Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-08-27
BADGER NOTES.

THE total assessed valuation of real
and personal property in Milwaukee is
sos, 4S4, 055.
THE trainmen of the Milwaukee &
Northern road have received an increase
in their salaries all around.
OFFICERS THOMPSON and Getzen, at Mil
waukee, fished the dead body of Chas.
Cook out of the river, near the mouth
OF the Earbor. He was painter, and
very much addicted to drink 1t is
thought that the drowning was purely
accidental. Cook was about 81 years
old and homeless.
DURING the month of February there
were 4, 060 visitors recorded at the nata-
torium; during March, 1918; during
April, II $40; during May, Il, 249; during
June, 20,537; during July, 1858, and
during August until yesterday, 20,2l2.
ANTON KREUTzER, aged AZ, died very
suddenly from heart disease, on the
22d, in his room at 64S East Water
Street, Milwaukee, having been seen
alive and apparently well only two hours
before.
The earnings of the Milwaukee &
Northern Railroad for the third week in
August were $50, $50, as compared with
500, 747 for the same week in 1889, an
1uCi CetoC VI G'O,OOo
COLD weather is causing an exodus Of
Southern people from Wisconsin re-
sorts.
SAM YIP YAH was released from the
state prison on account of the unconstl-
nationality of the law under which he
was convicted.
ACCORDING to the approximate esti-
mates of the census supervisors of the
Il ie,%r or, bn @N+o ,<Nf
population in the state the past ten
years is 367 1888. Of this gain 1852, 500 is
in cities and villages containing ZOO or
more inhabitants each. There are now
twenty-three more cities and villages
above 1000 each than there were in
1880.
CURTIS Hicks, Racine's ossifed man,
has been engaged by w. G.. Coup, who
will exhibit him in connection with his
new menagerle.
AT Racine, on the morning of the 22d !,
William Casch, Of Freeport, Ill, aged
20, and a brakeman on pile-driver
train on the ST. Paul Road, met with ar
accident which caused his death. He
was coupling car, when he was caught
between the ladder of the pile driver
and the car and crushed about the
breast and stomach. He was removed
to St. Mary's Hospital, where he died
at II o'clock. Physicians state that the
unfortunate man was literally torn to
pieces internally.
AMONG the Inflated victims of the
Quincy, Mass, railroad disaster, on the
Old Colony Road, were Mrs. circuit
Allen and Miss Bessie Allen, of Phil
adelphia, grandmother and sister of
Clarence Allen, of Milwaukee. Miss
Allen was well-known in Milwaukee,
where she had spent several seasons.
Miss EVANS, an Eau Claire lady, went
into Crabbe q Peterson's grocery store
at Eau Claire, and became involved in a
dispute with the junior member of the
firm, whom she pounded with her fists.
Peterson grabbed the enraged woman
up in his arms and, rushing out of the
door, delivered her up to an officer.
BURGLARS entered the residence of
Mr.. and Mrs. Shirley, at La Crosse, but
| the head of the family allowed such a
tremendous roar to escape from his
lungs that the burglar beat hasty re-
| treat.
HARVEY S. BEAsER sold $4,000 worth
of Second Street real estate, in Ashland,
to Henry S. Wilson and &. l.. Judd, of
East Saginaw, Mich.
THIRTY electric lights will be used in
! lighting the race track nights during
the La Crosse Interstate fair.
THE Dells Lumber Company at Eau
Claire has put in Textbook shingle
mill with a capacity of 100000 day.
THE Ashland county board has re-
solved to construct turnpike road to
Beaver Falls, six miles out of the city,
SO that the deal for 500, 900 pulp mill
there is sure to go through.
AT Ashland, on the 21st, Mack, run
ming horse, valued at $1,000, fell dead
on the race-track just when he was
about to pass under the wire ahead Of
four other horses.
THREE boys, James and Willie O'Bren
and Frank Gallagher, were picked up
nineteen miles off Ashland, on Lake
Superior, by a passing schooner. Their
boat had capsized and they had been in
the water most of the time for day.
A DISPATCH from Ottawa, Ont, says
that the minister of customs has been
informed that Wisconsin cheese of an
inferior quality is beng shipped to Mon
treal and other Canadian ports, branded
Canadian produce" and shipped to
Great Britain as such The minister is
sued instructions to guard against such
violation of the bonding privilege and
will enforce the usual penalties.
GEORGE KAKATosH, a descendant of
Chief Marinette, and one of the Oldest
Indians on the Menominee River, was
run over by a NorthW estern train and
killed.
A SHORT time ago an expert machinist
was sent from John Torrance & Sons
machine shop and set to work on one
of the cages of the new jail at La Crosse
to see if he could cut his way out. He
had hammer, some chisels, and saw
used for cutting steel, but be could MT
cut one bar through, and gave up the
job.
GEO. E. BURLINGTON, of the Valley
Lumber Company, al Eau Claire, fondly
believes that he is a hoodoo. 1t is told
of him that he hasn't entered the mill
belonging to his company for upwards
of five years. Prior to that time, when
ever he graced the mill with his portly
presence, bad accident resulted, and
he has, therefore, kept reisiously out
Of the mill.
AN interesting case was tried in the
municipal court at Madison on the 10Th.
Stoughton is non-license city, but
Richmond & Smith, lawyers and Pro
hibitiOnists of Madison, suspected that