Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-02-05
WISCONSIN ITEMS

MISS MAMIE KELLY and VIM. P. Lyons,
OF Milwaukee, were married last Au-
gust. and kept their secret until day
or two ago.
The total factory population of Mil
waukee Is 1888, an increase, IN two
years, of 3,4l2.
A RENEWAL of the fight between Fred
erick Weyerh2user and the Knapp,
Stout & Co. Company may result over
the proposed dam at Beet Slough.
FIRE in Voigt & Ritter's carriage
shops, La Crosse, caused q loss of S., 900.
WILLIAM GRAF was found dead in his
house, I24S Butfum Avenue. Milwaukee.
WIsCoNsIN's congressman, with Sena-
tor Spooner and Henry c. Payne, took
dinner with Senator Sawyer on the I'd.
FIVE thousand people on Half Moon
Lake, Eao Claire, on the I'd, saw McCor-
mick, of New Brunswick, take the title
OF champion skater of the world from
AXel Paulsen, who had held 1t eight
years. 1t was the third and final ten
mile race.
The ice shipping business at Madison,
which has amounted to little for several
years past, Is now at its height. Gangs
of 200 men are en- aged day al night
with the aid of improved steam
machinery for harvesting the crop
and loading for shipment for points
South. On the I'd 125 cars were loaded
and shipped over the North-W Western
and Illinois Central Railroads, and work
had to be stopped owing to the lack of
a sufficient number of cars In which to
pack the ice.
A SENSATION is quietly brewing in the
internal revenue collectors department
fha Ach ri icfr Of II iC init
ted that whisky dealer there has been
doing irregular work. The evidence
was collected and forwarded to Madi-
son, and it is now limited that the evil
dence was purloined after reaching that
city. Detectives are working to unravel
the mystery, and are preparing TO make
important arrests. The officials are I'M
communicative. Documentary evidence
is thought to have been destroyed.
ABOUT q year ago Mrs. Albert Cheney,
of Madison, was thrown from her car
riage while crossing the track of the
Illinois Central Railroad Company, her
horse being frightened by an approach
ing train, and sustained injuries which
will make her a cripple Tor life. The
Central Company was sued for 500, 900
damages, and the company has now set
tied by paying her $500.
L
himself in opposition to the Bennett
school law.
THE Milwaukee school commissioners
fear that the school funds will not be
sufficient to maintain the night schools.
THE bill for a public building at Eau
Claire has been approved by Secretary
Window, and sent to the House COM
mi.tee.
DR.. SoLoN MARKS, OF Milwaukee, was
reelected president, and DR.. j. I.
Reeve, of Appleton, secretary of the
State Board of Health.
STATE TREASURER HARsHAw says that
Insurance Commissioner Cheek. Supt.
Thayer and himself will not be candi-
dates for reelection.
COMMISSIONERS STARK, of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, makes report of build
ing Improvements and new machinery
put in by Wisconsin manufacturers.
The Chippewa Indians continue hold
ing councils at Odanah to determine
whether they will require an attorney
to adjust their claim against the govern
ment. The general sentiment seems to
be that they have no need of any at
torney until they lave presented their
their csse before the Indian department
at Washington. The band is unani-
nous in opinion regarding tie sound
ness of their claim, and think the
government will grant them their
rights without having to resort
to lawful measures to convince the
authorities Of the business of their claim.
Many older Indians declare that their
lands we're not sold-that only the
mineral they contained Was disposed of
to the government. The head chief
had only signed away their right to any
mineral found, and the commissioner
from Washington had no power to treat
for anything except the mineral fran
chise. They will send a delegation to
Washington to present their grievances.
THE Ashland Common Council has re-
licensed the Olympic Variety Theater,
which was closed at the time of the
prize fight last tall.
OVER 100 appeals have been filed at
Washington, from the decision of the
Ashland land Office.
A CHARITY MESSENGERS HOME" on
the plan of deaconess bands in other
cities. is to be esta blished in Milwau-
kee.
ATTY.-GEN. EsrABRooK has prepared a
brief statement of the provisions of the
Cooper election law.
STATE SUPT. THAYER has issued circu-
lar explaining the Bennett law.
ANEREw SPOILERS, an old hunter in
the North Wisconsin pineries, fell
from a tree in which he had stationed
himself to sight deer, fractur.ng several
limbs and receiving serious internal in
luries.
AT Eau Claire. Judge Bundy refused
the Injunction against the electric
street railway asked by the telephone
company.
THE transfer Of Milwaukee mills to an
English syndicate has been declared off.
JUDGE MA-BAU0I, of Forest County,
charged with violation of the internal
revenue laws, was found not guilty.
EDWARD J. Common. assistant train dis
patcher of the La Crosse Division, ST.
Paul road, died suddenly of aToplexy
IN Milwaukee.
SENATOR SPooNER and Railroad Com
missioner Taylor have made valuable
gold discovery in North Carolina.
THE Ashland Office decided the land
contest in favor of j. Ii. knight, as
against the squatters.
In the case OF Moses Segermann