Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-20
STATE NEWS.


ANDREW SEM, of Oakland, Jefferson
county, lost his right leg by reaper
NEAR Fountain City, Vim. Kurt shot
and KILLED Frank Keller, a neighbor.
Idey had quarreled about trespass.
LIE Sumatra tobacco growing on the
farm of K. Crispenson, in the town Of
Newark Rock County, is five and a half
feet high and just shows the bud.
CHRIS. ESTER, Waukasba baok
driver decamped with nearly 5000. he
longing to his employers, General
Freight Manager Brosnihan and Station
Agent Taylor.
Gov. ST. JOHN, of Kansas, the Prohi-
bition candidate for president, has writ
ten to Secretary Babbitt, Of the State
Agricultural Society, accepting the in
vitation sent him to speak at the state
fair, Wednesday, September II.
The Tiller reward has been partially
settled. William Dooley and Chas. J.
letter, the clerks in Carpeles' store, who
first discovered the identity of the ex-
press robber, were paid $4,O11, on the
9Th, as their part of the reward Even
ing Wisconsin.
The Dunn County News says I. A.
Champlain found stone in railway
cut near Dunn which he believes to be
a diamond. It is of rhomboid form, has
smooth sides and sharply cut corners,
and is about the size of small pea. Mr..
Champlain has refused an offer of 500
for the stone.
AMONG the inducements which the
State Agricultural Society is offering to
Vanderbilt, through Mr.. John l..
Mitchell, of Milwaukee, to have the
celebrated Maud S. appear at the COM
ing fair, is the present Of superb
gold-trimmed harness, to cost $1,000.
1t is well known that Vanderbilt re-
fuses to allow her to trot for money.
The family of W. E. Barden, consist
ing OF five persons living in the Third
Ward, Madison, were poisoned on the
18th inst. by eating cake favored with
vanilla. They were found in the even
ing by neighbors, whom their cries had
aroused, lying about the floor in the
most intense agony. A physician was
hastily summoned, who succeeded in
saving their lives.
Hon. ANDREW E. GILMORE and Secre-
tary A. 0. Wright, of the State Board
of Charities and Reform, have lately in
spected the jail and poor-house of Yer
ona County, finding the former N good
shape and the latter well managed but
poorly constructed. There is in the
poor-house q crippled. soldier of 70 years
Of age, who received his injuries in the
army but did not receive formal dis
charge because Of them, and therefore
cannot gain admission to the soldiers
home at Milwaukee. He is only one of
about one hundred similar cases in the
state.
The city council of La Crosse has or
dered Chief of Police Hatch ''to exhibit
to the committee on police the books in
his hands kept by himself and police
men during the years 1881, 1882 and
1883, showing the amount of dog tax
licenses received and his accounts and
vouchers in relation thereto for exar1i-
nation" and also "to pay over such
money so received for dog tax licenses
during said years on or before the reg
ular meeting of the Common Council of
the city of La Crosse to be held in the
month of September, 1884, to the treas
urer of the city, and to file with the
city clerk the voucher of the city treas
urer therefor" The significance of
this lies in the discovery made by
Mayor Roosevelt that the tax on dogs
collected by Chief of Police Hatch dur
ing the years named, and supposed to
amount to $1,000, has never been ac-
counted for in any way.