Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-07-25
STATE NOTES.

Palatinate, April is, 1910; died IN Bre-
men, July p, 1888, after brief illness.
THE school census of La Crosse, just
completed, shows total of 7,772 child
rem of school age, which Is an increase
of 2l1 over last year. The number
attending public school is 1886; private
and parochial schools, loss; employed,
1,370; unaccounted for, 1,S0S. The
larger share of this latter number are
children of school age, but considered
by their parents too young to be IN
school.
MISS ELLAC. SABIN, of Windsor, Dane
County, has been elected superintend-
ent of the public schools of Portland,
Ore. She is a graduate of the Wiscon-
sin State University and for time
served as a teacher in the public schools
of Madison.
THE Rev. r. vilatte has finally de-
cided to locate his Old Catholic SEM
mary at Sturgeon Bay.
THE Twenty-ffth Wisconsin will hold
q reunion at Madison on the 30th and
31st of next month. The boys of the
Twenty-eighth, Col. Gray's command,
will follow suit September 10 and 20.
THE annual report of the insurance
commissioner, Phil. Cheek, Jr., for the
year 1887 has just been issued. A sum-
mary shows that the total fire risks
written in Wisconsin that year amount
ed to $194, 1906, 794; the losses paid were
81 ,692, 513; losses incurred $1,S13, 0lS;
and per cent. of losses incurred to
premiums received $40. The per cent.
in 1886 was 55. 50; in 1856 1855; in 1884
74.75 and in 1888 SO. During the year
Just past 155 fire insurance companies
operated in Badgerdom.
SAMUEL KINvILLE, Marinette grocer,
has been closed up by Chicago attach
ment.
An illness of but three days resulted
in the death of James T. Clark, of Mil
waukee, general superintendent of the
Chicago, Milwaukee 4 st. Paul Railway,
on the I'D. His ailment was peritonitis.
Of his immediate relatives, only his son
Oscar was with him when he died, Mrs.
Clark and daughter being at Salt Lake
City on visit, and his other two sons
being on his farm near Sioux City.
AT Eau Claire a woman about % going
by the name of Ada Morton, was 1ounu
on the night Of the 2lst in commissions
near the stairway leading to her rooms
in business block. Physicians attend
ed her, and discovering she had taken
poison gave her emetics. She was ap-
parently on fair wav to recovery, when
next morning she hired a hack, drove
to a clearinghouse on the East Side,
went into chamber without the knOWl-
of the people of the house, and there it
is supposed swallowed a large dose of
strychnine from the effects of which she
died the same afternoon.
CORNELIUS JOHNSON, aged 6, drowned
in the Chippewa River, near Eau Claire,
while playing on the logs.
THE wards of the Wisconsin Lumber
Company, at Grand Crossing, near La
Crosse, cover six acres, and ale reached
by spurs from three railways.
W. II. WILSON & Co., merchants at
Rice Lake, made an assignment TO Fred.
S. Noble. The liabilities range some
what above the assets of the firm.
The business men of Eau Claire have
decided to raise s., 800 for the North
western fair and races.
THE lumber mills at La Crosse have
cut % ,000,0 900 feet to date, the Paul mill
100000 and the Colman mill II ,000,
O0O.
A CITIZEN of La Crosse intends to pre-
sent the State Historical Society with an
old iron lock which belonged to Fort
Crawford, at Prairie du CHEN. The
lock is about eight inches in length by
five inches in width; is made of beaten
wrought iron, with long, ungainly rivets
of the same material. The whole, in
Guiding the inside mechanism, is of the
ronghest workmanship, and in almost
ludicrous comparison to the beautiful
products Of to-day.
FRANK WEsFALL, aged y, was drowned
while bathing In a creek near Darien.
EX-ALD. THOMAS LUCAS, of Madison,
has become insane from excessive
drinking.
THE Frawley House, the leading hotel
in North Eau Claire, was closed by at
tachments for debt.
The Superior Lumber Company, at
Ashland, sold 1850, 900 feet of mill-run
lumber to firm in Tonawanda, n. Y.
The college of the Sacred Heart Of
Jesus, at Prairie du Chen, is to be dis
continued and changed to Jesuit novi-
tate.
Gov. RUsK's old regiment, the Twen-
ty-fifth, will have reunion at Madison
August 80 and 81. Tents will be pitched
at Capitol Park.
CAssIUs GROW, a young married man
living at Fairchild, was held for trial on
the 18th, Tor a criminal assault. The
complainant is his wite's sister, who is a
widow. Grow was unable to give bail
and went to jail to await trial In Septem-
Der. He is teamster IN the employ of
lumber firm.
GEORGE MCKEE, of La Crosse. who
shot and seriously wounded a saloon
keeper name William Horn, is to be
tried for assault with intent to kill. His
bail bond calls for ST. 600.
MALIGNANT diphtheria caused the
death of two children in the family of
Mr.. Reynolds in the town of Cottage
Grove, Dane County, when the parents
fed, leaving 12-year-old daughter who
had recovered from the disease to watch
by the bedside of the remaining child.
The faithful girl remained in the house
three days and three nights, when
death relieved her of her charge.
Miss MINNIE OAKLEY, who has held
the position of city librarian at Madison
for four years past, has resigned and
will 60 to Milwaukee to become super
intendent of the circulating department
Of the Milwaukee city library.
HARVESTING of grain west Of Portage
is in active progress, and rye and win
ter wheat are being cut and shocked.
HAVING is about over and Yields a fine