Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-02-12
WISCONSIN ITEMS

Tor THEFT, is dead.
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER CHEEK has
revoked the license to do business in
Wisconsin OF the American Building
and Loan Association.
HENRY G.. PAYNE succeeds Winfield
Smith as president of tue Milwaukee
Cream City Railroad, and the committee
has given an option for the sale of the
road.
J. G.. J. CAMPBELL was reelected
president and made manager of the
Milwaukee exposition.
IT is reported that samples of gold
bearing quartz have been discovered in
Crawford County.
INDIANS on the Bad River reservation
have chosen delegates to go to Wash
ington to adjust their claims against the
government.
A MINISTERIAL alliance has been
formed at Ashland, with the Rev. J. G.
Banks as president; William Kilbourn
secretary, and Will Sloan treasurer.
Weekly meetings will be held.
THE roundup" meetings of the
Farmers Institutes cannot be held IN
Milwaukee, owing to previous arrange
ments.
A FIRE at Lake Butte des Norts de-
stroyed j. N. RiePs barn and its con-
tents. The loss WAS about So, 800, or 81,
$40 above insurance.
THE German immigration Society of
Milwaukee has decided to send delegates
to the national convention of immigra
ton societies, to be held in Washing
ton on March Is.
The milkmen Of Milwaukee County
have organized to assist their associ-
ates who have been arrested by Com
missioner Thorn. They have voted
$40 to that end, and promise more.
The Clinton Bridge Company has Sc
cured the two largest bridge contracts
that will be let in the West this year.
One is the La Crosse bridge and the
other the high wagon bridge between
Clinton and Fulton, at cost of $685.
700. The La Crosse structure will be
fine one, and its draw has the distlnc-
ton of being the third longest in Amer
lea, and the longest on the Mississippi.
WILLIAM S. TowsLEY, a brakeman en-
the Omaha Railway, was crushed to
death under the wheels at Ashland
Junction, early on the morning Of the
9th. He stepped between the moving
cars to pull coupling pin, lost his foot
ing and fell upon the rails, the truck
passing over his right arm and leg.
When the cars had passed Towsley
crawled a few feet away and sat upright
for three or four minutes. He was
brought to Ashland, and at 10 o'clock
expired. He was about % years old, I'M
married, and had been in the employ of
the Omaha Company three years.
The House committee has recon-
mended an appropriation of $95, 900 for
a public building at Ashland.
THE directors of the Hekla Fire In
surance Company, of Madison, have
accepted the proposition Of Albert
Scheffer, president Of the St. Paul
German Fire Insurance Company, to
purchase the control of the stock
of the Hekla Company at premium
of 6 per cent. The Hekla COM
psny accepted this proposition in pref
erence to reinsuring and going into liq-
uidation. The business of the COM
pany under the new management will
continue to be conducted from Madison.
A meeting of the Hecka stock holders is
called ior February Is, to ratify the ac-
ton of the directors.
THE assignee's schedule of assets and
liabilities has been filed in the assign
ment of Joseph M. Beaker, of La
Crosse. Tota! liabilities, $28, 255.37, of
which $l2,0l5.94 is secured by note.
Total assets, 24.371.S2.
THE assignee's schedule of assets and
liabilities has been filed in the assign
~ ent of Joseph NJ. Beake r, of La Crosse.
Total liabilities, $28, 255.37. of which $l2,
0l5.94 is secured by note. Total assets,
$24, SO. Among the creditors are
David Adler, of Milwaukee, for 81, 9Ol,
and cloak company for S ,442 II. The
failure is fiat one, and will hardly
yield general creditors % cents.
The bin for public building at Eau
Claire has been tavorably passed upon
by the committee on pest offices and
post-roads.
The Progressive Mining Company has
been organized at Ashland with the iol-
lowing officers: ]. /. Levy, president;
Louis j. holman, treasurer; G. B.
Smith, secretary. The company has op-
tons on lands adjoining the Tyler Forks
mine.
MILD weather at Ashland interferes
with logging operations, and will reduce
the winters cut.
GEORGE PERKINS and James Williams
lost their team and sleigh while crossing
the Wisconsin River near Lone Rock.
They barely escaped going under the
ice with the rig.
A. S. SULLIVAN was arrested at Ashland,
on warrant charging him with having
ODtaln6O money unQer 1alS6 pr6IonSoSs
He had sold an order, said to have been
issued by an Indian woman, for pine
she had sold. The case may prove to
be one OF forgery. The woman claims
that she did not sign an order on the
parties to whom she had sold the prop
erty. Sullivan was held for trial in the
sum of 5000.
THE horses around Augusta are suf-
fering from a contagious disease. 1t af-
fects the animals spine, and has in sew
eral cases proved fetal. Want of proper
exercise is thought to be the cause.
JOHN ANDREWS, of Minersville, says
he was held up and relieved of $3.50 by
party OF rougbs while he was walking
through Ellis Park. John Whalen, one
of the parties implicated, has given the
police the slip for parts unknown.
w. ScoTT SMITH, a prominent real
estate and insurance agent, died at La
Crosse on the Sd, OF peritonitis, after an
illness OF but six hours. His father,
venerable deacon, S. T. Smith, died
three days before at the age of SO. The
son was already past hope when the
fathers body was borne 10 the grave.
The deceased was for a number of
wears employed as a travelling man and