Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-11-19
BADGER NOTES.


STEPS were taken by the Eau Claire
! Common Council toward establishing
weather bureau.
| THE Wisconsin Woman's Christian
Temperance Union is now especially
active in arranging for It's work in the
lumber camps during the coming win
| ter.
JOHN HINKEL, the pioneer restaurant
teur Of Milwaukee. is dead.
TIE Wisconsin University foot ball
eleven was defeated at Minneapolis.
EMMA MEssERsMITH secured verdict,
at Madison, of $500, for SANDER,
against Henry West, in Dane County.
She sued for So, 600.
JAMES p. WHALING, general auditor of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
road, will be retired on a pension No
vember go
CHIEF JUSTICE Cole says that the re-
ports that he will not be candidate for
denomination are untrue.
THE local Masonic lodges have fund
of 100000 to buy a site for temple in
Milwaukee.
OVER So, 100000 was spent in the erec
/ ton of a buildings in Milwaukee the
past year.
RICE LAKE has presented Barron
County with clear deed to brand
new courthouse, of modern architect
ure, in compliance with making that
city the permanent county seat.
The Ashland County Board has fixed
the total valuation of property in the
county at So, 500 900 and Ashland city at
81 600, 900.
AGENT LEAHY says the Indians in the
Vermillion and Net Lake country have
plenty to eat, but not nearly enough
clothing. Many of the women and
children were going about barefoot in
the snow. The women and girls do all
the work, cutting the wood and packing
it into camp without any assistance from
the men. Drinking is prevalent only
on the Vermillion Lake reservation.
THE state paid $169, 40912 to county
insane asylums the year ending Septem-
| Der 80 last.
REPRESENTATIVES of the Chicago Glue
Company have secured options on sew
eral properties outside the Milwaukee
| City limits and expect to erect branch
works in the near future. Retu.e from
the stock yards and other places will be
used. The establishment will be under
the supervision of DR.. Schenck, of
Hamburg, Germany, the owner of the
process under which the glue will be
interested in the project, and the works
will be built on a scale to accommodate
200 men.
FISHERMEN at Little Sturgeon, on the
east shore of Green Bay, report finding
small whitefsh weighing about quar-
ter of a pound each, in their nets,
showing that the young whitefsh plant
ed in Green Bay water from the state
hatchery are success.
ACCORDING to the official census fig.
ures, Ashland ranks seventh In the
state with population of Is, 600. Origi-
nally it was given at 1O,000.
IMPROVEMENTS are to be made to the
armory of the Eau Claire Light Guards,
to cost in the neighborhood of 81 900.
THE Unitarian Society of Milwaukee
has fund of 5000, and will build
church.
HENRY EDWARDS, of La Crosse, sued
F. Netzel for placing his name on the
blacklist of the merchants Protective
Association" bad-debt agency, and
collected S25.
OFFICERS Ouilette and Elliott, of Eau
Claire, were alta :ked in a cell by
tramp whom they picked up off the
sidewalk. After hard tussle they took
a dangerous looking knife away from
him.
S. J. GREEN, of Saxon, Ashland Coun-
ty, raised tobacco in an amateur way
One Of the stalks bore leaves four feet
long and two wide.
CHARLES GR1EBEL, of Milwaukee, was
killed in railroad wreck. Mr.. and
Mrs. Kimberly, of Neenah, were badly
hurt.
THE total lumber cut of the mills
of Eau Claire, Menomonie and Chippe-
wa during the season just closed is
roughly estimated at 800 900, 900 feet, be-
sides shingles, lath and pickets, impos-
sible to estimate at this time.
AT the end of sharp contest the
County Board of Barron County, by
vote of Ii to u, appropriated So, 900 to
build Jail at Barron, thus settling for
years the question of removing the coun-
tY seat to Rice Lake.
The Milwaukee Bridge Company has
the contract to build the North Avenue
bridge in that city for s27, 900.
J. E. JENNER, of J. E. Jenner & Co.,
wholesale milliners, Milwaukee, has
sued for dissolution Of partnership,
6. Y. Pepper & Co., small Milwaukee
grOcers, assigned.
HENRY c. PAYNE was elected presi-
dent of the Milwaukee & Northern
road.
THE hog cholera epidemic in Southern
Wisconsin has put stop to shipments
The disease is spreading in spite of all
treatment.
Globe" STOCKING, the big Eau Claire
lumberman, expects to cut about 1O,-
600, 900 feet Of timber on the Brue and
Middle Rivers. Patrick Hynes will
also put in 10,000,00
EARL CHATFIEID was badly cut about
the arms by flying bits of soda water
bottle that burst in q La Crosse factory.
JOHN STORM was garroted at Eau
Claire and robbed of a gold watch.
John Hawkins and Samuel Yopes are
held for the crime.
THE Eau Claire Linen Mill Company
has commenced laying foundations for
to be devoted exclusively to spinning
yarn, which has been rendered neces-
sary by the passage of the Mckinley