Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-02-26
WISCONSIN ITEMS

THE Milwaukee Whist Club beat the
Aurora Club by 202 points.
AsHLAND's Business Mems Association
is figuring with James E. York, who
built the big charcoal furnace there, for
the location of q structural steel plant,
and the gentleman has been In M1lwau-
kee number of times lately to interest
capital in the matter.
ASHLAND is bidding for an Eastern
steel car wheel works which contem-
plates locating in the Lake Superior re-
gion. 1t employs 800 men.
SENATORS SAWYER, and Spooner deny
that they have even prospective inter
est in Mr.. Taylor's purchase Of the Mad
ison Journal
The Ashland Press SAYS: 1.-THE num-
range properties are more than twice as
great as they have been in any year
since 1886. There are more men en-
ployed, more capital and better profits.
Options that have been abandoned for
three or four years are being worked
wherever there appears to be any
chance to get fair returns. The era of
immense returns has not yet passed. but
the men who cannot get the cream on
the range are contenting themselves
with lair percentage, and everything
is being worked up clean in conse-
quence. 1t is fact easy of demonstra-
ton, that at the close of 1890 there will
be twice as many shipping mines, tribu-
tary to Ashland, as there was at the
close of 1885,"
THE sixth annual report of the Wis
consin Agricultural Experiment Sta
| ton, bound volume of 2U0 pages, deals
| with many practical subjects OF interest
| to agriculturists, and should be In the
| hands of every farmer. The book may
| be obtained free by all residents of Wis
consin.
| WOOD COUNTY has taken up eleven
railway bonds for ST 600 each. that A. l..
| Smith. of Appleton, had been author
| lied to negotiate. The county paid
| Smith $4,000, which is a saving of sew
eral thousand dollars; 81, 900 is to be paid
| on the 10Th of March, and the balance
on the 25th of May.
The National Guard convention
| Milwaukee closed with a banquet
Gen. G. P. Chapman was elected presi-
| dent.
| The rumor is again current at st. Paul
that the general offices OF the Northern
Pacific and Wisconsin Central lines are
to be removed to Chicago.
| ALL benevolent insurance societies
must file a statement OF their work
with the insurance com missi oner before
March or shut up shop.
| THE l3-year-old son of a farmer near
| Glidden was kicked to death by a
young horse, which he was attempting
to curry. The boys skull was crushed,
and his death was not discovered until
| his parents returned from town in the
| evening.
| w. r. FREEMAN, late secretary of the
| Hekla Insurance Company, of Madi-
| son, has been appointed general agent
of the Delaware Mutual Safety Insur-
ance Company, of Philadelphia.
| NEGOTIATIONS are pending for opening
| the Chequamegon Hotel, at Ashland
which has been closed all winter. It
will probably be opened as sooG
as repairs are made. Ii is ru-
mored that George M. Hopper,
of the Colby House, will assume the
contract, his bid having been submitted
owns the property.
| FREDERICK WILKINS, in paper before
| the State Conference of Charities, advo-
Gated a training school for attendants
for chronic insane.
& JURY was secured, and the taking of
| testimony begun, in the trial of Phelps
| Perrin, at Ashland.
| JAMES w. SCoTT, Of the Chicago Her-
aid, delivered the annual address be-
| fore the State Press Association.
| THE 6-year-old son of City Marshal
Litner, of Prairie du Chen, fractured
| his skull by falling into the basement
| ruins of the old Mondell House.
RICHARD S. RAHTE, a Milwaukee liquor
! dealer. has sued Julia Wehinger, of
/ Black River Falls, to compel the pay
ment of note of So, 500, alleged to have
[ been executed by the defendant with
Nv. Postweiler, of that city, as payee.
! IT is reported from La Crosse that the
grass is green in sheltered places, and
| that crocuses are SO far advanced that
| two days of sunshine would bring out
! their blossoms.
| THE q. A. r. EncampmentC Council, at
| Milwaukee, adjourned sine die, after
| providing for a commit to raise
| means to meet certain claims still pend
| ing.
| The Gvisory committee of the House
| committee on public buildings, has cut
| the additional appropriation for the
! Milwaukee building from $780, 900 to
/ $500, 900.
| Miss MINNIE DIEDERIcHsEN, schoo
teacher. was killed by the cars near
| w nlIoHSn Day. just nOTtu OF tAo MIL
waukee city limits.
C. LATHAM SHoLEs, one ofthe Oldest OF
Wisconsin editors, and the inventor Of
the Remington typewriter, died in Mil
| waukee.
| HALLE STEENsLAND, late president OF
the defunct Hekla Fire Insurance Com
pany, has organized loan and trust
company with a capital stock of $780,
600, with headquarters at Madison.
THE case in the Ashland circuit court
of the heirs Of John Bell, known in
pioneer days as the "King of the Apos-
tie Islands, against Thos. Stahl, for the
recovery of property claimed by Stahl,
was decided against the heirs, the stat
ute of limitations favoring Stahl.
MAN arrested at Eau Claire for rob-
bling the Office of ID. S. Simons con-
iessed, and promised to show where he
had concealed the stolen goods. With
one hand manacled, be was escorted by
Mr.. Simons several miles through the
woods, and alter showing where the
| property was hidden WAS released
The officers we're dissatisfied with Mr.
| Simons' course, and rearrested the