Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-17
WISCONSIN ITEMS

Anderson, at Eau Claire. Loss, s., 800.
AN electric light plant is to be estab-
llshed at Sturgeon Bay. Nearly 200
lamps have been signed for.
WAsHBURN has now chartered lodge
Of Free Masons with E. P. Chatfeld as
master.
HE Marinette Eagle reports that the
Jam OF legs in the Menomonee River ex-
tends q distance of twenty-five miles
above the upper dam.
A YOUNG cage was captured by James
Meikle, near Sturgeon Bay. The par
ent birds had made their nest in hem
lock tree, and this Mr.. Meikle cut down
IN order to obtain his prize, the iuye-
nile emblem Of liberty being unable to
fly. Its supposed that the baby is not
more than six weeks old, but it is never
theless we'll provided in the matter Of
beak and talons, and in a free fight
would prove no mean antagonist.
w. F. HOOKER, late managing editor
of the Ashland Daily News, has pur-
chased the outfit and plant of Edward
FeDnelly 8 Ashland Tines, and says he
will run it hereafter as weekly news
paper to be called "The Critic and
Times"
THE La Crosse Luther College locating
com mitee came TO a conclusion on the
18th in favor of st. Paul Park. The
offer IS thirty acres OF land for the site,
and $25 900, with 10 acres in different
parts OF the city guaranteed TO yield
$780, 900 within five years.
MINNEAPoLIs parties who plated a
tract OF barren ground five miles from
Eau Clare and named IL EAST Lawn
Park" are receiving some return for
their shrewdness. Their latest patton
was McWeslev Jones, of Revere, ILL.,.
who paid $1,000 for ten of the lots.
DURING the thunder storm that pre-
vail d at Milwaukee on be 18th, Badger
Girl, one of the most famous trotting
mares ever owned in the state of Wis
consin, was struck by lightning and in
stantly killed. The mare was standing
her 5-month-old colt stood by her. {
IT looks now a though the Milwaukee,
Lake Shore 4 Western Railroad Com-
pany would build new passenger de-
pot at Ashland and not use the new
Union building. The solicitor OF the
road, Alfred l.. Cary, has concluded a
bargain for four lots on Vaughn Avenue.
adjoining their track. The purchase
was made for the railroad company,
and 1t is pretty certain the location is
for an improvement by the road of some
kind, being most available for the pur-
pose of depot
An error has been discovered in the
proceedings against John Graham and
Samuel Mcdonald, now serving a thir-
teen and fourteen-year term, respect
lively, IN the state prison. sentenced at
the present term of court at Ashland.
The information against them, upon
which they were tired and found guilty,
A <,f
Revised Statutes. hut by some
error, when passing sentence, the Court
referred to section 1876 of the Revis d
Statutes as annexed by chapter -, Of
the laws of 1881 This, it is said, rem
derS the sentence void, and the court
without jurisdiction, and the imprsou-
ment of the parl1es illegal. The de-
PENDANTS attorneys Cole x OK eefr,
have applied to the supreme court lor Il
writ of haheas corpus to release Ora
ham and Mcdonald from prison.
AN old ragman named Arnold Nj I'm
was found hanging in a shed at the rear
of his house, so; Mitchell Street, Mil
waukee. on the 18th Mean was /
years old, and owned the house whefe
he lived, besides having money in tie
bank. He had q wife and SIX children.
CHARLES ACKER, aged wears, WAS
drowned at Milwaukee on the lltn,
while fishing in the river. f4is body
was recovered during the thunder
storm the next day.
T. A. HUsHER, the well-knOwn Scan
dinavian political leader and iourn Il
list. OF La Crosse, has made an ass IN
ment at st. Paul. whence be had novel
his newspaper-the Fa-dreIandet o.
Emigranten. The paper was founded
in La Crosse about thirty years ago, and
is consequently the oldest newspaper Of
its class In that section of the country.
1t is stated that for some lime there taS
been gradual falling off in business,
and for year or more the paper has
not paid, according to the statement OF
one in position TO know. The iiabIi-
ties will probably be about Sl2,4h In
his affidavit Mr.. Husher states that his
property will not exceed in value rs 800.
Mrs. n. WtTHEBS and two children
were poisoned at Ashland by eating I'M
pure Ice cream.
MAX GEHR and wife were arrested at
Eau Claire on telegram from Ia
Crosse. They are charged with roD-
berry.
Mrs. ALICE Brown, charged with kill
ing man at Bayfield,. has been dis
charged from custody, there being 20
evidence against her.
The $50, 900 appropriated by Congress
for the Improvement of Ashland Har-
Dor is being expended, or the largest
portion of the amount, in erecting
breakwater over one mile in length.
Piles for one-half of the distance are IN
place, and twelve sections nearly com
pleted. About sixty men are employ ed III
driving the piles, planking the sides
and filling In floors of slabs and edgings
and heavy rocks of ballast. The work
is in charge of ]. ]. Durage, United
States engineer. The work is being
pushed rapidly, with the intention OF
having it all completed be ore the close
OF navigation. This work has long been
needed, and the money expended Will
not be in vain.
AARON Il. DAVIS, leather merchant
of La Crosse, since 1866 died on the 9Th
He was born in Canada, near the Yer
mont line in 1926, and came to Galena
at the age of 20. He embarked In the
wholesale confectionery business, was
suffer of the Fortv-ifth Illinois Regi-
ment went to La Crosse in 1866 and or
ganized the firm of Davis, Medary &