Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-03-20
WISCONSIN ITEMS

| Eau Claire. 1t appears that Mennig
has a wife and child in Munich,
Germany, whence he fed to Amer
lea. He recently went through the
marriage ceremony with a young girl
living at Fall Creek, sister of promi-
nent citizen of Eau Claire, who has just
discovered the previous marriage. Her
suspicious were aroused by things he
said in his sleep. Her brothe~ has
secured documentary evidence from the
old country which shows clear case
| against Mennig.
STURGEON BAY is alarmed over several
white Cap" warnings. Among those
VINO received letters embellished with
skull and cross-bones are DR.. A. TT.
Chandler and G. L. Nelson. the latter
| president of the banking house of Nell
son & Spear.
THB property of the Wolf River Man
ufacturing Company, which assigned
last December, was sold under an at
tachment for $15,475, subject to con-
| firmation of the sale by the circuit
! judge. If the sale is confirmed it will
leave but little for the creditors, who
are not secured.
On the morning of the 18th the body
| Of Mrs. Albertine Thoma was discovered
| hanging in the cellar of her home on
| Thirty fifth, near State Street, Milwau-
| kee. She had been dead for some
| hours. She lived with her son, her
| husband having died last October.
Since the death of her husband she had
been very much depressed, which, with
her poor health, is supposed to have
affected her brain. She was 48 years of
age.
WILLIAM DORIS, young tough of
| Madison, struck a girl because she re-
| fused to permit him TO accompany her
| home from party. Doris serves one
month in jail.
| The gaslight and Brush electric light
| plants at La Crosse, valued at nearly
| quarter of a million dollars, have been
sold to local and Eastern capitalists. 1t
| 10 said that stockholders in the Edison
| Electric Light Company are now inter-
ested in the property.
OSCAR OsTRANDER, of Sun Prairie, is
dead from the effects of disease con-
tracted in the army during the late war.
TIE senior class at the State Univer-
sity will place an oil portrait of the late
Prof. r. d. Irving in the art gallery of
| the University library.
THE Eau Claire Wooden Mill Company
| has been organized, with $4,000 capital
| stock, 81, 800 of which is paid up. The
| incorporators are A. d. Chappell, G.. Fl.
| Dunn and Arthur Smith. The plant will
| be be located on Otter Creek and the
| production of goods by the new corpor-
| alton will be begun as soon as necessary
repairs to the mill can be made.
SIX prisoners in the Ashland County
| jail made their escape from that institu-
ton on the evening of the 18th by as
saulting the jailor, and taking away his
keys.
ABOUT 81 500 was netted by the Cath
Ollie fair at Madison.
C. G. WAsHBURN CAMP, Sons of Veter-
ans, has been organized at La Crosse.
| A MOTOR railway line is to be built be-
tween La Crosse and Onalaska. A
charter has been secured, and it is ex-
pected that work will be commenced at
once.
HENRY MEssERsMITH has sued the Chi
cago, Madison & Northern Railroad
Company, alleging ST 900 damages to his
farm In the town of Madison by the
crossing of the property by the right of
way of the company.
JAMES F. ALLEN, of Washington, and
William A. Roberts, of Ashland the
special commission appointed to inyes-
tigate the alleged spoilation of timber
lands of the Lapointe reservation, have
completed their laEors. The report has
not been made public.
LOUIS P. MILLER, postmaster and mer-
chant at Barre Mills, La Crosse County,
/ has disappeared, leaving debts amount
Ing to about $1,000, SO far as known. His
wife conducted the business, and he
taught school at Bangor; was also lee
turer for Free Thinkers Society, and
had a regular salary. He seems to have
got into debt to everybody that would
t,ust him.
PROF. w. L. MORRISON has resigned
his position as principal of the Florence
| Free High Schools, and the resignation,
| which takes effect at the close of the
winter term, has been accepted. The
board has not yet appointed his sue
| cessor.
FIRE at Blue Mounds, Dane County,
destroyed Becker Brothers. building
and the hardware store of Allen o.
| Rustic. The Becker Brothers lost 81, 800
on building and $4,000 on stock; Rustic,
! 81, 200 on building and $4,000 on stock.
Insurance light.
SAMUEL D. VosE, an old and well
known citizen of Milwaukee, died at
his residence in that city on the 10th.
He was IS years old.
| A 5-YEAR-oLD son of Albert Schneider,
q Milwaukee grocer, was fatally shot
by companion named Hermann, on
the 18th. The two little boys were
playing together in a barn when
| they found revolver of Mr..
Schreiber's The Schneider boy
suggested that they play policeman.
Taking the pistol, the Hermann boy
pointed it at his companion and pulled
the trigger. 1t was loaded, and the ball
entered young Schreiber's side. Three
physicians were summoned, but they all
! pronounced it hopeless case.
The trial Of two Chinese laundrymen
on charge of criminal assault on a
number of little girls has caused great
excitement in Milwaukee, and the indi-
cations are that the Chinese must CO."
Small mobs paraded the streets on the
18th, smashing the windows of all the
| Chinese laundries in the city and chas-
! ing the occupants out. During the night
Chinaman was hanged in efigy.
| JUDGE LYNCH HOLDS COURT.