Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-14
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

drawn under a log jam at Chippewa
Falls, and drowned.
Ex-MAYoR T. G. FISH, of Racine.
was recently robbed, at hotel in Terre
Haute, of 800, partly in notes.
EVERY soldier in Wisconsin will be IL
v1ted to be present at the unwilling of
the soldiers monument, Racine, July 4.
PRAIRIE fires in the vicinity of Seeh--
lerville, Jackson County, have damaged
the huckleberry crop to the extent of
$1,000.
LAFAYETTE County experienced tor
nado on the 7th inst 1t was accompa-
MED by heavy hail, which did much
damage.
ABIJAH Moon, of Eau Claire, pleaded
guilty to charge of horse stealing, and
was sentenced to the Waupun prison for
term of two years.
The high-license people of White
water have triumphed. They elected a
board which will probably raise the
liquor license to 5000.
THE barn and sheds of John Whipple.
at Porterville, Eau Claire County, were
destroyed by fire on the 9th inst. The
loss was about $4,000.
A HUGE pine tree cut on the banks of
the Popple River, in Florence County,
scaled over 5000 feet. It's greatest
diameter was 70 inches.
The Democrats elected P. Ell. Carney
president of the village of Waukesha.
The other officers were quite evenly d.
vided between the two parties.
A BROOK trout weighing four pounds,
QtQUQn
one inches in length, was recently taken
from a stream near Leon. Monroe
County.
CHARLES MEYERS, deaf and dumb, 10
years old, while walking on the railway
track near Kilbourn City, was struck by
the La Crosse special going vest, and
almost instantly killed.
MRS. MAY A. MARTIN has been ap-
pointed post mistress at Belmont, Lafay-
cite County, to succeed her husband.
lately deceased. Adam Mink has been
appointed postmaster at Benton.
The grist-mill of Weber & Jones, sit
uated on the Milwaukee River near the
north line of the town of Saukville,
was burned on the night of the Sd inst.
The loss is total. Insurance Sc, 900.
LIGHTNING struck the barn of D. L.
Fairchild, at Whitewater, and killed one
horse and badly stunned another. Mr..
Falrchild, who was standing near the
horses at the time, was also stunned,
but not severely hurt.
The two children who strayed from
their home at Hamburg, Marathon
County, over week ago, are given up as
dead, although diligent search by num-
erous and large hunting parties has failed
to find the least trace of their bodies.
GEORGE HERMANN. a young farmer
residing near Cedar Lake, Washington
County, received severe and probably
fatal Injuries from runaway team, on
the 9Th inst. He was thrown against
corner of fence and received a severe
fracture of the skull, several broken ribs
and other injuries.
AN old, worn satchel was picked up
on the bank of the Chippewa River,
near the paper-mill, at Eau Claire. It
contained some clothing and note ad-
dressed to Mrs. Louisa Becker, Durand,
Wis. Following is an extract from the
letter: 81, James Becker, am about to
for committing suicide which / do not
WISH tu0 puUIlC 10 kuOW, duu AN O1S-
couraged with life, Tell my wife and
darling little daughter to never forget
me. I can never see them on earth
again, but I will hope to meet them soon
again. God bless them" The letter
bears the date of April 2, 1884
THE case of Mrs. Armstrong, of Spa1-
ia, is in some respects without paral-
lei. About two months ago she was
taken with what the doctors called SIN
ward fever" Her stomach not only re-
fused to retain food, but she rejected it
with violence which has been compared
to the aversion hydrophobia victim
has for water. Up to the 9Th inst. fifty
four days had passed since she had par
taken of food in any form. She has
used water in considerable quantities.
She has wasted to skin and bones in a
more literal sense than the term was
ever used before. The doctors say the
inward fever has gradually consumed
her body and sustained life. On the 9th
she was given minute quantity of food,
which she retained, but towards evening
became much weaker and died.