Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-03-26
WISCONSIN ITEMS

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corresponding with Marinette parties
with view Of locating plant there.
ALEX NADEAU has at last received from
the White River Lum Der Company the
$4,000 awarded him for the loss of q leg
while III tie employ of that corporation.
A REUNION of the Fortieth, Forty-sec-
ond and Forty-ninth Wisconsin in
fantry regin ents will be held in Bara-
DOC the coming summer, providing g
sufficient sum can be raised to pay the
local expenses, which it is estimated
will be about 800. The Fiftieth Regi-
ment is invited to participate in tie
reunion. The reunion will bring about
200 old soldiers.
A SECTION Of one of the ice-houses of
the Peoria Ice Company, located near
Madison, collapsed on the 2lst. AL
bert Meyer, a workman, was caught by
and was seriously but not fatally hurt.
GUSTAV THOMPSON, lad of Is, was ia
tally crushed in a freight elevator, in
Johnson Bros bakery, on Broad way,
Milwaukee, on the 2lst.
The defunct Pierce County Agricultu-
raj Society has sent to the secretary of
state check for $Il0, this being the
amount of its finances remaining on
hand, and is returned to the state for
monetary aid rendered by it. This is
the first instance on record where an
association receiving state aid has ever
made return of any balance left in its
exchequer.
MoHR, ZINKzIsEN & Co., of Milwaukee,
have sued st. Paul man to recover
money advanced for margins.
EDWIN Fl. ABBOT was elected presi-
dent OF the Wisconsin Central Railroad
Company, vice e. L. Colby, resigned.
LoGG1Na operations in the vicinity of
Ashland have nearly closed. The soft
roads compelled haulers to slack up in
the woods where the snow was deep.
The work continues, but under great
disadvantages. Lumbermen, however,
are satisfied, having had profitable
season, accomplishing their labor at less
cost than usual, and banking larger
supply Of logs than ever before. The
railroads are delivering nearly mil
lion of feet daily at some mills from re-
mote camps.
The agent of the state fish hatchery
in Ashland is dumping several millions
OF spawn into CheQuamegon Bay.
Whltetish thrive well and multiply we'll
IN these waters. A yearly deposit is
made. A hole is cut in the ice and the
cans emptled in the manner prescribed
by the chief hatcher.
EDWIN COOPER, who killed his brother
IN family quarrel in the Town of
Greenfield, Milwaukee County, was on
the 10th sentenced to twenty years in
the penitentlary.
MILWAUKEE city bonds to the amount
OF $4,000 were sold on the Goth to a
New York firm, the highest bidders. A
total premium OF 81 800 was realized.
MADIsoN's new opera house will be
formally opened April z.
DR.. 0. w. CARLSON, of Milwaukee, WAS
elected president of the Northwestern
Homeopathic Association at its conven-
ton in Chicago.
A MAN who registered at the Gault
House, Chicago, IS John Russell, Mil
waukee, was found dead in his room.
ALoNzo L. BoYNToN. the pioneer liv-
Springs to recover from the effects OF
the serious iaIl he suffered several
weeks ago.
the bill providing en- appropriation of
Is, 100 for the removal of the sandEar IN
Milwaukee harbor.
PETER TREUMER, an old resident of
Milwaukee. and a well known figure in
soldier and turner circles, died in that
city on the 18th, aged 40.
HOLMAN BooRMAN, of Reedsburg. aged
about 80 years, died In his room at the
Lake City hotel at Madison on the 18th,
nom the effects of laudanum admins
tered by his own hand. Melancholia
over love affairs is said to have rendered
him insane.
The Rev. Henry Faville was, on the
18th, installed pastor of the Congrega-
tional Church at La Crosse. The exer-
cises consisted of a sermon by the Rev.
DIR. Eaton, president OF Beloit College:
installing prayer, by the Rev. DR.. Collie;
charge to the pastor, by the Rev. Jud-
son Ellsworth; right hand OF fellowship,
the Rev. DR.. Crawford; charge to the
people, Rev. John Favllle.
W. G. BoNDURANT, formerly with the
Hall Safe & Lock Company, whose
marital woes made sensational chapter
III Milwaukee about two years ago, has
been declared insane in Chicago.
T. CHAPMAN, formerly of Mazomanie,
and at one time one of the best known
characters of Western Dane County,
died in Idaho. aged so. During the war
he was actively engaged with q concert
which he took on the road
under the name of the "Bsdger State
By this means he was en-
abled to contribute largely to the funds
Of the sanitary commission. He was q
ovial, although eccentric man, and had
hosts of friends all through the state.
Mrs. JOSEPHINE SouKUP, of La Crosse,
aged -. tell dead OF heart disease while
On the way to visit neighbour.
DUANE GREENE, who mysteriously dis
at Hebron, is thought to have
committed suicide.
MILWAUKEE Irish-Americans held a
banquet at the Plankinton House in
honor st. Patrick's Day.
HERMAN KRUsCHKE, head of a furni-
lure mandatory, in Ashland, has been
arrested, charged with having more
wives than one. Kruschke is an Old
nan, and has lived in Ashland a num-