Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-02

The State Labor Bureau has complied
a table of the losses by fire In factories
for the years 1885, 1886, 1887, 1885 and
1889. Tie total factory loss by fire in
the state during this period was $3,421,-
.476. So. The loss for each year was:
1ss5-$115, 468; 1Ss6-$661, 100; 1851
S713, OO2. 81; ISS8-$S14, 190.04; 1SS9-$1,-
distributed through the following indus
tries: Beer and malt-$560, 800. 80; con
fectionery and steam bakeries-SlOS,-
$50. 33; flour and feed-$100, 800; furni-
ture-$169, 1873; lumber, lath, shingles,
etc.-$1, 266. 1876. IS; machine shops, iron,
and brass foundries-$230 S43 .O9; paper
and ~pulp--$2zO,00 during 1888 and
1S9O); sash, doors, blinds and planning
mills-$227, 352.7 70.
ETHEL GARDNER, a miss OF Is, joined
the Salvation Army at Eau Claire
against her fathers wishes. On the
18th her father went to the army's meet
ing and demanded his daughter. The
army formed a square around the girl,
and The female captain, Hallelujah En-
ma, screamed, "YOu can't nave her; we
want Ethel for Jesus" But the angry
father dispersed the army, seized the
girl, and took her away. In the melee
the female captain claims to have been
roughly handled. To-day she wore
out q warrant IOr = arrest IOF
assault md battery.
The temperature at La Crosse was 81
by signal office reports and about 100
earth level, the hottest of the week. A
plasterer named Myers, overcome by
the heat, went under a shed for shelter
and was found o o after dead. Joseph
Struh, dealer in cheese, from Dodge
vile, after travelling about town all day,
fell from a chair at the City Hotel at 5
p. NJ. He was taken to the hospital n
died before e..
TWENTY cases of sunstroke were re-
ported at Milwaukee on the 2Sth. Two
were fatal in the city, and there were
two fatal cases at Wauwatosa.
JOHN G%ooDRICH, a man of So years,
who lives on Thirty-sixth and Wells
Streets, Just outside the Milwaukee
city limits, was shot and fatally injured
in a somewhat mysterious n on
the night of the 29th. Lizzie Goodrich,
his daughter, 26 years of age, was ar
rested and taken to the station, pend
ing the further developments of the
case, which, it is thought, may show
that she fired the shot.
JOHN DoRsCHER, %janitor at the Wash
burn Observatory, Madison, suffered a
paralytic stroke from lightning in a Pc
cuiiar manner, on the 18th. He was
seated in front of his house talking with
a couple of visitors, no rain being fall
overcast. A sudden flash of lightning
knocked the three men down, and
Dorscher was found to be paralyzed in
his entire left side. 1t is thought the
paralysis is the result of induction, as,
had a spark struck him, it would have
killed him Immediately. The case pre-
sents many points of psychological in
terest.
DAVID DUBAY, of Ashland, has sued
A. A. Bigelow for damages sustained at
the latter's mills at Washburn, having
been thrown between cars by collision,
He claims $4,000.
Mrs. SARAH A. RICHARDS, widow of D.
III. Richards, publisher of the first
newspaper IN Milwaukee, died on the
9th at an advanced age.
PRESIDENT LULING, of the State Board
of Supervision, SAYS that the next legis-
lature will be asked to appropriate
money for several new institutions, re-
formatory and charitable. What the
Board would like to have is an interme-
diate prison, where offenders too old
for the Waukesha school, and yet too
young for confinement with the hard
ened criminals of the state prison,
might be placed. They also feel the
need of an asylum for the criminal in
sane, and an asylum for the feeble
minded. The necessity for some of
these institut Sls is apparent, and the
board Is hopeful of seeing some of it's
expectations realized.
The census returns give Milwaukee a
population of 1884, 900.
IT is said that sevaral Italian musi-
clans who were in Milwaukee recently
are noblemen in disguise.
OTTo NEUMAN, aged %, a Milwaukee
shoemaker, fell in love with Maggie
Klotz, a fellow employee. Maggie failed
to appreciate the honor, and declined
to receive his attentions. Then Otto
got a gun and went after gore. He met
Maggie on the street, and blazed away
with deadly intent but very bad aim,
and is now cooling his heated brain in
the county jail
THE body of Frederick Heiss, who
has been missing from the Soldiers
Home since June 90 was found in the
Milwaukee River. He probably fell
into the river accidentally.
DIR. HUGH MILLER THOMPSON. Bishop
of Mississippi, formerly of Wisconsin,
has gathered his editorial writings from
the American Churchman, published
for a time in Milwaukee. and sent them
out in book form under the sensational
title of Copy"
THE Congregationalis list Church of Mad
ison has issued a call to the Rev. E. G..
Updike, Of Englewood, H., to the pas
torate. 1t is understood that Mr.. Up
dixie will V his connection with the
Methodist conference to enter Congre-
gationalism. He was formerly pastorof
the Summerield Methodist Church in
Milwaukee.
The final exercises of commencement
week at the State University occurred
on the 25th. The graduating class num-
bered 149 members, e~ighty-one in the
college of arts, letters and sciences, one
n agriculture, eight in pharmacy, and
ffty-nine in law.
SEVERAL persons were Frustrated by
the heat in Milwaukee on the 25th.
IT is reported hat the census will
give Milwaukee less than 100000 popu-
lation.
BAKER was convicted at Ashland for
the Hurley bank robbery.
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