Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-07-11

brick on Sprague's new yard was finished
this week.
Some changes have been made this
week IN the time table of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul railway.
Columbus and Portage clubs played
game of base ball Monday at Portage.
Score: Columbus, 6; Portage 8. Column
bus battery, Davis and Keele; Diekoff,
first base.
The new high school building at
Fort Atkinson will cost $4,000. The
board has voted $4,000 toreplace the phil
osophical and other apparatus destroyed
by fire in April last.
Our advertising columns give asolu-
ton to the mysterious Zone Day"
which proves to be an advertising scheme
of The Chicago Daily News lately reduced
in price to one cent.
Michael Killian, OF the Fourth ward,
was arrested for wife-beating by Marshal
Zautner Friday evening and was taken
before Justice Halliger, who sentenced
him to so days in the county Jail.
We have on our table stem of the
Yucca plant containing over fifty white
blossoms of peculiar tropical aspect. 1t
is from Mrs. J. T. Moak's garden. The
Yucca requires eight years to blossom
from the seed.
-Oconomowoc patronized the Sher-
wood recital Friday evening to the extent
of an entire bus load of appreciators of
fine music, comprising representatives of
the Ackley, Small, Stone and other fam-
lies of that place:
The American Celt, leading Irish
American newspaper in St. Louis, has
thrown Harrison Morton banner to the
breeze. Irishmen in America do not
take to the British policy any more than
they do In Ireland.
Gates & Martin have dissolved part
nership, Mr.. Gates continuingin the bust
ness. He has fitted his place up in ex-
cellent shape, aud on Saturday evening,
July II, he will give grand opening.
Everybody is invited and a good time
promised.
Last n..rht at 10 o'clock the barn of
William Quentmeyer, in the Third ward,
was destroyed by fire, together with all
the contents, including valuable sleigh
belonging to the American Express COM
pany. The building was insured in f.
B. Tuttle's agency.
james Clark died at Utica, Illinois,
July 8, aged II years. He was promi-
nent cement manufacturer and leaves an
estate worth 81 ,000,00 Mr.. Clark was
married to a nieceof Mrs. A. Boomer and
had visited here With his wife several
times. Mrs. Boomer attended the funeral
of the deceased last Thursday
An alarm of fire yesterday afternoon
occasioned by the over turning OF a kettle
of boiling tar in the rear of Burners
clothing store, between Fourth and Fifth
streets, brought out the fire companies
and caused quite a commoton on the
street. There should be more care eXer-
cised in turning on alarms of fire.
"A splendid oil painting done by Prof.
Notz, of the Northwestern university, hav
ing for its subject ''the young Christ ar
guing with the doctors in the Temple" is
on exhibition at w. c. Raue's store. 1t
is intended for panel in the altar of the
new St. Marks Lutheran church. The
picture is 36x56 inches, and has genuine
artistic merit.
There is just the same reason, sense
of propriety, fairness or justice for con-
demning Gen Harrison for his conduct
in relation to the railroad troubles in In
dianapolis that there would be to con-
demn the members of the WATERFOWL
Rifles, nearly all of them Democrats, who
responded to the call of the state to quell
the labor disturbances in Milwaukee two
years ago.
AT picnic held on the Fourth of
July under the auspices of the Catholic
church at Highland, Iowa county, OF
which Rev. Thos. Dempsey, formerly of
Clyman, is pastor, cane was voted to the
most popular presidential candidate. The
votes were five cents each and 3,002 were
cast with the following result: Fisk, the
Prohibition candidate, received 190
Cleveland received 685 and Harrison re-
ceived 2,127. Only a straw.
We are glad to note that our neigh
Dor of The Gazette is protectionist sc
fara as favoring the protection of American