Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-08
WISCONSIN ITEMS

ganlzed q social club under the name OF
the Whale Club.
The proposed French club at Milwau-
kee has been organized with large
membership and the most flattering
prospects for success.
Miss ELLA GILES, the authoress, is
spending the winter on the guilt coast of
Mississippi.
Ten tribes of the Chippewas will hold
q convention In Ashland, to take steps
to secure 500, 900 that the government
is alleged to owe them.
TIE ninth annual convention of the
officers OF the Wisconsin National Guard
will be held in Milwaukee February 20
and q.
GEO. RUNNER, of Milwaukee, shot
nimself because girl in whom he was
interested became insane.
U. l.. PACKARD and Thos. B. Oliver,
two weu-known Milwaukeeans, are
dead.
MILWAUKEE commission houses are
position building.
The Angus Smith system of elevators
"B" and &c, +" located on the South
Side, Milwaukee, have been sold to an
English syndicate. The price paid is
not given, but it is understood 10 be
more than million dollars. The trans
fer was effected through A. K. Shepard,
q formsr Miiwaukeean, who has recent
lyreturned from London, and who, it
is said, represents English capital In
some other ventures.
CONSIDERABLE change among the of
fcers of the State Bank Of Madison
took effect with the beginning of the
new year. Samuel Marshall, of Milwau-
Iya rot F~<x 4HA 10 h0
succeeded l.. s. Hanks, formerly vice.
president. J. Fl. Palmer becomes vice.
president, and Sam Marshall Jr., OF Mil
waukee, succeeds Mr.. Palmer as CASH
ier
CONGRESSMAN VAN SCHAICK is interest
ing himself in efforts to secure needed
appropriations for removing the sand
bar in the Milwaukee harbor.
Gov. HOARD explains that the purpose
of the "Sons of the Revolution" Is not
political, and that the talk about the ex-
clusion OF foreign citizens is absurd.
THE Milwaukee Retormer and the Ar
better Zeitung have been consolidated,
and new paper to be called The
Volks-Zeitung will be published under
the auspices of the Socialists.
Miss FLORENCE CAMPBELL, the author
ess, and Myron D. Reed, OF Prescott,
were married at the home of the bride,
ut Cottage Grove, near Madison, on
January ].
MILES BLoDGErT and Miss Lauretta
Knollin, of Sandy-Creek, n. Y, were
married at the Republican House, Mil
waukee.
AN epidemic of catarrhal colds pre-
walls in Milwaukee, but there is no
stRussan infuenZa."
x,oll lon 49,
the grounds occupied by the stats fish
hatchery, near Madison, it being the
only one of the kind in Dane County.
1t ia SO ieet deep, and overfiows at the
rate of 100 gallons minute. BY deeper
boring it Is hoped to get even a larger
flow, and thus greatly facilitate the work
of Matching the fry.
JUDGE CALKINs, of the municipal
court at Ashland, has decided point III
Law of general interest to the legal fra
ternity In the state. 1t was contended
by the defendants attorney, In crimi-
nal suit, thst the law amended in 1853
declaring the proprietor of a, house of
m-'ame guilty of Ielonv had been re-
pealed by that portion declaring the in
mates not guilty of criminal ofense,
hence that there was no law in force to
punish inmates. The point was thor
oughly argued before submission. The
Judge decided that the amended law
both made it felony to keep house of
lll-fanle, and criminal offense to be an
inmate.
A NUMBER of Winnebago Indians,
headed by Chief Big Hawk, called on
Gov. Hoard and Secretary Thwaites, of
the State Historical Society, TO solicit
their aid in securing to the Winnebago
children the privilege of attending the
public schools. The governor and Mr..
Thwaites promised to render all the aid
In their power, and the red men de-
parted pleased at the prospect of hav-
ing their offspring enjoy the advantages
of the more fortunate white children.
These Indians live in Marathon county,
and do not take kindly to the mission
schools provided by the national gov
eminent.
PRoF. ROSE, of Johns Hopkins Univer-
city, has arrived to take a position as
assistant in the department of physics
IN the State Univer sity.
The manufacturing product of Milwau-
kee for 1889 reaches 800. Quo, 900.
DAIRY COMMISSIONER THoM is investi-
eating the quality OF city milk. Arrests
may follow.
RUDOLPH NUNNEMACHER and other Mil
waukee men have been made code
PENDANTS in damage suit against n. c.
FreGerlksen
DEATH ended the career of Charles
Schwamb, of Milwaukee, at st. Joseph
Hospital, Ashland on the lst Coroner
Scott held an inquest during the fore
noon, the Jury returning verdict that
he came to his death by his own act,
while laboTlng under temporary fit of
insanity.
THE continued absence of Bruce Har-
rison, William j. Chorters and George
Adesy, of Ashland, aged about Is, who
LETT for three-days' hunt the night be-
fore Christmas, near Maringo caused
their relatives much uneasiness, and on
the LIST INST. party of searchers went
down to find out what had become of
them. The boys had found shelter in
an old logging camp. The snowstorm
had cut them off from the outside
world, and they were only rescued by
loggers cutting road to them from the
station. They were short of provisions,
but suffered no great inconvenience
from their isolation.
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