Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-02-13
Wisconsin News.

Wisconsin News.
d. Mcdonald of Summit, has a
COG that carries papers and letters TO
any from parties In Oconomowoc
The Rev. DIR. Kemper has moved
from Nashotah to Oconomewoc. He
still retains his professorship at Nash
otah.
Michael Reagan, Of Edgerton, is
under arrest on n charge of criminal
assault, preferred by a Mrs. Mosler, of
the town of Fulton.
Eugene A. Morley, the printer in
custody at Green Bay for obtaining
money under false pretenses, is also
to- answer for a forgery at Aurora,
I'll.
john McKlbbin, a merchant of
Fond du Lac, was attacked by high
wayman last Friday night, but mau-
aged to escape, though badly hurt
about the head.
Judge Clementson sent Nick
Ames, the notorious boy desperate of
Grant county, to the penitentiary for
seven years. He is The precocious
young villain who committed forty
burglaries in Lancaster.
Gen. Vests petition for appoint
ment as marshal at Milwaukee
is growing TO ponderous dimen
sions. Nearly every lawyer in
Milwaukee and all the merchants,
members of -~ssch.nge and the
entire array of citizens sig!aify tsat he
is the man for the place.
S. S. Merrill, the great railroad
manager, died on Sunday m orning at
12:30a. m. at his residence IN Milwau-
kee. His funeral will take place Oh
Wednesday, the 11th, at st. James
church in that city. Sherburn S.
Merrill was one of the most remark
able men Of his age. He was born in
Alexandria, Grafton county, n. H,
July 2S, 1918 His father was farm
er, and he was bred to farm work, on
hard New Hampshire farm. At the
age of 16 he was man of all work
about hotel. He then worked as a
workingman for 6 years in a Boston
furnishing house. Then he started a
little hotel in the little town of Bris-
tol, N. Fl. Then he tried a wooden
factory, in which he remained till
1850. Then when SO years of age, he
came to Milwaukee. For wan: of
other employment he engaged as
the foreman of a gang of mea
employed in grading a section
OF the railroad. the first in the state,
then building from Milwaukee to
Waukesha. Here the practical, di-
~I~
itself. He could get so much work
out of men, with no false motions,
no misdirected strokes or blows, that
he was soon promoted to the foreman
ship of the construction department.
Then, when that work was temporari-
ly suspended, he became conductor,
then paymasrer, then assistant super
intendent of the road E. II. Broad
head He was next employed as
superintendent of the division from
Milwaukee to Watertown, thence of
the La Crosse division. next of the
Winona and st. Paul road,
from which he was called
in 1865 to Milwaukee to be
general manager of the SYSTEM which
has since grown to be the largest sys-
tenn controlled by any railroad cor
poration in the world. He was the
soul of the business management. A
man of tireleSs energy, il used to be
said that he knew every spike in the
several thousand miles of line. The
most intricate or minute details of the
vast system he knew about, kept
track of, and his restless energy was
felt at the remol est side branch He
was familiar with all parts of the line,
every bridge, cut, fill, and the
myriad details of cost, etc.
He decided matters involving
the expenditure of milliors
with rapidity that seemed rashness.
His industry was boundless, his ca
pacity for work marvel. His frame
was strong, sinewy, of wonderful
endurance, and he was model of the
execut.v We brain and temperament
He was strict in discipline, abitrary,
but just and quick to recognize and
promote fidelity and energy. Bat he
committed the besetting fault of that
class OF men. He seemed to think
thai his fund of vital power was mex
ba1istible- He worked so steadily
under such high pressure that
about IS months ago the collapse came
in partial stroke of paralysis. Since
thar time he has been an invalid; aud
at last he died. Had he cared for the
vast engine of power that kept the
vast railway system In motion, as he
cared for the myriad of locomotives
in use upon it, he would have IN all
probability lived many years longer.