Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-02-06
WISCONSIN ITEMS

OTTo WAGNER, an athlete of national
| reputation, died at his home in Mil
waukee on the I'd inst. The cause of
death was pneumonia.
| The Ashland Iron and Steel Com
pany's furnace on the I'd made 100 tons
of pig iron, beating the worlds record
OF a charcoal furnace for single day g
work by twenty-five tons.
| AT Eau Claire, on the I'd, Judge Mar
shall sentenced Andrew Hamilton and
Clara Hamilton, the convicted denkeep-
| ers, giving Hamilton fifteen months in
the penitentiary and the woman six
months in the county Jail. This is the
| first Wisconsin case in which man and
wife have been convicted together for
this ofense and sent up.
AMONG the Wisconsin lumbermen who
have made investments at Puget Sound
are Jerome Garland, Of Eau Claire, and
Frank Rotch, of Bloomer. Their pur-
chases amounted to $125,0O0. MIR. j. A.
Humbird and Mr.. Phipps, of Hudson,
and Mr.. John Palmer, of Ashland, KAYE
gone further north and bought tract
of timber land on Vancouver Island, in
the British possessions.
| INDIAN AGENT GREGORY is treating with
the Indians for the right-of-wav' for the
| Lake Shore road across the Flambeau
reservation.
THE State Board of Health reports q
case of leprosy in an interior village.
Steps are being taken to prevent the
| spread of the disease. The patient is q
Norwegian woman.
LATE on the night of the 31st the jury
| in the case of the state against Andrew
Hamilton and Clara Hamilton, his al
| legged wife, at Eau Claire, agreed on q
verdict after being out five hours and q
half, and found the defendants guilty.
IT is said of the late Judge Braley, of
Madison, that during his fifteen years
on the bench of the municipal court not
one of his decisions was reversed by the
supreme court.
! JOSEPH HARRIS, SR., OF Sturgeon Bay,
whose death occurred in Chicago few
the Sturgeon Bay Canal scheme. He
was at that time Senator Sawyer's pri-
vate secretary.
| A SUIT has been commenced by Fred
erick Prentice and A. &. Brown to re-
cover 160 acres of land located in the
heart of the city of Ashland. Many
| thousand dollars are involved. Mr..
Prentice, one of the plaintiffs, is New
York millionaire.
| ANOTHER fatal accident from burning
occurred in Milwaukee on the evening
OF the 29th, this being the sixth victim
in that city within ten DAYS. A 5-year-
old daughter of Emil Zweiger, living at
PAP Mineral Street, was playing about
the house with another child, when in
some way her clothes took fire, and be-
fore aid reached her she was fatally
burned.
| TWENTY tramps, after q begging and
thieving tour of the city, assembled in
the suburbs of Eau Claire and took pos
session of a Wisconsin Central section
booty, consisting of several bags of
provisions and other plumber. A plat
toon OF police raided them, they re-
sisted, and a lively battle followed.
Shots were fired, and, finally, the whole
gang was captured and jailed, except
one, who escaped.
| AT Eau Claire on the Goth. through an
interpreter, sentence to state prison for
three years was pronounced by Judge
Bundy on Torger Maerk, who, with his
brother, Martin, killed Christian
! Nelson at Fairchild, last October, in a
drunken row, and was found guilty of
manslaughter in the third degree. A
motion was made to set aside the
verdict in Martins case of man
slaughter in the fourth degree. Gus
Schmied was sent to the penitentiary
for one year for larceny.
A SUIT has been commenced in the
Grant County circuit court in the name
Chicago, Burlington & Northern
road to recover $4,000 damages
| for the death of Mrs. August
Baade and her two children. They
were run down on the 2Sth of August
last by wild passenger train and in
stantly killed while on their way to
church, short distance above East Du-
buque, on hand. car.
THE discovery was made on the 18th
that sight draft for 1857, cashed by the
First National Bank of Madison, and
| paid to q man named Benson, is for
gerry Benson attended the telegraph
school, and needing money, pro-
duced a sight draft, purporting
to have been made by the
cashier of bank at Jackson, ILL.,, pay
! able 20 Benson's order. Knowing that
the bank would require him to be
identified, Benson induced w. G. Shep-
herd, superintendent of the Madison
Telegraph School, to indorse the draft.
On returning from the bank Benson
|
indorsing the draft, and then skipped.
The Illinois cashier pronounces the
draft forgery. Shepherd will there
| fore have to settle with the Madison
| bank for the amount lost.
A NEW afternoon newspaper, to be
called the Evening Journal, to be indie
pendent in politics, to have the Asso-
c1ated Press service and to be started
within a few weeks, is an enterprise
contemplated at Eau Claire by Messrs.
Charles E. Spratt and Frederick Slosson,
of Detroit.
| MOSES PAoUETTE, interpreter for the
| Winnie bago Indians in Wisconsin, is in
Madison, collecting information around
the State Historical Society and getting
letters of introduction, SO as to go to
Washington and have his family re-
stored to their rights as members of the
Winnebago Indian tribe. He is son
Pierre Paquette, who was interpreter
for William Henry Dodge, the first ter
ritOrial governor of Wisconsin,.
Ex-PosTMAsTER HARRISON, of Barron,
is said to have skipped out leaving his
family and his bondsmen I'm the soup"