Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-01
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AT the Reliance Iron Works, Milwau-
kee, on the 28th, James Dryer was in
stantly killed, and Thomas Hickey seri-
ously injured, by the fall of a heavy iron
condenser on which they were at work.
ROBERT G. MCCLURE, bookkeeper for
A. w. Rich & Co., was found dead in
bed at his boarding house, 1853 Juneau
Avenue, Milwaukee, on the 2Sth, having
been asphyxiated by escaping gas dur
ing the night.
FIRE at Eau Claire on the 18th partial
~ destroyed the Chapel block and sew
eral stores. The heaviest damage is
fully insured, and A. D. Chapel, dam
age to building, $4,000; insured, So 500.
The Masonic fraternities lost $1,000
worth of furniture, ETC., fully insured.
Other losses aggregate about $1,000,
nearly covered by insurance. The fire
started from a coal stove in confection-
cry store.
JAMES L. REYNOLDS has been arrested
on the charge of embezzling $3.50 of the
funds of the Madison lodge of Ancient
Order of United Workmen, of which
society he was the fnancier. He has
given bail in the sum of $500.
EMMA RIETz, a German domestic, was
arrested at Milwaukee on the 9th,
charged with the murder of her ilIegiti-
mate child. The babe was born during
the night and was found in the snow on
the roof of a shed near the girls room.
The unnatural mother was arrested
few hours after while at work in the
kitchen.
In a row over woman at disreput-
able house on River Street, MilN aukee,
early on the morning of the 18th, Jim
Grogan, railroad man, shot Ed S.
Levy, travelling salesman, injuring
him Slightly. The ball grazed the top
of his head and seriously wounded
Lottie Ford, another inmate of the
house.
OSCAR B. BARBER, pension attorney
who travels around the Northwestern
states, locating temporarily in principal
towns, was arrested at Eau Claire by
deputy United States marshal, and tax
en- to Springfield, ILL.,, to answer to a
charge of forging a name of an Illinois
notary public to a document relating
to the pension claim of a soldiers
widow Barber was indicted recently
by the United States grand jury at
filed the information before the grand
jury was q partner of his and was the
notary public in question, and though
he (Barber) signed his partners name
without the latter's knowledge, the
partner subsequently agreed and con-
scented to it.
AT Madison, on the 9th, in the case
of Marcus Anderson, of La Crosse,
against John V. Farwell & Co., and
John Sloane & Co., of Chicago. the jury
in the circuit court returned verdict in
favor of the plaintiff, assessing his dam
ages at $10,572.l5. Anderson sued the
defendants for $4,000 damages alleged
to have been sustained by reason Of the
defendants closing his store on judg-
ment notes, which levy was declared
void by the supreme court for the rea-
son that the judgment notes upon which
the levy was made were not wholly due.
ED GooDLAND, the Pelican Lake sa-
loonkeeper who shot and killed Ed
Guilliaume, has given himself up and is
at present at Monico under bail of 3d.
900 for his appearance and trial. Good
land was traced to Montana through the
aid of pictures which Guilliaume's ia
Their had photographed.
A MAN giving his name as G. ii. Os-
good, who claimed to have served in the
war with Mexico, spent twenty-five
years in the Southwest, and received
many wounds in encounters with BAN
dts, arrived in Ashland. claiming to
have walked from the Rio Grande. He
was en- route to Phillips, where he has
relatives.
THE proceedings of the recent annual
meeting of the State Historical Society
of Wisconsin have been published in
pamphlet form. The brochure has for
it's trontispiece an excellent likeness of
the late Alexander Mitchell.