Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-21

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badly mangled thatamputation at the
shoulder was necessary. Mr.. Ranthau
was thrown down by the cars and
badly bruised. The little girl will re-
cover.
A CoLoRED boy named Johnson, OF
La Crosse, was detected in the act of
hanging his younger brother to a beam
in the woodshed. The young man is
! insane.
FRED. RASMUSSEN met with a seri-
Gus accident at a Racine coal-yard. A
plank fell from a coal-runaway and
struck him on the head, cutting it
badly and nearly severing an ear.
THE fair grounds belonging to the
Waukesha Agricultural Society have
been disposed Of at public auction to
G. NJ. White, $1,000 In cash being the
consideration. Mr.. White will plat
the property into village lots next
spring and place them upon the real
estate market.
A REPORT comes from Menominee,
Mich, to the effect that there are at
least twenty cases of smallpox In
Marinette, Wis, the disease having
been brought there by a. Montreal
citizen. Four deaths have already oc-
CURED and many persons have been
exposed.
DAN PAGE, the insane man who es-
capped from the sheriff of st. Croix
County, at Mcmillan Junction, week
or so ago. was captured at Rusk Sta
ton, in Dunn County, on the night of
the 18th and taken to Menomonie for
safe keeping.
In the county court at Dodgeville,
on the 18th, Mrs. Rarriette Remley
was found guilty of murder in the first
degree and sentenced to state prison
for life. She murdered her husband
on the 9th of last January. Her son
Charles received the same sentence
for the same crime at the last term of
the court. The people generally are
well pleased with the verdict.
The moulders in the Hurlburt Man
ufacturing Company's establishment
at Racine are out on 81 strike for an
advance Of 25 cents per day. They
were receiving 50 for ten hours work.
FRANK NEsELTREL, a Bohemian
farmer, residing in the town of Gale
donia, Racine County, started for
Racine on the 18th inst, with a load
of oats, his wife and child, seven
months old, being with him. When
about half way in the child suddenly
died. The mother carried it home in
her arms, while the father continued
the Journey, sold the oats and pur-
chased a coffin.
GENERAL MANAGER HUGHTTT, Gener-
al Superintendent Wheeler and Chief
1o1 81 Nj p,
Northwestern Railroad, were in La
Crosse on the 18th, and decided to
purchase three blocks on Third Street,
between Courthouse Square and La
Crosse River for a depot site. The
track will be built from the Winona
Junction over four miles of low land,
at once. The cost will not fall short
of $3OO,OOO.
THE photographer, W. W. Morgan,
who was shot and killed by a lawyer
named Barnell, at Big Stone City,
OAK, was in business in Racine about
four years ago. He was known as q
pretty fast man, but was quite popu-
lar with the majority Of the people
who knew him.
THE navigation Of the Upper Missis-
sippi has been suspended for the sea-
son. The water is so low that the
packets cannot leave La Crosse.
CONSIDERABLE difficulty is expert
enced at Burlington by the railway
contractors entrusted with the work
of driving piles over the mill-dam and
race. The railway work in that vicin-
i6y busies about ZOO men.
HENRY j. BLUM, a carpenter en-
ployed on Sanderson's new elevator
near Pleasant Street bridge, Milwau-
kee, fell Iron the building to theground,
about sixty-fve feet, at noon, on the
18th. His right arm and leg were
broken. He sustained internal inju-
ries. He is "a years of age and has a
wife and two children.
The consolidated monthly report
for September of chronic insane under
county care has been issued by A. O.
Wright, secretary of the state board
of charities and reform. The total
number of persons in the asylums is
$50. OF this number $50 are males
and 391 females.
THE state supreme court has re-
fused a rehearing of the suit of Mrs.
McLienans VS.. the city of Lancaster,
in which the plaintiff received judg
ment of So, 900 against the said cor
poration for injuries sustained by fall
ing through a. sidewalk. The judg-
ment and costs amount to $4,000,
which the taxpayers of Lancaster will
now have to pay.