Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-29
STATE ITEMS,

MARY A. COLE, of Beloit, has
brought suit against VIM. D. Mickey
OF GAINESVILLE, for 1000 damages, fo1
injuries received by stepping into a
hole in a lower hallway of building
owned by Mickey in BeIoit.
The Beloit common council fixed
the retail saloon license fee at $500
on the night of the 22d. Fourteen IL
censes were granted. The same price
has been charged for the past two
years.
THE farm house on the Jackson
homestead near Elkhorn, belonging
to Henry jackson, burned on the
morning of the 23d. Loss about 49,
500; insured
FRED. SELL, for many years en-
ployed as a lamplighter in Milwaukee,
committed suicide in that city on the
23d by cutting his throat He had a
wife and four children.
ARTICLES of association were filed on
the 22d ofthe DextervilleC Construction
Company with a capital stock OF
100000. The design is to construct
and equip railways. George Hiles and
his sons are the incorporators.
JOHN FAKGERLY had hand torn of
by q belt in a mill at Porterville, near
Eau Claire.
Miss RACHEL MCCUNE, of West Sa-
| lem, La Crosse County, died suddenly
of heart disease.
THE house of Matthew Rogers, at
| Dodgeville, was entered by burglars
| and $50 in cash stolen.
The new City Council at Waupaca
has fixed the saloon license at $500
an increase Of $3.50 over that paid last
year. Janesville's Council fixed the
license fee at 5000.
FRED. RING, of La Crosse, has
brought suit against roller-rink com.
pany for injury to his health through
noise and damage to his property by
the propinquity Of the rink, Ring
wants $4,000
In the circuit court, at Kenosha,
Chas. Goodwin, John Dorsey and Jo-
seph Wagner, for robbing and then at
| tempting to murder Simon Tropp,
were found guilty, and sentenced to
| the penitentiary for the following
terms: Goodwin, three years, and
Dorsey and Wagner eighteen months
each.
AT Grand Rapids, on the 21st
Latham c. Ogden, aged %, shot
himself through the head, causing in.
slant death. Cause unknown De
ceased was aharnessmaker. Heleaves
| a wife.
The Superior, Hayward & Southern
and the Grand Rapids, Centralia &
Marshfeld Railway Companies have
filed articles of association at Madi-
son.
ILL-HEALTH caused the resignation
of Rev. A. A. Hoskin, of the Milwaukee
Union Gospel Church.
CHARLES HANSON, groceries and pro
visions at Eau Claire, has been closed
out on a chattel mortgage. Several
Chicago firms have small claims.
HENRY CUTTING, of Waterford, RAJ
cine County, who was reported to have
been arrested in Germany for malign-
ing Bismarck, has arrived home and
denies the story.
MILWAUKEE is heard from with a
murder mystery. The partially de-
composed remains of an infant were
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in the Fourth Ward on the Dist.
A HoD-CARRIER named Brazinsky,
after falling from two-story building
at La Crosse, on the Dist, got up and
walked home. He struck on the back
of his head and shoulders.
S. RINDLAUB, of Gettysburg, Pa,
father of M. P. Rindlaub, editor and
proprietor of the Platteville wis
Witness, died on the 18th inst. at the
latter place, where be had been visit
ing.
THE will of the late John Osborn, of
Caledonia, who left a fortune in the
neighborhood of $4,000, will be con-
tested by his daughter, Mrs. Mary
Steele, wife of Samuel Steele. Mrs.
Steele contests the will on the ground
that the deceased made the will
through undue influence and the want
of proper authorization.
THE farm residence belonging to and
occupied by j. O'Brien, near Fall
Greek, Eau Claire County, with a good
portion of the contents, was destroyed
by fire on the goth, involving total
loss of 1900; covered by an insur-
ance of So 200.