Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-07-18
STATE NOTES.


STURGEON BAY advertises its need of
good military band.
HENRY BLoDGETr, a young man near
Ettrick, Trempealeau County, while
hunting, saw a swarm of bees passing
and fired his gun at them. They at once
settled on him, singing him SO badly
that he died IN an hour.
IN the course of an excavation at Bar
ron piece of pottery was unearthed;
1t was IN perfect preservation, SNAPPED
like an ancient water bottle, and was
decorated. and of very dark red color,
evidently made of clay. In the same
mound were found the skeletons of sew
eral men lying with their heads to the
center like the spokes of wheel. They
are believed to be the bones OF some
ancient tribe.
The county clerk has compiled from
the returns of the various town asses
sors a statement of the crops grown In
Milwaukee County during 1887. Ac-
cording to it there were 49,97S bushels
of wheat gathered; 239 ,50l bushels of
corn; 479 ,946 of oats; 259, 1929 of barley;
49, $40 of rye; 221 294 of potatoes; &c, 34S
of root crops; 81, 200 of apples; 246 of
clover seed; of timothy seed; 211
pounds of flax; 81 1924 tons of cultivated
grasses; 613,357 pounds of butter and
SO, 600 pounds of cheese.
LIE Eau 0Id1T0 Free fT0SS says TIE
Onalaska boom is cleared and closed.
The output was 9o,OOO,OOO feet, about
half the amount expected. Logs are
in good shape to be brought along by
moderate rise All the mills are sup
piled for month.
The La Crosse Chronicle thus sums up
the result of Sam Small's evangelical
work in this city: "Not a sinner has
been turned from his wrongful ways.
LNoi4 4,,I
ministers have been wounded and
Inundated. Religion has been made a
vulgar jest, and every arab of the street
has acquired hundred additions to his
vocabulary of slang"
CHARLES CoTToN died at Milwaukee on
the 18th, from injuries received while
bathing in lake near Madison.
BECAUSE Pauline Scheib refused to
marry him Charles Krause, of Milwau-
kee, shot himself through the body in
her presence. Charles intention was
to die for love of Pauline, and he will
probably make a success of it.
JoHN w. ADLER, an insane person at
Passavant Hospital, Milwaukee, go
years Of age, was found to be missing
from his quarters in the hospital on the
18th. A nurse went into the basement
and found the old man hanging to
beam by the neck, quite dead.
HENRY STEUBING, an elderly farmer,
was repairing the roof of house at Eau
Claire, when he fell to the ground, dy-
ing of his injuries in few minutes.
The state session of Catholic Knights,
in council at Eau Claire, adjourned on
the 18th after eIecting the following Of
fcers: President, j. II. Wigman, of
Green Bay; president, Emmett
Koran, of Eau Claire; treasurer, Chas.
f. Hintze, of Milwaukee; secretary, II.
A Mulholland, of Manitowoc; medical
examiner, DR.. j. FL. Carderry, of Wau-
kesha. Reports laid before the council
show membership in Wisconsin of
5000.
W G. CHANDLER has sold the Lancaster
Herald to an experienced editor from
Chicago, and will hereafter devote him.
self to the sale of spur wire, having OBJ
tanned the right for Grant County.
IDA MAE GILMAN, formerly Of Eau
Claire, is suing for a divorce at Mime
apolis on the ground OF cruel and inhu-
man treatment.
THE lumbermen of Chequamegon Bay
have formed an association for mutual
protection against fraudulent confisca-
ton of loose logs, and for the purpose of
gathering and sorting them.
BY runaway accident at La Crosse,
five persons were more or less seriously
injured and several vehicles damaged,
and one man, named Jacob Pilger, SO
crushed that his lite is despaired of. 1t
all happened in less than half a minute.
PATRICK KINDS, of Eau Claire, tried to
lump from moving train at Chicago
and is violently insane. He had been
to Washington and was on his way
home. He is about 20 years old and a
well-known logger.
THE most important sale Of pine land
made this year has recently been con-
summated by the La Crosse Lumber
Company buying of George Hiles. Of
Milwaukee, nearly all his pine in Wood
County, tributary to Black River. 1t is
estimated at $4,000, 900 ieet. The pur-
chase was made by scale and the price
was 81. Not long since Mr.. Hiles sold
to the Wisconsin Lumber & Manufac
turing Company 100000 to 100000
feet and in the past FIVE years has sold
an aggregate of nearly 81 ,OOO, 900 worth
of pine. He still holds from 30,000,000
to 100000 feet. The La Crosse Lumber
Company is now the third largest holder
of pine on the Black River, the other
two being the Island Mill Lumber Com
pany and c. L. Coleman.
THE confectionery firm Of Fernekes
Bros, at Milwaukee, who were burned
out a few months ago, have made an as
signment for the benefit of their cred
itors.
AFTER being out fifteen minutes the
jury in the case of William Wright on
trial at Milwaukee for the shooting of
Charles Dorsey in house of ill-fame,
returned verdict of murder in the first
degree. Both parties were colored.
A WISCONSIN Central short line train
ran over and killed Mrs. Margaret Len
tester, an elderly widow, near the
Union Depot, Eau Claire. She was dea
and was crossing the track laden with
bundles. She leaves four sons and four
daughters.
A SON of Mrs. Jackson, widow living
on her farm near Prairie du Chen, was
Frustrated by sunstroke while cultivat-
ing corn At the same time the team he
was driving was also sunstruck and died
from the effects.