Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-01-30
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES


at Beloit was burned on the night of the
10Th inst. Loss So, 600.
IHE store of Pendleton & Owens, on
Main Street, Racine, was damaged to
the extent of $4,000 by fire, on the goth
inst.
AUGUST Will lost four fingers of his
right hand by coming in contact with a
circular saw at Upham's mill, at Marsh
field.
Mrs. LONG, the Princeton murderess,
was arraigned for trial at hartford on
the 22d. She pleaded not guilty and
her case was postponed until the June
term of the court.
JUDGE BENNETT, of GAINESVILLE, who
sentenced Marvin M. Fenner, the MUIR
derer, at Grand Rapids, Wis, last
spring, heard the motion for new trial
in the case last week, and refused to
grant it.
CHARLES ANDERSON was thrown from
a freight car by the collapse of brake,
near La Crosse, on the 18th, and was
severely injured. He owes his escape
from death to the fact that he landed in
o snow-drift.
@. F. ZAUTNER, city marshal of Water
town, was acquitted, on the 22d, before
Justices Stargarat and Owens, in Ixonia,
on the charge of advising and procuring
two tramps to commit the crime of lar
ceny.
ALEX. FISH, living near Pine River,
Waushara County, latter Thoroughly test
ing the virtues of plaster and salt on
grain and clover, has come to the con-
cIusion that salt is the best. He also
thinks that it is economy to use the pure
salt.
The dry goods firm of Clancy Bros,
Eau Claire, formerly Clancy Bros. &
Tracy, was compelled to close its doors
on the 23d inst, by being forced by
creditors and have made an assignment.
The liabilities are estimated at $45, 900;
assets $4,000.
A SwEDE by the name of John Carl
son, who had contract in Collander &
Peterson's sandcut, on the Northern
Pacific Railroad, about twenty-five miles
from Ashland, was instantly killed by
the caving-in of the cut, which COM
pletely buried him.
THE store Of E. & n. G. Blakeslee, of
Ironton, was entered by burglars on the
night of the 22d inst. The safe was
blown open, the burglars taking 81 800,
mostly the town treasurer's funds.
They overlooked 81, 100 in currency
package In the back part of the safe.
IT is now settled fact that GalesvilIe
University will be rebuilt. Three citi-
zens of Galesville have subscribed 800
each to the fund and it is expected to
raise s., 900 in that village alone. Work
will not begin until $4,000 is sub
scribed, and the dire( tors have voted to
raise $25, 600 to put the Institution on its
feet.
GARRET NEEvE1, son Of j. II. Neevel,
of Alto, was kicked in the face by colt
which he was leading to water last Fri
day evening, fracturing his jaw bone in
front teeth together with piece of the
lower jaw bone, and cutting his lip very
badly. The unfortunate boy was taken
to Milwaukee where skillful surgeon
adjusted the fractured jaw.
The United States supreme court has
affirmed the verdict of the circuit court
in the case of Jones vs.. the United
States, for damage resulting from over
flow caused by Fox River improvement
dams. The decision gave Jones SO, 900
damages. An important feature of the
decision is that the United States, In the
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may lawfully delegate to state court
the ascertainment of damages.
DRs. MEACHEM and Martin, of Racine,
who were appointed to examine Willie
Powles, the Union Grove boy who con-
fessed to having placed Instructions on
the St. Paul railway track last October,
adiudged him an idiot, and he was ae-
cordingly taken to the county poor
house.
N. N. PALMER, of Spring Valley,
Rock County, has an excellent herd OF
Jerseys. He sold recently, lilly Coen,
year old in October last, to ]. j. Rich
ardson, of Davenport, Ia; bull calf, to
John Hahn, of Albany, Green County,
S75; five months old heifer calf, to
young lady at Cottage Grove, Dane
County, $135; a cow, Dolly, to John NJ.
True, of Baraboo, $3.50. Mr.. Palmer
recently purchased some choice thor
oughbreds from eastern herds to re-
plenish and improve his already fine
herd.
A Melancholy Vanderbilt.