Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-22
STATE ITEMS.

clded that the dog was probably mad.
A NEW iron railroad bridge will be
built over Rock River just below Ed
gerton, Rock County, to take the place
OF the old covered structure.
JAMES GEORGE, formerly of High
land, who was sentenced last October
to twelve months Imprisonment in
state prison at Waupun, for embezzle-
ment, has been pardoned by the gov
ernOr
Mrs. Gus. GoDFREYi is in iail at Shell
Lake, Burnett County, on a. charge of
manslaughter. She wilfully deserted
her babe, leaving it in cold shed in a
naked condition. The little one, when
discovered, was black from exposure
and soon died.
The Mickey block, at Monterey,
burned on the morning of the 10th.
Loss, 50, 800; insured in the American
Fire OF Philadelphia, 81 500; Buffalo
German, $500
AN old man named Otto Hahn COM
mitted suicide by taking poison at
John Starck's place, half q mile south
OF st. Francis Station, near Milwau-
kee, on the night of the 10Th The I'M
fortunate man was a stranger in the
nelghbOrhOod where he died, and ap-
piled for lodgings at Mr.. Starck's
house in the evening. At an early
hour the following morning he was
found dead
A REPORT has been received from
Germany that Henry Cutting, a mer-
chant of Waterford, Racine County,
has been arrested for maligning Bis
marck.
BY the spreading of rails on the Mil
waukee, Lake Shore & Western above
Clintonville, on the 18th inst, num-
Der offreight cars were ditched and bad
ly damaged and the contents scattered
Passenger trains were delayed several
hours.
In the suit for damages 81 Elizabeth
O.. Hinton against the Milwaukee
Cream City Railway Company at Mil
waukee, the jury on the 10th returned
a verdict of S., 1000. The suit was for
$4,000 for injuries received while
alighting from One of the company's
cars.
The Weyauwega House, barn, and
the residence of Mrs. D. Robinson
burned on the morning of the 10th.
Floyd Jones had a livery stable in
connection with the hotel barn. The
loss is as follows: J. r. Innis, barn
and contents, including one horse, car
lIage, cutter, and harness; insurance,
$3.50 on barn; f. Jones, four horses
with harness and three or four car
riages, no insurance; VIM. Hight,
guest, one horse, no insurance; Mrs.
| D. Robinson, dwelling, insured; most
OF the contents were saved.
Maj. E. M. ROGERS, of Viroqua,
has been appointed by Gov. Rusk to
succeed Col. Watrous, of Milwaukee,
as quartermaster-general Of the Wis
consin National Guard.
A MAN by the name of Hans ] Johnson
was killed by falling tree while chop
ping on the farm of Peter Hovel, three
or four miles south Of Sparta.
ARTICLES of incorporation have been
filed IN the secretary of states office
toincorporate the Heart Prairie Wig
lance Society, for the protection of
! horses, mules, asses and equipages,
| the protection not to extend to any
animal not kept in an inclosure or
kept outside circle whose radius is
more than fourteen miles from the
! place of meeting at Heart Prairie.
THIRTEEN persons, nearly all chill
dren, were bitten by savage dog at
Milwaukee on the 10Th Some fears
are entertained of hydrophobia. The
dog was finally killed.
On the morning of the 18th inst,
the body of an old soldier named Ja-
cob Molledeur was found at the foot
of an embankment on the road be-
tween Milwaukee and the National
Home. Molledeur was an inmate of
the Home, and had been on a pro-
tracted spree. He served during the
war in a Missouri regiment.
DRs. HASTEN and II. M. Brown held
a post-mortem examination on the
18th upon the body of the man, sup
posed to be John Kemp, who died un-
der mysterious circumstances in Mil
waukee the previous day. The physi-
clans found no poison in the stomach,
and decided that death had resulted
from natural causes.
w. B. BAXTER, of Lancaster, was
stricken with apoplexy on the 18th
inst, while eating supper, and died in
a few hours. He was a prominent
druggist ofLancaster, and was thepro-
prietor of 'Baxter's Horse Lotion"
He leaves a wife and three sons.
A LITTLE daughter of Matt Cragin,
of Kenosha, died of burns received
through the ignition of her clothing at
the stove during the absence of her
parents.
JOHN Balm, a German living near
Kenosha, has lost four children by
diphtheria, and his three remaining
children are i'll with the disease. Mrs.
Balm is very low.
Mrs. WILSON, of Beloit, who was re-
Gently assaulted by the negroes Smith,
of Chicago, and Weymot, is dead. In
consequence the charge of manslaugh-
ter will be substituted for the impend
ing charge of robbery by the prosecu-
tion
THE sale of the Strohn farm in
Oconomowoc brought to light two old
Government DarchmentS one signed