Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-13
WISCONSIN ITEMS

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ENGLISH capitalists have made an offer
to purchase the Wisconsin MalleaDle
Iron Works at Milwaukee.
A THOROUGH and very satisfactory test
OF Milwaukee's fre-boat Cataract was
made on the Sth.
BOARD of directors has been elected
by the Milwaukee Telegraph Company +,
and its capital stock placed at $3.50, 0O0.
CAPT. CLARK, of Sturgeon Bay, is talk
ing of equipping floating single mill
by placing machinery on a vessel and
moving about to various points on the
bay where timber Is found, similar to
the plan of portable sawmills On shore.
MENOMoNEE brickmakers turned out
II ,647 900 of brick this season. Orders
have been filed from Ashland, Duluth
and Superior and even as far west as
Spokane Falls. The principal sales,
however, have been in St. Paul and
Minneapolis.
A FISH merchant at Marinette, pur-
chased 1896 pounds of fish-mostly
trout-during the month of October.
OF this amount he placed in his patent
freezing room about AZ, 900 pounds and
the remainder he shipped to various
points east and west. Most of these
fish have come from the east shore of
Green Bay. He is now freezing 5000
pounds daily.
Col. ]. II. Wing, trustee of the Bay
field Hotel Loan Company, has pur-
chased for the company all Of Messrs.
Wiley & Sons interest in the Island
View Hotel. The hotel is still open,
and steps will be taken to keep it SO all
the year, winter as well as summer.
ISAAC L. USHER, father of Ellis B.
Usher, of the La Crosse Chronicle, died
suddenly in Boston, where he had been
on visit since January last. He was q
vigorous writer, and was once well
known throughout the state. The news
of his death surprised his friends, as
there had been no intimation of his ILL
ness. He was 63 years of age.
THE State Dairymen's Association will
meet in February.
LA CROSSE is organizing stock COM
panv to hold an annual fair in that city.
The capital stock is to be $4,000 and the
scheme is to secure fifty men to take
shares of 500 each.
IT is stated by representatives of the
city that the $3.50, 900 of bonds, which 8
court commissioner on complaint of
taxpayers temporarily enjoined the city
from issuing, were actually sold and de-
livered in Chicago on the 9Th by rep
resentative of the city. The temporary
injunction had been dissolved on the
ground of gross 1rregularity in securing
it, and the complaining parties were not
quick enough to get another before the
bonds were delivered and the sale had
been negotiated. 1t is said that Gardi-
ner, Me-, and Boston capitalists bought
them.
ELIAS G. THOMPSON, of Sioux Falls, s.
d., formerly of Fennimore, Iowa Coun-
ty, brought suit against George II. Hor-
ton, resident of Fennimore, in the
circuit court of the United States, West
ern District of Wisconsin, for damages
in the sum of $4,000. The complaint
charges Horton with writing letters
with intent to injure the standing Of
plaintiff in the eyes of his family and
neighbors.
The Eau Claire w. c. T. U. adopted
resolutions condemning Vice-President
Morton for permitting bar in. his
Washington apartment house. The Ia
dies on learning that the bar story is a
cake" will probably retract.
MARTIN J. HIGGINS, superintendent
of the Milwaukee & Whitefsh Bay
Railroad, died on a southern bound
found dead in his berth on the train on
the morning Of the 18th at Dwight Sta
ton, Ill.
MILWAUKEE is progressing rapidly in
tie work of burying the telephone
wires, and it is now announced that the
job will be completed in another month.
A PIoUs appearing colored man has
been working the benevolent people of
the Cream City for some time past, COL
lecting donations for the alleged benefit
of a college at Oberlin. o. It now tran
spires that the sanctimOnious individual
is first-class fraud.
II. WINsBERG, dealer in dry goods, La
Crosse, has assigned to h. J. Strause,
who gives bond OF 81 900, which rep
resents the assets. The liabilities will
probably be about the same. Senich
Bros, the bankrupt crockery firm, has
also assigned to A. Steinlein, who gives
bond for $4,000. This is exclusive of
the attachments. Their affairs are in
bad shape.
SCHOOL officials in Milwaukee state
that they are dealing vigorously with
the evil of cigarette smoking among pu-
pills. Supt. Anderson says that scholars
detected in the use of tobacco are
promptly suspended from school, after
the fact has been reported to the par
ents.
THE Baptist Tabernacle of Mime
apolis has extended a call to the
Rev. S. E. Price, of La Crosse, to
occupy its pulpit. Mr.. Price is
about so years of age, a graduate of
Morgan Park Theological Seminary, the
well known Baptist institution near
Chicago, and is an earnest and effective
preacher. The Minneapolis church is
in good condition, having a Sunday
school which numbers about 45O-one OF
the largest in the city.
F. w. BARKER, principal of the Flor
ence High School, is under arrest for an
assault and battery upon a 1O-year-old
pupil named Clayton Noyes.
THE annual meeting of the Canada.
La Crosse & Southwestern Railway
Company was held at La Crosse. The
following board of directors was elect
ed: S. s. Burton, Charles Michel, J. S.
Medary, Alex. Mcmillan, John Ulrich,
6. R. Montague, James McCord, A.
Hirshhelmer, George F. Gund, of La
Crosse; +. A. Rogiene and B. w. Stew
ems, of Charles City, Ia; w. IT. Upham,
of Marsh6eld; c. F. Ainsworth, of
Black River Falls.
(,oI GEopcr w rpm hoe disoovonod