Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-03-27
WISCONSIN ITEMS

DURING rehearsal for an amateur
theatrical entertainment at Eau Claire,
Percy Cochrane SHOT at William Bailey
with blank cartridge, putting his eye
out. Cochrane is under arrest.
The Wisconsin Scandinavian Total alb
stence Association closed a two days
meeting at Eau Claire on the 21st, at
which fifty delegates and visitors, rep
resenting most of the counties in this
state were present. Secretary Engel-
stad: of Eau Claire, reported seventeen
local branches formed during the year,
and a total membership of 700. Of
President, o. B. Olson, Of Eau
Claire; vice-president, Nils Hanson, of
La Crosse; secretary, Mrs. Alfred Eng
e!stadt, Of Eau Claire; treasurer. O..
Mattson, of La Crosse; directors, o. A.
Larson, of Esdaile; o. C. Nilsson, of
Bloomer; Simon Peterson, of Spring
Brook. Revs. Ring, of La Crosse, and
Omann, of Cambridge, delivered ad-
dresses. Two hundred and fifty dol
lars were subscribed. Resolutions were
adopted denouncing license in any
form: a banquet was given to visiting
members in the evening.
HE anti-license ticket was defeated in
the election at Lancaster by vote of
III to 50. r. B. Showalter was elected
mayor.
E. I. WooD, formerly of the Glynn
Academy, Brunswick, Ca, has taken
charge of the graded school at Menomo-
nee Falls.
The governor, on the 18th, signed the
following Milwaukee bills: To provide
Tor deputy coroner in counties having
population exceeding 100000 inhabit-
ants; to ratify aud legalize sewer plans
In the city of Milwaukee; to authorize
the Common Council to appropriate
to the assessors Of the Fourth,
Fifteenth and Seventeenth Wards
the balance of their salary for the
year 1887; to appropriate $4,000 to the
Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls;
amending the law passed relating to q
sewer tax in the south sewerage district
In Milwaukee, 80 as to make the years
1890 and 1891, instead OF 1889 and 1890;
to provide for the appointment of in
spectors of election and the registra-
ton OF electors when necessary by the
mayor.
A MAN known as Harry Won Sternau,
and supposed to be connected with a
Baltimore newspaper. committed sui
eide at Milwaukee on the 10Th by shoot
ing.
ALMA NIEMEIER, an inmate of the Mil
waukee County insane asylum, commit
ted suicide on the 10Th by strangling.
She was only 20 years old.
The Methady & Meyer failure at St.
Louis touches some lumbermen at La
Crosse, but all believe the firm will pull
through under some arrangement. 1t is
likely the firm was crowded by the Eau
Claire Lumber Company, from which
organization purchase of 6 900, 600 feet
was made last fall.
Mrs. CHARLES JOHNSTON, of Sturgeon
Bay, who was placed on trial to deter
mine her mental condition, was declared
sane by jury.
FORTY thousand brook trout have
been planted in the streams in the vi
cinity of La Crosse.
The Mississippi is now open at La
Crosse and the ferry boats are running.
The river was closed eighty-one days.
A PETITION is being circulated request
Judge Dyson to be candidate for re-
election to the La Crosse County judge
ship.
A REWARD of $500 has been offered for
the recapture of Dan Richie, the muir
derer, who escaped from Jail in Ash
land. He is the only one at large of the
prisoners who escaped, the others hav-
ing been rScaptured