Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-05-02
STATE NOTES.

| 1HE water at sturgeon Bay is so low
| that the fre-steamer is unable to obtain
| a supply when stationed on the wharves
| built at the foot of the streets several
years ago. Should no rise take place
soon it will be necessary to extend
them out farther.
ONE of the German carp taken out of
the big creek at Sturgeon Bay measured
about fourteen inches in length, al
though less than a year has elasped
since the minnOWs were placed in the
water.
CHARLIE the youngest son of Eugene
| Glines, of Sturgeon Bay died in great
pain from having swallowed a number
of athlophoros pills that he had found.
THERE is talk among the st. Paul rail-
way employees at La Crosse that railway
shops will be built at that place of SINH
lar proportions to those burned at Port
| age.
JOHN LEATHEM, of Sturgeon Bay, has
purchased 10000 acres Of timber land in
Louisiana.
The Ashland Driving Park Associa-
| ton is to be incorporated with a capital
stock of $25, 900.
MAJ. SHAW. of Eau Claire, has re-
| ceived letter from an Atlanta, Ga,
man, plimenting him on his course
of dealing with the saloon question.
Mrs. SADIE TIBBETTs, who was COM
! pla1nant in a criminal action against
three Chippewa Falls citizens, whom
she charged with criminal assault, dis
appeared from Eau Claire with her hus-
| band soon after instituting the action.
Tibbetts and his wife had been bought
up, it is alleged, and spirited away to
| Colorado. They returned on the 9th,
and were Immediately arrested by de-
| tectives employed by the Chippewa
| County authorities and taken to Chippe-
wa Falls and locked up. The Chippewa
| County district attorney will now prose-
cute the case.
| T. ). BARNES, of Duluth, sold for
Michigan parties 14.500, 900 feet of pine
for $4,000 to mill men of Northern
Wisconsin. The pine is in the northern
part of Ashland County.
The business men of Duluth have pc
| titioned for the establishment of mail
service over the Northern Pacific road
| between Ashland and that city. At
| present the mail goes over the Omaha
road by way Of Spooner, causing great
| delay.
| JOSEPH BLOOM, an old veteran of the
| war, was found dead in the woods near
| Marengo. Heart disease brought on by
| exposure, is assigned as the cause Of his
| death
THE house of Michael Keogh, at Wash
burn, a dive recently closed by the
| authorities, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
$4,000; no insurance.
ELIZABETH LYNCH has sued Mayor
Knight, of Ashland, for alleged breach
of logging contract, asking IS, 900.
] Mrs. CATHERINE MCDONALD has sued
Ashland for $1,000 on account of inju-
ries on an icy sidewalk.
| VIM NINTH WOOdSman WAS fO1nd
| dead in bed at the Dressed House, Ash
land. The coroner's jury rendered a
verdict of suicide. Smith having taken
morphine. No cause assigned.
THE earnings of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & St. Paul road for the week ending
April q, were $437 900, as against $401,-
600 earned during the corresponding
week of last year, an increase of S36, 900.
| Gov. RUsK Oh the 25th handed to the
state treasurer the sum of SOC, 797. This
is the amount collected by the governor
ment of various claims against the gov
eminent. Of this, $27 1872 is on war
claims abandoned by the state many
years ago but revived by Gov. Rusk.
| The remaining S29 1O6 was per cent. OF
| the sales of public lands of 1884, 'S5, '8G
and 'S7.
| VOLUME X. of the report and collec-
tons Of the State Historical Society, for
the years 1888, has just been issued.
The volume completes the first series of
the work and includes a full index to
the entire ten volumes. 1t is also the
| last volume of these collections that
will appear under the editorial care of
DR.. Lyman G. Draper, for many years
the corresponding secretary OF the So
ciety.
G Il. To1-
! Shore & Western road for the week
ending April 81, were $44, 397, as against
| S54, 1896 for the corresponding week
last year, a decrease Of $40, 498. The
earnings from January 1 to April p
were $568, SIT as against $707, 548 earned
| during the first fifteen weeks of 1887, a
total decrease of $13S, 1866.
IT is reported that high water has car
ried out the Chippewa Logging Com
pany's dam on the Weirgar River, Up
per Chippewa district, involving loss
of $4,000 and interrupting driving oper-
atoms.
NICHOLAS GoLLANDER, an elderly man,
has disappeared from La Crosse. Three
months ago he left the Wisconsin
House at noon, since which time he has
neither been seen nor heard from. He
owns several houses and lots and is sup
posed to have other propertyin money
or ready equivalent.
SEVEN Eau Claire saloonkeepers were
arrested on the 23d on complaint of the
chief of police, some under the state law
and some under the city ordinance, for
selling liquor Saturday after IL o'clock,
or on Sunday. Two pleaded guilty and
| paid their fines aud the other cases are
continued. The onslaught on saloons
| by the new municipal administration is
a great surprise to large element who
| opposed the mayor, and shows that his
| election was on the false idea that he
would not enforce the saloon laws.