Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-05-15
WISCONSIN ITEMS

basement, and on rainy DAYS military
drill is held in the splendid auditorium,
where commencement exercises occur.
THE Novelty Furniture Company, of
Chippewa Falls. has been incorporated
with a capital stock of $4,000.
EUGENE HALvoRsEN, an old settler of
Dallas. Barron County, died on May
2, at the home of his son. Deceased
was 68 years old.
ADELAR FAsCETTE, a w~ell-known char
acter, while employed on the west fork
OF the Chippewa, was seized with an
apopletic fit and fell into the river. He
drowned before assistance could reach
him. The body was recovered.
KITTY MILLER attempted suicide at
Eau Claire because she had been aban-
doned by the man who had been living
with her.
MAJ. A. B. Rogers, who constructed
the Iowa & Minnesota division oil the
Chicago, Milwaukee 4 St. Paul Rail
way, died at Orleans. Mass, on the 4th
inst. The pass across the Selkirk
range of the Rocky Mountains, which
he discovered, is called "Rogers'
Pass" in his honor. In 1867
he again engaged in explorations in
Montana and Wyoming Territory, and
it may be that he will be the only per-
son who discovered two passes across
the Rocky Mountains, which will be oc-
cupied by transcontinental railways,
making him really the railway path
finder. The Canadian Pacific Road
awarded him a bonus of S. 900 as a
token of appreciation of his valuable
services to the company in finding the
routes through the mountains.
NEARLY all the Indians in the Ash
land region have been paid for their pine
in cash. The present law forbids job
bers paying for logs in anything but
cash. No store orders or trading is per-
mitted. Indian Farmer Walker wss
seen and said: 1.-The Indians already
have as fine a lot OF good, heavy work
horses as you will see anywhere. Some,
of course, are spending their money,
but others are putting it into the banks,
and they have a neat little sum saved.
The logs are all in, and they will 5000
begin their spring blowing"
The small steamer Percy Swain struck
a rock at Trempealeau and sank. All
her passengers were saved.
THE La Crosse board of Trade has
the president to the Wisconsin State
Press Association to hold it's next an
nual meeting in that city.
THOSE interested in the lumber trade
in the valley of the Chippewa anticipate
a busy and prosperous season.
PROCEEDINGS have been instituted in
the courts at La Crosse tOr final settle
ment of the estate of the late G. c. Wash
burn.
SECRETARY A. o. WRIGHT, of the State
Board of Charities and Reform, will give
the address at Mineral Point, Memorial
Day.
THE Ashland Press a the present
season is one month in advance of the
usual time. Last veal at this time the
bay there was coated over with ice, no
vessels having put in appearance, and
no shipments of iron ore or lumber.
Already one cargo of coal mas arrived,
~sixty-fve or more vessels have depart
ed loaded with iron ore, and five have
taken lumber cargoes.
The remains of Pachette Trudeil, who
was last seen in the town of Ludington,
Eau Claire County, on the 10Th of May,
1888, were found in the woods by a boy
named Peter Dufraine, while hunting
cows. The body was found on a low,
marshy piece of ground. An inquest
was held, the finding of the jury being
that the deceased came to his death by
exposure.
WILLIAM SCHMIDT, a laborer, commit
ted suicide at Milwaukee on the 9TH by
cutting his wrist with a razor.
PREPARATIONS are on foot for putting
the Milwaukee telephone wires under
ground, particularly in the business
portion of the city.
THE report of a log raft breaking up
at Alma, and 5O0,000 feet of logs being
lost, is said to be a fabrication. Moth
ing of the kind has happened.
JoHE TUsH1E was caught in a log jam
on Hay Creek, Eau Claire County, and
terribly crushed. He was placed In
the hospital at Eau elaine.
WITHIN the past year the west bank
of the Mississippi River, opposite La
Crosse, has gradually receded, and al
most opposite the foot of Main Street
| that one year ago was 100 feet from the
shore. The bank has been worn away
until the house is now upon the edge
only a few feet from the river. There
have been great changes during the
| past few years, and it has been decided
to rip-rap from the locality mentioned
UP to the dam. Work will be COM
menced in the near future.
FRANK HOFFMAN, an inmate of the
Milwaukee Soldiers Home, was found
drowned in an artificial lake near the
Home grounds, on the 9th. His death
is thought to have been accidental.
WILLIAM KERR1GAN is under arrest at
| La Crosse for a criminal assault upon a
~12-year-old immigrant girl.
CHARLES MOVES and Henry Kennar
met with a peculiar and painful acct
| dent near Florence, while breaking up
a log jam. Three on the bank of the
river fell on the men. Both were badly
bruised and received several severe
cuts, but their escape from death was
miraculous.
In the circuit court at Madison the
| Judge has decided that a new trial may
be had in the case of John Sullivan
against the regents of the State Univer-
sity. Sullivan was recently given a
Judgment against the defendants for
$50, by a jury, he alleging that he had
suffered personal damages by having
been knocked off a gang-plank, during
the building of Science Hall. by a beam.
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