Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-09-10
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

AhOS' MORAN, q QlSfeputaDie CnGrac-
ter, was shot dead Of Gid5ep by Con-
stable Mccain, while resisting arrest.
UNDER the civil service act, FL. A.
Richards, of Wisconsin, has been ap-
pointed a special examiner OF the pen
sion Office.
killed at Lyndon, on the La Crosse
division of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul Railroad.
The body of George Hunsinger, a
boy about IA years of age, was taken
from the Chippewa River, at Eau Claire,
on the Goth. He had been missing for
several days.
WILL GINTY unearthed two large
stone battle-axes, lot of flint arrow
heads, and number of stone necklace
pendants, while digging earth at Nicol-
let for plant-potting purposes.
The Lake Mills Leader reports that
the hop crop in Jefferson County is a
failure. In La Crosse County many of
the yards are SO damaged by lice and
blight that the owners have abandoned
the crop.
Mrs. FRANK ARBUoKLE, formerly
Miss Gilbert, of Platteville, committed
suicide at Sutherland, La. Her husband
was killed by lightning on the 10th of
July, and since then she had found it
hard to support herself and her three
children.
SHERIFF T. n. LAWSON arrived in
Boscobel on the 9th with requisition
from the governor of Dakota for one
John Dilley and his wife Hattie, who
were held there by Marshal I. T. Wood
ard for the murder of a man by the
name of Churchill, six miles from Ellen
dale, Oak.
AsAHEL VosE, farmer residing in
the vicinity of the Oneida Indian
reservation, was arrested on the 26th by
United States Marshal Marshall and ar
raigned before United States Commits
sioner Baird for stealing hay from the
reservation. He pleaded guilty, and
was bound over to appear at the Oc-
tober term of the United States court.
The suits of the city of Watertown
in the United States district court at
Madison, before Judge Bum, in which
the question of the running of the stat
ute of limitations on the Watertown
railroad bonds was involved, were de-
cided on the 10Th in favor of Watertown
and her citizens are all excitement over
the result, which is conceded to be the
strongest point yet gained.
The following officers were elected at
the Iron Brigade reunion at Lancaster j:
President, Gen. John Gibbon; Vice
Presidents, Gems. E. s. Bragg, Lucius
Fairchild, Col. G. A. Hamilton, Gems.
W. W. Dudley, Henry A. Morrow and
Capt. James Stewart; Secretary, J. A.
Watrous; Treasurer, Otto Schorse !;
Chaplain, The Rev. DIR. S. W. Eaton !;
Honorary Vice-President, Maj. Ed.
Whaley; Sergeants, M. J. Pilkin, John
Monteith, W. J. Derby, Drs. A. J..
Ward, J. @. Hall, d. g. Ayers.
The Western Rifle Tournament that
began at Western Union Junction on
the 25th was largely attended and
proved very interesting affair. Many
exceptionally fine scores were made.
On the whole shoot Minneapolis car
ried off first honors, the other clubs
ranging in the order named: Milwau-
kee, Wapello, Chicago. At the annual
business meeting of the Western Rifle
Association the following officers were
elected: President, John Johnston !;
vice-president, A. E. Elliott; secretary
and treasurer, w. Fl. Chenoweth; direc-
tors, s. M. Tyrrell, Chicago; W. Fl.
Tatlock, Wapelo, Ia; G. M. Skinner,
Minneapolis; Fl. T. Drake, Milwaukee !;
M. H. Burns, Eau Claire; DR.. A. A.
Amos, Racine.
MILWAUKEE government officials have
received the following notice from
the Treasury Department: GA coun-
terfeit $40 note on the Third Ma
tional Bank of Cincinnati has appeared
It is check lie tier G, series of 1882
brown back, B. K. Bruce, register, and
James Gilfllan, treasurer. The paper
is greasy and stiff. There is no dis
tributed fibre or parallel silk threads in
the paper, as in the genuine. The
vignettes are coarse and scratchy. In
the words. Printed at the Bureau En-
craving and Printing, United States
Treasury Department. in the upper left
hand corner of the note, the letter in
the word printed is engraved the wrong
side up. The space between the sigma
lures B. K. Bruce and James Gilfllan
and their official titles is one-eighth of
an inch, while on the genuine the sig
natures nearly rest upon the same. The
back of the note is well executed. While
the note should not deceive careful
handlers of money, especially when the
geometric lathe work is examined, yet
among the careless its fair appearance
may work great danger"
The American Pharmaceutical Asso-
cistion and the National Retail Drug
gists' Association have held their
respective annual conventions in Mil
waukee during the past week. The
former association is a scientific body,
and its time was largely taken up in
listening to the reading of papers on
subjects of interest to the profession.
The Retail Druggists Association is
more of trade organization, and occu-
pied itself almost wholly in planning
measures calculated to stop the selling
of patent medicines for less than the
label price. The American Pharmaceu-
tical Society elected the following