Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-09-25
WISCONSIN ITEMS

THE Indians of the Menominee reser-
walton have sent souvenirs to President
Harrison and Secretary Noble, in token
of gratitude for the retention of Indian
Agent Jennings.
MADISON women have started war
on sparrows, because the impudent lit
tie birds persist in robbing their gar
dens of sunfower seeds. They are
about to suggest to the governor the ad-
visibility of calling out the National
Guard to exterminate the little feath-
cred Anarchists.
Rev. E. BRADFORD, presiding elder of
the Eau Claire District M. +. Confer
ence, reports that over 1000 CONVEX
sions have been made in the district
during the past year, and the property
of the society has greatly increased.
In the United States court at La
Crosse, the grand jury found an indict-
ment against Joseph Bresee, of Madi-
son, for mail robbery, whereupon he
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
two years in the house of correction at
Milwaukee.
A GANG Of men putting in a sewer at
Eau Claire tore up part of the Eau
Claire Street Railway Company's track
in one of the business centers of the
West Side. Supt. Root, of the street
railway. backed by his employees. re-
sisted the aggression. People tlocked
to the scene till the street was crowded
for blocks. There was great excitement.
threats and hot words, but finally the
city attorney, the acting mayor and sew
eral aldermen, with the assistance of
the police, quoted the trouble.
DIVORCES were granted by the Ash
land circuit court in the following cases:
VIM. A. Hobday vs.. Alice Holiday, the
plaintiff to pay the defendant $500 ali
mony; William Jackson vs.. Mary j.
Jackson; Eliza Herbert vs. Fred. Her
bert; J. w. Coria VS.. Miriam CORA.
THE Lake Shore road is about to make
a change in it's schedule, which will
materially shorten the time between
this city and Ashland
The State Agricultural Society re-
elected all of it's old officers.
FoRTY-sEvEN members attended the
reunion of the Legislature at the Plank
inton House, Milwaukee, on the 18th.
EAU CLAIRE is discussing row which
occurred in local insurance office, in
which man is said to have slapped
the face of young lady employed to
operate typewriter. The man lost his
position and the young woman re-
signed. She was from Chicago.
The grading for the Abbotsford &
Northeastern Railroad is completed.
Gov. HOARD has appointed E. C.
Oliver, of Cedar Grove, Chauncey r.
Thayer, of Sturgeon Bay, and James
Chapman, of Bav field, fish wardens for
the First, Second and Third Districts,
respectively.
THE name of the post-of1ice at Hogan,
Wood County, has been changed to
Lindsay.
JOHN GoRHAM was arrested at La
Crosse on charge of assaulting an s.
year-old girl at Tomahawk.
SHERIFF SCoTT, of La Crosse, made a
capture of female horsethief. Mary
Hyatt, connected with Coup's horse
sho W, hired horse at livery stable in
Rochester, Mimi, and started to drive
to La Crosse. The liveryman has been
following her for three days, and Sber-
iff Scott was notified to be on the watch
for her.
BURGLARS raided four hotels and
boarding houses at Altoona City early
on the morning of the 18th, securing
about $3.50 in cash and some valuables
The robberies were very skillfully exc
cuted. There is no clue to the identity
of the thieves, though they were seen
sneaking out of one of the hotels about
daylight.
E. A. SLOAN, of La Crosse, q conductor
on the Milwaukee u st. Paul Railway is
dangerously sick in consequence of the
amputation of a leg that was crushed on
the Minnesota Division several months
| ago.
Mrs. SEEKow, of Menomonee. while
| temporarily insane, attacked Aid. Bush
| with razor, but the gentleman Crap
pied with her and escaped harm. AS
she has the care of two small children,
she was not taken into custody.
OLE and Martin Anderson and Hans
Hottie, were all badly cut near Madison
and tell very different stories about it.
THE North-W Western Railway Company
has paid Mrs. Percy M. Beaser, of
Ashland, $1,000 in settlement of her
| claim for injuries received by the train
| wreck in which Lieut. Gov. Mcdonald,
of Michigan, was killed.
AT a special meeting of the Eau
| Claire Common Council it was decided
| to submit to the people the question of
| issuing municipal bonds to the amount
of $50, 600, and special election will be
held.
A BRIDGE at Eau Claire became SO
heavily charged with electricity that
every team crossing it ran away. There
was great commotion for a short time.