Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-08
STATE ITEMS.

LIE hotICu ISSUE OF Health ana
Home, Washington medical month
~, contains letter from Thomas B.
Keogh, an old Milwaukeean, now
United States marshal of the Western
District OfNOrth Carolina. stating that
his 15-year-old daughter was cured
OF a severe attack of diphtheria by
the application Of moistened tobac-
co leaf to the throat, covered with a.
bandage of Canton flannel, kept moist.
KeOgh says himself and son were AL
SO cured of diphtheritic attacks bv
| like treatment.
The Milwaukee tug Arctic arrived
at Grand Haven on the Sd, after being
ice-bound in the lake for twenty DAYS.
BURGLARS entered the Norway
House, grandmother saloon and
Owen Lapsin's saloon at Chippewa
Falls on the morning of the Sd, and
secured about $50 in cash The city
is full OF gamblers and they are sus-
pected of the theft.
The RaWleigh Mining Company, of
Waldwick, Iowa County, has struck
rich lode Of mineral in the old mining
cOmpany's land. The shaft is about
SO feet deep, and the sheet will yield
1000 pounds to the foot. One chunk
was taken out which weighed 1, 900
pounds.
SISTER STANIsLAUs, a teacher of
drawing and painting at ST. Clair
Academy, Sinsinawa Mound, died on
the LIST INST, after protractedillnes
JOHN SCRAY, brakeman in the ST.
Paul yards, at Milwaukee, had four
al IL
cars on the2d inst.
FIRE in the butcher shop owned by
Alprecht & Hume, Clintonville, on the
night Of the LIST, entirely destroying
the shop and contents and some out
buildings. Estimated loss 81, 700; in
surance 81 900 in the Concordia Com
pany. A tailor shop and dwelling
house owned by Dettberner, adjoin-
ing, was also burned. Estimated loss
81, 900; insurance $3.50 in the Ger
mania Company. Henry Folkman,
sleeping over the butcher shop, was
suffOcated and burned to death.
Origin of the fire unknown.
A YOUNG man named Henry t. Mey-
er, recently in the employ of Davidson
& Sons, near Hersey, st. Croix Coun-
ty, was arrested at Eau Claire, charged
with trying to pass forged note on a.
mercantile house in that city. He was
held for examination.
Mr.. L. ]. BURLINGAME, the enrolling
clerk of the Assembly, was presented
with handsome gold watch by his
subordinates, on the 31st ult.
THE triennial sangerfest of the North
western Sangerbund, composed of the
societies of Wisconsin, Minnesota
and Illinois, will be held June26 to 80.
A male chorus of 500 voices will he
present under the direction of Prof E.
G. Gaebler, of La Crosse.
JAMES S. WHITE, ex-comptroller Of
Milwaukee, charged with abstracting
city bonds to the value of So, 600 dur
ing his official term, was arrested at
Niles, Mich, on the night of the LIST.
A SERIOUS stabbing ARRAY occurred
at Western Union Junction, on the LIST
inst, between two young men named
A. Smith and Martin E. Lee. The two
had been drinking heavily at the rail
road hotel during the afternoon and
became involved in a quarrel, which
ended in a rough and tumble fight.
| They were separated two or three
trouble, when they again clinched. Be-
fore they could be separated, Lee mad
inflicted a half dozen wounds on the
head and face of Smith with large
pocket knife. Smith fell to the floor
bleeding profusely. His wounds are
serious.
THE bondsmen of Andrew Schoffen,
the defaulting ex-city treasurer of
Kenosha, have compromised with the
city by paying $4,000 and $500 as
costs. The city had a. judgment
against them for s., 900 Besides the
above sum, the bondsmen endorsed
notes for So, 900 which they also had
to pay, although they secured a small
portion of the sum from property
owned by the defaulter. Schoffen is
now in Michigan.
AT Racine on the 31st, Charles
Stewart, pleaded guilty to the charge
Of issuing forged paper and was SEN
fenced to Imprisonment at Waupunfor
the term of eighteen months.
SIDNEY CALL, of Wrightsville, Jack
son County, has just received notice
that he will draw a little over 1000
as back pension money, and $96 per
year hereafter. Mr.. G. is over 80
years old and cripple.
JAMES O'DELL, a resident of La
Crosse County, attempted suicide on
the 3Oth, by cutting his throat. He
will probably recover.
VIM. STREET and Wilson Lane, two
prominent lawyers of GAINESVILLE,
formerly partners, had fight in
Police Justice A d. Wicham's court
on the 3Oth Street called Lane liar
and Lane gave him a severe pounding
Street had Lane arrested. The latter
pleaded not guilty and asked for a
Jury trial. The case causes considera-
BILE comment. Street is a prominent
member of the Baptist Church and q
teacher in the Sunday School.
FIRE destroyed two large barns be-
longing to David J. Evans, at Emmett,
with live stock and farming utensils,
in all valued at $4,000.
THE GAINESVILLE Cotton Mills, which
| have bann Shut down fOT. some time ara