Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17
BADGER NOTES.

treasurer, t. LANCE; register OF deeds,
Louis Auer; county clerk, Charles 5.
Brand; district attorney, Clarence S..
Brown; coroner, Fred. LEIGH; surveyor,
Gustav Steinhagen; county school sup
erintendent, 2. A. Lynch.
THE annual state convention of the Y.
M. G. A. will open in La Crosse October
ID, and it will last four days. An attend
ance of 300 is expected.
THE Washburn News admits that re-
count in that town will show less than
the original.
MARINETTE will have five representa-
tives at Oberlin College this year.
A FARMER named Schay, living in the
town of York, was going through yard
where number of pigs were confined.
He playfully caught one of the little
porkers and picked it up. The pig
squealed Justify and nine old hogs set
upon Schay savagely. He fought them
OFT, but they stubbornly persisted in
swapping at him viciously. They sue
ceeded in getting him down, and bit
him severely on one leg and on the
arms. Help arrived and the pigs were
driven away from the PROSTATE man.
He is able to be about again, but does
not desire to repeat the experience.
EXTENSIVE improvements in the Mari
nette water works system will be made.
A new intake pipe running 1000 feet
into the bay will be laid. The works
will have pumping capacity of 5000
gallons per minute. The improvements
are calculated to cost the company $780,
000 and in return they ask the city to
take and pay for 30 hydrants on twenty
one miles of pipe S14, 900 year.
ACCORDING to the monthly report of
the State Board of Charities and Re-
46or
the various hospitals and asyIums of
the state August 81, an increase Of 1856
since July 81. The number of male in
sane is 300 more than the female and
the capacities for males are being greatly
taxed.
ORE has been struck at the Central
Penokee mine, in Ashland County.
GEORGE GUND, the La Crosse brewer,
will draw out of the business and go
westward.
PROF STORM BULL has purchased for
800 the residence of Geo. Raymer, at
Madison.
OWEN ASH, workingman of Eau
Claire, is looking for his pretty wife and
5000 in money with which, he says, she
has absconded. He left home at the usual
hour for work, and his wife followed
and asked him for a kiss, which he gave
the house deserted, the curtains down,
and the following note on the kitchen
table: 81 have gone off on the train
and YOU can go to H." Ash not long
ago attempted suicide on account of his
wife's conduct, and she had promised
to do better.
THE annual conference of the Norwe-
gian-Danish Methodist Church con-
vened at the Caledonia Street Methodist
Church, La Crosse, on the 18th. The
district represented comprises the states
of Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Nebraska,
Minnesota, North and South Dakota and
Wisconsin, each state representing a
presiding elders district. Bisop Fow
Ter, of San Francisco, presided.
JUDGE gibson, of Milwaukee, has set
aside the judgments obtained by the
st. Paul Trust Company against Joannas
and others. The company was acting
as receiver for the North Star Fire In
surance Company, and the judgments
against signers of premium notes were
obtained by default and when due
notice had not been given to the sign
erS.
E. NJ. HoUGHToN, an itinerant doctor,
committed suicide In the town OF Mus
kego.
JAMES A. VARTLEY, who deserted his
family in Milwaukee, was found in
VinceRnes Ind He is now wealthy,
and has made provision for the support
of his children.
THE eleventh census committee of
the House reported reapportionment
bill which gives Wisconsin ten con-
gressmen.
THE mangled body of Frederick
Monk, Barnum's tattooed man, was
found on a trestle near La Crosse, an
hour after the show left for st. Paul.
THE city of Madison is defendant IN
$4,000 suit brought by N. j. Cantwell,
VINO claims damages because Of injuries
received by being thrown from a car
rage, which, he says, was caused by
defective road.
LA CROSSE has turned out a couple of
boy burglars. They are Severt Hanson
and Emil Albrecht, II years of age, en-
ployed by Charles Miller. Recently
Miller's safe was burglarized of 5000.
They are the offenders.
AT the La Crosse fair milking con-
test afforded much amusement.
BURGLARS blew open Charles Miller's
safe at La Crosse and got $125.
ACCORDING to Labor Commissioner
Stark there were, during 1888 and 1899,
IS4 accidents in Wisconsin factories, of
which thirty-five were fatal.
NJ J. CANTwELL, ex-member of AS
sembly, has sued the city of Madison
for $40 900 damages, on account of in
jurles received by being thrown from a
buggy on a road which he alleges was
defective.
IT is stated on good authority that the
Illinois Steel Company will abandon all
it's works on the north branch of the
Chicago River, known as the ''North
Works. constituting the old plant of
the former North Chicago Rolling Mill
Company, except possibly the blast
furnaces. 1t is further reported that
the steel plant will in all probability be
removed to Bay View, to constitute a
part of the Milwaukee works.
AT o'clock on the morning of the
9th, several freight cars were wrecked
at La Crosse by running into an
other car overhanging switch. 1t was
very foggy, and the engineer who was
backing a LOT of empty cars down to the