Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-12-18
WISCONSIN ITEMS

which the company buys pine lands
containing about 100, 100000 feet in Ash
land and Oneida Counties from Messrs.
Lentz q Embecke, of WilliamspoTt, Pa,
Gently made of Price County lands by
this company aggregate $500,000.
Mrs. VAN Corr has been very success
full IN her revival work at La Crosse.
The new directory published at Mari
nette credits that city with population
of II, 400. Menominee with HOO, and
Peshtigo with 2,16O.
L. K. ADAMS, manager of the Milwau-
kee and Wyoming Investment Com
pany, has absconded.
THE ashes of the incinerated remains
of DR.. John K. Bartlett were inferred &C
Forest Home
&. j. BECKER has resigned the posi-.
ton of manager of the Milwaukee Ex-
position. He will go to Kansas Citp.
IN the United States court, at Madi
son. Jack" Livingston, of Sawyer
County, was found guilty of selling
liquor to Indians.
A PosT-oFFICE has been established at
Tramway, Dunn County, and Harry
". Dlckermann is appointed post
master.
A MAIL route will be established be-
week.
ALTHOUGH the attorneys for the United
States Express Company have refused
to accept the bonds in the amount of
$50 600 offered for the appearance of
Perrin in the tort case against him,
Sheriff Mattson, of Ashland, has re-
leased the prisoner and SAYS that he is
willing to assume all responsibility for
the act.
The trial of Anton Berg, Joseph Ros-
ellen, Martin Kopedlowski and Her
man Burgwart, charged with having as
saulted and killed Jacob Feierstein dur
ing saloon row, in Milwaukee
came to close last night. The defend
ants were represented by Clarence
Brown, a. c. Brace and r. n. Austin.
The jury deliberated for about two
hours and then returned verdict, ac-
quitting Berg, Rosellen and Burgwart,
and finding kopedlowski guilty of man.
slaughter in the third degree.
GEN. DAVID ATWOOD, editor and pro-
prietor of the Wisconsin State Journal
died at his home in Madison on the
18th. His death was very sudden.
About two weeks before. Gen. Atwood
was taken with congestive chill and
since that time has been more or less
lndisposed. but nothing serious wss APP
pretended by his friends or family. A
year ago he suffered similar illness,
but he recovered and it was thought he
would pull through the present attack
the same way.
THREE men were badly scalded at the
North Western depot, in Milwaukee,
py the explosion of a steam pipe.
An electric light pole at Eau Claire.
the guy wire of which had been crossed
by an incandescent light wire, prostrat-
ed horse and two men, the latter hav-
ing hurried to rescue the horse, which
had been hltched to the post by means
of an. iron chain.
TIE election at Ashland on the 10th
settled the bond question, there being
majority of $40 for bonding the city
to the extent of 100000 for the adj
vancement of commerce and manufac-
ture in the city. There were only
seven votes against the proposition. A
light vote was cast In each ward.
A FIRE at Prairie du Chen destroyed
large barn containing hay and grain,
and valuable horse and $50 chickens
belonging to William Smell, Just south
of the city. The fire is supposed to be
the work of tramps.
Articles have been prepared FOR the
Incorporation of the w. w. Cargill Ele-
vator Company, including the Southern
mills at Hokah and Houston. The
capital will be $35O,OO0 and
the stockholders principally the
Cargills. The line of elevators having
headquarters at Minneapolis will also
be put into st OK com pany, with the
same capital and under the same gen.
eral conditions. The only purpose in
this change is better facility for do
ing business and the better shape in
which the business would be IN case oil
the death of any member.
The report published that the Indian
office had directed the sale of Bad
River Reservation pine proves incor.
rect. Agent Leahy has received or.
ders from Washington not to allow the
sale of any timber. but to send an esti-
mate of the needed supplies for desti-
tute Indians
SEVERAL years ago one of the spans OF
the st. Paul Railway Company's bridge,
at La Crosse, gave way owing to a flaw
IN one OF the Orders. A wooden span
was put III for temporary use and had
done service until recently, when the
companv's bridge-erecting crew placed
IN position a substantial iron and steel
span, which WIS thoroughly tested and
,ound OF sufficient strength. The work
was accom- plished without delaying
traffic.
THE new North Western depot at Mil
waukee has been thrown open to the
public.
The Union National Bank, of La
Crosse, has closed out its business. II
paid enough into the Batavian Bank to
cover its certificates of deposit and is
dividing among its stockholders its cap
ital stock of 800, 900 and surplus of S35,
700. Mr.. Perry, the active mana ,er.
preferred to give his personal attention
to interests else where.
AGENT LEAHY. of Ashland. received
the sum of 81 200 from the department
10 be used IN the purchase OF supplies
or the destitute Indians OF the GraD
Portage reservation in Minnesota
DENNIS DoNAHUE, Madison charac-
ter 1amillarly known az Denny the Dog
Catcher" by virtue of an accomplish
ment he possessed Of inducing pet
CANNES to follow him home much in
the same fashion as the "Pied Piper OF
Hanelin" exercised his magic influence