Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-12-12
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TaE complaints against all the de-
PENDANTS in the Highbridge riot, Ash
land County, have been dismissed by
the prosecuting attorney.
THE Common Council of Eau Claire
has been asked to give 81 600 IN aid OF
the Driving lark Association OF that
city.
The State University Y. M. c. A. has
purchased the Carr property, at Madi-
son, and will erect a $4,000 building
thereon.
AT meeting of the directors Of the
La Crosse & Mineral Point Railway, at
Mineral Point, it was decided to take
immediate steps to push the survey of
the proposed line.
AT the adjourned meeting of the State
Agricultural Society at Madison, Treas
urer Miner submitted his report show
ing the gross receipts Of the last fair to
have been $50, 1853, the disbursements
$34, 489, and the balance on hand s., POI.
A TRUST deed transferring several
thousand acres of land in Ashland
County from the Minnesota Commercial
Company to the Massachusetts Loan
and Trust Company, was filed IN the
Office of the register of deeds at Ash
land. The land, together with other
tracts in Minnesota, is held by the lat
ter corporation to secure payment of
bonds of the company to the amount of
$225, 700 held by the loan company.
On the morning of the 9th two men
were seriously injured by an accident
on the Burlington near Lynxville. A
pile driver was being used to repair the
bridge and when the hammer was up
the car was of its balance in some way,
and the whole outfit went down the
embankment twenty feet. Louis
Knudson had leg broken, jaw frac-
tured, and lost the sight of one eye.
One eve is scalded and he has hole
inside Of his neck penetrating the
larynx SO that food passes out instead OF
into the stomach. He will probably
die. Sebastian McGraw has COM
pound fracture of his thigh and had to
be dug out from underneath machinery.
He is badly hurt but will probably re
cover.
The geological department Of the
State University has just received about
$4O0 worth of material from the zoologi-
cal station at Naples. They are chiefly
marine animals from the Mediterrane
an, including specimens of hvdroids,
marine worms, jelly fishes, mollusks.
echmoderms and turiscalis. 1t has also
received choice selection of shells,
valued at about $500.
THE Raft Pilot Association, formed at
La Crosse, elected j. w. Ranlbo presi-
dent.
The Shell Lake Lumber Companv's
mill has been shut down owing to ice.
EAU CLAIRE now has an electric fire
alarm system.
r. E. ODER, La Crosse boy, died in
Chicago of injuries received while en-
gagged in railroading.
A BUILDING is to be erected at Ona-
laska, La Crosse County, by the Catho-
hes of that vicinity, and school es-
tablished. Ground has been purchased
for the site.
A TOWN has been plated in Ashland
County at the crossing of the Ashland q
Marengo road, on the Duluth, South
Shore 4 Atlantic Railroad The cost of
improvements contemplated there this
fall will be between 5000 and $4,000.
Messrs. Sanborn and Prentice have the
machinery for saw mill on the ground
and have abont S,000,000 feet of logs
which they Will saw this winter.
SHERIFF DUNN. of Eau Claire, has sue
ceeded in apprehending Harry Rivers,
who has been wanted since 1885 for
stealing a yoke of oxen from William
Morrison. He was found in logging
camp on the Eau Claire River.
w. w. EBERT, of Mason, Ashland
County, was accidentally shot in the face
while hunting, the bullet entering the
Jaw and inflicting dangerous wound.
He is in a hospital at Ashland.
FRANK GERMAN, while at work in an
ash pit under an engine at the Lake
Shore round-house, Ashland, lost an
arm by the engine starting before he
could get out.
THOMAS RYAN was acquitted of having
"killed" a Wisconsin Central locomo-
tive at Ashland during a strike there.
The five who were arrested with MIN
fled to Canada, FORGETTING their bail.
SAMUEL WELLS, one of the oldest set
tiers In Eau Claire County, died on the
9Th. He came to Wisconsin IN 1866, and
settled in Dunn County.
DIR. JOHN CoNANT. one OF the Oldest
physicians and surgeons of Prairie du
Chen, and widely known for his rare
ability, dropped dead at his home in
that city of heart trouble, He was an
army surgeon during the war and
had made Prairie du Chen his home
ever since. He leaves a wife and two
children.
A DROWNING accident occurred at
Odanah, Ashland County, on the 4th,
Oy winch Josephine DenOmlo, ageu 10,
and Frances Denomie, aged 9, daugh-
tiers of Antoine Denomie, met untimely
deaths The children, accompanied
by their cousin, Lizzie Denomie,
were on their way to school, and
were walking along the shore of
Bad River, when the ice suddenly be-
gan TO crack. The girls were in an instant
helplessly foundering in the Geld wa
ter. Their screams Of fright attracted
the attention of Thomas Condecon, a
laborer, who was walking by near the
scene of the accident. He succeeded in
rescuing Lizzie, but the two sisters
were drowned before he could render
them any aid.
THE 1855 tobacco in the town of Dunn,
Dane County, is curing nicely and
promises to be ore of the best crops
raised in that vicinity; no sales have
been made 60 far. The 'S7 is nearly all
sold.
COUNTY CLERK GAFFNEY, of Ashland
County, failed TO make a report to the
Board of Supervisors at the annual
meeting of the board, and resolution
was adopted ordering him to produce