Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-10-24
STATE NEWS.

A 3-YEAR-oLD son of Michael Quick, of
Eau Claire, caused the death of baby
brother by dosing him with laudanum
as he lay in his cradle.
NORTHERN sportsmen have planned to
sow wild rice in the lakes among the
pineries for the purpose of making
feeding grounds for wild ducks and in
ducing them to make those localities
their annual gathering places.
A BOY discharged from the farm of J.
c. Ford, in Windsor, Dane County, re-
taliated by setting fire by which a
barn and valuable horses were de-
stroyed. The lads father, to save him
from prosecution, paid the farmer $500.
MEMORIAL services on the death of
Bishop Welles were held in All Saints
Cathedral, Milwaukee, on the 21st.
Two new Catholic churches were ded-
icated in Milwaukee on the 21st, making
six new houses of worship erected in
that city by that denomination thus far
this year.
THF contract for the uew Union depot
at Ashland was let on the GOTH
THE Bayfield, Press reports that the
herring fishery of the season promises
large returns.
THE seasons lumber shipments from
to 153 ,31S, 900 fee t.
A 9-year-old son of Jerry Marrier, of
Sevastopol, Door County, encountereda
bear in the orchard, and, supposing it
to be dog, attempted to scare it away.
Bruin refused to 60 however, and rals-
ing itself on it's hind legs started toward
the child. This frightened the boy, who
ran Tor the COW stable, where his moth
er was milking the cows, and Mrs Mar
rier at once closed the door and thus
prevented the unwelcome intruder
from attacking them.
MARINETTE has spent $79C, 800 in build
ing and business improvements since
the great fire there in the fall of 1889.
JACOB NELL, one of the editors of Der
Buffalo County Republikaner. died at
his home in Fountain City alter brief
illness.
DR.. O. w. WIGHT, formerly health
commissioner of Milwaukee, died at
Detroit on the 10th, after short illness
of typhoid fever.
HEAVY snow was reported at Wash
burn and vicinity on the 10Th. the first
of the season.
THE inquiry into the Fairchild trag-
edy has been concluded. The jury de-
cided that Nelson was killed by weap-
ons in the hands of Torger and Martin
Mark.
AT London, August Cebell, engineer
for the Armstrong Company, was terri
bly, crushed by contact with the elevator
shalt. His collar-bone was broken in
two places, and both of his arms were
fractured.
IT is now almost certain that the ia
tal1ties in the family of Abel Olson, near
Ellsworth, were due to poison in low
grade of ground coffee that they had re-
Gently purchased.
G.. BELTS. of Fairchild, Eau Claire
County, received home bounty of $40
and $40 from the state for killing eight
wolves.
The State Board of Charities has al
lowed the several counties the following
amounts for the care of insane persons:
Brown, $9,347.94; Columbia, 81, 638.38;
Dane, S., 446. 9S; Dodge, 0,0S9.48; Fond
du Lac. 80, 255.48; Grant, $12,8O8.0S;
Green, So ,466.42; Iowa, $12, O43. SO; Jefer-
son, $S, 5000; La Crosse, 81 1892; Man
itowoc. $l0,75l.74; Rock, $7,2l3.78; Sank,
$5,O26.25; sheboygan, s., 4OS.47; Wal
Total. 1882, 658.64.
Crosse, has been reopened after being
closed for nearly year.
The Prentice Brownstone Company,
with $3.50, 900 capital, has fled articles
of Incorporation The quarry at Hough-
ton Point will be worked.
A GASOLINE explosion in the store of
the 18th, resulted in fire that caused
loss on building and stock estimated at
1000. The damage is mainly by
yo hxy mr.
English companies.
DURING row at Fairchlld between a
number of drunken men in little
house near the Foster mill, Chris Mel
son was killed and two others fatally
slashed with knives. Nelson was man
of family. Five of the party are under
arrest.
WHILE Frank Melka, of Fairchild,
was building a fence a large wildcat
seized one of his thighs He had suf-
fcient presence OF mind to apply his
hammer vigorously and with deadly eff
feet to the animals head. Melka has
the bounty Of $6 to Offset his unpleasant
experience.
OLE MUNsoN of Eau Claire, has a
sword that was made in 1916, and is
doubtless of French or German manu-
facture. 1t is about two feet in length,
very strong, but rudely constructed.
The handle is of brass.
The Northwestern Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company of Milwaukee has Sc
cured a $4,000 judgment in st. Louis
court in a case against the Cotton Ex-
change Real Estate Company of that
city. The action was based on balance
due on Is bonds of$ 1000 each.
IT is again announced that work is to
be begun Immediately on Milwaukee's
great cable street railway.
A DECISION of the court in the test case
says Milwaukee's new milk ordinance
is good law and must be accepted as
such by the peddlers.
CARL BEILMAN, blacksmith 81 years
of age. living on Vliet Street, near the
Milwaukee city limits, shot himself in
the head with suicidal intent His
family carefully suppressed the facts,
claimed that the shooting was acct
dental and removed the old man to the
Passavant Hospital for treatment, where
he died the next night. Domestic
trouble led him to self-destruction.
PETER McGEocH has sold controlling