Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-04-17
WISCONSIN ITEMS


Gov. FarW ell.
MARINETrE Christian Scientists are
about to organize church society.
VIM. GILL, an Eau Claire mechanic,
has fallen heir to $50 1000 estate at
Grand Rapids, Mich.
RoUGHs attacked the Beverly resort
near Marinette, drove the keeper and
inmates into the woods and fired the
house.
FIRE destroyed about $4,000 worth
OF property in the central part of
Chippewa Falls on the 18th. DIR. F. A.
Richards loss is $4,000, insurance not
known; George Neir, loss 81 900. insur-
ance 5000; Ole Shervey, loss 30 900. iu-
surance $1,000; Jas. Sullivan, loss So 900,
insurance 81 900; Chippewa County Sem
t1nel, slight damage on stock. A large
number of smaller buildings were burn
ed, the loss footing up about $40, 900. It
originated from rubbish fire.
GEORGE REINHoLD, tailor, 30 years of
age, committed suicide on the 10th in a
dramatic manner. He sought the resi-
dence of his brother-in-law, at 628
Third Street, Milwaukee, where his
wife was living, apart from him, and
swallowed an ounce of chloroform, fall
ing PROSTATE on the porch in front of
OF the family found his stifened body
lying there, and in his hand folded
note.
ERDREICH Koch, an insane man, Jump
ed into the Kinnickinnic river near the
Clinton Street bridge, at Milwaukee, on
the 10th, and was drowned before he
could be gotten out. Koch was % years
OF age, and all upholsterer by trade, al
though he had not been at work for
some time.
HE body of an Indian was found in a
small grove near Ashland. 1t is sup
posed that he became intoxicated, wan
dered of, and died from exposure.
The Bayfield, Press states that an at
tempt is being made to give the Apostle
Islands town organization. At pres
ent the settlers on these islands have to
travel from thirty to sixty miles to vote.
THE Scandinavian young ladies of Eau
Claire are raising money to send bell
TO Madagascar.
LUMBERMEN at La Crosse attribute the
close of the Beef Slough works to the
low stage of water, and predict that
they will be reopened as soon as high
er stage obtains. In the meantime the
works at West Newton, twelve miles be-
low the mouth of the Chippewa, may be
uSou 10 advantage.
The officers Of the Monona Lake AS
sembly have received word from Wash
ington GLADDEN., the well-known lee
turer from Column bus, O., accep ting the
terms offered him for a series of lee
Mr.. Gladden's list Of subjects are the
following: 1.-THE Factory" "The Cor
poration," THE Railway" 1.-THE
Trust" 1.-THE Social Palaces"
SENATOR WAsHBURN, of Minnesota, be-
comes heavy owner of Ashland realty,
having purchased the property in dis
pute between the Whittlesey and Tuck
er estates, valued at hundreds of tls~l-
sands.
THE boys, Parish and Ebbets, arrest
ed at Eau Claire for setting fire to sew
eral buildings, were sentenced to the
Industrial School for Boys at Waukesha.
On the evening of the 10th inst the
planning mill of Sanger, Rockwell & Co.,
Milwaukee, was damaged to the extent
of 5000 by fire. During its progress
q number of fremen were overcome by
smoke, but no fatalities are reported.
THE Milwaukee school board has ap-
propriated 81 300 for the maintenance
of a cooking auxiliary to the public
schools.
THE long looked for report of the ex-
pert engineers engaged by Milwau-
| kee to recommend a system of city
sewerage, is announced to be in sight,
and will be made public in a week or
| two.
MILWAUKEE is to have new German
| theater next year. The old Stadt Thea
| ter is to be torn down and larger
house erected on the site.
A, FOREMAN, superintendent of the
Brush Electric Company at Eau Claire,
Tell from door in the electric light
| building to the ground, distance of
| fifty feet. His skull was fractured, and
| he was otherwise badly hurt. A plank
dislodged by Mr.. Foreman as he fell
struck workman named James John
son, inhlcting quite bad hurts.
The case of the administrator of the
estate of DR.. Charles Bruil, late of
Avoca, against the Northwestern Mutual
Relief Association, has been continued
! to the October term of the Iowa County
circuit court.
NINA NUDGE, the keeper of disrep-
| utable house near Florence, has been
| arrested and placed under ST. 900 bonds
| for an assault on an inmate Of her
house. The girl, May Johnson, was Sc
riously hurt.
MAJ. I. H. Wing has offered as gift
fve-acre tract of land at BAYFIELD, for
| public park, provided the city will
fence it and keep the land in good or
der as park.
BoNY LOMBARD, charged with murder,
was tried at Bayfield, and acquitted.
The evidence showed that the shooting
was accidental.
THE home of the Sisters of Charity,
| at Pine Bluff, Dane County, was de-
| stroyed by fire. The school building
| was saved with great difficulty.
EIGHT men crossed Chequamegon
Bay from Bayfield, to La Pointe, and got
across safely just as the ice broke up.
They narrowly escaped drowning.
The Rev. A. Hoyme, of Eau Claire,
performed five marriage ceremonies in
| one evening.
The authors of the numerous incen-
diary fires in Eau Claire were caught by
the police and prove to be two boys Is
years of age, Frank Parrish, of that city
and George Fbbett, whose home is
near Fall Creek. Their mutual accus-
| atoms in court brought out the whole