Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-04-02
WISCONSIN ITEMS

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THE 14-year-old son of DR.. A. Powers,
prominent citizen of Fountain, Mimi,
tried to get on caboose of pusher
used to help trains up the hill beyond
Lou1sboro. He fell and the wheels
passed across his neck, completely be-
heading him.
w. B. WILLARD, of Milwaukee, was
awarded the first prize in the State Col
legiate oratorical contest.
AN indemnity fund is offered by Mil
waukee business men, which will ex-
pedite work On the Milwaukee public
building.
GEORGE PAsCAEN, ex-sheriff of Milwau
kee County, died on the 30th, after a
long illness. He was 43 years old.
JAMES PLuNKETT, village marshal,
who lost two out of five prisoners he
was taking through Eau Claire from
Dorchester to Neilsville, ON the 9th,
was locked up there next day. The
other prisoners had been sent on with
q deputy. From a revolver found on
Plunkett's person, he had discharged
several shots into the crowd at the de-
Pot, when the, prisoners escaped.
When arraigned, Plunkett was too
drunk to plead, and was re-committed
to jail.
THE Wisconsin Sea ndinavian Total
Abstinence Society met at Eau Claire
on the 28th.
ExMAYoR O'NEILL, president of the
Merchants Exchange Bank, of Milwau-
kee, died in that city on the 28th, after
a brief illness from pneumonia. He
was 70 years old.
The storm of Thursday night was the
most general and severe for many years.
PETER HANsMAN and w. w. Meredith,
charged with Matchmaking George
Maloney, of Sun Prairie, waived ex-
animation.
The American Loan Associs ton filed
additional securities at Madison, and
will be permitted to do business in
Wisconsin.
ORE traffic has commenced from the
iron mines to the Ashland and Two
Harbors docks.
Much activity JIG shown at the Mil
waukee shipyards in anticipation of
busy season Of navigation.
BAD River Indians think the con-
gressional appropriation in their aid is
made to aid pine land sharks.
IT is reported that Roswell Miller
will be succeeded as general manager
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
railway, by Supt. A. J. Earring.
EMMA GAARD YVES acquitted at Ashland
OF the charge of attem pting to murder
her husband.
A TERRIFIC storm of wind and snow
prevailed in Milwaukee and throughout
the West on the night OF the 9th. In
many places buildings were wrecked.
A COMMITTEE of the Ashland County
I'd of oh of-
Gals with Encouragement of the coun-
tvs affairs.
ARCHBISHOP MICHEL HESS died at La
Crosse at 7:45 on the evening of the
evening of the Goth. He was conscious
to the last breath, and knew he was
a bout to die. but said nothing Of espe-
cial moment.
THE expenses of the state institution
fo1 the month of March were as follows:
State Hospital for the Insane, Sc, PSI. As;
Northern Hospital for the Insane, S.
OO8.39; School for the Deaf, S3,496.46;
School for the Blind, $l,692.61; Indus
Prison, $5,219.97; State Public School,
$3,974.l9; total, S34,625.91
At Washburn, on the morning of the
26th, while Patrick Downey was on top
of coal derrick at the Northwestern
Company's dock, one of the guys gave
way, letting the derrick fall with him.
He struck on his head, and sustained
Injuries from which he died in about
five minutes. He leaves family of q.
wife and four children.
WILLIAM MCGEEHAN, manager of the
charcoal kilns at Saxton, was thrown
from load of wood, sustaining serious
injuries. Several OF his ribs are broken.
1t is thought that he cannot recover.
The expense of the Perrin trial fig
ures up to S4,576. This amount Ash
and County is called upon to settle.
THE house of Harvard Durham, in
the town of Clear Creek, was totally
destroyed by fire. Two of Mr.. Dun
hams sons slept down stairs, and
two others on the upper floor.
One of the boys down stairs dis
covered the fire. He called the others
and rushed from the house. In the
excitement the youngest brother, aged
t, was left in the burning building. Up
On discovering this. Everton Durham,
The Oldest of the four, rushed through
the burning stairway, and wrapping his
little brother in blanket, tossed him
to the boys below and then jumped
himself. The parents were absent at
the time.
CHARLES ROBERTS, horsethief wanted
1T Neillsville for a year past, appeared
at Eau Claire and was jailed, to be
taken to Neilsville for trial.