Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-19
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

with paralysis at Madison, on the 9th
inst, died on the 9Th.
BURGLARS cracked the safe in the
store of e. Z. Austin, at Leon, Monroe
County, and secured $500.
@. A. DAMON q gents furnishing
dealer az Madison, failed on the 18th
inst. Liabilities about 81, 900.
EDWARD O'GAR, a RAILROAD fireman,
Crosse on the 9th. Heart disease was
the cause.
ALEXANDER BLAINE was caught in q
shaft at the fax mills at Union Grove,
and so badly injured that it is thought
he will die.
A GRAND ARMY post has been insti-
tuted at Ellsworth. Pierce County. It
is called Elmer E. Ellsworth Post and is
numbered 118.
A YOUNG man named Charles Devoe
attempted to steal a ride on the
cars at Eau Claire. and fell under the
wheels. He lost his right leg near the
hip and right arm between the wrist and
I'elbow. His injuries caused death in
three hours.
PAUL Roth, a farmer near Milford,
was stopped by three men in buggy
who wanted him TO look at box they
carried. While two of them explained
the game, the third pulled the granger's
hat over his eyes and rifed his pockets.
The three then jumped into their buggy
and escaped.
FOLhowING IS the dairy record of J.
B. Fowler, of Sank Prairie: From May
31st s. Fply 18th, three graded Jersey
COWS gaE3 4,211 pounds of milk, and
from July 18th to November 18th, four
graded Jersey COWS gave $3.50 pounds
of milk, which was sold at the factory
for 1854. This speaks well for the
Jerseys.
A HUDSON dispatch of the 18th inst. i,
says: "Joe Marks and Henry Warner,
two unmarried men residing at Lake
land, were drowned in the st. Croix last
! evening. They were workmen in the
planning mill on the Minnesota side, but
recklessly ventured over to this side
on the thin ice. Both bodies were re-
| covered this morning"
ARMAND KITTLEsoN, a boy fifteen
years of age, residing in the town of
Burke, Dane County, was loading his
gun few days ago, when the piece was
accidentally discharged, the result being
that load of shot was lodged IN the
youngsters right wrist. The wound was
so serious that Drs. j. a. jackson and
e. B. Favill were forced to amputate the
hand.
w. s. POOLE, of Ithaca, Richland
County, is earning a good reputation for
hog raising. Early in the fall he sold
five hogs weighing l, 900, an average of
$50 pounds each. Later he marketed
ten Weighing 3, 800 pounds, or 1872 pounds
EACH Also five small ones weighing
], 400 pounds, or $50 pounds each. The
aggregate weight of the twenty hogs
was 1920 pounds.
On the evening Of the 18th inst, a
switch engine drawing heavy train and
pushing a caboose ahead, collided with
a heavy freight train, the former
on the main track and the latter
on the "Y," at La Crosse. The engine
was considerably damaged, but not
disabled. Engineer Joe Hurst, of Port
age, was badly bruised and his arm
broken in two places. The accident was
caused by the switch engineer failing to
see the signals on account Of the caboose
being in the way.
SEARCH is being instituted in the up
per Chippewa pineries for a supposed
lost man named Knute Anderson, whose
home was IN Eau Claire, and who went
to work in a logging camp several weeks
ago. Anderson quilted the camp re-
Gently, with his rife, intending to hunt,
and left word that he would return the
same day. Nothing has been heard
from him since then, and his camp COM
rades fear that he lost his way in wan
dering around and died probably from
hunger, as he took no provisions with
him.
The supreme court, in the case of
Harvey Durkee, appellant, VS.. the city
of Kenosha, implicated with Paul Sau-
Der, respondent, reversed the Judgment
of the circuit court of Kenosha County,
which upon a general demurrer dismissed
the complaint against the city, and re-
manded the cause with directions to
overrule the demurrer. This action for
81, 400 damages and costs arose out of
an alleged unlawful seizure on February
Is, 1892, of certain of plaintiffs prop
erty by the city of Kenosha and Paul
Sauber, treasurer of said city, in order
to enforce a supposed special assessment
rendered illegal by certain alleged
omissions, defects and Irregularities
certain benefits accruing to certain real
estate of plaintiff by reason of the lay
ing out OF certain street by the defend
ant CORPORATION known as Dayton Street.