Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-08-15
STATE NOTES.

WHILE the Rev. J. w. Thomas. of La
Crosse, was at Niagara Falls he was
struck in the back of the head by sling
shot which stunned him, after which he
was robbed of everything but watch,
he having come to CONSCIOUSNESS Just as
the desperate was taking his watch and
preparing TO hurl his body Oft the preci-
pice.
HE personal property of La Crosse,
exclusive Of exemptions, foots up to 81, :
75S, 229.
The La Crosse District Methodist AS
ISOLATION will 90 into camp at Viroqua to
remain until September 4.
A PASSENGER train on the Chicago.
Milwaukee q St. Prul on the night of
10th. near Eau Claire, was stopped bare
~ IN time to escape wrecking on three
ties fastened across the track. Several
freight cars on switch east of the city
on the same road were turned loose the
next day and started down the grade.
A telephone message warned the ward
men in time to get the rolling stock out
OF the way just before the freight cars
came rushing through the yards. The
authors Of the mischief are supposed to
be actuated by spite against the railroad
company. There is but a slight clue to
their identity.
JACOB LATAKA, a laborer, fell from the
central coal dock at Ashland and
drowned.
ASHLAND County authorities have
broken up notorious dive at Dogwood.
The inmates are in custody under the
state laws.
THE Twelfth and Sixteenth Infantry
Regiments will hold their annual re-
union at Madison on September rs and
II. About 200 veterans Will attend.
Four tramps at Eau Claire ran away
from Policeman Brigg and thought
themselves secure on log in the river.
The officer, who had been ION the riv-
81" seized handspike, jumped upon
obliged the fellows to surrender.
HAGERTY, the Ashland real estate deal
er, arrested on an execution against his
body, has been released.
The army worm is at work in the
fields around West Salem, La Crosse
County. They appear most where the
grain is lodged, and cut off the stalk
near the head.
BARRON will spend $4,000 in the erec-
ton of a school house.
6. w. CABLE, of Davenport, Ia, has
just paid SOC, 900 for pine lands in Chip
pewa, Ashland, Sawyer and Price Coun-
ties.
MCDONALD Bros, of La Crosse, have
paid Brown, Early & Co. $4,000 for
pine IN the vicinity Of Chippewa Falls.
Fl. Fl. MARTIN, of Chippewa Falls, has
sold his contract calling for 20,00O,O0O
feet of logs from the st. Croix within
ten years.
Mrs. JOSEPHINE SCHAFFER, of Clyde,
Iowa County, has become violently in
sane and has been placed in an asylum.
w. q. WALKER, the farmer on the
Odanah Indian reservation, reports
that the army worm has destroyed two
thirds Of the hay, oats, rice and potato
ting down to farming in earnest, are
discouraged, and have gone into the
woods to pick berries. Last year they
sold 10000 bushels Of potatoes, but now
have hardly enough for their own use.
DENNIE DoNAHUE, of Oregon, amused
him self and friends by swallowing sew
eral cigars, taking for dessert a small
bottle containing a stick Of fused caustic
pOtassla. Emetlcs were promptly given
and his life saved. His stomach now
contains several jackknives, lead pen
ellis and other choice articles of food
swallowed last spring.
Mrs. MARY VoGEs, 70 years old, had
an arm broken at Madison by being
thrown from buggy.
CHIPPEWA lumbermen want Congress
to appropriate $4,000 toward making
needed improvements on the Chippe-
wa.
GEO. B. SHADBoLT, a well-known
young business man formerly of La
Crosse, died at Muskegon, Mich, where
he has resided for a year.
6. w. CASE, formerly bookkeeper for
the White River Lumber Company,
Washburn, has been arrested on a
charge Of embezzling 81, AGO belonging to
the company.
The Chippewa Logging Company will
rebuild the dam on the Jump River,
which was swept away by the freshets
this spring. 1t Will be an improvement
over the old one and have more flow
age. They will also repair the dam on
the Bruno River.
A DETECTIVE visited Florence and in
vestigated the circumstances of the sud-
den death Of ex-Clerk of Court Velie.
1t is understood the insurance company
will refuse to pay the policy on the
ground that Mr.. Vehe's death was not
from natural causes. Mr.. Velie is said
to have died from the effects ola fall.
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