Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-08-18
STATE NEWS.

In the town of Franklin, Milwa uket
County, on Sunday, the 9Th inst.
Joseph Bank, aged II, and Fred. K ep
ka, aged 81, were each perforat ed with
several No. 4 shot by the discharge of
a gun in the hands OF Philip Molchew.
ski, aged II. Molchewski is said to
have pointed the gun at them and fired
out OF pure willfulness. Application
has been made for q warrant for his
arrest.
BY the elevation Of Gen. Lucius Fair.
child to the rank OF grand commander
OF the Grand Army of the Republic,
Henry P. Fischer, Of Milwaukee, be-
comes commander of the Wisconsin
department Of the order. At the last
state encampment Mr.. Fischer was
elected senior vice-commander.
A COAT and hat were found floating
IN the lake near the government break
water, on the evening of the 9Th, and
taken to the central police station.
The articles were identified by Charles
Bueler, resident of Bay View, as be-
longing to q 10 an named Charles Krue-
ger, who lives at 1000 Kinnickinnic
Avenue. Kruger has been employed
at Weisel & Vilter's machine shop, on
Chicago Street. Ashe has been missing
since the Sd, there is little doubt but
that he committed suicide or was &C
cidentally drowned.
CHRISTIAN BRAND, q laborer 80 years
of age, living with his parents in the
town Of Milwaukee, near the northern
extremity of Third Street, committed
suicide at 6 O'Clock on the evening of
the 9Th inst, by shooting off the topo
his head.
GEORGE GRAHAM fell into g. tank of
ammonia water, at the works of the
Milwaukee Gaslight Company, on the
10th inst. His face, eyes and hands,
and other portions of his body were
burned, but medical attendance was
quickly summoned, and it is believed
that he will not suffer any permanent
injury. He will be confined to his bed
for several weeks.
j. STILsoN, OF Otsego, nearly severed
the cord in his wrist by striking it on
an open bladed knife.
The insurance on the American
House, Fond du Lac, has practically
been adjusted at So, 356.12.
FIRE and water caused damage to
the amount of $4,000 in the Forest
Street Clothing House, Fond du Lac.
The La Crosse authorities failed to
identity the prisoners at Prairie du
CHEN as the murderers of Nels White.
F. N. CLEVELAND, of Stetsonville,
was thrown from a buggy a short dis
lance from Medford and one of his legs
broken.
MRS. JOHN WRIGHT, SR., fell down
stairs, IN her home at Lancaster, and
broke her left arm at the wrist. She
was also considerably bruised.
The 5-year-old son OF B. Wikkerink,
Of Fairwater, Fond du Lac County,
was severely hurt by q vicious COW
that tossed him four or five feet above
her head.
THE residence of Jacob Aaron; of
Altoona, Eau Claire County, was
burned on Monday. About 81, 600
worth OF property was destroyed on
which there was an insurance OF $500.
THE Methodist Church, with all it's
furniture, located q few miles from
Fairchild, in the eastern part of Eau
Claire County, was fired by an incen-
diary and completely destroyed. Re-
ported loss, $4,000.
LoRENz CLEAR, residing in thesouth-
east part Of Addison, who was kicked
by horse in the chest two weeks pre-
viously, died from the injuries on the
31st ult. Deceased was about 35
years of age, and leaves g. wife and
family.
THE trial of the first car on the cleo
trio street railroad, at Appleton, oc-
Cured on the 9th inst. The motive
apparatus worked excellently. It is
estimated that the load on one trip
was ten tons, yet the power was per-
fectly adequate.
A BOND of $4,000 has been filed at
Green Bay, guaranteeing the appear
ance Of Ellen Felieon Or Mary Filio,
at the next term of the circuit court,
or at any term thereafter as the court
may direct, unless discharged before,
Mary Filio is the woman at whose
house Leppere is alleged to have MUIR
dered Byron Simpson.
THE Barron Shield says: "Frank
Johnson, of Chetek, who was awaiting
trial for incest, and Jesse Phillips, of
Rice Lake, who was serving term Of
six months for threatening to shoot
his wife, escaped from jail by digging
through vault with pocket-knife
furnished them by some one outside
the prison." The men were afterward
recaptured.
AT Otsego, on the evening of the 1st
inst, as Mike Brien, d boy of 13 years,
was driving the COWS up from the
pasture, a bull which was among them
turned upon him and hooked and
paved him on the ground until one
arm and a rib were broken and he was
otherwise badly bruised. The little
fellow only saved his life by rolling in
to a hole which had been dug to sup
ply the cattle with water, and which