Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-05
BADGER BREVITIES.


taken for deer, near Florence, and
probably fatally shot.
LoTE TAYLOR, proprietor of the
Taylor House, at Clinton Junction, died
on the 26th of a cerebral affection.
The Pioneer Lumber Company's
boarding house in Eau Claire, Wis,
burned on the 9th. Loss, $500;
partial insurance.
j. M. DAVIS suffered severe fall
while adjusting decorations for Demo-
cratic meeting at Ashland. His left leg
was broken at the thigh.
ARCHIBALD BROWN, aged 81, of the
town of Yorkville, is dead. He had
lived in Racine County for forty years,
and was native of the Island of Islay,
Scotland.
The dead body of an unknown man
was found in the barn of Mr.. Didgi-
ner, at Hortonia, Outagamie County, on
the oath. Deceased was apparently
about As years of age.
W. l.. PARKER, of Whitewater, has
purchased of Mr.. Bissel, of Shoreham,
Vermont the celebrated buck, "Long-
fellow" considered one of the NEST
noted ones in the United States.
DR.. CLARK NETTLEToN, aged 81 years,
died in Racine on the Goth. He was
the oldest Free Mason and physician in
Wisconsin, and had resided in the
county forty years. He leaves a wife
80 years old, and Mrs. Judge Epler, of
Jacksonville, ILL.,, is daughter.
The sorghum mill of E. M. Crandall
& Son, in Utica, Dane County, has
been in operation for two weeks and has
daily average of ninety gallons of fine
syrup. Some days the product meas
ures 105 gallons. j. A. Coon had a
yield of 248 gallons from an acre of
cane.
ANNA HAMMER, girl IL years of age,
living at Cedar Falls, Dunn County,
fell into well forty feet deep and with
seven feet of water IN it, and was in
stantly killed. Her mother, frenzied
with grief, was about to throw herself
after her daughter, but was restrained
by neighbors.
The new company which was lately
at Madison by students who
have received instruction in the Uni.
versity battalion, will be known as the
Madison Blues. L. F. Frisby, Jr., will
be captain of the organization, which
proposes to make itself the crack mill
tary company of the state, if hard work
will accomplish that result.
A. T. LoNGLEY, for thirty years su-
perintendent of the department of agri-
culture at Washington, arrived at Bara-
boo on the Goth in order to be on hand
to vote. He fell through an open
in the rear of his brothers
store soon after arriving, separating in
his fall three ribs on the left side from
the cartilage, aud badly injuring his
left hand.
WHILE hunting ducks in boat on
the Fox River, few miles above Apple
ton, Lewis Kreushke, young man, &C
discharged gun, the charge
his left knee, badly decorating
The same. Six inches of the bone has
been removed, and amputation will be
necessary. Several years ago, while
Kreushke's right leg was
broken and subsequently amputated
near the thigh.
W. j. KERsHAw Post No. 1, G.
A. r., was organized on the 9th
1t Briggsville, Marquette County. A
1umber of members of John Gillespie
Post, of Kilbourn City, were present.
W. J. Kershaw, Jr., delivere ed an ad-
lress and presented a fine portrait of
;he late Maj. Kershaw executed by Miss
5ybil Kershaw, of Milwaukee. It is
gift from W. j. Kershaw, Jr., and his
sisters, Sybil and Kate Kershaw.
The Madison Journal says: The hog
market is considerably quieter than was
he case one year ago at the present
lime, and lower price is prevailing,
rom 1926 to $3.50 being paid for live
md $3.50 to 1915 for dressed. Very
'ew hogs have been brought in thus
ar and the shipmen have consequent
y been very light, Notwithstanding a
few have been made. The reason for
The limited receipts is that hogs have
not yet been placed in condition for the
market, owing to the fact that this
years corn had to be used, because of
The comparative failure of last falls
,rop. In this regard the hogs are four
10 six weeks behind the season and are
oeing fattened slowly. The cold wealth
DoDGEvILLE CHRONICLE: Mrs. John
Eregalgus, of this village, went out in
% the garden and gathered up some
lpples from the ground, and upon re-
urning to the house, commenced to eat
me of them, but on taking the first
,ite noticed q pecuiar taste, and spat
t out, thinking there had been some
lirt on the apple that she had not
loticed. She then wiped the apple off
md took a second bite, when she was
eized with vomiting and experienced
peculiar sensations throughout her sys-
EN-. This, of course, arouse suspicion,
nd upe1 close inspection it was found
hat the apple she had commenced to
'at, and number of the others, had
,een ''loaded" with arsenic and placed
n the garden, with the evident inten-
ion of murder. The matter has been |
brought to the attention of the district
,ttorney, and, awaiting developments,
We withhold comment.