Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-03-28
BADGERDOM.

A SINGLE team recently hauled 1000
feet of logs from Hoxie q Mellor's camp
to Bryant, a distance of two and one
half miles.
Miss BERTHA PITMAN, of the Madison
high school, has gone to Europe to visit
some of the noted institutions of learn
ing. She will accompany DR.. A. J.
Ochsner and his bride, of Chicago. The
doctor Is a graduate of the state univer-
slty, class Of 84, but is now a member of
the faculty of Rush Medical College,
Chicago.
A 9-YEAR-oLD daughter of Mrs. Dyre-
son, Of Dodgeville, died in dentists
office where her mother had taken her
to have several of her teeth extracted
The child having been sick for several
months and suffering from blood poison
from an abscess, and the fatigue of the
journey, caused her to 60 into fainting
spells Immediately after reaching the
office. On account of her exhausted
condition the doctor made no attempt at
any operation on her teeth, but gave
her little brandy which revived her
for few moments, but she died in a
very short time after arriving at the
Office.
La CROSSES river bridge scheme is as
Stunning tangible shape. The landing on
the La Crosse side will probably be at
the foot of State Street and will be built
out into the stream about rs or 100 feet,
thus reducing the width of the channel
to 300 feet. The objective point on the
opposite side is about the center of
Barron's Island, across which the road
will be raised above high water mark
by piling and filling, as it will also be
for the balance of the distance to La
Crescent-Over two marshes or sloughs
and across another small island. The
road will come out at La Crescent about
500 feet south of the depot.
AT La Crosse on the 22d, the dead
body of Henry Gieseler was found froz-
en- into the ice on the La Crosse bot
toms. Deceased had not been seen for
several days. He was janitor of United
Workmen's Hall. His former home was
at Hokah, MINI.
SEVERAL carloads of ore have been re-
celved at the Ashland steel works, and
everything is in readiness to operate
the plant.
IT is claimed at La Crosse that the en-
gineers who took the places of the strik-
ing Burlington & Northern engineers,
run trains in the city limits faster than
the law permits.
ANNA GEORGE, an Ashland domestic,
| is charged with having concealed the
| fact Of the death Of her child. The body
of the infant was found in trunk.
The Public Library Association of La
| Crosse is preparing to place tablet in
| It's rooms, as memorial to the late ex-
Gov. Z. Z. Washburn, in commemora-
| ton of Mr.. Washburn's bequest to the
association.
The officers ofth Ashland land Office
| hn Of ox1o Il
| liver to file land claims in the Wisconsin
indemnity belt, holding that they have
| no jurisdiction in the matter. The case
will be appealed.
MICHAEL Dunn and Thomas Brown,
inmates of the Milwaukee Soldiers
| Home, were frozen to death during the
| night of the Dist. Both were outside
| the Home grounds, and are supposed to
| have been under the influence of
whisky.
| THE large planning mill Of the W. H.
| Schmidt Company, on Seventh Avenue.
| Milwaukee, was destroyed by fire on
| the night of the 22d. involving loss of
$4,000. Three hundred people are
thrown out of employment.
| A. S. FLETCHER, of Eau Claire, will
clear about So, 900 by his logging opera
tiGns at Turtle Creek, near Butternut.
|
| have put in 10, 900, 900 feet. Mr.. Fletcher
states that loggers, as rule, will lose
| heavily in consequence of the deep
snow.
THE La Crosse Republican states that
the Mississippi River is now open to LIE
| Claire and boats are plying between
| down stream points. The Bella Mac is
| engaged in running logs to Hannibal
from Quincy and Boston Bays. The
logs were hung up last season by low
| water.
! The Rice Lake Lumber Company has
increased its capital stock to $500, 900.
"JENKs' CooLeY," little valley on the
| west side of the Mississippi, between La
| Crosse and Winona, is greatly dreaded
| by railway engineers on dark nights, as
| it is crossed by the railroad in short
| curve which hides it from view from
both ways. Many an engineer has
''whistled for down brakes" and felt
that death might be near at hand and
then discovered that the lights he saw
were from steamboats, and not the head
or rear lights Of an engine or train.
The Central Wisconsin Medical So
ciety will meet at Madison on March 27.
EVANGELIST WOLF converted about six
ty persons during his revival at Reeds
burg. He has gone to Indian Territory,
but will return to Wisconsin in the fall
with a tent that will hold l 900 persons.
THE Standard Oil Company has pur-
chased piece of land with a frontage
of 600 feet on St. Louis Bay, and will
build dock for handling the oil supply
of the Northwest. The company will
expend $4,000 in improvements.
WILLIAM kALKBRENNRR is under arrest
in st. Croix County for obtaining money
on an express order that be found in a
letter addressed to man of the same
name.