Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-05-16
STATE NOTES.

| confinement in the house of correction
on the plea that his term of sentence
began on the date of its pronouncemen t,
although ten months Of the year We're
spent by him at large on bail pending
an appeal to the supreme court, was I'M
successful. Court Commissioner Ryan
remanded him to the custody of the cor
rectlonary institution. The attempt is
to be renewed.
JUDGEMENTS have been entered up in
the circuit court clerks Office at Ash
land against N. d. Moore and Robert
McFerran as follows: Edward F. Car
penter ct al, $S59.67; VIM. J. Quarn,
S432.88; Doggett, Bassett & Hills Co.,
ST. ,025.98.
j. H. MCCORMICK, manager of shoe
store at La Crosse, has been adjudged
insane. His mania is said to be due to
disappointment in love affair with
young lady who at one time was in his
employ. The St. Paul Company repre-
sented by him found that he had $4,000
worth of stock in the store and that he
owed but little.
SOME of the striking Burlington &
Northern engineers at La Crosse have
given up the fight, and number have
applied for work. The company will re-
employ as many as there are places
for, but will not discharge the nom
union men.
ATLAS LINCOLN, who lost both arms
by the bursting of saw at Trempealeau
on March 27, has commenced suit
against Elam, Beardsley & Atwood.
owners of the mill, for $4,000 damages
JUSTICE MCMILLIN, of La Crosse, has
been presented with key to the Castle
of Westphalia, in Germany, that former
~ belonged to Napoleon l. The key is
OF peculiar form and design, the letter
N, a crown, a Maltese cross, the repre-
sentat1on of lion, ETC., being among
the designs.
ARTICLES of incorporation have been
drawn and forwarded to the secretary
of state of the Eau Claire, Mississippi
q Lake Superior Railway Company.
Capital, $2,50O,0OO. The incorporators
are r. f. Wilson, George A. Burlington,
Senator VIM. A. Rust, Mayor G. B.
Shaw, III. NJ Stocking, Henry Cousins.
The line is to be built from Winona via
independence. Trempealue County,
Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls to some
point on Lake Superior in Ashland
County. 1t is to be an Eau Claire line,
built by Eau Claire people for lumber
outlet to the Southwest.
CHARLES DORSEY, colored porter in
disreputable house at SIS Market Street,
Milwaukee, was shot and fatally
wounded on the night of the 18th, by
another colCred man. believed to be
William Wright.
THE La Crosse Crematory association
has contracted for its building. The
cost, exclusive of the furnace, will be
$5,765.
THE Wisconsin CentraPs new coal
6OpE a 10 Ion will hn Of ~
time to receive the cargoes of the first
vessels to arrive from Buffalo. It will
be 4l6 feet in length by,l92 feet in width
with capacity for nearly 100000 tons of
coal.
THE Ashland Driving Association has
purchased the Garfield property--a
tract of thirty acres-for 81, 800. The
association intends to have the track
finished, buildings erected and every
thing completed so that the first meet
ing can be held on the Fourth of July
The Dubuque Herald announces the
death of Mrs. Gen. Geo. w. Jones,
pioneer OF Wisconsin, aged rs. Her
husband, who served as delegate to
Congress from the Northwestern terri
tory, and afterwards as senator from
Iowa, survives her, and also three sons
and two daughters.
FREDERICK WEYERHAUsER has COM
pleted the purchase of the Meridian
mills, owned by the Eau Claire Lumber
Company. There are 100000 feet of
logs in the slough at the mill The
price paid was 100000 The Mississ-
ippi River Logging Company has by
this purchase obtained the entire prop
erty owned by the Eau Claire Lumber
Company, for which over $4,000, QUO has
been paid.
THE 500 & Southwestern Railroad
Company has filed articles with the Sec
rotary of state, the object being to build
Buffalo County, across the Mississippi
River to Wabasha County, Mimi, a
distance of two miles The capital is
ST 100000. The incorporators are James
Mcintyre, w. A. Rust, Eau Claire; n. G.
and E. j. Foster of Fairchild; r. NJ.
Forsman, of Williamsport, Pa.
TIE most important civil case to be
tried during the term at La Crosse will
be that of n. B. Holway vs. the Green
Bay, Winona st. Paul Railway Com
pany to recover $4,000 for logs and
timber destroyed by fire, Holway claim
ing that the flames originated from To-
connective spark
DURING the ensuing term of the cir
cult court for La Crosse County, Albert
Kennett will be tried on the charge of
having killed Annie Daniel, woman of
the town. Judge Cameron, who has
been retained for young Kennett, says
he has a clear line of defense The
policeman who killed Tim Brady, the
gambler, will also be tried.
AT Ashland on the 10th, Mythai
Burke was sentenced to one year in
prison for larceny. Burke pleaded
guilty.
MISS ALICE C. LITTLE, daughter of
Mrs. Little, superintendent of the state
school for the blind, is about to engage
IN missionary service on far off for
eign shore, having decided to cast her
lot among the barbarous people on an
island where a missionary ship touches
only once year. She takes her house
on board the boat at Honolulu, also
COW, with provisions for year, and,
with the exception of gentleman and
his wife, will be the only white person
on the island. 1t requires a month to
make the voyage. Miss Little is re-
cent graduate of Oberiin College.