Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-06-12
WISCONSIN ITEMS

| In a row in the saloon on the grounds
OF the Milwaukee Soldiers Home on
the 9TH, John P. McCreary stabbed
and probably fatally wounded another
inmate named A. D. Smith.
News has been received at Milwaukee
that the first visitor to ascend to the top
of the great Eiffel tower at the Paris
Exposition was Herman Kerler, of the
Cream City.
NELLIE GANsTEAD died at La Crosse,
on an inbound train while en- ro Re to
her home at Harvard, MINI. Sic was
In the last stages of consumption when
| she was brought to the train at Fargo.
| The La Crosse Valley Baptist Associa-
ton, which has just closed it's session at
Warren's Mills, resolved to hold its
next meeting at Trempealeau. About
eighty delegates and visitors were in at
tendance.
| MANAGER WHITE, of the Plankinton
House, Milwaukee, has retired from the
hotel business. His place has been
filled by the appointment of A. L.
Chase, formerly steward of the hotel.
GEORGE HANSEN, boy employed in
Yewdale's printing establishment, on
West Water Street, Milwaukee. was
Killed In the fly wheel of the engine on
the 9Th. His body was terribly man
| gled.
AT Prairie du Chen, on the EVENING" of
the 9th, Damos Lehmieux, an old resi-
dent there, was instantly killed, and
Geo. Wachter seriously injured by a
| runaway. Lehmieux was thrown
againsta shade tree.
A PROMISING season of standard opera
has been inaugurated at the summer
theater at Schlitz Park, Milwaukee. The
season will continue through the week
| OF the q. A. r. Encampment.
The La Crosse County Veterans AS
soclation will hold its annual meeting at
Onalaska, July 20.
THE Summer School for Teachers will
open at the State University, July 9,
and continue to August 2. The follow
ing is the corps OF instructors and course
of study: J. w. Stearns, professor of
philosophy. and pedagogy, State Uni
versity and president of the school
Psychology and Pedagogy" C. r
Barnes, professor of botany, State Uni
versity-"Botany; E. A. Birge, pro-
lessor OF zoology, State University
Physiology and Zoology" w. w. Dan
! iels. professor of chemistry, State Uni
versity-"Chemistry;" Vim. M. Davis,
assistant professor of physical geog-
raphy, Harvard University-"Geog-
raphy;" J. C. Freeman, professor of En-
glish literature, State University-"En
ciate professor of physics, Johns Hop
kins' Observation-Disclosures"
AT Ashland on the 9Th, fire DESTROYED
the residence of Thomas Edwards, on
the cemetery road, at the west end of
the city. Loss on building and contents,
81 200; no insurance.
AN effort is being made to locate the
Luther College, recently destroyed by
| fire at DEBORAH, Iowa, at Lacrosse.
The simultaneous disappearance from
Ashland of Mrs. W. Frothman and
Adolph Sodlowski has given rise to the
suspicion that they have eloped.
The war of sites in Milwaukee is to be
| renewed. The secretary of the treas
ury has sent Solicitor Hepburn to look
over the ground and report as to
whether the department has erred in
the selection of block %, on the East
Side.
THE Oak Creek Natural Gas, Oil and
Coal Company has been organized, ar
ticles of incorporation having been filed
| with the secretary Of state. The capital
stock is 81 200, divided into twenty -four
shares of $50 each.
| BURGLARS entered the general mer-
l
Altoona, and made away with cash and
goods to the amount of $500. No ar
| rests.
The two young men, Devine and
Maher, who were arrested at the in
stance Of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
| Paul Company some days ago, for TAX
| ing locomotive out of the roundhouse
at West Madison and running it to East
Madison and back, paid dearly for their
| fun in Judge Keyes' court on the Sd.
Both were sentenced to one year in
state prison. For some time past the
ST. Paul Company has beer troubled
| by young miscreants who have
made Tree with its property. and the Sc
Maher will doubtless have the effect of
putting stop to the annoyances.
GEORGE SCHNEIDER, VINO was arrested
at Eau Claire some time ago for passing
bogus checks, pleaded guilty, and was
sent to the penitentiary for two years.
| THE loggers on the Lac du Flambeau
| Indian reservation have made full set
Element for the pine cut last winter.
The amount paid aggregated between
$50, 900 and $40, COO, some individuals re-
ceiving as high az 81, $50 for the cut
from single eighty. The payment
was made on the reservation, and all in
the gold and silver coin of the United
States.
The difficulties on the Chippewa Val
| ley Division of the Chicago. Milwaukee
& st. Paul, caused by the fact that the
pontoon bridge over the Mississippi, at
the mouth of the Chippewa, could not
| be closed while logs were running out
under Weyerhauser's new system, have
| been temporarily avoided OF late by
| compromise measure. It has been
| found that, by use of locomotive on
the Wisconsin side, the bridge can be
closed even while the logs are running
quite freely =
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