Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-23
WISCONSIN ITEMS

A CONTRACT has been closed with a
Chicago firm to furnish full electrical
equipment for the West Side Street
Railway, Milwaukee, to be ready for OPP
Grafton by February l, next.
EAU CLAIRE people enjoyed military
drill by Company E at their fair at that
place. In the contest as to the best
drilled man in the company, Sergt. E.
q. Kehr won the medal.
Miss ISABEL, daughter of D. S. Durrie,
Librarian of the State Historical Society,
died suddenly.
OF three cases of diphtheria in the
family of Mrs A. E. Braley, at Madison,
two terminated fatally.
SECRETARY NOBLE has affirmed the
proposition made by Special Agent
Dana G. Lamb, in charge of the Oneida
allotment, and the surveys Of these
lands will be changed according to the
plan proposed by Agent Lamb, which
ls calculated to preserve to each Indian,
IN giving him an allotment, the i'm
provements which his industry has pro-
duced.
ELLSWORTH B. NELLIs, who was shot
at Milwaukee by Leo Larner the other
day, is considered to be in fair way to
recovery. Larner, who shot him and
who himself lies at the Emergency Hos
pital, will in all probability also pull
through.
q. w. HAzELToN has been retained by
the colored people to prosecute their
case against Manager Lift of the Biiou
Opera House, Milwaukee.
The number of deaths in Milwaukee
during the month of September was 303,
against BIO for the corresponding month
or last year. The death rate for the
month was 17.3.
The jury in the Moss-Stein SANDER
suit, in Milwaukee, was unable to agree
on verdict.
A RE-sURvEY will be made of the Onei-
da Indian lands.
Two workmen lost their lives by the
fall of q brick wall at the old Sixth Ward
school house, Milwaukee, on the 18th.
The body of Rudolph Pfster was
found on the 18th in the Menomonee
Canal, Milwaukee, near where he and
companion were thrown into the water
by mlstaking the position of "a bridge.
THE long-drawn case against the Mil
waukee gamblers whose places were
raided by the police has been finally
decided against the prisoners.
INJURIES caused by falling down the
elevator shaft at the store of the David
Adler & Sons Clothing Company, 324
East Water Street, Milwaukee, resulted
in the death of Bruno BENIN, aged IS
years.
E. S. LINDSAY, of Milwaukee, was
chosen president of the state Y. M. c.
A.
THE Rev. J. III. Croker was elected
president of the state Unitarian confer
ence.
Mrs. RAsMUs B. ANDERSON, of Madi-
son, has been-sen to the state hospital
for the insane.
for damages against the Iowa Temper
ance Alliance was thrown out of court.
TIE dwelling house of Charles Owen,
totally consumed by fire. Nothing was
saved. The family was absent at the
time. Insurance light.
A. G. RECKsTRoM was sent up at Eau
Claire for one year on pleading guilty to
having obtained money on fraudulent
check.
The people of Eau Claire have COM
PEELED the water company, of that city,
to supply them with water from springs
instead of from the Chippewa River.
The water is to be furnished hereafter
from what is known as the Wheaton
Springs. The present rate of consump-
ton of water in that city is estimated at
l 100000 gallons per day.
THE Abbotsford & Northwestern Rail-
road has been equipped with a new
engine and cars. The rails are nearly
all laid.
GEO. n. HOLMES, the telegraph oper-
ator at Bridge Switch, La Crosse, has a
curiosity. 1t is the shell of Lower
Mississippi turtle that weighed 2?5
pounds and measured feet 81 inches
long, and about feet wide.
ALBERT MGNICH, formerly of Cologne,
Germany, in jail at Eau Claire seven
months on a charge of bigamy, was dis
charged on the 10Th by Circuit Judge
Bundy on motion of the district-attor-
nev for lack of evidence. Menich mar
ried In this country sister of Prof.
kriesel, Of the West Side public school.
1t was claimed that he lad wife in
Cologne, but he was doubtless innocent.
HE robbery at the house of w. II. Os-
borne, 125 Prospect Avenue, Milwau-
kee, promises interesting develop
ments. The poles ase in doubt as TO
uOW III OCCuTI0U, S0VoTtA peculiar IaCCS
being developed. A number of valuable
articles were not stolen, while others,
lying close by, were taken.
CHARLES B. KEEHNE, who shot and
robbed Grocer Griffin, at Muskegon,
Mich. September Is, was sentenced to
fifteen years IN prison. The prisoner
admitted shooting man in Milwau-
kee.
The woodwork in a fue at the Mil
waukee Chamber of Commerce caught
fire on the 10Th and occasioned quite a
commotion on Change. The fire was
extinguished by one touch of the chem
ical engine, and the damage caused
amounts to about $5.
JUDGE MORTIMER M. JACKSON be-
queathed $4,000 to the State University
to endow law professorship.
THE Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha Company receives $1,000 acres
additional indemnity lands in Wiscon-
sin.
A QUARREL between two neighbors at
Milwaukee terminated in an ARRAY that
is likely to be fatal to oae or both of
them.