Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-09
WISCONSIN ITEMS

uAucI Cuo wagon ne WIS uTlVlup, dt VIC
corner of Sherman and Third Streets,
Milwaukee. The heavy wheels crushed
in his skull and broke his neck.
Work on the stone dam across Mil
waukee River, at Milwaukee, is bus-
pended on account of high water.
THE contract for removing the bar at
the harbor mouth, Milwaukee. has been
let to Z. FL. Starke.
ERNST PossART, the great German &C
tor, made his first appearance on the
stage in Milwaukee on the 9Th inst.
THE Alabama Teachers Association
has accepted an invitation from Gov.
Hoard to stop for day at the Wiscon-
sin capital, EN- route to the National
Teachers Convention at st. Paul next
July. The invitation will be supple
mented by one from the municipal Oh
fcers.
CAPT. PHILIP READE, formerly of Gen.
Crooks staff, will probably come to
Wisconsin an instructor In rifle practice.
TIE coroner's jury in the case of Sis
ter Blanche blamed the builder of the
Milwaukee convent for her death.
By the capsizing of sailboat on Lake
Monona Ralph Seligman, 17-year-old
son of Jacob Seligman, real estate
dealer IL Chicago, was drowned. His
companion, son of James Spencer,
clerk in the adjutant-generaps office,
was rescued in an exhausted condition.
THE postal receipts OF the Milwaukee
postoffice, com prising the proceeds of
sales of stamps, envelopes, etc, and for
newspaper postage, during the month
of March, were $33, 1926 against $27,-
234.27 for the corresponding month in
1889, showing an increase of $6,55S.9S,
or "a 44lOO per cent. The total number
of pieces of mail matter delivered was
2,0l4 1927; pieces collected $40. To-
tai number of pieces handled, 2, 93l ,267.
DURING a political row at Glidden,
John Arnold, constable, was shot and
fatally wounded by Christ. English.
The latter is in custody, aud Arnold is
under treatment at the Sisters hospi-
tai.
By the bursting of an emory wheel In
Vogt & Co.'s planning mill on Island
Avenue, Milwaukee, Charles Peterson,
a aborer, was severely injured. Parti-
cles of the flying fragments struck him
in the forehead. Peterson is single
man, % years of age.
THE Rev. Samuel Brown has accepted
call to the Presbyterian Church at
Ashland, after a pastorate of fourteen
years in Chippewa Falls. He was given
farewell reception by the membe of
his church.
PROF. VIM. G. SUMNER, of Yale Col
lege, will give six lectures at the Mo-
mona Lake Assembly, next summer,
upon the following subjects: "The. In
dustrial Organization" Competition
and Cooperation The Market and
Money" Banks" 1.-The Balance OF
Trade" Taxation"
FRANK w. DALEY, aged q years, son of
the late Albert G. Daley. OF Madison.
died by drowning on the I'd. He was
returning from the works OF the Fuller
q Johnson Manufacturing Company,
where he was employed, when he was
attacked with epilepsy and fell into
a roadside ditch.
VIM. w. WINTERBoTHAM was appointed
postmaster of Eau Claire.
III. III. GILES was re-appointed mem
Der of the State Board OF Charities.
C. S. KELSEY was appointed to succeed
Thos. Jennings as agent OF the Menom-
Inee Indian reservation.
Mrs. CYNTHIA E. BRADFORD, wife of
the Rev. Elbridge Bradford, presiding
elder OF the Eau Claire District, died on
the 1st inst, after a brief illness. The
elder is on vacation tour in the South,
with his brother, Ira B. Bradford. The
ta1se Of death was pneumonia. Mrs.
Bradford was So years old, and leaves
family of four children.
THE Cooper election law had its first
trial at the municipal elections on the
lst inst. Reports indicate that the result
was emlnently satisfactory.
THE municipal election at Milwaukee
resulted in general surprise all round.
The Democrats in convention had de-
manded the repeal of the Bennett COM
pulsory school law, and the Catholic and
lutheran clergy endorsed only those
candidates WHO openly opposed the law.
The Democratic plurality on the city
ticket was in the neighborhood Of 81
0J0.
TIE new custom house at La Crosse is
completed.
WITH solemn, impressive services, the
remains of Michael Heiss, second arch
bishop of Milwaukee, were taken from
St. johns Cathedral, where they
had been lying in state for two
DAYS, to St. Francis Seminary, the
place of sculpture. AT the cathedral,
to which hundreds were unable to Sc
cure admission, pontifical mass WAS
celebrated by Cardinal Gibbons,
of Baltimore. Besides the head of the
Catholic Church in the United States,
LD0IC were present tuTee dICuDlSllOpS,
twelve bishops and scores Of priests.
The English and German sermons were
delivered respectively by Bishop Hen
messy, of Dubuque, Ia, and Bishop
Katzer of Green Bay. The ceremonies
at the cathedral were awe-insplring,
and the scene there, as the five eldest
bishops prayed for absolution, was ore
never to be forgotten. At o'clock the
remains, escorted by the clergy and all
the Catholic societies of Milwaukee,
were taken to St. Francis Seminary.
VIM. HELM, ex. assistant postmaster of
Madison, has been offered position at
Washington, in the Office of the first as
sistant ostmaster-general. He will be
granted leave of absence as colonel OF
the first regiment during his residence
in Washington.
A HANDSOME church building will be
erected by the Catholics Of Altoona,
Eau Claire County.
THE case of Phelps Perrin. who was
to have had hearing at Ashland, on
the 31st, CD the charge of embezzllng
funds to the extent OF 81 AGO from the
Iron Exchange Bank of Hurley, has
been postponed until the 18th OF April,
on account of the poor health Of Munlc-
y