Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-08-06
BADGER NOTES.

a FASHIONABLE wedding was that at
La Crosse, in which Miss Ella Leonora
Palmer and Alfred Rogers were the
principals.
Miss LAPHAM a former La Crosse
school teacher, is candidate for super
intendent of the Houston County
MINI schools.
Jos. SEMsCH, of La Crosse, was arrest
ed in Caledonia, Mimi, by Sheriff Scott
He was wanted for forgery. Semsch is
well-known.
MADIsoN's six street-car drivers struck
for $40 instead of $35 per month. The
strike lasted ten minutes, six more men
being put IN IN place of the old men. The
cars will jolt for awhile, but the compa-
ny is ahead.
STATE Labor convention will be held
In Milwaukee September 5.
CREAM City and Milwaukee City rail-
roads will be operated under one man
agement.
The school census of Madison shows
4,0o0 children, of whom 2,031 attended
public schools last year
THE earnings of the Milwaukee &
Northern Railroad for the month of
July were $127 ,245, against SlO3,S57 for
the same month In 1885, an increase of
So, 1873, or 229 per cent.
The name of the WigWam Slipper
Company, of Milwaukee, under which
title the slipper manufacturing business
of A. w. Rich has been carried on, has
been changed to the A. w. Rich Shoe
Company.
THE Frawler House, at Eau Claire,
and contents has been attached on
local claim of $500.
CHARLES ANDERSON passed a forged
Il, e.,
La Crosse, and is now awaiting trial.
Mrs, CLARA MORTON, recently removed
by process of law from the residence of
Alexander Watson, the wealthy Eau
Claire lumberman, whose legal wife she
claims to be, and whose housekeeper she
he'd been for many years, made another
sensation on the 31st Mrs Morton
and her married sister, a lady of
wealth and standing, went to the
Watson residence to get some
pictures Mrs. Morton had left.
Mr.. Watson, who is slowly dying
of Bright's disease, reclined helplessly
in an invalid chair on the porch. His
nurse, a stout middle-aged lady, or
dered Mrs. Morton and her sister from
the premises. A violent conflict en-
sued. When it was over one of the
ladies had black eye, one had been
thrown violently from the -orch and
badly hurt; one had had nea1,y all her
clothes torn off, and Mrs. Morton and
her sister had retreated. Prosecution
will follow.
THE Lake Monona Assembly manage
ment is planning to have Henry NJ.
Stanley at its grounds in the fall.
NELs PREMo, keeper of ''The Poplars,"
La Crosse, North Side resort, was ar
rested or a bench warrant issued by
Judge Newman and was bound over to
appear at the next term of the circuit
court. His bail was fixed at $780,
Two buildings at Prairie du CHEN, that
were occupied by r. r. Schumacher as
a residence and store-room, were de-
stroyed by fire. They belonged to F.
Schultz, and were valued at $500.
ARTICLES of association have been
filed with the secretary of state by the
Crete Lumber Company, of Eau Claire;
capital stock $4,000; incorporators, w
K. Coffin, c. IL. Ingram and De Witt S.
Clark.
The residents of the West Side, Mil
waukee, have been kicking up great
rumpus on account of bad smells, which
they claim emanate from the city garb-
age crematory The proprietors, in or
der to prove their innocence, have now
agreed to transport the garbage out into
the lake for thirty days. A continuance
of the bad odors will prove that
g 'twasn't them"
DIR. FRANK POWELL, Richard Fahey
and Frank 0. Smith have purchased a
tract of about seventy-five acres of land
at Pine Bluff, La Crosse. The tract lays
along the river front from below River
junction station. The new owners want
the lana for camping purposes.
The Interstate Medical Society meets
at Ashland, August u. Besides the
business session the medics will also
contrive little pleasure.
CAPT. HARRY CLAY, formerly of the
Colby House at Ashland, and one of the
most popular hotel men in the North
west, has been elected manager of the
Island View House at Bayfield,.
The young ladies who rent out their
voices for the ''hello" office up at Eau
Claire, were startled almost into hys-
terlcs, the other day, when one of the
electric railway wires dropped onto
telephone line and shot its meteoric con-
tents into the switchboard at the central
office. The freak of the electric cur
rent was peculiar. 1t burned the tele-
phone wire into crisp for two blocks
PRAIRIE DU CHEN is negotiating for
starch factory
AID. SCHoMERs jumped off the fast
mail train near La Crosse. His legs are
IN splinters now.
A FIRE occurred at Prairie du Chen.
on the 18th, which for a time threatened
10 destroy several residences on Main
Street. 1t originated in r. r. Shu-
hackers residence from children play
ing with matches. The building and
contents were destroyed. Loss about
81 900; insured for $500.
0. A. OSBORN, a Milwaukee druggist
who sold tickets to rattle off his stock
July /, failed to do SO, although he had
taken in considerable money by means
of circular issued explanatory of the
scheme. Ra was arrested by United
States Marshal Marshall, charged with
fraud in not returning the money thus
secured after he had changed his mind
about the rattle. Mr.. Osborn says he
has returned all but $40, and intends to
give that back to the ticket holders. He
was held in $500 bail.
THROUGH the efforts of Mayor Will
marth and other citizens the labor trou-