Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-03-19
WISCONSIN ITEMS

JAMES MCPHERSON, foreman OF the
North w stern Iround-house at Mari
nette. was killed by an engine while
working under it, The engine started
of alone, crushing and instantly killing
him. He leaves a wife and four chill
dren.
THE wife of Charles Katlitz. living on
Eighth Avenue, Milwaukee, locked her
two little children in the house while
she went ont on an errand. During her
absence the clothing of the youngest,
aged 6, caught fire, and the little one was
SO badly burned that her life was de-
SPARED of.
WIN. LEAHY, 20 years old, and en-
ployed as car-checker in the North
Western freight yards, at Milwaukee,
was run lover by an engine and lost
both legs.
JUDsoN A. RocKwooD, formerly lieu
tenant OF police in Milwaukee, but now
ut Manitoa, Col, is soon to marry an
Austin, Tex, society lady.
THREE families were unhoused by fire
at Eau Claire, on the 18th. The build
ings, owned by E. B. Finney and John
Pearle, were valued ut s., 900, and were
partially insured.
The following dispatch was received
from Ashland on the 18th: At 3 o'clock
this afternoon the striking miners at
1ronwood, it Is reported, returned to
work in the east shafts of the Norrle
mine, having been granted the conces-
sion asked for by the mine manage
ment. The Aurora and Pabst mines
are working this afternoon. The state
ment placing the number of men in
volved in the strike at 5000 is an exag-
geration. The number employed In
the mines involved-the Norrie, Ash
land, Aurora, Pabst. Iron King and
Germania, altogether, is less than $500.
AT Whitehall, on the 18th, verdict
was rendered by the jury In the Olson
lynching case. Thirty of the lynching
party appeared in court, and upon their
plea of guilty were sentenced to pay
fine of 500 and costs each.
THE Milwaukee Turner's have come
out strongly in favor of the Bennett
school law. The local political situation
IN that city Is getting decidedly mixed.
EDWARD CARPENTER Milwaukee bar
Der, took an overdose OF laudanum, on
the night Of the 10Th. with fatal effect.
He was 40 years Of age, and lett wife.
TIE Clark and Evans arson case at La
Crosse is off because requisition failed
to come to hand.
A SWEDISH miner named Buckstrom
was Instantly killed by falling into a
shaft of the Delta mine, near Epson.
THERE was considerable excitement in
Eau Claire, on the 18th. when it waa
learned that six desperate criminals had
broken out OF Jail, and were still at
large. The prisoners, John Evan, John
Fisher, James Doyle, Ed. Dixon, Thorn
as Sanders, and John Wedenberg, had
icI
side friends, and had since Industrious
ly piled the tools, covering their work
by means Of soap. They cut their way
through the top of their cage, reached
the roof through the skylight, and
thence slid down on rope that they
had made of blankets. Although
searching parties were at once sent out,
no trace OF the skulkers had been dis
covered. Sanders and Wedenberg had
blown open safes In Altoona City, and
the others had committed burglarles in
Eau Claire.
NELLIE BLY, will lecture under the au-
spices of the Milwaukee Press Club.
PETER JOHNSON LoGA, one of the
Trempealeau County lynchers, COM
mitted suicide on the 18th.
THE case of James York against the
Business Mems Association of Ashland,
district court at Madison. The suit is
for $1,000 said to have been promised
Y ork as bonus for establishing blast
furnace at Ashland.
A SAGINAW lumber syndicate has
bought 10000, 900 feet of pine stumpAge
along the Nemadji River, in Wisconsin.
The syndicate's total holdings in that
section now amount to $50 COO, 900 feet.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railways earnings for the week ending
March were $4,000, an increase
over the corresponding week in 1889
of $4,000.
THE earnings Of the Milwaukee &
Northern Railroad for the first week in
March were $28, 700, as compared with
500, 1856 for the same week last year, an
increaee of 1914.
WILL dudley, an Eau Claire school
boy, suffered a brutal hazing at the
hands of schoolmates.
CHIPPEWA valley lumbermen will
prosecute the railroads for illegal dis
elimination in freight rates.
SwITCHMEN in the Northwestern
yards al Milwaukee, who went out on
strike returned to work the same night