Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-02-13
WISCONSIN ITEMS

| Deen Killed In the logging camps in the
| vicinity of Ashland, three have had their
legs broken and others have been other
wise seriously injured. On the 9th inst,
| dispatch from Glidden states, man
named Young was struck by falling
plank and killed. Another lumberman
| In Prentice's camp had his leg broken
the same dav.
ASSIGNEE FLANDERS, Of the big lumber
firm OF Reed & Maxwell. whose failure
| caused such crash in 1887, has fled an
application in the Ashland circuit court
for an extension of time to settle with
bis creditors, which the court granted.
The liabilities of the firm altogether
were about 100000.
DAILY stage line is in operation be-
tween Sturgeon Bay and Menominee,
tne Ice on Green Bay being strong
enough to warrant the undertaking.
j.. T. g. CoTTRILL, for many years. one
OF the leading lawyers of the Wisconsin
bar, died at his home in Milwaukee on
the 9TH inst, aged 81 years. Owing to
1ll-health he retired from active prac-
tice several years ago.
The people of Eau Claire are worried
over new feature of the social evil.
The women of the dens just broken up
by the authorities are settling through
out the city as ''roomers."
The log cut in the Chippewa District
is estimated at 600,GOO,000 feet for the
season.
ANDY HAMILTON, the convicted Eau
Claire den keeper, has commenced
serving his term at Waupun.
THERE are several candidates in the
field for the Eau Claire County judgeship.
Among the names mentioned are those
OF A. &. Larson, the incumbent; Judge
George G. Teall, M. B. Hubbard and L.
A. Doolittle.
KUHNI, charged with having murder
ed William Christensen, at Primrose,
Dane County, and who was arrested on
the steamer Lord Cough at Queenstown
some weeks ago, has been handed over
to the United States government. In
custody OF Sheriff Estee, of Madison,
he sailed from Queenstown for New
York on the Britannia on the 9TH.
The Wisconsin Morgan Horse Breed
ers' Society was organized at Madison
on the 7th with the following officers:
President, L. A. Squire, Poynette; Sec
rotary and treasurer, A. McWilliams,
Oregon; vice presidents, II. Campbell,
1. =. Chandler; executive committee,
D. Campbell, Madison; K. T. Graves,
Ripon; DIR. Favllle, Madison.
THE following officers have been elect
ed by the State Bee keepers Associa-
ton: President, G. A. Hatch, Ithaca:
presidents, FL. A. Winter, Madison;
G. w. Jones, West Bend; secretary, J.
w. Vance, Madison; treasurer, AZ. J.
Plumb, Milton.
WHILE attempting to board st. Paul
train, midway between Milwaukee and
Rugby Station, on the 9Th inst, Daniel
OKeefe, baggageman on the Wiscon-
sin Central line, fell under the wheels
and one of his legs was cut off. He
suffered other severe injuries, but will
probably recover.
JAMES CUMMINGS, who was an import
ant witness for the state in the Albert
Kennett case, was taken to La Crosse on
the 9th, from lumber camp to answer
to a charge of bigamy.
SUPERINTENDENJs of the various de-
partments Ct toe state fair have been
chosen as follows: Horses, John M.
True, Baraboo; speed, James G. BOYD.
Milwaukee; cattle, A. A. Arnold, Gales
vile; sheep, c. M. Clark, Whitewater;
swine, E. Beaumont, Waukesha; poul-
try, William Wilson, Wausau; agricul-
ture, Seth Fisher, Center; fruits and
flowers, s. B. Hoxie, Evansville; ma
chinery, A. w. Vaughan, Lodi; manu-
features, II. D. Hit, Oak6eld; fine arts,
II. G. Adams, Madison; marshal, G. G..
Cox, Mineral Point; gates, N. D. Frat,
Racine; forage, Seth Fisher, Center.
THE Wisconsin Lead and Zinc Com
pany, to control the mine output of
Southwestern Wisconsin, has a capital
OF $2,OOO,OOO. The company is operating
twenty mines.
THE Sturgeon Bay Advocate states
that b. Decker, of Casco, and James
Keogh. of Sturgeon Bay, have formed
banking business at Sturgeon Bay.
Work upon the back cut of the East
ern Minnesota Railway Campany's coal
dock, now in process of construction in
this city on st. Louis Bay, has been sus-
pended for short time on account of
frost.
AT Prairie du Chen, on the 9Th, AL
bert KozdohCIier, Bohemian about %
years of age. having failed in his suit
for the hand of widow, shot himself
four times and died in two hours.
The common council of Mineral
Point has ordered the saloonkeepers to
keep their window curtains up on SIM
days. This regulation was established
on petition of the w. c. T. u.
AN Ashland saloon-keeper was fined
$25 and sentenced to one day in the
county Jail on the 9TH, for keeping open
after II o'clock. This is the first con-
viction under an ordinance recently
passed.
THE earnings of the st. Paul road for
the last week n January were $545, 900
against $491 600 for the same week last
year. The total earnings for the month
OF January this year were over 81 ,691,-
600, or an increase over January, 1888,
of over $4,000.
A NEsHKoRA young man, who took
young lady sleigh-riding and made her
walk home from the country because
she displeased him, was fined $40 and
sentenced to spend twenty days in jail.
FREDERICK WEYERHEUsER, who has
been negotiating for the purchase of the
sawmill plant and large pine-land tracts
Of the Valley Lumber Company, of Eau
Claire, is sid to have secured an option
thereon, the consideration named be-
ing $S5O,000. =
JACK MCHUGH, notorious Northern