Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-10-06
STATE NEWS.

THE body of julius 'Seeger, aged As
years, was found in the woods near
Milwaukee on the morning OF the Sd.
Apoplexy is supposed to have been the
cause of death.
AFTER a successful reunion of two
days at Baraboo, the veterans of the
Nineteenth Wisconsin Volunteers elect
ed Col. r. M. Strong, of Baraboo,
president, and G. J.. Sheldon, of Reeds
burg, secretary. Reedsburg as chosen
for the next place of meeting.
MEssRs. SIMEON WHITLEY and E.
G. Durant, members of q committee
appointed by the Wisconsin conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church to
take into consideration plans of build
ing a suitable memorial to the late
Rev. George G. Haddock, state that
an association to be known as the
National Haddock Monument Asso-
citation is to be incorporated and an
effort made to raise sufficient funds to
erect g. suitable monument over the
grave of the Sioux City martyr. The
monument will have national char
acter, and subscriptions will be solic-
tied throughout the country. The
resting place of Mr.. Haddock in Mound
Cemetery, Racine, is becoming a hal
lowed spot, and is almost daily visited
by strangers who come to the city for
no other purpose.
The Milwaukee police force has been
increased to $50 men.
AN old man named Henry Friday
was badly crushed In the elevator
shaft at Goodrich & Wagner's store,
Milwaukee, on the LIST inst.
THE body of an unknown man was
found hanging from q tree in the town
of Brookfield, Waukeshs County. It
had evidently been there Tor weeks.
A. w. HALL, receiver of Fish Bros.
& Co. has gone to San Francisco,
to make final settlement of an i'm
portant matter pertaining to Fish
Bros. & Co.'s affairs. All litigation
growing out of the Fish Bros. failure
has been satisfactorily settled. Alarge
dividend will soon be declared to the
creditors, and the receivership closed
early in January. A new stock COM
pany, in which the Fish brothers will
be interested, and with surplus capital,
will continue the business.
Two weeks ago Simon Woodhouse,
proprietor of g. Bloomington, Grant
County, hotel, died, and his family
sold the hotel property to Alfred Rob
erts. A few days afterward they again
sold the same property to Joseph
Donnelly for $500 more than Roberts
gave. Both gentlemen hold papers OF
conveyance. Roberts will commence
suit for possession Immediately. The
property is very valuable.
STEPHEN WosLA, a hod-carrier en-
ployed on the new Polish church in
the First Ward, Milwaukee, fell from
the scaffolding on the goth, and died
within half an hour. He was about
IS years old, and leaves q large fami-
ly.
THE body of James McAnnelly,
commonly known as James McNally,
q well-to-do farmer who lived about
two miles from OconomoNoc, was
found in the mill stream back Of La
Belle Mill, in that town, on the morn
ing of the 2Sth, under his overturned
wagon-box. He was last seen alive
the previous evening, driving around
and around the mill yard. Those
who saw him endeavored. to persuade
him to go home, but be was In g. fight
ing mood, and nothing could be done
with him. Afterwards McAnnelly's
team was seen to 60 home, and it was
thought he was following on foot.
Next morning McAnnolly's hired man
made search with the result noted.
Deceased was about 60 years of age,
and leaves wife, but no children.
The wagon, minus the fore wheels, was
left in the mill yard, the team having
taken the forward wheels with them.
A 16-YEAR- OLD boy named Henry
Hagerman, was arraigned before Jus.
tice Wentworth, at Racine, on the
9th, on charge of burglary. The
examination revealed the fact that
the officers had secured g. young Grim
inal whose precocity in crime has been
seldom surpassed. The boy con
fessed that on July last he
and another boy entered the house
of David Wiltsey, at Mt. Pleasant,
and secured $50 in money. He also
admits that he participated in the
burglary of the residence of Henry
Osborn and VIM. G. Brase, from both
OF which money was taken. The
Wiltsey house was robbed by him and
JAS. Fox. A third boy, named Ander
son, is alleged by Hagerman to have
received some of the stolen money
The lad was bound over for trial in
bonds of 81 900, which he was unable
to obtain and consequently went tic
jail. Fox was afterwards brought tc
the city, but, having turned states
evidence, hewas not arrested nor viii
he be prosecuted. It was through
this boys confession that the crime
was fastened on Hagerms.n.