Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-05-29


The trial of Sam ZIP Jah, one of the
Chinese laundrymen accused of assault
ing little girls, closed at Milwaukee on
the oath, in a verdict of guilty as
charged. The other man will be tried
at the June term of court.
PIERRE BERGERsoN, the deaf mute who
was terribly mutilated near Chippewa
Falls, is believed to have hacked him.
elf. He will recover.
The Woman's Exchange, of Madison,
has been incorporated without capital
stock.
JOHN j. JENKINS, attorney for the
Chippewa Logging Company, has gone
to Port Arthur, Ont, with witnesses
and papers to extradite Leroy White
head, who was arrested for forging the
company's time-checks. Thirteen of
the of the checks have been presented
so far, and payment refused. The
amount is $500, but will be much larger.
Gov. HOARD decides that a special ses-
sion of the Legislature is not necessary;
nor is the state in need of a special tax.
MILWAUKEE is to have another bank.
JAMES Cassidy, a brakeman, was run
over AMI killed by a North Western
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A. 0. NICHOLS, of Chippewa Falls, who
was convicted of a criminal assault upon
Fannie Claire, his sister-in-law, received
a sentence of ten years in the peniten-
tiary.
JOSEPH MCINTYRE, the faith-cure doc
tor, arrested at Madison for criminally
assaulting a young girl, was convicted of
personal assault. Sentence was de-
ferred.
The expert engineers who were re-
tanned nearly two years ago to look up
and recommend a sewerage plan for the
city Of Milwaukee, have at last made
their report. A system of intercepting
sewers and the extension of the wateI-
works intake half a mile into the lake,
is recommended. The cost of the i'm
provements is estimated at over So, 0OO,-
O00,O 900.
HENRY Kaufman died at the Milwau-
kee County Hospital, on the 21st, from
wounds inflicted by himself with suicid-
al intent five weeks ago.
THE barns on the Wheaton farm, near
Eau Claire, owned by John S. Owen,
the lumberman, burned on the 21st
inst, with all their contents, includ-
ing grain, hay and implements. The
los is SIS 900; insurance about 10000.
Origin unknown.
THE Parr Manufacturing Company, of
Barron, has been Incorporated with a
capital of $4,000. The object of the
organization is to manufacture lumber
and carry on a general numbering bust
ness.
Miss LOUISA CUMMINGS, who has for a
number of years been employed as
teacher in the West Side High School
at Eau Claire, is about to set out
for Japan, where she will engage in
missionary labor. She will go to San
Francisco, where she will join a party
with which she will embark for the
field of her future labors. Her field will
be in the northern part of the empire,
and she will be accompanied by another
young lady, these two being 200 miles
from any other white women.
JOSEPH SCHINDHEIM and Peter Gcelz
were drowned in Milwaukee River, just
outside the city limits, on the goth, by
the capsizing of their boat.
EARLY in the forenoon of tbs Goth
Edward Sanderson's business friends
in Milwaukee learned for the first time
that he was confined to his house at the
corner of Astor and Biddle Street by
illness; at 5 minutes after 6 o'clock the
same evening, Mr.. Sanderson had
III LILO ioCt3 Oh0O Ny low
members of his family and several in
innate friends.
The North-W Western Railway Company
has settled with the heirs of Horace A.
Tuttla, of Cleveland, who, with Lieut.
Gov. Mcdonald, of Michigan, was killed
by an accident near Watersmeet. The
sum paid was $4,000.
THE authorities of Eau Claire County
have decided that it is necessary to re-
place the corrugated iron ceiling of he
| county Jail corridor with d lattice y rk
of iron bars, in order to prevent the
| escape OF prisoners. It will cost $3.50
to make the change.
WORK on the artesian well at La
| Crosse has been stopped. A depth of
524 feet has been reached, and a flow of
1877 barrels Of water per minute has
been secured.
ABOUT 3,OOO,O 900 pike fry have been
deposited in Spread Eagle Lake and
Fisher Lake, at Florence. The fish
were from the state hatchery at Madi-
son.
JAMES CURRAN, a logging camp cook at
Florence, invested 80 in a lottery and
drew q house and lot valued at 81 ,0OO.
AN unknown man was struck by a
train near La Crosse, and killed. The
body was taken to Onalaska.