Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-07-28
STATE NEWS.

which the latter secures terminal facili-
ties at Milwaukee for the next five
years.
THE dog show of the Wisconsin Ken
mel Club, at Milwaukee, has closed.
The exhibit was great success.
On the night of the 25th, the Mil
waukee police arrested g. suspicious
character ongeneral principles. When
he was taken to the station he was
identified by q Kansas City detective
as Frank Dunn, wanted in that CITY
for murder. The Kansas City de-
tective had been searching for him for
several weeks.
The Madison Journal announces
that the first farmers institute of the
coming season will be held at
River Falls late in November
or early in December. The meet
lngs held last year were at
tended by large numbers of citizens,
and the influence was very marked,
not only in disseminating views but in
provoking discussion of the best means
to better crops, better living, and in
general better returns for outlay of
labor and money. The Institutes of
the coming season will De more popu-
lar, II possible, than last year. Farm
ers now understand that these insti-
tutes were gotten up solely for their
benefit; and this season they expect
they will be very largly attended. In
the forty-fve Institutes to be held the
managers are better prepared than
ever before to perform their work.
e. j. Drummer, merchant tailor of
Eau Claire, has made an assignment
to S. E. Smith. His liabilities are
much more than covered by Eis as
sets, which are about $4,000 The
assignment was caused by an attach.
ment.
The Prohibitionist convention, of
Barron County, nominated thefollow-
ing ticket: Treasurer, I'll. J. White;
clerk, A. E. Nichols; sheriff, W. FL.
Multy; register, j. G. Beckwith; clerk
OF court, Chas. Brekken; superintend-
ent of schools, John Mossman; district
attorney, j. G. Sergeant.
WILLIE, 7-year-old son of William
Maloney, of Mineral Point, drowned
while bathing in a pool near the zinc
works at that place.
J. A. OEsTREICH, who committed sui
eide at Chicago, had been in business
In Oconomowoc for the last fourteen
years. He was in the saloon business
for about eight years, then engaged in
the boot and shoet trade, which he sold
out IN less than six months, going on
to farm for three years. About two
years ago he started grocery store,
but his stock having become damaged
by fires, of which there were two in the
brief time he was SO engaged, he closed
out last spring at auction. He was re-
ported to be worth from $4,000 to
$4,000, and was member of the I.
O. O. E.
GEORGE MEYERS, a contractor,
while at work on scaffolding of the
new First Congregational Church in
course of erection at Eau Claire, on the
goth, fell twenty-five feet and struck
on top of his head, crushing his skull,
dying instantly. He leaves O. wife and
young daughter.
A QUARTETTE of burglars entered
Gilbert Everson's store at Hudson on
the morning of the goth, and cracked
his safe. A hole was bored through
the top, and the conclusion was so
great that the windows were broken
to atoms and the walls of the building
more or less wrecked. The report was
so loud that it was heard two or three
blocks, and several persons arrived
upon the scene in time to see the
rogues fly from the building with their
booty and take a boat for the Mime
sofa side. They got $3.50 in money,
and some valuable papers.
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT HALCoMB
and other officials of the Chicago,
Burlington & Northern Railway are
inspecting their new line.
AGENTS of agricultural implements
state that the farmers are not buying
anything that can be dispensed with.
The outlook is indeed gloomy, and
the worst of it is that the damage is
already irremediable, so that any
amount of rain in the future would do
but little good to crops already severe
ly damaged.
THE great S@ngerfest Of the North
western Bund was formally opened at
the Exposition Building, Milwaukee,
on the evening Of the 21st by a well
COEuIuS COuC0IG ny GuO lOCd1 SOCl0UleS.
An orchestra of 100 pieces furnished
the accompaniment and the chorus
numbered 200. Welcoming speeches
were made by Mayor Wallber and
Gov. Rusk, the former speaking in
German and the latter in English.
The opening concert was great sue
cess, both as regards the size of the
audience and the work Of the singers.
It is estimated that nearly 5000
singers will take part in the festival.
The West Wisconsin conference
numbering about $50 ministers, will
be in session at Black River Falls,
September 80.
ARTICLES of association were filed
on the 10th as the State-house as
follows: Gogebic Iron Tribune Pub
fishing Company, OF Hurley; capital
stock $4,000. Minnewawa Iron Min
ing Company, OF Hurley; capital stock
ST, 100000. Pence Iron Mining Com
pany; same place and capital. Trim
Bile Iron Mining Company; same. Lake
Iron Mining Company, of Ashland;