Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26

asylum at Oshkosh. The cause of her
insanity cannot be learned.
GEORGE Ross, an unmarried man,
was crushed to death by pine log
while loading train near Marshfeld,
on the Dist.
TRAPPERs are proftably engaged
Horizon Marsh. In two weeks A. Saw
yer caught 800 muskrats, forty minks
and two offers.
The Medford Democrat is thing of
the past.
W. E. butcher, formerly editor of
the Waterloo Journal, has bought the
Oconomowoc Local.
ON the afternoon of the Goth q man
named Young, living at Franksville,
jumped from the fast-mail train at that
place. The train was running at the
rate OF fifty miles an hour. He was
badly injured, and will probably die.
The residence of NJ. B. Erskine, ION
Main Street, Racine, had narrow es-
cape from being consumed by fire on
the night of the goth. The curtains of
an upper room took fire from gas Jet,
but the flames were discovered by
gentleman passing, and the blaze was
extlnguished with only slight damage.
Two boys, named Dunnegan and
Kelley, were arrested at Watertown on
the 21st for horse stealing. They were
told to take home the team of DR.. M. N.
Barber, from the residence of s. r.
Sleeper, where the doctor was attend
ing to sick call, but instead of doing
as told, the juveniles raced the team
through the streets and left it hitched
in front of the Rock River House,
where the horses were found by Off
GERS.
The store of George g. Mansfield, at
Johnson's Creek, eight miles south of
Watertown, on the Chicago & North
Western Railway, was broken open at
about 3 o'clock on the morning of the
Dist, and robbed of a large amount of
goods, consisting of notions, boots,
shoes, caps, silk handkerchiefs, pocket
knives, razors, etc. Skeleton keys were
used to open the doors. Fifty dollars
reward is offered for the arrest and con-
viction of the thieves.
A 2-YEAR-oLD boy named Forsythe
was drowned in pool of water near his
home, at Oakfeld, on the 21st.
JOHN G.. FREDERICK, the lame Racine
tailor who took poison few weeks ago
with suicidal intent, died on the night
of the 10Th.
CHARLIE SCHMIDT was lodged in the
Milwaukee County jail, on the Goth, for
robbing his employer, Maurice Mortar
ity, farmer of the town of Franklin, of
$40.
SHERIFF BENTLEY seized the stock Of
cigars owned by James Michaelstetter
Milwaukee, on the Goth, and will sell
the same under an execution in favor of
George B. Van Norman for $426.97.
The body of W. L. Jackson, of Cen
tralia, was found in the woods near that
place on the afternoon of the 21st. He
had been hunting, and accidentally shot
himself. He had been missing three
days.
The BENNETT Harvesting Machine
Company, of Milwaukee, has been reor-
ganized, and it's name changed to the
Milwaukee Harvester Company"
D. P. HULL, ex-tax commissioner of
Milwaukee, died at that place on the
Goth. He was born in gainesville, O.,
and was 81 years old.
A NUMBER of horse owners have be-
gun suit against the Racine Industrial
Association for money alleged to have
been won at the races given by the as
ISOLATION in September.
THE governor has issued the follow
ing commissions: Bernard J. Pink,
district attorney of Marathon County to
fill the vacancy caused by ths resigna-
ton of G. T. Eldred, for the term end
ing the first Monday of next January;
Joseph W. Sanderson, chaplain of the
Fourth Battalion, rank as captain, the
commission to date from May 3, 1884;
John P. Gallagher. chaplain of the
Third Regiment, with the rank of cap
tain, from September 3, 1884. Thomas S.
Johnson, chaplain of the Second Regi-
ment, with the rank of captain, from
October Is, 1884.
The convention of the Unitarian and
Independent Churches of Wisconsin in
session at GAINESVILLE, elected the follow
ing officers this cfternoon: President,
Prof. VIM. F. Allen, Madison; secre-
tary, Rev. j. Fl. Croker, of Madison;
assistant secretary, Mrs. F. B. Cook,
GAINESVILLE; treasurer the Rev. J. E.
Gordon, Milwaukee.
A LOAD of hay, in Beloit, upon which
Joe Shelley was asleep, was fired by
some young rogue, thoughtless of the
consequences. Two 'busmen discoy-
cred the fire in time to save Shelley
from q horrible death.
The suit of John and Julia Gardiner
against Waupaca County for care of
insane from adjoining counties, and for
which that county received the pay,
amounting to $1,100, was compromised
by paying the parties $40.
THE town of Buena Vista, has voted
SIS, 900 in aid of the Chicago, Freeport
& st. Paul Railroad. The town of
Tome Rock Sank Comfy also voto1