Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-01
WISCONSIN ITEMS

JOSEPH DoRMER, young farmer, want
! ed to take his sweetheart out riding on
Christmas, and took clean shirt and
$40 from bis uncle's house at Fairchild,
got team and the girl, and started.
His uncle was opposed to Dermer,s
fancee and sent an officer in pursuit
with warrant. The young people
were both arrested and Dormer was
jailed at Eau Claire ON sentence Of six
ty days for larceny of the shirt and
money.
| The Milwaukee Academy of Music
has been purchased by John S. George,
j Fr'ncis Boyd and Calvin E. Lewis, for
CT n liberation of $65 900.
The State Teachers Association pro-
poses to establish code of ethics for
i the profession.
! SHERMAN Brown has been successful
| in securing the management of the new
| Davidson Theater at Milwaukee.
A PosT-oFFICE has been established
four miles from Utica, Dane County,
/ named Clarkson, and Asian W. Jude
made postmaster.
AUGUST SWANSON, an Ashland saloon
keeper. was standing in front of win
dow, in his saloon, when parties on the
outside attempted to split his head
open with an axe. The would-be MUIR
derers escaped.
EARLY on the morning of the Goth
fire destroyed building in the business
| street of Ashland belonging to w. E.
Durfee and valued at 81 500. It was
partially occupied by Adam Goetz,
who loses about 5000. Light insurance.
The report of the appraisal of block
| %, Milwaukee, for a federal building
site, has been made public. The total
| - L oh - 49, cd
| is 1887 1854. Several property owners
are dissatisfied and will appeal.
LIGHTNING on the Oath, struck the
Brush electric wires at Eau Claire and
knocked a lamp-trimmer insensible.
| 1t also damaged the roof of Stephen
Marston's residence.
ADJT. -GEN. Burchard has appointed
! delegates TO the meeting of the execu-
| tive committee of the National Guard
| Association.
| Gov. HOARD has pardoned John and T.
| Barry, Richard Cronin and Tom Carey,
who were sentenced to q long term in
| Jail for malicious destruction of proper
| ty, on condition that they abstain from
| liquor and offenses against the peace.
The Dells improvement Company
! elected officers as follows: President,
W. A. Rust; vice president, Eugene
~.
| treasurer, O. Ill. Ingram. In the matter
of the Dells Lumber Company there
was no action taken, the committee not
having reported, but there is an amic-
able understanding between the Dells
improvement and the Dells Lumber
| Companies.
| A PANTHER or other large and danger
GUS animal is said to be prowling about
the woods in the town of Primrose, Dane
| County. He carries off sheep bodily and
leaves 10 trace whatever of the animals
behind him. During the night his whin-
ing and screaming can be heard very dis
tinctly.
The losses by the recent ire DIT Shell
Lake have all been adjusted and re-
building has commenced. Plans and
specifications have been submitted to
the board, and the place will soon have
ample protection from fire.
THE allotment of the Oneida reserva
| pleted, and Special Agent Lamb will
soon leave for home, wnere he will
| complete the clerical work.
AT the annual meeting of the Sta to
| Historical Society, memorial addresses
will be delivered by the Hon. S. Z.
Pinney on the late ex-Gov. Nelson
Dewey; by Prof D. b. Frankenburger,
on the late Prof. Wi liam F. Allen; by
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, on the late
Judge A. 8. Braley, and by Reuben G.
| Thwaites on the late Gen. David At
wood. A paper prepared by Gen. At
wood ON the late Judge Mortimer NJ.
jackson will also be read.
Two freight trains on the Duluth,
South Shore e. Atlantic, thirty miles
east of Ashland eollided. Two brake
men were killed and fireman and en-
gineer injured. The engine of one
| freight ran out of water and started for
the nearest supply station. The brake
men were instructed to go back and sig
nal another approaching freight, but In
stead they hung out danger signal be
| hind the caboose and went to sleep. The
light was not seen in time to prevent
| the collision.