Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-24
BADGER NOTES.

AT the Union depot, Milwaukee, on
the evening of the 10th, while Iheodor
Millenmaster, agent for Chicago music
house, was waiting for his train, he laid
satchel containing money and papers
valued at 81 900 on a table, and went
roaming around the waiting room.
When he rounded up he discovered
that sneak thieves had "swiped" the
grip.
The vote of the Methodist churches
in the Milwaukee district upon the
question of admitting women to the
general conference resulted as follows:
For admission, 579; against admission,
295.
AT Waterford, Wis, Dr. Newell mar
ried his divorced wife.
Col. KING will probably be command
er of the Fourth Battalion.
ABOUT zoe, 0G0 acres of forfeited rail
road lands in Ashland and Bayfield,
counties will be opened to settlement
AT Ashland Emma Schrader recov-
cred 81 $50 from Peter Stefan for al
legged defamation of character.
THE Stock Exchange building at Ash
land was bid in by Bosworth 4 Son, of
Milwaukee, on judgments against Peter
Stefan to the amount of 81 200.
WRIGHT & kETCHUM, of Ashland, have
ust closed the sale of 800, 600 feet oil
frst-class lumber to A NJ. Dodge & Co.,
of Tonawanda, to be delivered as soon
IS navigation opens. The price paid
was not learned, but it is Sid that it was
not lees than SIG per thousand.
THE Milwaukee Street Railway Com
pany will be the name of the two con-
solidated lines in that city. Nearly
81, 600, 900 will be expended in equipping
&Irr, nlo p<yIo de- Eh4 IL
ton of the two electric light companies
will probably be contaminated in
short time.
DR.. Sem, of Milwaukee, has resigned
his professorship in the Rush Medical
College, Chicago, and the document has
been accepted by the faculty.
THE impression that has prevailed
that Bart B. SCOTS life insurance would
60 to his bondsmen to make up short
age in his accounts as treasurer of Ash
land County is corrected by the Ash
land News. It says Mrs. Scott will get
SIS 600 from this source. His shortage
was settled by the transfer of real estate
| and his home.
The Ettrick Creamery at Whitehall
was burned. Loss, 81 900.
Mr.. MIcHELs, an old settler of Bel
GUM, was found dead in the woods,
aged IS.
The Wisconsin Central Railway Conn
pany has completed a new depot at
Unity.
THE Ashland Fire Department pre-
sented Chief Tanner with a goid-lined
silver trumpet and gold badge.
La CROSSE has authorized the prepa-
ration of plans for a new city building
to cost not to exceed $4,000.
JOHN 3. WEBB, of La Crosse, who is
to be assistant railroad commissioner, is
one of the handsomest and most intel
ligent old bachelors in the state. He
and under Cleveland held the office OF
register of the land Office until it was
consolidated with the Eau Claire office.
He ls said to be man of ability, and
thoroughly systematic and business-like
in his methods.
TIE furniture factory of Bande rob &
Chase, Oshkosh. caught fire on the 18th
and was soon totally destroyed, the
flames making such rapid Roadway in
the dry material as to battle all efforts to
check them. Totai loss $40 ,000 to $780,
OO0
AT Butternut, Ashland County, the
sawnill of IL. L.. Besse was burned.
Loss, SIS, 900.
ONE firm IN Madison bought and
shipped about &c., COO dozen of eggs.
The Pabst Brewing Company will
spend 81 100000 in improvements next
summer in Milwaukee.
A BILL to abolish primary caucuses in
Milwaukee County will be introduced
in the next Legislature.
The state treasurer finished his annual
report.
Gov HOARD is sick from the effects of
the grip.
BART B. SCoTT, treasurer of Ashland
County, and we'll known in Wisconsin
political circles, died at Hot Springs,
Ark, on the 18th.
On the night of the 18th seven chattel
mortgages were filed on the dry goods
stock of M. Gutman, Of La Crosse, in
favor of different members of the fam
lily, and next day they were foreclosed
and the stock removed to other stores.
They aggregate $500, and Gutman's
debts are as much more to unsecured
creditors, who have been telegraphing
in to have claims protected. 1T is GER
tain that efforts will be made to break
the mortgages.
On the 18th the great 443-foot span of
the La Crosse wagon bridge was swung
into place safely, everything being in
complete order. The draw span is the
longest on the Mississippi, and the
longest but three in the world. The
bridge consists Of the draw, one 300-foot
span, two 13O-foot spans. 129 feet of iron
trestle, 120 feet of wooden trestie; total,
,265 feet. It was erected by the Gin
ton Bridge Company at cost of $50 ,000,
and is owned entirely by the city of La
Crosse.
THE body of Albert Mueller, team
ster employed by Coke Bros, of Mil
waukee, was found in his barn at
O'Clock on the morning of the 10th.
Mueller left his wife in the afternoon,
and she supposed that he was spending
the evening in saloon near by. When
he had not returned at midnight,
search was made ard the dead body
found hanging in the baln. No cause
for the suicide is known.
JANET, the 6-year-old daughter of
Roger C. Spooner, ex-consul to Prague,
died at Madison on the 18th of diph-
liberia. There are seven more cases in
the city. There are five Of these cases