Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-09-26
STATE NEWS

THE Milwaukee County Republicans
have made the following nominations:
For congressman. Isaac w. Van Schaick !;
for sheriff, John f. Burnham; for regis
ter of deeds, Henry J. Baumgartner;
for clerk OF the courts, Albert De Leur;
for district attorney, John Toohev; for
county clerk, Frank Sebastian; for
county treasurer, John j. Reilly; for
surveyor Hans c.. Reinertsen; for cor
oner, E. A. M. Leidel.
The La Crosse police picked up a
man on the street supposed to be dead
drunk. Next morning it was discovered
he had bad wound on his head. The
doctors say his chance for recovery is
slight His name is Buchanan, and he
is bricklaver. The wound was infict-
ed by Leonard Grome with a billiard
cue, and he has been arrested.
FRED E. MANN, of Marinette, Wis.
has been appointed as cadet at the
West Point Military Academy
GEO. J. REYNOLDS. an adventurous
Madisonian, drowned near Cedar KEYS,
Fla, while coasting in a cat-rigged boat.
He left wife and several children at
Madison.
THIEVES around Eau Claire have added
barb wire to the list of availa BILE pIun>
der. They stripped nearly two miles
of fencing at Alex. r. Watson's farm.
THE Rev. Edward Cooke, D. d. first
president of Lawrence University, died
at his home in Newton, Mass.
A LIFE-IIKE portrait of the late Con-
gresham William Pitt Lynde, which is
to be placed in the gallery of the State
Historical Society in the capitol, has
just been finished by the artist, Yer
Bryck.
THE saloonkeepers at Marinette will
contest the ection which fixes the sa-
loon license at $500.
. w. E. GREEN, who resigned the place
of trainmaster CT the Chicago. Burling
ton & Northern Railway to move to
Portland, Ore, was presented with 1915
in gold by friendly railroaders at La
Crosse and Savanna.
EDWARD Foss, who with Miss Hattie
Foster created such cyclone in social
circles in Fairchild about a year ago by
a jest marriage that was susceptible Of
an earnest Interpretation has been duly
and solemnly married to Miss Hattie
Arnold.
JAMES FINNEGAN, of Winona, was ac-
cidentally shot while duck hunting in
the swamps north of Irempealeau
The gun was discharged in removing it
from the wagon, the charge striking him
in the thigh. He will recover.
GATEWAY Assembly, K of L., of La
Crosse, prints resolutions denounc-
ing the circular threatening boy
colt on Boycott, tie printer, purport-
ing to have. been issued by the
Assembly, as forgery.
EVIDENCE is being taken before the
local land officers at Ashland to deter
mine whether the Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha Company is en-
titled to patents on 5,99S acres. The
question is raised~as' to whether the
lands are mineral or non-mineral.
Should the land officers decide that
there is mineral on the lands, new
patents will be granted and the present
ones will revert to the government.
H. ENGLE & Co., dealers in general
merchandise at Ashland, have failed.
The assets and liabilities are $4,000
each. No cause is given for the failure.
JOHN MENowsKI, of Highbridge, Ash
land County, has been held to trial in
$4,000 bonds, ON charge of criminally
assaulting a 12-year-old girl named
Kroeykowski.
WILLIAM. RICHARDSON pleaded guilty
at La Crosse to charge Of having coun-
terfeit money in his possession, and
was sentenced to one year in the house
of correction at Milwaukee. The case
of Herbert Richardson, arrested on a
similar charge. was continued.
RETURNS from the license elections
on the 18th about the state resulted as
follows: High license, Eau Claire,
Washburn, Dpdgeville, Marinette, De-
pere, Fl. Atkinson, Whitewater; low
license, West Superior. Mansion, Wau-
Paca, Ripon, Evansville, Baraboo and
Hudson.
Mrs. CHARLOTTE GODFREY, of Bayfield,,
has just celebrated her 18th birthday.
''THE Warden is the name of an in
dependent Scandinavian paper just
started at La Crosse. t
Gov. RUsK has partfoned Sarah w.
Tyrrell, of Lancaster, who killed her
husband with billet of wood during q
quarrel two yearsago.
ALL thesOWners of stone quarries. saw