Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-15
STATE NEWS.

West Water Street, Milwaukee, was
arrested on the 18th on two very
serious charges, embezzlement and
forgery.
DAVID COLEMAN, division superin-
tendent of the Chicago, Burlington &
Northern Ra ilroad, died on the 10th
inst, at Topeka, Kas., whittier he had
gone from La Crosse.
MULLEN Bros. & Co., of Chicago,
seized the stock in Mrs. M. T. Brun-
ner's store at Eau Claire to recover
5000
ANTON HAUGEN died at Eau Claire
from the effects of g. fall down stair
way.
DAVID SHECKLEs was arrested and
bound over for trial at Eau Claire for
hiring lumbermen under false pre-
lenses and for passing a forged deposit
receipt.
DURING the season just closed Joseph
Ullsperger, of Forestville, Door Coun-
ty, shipped twenty tons of cheese to
Chicago, the product of his two fac
tories IN that county. He paid out
for milk between $4,000 and $4,000.
A FACTORY for the manufacture of
birch, cedar and hemlock oils is soon
to be established at Circle Ridge, Door
County. A distillery of the kind is in
successful operation at Rowley's Bay.
MRS. WILLIAM STRICKLAND, wife of q
member Of the Racine fire department,
disappeared from her home on the cor
ner of Tenth and Pearl Streets on the
night of the 9th, and about 10 O'Clock
next morning her dead body was
found in the cistern on the premises.
Deceased was about 35 years of age,
and we'll connected. heleaves O. hus-
band and three children. No cause
for the suicide is assigned as yet, al
though it is known that the unfortu-
nate woman was addicted to the use
of morphine.
AN expert male shop-lifter, who has
been working in Milwaukee for some
time, was arrested in that place on
the 10th.
HERMAN HAUER was badly cut in g.
saloon row in Milwaukee on the 9th.
Mks FANNIE A. BARRETT, widow of
| the late Dr. Moses Barrett, who was
the first superintendent of the reform
school at Waukesha, died at Boston
on the 9Th inst, aged "A years. Her
remains were inferred beside those of
her husband, at Waukesha, Wednes-
day.
J. J. MCKINzIE, one of the oldest set
tiers of Grant County, for the past
five years president OF the Grant
County Agricultural Society, fell
though a hay loft, on the 7th
and was seriously injured. Several
ribs were broken and other bodily in
juries received.
ALBERT GEPPERT, who Was arrested
in Racine in April, 1881, charged with
stealing 81, 900 worth of goods from
the Case Plow Company, writes from
| Northern Dakota that he has been ap-
pointed postmaster of his town. Gep-
pert confessed his guilt and was held
for trial in bonds of $500, which he
| forfeited. Since that time not thing had
been known of him.
| The family OF Joel Ellis, of Milwau-
kee, narrowly escaped aspbyxiation
on the night of the 7th. Four
of them were found in an I'M
conscious condition in the morning
and were with difficulty resuscitated.
Coal gas from carelessly arranged
stove was the cause.
w. J. CARROLL obtained Judgment
of So, $50 against the city of La Crosse
| for injuries received by driving into
| trench that contractor had dug into
one of the streets The city will now
| look to the contractor, Francis S.
Blodgett, of Milwaukee, for reimburse
ment. The latter settled for damages
~
trench left open by his representative,
Mr.. Crilley, and ran away. The
amount paid Mr.. Barker, of Onalas-
ka, owner of the horses, was $215.
J. J. MCKINzIE, one of the Oldest
settlers of Grant County, an extensive
farmer. and for the past five years
president of the Grant County Agri-
cultural Society, fell through q hay
loft on the night of the 7th and was
seriously injured. Several ribs were
broken and other bodily injuries re-
ceived. At first the injuries were
thought to be fatal, but the physician
says that with man of Mr.. McKin-
zie's good habits they are not likely
to prove so.
THE jury in the Grottkau case, at
milwaukee,, IdlloU 10 dSI So Oh Vefu1CU,
and after being locked up twenty -four
hours, were discharged on the 7th by
Judge Sloan. It is understood that
they were equally divided on the ques-
ton of the guilt of the prisoner.
AT the meeting of the Wisconsin AS
ISOLATION Of Trotting Horse Breeders,
held at Milwaukee on the 7th, Peter
McGeoch was reinstated in member
ship. He had been suspended for bad
conduct on the track.
A YOUNG man named Geo. Hazen,
pupil in the Badger Mills School, six
miles north of Eau Claire, had three
of his fingers blown off by the explo-
sion of a dynamite cartridge which he
ignited, ignorant of the consequences
which were likely to follow.
THE Boston and New York Mining
Companies have been organized at
Ashland. The Boston Mining Com
pany will operate on the west half of
the northwest quarter of section IS,
township A, range 8, west. W. r.
Durfee has been chosen president; G.
T. Bowen, vice president; III. Over