Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-08-05
STATE NEWS.


HERMAN BAssE, who jumped from
three-story window of the Clifton
House, Milwaukee, early on the morn
ing OF the Both, repeated the perfor-
nance again the next day. His in
Jurles may prove fatal. He was re-
moved to the jail, where physicians
pronounced him demented, and he was
taken to the county hospital.
The census of Racine, complete,
gives that city a population of 49,
636.
The annual session of the State
Dental Association closed at La Crosse
on the 31st. J. S. Perkins, of Milwau-
kee, was elected president for the COM
ing year. Milwaukee was selected as
the next place of meeting.
HUNDREDS of panes of glass were
broken at La Crosse during a storm
on the Doth. Fruit and vegetables in
the vicinity suffered severely.
CHARLES KLEIN committed suicide
by shooting at Milwaukee on the Doth.
AN unknown man aged about so
years, jumped into the lake at Milwau-
kee on the Both and was drowned.
Two men were killed on the Chicago
division of the ST. Paul road on the
3Oth, one at Wordsworth, thirty
miles south of Racine, and the other
at Deerfield. Both were strangers.
The one killed at Wordsworth fell
from the train and was cut to pieces
IN a frlghtful manner. He was Ger
man, and, it is said, hailed from Mil
waukee. The second man Jumped
from another train while it was trav-
cling at the crate OF thirty miles an hour.
FRED. KEEBLER, of the town of Lis
bon, near Milwaukee, was seriously
injured in that city on the goth by
his team running away.
THE State Board of Supervision at
it's meeting at Madison on the 10Th,
unanimously decided on Sparta as
the location for the new State School
for Dependent Children. Sparta, Rip
on, Green Bay and Stevens Point
were the only four places that re-
ceived votes on the first secret ballot,
favor being shown in order named.
After several ballots the board united
on Sparta. Gov Rusk will approve
of the decision. The precise location
in Sparta has not yet been decided on.
Several sites have been offered. After
the selection of a site bids will be adj
vertised for Immediately, and it is
hoped the school will be in readiness
for the reception of pupils next spring.
CHARLES BIEBERMAN, a bell-boy at
Draper Hall, Oconomowoc, was
robbed of SIG by a sneak thief few
nights since.
A YOUNG son of Arnie Ellingson, of
GAINESVILLE, fell from a tree which he
was climbing in play, and broke one of
his thighs and one wrist.
Mrs. THOMAS HARRIGAN, of La
Crosse, a young woman % years of
age, was stricken down by the heat
at Chicago on the 2Sth. She was tax
en- to the County Hospital, where she
recovered.
The inventory OF the property in
the hands of J. I. Case, receiver of
Fish Bros. & Co., of Racine, shows the
valuation of the property to be
$6OO,54O. The inventory Of the
property in 1888 was $576, 600.
FERDINAND DITTMAN, of Saylesville,
Waukesha County, who was captured
last winter in Chicago in the act of
passing some very badly executed sill
yer certificates, and who ACKNOWLEDGED
in his trial that the stone plate had
been made in his house by his two
accomplices, and who was sentenced
last spring by Judge Blodgett to a
years imprisonment, has been par
doned by President Cleveland.
A CASE ofremarkablefastin recently
occurred in Florence. Albert Newman
locked his house and went out on his
homestead. He missed his dog, but
thought he had strayed off, Imagine
his surprise then, when hereturned the
other day, after just twenty-six days
absence, and found he had locked his
dog in the house, where he had re-
manned all of the time without g.
mouthful of food, a drop OF water and
with very little air. When found the
dog could barely crawl. The poor
brute refused food at first, but drank
water ravenously and is now as good
as any other dog.
HENRY MoHR, residing in the Fifth
Ward, Racine, has fig tree on which
thirty-six figs grew last year, and it
promises to bear as many more this
year.
w. A. SPAULD1NG, who is confined in
the county jail, at Racine, awaiting
trial, on charge OF getting away with
funds of the Racine Wagon & Carriage
Company, came to the front on the
28th as a pugilist. Jim Smith, who
has the record of being a man of mus
Gle, was arrested and put in jail for
fast driving. He was spelling for
fight, and the first man be ran against
in the jail was Spaulding, who knocked
him out in one round, kicking and
hammering him all over the corridor.
1t was feared that Smiths skull was
cracked and one of his arms broken,
but a physician was called and states
that, although roughly handled and
badly bruised, his injuries renot dan
gerous.
S. A. SAGE's safe at Western Union
was robbed recently of about 5000 in
drafts, checks etc., and a small amount
of cash.
MAYOR POWELL, of La Crosse, has
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