Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-08-15
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

! The Crosby cheese factory is flourish.
ing. They made q sale of cheese last
week at 81 cents per pound.
J Mr.. j. A. CoTToN recently shipped
: 1000 sheep by cars to st. Paul. They
were bound for Dakota ranch.
Rev. CHAs. SoHANK dropped dead at
Middleton, village near Madison, on
the 9Th.
A COUNTERFEIT $40 silver certificate
has made its appearance in the southern
part of the state.
THE house of a widow named Salisbury,
at Wheaton, was burned on the 4th inst.
Loss about $4OO.
OVER $4,000 has been contributed to
aid the sufferers from the recent floods
in the vicinity of Ottawa.
A BRAKEMAN named VIM. Miller had
an arm crushed while coupling cars at
La Crosse on the Sd inst
A 1ABoRER In the employ of the Ra-
| cine Gas Company was severely crushed
by fall of earth on the 7th inst.
BERNHARD MIsTELY, living near Sulli-
van Station, died suddenly on the 1st
inst. while moving. He was II years
old.
A GUEST at the Fountain House, Wau-
kesha, lost about 800 worth of clothing
by burglary on the night of the 5th
inst.
@. EASTMAN, of Oconomowoc, lost a
So, 900 horse recently. Some miscreant
poisoned the animal with cotton seed
oil.
The barn of VIM. Morrissey, at West
D..
last week and consumed, together with
its contents, including sixty five tons of
hay.
The residence of John McKenna, at
Madison was burned with all it's con.
tents on the night of the 9Th. The in
mates had close call. Loss above In
surance, $4,000.
THE st. Paul and Chicago Short Line
Railroad Company has filed resolutions
to build line from a point in Pepin
County northeasterJy to Chippewa Falls,
distance of sixty-fve miles.
GEORGE THoMPsoN's Touring mill at
Waukau burned on the Sd inst. About
forty barrels of -four were destroyed, to-
gether with all the machinery. The
building and machinery were valued at
$4,000.
A DEAD body was picked up In Ash
land Bay on the 9th inst. It proved
to be that of John Oleson, Swede, 80
years of age. The body had been In the
water about two weeks. A bad cut on
the head indicates foul play.
The two-year-old granddaughter of
Gov. Rusk fell from swing at Madison
on the Sth inst, and broke her leg
| oh &c
ter of L. J. Rusk, the Governors pri-
vate secretary, and was being swung by
a coachman.
ARCHIBALD VANCE, 20 years old, was
| killed in the town of Burke on the 4th
inst. He fell from the seat of the now
ing machine, and getting entsngled in
the lines, the horses backed and the
wheel of the machine passed over the
young man, breaking his back.
AN affray occurred on the 9Th between
four brothers named Kelly, In the town
of Pleasant Prairie, Kenosha County.
Thomas Kelly, resident of Chicago, re-
ceived a severe though not necessarily
dangerous wound in the left side with
knife. The difficulty grew out of the set
Element of the fathers estate.
Mrs. KoHN, wife of 81. A. Kohn, re-
tired millionaire dry goods merchant of
Chicago, died at the Fountain House,
| Waukesha, on the 9th inst, of cancer of
the stomach after protracted suffering.
Mrs. Kohn was sister of Mr.. Rese, of
San Francisco, who died few years
ago and left her several millions.
A YOUNG man, 10 years old, named
Max Brandt, attempted to board NOV
ing train on the Chicago, Milwaukee and
| st. Paul Railway, at Watertown, on 9Th
inst, and was run over and fatally in
jured, both legs and hands being cut off
and his body otherwise mangled. He
says he is from Furstanwalde, Prussia,
and has been in this country only six
| months.
A TwELvE-YEAR-OLD son of Ole Guger-
son, Norwegian living near Kilbourn
| at the crossing of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul Railway, few miles
below Kilbourn. He was leading horse
! over the track as the gravel train going
west approached the crossing, and the
engine in whistling scared the horse SO
that it refused to move from the track.
Both boy and horse were struck and
killed.
AN incendiary in Dotyville on the
4th succeeded in firing log house
| and barn on the John Stroup farm,
which last season was worked by Mrs.
E. Rhodes. The buildings and contents
were destroyed, Mrs. Rhodes and Mr..
Stroup each losing three tons of hay.
There was no insurance on the property.
| The total loss is estimated about $4OO.
Next morning an attempt was made to
fire the granary on the same farm, but
the fire was discovered and extinguished
| before any great damage resulted