Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-29
STATE NEWS.

In the circuit court for Trempealeau
county, q jury returned q verdict for
vi 900 IN favor of the plaintiff. In 3,
libel action brought by w. ?. Massacre
against K. Il. Dickens, both parties re-
siding at Arcadia. In December last,
the defendant published card in the
Trempealeau County Republican and
Leader denouncing plaintiffs business
practices and methods as disreputable,
and stating that he was only fit to be
classed with the "Mephitis Ameri.
cana," which term the defendant in
the me article kindly translated in.
TO e glish
The earnings of the Milwaukee, Lake
Shore & Western Railroad for the
third week in December were $37, $50:
same week last year, 500, 1886; increase,
$1O,795.
THE name Of the station on the
Chippewa Falls and Northern Division
OF the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis
& Omaha Railway heretofore known
as Douglass, Wis, has been changed
to South Range, Wis.
The following stations on the line of
the Chicago, Burlington & Northern
Railroad have been opened as regular
billing stations, viz: Winona, Mimi,
with j. r. Hawley as agent; Lytle,
Wis, with S. w. Rooms as agent; Rut-
ledge, Wis, with n J. Emery as agent:
Charme, Wis, with r. M. J. Glynn as
agent. Current rates and billing in
structionsfor East Winona will apply
for Winona.
The two young Chicago girls, Annie
Ludwig and Alvina Bluhm, who had
run away from home, and were found
In Milwaukee, and returned to the
parents by the police, had engaged
themselves to be married to two Chi
nese laundrymen in Chicago, and the
match was to have been consummat-
ed at Milwaukee. Their parents
are opposed to it and will
prevent it. It is said that g.
daughter of g. Milwaukee couple is
married to g. Chinamans in Chicago,
and that her influence helped to bring
about the intimate relations between
the young girls and their pig-tailed ad-
mirers.
PAUL GkoTTKAU, leader of the Mil
waukee Socialists, for contempt of
court, has been sent to the house of
correction, where he will put in thirty
days at hard labor.
THREE new mining companies, each
with capital stock of $1,000, 900,
we're incorporated at Milwaukee on
the 22d. They are the Humboldt,
Andrews and Kinnickinnic Mining and
Exploring Companies. Albert E.
Smith, James T. Ricketson and Theo.
Often are the incorporators of the
three companies.
A NEW town site in Ashland County
has been named Magnetic Center.
FoREFATHERs' DAY was celebrated
in Madison by about 200 New En-
CHAMBERS.
Iowa farmers find the ice-bridse at
Prairie du CHEN very convenient, and
do a large business in the markets Of
the Wisconsin city.
DAVID SHEKELEs, charged with OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses,
went before the county Judge at Eau
Claire. pleaded guilty, and was SEN
fenced to eighteen months at Waupun
penitentiary. He conducted q bogus
employment agency and other frauds.
The public and private improve.
ments at Washburn during the year
represent an outlay of 1867, 300 . ...s.
/ DURING the noon hour a thief or
thieves entered the First National
Bank, Milwaukee, and took from q
desk $4,000 in bills of the bank.
Some of the bills had only been signed
by the president, and were therefore
worthless. The only clue to aid in
the detection of the thieves is the num-
bers of the notes, as no one noticed
them enter or depart.
THE Ashland Press, in a. review of
the progress of that city during the
year, shows that 142 buildings OF all
kinds were erected, and that in this and
the construction of immense iron-ore
docks by the railway companies the
sum OF 1881, 800 was expended.
Ex-MAYoY DAVIS, of Eau Claire, has
purchased a controlling interest In
the Daily Morning Leader, OF that
city.