Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-09-08
STATE NEWS.

court, Grant County gained 81, 529.S2
for keeping chronic insane persons
who were state wards.
AUGUST YEAR, q German, 38 years
Of age, was run over and literally cut
to pieces by the newspaper train on
the Northwestern railroad, on the
morning of the 9TH, two miles north
of Racine. He had been at dance
all night in Caledonia, and it is sup
posed, lay down on the track while in
toxicated. He had been an employee
at Fish Bros. & Co.'s for sixteen years.
He leaves a wife and two children.
AS Mrs. w. G. Richards was driving
her horse past the railroad shops at
Baraboo, at noon on the 4th, the
whistle blew and frightened the horse,
which ran away, throwing Mrs. Rich
ards out of the buggy to the ground.
She was carried into the round-house
in an unconscious condition and re-
manned so for about an hour. An
examination showed that no bones
were broken, but she was severely
bruised. The buggy was demolished.
A BEAR recently carried Off q 100
pound hog belonging to John Winker,
near WeyauWega.
ROBERT A. TODD, an old resident Of
Milwaukee, was murderously assaulted
by a maniac son on the morning of the
Sd and nearly beaten to death.
A MAN giving his name as Norman
Bruce was arrested at Milwaukee on
the Sd charged with horse stealing.
He made q confession, admitting that
he had been dealing in other peoples
hOrsefesh for several months.
FIFTY tons per day is the capacity
of the new iron furnace at Black River
Falls.
JOHN FAGGAN, residing near Patch
Grove, Grant County, was burned out
on the second. The fire is supposed
to have caught from g. defective Chin
ney. Loss, 81, 300; insurance, $3.50.
| JOHNNIE LEE, a boy 7 years old, son
of a prominent merchant at Waupaca;
shot and seriously injured Willie
Holmes, son of the editor of the Re-
publican. The ball, which entered the
flesh just above the left hip, has not
yet been extracted. 1t is feared that
the wound may prove fatal.
JOSEPH Vance fell into vat of hot
water at Stillma1 & Calkins' cooper
shop, Milwaukee, on the I'd inst, and
was fatally scalded.
The epidemic OF diphtheria which
caused q number of deaths recently in
Lewis Valley, in the north part of La
Crosse County, seems to have taken
new start. On the 31st, two children
of Martin Mallory died within an hour
Of each other, and another is at the
point of death. The neighbors are
afraid to visit the house.
HORACE CHASE, an old resident, and
at one time mayor Of Milwaukee, died
at his home in that city on the 1st
inst.
A SAILOR named Charles Sharkey,
fell overheard from the schooner Hat
tie Fisher, at Milwaukee, on the night
of the 31st, and was drowned.
JOHN L1NDE, q sailor, committed
suicide at Milwaukee on the night of
the 1st, by shooting.
} On the night OF the 31st, a. man
] whose clothing is marked "F. Kurth,"
hanged himself to g. tree in the La
Crosse River bottoms, east of the city.
There was nothing on his person to
show who his friends are. He was
probably a laboring man.
ERIC OLSEN, of townsville, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself to
rafter in his barn.
THE Milwaukee Exposition was
formally opened on the evening Of the
LIST inst.
MILWAUKEE was visited by slight
earthquake shock on the night of the
31st.
The small trunk factory of Theo-
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ings, in Milwaukee, burned on the night
OF the 31st. Loss s., 900.
MORGAN L. BURDICK, a resident of
! Wisconsin since 1885, died at his home
in the town OF Lake on the 31st. He
was "A years old.
On the farm of Writ Wiser, in the
town of Seymour, on the 3Oth, sparks
from an engine used to thresh oats set
fire to the grain stacks, which were
completely destroyed. The threshing
machines and farming implements and
other property in the barn were also
burned. The loss is about Sc, 500; no
insurance.
SAMUEL CHANDLER, senior member
OF the firm OF Chandler, Dewey &
Davis, Milwaukee, and an old resident
VI C11C ClUy OiCO, OA LAC AOGu3 dG DS1y-
brook Point, Conn, whittier ne had
gone for change of climate.
THE Powder River Cattle Company
will erect new barn at Superior to
hold 1 200 head. The capacity OF its
old barns will be increased 400 head.
About ], 900 head will be housed at
Superior the coming winter.
EDWARD BROWN, the man accused
of horse stealing, hanged himself in
the lookup at Galesville, on the night
of the Goth, where he had been placed
for safe-keeping ON being brought over
from Winona.
ANTON SCHNEIDER, an old settler of
Door County, died at his home in
ForestvilIe, On the goth. He had
lived there thirty years. He served
in the war, where he contracted
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