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

years. one leaves Udue eWo WoOhs
old.
! Mrs. w F. Radtke, of the Sixth ward
died Friday, after four months sick
ness, aged AZ years. Her funeral was
held from st. Johns Lutheran church
Sunday afternoon.
An unusually heavy rain storm
broke over the city shortly after day
light this morning, accompanied with
severe thunder and lightning. A wet
summer is predicted by weather prog
nosticators.
President Miller, of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railway, yester-
day announced the appointment of A..
J. Earring as general manager of the
St. Paul system, and the appointment
of w. G. Collins as general superin-
tendent, to take effect June Is.
Thursday last the Marquette col
lege baseball club, of Milwaukee, play
ed two games with the Sacred Heart
college nine on the Mutual grounds
here. The forenoon game was won by
the Marquettes, 5 to 2, and in the after
noon contest the Sacred Hearts we're
victorious by to 6.
Saturday afternoon Chas. Mackay's
oldest daughter, aged 8 years, while
playing on the car track at Forncrook
& Reyes factory, fell and the car ran
over her arm, but strange to say the
arm was not broken, although the car
was loaded with three or four children,
and she escaped with little if any in
jury.
Many here at Miss Dafter's former
home will be interested in the following
item appearing in The Sentinel of yes
terday, dated Oconomowoc:
"The engagement of Miss Katherine
Dafter, of Marinette, to George Small,
son of Judge D. w. Small, is announced.
Miss Dafter is now at Woodlands, the
home of the Smalls, and the wedding
will take place shortly
For fine touch of wit and play
upon words, equal to the poet Lambs
best effort, commend us to the follow
ing note received few days ago from
one of our subscribers, Watertown
boy:
While looking over my papers to-day,
[ was surprised to find the lower por-
ton seemingly moist. No wonder
Down at the bottom lay the bill for last
years REPUBLICAN, all "dew." Please
find inclosed postofice order.
Rev. ]. M. Cleary, of Kenosha, than
whom there is not more eloquent adj
vocate in Wisconsin, will deliver a
Temperance address in St. Bernard's
church next Sunday evening at 7:30
O'Clock. Allinterested in the advocacy
of temperance will find pleasure in lis
tening to Father Cleary, who has we'll
earned the title of one of the most gift
ed temperance champions in the United
States.
The formal transfer of The Milwau-
kee Journal to the new purchasers was
made Monday, L. [. Boyd, L. w. Me
man and j. w. Schaum taking possess
sion of the Kraus interest. Mr.. Boyd
is an old Watertown boy, son of the
late Rev. F. w. Boyd, and during the
Cleveland administration held the re-
Ownership of the United States Land
Office at Bayfield,. We wish The Jour-
nal success under the new regime.
The large clock of the Sidney ad-
vertising clock company, hung in the
postoffice, is attracting general atten-
ton and at all times of day many peo-
pie may be seen standing around
watching the time to roll by when the
bell rings and the cylinders revolve
showing three advertisements each
revolution. The cylinders change every
five minutes The clock is under the
supervision and care of A. Wiggenhorn.
WATERFOWL is at last possessed of
band, one having been recently organ
lied under the leadership Of c. j.
Wenck, composed of eight pieces. The
band practices in rooms in the Electric
Light building. 1t has seemed one of
the strangest of strange things for a
musical city like Watertown to be with
out band. We trust that the new or
ganization will meet with every encour-
agement and be well supported. It is
due to the interest of our city that the
band be well sustained.
The body of an acrobat named
Murdoch, missing since Friday, was
found in the river at Chicago with five
ugly wounds on the head, which indi-
Gated murder. The suspected murder
er was thought to be performer with
the Inter-Ocean circus. In some way
at Chicago, Watertown got mixed up
with the IDter-Ocean's dates and last
Monday was the day set down for the
Inter-Ocean to perform here. Conse-
quently, several kilograms from Chica-
go dailies were received here Monday
asking their correspondents to look af-
ter Murdoch, but it is tolerably certain
that the Inter-Ocean did not make it's