Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-04
BADGER NOTES.

THE memory of Marcus Thrane, OF
Eau Claire, was honored at meeting OF
Scandinavians in Chicago.
A. C. Brown, the well-known million
aire banker of Marinette, committed
suicide on the LIST. Mr. Brown suffered
from a severe attack of the grip last
winter, from which he bad never recov-
cred, and of late had shown such
symptoms as to arouse the fears of
friends that his mind had become affect
ed.
The twentieth annual report of the
Wisconsin State Horticultural Society is
beieg distributed by Secretary Hoxie. It
contains full account of the proceed
l1lgs of the meeting in June, 1880, also of
the annual meeting in Madison in Feb
ruary, 1890, and reports from the COM
.mittee on observation, etc. A portrait
of Peter Henderson, the famous Long
Island gardener, serves as frontispiece
to the volume.
/ ARTICLES of association have been
filed with the secretary of state by the
Windsor Manufacturing Company, of
Milwaukee; capital stock, $50 600; in
corporators, Charles D. Wind, j. V.
Quarles and William w. Wight. The
Nebraska Land and Improvement Com
panty VI N1llWdukO0, uAS HIOu u r0SOlu-
ton dissolving the corporation.
A SUIT for 100000 has been fled in
the Chicago circuit court by the Thomp-
son 4 Walkup Company against the
Northern Pine Land Company and S. G..
Cook q CO., for damages claimed to have
resulted from the removal of 100000
feet of pine timber belonging to the lat
ter from land which they acquired from
the Northern Pine Land Company.
The land in question is in Bayfield,
County.
AN Indian was shot on the island just
in front of Prairie du Chen on the
night of the Goth, by a saloonkeeper
named Wagner The Indian was in
toXicated and was throwing stones
through the saloon windows. He was
shot through the head, and will prob
ably die. Wagner gave himself up to
the authorities. 1t is thought that he
was justified in the shooting. The In
dian was intoxicated before going to the
island.
IT is reported that the big coal dealers
| of Milwaukee are trying to form COM
and at the same time freeze out the lit
tie ones.
| WHILE unloading curbstones, on the
! Goth, Anton Geiger, a teamster in the
employ of Cook 4 Hyde, of Milwaukee,
had his left leg broken above the ankle.
J THE purchase of large tract of land
in Bay View, it is thought, is in the in
terest of the Wisconsin Central Rail-
road.
A BRIDE at Stanley, Wis, wants her
marriage annulled because her husband
| is q negro and not an Indian, as she
! supposed.
CHARLES J.. LIND, who SHOT himself
Hillsborough, Wis.
THE Milwaukee Exposition directors
will contest the attack on their title to
the site Of the building.
w. B. LOGAN, over so years of age, who
served in a La Crosse regiment during
the war, iourneyed from PENNSYLVANIA
to Waupaca, with his wife, in order that
| they could spend the remainder of their
days in the Veterans Home.
w. X. FREEMAN, of Eau Claire, lost his
suit against the United States Electric
! Light Company, in New York, Judge
Ingraham having dismissed his action to
recover 500, 900 damages for breach of
contract and for balance of salary. The
suit was based on contract with Charles
r. Flint, then president of the COM
pany, by which Freeman was to
receive 500, 900 when the patent on his
| invention of the incandescent lamp was
! perfected, and was to be employed by
the company at salary of $50 per week
pending the application for and the life
of the patent. The judge held that
| there was no evidence that Flint had
authority to act for the company. AS
to the balance of salary the Judge held
that Freeman had virtually resigned.
|
master at Eau Claire, became so violent
ly insane that he had to be placed in
safe-keeping.
RAsMUs CHRISTENSEN, farmer, was
killed by gravel train near Oregon,
Dane County. He leaves large fam
lily.
JOHN MCQULLON, town treasurer of
Seymour, Eau Claire County, who was
arrested on a charge of embezzlement
on account Of an alleged shortage in his
books, has been discharged and fully ex-
onerated, his records being examined
and found all right.
NEGOTIATIONS for the sale of the Mil
waukee City Railway to the Willard
syndicate are said to have been prac-
tically consummated.
DAVID Mccormick, who was recently
acquitted of the charge of numbering
! Patrolman Schumacher, at Detroit, was
born and brought up in Milwaukee.
When boy he worked there as a mes
senger for the Western Union Telegraph
Company.
THE Madison Common Council re-
moved Fire-Chief Hughes and expelled
| two of it's members.
THE affairs of the Manhattan Mutual
Fire Insurance Company, of New York,
are about to be wound up by legal pro-
cess. d. II. Wagner, formerly of Eau
Claire, is vice-president and manager.
Killed With a Ball Bat.
JOLIET, Ill, May 29.-Dennis Comisky,