Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-09-03
WISCONSIN ITEMS.
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MISS kITTIE EARSELT, who recently
fell from a cherry tree at Edgerton,
died on the Goth. She had apparently
recovered from her illness, when acute
Inflammation of the bowels, which was
the cause of her death, set in.
r. ANON, an employe in the planning
mill of Briggs, Whorton & Beveridge,
at Appleton, While manipulating a
shaper, lost the thumb and first three
fingers on his left hand. His hand and
wrist were also badly mutilated.
A 4-YEAR-oLD boy at Beaver Dam
narrowly escaped being devoured by
hogs. One of the animals had set it's
teeth in his leg and theothers were try
ing to throw him off his feet when Mr..
Barker rescued him. The child was
seriously injured.
ANTON REUTER-, a farmer residing in
Pine Grove, Brown County, was using a
reaper in the harvest field on the ODD,
when his team ran away throwing him
from his seat and one wheel of the i'm
plement passed over him breaking his
hip.
FRITZ PFEIFFER, a 9-year. old boy of
Waupun, jumped into cistern and
saved baby brother from drowning
Though the water was up to his chin,
he raised the little one from the bottom
and held him above the surface until
helped out.
The barn of Robert Helm, in Nekimi,
was burned on the 18th. The building
and contents, including two horses,
were consumed. Helm was three hing
set by the portable engine. His hay
and grain, as far as threshed, was
burned.
The farmers around West Sal EN-, La
Crosse County, are we'll pleased with
the returns from their oat fields. A.
McEldowney has $500 bushels, yield
of about fifty bushels to the acre; James
McEldowney realized sixty-three bush
els to the acre, William Van Waters
sixty-two and W. A. Gray sixty.
The auction of lots at the state fair
grounds, at Madison, was held on the
Doth, under the supervision of Presi-
dent Fratt, of Racine; Secretary Gin
ton Babbitt, of Beloit; Treasurer Cyrus
FL. Miner, of GAINESVILLE, and J. L. New
ton and r. B. Ogilvie, superintendent,
respectively, of the machinery and
horse departments. A total sale was
made of ST. 1886. Of this the four dining
halls brought $24O, the refreshment
stands, four in number, $500, the mis-
cellaneous stands the balance. The
G. c. Washburne Post, No. IL, G.. A.
R., is to have six large wall tents and
an clearinghouse, the grounds being do
mated by the officers of the Agric ultural
Society. Refreshments are to be served
by the post to old soldiers who may de-
sire to partake of them.
GABRIEL e. MCIsAAC, clerk of the
circuit court of Florence County, is a
defaulter and an embezzler to an
amount estimated at between $500 and
$4,000, and has absconded. AS a mat
ter of convenience, the land laws of the
United States are so constructed as to
admit of persons. living at distance
from land Office to make their affda-
Wit, final homestead proof and affidavit,
and presumption proof and affidavit be-
fore the clerk of the circuit court.
Many settlers in Florence County not
only procured the necessary papers in
proving up their lands from McIsaac,
but also intrdsted him with money,
which, instead of sending to Receiver
Jones, he appropriated to his own use.
These swindled are very poor class
who rarely see money, and they feel the
loss deeply. The bondsmen of the de-
faulter will escape responsibility
through technically.