Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-07-18

day to Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Euper, Fifth
ward.
Pension was issued yesterday to
Lewis G. Bycknell, of Fort Atkinson, ORR
ginal invalid.
The late John E. Weissert leaves an
insurance of $4,000 on bis life for the
benefit of his family.
The Lincoln Guards, of Milwaukee,
and their friends, take an excursion Sun
day to this city and will picnic on Con-
cordia Island.
The friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. j.
Hawkins, of the Fourth ward, rejoice with
them in the birth Thursday last of a
bouncing nine-pouud boy.
Yesterday morning Mrs. Kraeker
was found drowned in cistern at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Neu-
man, two miles east Of Beaver Dam.
A portion of the machinery for the
new shoe factory has arrived, ready to be
placed in its position. The building
looms up finely, and will be soon COM
pleted for business.
Louis Sanborn, former resident,
and for several years past agent for the
St. Paul company at Tomahawk, has
been ordered by his physicians to go to
Minnesota for the benefit of his declining
health.
Rev. F. Fusseder, pastor of st. Peters
church, Beaver Dam, from 1865 to 1886,
died in that place Monday night, of gen.
eral debility. During the war be was
chaplain of the Seventeenth Wisconsin
regiment
Henry Rohrmeister, now in Jail in
Jefferson, charged with the murder of
Martin Steinhsuser, last March, has re-
ceived orders from the Prussisn govern
ment to report to his regiment for duty
by July "a, he being absent from the ar
my only by permit.
The Wisconsin Press association meets
In Milwaukee Tuesday next, July "a. An
address will be delivered by Charles A.
Dana, of The New York Sun, and poem
will be read by J. Whitcomb Riley. An
excursion has been arranged for the edit
ors and their wives and daughters to
Sault Ste Marie, Mich, which is expect
ed to occupy the balance of the week.
Jack Reilly and Mike Tracey were
taken before Justice Halliger yesterday
morning, the former charged with break
ing window and cutting door screens at
the residence of Mrs II. Warner, First
ward, Monday night, in an attempt to get
into the house, and the latter for drunk
enness. Reilly was sentenced to Jefer-
son Jail for thirty days and Tracey for
five days.
The press and the people of England
are not friendly toward the Republican
ticket and platform. This is one of the
heavy burdens we shall have to patiently
bear during the campaign, while the Dem
ocrats are buoyed up by lively sympa-
thy across the ocean. But we recall the
fact that it was the same during the var
for the Union, and despite British bullets
and active assistance the victory was won
over the allied forces.
An anarchist plot to blow up the
Board of Trade building and other build
! ings and to murder Judges Grinnell and
Gary and Inspector Bonfeld, was discov-
cred yesterday in Chicago by detectives.
The ring leader in the plot is John Hrc-
mex, Bohemian, and cabinetmaker by
trade. His associates are Frank Chapek
and Frank Chebowa The latter inform
ed Inspector Bonfeld of the plot. All
the conspirators have been arrested.
"A well-known conductor on a St.
Paul train, who runs between Milwaukee
and WATERFOWL, in going through his
train the other day, found Thurman
bandana on a seat that someone had lost.
He picked up the wipe and started for
the end of the car with it in his hand and
was almost through the train, when a
gentleman reached out his hand and
shook the conductors hand. saying that
he was glad to see the conductor was a
Democrat and carried the proper colors.
The conductor, who is a staunch Repub-
lican, was equal to the emergency. "Oh,' y
said he, 81 keep this to wipe the dust OF
my Shoes" at the same time busting his
CATERS. "Here are the colors | sail an
DER" and he pulled out red, white and
blue kerchief from his coat pocket. The
Democrat wilted, amid the laughter Of
the passengers. Sunday Telegraph.
California will go Democratic this
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