Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-02-18
BADGER NOTES.

IHERE IS great ACTIVITY In SUBURBAN
real estate.
MANY Wisconsin people will take part
IN the National Conference Of Charities
and Corrections.
PATRICK DELANEY, a smallpox patient,
escaped from the pest house at Prairie
du Chen and was shot by an officer. He
died of the disease.
Miss IDA BRADSHAW will be made SUI
perintendent of the Sunday SCHOOL, sti-
tute work in Wisconsin.
MARINETTE will get free mail delivery
service on or about July [, 1891.
A SALE of lumber made by the III.
Witbeck Company, of Marinette, to
Buffalo firm, was about "a OO0, 900 feet,
for $3S6,000.
AT the annual meeting Of the Mari
Dette 4 Menominee Paper Company
the following officers were elected:
President, w. c. Hamilton; vice-presi-
dent, A. Spies; treasurer, w. A. Brown;
secretary and manager, Robert Nc
Alpine
PRAIRIE DU CHEN reports smallpox
on the increase.
Mrs. HEDwIG WENDLAND. tuberculosis
patient, died at Passayant Hospital.
THE Hon. John Lawler, of Prairie du
tIIICI, WdO clI4ChC1I Will pa al ~ DIS.
THE State Dairymen's Association
elected w. d. Hoard president.
LA CROSSE County's agricultural asso-
citation voted to ask the Legislature to
retain the dairy and food commission.
DR. KERsTEN has formally announced
that he will appoint exAld. John Nc
Coy oil inspector for Milwaukee about
March l.
Ar La Crosse William LEM was SEN
fenced to prison for three years for de-
sorting his family.
DANIEL CAMERON is suing the city of
La Crosse to get possession of park
worth So, 900.
JOHN M. MILLER, formerly of Miller
* HoltZ. of Milwaukee, who has amassed
a fortune of $4,000 in Denver real es
tate, recently purchased a German bar
on's castle near that city for $1O4, 600.
HARRY CUMMINGS, the Eau Claire en-
bezZler, has been sentenced to state
prison for one year.
HARRY B. SMITH, Of Milwaukee, was
chosen secretary of the State Base Ball
League.
FIRE caused about $1,000 damages in
the Wilkin Manufacturing Company's
foundry.
PROGRESSIVE Scotch citizens of La
Crosse are discussing the feasibility Of
organizing one or more Scotch societies.
Dunn County will build an insane
asylum to cost $65, COO, with large
grounds.
MILWAUKEE County has brought suit
against Sank County to recover about
$175 for the keeping of waif in the
Milwaukee County hospital at Wauwa-
tosa.
TREASURER HUMMER has demanded
1922 COO as interest on state funds, from
ex-1,reasurers Harshaw and McFetridge.
THE majority report of the committee
favors abolishing the State Board of
Charities and Reform and Supervision.
RIVER men, La Crosse business asso-
Citations and others, are protesting
against Weverhauser's Minnesota Boom
Company.
THE Wisconsin General Hospital As
ISOLATION has been incorporated at Mil
waukee, with a capital stock of $40, eco.
Mrs. Emily L. Abbot and Drs. Wal
bridge, Chandler and JObse are the IN
corporators. 1t is proposed to locate
the hospital on Seventh Street, near
Grand Avenue.
LABOR STATISTICIAN DOBBs has appoint
ed John w. Zwasky, Of Milwaukee, and
S. l.. Van Elten, OF Salem, state factory
inspectors. The former will receive
salary of 81 200, and the latter ST 900.
RECORDS show that nearly $4,000 per-
sons have been buried in Milwaukee
cemeteries.
GEO RAYMER, late editor of the Madi-
son Democrat, has gone to California for
his health.
ALL the gambling houses and places
where gambling is known to be con-
Quoted, were raided by the Ashland po-
lice. The implements of gambling will
be confiscated.
SuPT. ANDERSON, at the request of
Health Commissioner Wingate. has
closed the Seventeenth Ward school,
Milwaukee, owing to the prevalence of
diphtheria in that vicinity.
THERE are $4,000 Catholics in the do
cese of La Crosse, with an enrolment Of
1912 children in the schools. The Mil
waukee diocese has 900 Catholics,
and similar ratio would make the en-
roilment of children $1,000. while the
Green Bay diocese. with $4,000 Catho-
lies, probably has GOO, the total being
IS, 572.
MADISON students contemplate pro-
duction Of "Othello," and the populace
contemplate fleeing from the wrath to
come.
SALARIES of Ashland city officers will
be reduced so that tie yearly salary list
viii be only IS, 100 instead OF S., 800.
AFTER ten days consideration, Judge
Thomas, in the United States District
court at st. Paul, decided in favor of the
state of Wisconsin, represented by
Dist.-Atty. w. II. Frawley in the requi-
sition case OF Joseph White, wanted at
Eau Claire for burglary. Whites coun-
sci Immediately appealed to the United
States circuit court. 1t is more than
likely the case will go no farther than
that court, and that White, who has
been arrested seven times, will be
brought to Eau Claire early in March.
THE Keyes-Hill shooting case in Buff
falo County is not likely to reach the
circuit court at the present rate of prog
ress. George Hill, who was shot, is
son Of Mrs. Mayne Hill, the leper.
The first annual report of the Do
cesar School Board of the Diocese of
La Crosse shows that il contains $4,000
Catholics, with an enrolment of 5,572
children in the schools. The Mllwau-
kee Diocese has 1SO,C00 Catholics, and
similar ratio would make the enroll