Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-01-27
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prison at San Quentin, CAL, where he
| IS serving a life-sentence for killing 8
Stoctoner named Julius Dietrich.
| THOMPSON, alias Smith, and Black
| two prisoners confined in the county
jail, at Marinette, escaped from Gus
tody on the night of the 23d. Thomp
son was awaiting trial for burglary
and Smith was charged with drawing
q revolver on railroad man at
Florence about two weeks ago. Sher.
LII Murphy says that the only expla-
nation OF their escape that can be of,
tered IS that some one secured key
to the jail and liberated them.
AT Chiffon suit has been commenced
against DR.. Reinhart, by a Mr.. Thiesen,
OF New Glarus, for $4,000 damages.
The charge against the doctor is NAL
practice IN reducing a fracture of THE
sens arm, which is at present shape
less deformity and will have to be
broken again and reset to become of
any use.
THE roller Touring mill of Robert
Cochrane, at Westfeld, burned. Loss,
$40, 900: partly insured.
GUSTAV KRGNEsT, while suffering
from erysipelas, became insane on the
24th, and making his way to the roof
OF his boarding house, on Reed Street,
Milwaukee, leaped to the ground.
When found he was dead.
LA CROSSE is figuring the cost of a.
wagon bridge across the Mississippi.
The need OF one was suggested by the
recent loss Of the Minnesota trade by
the stoppage of the ferry and the I'M
safe condition of the ice.
The trial of ex-Comptroller James
;. White, for embezzlement at Milwau-
kee, was concluded on the 22d, the
Jury returning verdict of guilty.
THE attorney general has decided
that policies issued by insurance COM
panles not authorized to do business
IN the state are void.
On the 21st, O. man named Ole
StedJe, working at lathe in the Full
Ter q Johnson Manufacturing Works,
at Madison, met with a severe and it
is feared fatal accident. A chisel flew
from the machine, and it is said it
passed through his mouth and out of
the back part Of his head. A stick of
wood also flew from the lathe and
struck the man on the side of the head.
AT 2 O'Clock on the afternoon of the
22d, the woodworking factory of Lar
sen, Hansen & Co., La Crosse, caught
fire, and was almost completely de-
stroyed, together with a large amount
OF partly-fnished work, patterns, etc.
The loss is from 81 5000 to $4,000;
insurance, 5000 on building and con-
tents, and small amount on boiler.
This is the second time the factory has
been burned, there being no insurance
at all the first time. The day was the
coolest Of the winter, the temperature
at noon being l 8 below, with the wind
blowing sixteen miles an hour. Many
tiremen froze their hands, ears or feet.
One man froze his arm to the elbow.
The commission firm of ]. B. Oliver
& Co., doing business at Milwaukee
and Chicago, suspended on the Dist.
The steady decline in wheat was the
cause Of the collapse.
HENRY GRAGER. the missing home
steader of Silver Creek, Ashland Coun-
ty, has not been found, though the
woods have been thoroughly searched.
He has not been seen since he set out
to track deer, on the 7th inst. Traces
were found five miles southwest OF his
home, but further clues were obliter-
ated by snowstorm. Grager was a
single man about 27 years of age.
EGAL FORGERsoN, charged with the
murder of his father in tie town Of
Drammen, Eau Claire County, about
four months ago, has been acquitted
of the crime, the evidence against him
being of g. most meager nature.
Two swindlers who registered as A.
I'll. Bowman and James Haggerty, of
Grand Forks, D. T., have been operat-
ing in La Crosse for three weeks, and
have just skipped out with about
$500 collected ofpoor women for cheap
outfits. They advertised to give light
and profitable employment to be tax
en- home, etc. Scores of women an
swered the advertisement. The men
said they had an extensive contract
for making rugs, for the American Rug
Co., and induced women to purchase
for $2.75 each an outfit of a skein of
yarn and small machine for shaping
q stitch worth about rs cents, promis-
ing to buy the rugs which they made
for dollar each to be delivered on the
21st. The poor women swarmed
about their Office with bundles of rugs,
but the sharps had skipped for new
fields
FIRE destroyed thelargefo FIGURING mill
at Huyton, owned by Gunther & Smith
A large stock ofgrain, which was stored
in the mill, was consumed. The fire is
supposed to have originated from
over heated machinery. Loss about
81, 900; partially insured in the Mil
waukee Mechanics and the North
western National Insurance Compan-
les.
APPLICATION for the pardon of Mrs
Rebecc9 Merritt and Mrs. Cooley, of
sisters, who were sentenced
to state prison, last spring, for a term
of two years on the charge of perjury,
has been made by Burr W. Jones,
counsel for the women. The pardon
will probably be granted, as the wom-
en- have already paid dearly for their
offense.
SENECA RAYMOND. one of the oldest