Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-07
STATE NEWS.

Northern, and the Chicago & North
Western Railroads. The figures given
aggregate $4,000.
IT was estimated that over 1000
people visited the Milwaukee Exposi-
ton on the Sd inst. The day was
specially set aside for children.
PROF. ROsENsTENGEL has purchased
about 500 volumes of standard works
for the German department of the
State University library, the money
having been contributed by the Ger
man-Americans Of Wisconsin.
JOHN TATLOCK, formerly an assist
ant in the Washburn observatory,
mas withdrawn from the faculty of the
Beloit College, where he was instruct
or in astronomy. He has been sue
ceeded by Prof. Chas. Bacon, of Wake
field, Mass.
EVANSVILLE is to have street rail
way.
EIGHT frame residences and three
barns, on the North Side, Eau Claire,
occupied by a large number of Nor
wegian families, were totally destroyed
by fire on the I'd inst. Damage about
$500; insurance about So, 500. One
of the houses was owned by the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Company Origin of fire unknown.
Mrs. CAMERON, wife of eX-United
States Senator Angus Cameron, of
La Crosse, is said to be failingrapidly.
She was recently injured in the spine
by a ferry-boat collision at New York.
JOSEPH BoRCHERT has been ap-
pointed deputy collector of internal
revenue, at La Crosse, and took charge
of the Office on the LIST inst. Ed.
Ford also assumed the duties of
deputy postmaster, succeeding E. w.
Ellis, who has been in the office twenty
four years.
THE family OF David Atwood, the
veteran editor ofthe Madison Journal,
have presented the State Historical
Society with q fine hfe-sized oil por-
trait Of the general, who has been a
member of the executive committee
of the society from its inception in
1S49 andfor many years past one ofits
vice-presidents. The portrait was
pointed by James r. Stuart and is
pronounced an excellent likeness.
THE citizens of GAINESVILLE talk of
celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of
the settlement OF that place. John
Inman, George Pullman, William
Holmes, Jr., and Joshua Holmes built
the first log cabin in that vicinity in
October, 1885.
THE fourth annual meeting of the
Wisconsin Undertakers' Association
will be held in Milwaukee on the Goth
and Dist of this month.
ONE oil the bodies recovered from
the lake near Racine has been finally
identified as that of Capt. Jones, Of
the Racine Life Saving Station.
AT Racine on the night of the I'd
inst, Mrs. J. V. Quarles fell from the
porch at her residence on College Aven-
lie, and broke her collarbone.
GEORGE WILSON has been convicted
of committing an assault with intent
to kill. by sending bullet through the
top OF David Abbot's hat, in the town
of Lima, Rock County. Some time
ago Wilson was convicted Of horse
stealing on Abbot's testimony. He
had served his time and came back
for revenge. On the I'd inst. Wilson
was sentenced to three years at Wau-
pun by Judge Patten.
THE North Western road is prepar-
ing to erect a new depot at La Crosse.
THE J. [. Case Plow Company has
been organized at Racine, with a capt.
tai stock OF 100000.
CHARLES BREHI, a tailor. commit
ted suicide at his home in Milwaukee,
on the LIST inst, by hanging.
IN the Milwaukee County court, on
the LIST, the jury in the case of William
Rooney, ST., against the Milwaukee
Chair Company, an action to recover
S., 900 damages for injuries resulting
to the plaintiffs SOP while in the COM
pany's employ, returned a verdict Of
5000 IN favor Of Rooney.
FRANK CULLEN, a saloon-keeper at
Bryant, Langlade County, was
stabbed on the LIST inst. by a man
named Baker, a Kentuckian. Baker
and others we're quarreling and Gillen
stepped IN to separate them, and re-
ceived a thrust in the right side, in
t1lcting a wound about three inches
long. He also received a blow across
the left eye. The wounds are not
dangerous. Baker is still at large.
RICHARD ROssITER, chairman of the
Milwaukee Board Of Supervisors, was
committed to the insane asylum on
the 1st on petition of his friends. He
was found wandering about the streets
in demented condition.
THE search for the body of Capt.
Jones, of the Racine Life Saving Crew,
has thus far resulted in the recovery
OF two bodies, neither of which, how
ever, were identified as that of Capt.
Jones.
THE National Rifles, of Washington,
D. c., have presented to the Milwau-
kee Light Horse Squadron a marble
slab taken from the Washington mon
ument. The slab is suitably inscribed,
and will be placed in the wall of the
new armory which the Milwaukee COM
pany is erecting.
On the evening of the goth, while
City Marshal E. L. Doolittie, of Me-
nomonie, and County Treasurer Car
roll Lucas werereturningfrom a chick
en- hunt, one Of their guns was acct
dentally discharged, the charge entering
the right arm of Mr.. Lucas near the