Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-09-15
STATE NEWS.

A 3-YEAR-oLD son of Henry Prechl,
OF the town Of Union, Waupaca County,
fell into q tub of boiling water and was
SO badly scalded that he died in few
hours.
THE survivors of the Nineteenth Reg
jment Of Wisconsin Infantry will hold
g reunion at Baraboo, September 30
and October /.
THE annual meeting of the Chippewa
Logging Company, Of Beef Slough,
elected Frederick Weyerhaeuser presi-
dent; D. r. Moon, Eau Claire, vice.
president; S. w. Chinn, Chippewa
Falls, secretary and general manager.
1t was resolved to carefully limit the
amount Of logs to be put in this win
ter on the Chippewa waters, in accord
ance with the outlook for market. No
definite amount was agreed on.
AT Auburndale, Wood County, Tom
Smith, while drunk, shot German
aged II years. Smith had been out
haunting and met the lad driving home
his fathers COWS. Smith black
guarded the boy and finally shot
him in the side with a charge Of small
shot. 1t is thought the boy may re-
cover.
JOSEPH BRICK, mason, was killed
at Racine by the caving of g. bank of
earth. He was 66 years of age, and
had lived in Racine for fifty years.
HERBERT GILCHRIsT, of Boyd, acct
dentally shot himself while hunting In
the woods about twenty miles from
Prentice. His brother Tom was with
him. Being SO far from surgical attend
ance, his father decided to remove
him to Boyd. Eight men started with
him, and carried him on g. litter to
Prentice. He was put on board g.
train, but died after reaching Abbots-
ford Junction, while waiting for g.
west-bound train. He had been in
the habit of leaning on the muzzle of
his gun. He was 8 years of age and
g. member of I. O. G. r.
The State Historical Society is gath
ering the works of Wisconsin writer's.
ALL the Milwaukee base ball pool
rooms have been closed by the police.
| NORMAN BRUCE, the horse-t thief cap
tured at Milwaukee, has been turned
over to the Racine authorities, as the
Chicago officer failed to come in time
for him. He will be prosecuted in Ra-
cine for stealing the rig of A. Lewis,
proprietor of the Higgins House. He
says he will plead guilty.
OWNERS of Wisconsin pine land
which has been burned over by recent
forest fires, intend to cut the blackened
timber as soon as possible and get it
into the river to prevent the ravages
of worms and consequent destruction
Of good timber.
THE office of the Page Shoe Com
pany, Milwaukee, was burglarized on
| the night of the 9th, the robbers Sc
curing about $500 which had been
placed in the safe for the purpose of
paying off the hands on the following
day.
r. e. DAWSON, q Racine auctioneer,
has q relic which he has repeatedly
been offered So, 900 for. tits the first
order ever issued by Gen. Grant when
he was colonel. The order was issued
July 2, 1851, at Springfield. ILL.,, and
made Mr.. Dawson commissary and
quarte1master OF the troops he left in
the camp. Mr.. Dawson also fired the
first battery salute for Gen. Grant.
JACOB BLOCK, the we'll known Jewish
merchant of Platteville, has been sued
for $4,000 damages by George Long,
administrator of the estate of Barbara
Elizabeth Long, deceased. The suit
grew out of the death of the Long girl,
who was servant in Blocks employ.
Papers in the case allege that Block
charged the girl with stealing and, in
searching her person for proof of the
theft, offered indignities which caused
her sickness which resulted in death
in few days.
THE body of man who had appaf-
entity been dead several days was found
along the St. Paul track near Western
Union Junction There was g. bad
wound on the face, which might have
been made with an axe. Letters in his
pocket showed that he was the son of
a sea captain living at Stettin, Ger
many, and that his name was Carl
Rudolph Colliess.