Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-06-06
STATE NOTES.


| A MILWAUKEE County farmer has in
troduced a new feature in the dairy
business, that of furnishing milk ex-
clusively to invalids and children
PATRICK HAYES, blacksmith on Fifth
| Street, Milwaukee, was trampled to
death on the I'd by horse which, he
was shoeing.
THE earnings of the Milwaukee &
Northern road for the last week in May
were $50, 445, as compared with $23,-
636.8S for the corresponding week last
year. The total earnings of the road
during the month of MAY show an in
crease of $1O,617.12 over last year.
/ ABOUT 800 men are now employed at
the Beef Slough rafting works, and the
daily output, which is now about 7,0OO,-
900 feet, will be increased considerably
when the Mississippi goes down few
| feet, it being at present about five feet
I higher than is required for the best re-
suits in handling logs.
/ NEARLY all the COWS on the north side
district, Eau Claire, which belong to
poor families and were herded on
common were poisoned by some un-
known person with Paris green
sprinkled about the pasture. Sixteen
| COWS are dead.
JUDGE GRESHAM decided at Madison
that the action of the government VS..
| Stinson, to set aside title of 1000 acres
OF land in Douglas County on the ground
| that the filings were illegal, could be
brought in the district where the lands
were located.
THE United States court at Madison
has granted a new trial in the case of
| Luck A. Promo against the Chicago,
| Milwaukee q st. Paul Railway Com
pany!, an action for damages for person
al Injuries resulting from collision. In
the first trial the plaintiff was awarded
SO 600.
The Eau Claire Leader prints story
| OF sensational encounter between two
young ministers of Northern Wisconsin
| cities. 1t seems the clergymen both
| loved the same lady, and the acceptance.
| of one sutton resulted in fight in which
one or the rivals was knocked down.
CLARENCE HOWARD, a brakeman on
the Milwaukee & st. Paul Road, fell
from caboose near Prairie du CHEN,
and was so terribly mangled that he
died soon after be was picked up.
EDWARD MALoNEY, of Ashland, re-
| Gently acquitted of participation In the
| Bay City riot, accidentally shot himself
with revolver, the ball passing through
the palm of his hand and into his side,
| causing wound that may prove fatal.
AN accident on the rafting ways at n
| b. Holway's mill, La Crosse, ON the 3Oth,
caused serious if not fatal injury of
Jacob Schultz, Ole Oleson and Matt Sea-
man. A crib of lumber had just been
| completed and slid down the ways to the
waters edge, where it lodged. A dozen
| men jumped in behind it to move it off
when the next crib above slid down,
| catching the three men named before
| they could escape. The others got out
of the way.
JOHN HAUT, a gardener, living on
Humboldt Avenue, Milwaukee, hanged
himself in his barn on the 30th. No
cause for suicide is known. He was IS
years old and leaves a family.
THE Rev. E. r. Ward, an Episcopalian
| clergyman at one time widely known II
| Wisconsin through his ministry in con-
nection with the Milwaukee Soldiers
| Home, and who for time was rector of
| Christ Church, Milwaukee, died in the
asylum at Fordham, n. Y, on the Goth,
where he had been under treatment for
a year or two. His family is in Milwau-
kee.
THE Manhattan Life Insurance Com
pany, of New York City, has favorably
| decided on proposition to build an
! opera house and business block in
Ashland and has authorized its Wiscon-
sin managers to offer even a more
favorable proposition to the Ashland
Business Mems Association. There is
no doubt that Ashland will have one Of
| the finest opera houses and business
| blocks in Wisconsin.
JESSIE MABEL MUNRO, aged 4, was run
/ md ii Of +Lo
30th, by grocer's delivery wagon.
THE complaint in the case of James
| Bonner, Pat Rivers, Mike O'Brien and
H. Carley, four of the men arrested for
riotlng last winter at high Bridge, Ash
land County, have been dismissed in the
| circuit court at Ashland.
THE Touring mills at La Crosse are
using sawdust for fuel at saving Of 45
per cent. in cost.
j. W. LosEY has been chosen presi-
dent of the company organizing at La
Crosse to build theater.
HERMAN KANITz, a contractor, was
badly Injured about the head and face
on the 2Stb by the explosion of an old
| gasometer IN an unoccupied building on
| Galena Street, Milwaukee. The cause
| the explosion is something of mystery,
as the instrument has not been in use
for months and was entirely free from
any connection with the gas pipes that
run through the house.
AT Eau Claire, on the 2Sth, Andy
Hamilton, the denkeeper, and his wife,
after preliminary examination lasting
a week, were held for trial, each furnish
ing bond of $500, given by Matt Johan
mes, a soda-water manufacturer. The
defense made a vain attempt to bring
out the names of members of the citi-
zens' anti-den organization.