Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-05-21
BADGER NOTES.

Tenth Street, was the hero of mlracu
1ous escape from death on the 18th. He
leaned too far out of a fifth-story win
dow to watch a game of ball in the alley,
and tumbled He landed twenty feet
below in a network of telegraph wires,
from which he was rescued without in
jury.
S1GvALD A. QvALE, of Eau Claire died
on the 18th of pulmonary consumption,
aged SO. He came from Norway as
boy without dollar, obtained employ
ment at manual labor with the Chicago,
st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha land
agent at Hudson; was given position
in the office, saved his salary of
@ a month, speculated in lands
100000. He was the owner of
nine-tenths of the stock of the
great Wisconsin River Land Company
and owned vast tracts all over the North
west, besides real estate in Minneapolis,
Duluth, West Superior, and Eau Claire.
lie had tried In vain every means of re-
lief from the ravages of consumption,
his last treatment being confinement in
Il steel chest from which the air was ex-
hausted gradually and replaced by oNy
gen. His wife, whom ne married year
ago, and his three stepdaughters survive
him. He had placed his estate in the
hands of three trustees, one of whom is
a brother.
Mrs EMMA CASE and Mrs Jessie Full
er, of Madison, were left $4,000 each
by the will of Frederick Haskell, of
Chicago.
IT is thought that John L. Mitchell
and Phil. Allen, Jr., will be appointed
Worlds Fair commissioners.
The La Crosse German Methodist
conference decided that the churches
II T Io1- To
nah should hold a camp meeting at La
Crosse June % to %. Stizer, Grant
County, was chosen as the place for
holding the next annual convention.
ARTICLES of association have been filed
with the secretary of the state by the
Milwaukee Ice Company; capital stock,
100000; incorporators, August K9nig,
Joseph Binder, Friedrich Metz, and
Others.
EUGENE DENIsoN was instantly killed
on the 10th, in Mcdonald Bros mill,
La Crosse, by a board being thrown
from the edger, which struck him across
the face, crushing it dreadfully. He was
30 years of age, and unmarried. His
mother lives at Northampton, La.
GREAT preparations are being made
for the reunion of the Southwestern
Wisconsin Soldiers and Sailors Associ-
alton, to be held a Prairie du Chen,
June IL, II and IS. Besides the above
association, the First, Second, Third
and Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry, the
Eighth, Twenty fifth, Thirty-tirst and
Thirty-third Wisconsin Infantry will al
80 hold their reunion at the same time
in connection with it. One fare for the
round trip has been secured for the
state of Wisconsin. All of the state of
ficers and many other distinguished
persons have promised to attend.
JOEL P TONS, of La Crosse, one of the
brothers of the late Robert p. Toms,
wealthy Detroit lawyer, who died in
1884, has begun suit 20 test his brothers
will, in the United States court, at De-
troit The will authorized the widow to
divide the estate into five equal parts,
which would have given each of the
heirs about S60,000 A clause of the will
was to the effect that if any misfortune
should occur so that she would not care
to follow the instructions in the other
clause, that she need not be bound to
distribute the property. Mrs. Toms
died intestate, and her property passed
to her sister, Mrs. Owen, who paid the
brothers and sisters of Mr. Toms but
$4,000 each, saving that Mrs. Toms had
SO ordered just before her death. Mr..
Toms now sues to have the will con-
Strued
A SENSATION was caused at Madison by
the failure of VIM. j. Park & Sons,
booksellers and binders, the largest
house of the kind in the city. The
store was closed on executions aggregat-
ing S., 900 in favor of the State Bank, of
this city. The total liabilities and
assets cannot be learned at this
writing, though it is believed that
the embarrassment will be but
temporary. William J. Park, the senior
member of the firm, has been engaged
in business here for more than thirty
years, and he has always enjoyed the
greatest respect and confidence of his
associates in business and otherwise.
The firm has been reckoned among the
most substantial in the city, and the
failure created general surprise and
sympathy 1t is believed that creditors
will be paid dollar for dollar.
LOUIS ENGE, of Eau Claire, who was
found dead on Burlington railway near
Nelson, is supposed to have been muir
dered. 1t was first supposed that he
had been brushed from the train by
contact with a telegraph pole, but the
nature of his injuries refute this theory.
Besides his watch and wallet could not
be found He was Ell route to Beef
Slough at the time.
GEORGE NJ SABIN, United States dis
trict Judge for Nevada, who recently
died at San Francisco, studied law at
Madison up to the outbreak of the re-
bellion, when he enlisted in the First
Wisconsin Regiment of three months
men, and, being mustered out, re-en-
listed in the Sixteenth Wisconsin. At
ter the war closed he went to Chicago
where he was IN business for IL time, and
finally went TO Nevada, engaging in the
practice of his profession there
Through the influence Of Senator ''Sil-
ver' Jones and Senator Thayer. Presi-
dent Arthur named him as United States
district Judge for Nevada.
THE Boston Symphony Orchestra, the
finest organization Of the kind in this
country gave concert at Milwaukee on
the 18th, under the auspices of the Arion
Musical Society.
THE Wisconsin Electric Club, new or
ganization, gave its first banquet on the
evening of the 18th, in the rooms of the
Milwaukee Commercial Club.
An effort is being made by Chicago