Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-07-01
STATE NEWS.


j, v. JONES & Co., extensive lumber
dealers at Racine, assigned for the
Denent OF their creditors, on the 25th.
Inc liabilities are estimated at S54.-
900 and the assets at $35, 900. Dur
ing the big fire of 1882, the firm, then
Jones, Knapp & Co. lost over $40 900,
and have never recovered from the
same.
HARVEY CLARK, Ia years of age. lost
his right arm by falling under freight
train at Boscobel.
AN important decision in g. matter
affecting Racine was handed down bv
the supreme court on the oath, J.
Case had a claim of $4,000 against
the firm of Fish Bros. & Co. He was
appointed receiver by the supreme
court and was to run the business till
he got his claim out of it, and il there
was any money left the creditors were
to get it. The creditors formed pool,
and commenced an action in the SUI
preme court and received decision
that the claims were to be satisfied
first and Cases second. Cases attor-
neys made g. motion for a re-hearing.
which was denied by thesupreme court
yesterday. Consequently the other
creditors will get their money before
Case.
The preliminary survey of the ex-
tension of the Wisconsin, Pittsville
& Superior Railroad, from Marsh
field to Pittsville, has been COM
pleted and the foreman of the
surveying party has received instruc-
lions to commence the resurvey at
once. The line as now laid out will
run from Pittsville due north about
seven miles, thence in a northwesterly
direction for six miles, thence north
to the city of Marshfeld, making a
distance of about sixteen miles.
LEONARD WHEELER, g. pioneer of
Douglas County, drowned himself in
the Nemadji River, near Superior.
The act was due to worry over a law
suit pending in the state supreme
court, involving nearly $40, 0OOworth
of real estate In and near Superior.
MILWAUKEE has another mad dog
scare. On the Oath three dogs were
shot by the police. One of the ami
mails had bitten five persons before he
was laid out.
The Milwaukee Light Horse Squad
ron has decided to go into camp at
Oconomowoc for ten days, beginning
on August ID.
HOSEA TOWNSEND, of the of
Magnolia, died on the Odd, al e age
of 76 years. He came to Magnolia
thirty-seven years ago and was among
the foremost pioneers of the town.
He leaves a wife and seven children
Il - III
married.
FRANK T. LYNCH, who has just been
appointed postmaster at Leaven-
worth, Kas., is g. native of GAINESVILLE
Of late years he has been the editor Of
tle Leavenworth Standard, the only
Democratic paper published in Kan
sas.
JOSIAH ANDERSON, was run over at
GAINESVILLE on the 22d, by a carriage
containing two prominent young men
of the city, and died Of the injuries re-
ceived.
Two dead bodies were fshed out of
the lake at Milwaukee on the 22d.
One was soon after identified as that
of the missing cook of the scow Yer
mont. The other was apparently that
of a sailor. but has not been identified.
RosHoLT's elevator at OconomoWoc
took fire on the 21st, and the flames
were communicated to several adjoin-
ing buildings, all of which were de-
stroyed, at q loss of $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000.
On the afternoon of the 22d, Mrs.
julius Hanson, SO years Of age, resid-
ing at 922 Peer Avenue, Racine, locked
up the house, set fire to it, and COM
mitted suicide ENHANCING herself in the
cellar with a clothes line The hired
girl discovered that the house was
closed and on fire, and gave the alarm.
Neighbors subdued the flames, which
were confined to the bed-clothes, and
Policeman Matson found the woman
hanging. The woman had been sick
for several months, and it is supposed
the act was committed while she was
laboring under fit of insanity. A
coroner's inquest was held, and a YER
dict rendered in accordance With the
facts.