Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-10-31
STATE NEWS.

WORK mas really begun on MllWau-
KEGS much talked of cable street rail-
way.
The Milwaukee police department
muddle has been settled by the appoint
ment of John [. Jansen to the office of
chief, made vacant by the suspension of
sElOrian j. Ries.
MISS ANNA VILLAS, Of Madison, has
been appointed recording clerk in the
ofhce OF secretary Of state. She sue
ceeds her mother. Mrs. Fannie M.
Villas, who was married to I. L. Hacker,
OF the Executive department, and re-
signed her state position.
The 9-months-old son of Ole G.. Han
son of Eau Claire, burned to death. It
appears that while alone the baby
pulled the table cover towards itself,
and upset the lamp which fell from the
table to the floor under the chair in
which the child sat.
A NEW posb-office has been established
at Nlxcomef, Eau Claire County, with
Andrew Nix as postmaster. Samuel S.
K1dder has been appointed postmaster
at Reservs, Sawyer County, vice W. B.
Murdoch resigned.
A MYSTERIOUS affair is reported from
La Crosse. While w. II. Merrill's chill
dren were playing in the dining-room,
a trap door leading to the cellar opened
and a man stuck a pistol through and
fired. Carl Clifford heard the children's
story and proceeded to the house to in
vestlgate. He found where pistol ball
had entered the wall and further search
showed that Mr.. Merrill's revolver was
missing.
The fourteenth annual meeting Of the
Dung Mems Christian Associations of
Wisconsin will be held at Eau Claire,
commencing on Wednesday, November
IA, and continuing over the following
Sunday. Among the prominent work.
ers expected to take part in the pro-
ceedings are: The Rev. B. P Ray
mond, ID. D., president of Law
renee University. Appleton; L. W. Mess
or, general secretary of the Chicago,
association; Robert Weidensall, secre-
tary of the international committee; H.
F. Williams, railroad secretary of the
international committee; John H Ell
hot, general secretary of the Minneapo-
much larger number than usual of the
pastors and earnest Christians of the
state.
AT Grand Crossing, a Burlington en-
gineer named Sayles was pinched be-
tween the side of derrick car and the
round house SO that his ribs were
crushed. It was thought for time that
he was dead. He may recover.
A NEW post-office has been established
at Iron Belt, Ashland County, Wis,
with Ernest L. Shafner as postmaster;
and another at Hawkins, Chippewa
County, with Herbert w. True as post
master.
THE Lumber and Log Owners ,Asso-
citation, of Chequamegon Bay, composed
of Ashland, Washburn and Bayfield,
lum bermen and loggers, has adopted
the following schedule of prices for
woods work for the season OF
1889: Cooks, $40 to $45
month; cookies, $1S to $22; four
horse teamsters, 1872 to $35; two
horse transfers. $24 to S2S; OK
teamsters, $26 to $28; leaders, $2S to $50;
head sawyers, $22 to S24; second saw
yers, $40 to $29; choppers, $26 to 1913;
road makers, SIS to 500; blacksmiths, $35
to $40; blacksmiths and woodworkers,
Cooks, blacksmiths and thinkers are to
be employed Tor calendar months, with
no allowance for extra time. Time
checks will be payable May l.
AT La Crosse, on the night of the 22d,
wife and made himself so disagreeaDle
that he was ordered out of the house.
He refused to go and became SO
abusive that the woman produced re-
volver and sent ball through his leg.
The wound will lay him up Tor time,
but is not serious. Dvorak is again
married, and nobody blames the
woman.
EDWIN 81. RIsDoN, a soldier So year
years cid and for some time past an in
mate of the Soldiers Home committed
suicide on the Esd by taking poison and
cutting his throat.
THE Chippewa Logging and Boom
Company has purchased of w. J. STAN
ley. of Chippewa Falls, 1880 acres of
pine in Ashland County and 480 acres
in Sawyer County, for $125.OO0.
COMMISSIONER OBERLY, of the depart
ment of Indian affairs, has wired Agent
Gregory at Ashland to the effect that
collectors may resume the work Of cut
ting timber on reservations under con-
tracts with redskins which have been
by the department. An order
was made by Secretary Villas to suspend
work during the investigation of Agent
Gregory.
TIE coal Office of M. Sanderson & Co.,
on Clinton Street, Milwaukee, was en-
tered by burglars some time between
Saturday and Monday. The burglar
proof safe was battered all to pieces
with sledge hammers and about 5000 of
Doodle carried off.
ACCORDING to Milwaukee paper a
druggist of that city recently received
the following note, signed by woman:
"Please give bearer enough ipekak to
throw up a 4-year-old girl" He gave
bearer an emetic of the proper dose for
q 4-year-old.
Gov RUsK has received letter from
the American consul in Saxony, stating
that August Wettber who some time ago
confessed that he killed a banker at Wa
tertown, Wis, has acknowledged that
his story was manufactured for the pur-
pose of being returned to the United
States.
M. MCDONALD, clerk of Door County,
has disappeared. His present where
abouts are mystery. - His books show
an irregularity of 81, OO7 .5S.
Work has been begun on the con-
struction of Ashland's big union depot,
which will cost $40, 900.