Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-26
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES

hSh SSh % NIX EAOnAN0E1
The lumber camp of P. J. Foley, at
Sherman, Clark County, ives burned on
the 18Th inst. Loss about 81 100.
ARMSTRONG TAYLOR, of Baldwin. has
been appointed district attorney Of ST.
Croix County, vice T. P. Chapman, de-
ceased.
W. Fl. WEIGH, of Blair, Trempealeau
County, was fined $1G0 for drawing beer
from keg upon which there was no
revenue stamp.
WHILE coupling cars at Hewitt,
Wisconsin Central brakeman named
Kessler had his hand crushed, rendering
amputation necessary.
ARTICLES of association of the st.
Croix & Chippewa Falls Railway Com
pany have been fled at Madison. The
contemplated road is the st. Paul ex-
tension of the Wisconsin Central.
GEO. JEALIsON, an employe Of the
Necedah Lu1 boring Company, at
Means camp, near Marshfeld, was in
stantly killed by being crushed under
log.
A RACINE jeWeler has manufactured
number of handsome scarf pins, using
horseshoe nails that were in the hoofs Of
Jay-Eye-See when he made his mile in
2:102.
A 2-YEAR-oLD son of jeremiah Mar
rier, of Sturgeon Bay. fell into kettle
of boiling water on the 18th inst. and
was SO badly scalded that he died the
next day.
AT Baraboo, on the 18th inst, noUe
was entered in the case of J. FL. Knapp,
charged with the murder of VIM.
Thurlow, in July last, and the prisoner
was discharged.
Gus SHERBERT, a car repairer work.
ing in the Chicago, Milwaukee 8 st.
Paul yard at Portage, was crushed be-
tween two cars, on the 18th inst, and
fatally injured.
COMPTROLLER KNOX will grant char
ter to the new national bank of Oar
lington, with Fl. FL. Gray, P. A. Orion,
@. F. Osborn, S. W. Osborn and Geo.
s. Anthony as directors.
GEORGE D. ACKLEY, who has been en-
gagged in the insurance business at Eau
Claire, has disappeared. It is alleged
that So, 0G0 to $4,000 belonging to the
companies he represented is missing.
The dwelling house of Hugh Nc.
Quillan, located in the First Ward, Eau
Claire, was destroyed by fire on the 18th
inst. while the family was at church.
The total loss on building and contents
was about So, 900, covered by insurance.
The supreme court at Madison has
affirmed the decision of a Green Bay
court, which awarded So, 900 to John G.
Cummings, of Racine, for injuries re-
ceived while unloading the schooner
Experim ent at the dock of the National
Furnace Company in 1880.
SEVERAL days ago while "Tommy"
Downey, an aged English recluse, was
absent on fishing excursion, his shanty
on the shore of Lake Winnebago, at
Clifton, was consumed by fire.. In it at
the time was an old flannel shirt con-
tanning the hoardings of lifetime
So, 700 in greenbacks. Strange TO say,
the precious old garment was raked out
of the ashes and the charred and half
consumed roll of bills is on it's way to
the United States Treasury Department
for redemption.
A REMARKABLE escape from death o.
Cured on the night of the 10Th inst,
Just as the accommodation train was
leaving Waukesha for Milwaukee A
young daughter of Mrs. Brown, on the
freight train jumped off and attempted
to cross the track IN advance of the
short train. She slipped and was pre-
cipitated between the rails and almost
under the wheels. The engine and two
coaches passed rapidly over her. When
she regalned her feet she ran weeping to
her frenzied parent, who witnessed the
miraculous experience.
Mrs. PETERSEN, of New Holstein, who
died one day last week, was known to
have cat of which she was very fond.
Upon the death of the lady the cat. could
not suffer herself to be petted, but would
continually SIT and new before the door
of the room IN which the corpse was
kept. Once when the door was opened
the cat made Jump for the coffin, but
was with difficulty taken from the room.
After this the cat persistently kept new
ing until the corpse was removed. Up
to present time the animal has not
touched a morsel of food.
A SERIOUS and probably fatal accident
befell Mrs. Elijah Cove at Waukesha,
on the 10th inst. Mr.. Cove, her hus-
band, who is very i'll, was taken sud
denly worse, and there being no one else
in the house at the time, Mrs. Cove
started for the doctor. When she
reached the sidewalk she slipped and
fell, her head striking the sidewalk
driving an old-fashioned comb deep into
the skull. Medical aid was summoned
as soon as possible, and everything was
done to alleviate her suffeliugs. Mr..
End Mrs. Cove are both over 70 years
of age.