Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-06-19
WISCONSIN ITEMS

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20 years of age, while walking in sleep
on the night of the I4th inst, stepped
off an outside landing and fell to the
ground, sixteen feet, suffering concus-
sion of the brain, and fracturing and
dislocating the right shoulder. She lay
from to 8 o'clock in the morning, in
sensible, when she was picked up by
her father. Her recovery is doubtful.
WHILE asleep in saloon at Liberty,
Door County, Charles Boyer was stabbed
in the right groin by his brother Fred,
the wound being about six inches deep
and two inches long. Fred. was jailed
at Sturgeon Bay to await the result of
his villainy.
AFTER being out all night, the jury in
the case of Louis Burke, the High
bridge butcher, came into court at Ash
land with verdict that the defendant
was guilty of manslaughter III the third
degree. Burke is the man who chopped
Alex. Montgomery into quarters at
l1ighbridge, last February. Public
sentiment does not sustain the verdict
which it is thought should have been
murder in the first degre.
RICHARD CHUTE, of Eau Claire, has
been reappointed lumber inspector for
the Eau Claire district.
THE name of the man who hanged
himself at La Crosse was Boig.
Louis BURKE, on trial at Ashland for
murder, was found to be insane.
A NEwLY-lNCoRPoRATED association is
the Wisconsin Milk Condensing Com
pany, of Monroe; capital stock. 800, 900,
and the incorporators. A. Ludlow, Jacob
Karlen, Ferdinand Grunert, John Blu
mer, J. B. Treat, ID. A. Stearns, Louis
Weber, B. n. Rusch, Thomas Hansen,
Henry Hehn, John Luchsinger, Joshua
klassy, Simon Saucerman and Fred. j.
Hefty.
THE Eau Claire companies sent over
81 900 worth of lumber to Johnstown.
NATHAN FELDT, peddler from Mari
nette, was knocked down by gravel
train Al Stiles, receiving injuries from
which he died in two hours.
The annual meeting of the Chicago.
Burlington & Northern Railroad Com
following board of directors was elect
ed: Alex. Cochrane, j. Murray Forbes,
Francis L. Higginson, w. Powell Mason,
Edward c. Perkins, A. E. Tourlam,
Charles L. Young.
A MIpDLE-AGED man named Boig, was
found on the 18th hanging by the neck
in the rear of the saloon of Anton
Preschle IN La Crosse. He had used a
strap, the buckle serving as knot. The
suicide had been working two or three
months past for lime burner, few
miles from the city, and had been paid
$40 a few days before. 1t is believed
that he was robbed of most of this
while drunk, and that was the cause of
the deed. A coroner's jury is investi-
eating the case.
THE steamer Thistle last week towed
large raft OF logs from La Crosse to st.
Louis. 1t consisted of sixteen strings,
the courses being sixteen and eighteen
leet long, and twenty-six to twenty
eight inches deep, making the measure
over all 2S0 feet wide and 600 feet long.
The shipment was valued at 800, OO0. 1t
was the largest raft ever taken through
to St. Louis unbroken.
Claire, Mack G. Townsend, of Viroqua,
convicted of passing counterfeit money,
was sentenced to two years in the peni-
Tertiary.
CAMPBELL's slough, at La Crosse, has
been brdged at an expense of nearly
$4,000. The crossing is about 400 feet
long and connects the city with French
Island.
LA CROSSE business men subscribed
$1,000 in one day for the relief of the
Johnstown food sufferers.
THE archives of the local United
States land office at Eau Claire have be-
come seriously burdened with patents
since the consolidation of the La Crosse
and St. Croix Falls Offices with that Of
fee. The accumulation of old patents
now amounts 10 over 20,0CO, which are
subject to destruction by fire or accident
al loss in other ways. Hence the land
Offices are advising all parties holding
receipts to forward them at once and
help clear up the accumulated mass.
The Dane County supervisors have
delayed the payment of the claims Of
ex-Sheriff Estes for fees in his cele-
brated chase after and final ca pture in
London OF Kuehni, the alleged Prim-
rose murderer. Great difficulty was
anS it was finally necessary to send to
Wisconsin for person to go TO London
to Identify him. The sheriff's expense
account was, of course, large, as be was
compelled to remain abroad several
weeks, and at the recent meeting
OF the County Board he presented his
bill for $1,345.36, and also the bill of
Peter Sangesand, who went over to
identify Kuehni. for $407 .S6. The Board
refused to allow the claims at present,
and put off consideration OF them until
the November session, hoping that the
state would settle the bill, while, in the
meantime, Messrs. Estes and Sangesand
are practically out what it cost them for
their trip, and the expenses incident to
extraditing their prisoner. Friends
have advised the ex-sherif to bring suit
to recover the amount of the bill, but it
is not likely that this course will be pur-
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