Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-09-18
WISCONSIN ITEMS

THE Unitarians of Eau Claire will build
church at cost of $1,000. Senator
Rust has donated lot-one of the fin
est sites in the city.
JAMES HAWKE, of the town of Miff1in,
Iowa County, recently killed an adder,
which came into his yard and picked
quarrel with dog. The reptile meas
ured four feet and five inches, and was
fierce and venomous.
THE Buffalo Bay, Lac Court Oreilles
and Bad River Indians are being count
ed. Clerk Rodman says that there will
be scarcely any change in the figures of
last year, and that the vitality and NOR
tally statistics will very nearly balance.
The Ashland Lumber Company and
Log Owners Association elected as di-
rectors r. d. Pike, B. Doherty and j.
I'll. Thompson. The directors subse-
quently met and elected officers as fol-
lows: B. Doherty. president; j. II.
Ihompson, vice-president, and Z. +.
Latlmer, secretary and treasurer.
The following mail route changes for
Wisconsin lines are announced at the
Department.: Hancock to Friendship,
leave Hancock Wednesdays and Satur-
days at A. NJ, arrive at Friendship by
4:37 P. M; leave Friendship Tuesdays
and Fridays at 8 A. M, arrive at Han
cock by 4:37 P. NJ. Johnson to Franklin,
leave johnson Tuesdays and Thursdays
at P NJ, arrive at Franklin b. P. NJ;
leave Franklin Tuesdays and Thursdays
at 4:30 P. NJ, arrive at Jacksonville at
$50 P. NJ.
A 12-YEAR-oLD daughter of Herbert
Lester, of Prairie du CHEN, was sent to
the Industrial School for Girls at Mil
waukee. She had frequently threat
ened the lives of members of the family
and twice, recently, had attempted to
burn the house they live in.
Mrs. MARY BELL DENoMIE has been
held for trial at Ashland on the charge
of having attempted to blow up Keely's
store at Odanah. The prosecution had
the key of powder found under the
building in the court room, also scrap
of an old newspaper which Mary had
been given by a Mrs. Hurliss. The pa
per WAS not burned but crumpled, and
its title indicated that it was a story pa
per which the defendant had in her
possession. Other testimony stated
that the defendant was drunk on that
night and bare-footed, and that the
tracks were traced to her house, and
that she was in condition to carry out
any dangerous threat.
FATHER STEELY, priest in the village
of Granville, has been deposed for
scandalous treatment of little children.
The Republican candidate for Con-
gress in North Dakota, FL. G. Hans
brough, is known in Wisconsin, having
published history of Dodge County.
Work on the street railway between
Marinette and Menominee, Mich, has
been suspended because the Marinette
company wants bonus that the Me-
nominee company will not pay. The
line is to reach fully seven miles.
FELIX GERHARD, middle-aged man,
died at the central police station, in
Milwaukee, on the morning Of the 18th,
from an overdose of choral. He form
ed the chloral habit while under treat
ment at the county hospital.
MRS. ADDIE HoTH, living on Hum
boldt Avenue, Milwaukee, heard a man
rummaging round mp stairs. She got
revolver, surrounded" the burglar,
and "held him up" till help arrived.
SAMUEL HoF, of Sitter, Grant County,
had the highest average at the competi-
tive examination for appointment az a
West Point cadet from the Third Dis
trict.
MALIGNANT diphtheria carried off
within q. week SIX children of a family
that came to Milwaukee from Iowa re-
Gently. The people of the neighbor-
hood are in state of panic.
SEVERAL persons were Frustrated by
electricity at Eau Claire, a pole becom-
ing charged with the fluid, and passers-
by receiving a severe shock.
THE Lutheran College question has at
last been decided and the institution
will remain at DEBORAH. Toe three
places under consideration at the last
meeting of the committee were La
Crosse, st. Paul and DEBORAH.
Compressed Air as Motive Power.