Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-01-11
BADGERDOM.

ruary g, to dispose of number of
| criminal cases, some OF which have
been on the calendar fully year.
The stock OF the Grant Carriage
Company, Milwaukee, was seized
by the sheriff on on the 7th,
to secure an attachment in favor
of the Mitcnell-Lewis Company,
| OF Racine. The company was or.
ganized about year ago to con-
tinue the business OF the firm of E. w.
Grant & Co., who succeeded A. e.
Foote. The officers of the company
are: E. w. Grant, president; George
II. Burroughs, vice-president; James
K. Reynolds, secretary and treasurer.
The company has dealt in carriages,
wagons and other road vehicles.
A FoUR.YEAR-oLD daughter of w.
81. Trout, living on Greenbush Street,
Milwaukee, died on the 7Uh after suf-
fering terribly from burns received
while playing with fire in the absence
OF her mother.
HENRY WIENK, an employee of the ST.
PAU road was run over by q freight
train at La Crosse on the 9th and
dreadfully mangled. He died in few
minutes. He was watching a train
coming from the east and did not no.
tice the train backing down from the
opposite direction. He leaves O. fam
lily.
The people of Milwaukee were
stirred up early on the morning OF the
7th by the discovery of two ineendiary
tres within q few minutes of each
nfhGr ENho HyC4 o. \ 80
David Hecht, at the corner of Milwau-
kee and Biddle Streets, the flames
being first discovered at the front
door, which was burned through and
the front hall badly damaged. The
other was at the Commercial Hotel,
on Reed Street, where basket of
klndllng saturated with kerosene was
found under floor. Neither fire was
serious IN its results.
FRITZHoFF HyMLEIN, g. young art.
ist, was found dead in his bed at his
boarding house at Milwaukee on the
morning Of the 9Th. Indications point
to suicide.
BRIGHT disease caused the sudden
death Of Capt. Ciaud FL. Oellerich, an
| old Milwaukee vessel master, who was
found dead in his bed on the 9Th. He
was 90 years old and had been an in
mate of the Soldiers Home.
The Badger State Brick and Tile
| Works has been incorporated at Mil
waukee by Gus Podall, B. Schmidt,
| M. Seaman and P.W. Schmidt, with g.
capital stock of $4,000 divided into
1000 shares at $50 each.
STEPS are being taken to prosecute
ali dentists who have failed to regis
ter. The lsw requires that every per-
son practicing dentistry shall register
annually and pay a license fee of 81.
The penalty is a fine not less than $40
and not exceeding 800.
JOHN KELLY, q Woodman, while in
toxicated at Ashland, was attacked
and badly beaten by roughs. They
poured whisky on his clothing and set
it afre, burning him seriously.
J. G. COMFORT, administrator Of the
estate OF the late DR.. Bruil, OF Avoca,
who died while under preliminary ex'
animation for the alleged murder of his
wife, has commenced suit against the
Northwestern Mutual Relief Associa-
ton, OF Madison, to recover 81, 900 IN
surance on the life Of the deceased,
The company refused to pay the risk,
on ttne ground Of alleged fraud ia the
application.
The coroner's jury that was sum.
moned to investigate the killing of the
man Collins during the riot at High.
bridge, Ashland County, has returned
a verdict finding that the man died
from q pistol shot fired by Constable
| McPhail. The officer, it will be remem.
bered, attempted to order sew
eral intoxicated charcoal burn.
ers to their homes, and laid
hands On one. A fig CHIT followed,
in which Collins was shot and killed
and McPhail was kicked and beaten
SO that for q time it was feared he
would die. The evidence before the
coroner's jury did not show that the
| shot was fired in self-defense. The
verdict was that the shooting of Col
Inns was uniustifable, and the jury re.
| quested that the officer be held for
trial at the next term of the circuit
court.
W. j. TURNER, receiver OF the col
| lapsed iron mining firm Of Moore,
Benjamin & Co., Milwaukee, has filed
his inventory OF the assets Of the firm.
These consist of large blocks Of stock
in the various mines in which the firm
was interested, most of which, how
ever, was hypothecated as collateral
| for loans and bills receivable from
the different companies for money ad-
vanced in operating the mines.
JAMER LYNDEs, who accidentally
shot an inmate of the La Selle place,
La Crosse, was committed ninety days
for carrying g. concealed weapon.
THE store and residence of Isaac
Wolferson, OF La Crosse, were dam
aged 81 900 by fire.
FITCH Bros, at Madison, gents fur
nishing and shirt-makers, have made
p voluntary assignment. Liabilities,
$4,000; assets, $4,000.
The Wisconsin Telephone Company
intends to build a line to Ellison Bay,
in Door County.
THE state superintendent of public
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