Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-08-25
STATE NEWS.

The capital stock is $4,000, in SIS
| shares.
WILLIAM +. LANGToN, an old resi-.
| dent OF Milwaukee, committed suicide
at his home on the 21st by shooting
He was in comfortable circumstances,
but had been In ill-health for q num-
Der of years.
| JOHN CHRISTOPHER, an inmate of the
Soldiers Home, was killed on the rail
road tracks near Milwaukee on the
morning of the 21st. He was run
down by an incoming train while get
ting out OF the way of an outgoing
train. The body is at the morgue.
HERMAN WoDTKE died at Milwau.
kee on the 21st from the effects of the
pistol shot accidentally inflicted q
week ago by Nicholas Bettinger.
Wodtke was 81 years of age and
leaves q wife and three children. Bet
finger was rearrested and will be held
on g. charge of manslaughter.
WANT OF fodder has obliged the farm-
ers OF Door County to market their
cattle at Sturgeon Bay. The stock is
sold as low as 2H5 cents, live weight.
AN unknown laborer was cut to
pieces at Onalaska while attempting
to board a moving Chicago, Burling-
ton d Northern train. Deceased was
about 33 years of age.
HE Wisconsin Editorial Associa-
ton has chosen the following officers:
PRESIDENT, W. D. Hoard. of Fort At
klnson; secretary, ]. E. Heg, Lake
Geneva; assistant secretary, J. c. Bar
tnolf, Milton; treasurer, David At
wood, Madison; vice presidents, Sam
Ryan, Appleton; M. FL. Barnum, Wau-
sau; T.. Decker, Green Bay; Henry E..
Legler, Milwaukee; T. K. Dunn, Elroy;
w. Il. Norris, Watertown; G. E. Bur
net, Black Earth; B. J. Price, Hudson;
executive committee, Edwin Hurlbut,
Oconomowoc; Frank Tilden, Green
Bay; A. L. Fontaine, Grand Rapids;
y. u. Munson, Viroqua; l. A. Hoxie,
Evansville. 1t was decided to hold
the next meeting at Madison next
February, the time being left optional
with the president.
AUGUST BECKER, an 8-year-old boy,
whose parents reside in the town of
Milwaukee, died on the night of the
18th from the effects of dose OF car
bolic acid given him by his mother
during the previous night in mistake
for medicine left by the doctor.
MAMIE TAFT, aged IL years, was
found in a dying condition near her
fathers house on the outskirts of
Milwaukee, on the night of the goth,
with a bullet wound in her head. AL
though it is proved that she fired the
shot herself, her friends deny that she
committed suicide, claiming that the
shooting was accidental.
HENRY SCHLoNG, a mailcarrier at
La Crosse, has been consigned to the
Mendoza Insane Asylum. One of his
decisions is that he carries q life in
surance of $4,000.
HANS E. LEA, of Eau Claire, has in
vented q new form of the old windmill
boat-propeller.
ERNST LEHMAN, aged 20, who left
Milwaukee for California recently, was
killed by failing from the cars, near
Elko, New.
MRS. MARTHA WILKINSON, q widow,
owns farm near Georgetown, Grant
County, which she rented to John
Rundel. A disagreement arose be-
tween them and Mrs. Wilkinson served
q writ Of ejectment on the tenant
while Rundel and his wife were at work
in the field This was resented, and
Rundel and his wife attacked Mrs.
Wilkinson savagely, inficting great
bodily injury upon the widow. Mrs.
Rundel was arrested and fined. She
refused to pay her fine and is now
lodged in jail. Rundel will be examined
in Justices court. All parties con.
cerned are highly respectable farmers
and no little public interest is being
manifested in the affair.
The dry goods store of L. Harris &
Sons, Milwaukee, was burglarized on
the night of the 18th, and $1,000
worth Of goods stolen.
MRS ODIL1A PAULEY, of Beaver
Greek, Mon, died at the home of her
sister, at Lancaster, from the effects
of surgical operation. Her disease
proved to be tumor of the spleen,
and not an enlargement of it, as was
supposed.
THE preliminary examination in the
case Of David Gloss, of the town of
Bridge Greek, Eau Claire County, on a
charge that he burned the Free Metho-
dist Church near Augusta, resulted in
his release, the evidence having failed
to substantiate the complaint. The
loss was about $4,000.
MARTIN PETERSON, while coupling
gravel cars at the Union depot, Eau
Claire, fell beneath the wheels and was
terribly crushed. One leg was ampu-
tated. He may recover. He has a |
wife and three children at Menomonie. |
HENRY RICHARDS has sued the town |
of Bridge Greek, Eau Claire County, on |
account of injuries received on a de- |
fective bridge. He wants $4,000.
THE 6-year-old son of Peter Deutsch, |
of Boyd, got lost in the woods near
that place few days ago. A posse of |
men began search as soon as the
boys's disappearance was reported,
and the hunt was kept up for two
days, when he was brought home by q
farmer The little fellow had walked
about four miles and waded Yellow
River in his bare feet. After being dis
covered it was some time before he