Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-09-22
STATE NEWS.

THE Hudson County fair was hardl.
d financial success. Rainy weathe
was the cause.
A MAN giving his name as John Eli
son entered O. milwaukee drug store Or
the 10th and asked for morphine. Or
being refused the drug he became vic
lent and smashed a. showcase and q
number of valuable bottles. He was
arrested.
Door COUNTY reports bear which
eats apples off the trees and also car.
ries off the farmers sheep.
The ST. Paul Company has laid track
along the levee at La Crosse.
The 4year-old daughter of Bryan
Doolan, OF La Crosse, was burned to
death by her clothes taking fire.
THE bad weather during the Madi-
son fair did not prevent the organiza-
ton from coming out ahead financial
ly.
w. w. RYAN, brakeman whose
home is in BaraboO, was run over by an
ore train at Hurley on the 10Th, and
Instantly killed.
PETER RoBEAULT, a drunken French
man, was hourishing revolver on
Water Street, Eau Claire, on the after
noon OF the 18th, when Patrolman
Elliott attempted to arrest him.
Robeault resisted, and, in the struggle,
shot the patrolman. The ball took
effect in the left breast, passed into
the upper part of the left lung, and
glanced upwards. Elliott may posi-.
bly, recover though his condition is Sc
rious, the physician having been un-
able to find the ball. Robeault is q
stonecutter and has a family in Mime
sofa.
THE brick dwelling house Of VIM.
Reid, of the town of Ottawa, Wauke-
sha County, was entirely destroyed by
fire. His aged wife was rescued in an
unconscious condition. The building
was nearly new and cost about So
600. 1t was insured for 81, TOO.
ON Tuesday afternoon, near Martin
vile, Grant County, Mrs. Ericsson, a
Norwegian lady, aged IA, was cooking
some plums in the cook-house at
tached to the dwelling. The husband,
"a years old, who was sitting in the
house reading, heard noise, and, on
investigation, discovered the cook
shanty in flames. Calling his wife and
receiving no answer, he supposed she
had gone to one of the neighbors.
On reaching the fire he discovered her
body in the ruins, burned to crisp.
The Chippewa County Agricultural
Association held it's annual meeting
on the 10th, and elected the following
officers for the next year: President,
j. n. Phillips; vice presidents t-large,
G. ?. Barker; secretary, j. w. Thomas;
treasurer, W. B. Bartlett. The fair is
a complete success.
A NEW house belonging to Michael
Tolty, on the Rapids road, beyond
the North Western depot, at Racine,
burned, entaIling loss of $500.
AUGUST RENCKE, of Racine, and a
6-year-old daughter were seriously IL
jured in a runaway. Both were thrown
from the wagon on stone pile and
badly bruised.
A MAN named Nelson received in
juries at Racine which are likely to
cause his death. He was leading q
COW which attacked him and hooked
him so badly that his intestines pro,
truded
JOHN FLINT, a farmer near Albany,
Green County, fell into the hands OF
three. card monte men, and would
have been robbed of $500 had not a
neighbor appeared and disconnected
the rogues.
A WOUNDED pelican was killed by a
little boy, near Kenosha, recently.
The bird measures over six feet in
length, the bill alone being over foot
long; the wings from tip to tip are over
eight feet. 1t is now in the hands of q
Racine taxidermist.
JAMES S. WHITE, comptroller oil
Milwaukee, was on the 9TH sentenced
to the state penitentiary for two and
a half years for the embezzlement OF
city bonds during his term of Office.
WILLIAM NOToMEYER, O. confirmed
invalid, shot and killed himself at
Kenosha, while in s. despondent mood.
KANUTE ERICKSON, of Sister Bay,
shot himself in the head. He cannot
recover.
NORMAN BRUCE, alias Sullivan. the
self-confessed horse thief, captured at
Milwaukee, was arraigned before
Judge Winslow in the circuit court at
Racine on the 18th, having waived q
preliminary examination, pleaded
guilty to stealing two horses, q buggy,
and a set of harness, the property of
A. Lewis. Judge Winslow then SEN
fenced him to ten years in the state
prison, the first day to be in solitary
confinement.
A BRAKEMAN on adown freight train
on the ST. Paul, Minneapolis & Oma-
ha Railway, whose name is not given,
was run over ten miles below Black
River Falls on the 18th and his head
severed from his body.
The q z. PAUL RAILWAY.
Animal RanOrt to tha State Railway Conn