Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-23
STATE NE WIS,

| IHE Merchants NaG1OnaI Bank, O.
Chicago, won it's suit at Madison
against the Chicago Railway Equip
ment Company, the judge directing
that a verdict be rendered for $40,
ga. This decision makes valid 1910,
600 In similar notes now outstanding
JOHN MrCHNA, John Pokryzwa and
Frank Lewandowsky, the Poles on
trial at Milwaukee for the murder Of
John Darke, a fellow countryman, were
convicted on the night of the 10th.
The Sturgeon Bay G.. A. r. named
r. s. Minor as their delegate to the
department encampment in Milwau-
kee. d. W. Stebbins is the alternate.
A POST OFFICE is to be opened at
Porterville, on the line of the Milwau-
kee q Northern Railway, with Robert
McWllllams as postmaster.
A YOUNG man, Knute Peterson, who
resides at Hudson, Wis, was instant
ly killed by a tree falling upon him at
Plunkett &Warren's logging camp, be.
tween Weyerhauser and Bruce. He
was engaged in cutting tree which fell
in an opposite direction from calcula-
t1Ons. The remains were sent to his
lOILHCl uOul0 lOI IuUOIuOuUs
ONE of the public schools in the
West division of Eau Claire has been
closed on account of the prevalence of
contagious diseases.
IT is said that Gov. Rusk contem-
plates releasing Jerry Wilson from the
stipulation that he should not return
to Wisconsin. Wilson is the man who
was convicted twenty years ago on g.
charge OF having committed murder
IN Milwaukee, and who was pardoned
out by Gov. Rusk a few weeks ago, on
the production of testimony tending
to show that he was not guilty. Viii
son is now at Troy, N. Y.
CHARLES WELDON, the little Milwau-
kee boy who was bitten by a mad dog
some time since, died in terrible agony
on the 18th.
ACCORDING to a report by the presi-
dent OF the Wisconsin Dairymen s
Association the number of COWS in
Wisconsin is estimated at 100000;
product of cheese, ,0OOpounds; but
ter, 38,OOO,OOO pounds; total value,
$2O,OOO,OOO.
WILLIAM PITT LYNDE, prominent
lawyer of Milwaukee died at his home
| in that city on the 18th, after an i'll
ness of four months. He was SO
years old.
AT Waukesha, on the 18th, the mo-
ton for a new trial in the Christian
sen murder case was argued and de-
MED. The prisoner was sentenced to
six years in state prison, two days OF
each year, June II and July 4, to be
In solitary confinement. During the
arguments Judge Sloan expressed it
as his deliberate opinion that the
prisoner was guilty and might proper
| ly have been convicted of q greater
crime than manslaughter of the third
degree.
| ALEX MCRAC was arrested at Supe.
rior, on the 18th, on the charge of
bezzling $500 from William Ryan, OF
West Superior.
THOMAS CLARK, a grocer of Superior,
made an assignment on the 18th, to
Henry Tinkham. Liabilities $4,000
and assets claimed to be $4,000.
JOHN MATTIsoN, of Stockholm, Wis.
foreman Of g. gang of trestle- builders
on the Chicago, Burlington & Northern
| 1ICDllI OCtNA, A1CebI OlUy, hilu3 IOl
from trestle to the ice below, dis
lance of eighteen feet His injuries
proved fatal. He leaves a. widow and
one child l 5 months old.
THE residence of G. A. Stouch, at
Eau Claire was destroyed by fire or
the 10th. Loss 81, 800; covered by
insurance.
THE annualreport of thepostmaster
general, shows that the gross receipts
of the Milwaukee Office for the fsca
year were 1852, 224.49 and the ex
penses $50, 2993O, or 33 per cent. OF
the receipts. The expenses of the 9th.
er free delivery Offices in Wisconsin are
a larger percentage of the gross re
ceipts, as follows: Eau Claire, SO per
cent; La Crosse, As per cent; Madison
81 per cent; Oshkosh SO per cent.
Racine, 81 per cent.
IT is said that misunderstanding
between the Welshmen of Milwaukee
Chicago and Racine, growing out Of
| last years eisteddfod at the last.
named place, will prevent the holding
of the usual Western eisteddfod this
year.
ONE of Milwaukee, enterp1ising citi
zens is preparing rat pit for the de-
lectation Of the refined classes of so.
ciety in that city.