Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-10-17
STATE NEWS.

States land office at Ashland. the omaha
Railroad Company is sustained in its
claim to 5000 acres of land in Ashland
County. The ownership of the land was
contested by the government on the
ground that it was Of a mineral char
acter.
The general land office at Washington
has held for cancellation 24,350 acres OF
the selections in the Ashland, Wis,
land district. made by the Wisconsin
Central Railroad Company, on the
ground that the line of the
road, under the grant of 1856
for the st. Croix & Lake Superior
Railroad Company (now the Chi
cago, st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
Railroad Company, having been def
nitely located and withdrawal made for
indemnity purposes prior to the passage
OF the act making grant to the Wlscon-
sin Central, the lands within the six and
fifteen-mile limits .of the frst-named
road were for all purposes outside OF
the grant to the second.
P. L. CLARK has been re-appointed
chief-of-police at La Crosse.
CHIPPEWA FALLS is to have free mail
delivery with the beginning of the new
year.
WASHINGTON ISLAND markets 5000
pound lots of trout and whitefsh by
way of Sturgeon Bay.
DIPHTHERIA is prevalent at La Crosse.
Two children Of John George are dead
and a number of others dangerously i'll.
LAST week w. r. Culbertson picked a
bouquet of roses from bushes that were
still blooming in his garden at Eau
Claire.
]. M. LANE & Co., lumbermen at
Washburn, have made an assignment
to I. s. Clark, of Grand Rapids, Mich,
Lane & Co. took one of the Rood q
Maxwell mills and other property a
year ago, when that firm failed for $780,
900. The affairs of the company are I'M
known to any one on the outside, and
the assets or liabilities cannot be OBJ
tanned.
A MILWAUKEE train ran into drove of
twenty-iour horses at the Black River
drawbridge, La Crosse, and killed six of
them.
j. H. KNAPP, founder of the Knapp
Stout Company, at Menomonie, is fail
ing rapidly from cancerous affiiction
that has for long time been undermin-
ing his constitution, and it is doubtful if
his life can be prolonged beyond few
days or weeks at farthest.
The convention of the Seventh Dis
trict Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will be held at La Crosse, Octo
Der 80 and 81.
Miss MINNIE EDWARDS, daughter of
ex-Mayor Edwards, of La Crosse, was
married last week to Joseph M. Par
sons, of Salem Mass.
The State Historical Society has re-
ceived portrait in oil of the late Bishop
Kemper, of Nashotah, painted by James
r. Stuart, of Madison, The portrait of
the late William Pitt Lynde has also
been received.
WHITE, the Minneapolis crook ar
rested at Madison for passing bank
checks bearing the forged Signature Of
Judge Bum, was sentenced to imprison-
ment Tor five years. The forged checks
were two in number, and for $500 each.
On the person of White was paper
bearing the names of prominent citizens
on whose bank accounts it is presumed
he intended to draw.
THE La Crosse Theater Company has
voted to complete it's building.
AMONG the voters registered at Madi-
son is centenarian-Edward Kerwin-
aged 102.
GENERAL MANAGER WHITCoMB. of the
Lake Shore Road, says his company is
not a party in any way to the union depot
scheme at Ashland. This will create
something of a surprise there, as an or
dinance was passed by the council va
eating valuable property at the request
of the Central Company, with the I'M
derstanding that union depot should
be built.
CHAs. HENDERSON, an old settler, who
has lived in the Lake Superior district
since the Sixties" died in destitute
condition in fishing camp near Ash
land. He accompanied Jay Cooke on
his famous trip to Duluth.
Two residences at Ashland, owned
and occupied by Francis j and Fred
erick @. Millard, were entirely de-
stroyed by fire on the 10th. Loss, So, 0JO;
no insurance.
BUFFALO County's handsome new
courthouse at Alma, is nearing compile
ton.
LA CROSSE and French Island are to be
connected by bridge-wav. The cost
will be 50, $50.
INTEREST in the great Rood & Maxwell
failure mas been revived by the case OF
S. G.. Cook & Co. VS.. Notion Van Hern,
sheriff of Bayfield, County. At the time
of the failure the sheriff attached GER
tain logs claimed by Cook & Co., and
held them Until the attachment was
brought by the Third National Bank,
of St. Paul. The G. G. Thompson
Walkup Company also claimed them by
a lien on account of a breach of con
tract by Rood & Maxwell. The Judge
instructed the jury to bring in a verdict
for the plaintiff for $l7 ,46O.1S. A suit is
also pending in Ashland County for
part of the logs which the Thompson
Walkup Company brought to Ashland
last fall, which will be tried at the De-
cember term.
The Fire and Police. Commissioners
Of Milwaukee made their report on the
charges of the mayor against Chief Of
Police Ries, which they have been in
vestigating, on the 9th inst. The COM
mission ratifies the suspension of the
chief and makes it permanent. The
ground of suspension is general in
efficiency.
THE supreme court has ordered that
the suit for the insurance money of the
late DR.. Bruil, of Avoca, shall take place
in Iowa County.
AT Dodgeville on the 9th inst, Jas.
Holmes was lodged in jail for, it is
thought, fatally injured Joseph Davis, at