Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-06-05
WISCONSIN ITEMS

On the 31st a partially decomposed
BODY was found in the lake near Mil
Waukee. After being taken to the
morgue it was identified as that or Capt.
John Sullivan, of the tug Lawrence,
which was sunk in the lake near that
point by the bursting of her boiler in
October last.
SAM. FIFIELD has sold the Ashland
Press to J. M. Chappelle.
ROBERT A. CooNEY has been arrested
at La Crosse on q charge of attempting
10 crlmlnally assault Mrs. Nettie Hustle
Dy. The husband appeared on the
scene, and, after smashing chair over
Cooney's head. held him by means Of q
revolver until an officer was sum-
moned. COoney charges that it is a
blackmailing scheme.
u. ID. PORTER and William Ewing, the
men arrested at Madison on charge of
attempting to swindle farmer by q
'con" game, were fined 81 and costs.
they were afterwards rearrested, charg-
ed with being fugitives from justice, and
were turned over to the authorities of
Jacksonville, ILL.,, where they are want
ed Tor confidence operations.
The st. Paul, Glenwood & Northwest
ern Railway Company has filed articles
OF association. This is the company
that is planning to build line from
Glenwood, st. Croix County, to Ashland.
The incorporators are j. E. Glover, AL
exander Syme, III. j. Baldwin, James
Johnston and William Johnston. The
capital is 81 100000. The road will form
junction with the Wisconsin Central.
IT is now positively announced that
natural gas has been discoveredin utiliza-
bic quantities In the town of Oak Creek,
near Milwaukee.
A CAMP of the Sons of Veterans has
been mustered in at West Salem, La
Crosse County.
THE Listman Towering mill, burned
at La Crosse recently, will probably be
rebuilt by stock company.
JACOB Shook, formerly proprietor and
manager of a hotel at La Crosse, died
recently at Hokah, Mimi, of consump-
ton.
GEN. FAIRCHILD has declined the ap-
pO1ntment to place on the National
Pension Committee of the G. A. r.,
which was recently rendered him, ow
ing to pressure of business.
JOSEPH PECoR, half-breed, who re-
sides on the Indian reservation near
Haywood. and who has been missing
for several weeks, was found dead in a
small inlet, where he fell into the water
from the logs.
THE corner stone of st. Edward
Episcopal Church, at Eau Claire, which
is named in homer of the late Bishop
Welles, of Milwaukee, was laid on
the 9th with Masonic ceremonies, in
the presence of large concourse of peo-
pie.
THE finding of human skeleton uu-
der the old Graham building at Sur
geon Bay, few days ago, caused some
Of the citizens to suspect that this dis
covery solved the mystery which sur
rounds the fate of II. B. Bertholf. who
unaccountablv disappeared from that
vicinity in 1857.
MARINETTE is preparing to adopt q
sewerage system. Engineer Goodhue,
of Milwaukee, is to receive 81, 900 for
plans of the work.
UNDER an order Of the secretary of
the interior, notice has been issued by
the United States land Office at Eau
Claire to the effect that filings and en-
tries will, be received there on and after
July /, on the lands included in the in
demnity Withdrawals OF the Madison q
Portage Railway, which lands have
been open to settlement under the gem
eral land laws.
THE story of mysterious crime COM es
from Eau Claire. Laura Fleming, the
14-year-old daughter of farmer, near
that city, was visiting at the house of
James McComb, ne ghbor, on the
night of the 9th. She went up stairs
to bed with Mr.. McComb's daughter,
also girl of IA. Suddenly the McComb
girl rushed down stairs and said Laura
was killed. Laura was found lying
across the bed. She had been shot in
the head, and a smoking revolver. lay
near by. The dying G irl could talk, but
gave no explanation, and died at 4
girl said that neither she nor the dead
girl had touched the weapon which lay
on the window sill when they entered
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