Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-11-10
STATE NEWS.

DIR. RICHARD CosINs, of Dodgeville,
was quite seriously injured by being
kicked by his horse while out in the
country making professional calls.
OLE JOHNSON, a Norwegian farmer
living north of Dodgeville, committed
suicide by shooting himself through
the chest with O. shotgun. Hehad been
IN poor health for some time and it is
thought that he committed the act
while IN an aggravated fit of despon-
dency. His wife had gone out to milk
the COWS, leaving him in bed. When
she returned he was not there, but was
soon found IN the hallway upstairs
with the gun by his side.
The Rev. @. R. Burdick, of Prairie
du Sac, has published a. volume of
verses entitled "Who Shall Wear the
Crown ?"
On the morning of the 5th, one of
the principal assassins of ATTORNEY
Levy, OF Eau Claire, Chas. Steinhoff,
was arrested across the Chippewa
from where the tragedy occurred, and
placed in Dunn County jail. Brocha,
who also fred at Levy, but missed his
aim, and another accessory are yet at
large, but the officers are in hot pur-
suit OF them. 1t is believed they will
be captured. A32-caliber ball has been
located below Levy's brain, but has
not yet been extracted. LEWIS of the
law and collecting firm of Miner &
Levy. He was shot while serving legal
papers. He has numerous relatives
IN Milwaukee. He is the son of Louis
Levy, q merchant of Eau Claire.
A FLUE in the boiler in the Valley
Lumber Company's Mill at Eau Claire,
collapsed on the 9Th, wrecking q Dor
tion of the engine house. Fortunately
the boiler room was vacant at the
time OF the explosion and nobody was
injured. The prompt arrival of the
tire department prevented costly
conhagration.
The Little Colby Iron Mining Com
pany has filed articles of incorpora-
ton in the office of the Milwaukee
register of deeds. The incorporators
are IL. M. Benjamin, George G. Mark
ham, George III. Noyes, Herman Nun
nemacher and John S. George. The
capital stock is 81, 100000.
LOUIS LARSON, q foreman in a. log
ging camp along the west fork of the
Chippewa, was brought to the Amer
lean Hospital, Eau Claire, on the night
OF the 31st, suffering from q broken
leg-fractured in two places-and from
otherwise serious injuries, caused by
log rolling upon him.
EARLY on the morning of the LIST
at Andy Hamilton's bagnio, near Eau
Claire, q drunken Spaniard named
Pedro Blanco, who was a guest of the
house, attacked Hamilton with a dirk.
Hamilton caught him by the wrist and
struggled with him for some time. FL
nally, Hamilton, being cornered, drew
q revolver and shot Blanco in the leg,
the ball lodging in the thigh. Blanco
is laid up. He is from New Orleans and
travels for cigar house. The wound
is thought serious.
IT is reported from Woodman that
while several young men were amusing
themselves on the morning of the 31st,
by rolling boulders down the bluff, one
weighing several hundred pounds
dashed through the side OF q building,
seriously, if not fatally, injuring an old
lady named Everson.
THE measles is killing many swine in
the neigh borhood of Syene. "The ami
mails act like q man with the typhoid
fever" said q well-known buyer of
swine. ''They become reduced in flesh,
and many die, while others will pick
up and in the end fatten splendidly.
The disease is just as contagious as
typhoid fever, and when it cnce gets
q foothold in community it hangs
on tenaciously till it has killed off
numerous victims"
THE Marquette, Houghton & Onton-
agon Railroad has been sold to a syn
dictate OF New York and Western cap
italists. The purchasers agree to pay
$40 share for all the common stock
and $110 for the preferred stock, any
time within sixty days. The road will
be made q part of the through line be-
tween Duluth and Sault Ste. Marie.
De WITT Wilcox reports that his
yield of fifteen acres in the town of
Harrington, Washington County, was
1O8 bushels of wheat, 25 of oats, 500
bushels of ear, 100 bushels of pota-
toes, a quantity of beans and rs
bushels of rye.