Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-11-03
STATE NEWS.

The house of g. farmer named John
Rledel, living in the vicinity of Reeds
burg was burned on the Both. The
loss is fully covered by insurance. The
contents were saved.
The residence of Mrs. E. Estes, at
Waukesha, was damaged to the ex-
tent of 5000 by fire.
THE window of Capt. Dillon, of the
Sixth Wisconsin battery, has received
arrearages OF pension amounting to
$4,000.
FERDINAND BLGDoRN died on the
28th at his home in Milwaukee, from
the effects of injury received the previ-
Gus night in the yard of the North
Chicago Rolling Mill at Bay View,
where he was employed as g. switch
man. His loot was caught in g. frog
and he was run down by q switch en-
CINE. His right leg was crushed, his
left arm broken, and he sustained in
ternal injuries. The deceased was 20
years old and unmarried.
THE coroner's jury in the case of
Bluff collision, on the North Western
Road, rendered verdict, finding that
Engineer Martin Kelly, of the wild
freight, was running his train on the
passenger trains time, contrary to
the rules of the company, which oblige
wild trains to give ten minutes leeway
to passenger trains and that Kelly
must consequently be held for man
slaughter. Kelly was arrested and his
examination fixed for November 6.
WHILE the way freight on the Chica-
go, Burlington & Northern Railway
was switching at Prairie du Chen on
the evening OF the 28th, the conductor,
Chauncy MoDehan, in trying to save a
little son of Ed. Rogers from being
crushed between the chute at the cat
tie yards and the car, was seriously
injured about the head and limbs by
losing his balance and being thrown
violently into g. stone pit. The boy
had g. leg and his nose broken, and re-
ceived severe injuries about the head.
The Eau Claire police arrested
Charles Holden, 81 well dressed young
man who came in on train from the
North on the night of the 9th. The
arrest was made in response to infor-
nation from New Hampton, Ia.
Holden's offense is not stated by the
Iowa authorizes, but he says he is
wanted for bigamy and confessed him.
self to be guilty. He says that while
he had a wife in Wisconsin, he married
g. woman at New Hampton last Au-
gust. When his Iowa wife learned of
this, he skipped out, and since that
time he has been lodging the sheriffs
and police all over the Northwest.
GoTTLIEB FURRER, while engaged in
piling lumber at the corner of Sixth
and Poplar Streets, Milwaukee, on the
| Goth, fell to the ground and broke his
neck. He died instantly. Furrer was
laborer and unmarried.
CLARENCE SNYDER, referee in the
Case-Fish litigation, at Racine, has
! filed his report. Claims not objected to
were allowed, aggregating 1882, 879;
also contested claims of So, 861.97.
Claims amounting to ST, 581.30 were
disalloWed or withdrawn, and claims
amounting to over $4,000 are to be
passed on. The report is very vol
luminous. When the approved sale of
all property will be ordered and pro-
ceeds divided among creditors, it is
understood that syndicate OF capt.
talists stand ready to purchase and
reorganize business.
SOME excitement was caused in Mil
waukee on the Goth, by the discovery
by some workmen engaged in digging
for street improvements, of two boxes
filled with human bones packed in
sand. The boxes are supposed to
have been buried by medical students.
JOHN FRANK, a farmer living at
Hale's Corners, while unloading hay
from his wagon at q Milwaukee stable,
on the 25th, was struck by a pitch
fork falling from the loft. One tine
entered MS back beneath the left
shoulder blade, penetrating the lungs
about four inches. The wound Is O.
dangerous one.
JOHN LAWYERS new railway pom
toon at Prairie du Chen, has been sue.
oessfully launched. It is to span the
east channel of the Mississippi River
at that place for the passage Of the
trains of the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST.
Paul Company. It is over 400 feet
long and 40 feet wide. More than L.
100000 feet of lumber was used in
it's construction. It cost $55, 900.
HauKev,s Statement.