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

THE 2-year-old child of Charles Sal
ger, residing. at Franksville, was in
stantly killed by a passenger train on.
the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul
Railway on the LIST. The little one
was playing on the track at the time
and its head was. severed from the
body. An inquest resulted in a YER
dict of accidental death.
BISHOP FLAsCH was assisted by nine
teen priests at the ceremony of laying
the corner stone for church at South
Chippewa. The Catholic knights of
Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls at
tended the ceremony. 1t is estimated
that the structure will cost $4,000
THE general store of Mr.. Pfeiffer, at
Boyd, was destroyed by fire on the
Both. Most of the stock was saved.
The store was valued at about ST.
500; insured for $1,000.
AT Milwaukee on the LIST inst, the
jury in the case of Robert Schilling,
charged with sundry offenses in con-
nection with the recent labor troubles,
failed to agree, and a new trial will
probably be ordered.
A GIRL 6 years old, named Olschefs-
KY, was drowned In q cistern, at Mil
waukee, on the LIST inst.
INTEREST in the coming trial of jam
Dor, at Racine, charged with attempt
ing to murder ex-Mayor Secor by
means Of a dynamite bomb, has been
heightened by the statement of q Mil
waukee cigarmaker that the accused
purchased black beard on the day
OF the outrage.
WALTER McWILLIAIs, of Eagle, Wau-
kesha County, has been fined $50 and
costs for keeping a drug store and hav-
ing no registered pharmacist in charge
IT is reported that the Anglo-Ameri-
can Insurance Company, OF Washing
ton, d. O., has quit business, and that
its officers have left the country. The
state OF Wisconsin holds q Judgment
against the company for $4,000 for
operating In the state contrary to the
provisions of law. 1t is said that
the company operated very largely in
Wisconsin, and many worthless poll
cies are held in the state. One Of the
sufferers by the Amigo fire compro-
missed a 5000 loss with the company,
taking 50, 500. -
SAM STOUT, the Waupacan charged
with incendiarism, has been released
on bail bond of 81 900.
SARAH TYRRELL, who killed her
husband in the Town of Mount Hope,
Grant County, has been held in ST.
600 bail to answer to charge of man.
slaughter.
AT Junction City, James Malloy,
oh
stranger, q woodman by occupation.
The stranger attempted a criminal as
sault on Malloy's wife, supposing
Malloy to be absent. The latter came
in the back door, seized shotgun,
and discharged load of buckshot into
the strangers stomach. Deceased had
worked the past winter near Auburn
dale in a lumber camp, but lived In
Eau Claire. Hewas hard character.
No arrest has been made, and public
sympathy is with Malloy.
CHARLES SPOHNHAUs, tinsmith,
fell from scaffold at the Empire
Brewery, Milwaukee, on the goth, and
was Instantly killed.
OLE THOMAS, of Flambeau, who was
serving a seven years sentence, at
w an pun, 1OI h1ll1DS hOuIO DAc1LhOIO
with a stone while engaged in q fight
in May, 1884, has been pardoned by
Gov. Rusk.
MARTIN LUDWIDZINsKI, aged 2 years,
was drowned in a cistern at the home
of his parents on Tenth Avenue, Mil
waukee, on the 28th.
j. A. TEMPLETON, bOOkkeeper for
the Sherman Lumber Company, while
cleaning a revolver at his home in Eau
Claire on the afternoon of the 28th,
shot himself dead, the bullet entering
the heart.
A LABoRER named Frank Holly,
aged 40, committed suicide at La
Crosse on the 28th by hanging himself
with fishline. No cause is knownfor
the act.
EPHRAIM CHARLAND drowned at a
dam on the Eau Claire River, about
five miles from Eau Claire. He was a
manager at the Phoenix Manufacture
ing Works.
NEFFs mill on the Bryant branch
of the Lake Shore road burned on the
28th. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $5,-
600. There was q large amount of
lumber in the yard, but all was saved.
The mill was running at the time of
the fire, which caught from the saw
dust carriers. The same property was
assigned by Neff to Weed about May
i. A man named Albert Winters
broke his leg while working at the fire.
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