Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-12-22
STATE NEWS.

men on the 18th. The first train from
the new house went out on the even
ing of the 10Th.
THE 1920 P. NJ. train from the east
ran over man midway between
Grand Crossing and Winona Junction
on the 18th, managing him beyond
recognition. Fragments OF a bottle
were found in bis pocket and his
clothes were saturated with whisky.
ANDREW DoLAN, q convict at the
house of correction, was pardoned on
the 18th by Gov. Rusk. Dolan was con.
victed October Is, 1885, of burgl airy
in the night time, and sentenced to
three years imprisonment. Dolan
and q pal named Max Wittig broke
into room of the old Drake House,
Milwaukee, and stole q sum of money,
both being sentenced to three years
imprisonment.
JOHN lIEMEYER, q half breed Cana
dian, a stranger, while drunk, cap
tured g. switch engine in the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul yard, at La
Crosse. He drove the engineer and
fireman out of the cab with a knife
and attempted to run the engine him
SELF. Being ignorant Of machinery, he
could not start the locomotive. Ottl-
GERS overpowered Lemeyer and took
him TO jail. The yardtnen found that
he had turned several switches, with
the apparent purpose OF wrecking the
passenger train Ia the municipal
court he was hald in 81, 900 bail to
appear for trial at the next term Of
the circuit court.
ONE OF the worst collisions that has
occurred on the Madison Division of
the Chicago q North Western Rail-
road for some time occurred about
two miles west Of Trempealeau STA
tion on the 18th. Two freight trains,
running at full speed, collided, causing
the destruction of both locomotives.
The train men ali jumped for their
lives, and fortunately no one was
killed. Ford, one of the engineers,
sustained severe bruises, and one of
the brakemen was seriously injured in
jumping through the window of the
caboose. The amount of damage
done will reach several thousand dol
lars. The wreck was caused by the
negligence of one of the engineers who
failed to read his orders, which were
in his pocket.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY orphans ar
rived at Racine on the 18th from New
York, and were distributed among
Catholic families to be brought up by
them. Another consignment is an
nounced for next year.
ARTICLES of Incorporation of the
New York and Gogebic mining syndi-
cate were filed in the Office of theregis-
ter of deeds at Milwaukee. The CAPT
100000 shares of $25 each. The in
corporators are Fl. H Hoyt, George
A. Parker, John A. Kennedy, A. L.
Worden and Edward A. Benson. The
company will do a general mining bust
ness.
CHARLES FL. ANsoN, of Milwaukee,
has made cash entry at the local
United States land Office at Eau
Claire, of $500 acres of land in Chip
pewa County. The land, for which
Mr. Arson paid $1.25 per acre, en-
braces large tracts covered with valu-
able hard wood and pine timber.
LAST August, Bartholomew Igor, a
Waukesha 'busman, backed up his
team at the North Western Railway
station at a stand allotted to ore of
the regular transfer buses by therail.
way company. He was ordered off,
and, on his refusing to go, was arrest
ed. He then brought suit against
Sheriff Ross for $4,000 damages. The
case was decided on the 10th by the
jury bringing IN verdict in favor OF
the sheriff. TIE case attracted con-
siderable att ention, as it was brought
to test the right of 'busmen to any
stand at the railway depots.
MRS. WALTER Soaring, one of the
earliest settlers at Eau Claire, died at
Tompkins' Cove, n. Y.
A. f. WILBUR, OF Eau Claire, lost
$4,000 by the failure Of the First Ma
tional Bank at Pine Bluff, Ark.
The report Of Secretary Huxley, OF
the State Grange, indicates the total
membership of the order in the state
to be 8, 900; gains and losses of mem
bership this year about counter-bal-
ance each other. The financial re-
ceipts of the year were ST, 900, and
expenses S218. There will be no cleo
ton of officers this year.
SIDNEY SCHREIBER, British caval-
ry officer. has sued the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St Paul Read for 81 300,
which he claims is the value of a pair
of silk stockings and two dress suits
that he lost en- route to Minneapolis
last summer, the satchel having been
checked.
DR.. RICE, of Weston, president of the
State Historical Society of Wisconsin,
has presented to the society q COM
.plete set inine volumes) of Lord Kings
borough's famous work, "Antiqnltles
of Mexico" Copies of this work are
very rare.
LAST fall Fred. Mather, son of ]. ia.
Mather, g. we'll known lumberman OF
Mather Station, was accidentally shot
and killed while duck hunting with
two friends, at Sioux City. The first
reports showed nobody to blame, but
later inquiry indicated that Tappan,
2theman who fred the fatal shot, WAS
grossly careless. On the 18th A. E.
Bleekman, attorney of La Crosse, re-
turned from Sioux City, where he has
hoev, n iDuo0+ ioo+ ia i.ha matter As a.