879, will soon begin
at Fond du Lac, in the circuit court.
Knoll was convicted of the crime in
Outagamie County in 1879, and SEN
fenced to the state prison for life; but
the supreme court reversed the judg-
ment and sent the case back for trial.
A change of venue was then granted and
the case will now be tried, as stated, at
Fond du Lac.