Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-15
WISCONSIN ITEMS

THE Superior Lumber Company at
Ashland, Wis, sold 60,OOO,O0O feet OF
lumber to Omaha parties.
SUPREME court decisions show that the
election of Henry e. Legler as secretary
of the Milwaukee School Board is valid.
SENATOR SpooNER has interested him
self for Indians in Northern Wisconsin
who are reported to be In de 1ger OF
starving unless relieved.
DR.. William Leavitt Candee died at
his residence, $40 Cass Street, Mllwau-
kee, on the 18th, at the advanced age of
SO years. His death had been expected
for several days, as of late he had be-
come quite feeble, although having no
particular ailment. He passed away
quietly, the physician pronouncing
death to be due to nothing but general
failure.
PRAIRIE DU CHEN has granted George
2. Clark $4,000 bonus on condition of
his erecting q foundry and machine
shop at cost of So ,00U, and to employ
ten workmen for a period of five years.
IT is doubtful if the amount of sick
ness in Madison at the present time has
q parallel in the history of the city. Be-
tween 900 and 700 are on the sick list,
most of them being victims of the pre-
vailing Russian ailment. Three of the
leading physicians of the city, Drs. Fox,
Favill and Gill are laid up with la grippe
and overwork attendant upon the great
amount of sickness that has demanded
their services.
MRS. MARY CIIoPPELL, q pensioner of
the war of 1872, died at Eau Claire.
THE destitute La Pointe Indians have
applied to the Indian office for $l22,-
600 to buy blankets and food.
JACK REINER, well-known local char
acter of Madison, died of pneumonia
on the 10th, aged A. He came to Mad
ison at an early day, and for several
years had been city bill poster.
NEGOTIATIONS are now pending and
have nearly been completed whereby
the immense plant of the Milwaukee
Cement Company is to be transferred
to syndicate composed of English cap
itaiists. The capital of the company is
$300,t00, and the price agreed upon for
the transfer is said to be about 500, 000
or on basis of SLIGO for the stock.
The syndicate which is negotiating
with the company has been
quietly buying up other cement prop
critics throughout the United States dur
ing the past six months, its object being
tC obtain control of the cement product
of the entire country.
In the municipal court at Madison
Peter Draper was sentenced to three
years in state prison for stealing box
of shoes from Chicago & North-W est
ern freight car.
THE supposed attempt at suicide by
Nebon Gard at Ashland is about to be
investigated by the courts. The man
was shot through the head, and, al
though the wound at first WAS thought
to be fatal, his recovery is now prob
able. The circumstances of the
affair were rather mysterious.
but Emil Lampe made complaint
against the mans wife, charging
her with the shooting. Lampe, who
lived on the floor below the rooms occu
pied by Gard, on hearing the shooting
ran up stairs and asked who had the
revolver and who had done the shooting
The wounded man replied, ."She did
it." mer ming his wife. Atthe prelimin-
airy examination Mrs. Gard was held
for assault with intent to murder.
A MAN named Biorke, aged about So
and employed as a cabinet maker by
Frederickson & Sons, of Madison. COM
mitted suicide on the night of the Sth,
on the old mill road near the northern
limits of the city, by shooting himself
through the mouth with a 32-callber re-
volver. He was discovered lying by the
road side by young man who was re-
turning home about midnight. The
suicide had lately been drinking heavi-
ly, ans is thought to have become des-
pendent.
The Milwaukee Advancement Associ-
alton elected T. l.. Kelly president, and
L. Z. Rogers secretary.
ARCHBISHOP HESS is reported to be in
improved health. The talk about the
appointment of coadiutor is pro-
nounced premature.
1T is doubtful if Thomas Adams, who
skipped with funds of the Milwaukee x
Wyoming Investment Company, can be
extradlted from Canada.
MICHAEL LYNCH, a pioneer of La
Crosse, is the first victim OF the pre-
vailing influenza, the disease having
eliminated in pneumonia. He leaves
family of wife and five grown children.
The Catholic knights Will conduct the
obsequies.
john E. CHILDs, d veteran of the
Union ARM, was buried with military
donors at sIland on the Sth.
He spent fourteen months in Ander-
sonville prison, and, though he had
never since enjoyed good health, had
never applied for pension.
The Milwaukee Curling and Recrea-
ton club opened their club house with
an informal reception.
HENRY E. LEGLER was elected secre-
tary of the Milwaukee School Board on
the twelfth ballot.
A ST. PAUL firm has taken one-third
of the stock in the new EaGt Side Mil
waukee hotel.
ROBERT 6. sIEBEcKER, of Madison, has
been appointed judge of the Ninth Ju-
dicial Circuit, to succeed the late Judge
Alva Stewart Tor the term ending the
first Monday IN January, 1891. Mr..
Siebecker is n Democrat, but his ap-
poinfrnent gives general satisfaction, ir-
respective of party.
AT the first meeting OF the Eau Claire
Board of Education. on the 9th, re-
solution was adopted under the Bennett
law appointing seven men to look out
for eli children who ought to be in
school, and who are more apt to be
found in alleys. streets or other public
places, and take them to some school
to be designated by the parents or
guardians. and if they refuse to desig-
nate a school, then in some school to
be designated by the Board. The
question arising in this and other cities,