Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-14
STATE NEWS.

III OLo oUu, L. II. USnor' nomination
for chief of police by Mayor Powell
was rejected by q vote of 13 to 3.
Chief Clark was then re-nominated and
confirmed.
The survivors of the Twelfth Wis
consin Battery are planning a reunion
In GAINESVILLE October 6, 1886, the an
nlversary of the battle ofAlatoona, in
which the Sixth Wisconsin Battery
and the Tenth Missouri Infantry are
to takepart.
AT the second days session of the
Wisconsin State AUTHORIZATION Con-
vention at Milwaukee on the 9th inst,
the following officers of the state asso-
citation were elected: President, John
A. Hinsey, of Milwaukee; first vice
president, Jacob Heck, of Racine;
second vice-president, Henry Emder,
OF Portage; financial secretary, A. B.
Judd, of Milwaukee; recording secre-
tary, A. +. Greulich, of Milwaukee;
treasurer, Emil Kiewert, ofMilwaukee;
executive committees August f. Mill
er OF Milwaukee; Joseph Deuster, of
Milwaukee; Henry Hegemeister, Green
Bay; John Toeller, La Crosse; Peter
Barth, Milwaukee.
IHE young man who threw himself
IN front OF train on the North West
ern road near Milwaukee was Fred.
Ehlelter, the 24-year-old son of g.
farmer living in the town of Lake. A
coroner's jury returned a verdict ofsui-
eide. The testimony showed that the
young man had been a sufferer from
epilepsy, and had frequently threat
ened to kill himself
Count ZEWOsKY is out on his annual
tour, from the Milwaukee Soldiers
Home. He wears a. cooked hat, pro-
fusely ornamented with the plumage
of different birds, and at his side hangs
q rusted revolver, unloaded and per-
fectly harmless.
The depot Of the new railroad at
Waukesha will be built north of the
The road will take two acres OF the ST.
lurian Spring park. The depot will be
completed by January /, when it is
thought the trains will be running to
Waukesha from the North.
A sEvEN-YEAR-OLD son of Hans Pc
terson, residing on Chestnut Street,
Racine, wasrun over by wagon load
ed with flax. The wheels passed over
his back, but strange as it may seem,
did not kill him. His whole body is
paralyzed from the effects OF the &C.
cident, and attending physicians have
little hope Of his recovery.
r. D. ToRREY, who was formerly
manager of the Milwaukee Exposition,
but has lately been secretary of the
Racine Exposition, with whose board
Of directors he has been in continual
conflict, has at last been crowded out
by the board. r. B. Bates has been
elected secretary in his place, and Tor
rey was induced to give up the keys Of
the building. He says he will fight the
board in the courts to recover salary
to November /, and other money
which he claims to be due him.
News was received on the 9Th inst.
to the effect that Louis Knoll, for
mer Milwaukeean, had committed sui
eide at Kansas City, Mo-, by hanging
himself in an empty freight car.
BURGLARS entered the house of Geo
Chilcott, at Clinton Junction on the
night of the 9th, securing $40 and
good watch and chain. E. W. Jer-
mans residence was also entered but
the robbers were driven off, No ar
rests.
ANDREW ROBERTS, Of Huntington, was
shot at four times at 10 o'clock on the
night of the 9Th. One shot split his
right ear and made a scalp wound
three inches long. When shot he hid
in the bush. The object of the assas-
sin was robbery.
JOSEPH ZIRBEs fell from church
spire at Racine, a distance Of forty
feet, and was seriously injured.
A RACINE boy, named Fred. McDon-
aid, swallowed a tin whistle half an
inch long and half On inch thick.
GEORGE GERRY and his partners in
the mill at Vesper are building a rail-
way to connect with the Wisconsin
Central near Auburndale, a distance
of eleven miles.
The will of the late John Tapley
has been admitted to probate at Ra-
cine. The estate foots up over $780,
600. After providing for the pay
ment of his just debts and the cree
tion of a modest monument, the bulk
Of the property Is bequeathed to the
widow. A number of relatives and
friends are handsomely remembered.
IT was estimated that over 1000
people visited the Milwaukee Exposi-
ton on the Sd inst. The day was
specially set aside for children.
FIRE in the shoe store of William
Mast, on Wisconsin Street, Milwaukee,
on the night of the 9Th, caused damage
to the amount of $4,000. Incendia-
rism is suspected.
AT La Crosse on the 9th inst,
Patrick Kennedy, in the course of a
controversy with James Kelley, was
struck on the head with a potato dig
ger and his skull fractured. He died
in about an hour.
THE hnseed oil works at La Crosse
will crush 10000 bushels of fax seed
this season. The operators have just
received twenty-six carloads OF seed
from Southeastern Dakota.
THE residence Of Henry Pentland, at
Beloit, was badly damaged by fire on
the 5th. 1t originated around the
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