Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-05-27
STATE ITEMS.

change Bank, of Prairie du Chen, to
A. M. Beach. The liabilities are said
to be about $4,000; assets $4,000.
CHARLES Cory was drowned at
Brule Falls, near Florence. His bat
teau was swept down an abrupt de
scent OF about twenty feet.
HALF Of the Anderson block of four
stores at Merrill, Wis, burned on the
morning OF the 23d. The fire caught
in the basement about 10 o'clock
The stores burned were occupied by
Slgmund Heinemann, general store,
and Ross & Wiley, drug store. Heine-
mann's stock was valued at $4,000.
Total loss about $4,000. Insurance
about $4,000.
FooT-PADs are working the back
streets in Milwaukee.
FRANK K. BULL, secretary of the
j. [. Case Threshing Machine Com
pany, Racine, was swindled out Of
500 by a travelling peddler who
played an old game. Mrs. Richard
Robinson, sister of Mr.. Bull, is in Hot
Springs, and when the peddler APP
peared at the residence of Stephen
Bull he had little difficulty in convinc-
ing Miss Lillian Bull, younger sister,
that he had sold Mrs. Robinson, at
Hot Springs, q large bill of laces, in
payment for which she had given a.
check for 800 filled out all except the
signature, which was to be signed by
Miss Lillian Bull and cashed in Ra-
cine. Miss Bull was thoroughly con-
WINGED OF the truth of the story and
innocently signed the check. The
peddler lost no time in getting to the
office of the Threshing Machine Com
pany where Frank Bull cashed the
check. A few hours later q telegram
OF inquiry was sent to Mrs. Robinson
at Hot Springs, and her reply that
she knew nothing of the peddler or his
check exploded the whole scheme as a
swindling operation. The peddler,
whose name was Knapp or Knopf,
had already left town with his gains.
BURGLARS are at work in the vicinity
of Burlington.
The youngest son of Prof. M. J.
Crash, of Burlington, was badly scald-
ed with boiling lard on the goth. Mr..
Crash was in the act of throwing out
q pan of lard which had caught fire on
the stove, when the little fellow APP
peared in the doorway, receiving the
contents in his face and on his hands.
He will recover, but will probably lose
one eye.
Mrs. CATHERINE WOJAHX, of Elm
hurst, while in Amigo last November,
was struck by Lake Shore engine
and lost one arm and one leg. She
now sues for $4,000 damages.
AMONG the recent interesting acqui-
sitions of the State Historical Society,
is an old weight-clock, which has just
been placed in the art gallery, as the
gift of G. Scott, a jeweler of Madison.
This clock was manufactured In HOl-
land, about $50 years ago, and trans
ported to Norway, where it long did
good service. Mr.. Scott is now en-
gagged in hunting up it's history.
ANTON KOCH, a 12-year-old boy, fell
into the hold Of the propeller Cone
maugh, at Milwaukee on the Goth, and
was seriously injured.
ANTON WETzEL, the brutal fellow
who dubbed his step-son with a stick
of stove-wood at Milwaukee, was fined
$50 and costs in the police court at
that place on the Goth, and ordered
to furnish bonds in the sum of $500
to keep the peace for six months. In
case of failure to obtain bondsmen he
goes to the house Of correction for six
months.
AT Milwaukee on the Goth, an old
woman named Nina Dalgo, who lived
principally by begging and picking rags,
was run down by a st. Paul passenger
train and instantly killed. Her body
was frightfully mangled.
MRS. ALEX PORTER, wife of a promi-
nent Racine County farmer, was seri-
ously and perhaps fatally injured in
a runaway accident near Burlington
on the 18th. She was thrown out of
the buggy backward and her skull tract
ured.
ARTICLES of association have been
filed with the secretary of state incor-
porating the Apostle Island Improve
ment Company with a capital stock of
100000. It's object is to lay out and
maintain park of 1 ,28O acres on one
of the islands and also to render the
place more attractive as a summer re-
sort.
CHAs. WICKERT, a clerk and book
keeper in Fred Korth's store at Hew-
tits, near Marshfeld, is in JAIL await
ing action by the grand jury in his
case. He is charged with the embez-
element of about 5000.
WILLIAM GROVER, of La Crosse, re-
ceived backpensions amounting ST.
400.
BELoT has made contract with
the Fairbank Scale Company to put
in the water works in that city and
own them. The city agrees to take
eighty hydrants, for which they pay
81, 500 per annum or $56.25 each.
THE Eau Claire Tannery Company's
property including the main building
and valuable machinery, was totally
destroyed by fire on the 10th. The
origin of the freis unknown. Damage,
$15 5000; insured as follows: With