Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-09-29
STATE NEWS.

The iron mining excitement in the
vicinity of bayfield, is steadily increas-
ing and reports have been received of
rich find on Pixies Creek, four miles
west of the city. The find is a soft
iron similar to that of the Colby mine,
on the Gogebic, and samples have been
sent to O. competent assayer.
Mr.. LoUGHLIN, wealthy resident of
Wheeling, W. Va, who went to Hur-
ley with some other gentlemen to in
spect the mining interests in the Goge-
bic country, dropped dead very sud-
denly at that place on the Goth.
horse and rode out to look over the
Montreal mine, apparently in his
usual health. Suddenly he was seen
to reel in his saddle and before any
one could reach him he had fallen from
his horse. He was found to be un-
conscious and did not speak again,
dying in few moments. 1t is sup
posed that death was caused by asud-
den attack of heart disease. His
friends have been notified and the re-
mains will be sent to Wheeling.
A COUPLE of weeks ago, at Eau
Claire, one James Murray, a young
man who has been many times in
jail for theft and vagrancy,. was
being chased by the police, he
jumped into the log tunnel with the
idea OF swimming through it to Half
Moon Lake. He was supposed to
have escaped, but on the 25th his
body, badly decomposed, was found in
the lake and identified by his relatives.
THE annual reunion of the Twenty
eighth Wisconsin Volunteers began at
Milwaukee on the 23d. A banquet
WAS rendered the veterans In the even.
ing by E. B. Wolcott Post Woman's
Relief Corps.
CASPER M. SANGER was elected presi-
it's annual meeting on the 23d, and T.
L. Newton secretary. Milwaukee was
fixed upon as the place for holding the
fair for the next five years.
DURING the violent thunderstorm
at Oconomowoc on the morning of the
23d, Mrs. Hans Hanson, the young
wife of a mason who works on the city
hall, became frightened and ran down
cellar, accompanied by her little girl.
Shortly after reaching the cellar. the
little girl says, Mrs. Hanson laid down
on the ground, and when spoken to by
the child failed to answer. The little
girl, awed by the continued silence,
went to neighbours house and told of
the state of her mother. The neigh
bors went to the cellar and found her
27 years of age and sickly. Fright
seems to have been the immediate
cause of her death.
AN 18-months' old daughter of Ed
ward Biersach, living at the corner of
Windlake and Second Avenues, Mil
waukee, died on the 22d from the
effects of injuries received by being
run overly O. wagon the day before.
WILLIAM BARNICK, aged % years,
had his arm badly mutilated by
buzz saw on the 21st, at the shop of
Gus Culdewe, on Sixth Street, Milwau.
kee, where he was employed.
In the Grant County circuit court
George A. Shuster was given judg-
ment against the town of Platteville
for $3.50, for personal injuries result
ing from defective highway Mr..
Shuster was riding On the running
gears of bis wagon, without any box,
along q main travelled highway in the
town of Platteville, when one of his
feet, which was hanging down, struck
a large stump in the center of the
road, wrenching his ankle very severe
ly.
AT Mukwonago, on the Goth, the
wife of G. G. Chain, prominent |
board of supervisors, shot herself with |
suicidal intent, and died shortly after
ward. She had been afflicted with in
sanity at various periods for years
past, and had recently shown evil
dence of a return of the trouble.
A 9-YEAR-oLD son of John Kleinlein |
was instantly killed at his home in |
Sank City, while playing circus upon q
decrepit old pony. The animal stun
bled, threw him off, and then fell upon |
him, crushing his head into g. shape
less mass.
THE Pioneer Lumber Company, of
it's lands, etc., for the benefit OF it's
has effected g. settlement at |
Is cents on the dollar.
Fl. D. FLOYD, an agent of hospital
institution in Eau Claire, shot, and,
it is feared, fatally wounded q man
named John Boardahl. Floyd had
about 1885 of hospital money on his
person and claims that Boardahl,
with two "pals" waylaid him, when he
shot in self defense. Floyd is jailed.