Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-13
STATE NE WIS

STATE NEWS
THE Wisconsin State Beekeepers'
Association will meet at Madison
February 4.
THE prisoners in the La Crosse
County Jail were caught in the act OF
digging through a wall with their
spoons.
AMONG the recent contributions to
the State Historical Society's cabinet
is an oil portrait of Mrs. Fenton, the
mother OF Daniel G.. Fenton, an early
settler of Prairie du CHEN, and a
member of the second constitutional
convention 1t is painted on g. thin
board, and is credited with being over
70 years old. 1t certainly shows the
marks of age.
AT a special term of the circuit court
for Eau Claire County, Judge Bundy
granted a new trial in the case OF the
North Star Iron Company VS.. Henry
Laycock, of Eau Claire.
THE La Crosse Republican calls for
g. pontoon bridge across the MISSISSIPPI
pi. 1t says the treacherous ice in win
ter and long ferriage in summer is ex-
tremely unsatisfactory to the farmers
and business men on both sides of the
| stream.
WHILE John Gaurkee and Philip
Sch@fer, ship-carpenters employed at
Wolf & Davidson's yard, Milwaukee,
were engaged in putting a plank upon
the bow of the steambarge Minnesota,
on the 9th, the timber sprung back
with great force, knocking both men
off the staging against the dock. Each
received painful injuries, Gaurkee hav-
ing one of his wrists broken.
A FINE vein of hard hematite ore has
been found on the Nimikon property
! adjoining the town of Hurley, at O.
depth of so feet, on the northwest
quarter of the northeast quarter of
section 90, town 46 north, range 2
east. The width of tine vein is I'M
known The length, so far as tested,
is $50 feet. 1t will be opened for ship
ping at once by the Nimikon Iron
Company, of Ashland.
DIR. HENRY PERKINS, of Dodgeville,
who recently developed signs of in
sanity, was taken to the Mendoza
hospital on the 9th. The doctor was
one OF the best educated physicians in
the state, having finished courses of
study in some of the best colleges of
the West, and finishing his collegiate
studies at Jefferson Medical College of
Philadelphia, from which institution
he graduated in 1877. He has been
ailing with an affection of the stomach
for some time past, but nothing serious
was anticipated until recently.
THE La Crosse National Bank an
nounces an extension of its stock
from 100000 to 100000, making
the total bank capital 100000.
WHILE II. J. Gould was digging in
millrace at Boscobel, he met with
very serious accident. The earth
caved on him in such a way as to
break his legbelow and above the knee,
and also split the knee cap. 1t is
thought by the attending physician
that theleg will have to be amputated.
JEALOUSY OF his wife is said to be
the reason why Theodore Grief, bar
Der living on Richards Street, Milwau-
kee, killed himself by putting a bullet
into his brain on the 9Th Shortly
after 4 o'clock a shot was heard in his
room, and a few minutes later he was
found with a bullet hole in his right
temple. He died almost instantly.
THE Chicago Cheap Store, at Amigo,
owned by Bernhard Malkan, was
closed on the 9TH by the sheriff The
stock was attached by Louis Stein &
Co., of Chicago, who claim $3.50.
Henry Mitchell, of Chicago, filed a.
Judgment of $500 on the stock.
Other claims filed to-day are as fol-
lows: Chas. Teipner, Amigo, 5000;
Phillip Malkan, Amigo, $40; Harry
Swisky, Chicago, $4O8. Other claims
not filed will not be less than 81, 900.
Malkan claims the stock will invoice
$4,000, but it is doubtful if it exceeds
$4,000.
Miss BERTHA PEPPER, of New Hol-
stein, while visiting in Chicago recently,
met with a series of accidents which
nearly cost her her life. She was first
afflicted with a sore foot, which con-
fined her to the house for some time
Soon after this she fell from a second
story window to the stone pavement
in the street, and luckily escaped with
out injury. Again, while standing
near the CRATE her clothing caught fire,
which soon enveloped her in flames,
and her life was saved only by her
presence of mind in at once jumping
into a tub of water which was in the
room, escaping with afew slight burns