Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-18
BADGER NOTES.

The sealed verdict of the jury which
has been engaged in assessing damages
against the city of Chicago for the open
ing of Congress Street, in order to give
a wider approach to the Auditorium,
was opened on the 18th. 1t awards
100000 to property-holders. Of this
Ignatz Friedman, of Milwaukee, gets
200 for damages in two residences,
and j. A. Rice, of Milwaukee, $500
for another residence.
THE body Of Ralph Seligman, who was
drowned In Lake Monona, April 4, has
been found.
The claim has been made in the case
of Joe Debor, tried at Ashland on a
charge of keeping house of bad repute,
that tbs jurors were irregularly drawn.
The irregularity alleged is that members
OF the Board of Supervisors signed the
order for jurors, acting as board not,
as the law provides, as chairmen of
town boards.
SOME time ago the Central Jesuit Col
lege At st. Louis sent out theme for
an essay to the Jesuit Colleges III Mil
waukee, Detroit, Chicago, Cincinnati
and ST. Mary's, kas., for the inter-col-
legiate contest. Two hundred competi-
tors entered the lists. A Milwaukeean,
for the second time in five contests,
gets the prize, which is gold medal.
AT a recent meeting of the CONNER
cial Club, of Milwaukee, it was an
nounced that the financial difficulties of
the organization were over, the mem
bers having pungled up sufficient funds
to place the club on its feet.
ARTICLES of association have been
1OI 4I,C e lot Nv
Alberta Gold Mining Company, of Mil
waukee; capital stock, $4,000; incorpo-
sailors, Joshua Binney, S. M. Williams
and E. P. Barry.
THE Masonic Grand Lodge closed its
annual session at Milwaukee on the
18th, after installing officers.
TILE flags at the signal station on top
of the Mitchell building, Milwaukee,
can be seen for 10 24-100 miles out on
the lake. The flags are 100 feet above
the level of the lake. The red signal
light is visible at distance of 16 10-100
miles, and the white one Is $500 miles.
FRANK MARKLE, a well-known Mil
waukee newspaper man, was married in
that city ON the 18th, to Miss Nellie Tay
lOr.
The thirteenth annual session of the
supreme council Of the Royal Arcanum
closed at Milwaukee on the 18th.
FRANK PARRETI, an Italian, is under
arrest at Madison, charged with attempt
ing to fire the house Of Geo. Smithers,
colored Parreti has served two terms
ID state prison for adultery with disso-
lutte character bearing the sobriquet of
cred Kate" Latterly this woman has
been living with the negro, which In
censed the Italian, and, it is supposed,
induced him to try and burn Smithers'
house Smithers and the woman have
also been arrested on the charge Of
adultery.
JosEPm FoUCHs was found guilty of
murder in the first degree by a jury Ill
the Ashland circuit court, on the 18th.
Fouchs will end his days III the peniten-
tiary as convict He killed his young
ty, last fall by stabDing her with knife.
Fouchs escaped, and was not discovered
until this spring, when he was captured
in lumber camp close by Butternut.
His misdeeds in the old country found
him out, and the German authorities
were seeking him. Supposing his wife
had learned his crimes, Fouchs vas
afraid she would betray him, and killed
her for protection to himself He de-
MED being the man sought for, but proof
against him was too positive to admit of
doubt.
E. G.. THOMPSON, of Sioux Falls, S. D.,
is suing G.. H. Horton, of Fennimore,
Wis, for libel, in the United States dis
was formerly in business at FennimOre,
and had difficulty in dealing with the
defendant. When he removed to Sioux
Falls anonymous letters attacking his
character were sent to various parties
there, and Thompson charges Horton
with their authorship. lie seeks to re-
cover 10000.
IT is reported that George Hiles, of
Milwaukee, who has of late been flood
ed with law suits Of various kinds, had
meeting with some of the plaintiffs
who were after his greenbacks, and eff
fected several compromises that were
satisfactory all around. 1t is said that
A. H. Hadfield is out of the Florida
land deal, and that c. w. Hansill has
withdrawn his stander suit. No notice
will probably be given in the matter I'M
til the cases are reached on the court
calendar. Hiles had to pay large sums
to compromise the cases, 1t is said.
DANIEL MORGAN has sued Nicholas
Flynn, saloonkeeper at Ashland, for
$3.50 damages. He charges that Flynn
saturated bis stockings with an infam-
ma BILE liquid, and set fire to it, causing
injuries that are permanent and incur
able ,
AT a convention of Dane County to-
bacco-growers, held at Madison, resolu-
tons were unanimously adopted thank
ing Congressman La Toilette for his
efforts on the committee Of ways and
means in securing the increased tariff ON
imported tobacco, and petitioning SEN
ators Sawyer and Spooner to work for
the passage of the tobacco clause in the
Mckinley bill, as passed by the House.
HARRY STRADER stole 500 in green
backs from the trousers of sleeping
guest at an Eau Claire hotel, and be-
came drunk, flourishing roll of bills
and treating everybody, and finally he
invited a policeman to drink and was
arrested. In the police court, next
day, he said it was a little joke, but he
was committed in default of ST 900 ball.
Fatally Beaten and Robbed
CHICAGO, H., June n.-John Burke,
stock dealer of Youngstown, O., was