Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-05-05
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| THE body Of an infant was found by
Marshall Doppler, in the rear of the
Catholic Church, in Baraboo. The
head and arms were gone, the body
having been mutilated by dogs.
A POST OFFICE has been established
at Elk Creek, Dunn County, with Mrs.
E. S. Dickson as postmistress.
The police at Racine have broken
up q band of boy thieves by the arrest
OF the leader-Wm. Gomalla.
Col. GEO. G. GINTY, of the Chip
pewa Herald. will deliver the Decora-
ton day address at Menomonie.
Col. GEORGE B. GOODWIN, an old
and well known resident of Milwaukee,
died at his home in that city on the
lst inst.
sentenced to the State Reform School
for three years for taking $50 from the
safe of N. White, P. M.
GREAT excitement prevails at Bur-
lington over the mad dog scare at
Kensington. Percy Perkins, the boy
who was bitten, has spent the greater
portion of his time there visiting with
his grandmother.
ONE hundred and twenty-five en-
ployes at Weed & Co.'s mill, at Amigo,
struck on the LIST for eight hours work
and ten hours pay. Also fifty men
employed on the Lake Shore work
trains struck for $3.50 per day.
j. I. CASE was kicked by horse at his
farm south of Racine on the 1st. One
of his legs is so badly injured that he
is unable to leave his bed.
OFFICIALS of the Chicago, Burlington
& Northern Railroad Company have
plated town to be located in the
western part of Bloomington Town
ship, Grant County, now known as
Cincinnati Bottoms, covering a tract
OF several miles, which they have re-
Gently purchased.
JOHN MEREDITH died at his home,
on Eleventh Street, Racine, on the
goth. He served in the army as a
member of Company K, Eighth Regi-
ment of Wisconsin infantry.
THE badly decomposed body of q
boy, apparently about 10 years OF
age, was taken from the river at Mil
waukee on the 3Oth. It was identified
as that of Arthur Schuman, who dis
appeared from his home in October
| last.
JOHN BRAssER, g. timer, fell from a
verandah, a distance of twelve feet,
at Milwaukee, on the 3Oth, sustaining
injuries which it is feared will prove
fatal. He is 25 years old.
CHARLES MUELLER, a hod. carrier,
fell three stories from the rear of a
building on East Water Street, Mil
waukee, on the 3Oth. He struck on
the dock close to the river. Both bis
knees were dislocated, and he received
other injuries which may prove fatal
DANIEL MCNAUGHToN, q pioneer res
1dent of Calumet County, committed
suicide at GAINESVILLE by taking paris
green. He was 70 years of age.
A PART Of the farm of Thomas Eos
ter, in the town of Kinnickinnic, St
Croix County, recently sank to 6
depth Of twenty five feet, with a loud
roaring noi-e. The opening at the
top is about sixty-five feet in circum
ference. Prof. King, ofthe River Fails
Normal school, is of the opinion that
the strata Of limestone underlying the
sandstone contained cavity at this
particular point of sufficient size to
receive what has fallen from above
and that the recent rains so increased
the weight of the substances over the
cavity that the sandstone gave way
On the morning of the Doth JOSEPH
Uhlir, a farmer, 76 years old, residing
IN the town of Caledonia, and reported
to be worth $4,000, shot his wife
through the body, inflicting morta
wound, at the home of her son. HI
then proceeded to his own home, one
quarter of mile distant, and shot
himself through the head, dying in
stantly. Uhlir married his wife june
2, 1884, but they lived unhappily to
gether and a few weeks ago she com
menced proceedings for g. divorce or
the grounds of cruel and inhumar
treatment, and asked for alimony
This fact is supposed to have led to
the tragedy.
| WILLIAM BLANCHARD, of Madison, a
brakeman, received what is thought
will prove fatal injuries by being
thrown under the wheels of freight
train at Ishpeming, Mich, on the 28th
ABOUT 4 900 men have been thrown
out of work by the recent labor trou.
bles in Milwaukee. On the goth the
slaughter houses of Plankinton & Co.,
employing some $50 men, were closed
by the firm. They will remain closed
till the labor troubles are over.
A SENSATIONAL mad dog story has
been aaoat at Prospect, which, upon
investigation, resolved itself into the
following facts: About the LIST OF
| March, on the farm OF Mrs. Susannah
Weber. two miles southeast of Pros
pect, a puppy sickened and died. Re
Gently two COWS became sick,
exhibiting symptoms similar to the
dogs The more violently Ill of the
COWS was shot, and the other soon
died. Report Immediately said that
the dog had been mad and had bitten
the COWS, but the family have no
knowledge of any such occurrence, and
are inclined to agree with veterinary
surgeon who examined the bodies and
pronounced the deaths to be the effect
OF poison. Some of the neighbors,
however, still cling to the rabies theo-