Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-08-26
BADGER NOTES.

| ski June %, causing her death, was held
for alleged manslaughter.
TIE full detailed arrangements and
| plans for the annual outing of the State
! Press Association will be announced in
few days. This years excursion
| promises to be one of exceptional in
terest. The start will be made from
Chicago in October. Thence the party
will proceed to Louisville over the Mo-
| non route. visiting Mammoth Cave,
Nashville, Chattanooga, Lookout Mount
ain, pass over the Western q Atlantic
Railroad, along every mile of which
battle was fought, stopping at Marietta
and marching on through Georgia to At
| lanta. The expense will be very small
and an unusually large party is expect
! ed to take advantage Of the proposed
excursion.
Two Eau Claire men, Ben Johnson
and Jim Martin, fought pugilistic bat
| tie for a girls hand. Martin was victo-
rious, but the girl refuses to have any
thing to do with either, because of the
! fight
PROF. CHARLES e. Bennett, who has
occupied the chair Of Latin in the State
! University for the past two years, has
left for Providence, r. l., where be has
accepted similar position in Brown
| University.
THE largest yield of wheat reported in
Trempealeau County is from the town
Of Gale, where Ole Scrub threshed 127
bushels from two acres.
ASHLAND now has county ". c. T.
u. Mrs. Z. A. Shores is president, Mrs.
George McAlister, of Hurley, secretary,
and Mrs. j. M. Chapple treasurer.
Four new business blocks, valued at
$3.50 900, are projected by Ashland.
JOSEPH O'NEILL, an Eau Claire boy,
fell from a scaffold at Moorhead, Mimi,
and struck the pavem ent, 40 feet be-
low. He will die.
EAU CLAIRE ministers are holding
open air services each Sunday.
THE Lafayette County fair will take
place at Darlington September to H.
The Ettrick Creamery in Trempealeau
County claims to lead ali the creameries
in this part OF the state. It's output for
June was 66, 1873 pounds Of butter, tie
greatest daily amount being 4,l02. It's
average daily product for the summer
is over 1000 pounds. The creamery is
owned by stock company of farmers.
ASSISTANT CHIEF MCGOWAN, of the Eau
Claire fire department, still holds his
office, and claims that he is entitled to
| life tenure unless removed for misbe-
| havior.
GAME WARDEN d. w. FERNANDEZ has
received letters from his deputies along
the Wisconsin River, stating that shoot
ing will be unusually good this season
on the Wisconsin bottoms.
THE Sand River Lumber Company has
100000 feet of logs hung up on Sand
River near Ashland, and it is feared they
cannot get them down this season I'M
less there is more rain.
SOME very rich looking specimens of
| ore from the Hummer itzinger prop
erty, on the Eau Claire RIVER. are on ex-
| hibition by Norman L. Buck. 1t has
assayed ST. silver 10 the ton, and there
is apparently much Of 1t.
PRESIDENT T. C. CHAMBERLIN, of the
State University, has in preparation a
circular soon to be issued giving IN
formation regarding the department of
versity. New chairs have been added
in this department.
COUNTY JUDGE LARSON has appointed
Herman Hanson special administrator
| of the estate OF John Johnson the
Eau Claire saloOnkeeper who was found
! dead in his bed. Hanson was an old
acquaintance of the deceased, and was
summoned from Elk Mound John
Johnson was an old bachelor, and no
relations of his are known to be living
in the United States.
THE State Historical Society has Just
received a valuable gift III the form of
the manuscript journals kept by James
| Duane Doty, second territorial govern
or of Wisconsin, while on an exploring
expedition through the upper lake
country Of Michigan and Wisconsin
from 1920 to 1922. They were present
ed by Webster Doty, Of St. Louis.
SGRovER CLEVELAND" was the name
on the register at the Galloway House
in Eau Claire the other day, but it
wasn't the Buffalo politician.
THE Witbeck Lumber Company, of
Marlnette, has just completed fourteen
cottages for its employees.
TIE census bulletin gives the popula-
ton of Florence to be 444, when the
enumerators found it to be 800. Supt.
Porter's attention Will be called to the
error.
THE Ashland County Board has re-
| scinded the resolution bonding the
county for 100000 The move was
made on account Of the opposition of
the Hurley faction.
JOHN JOHNSON, an Eau Claire saloon
keeper, was found deadin his bed at his
boarding house on the 18th. Johnson
I
was generally known by his neighbors
as Honest john" He had no family
and no relatives. Heart disease was ey-
identity the cause. He appeared the pre-
| vious night to be Iii his usual health.
An inquest was held and verdict
found according with the facts stated.
One of the mattresses of the Portage
House, Ashland, had narrow escape
from being burned alive in bed. She
was smoking a cigarette while in bed
and fell asleep, and her clothes caught
fire. She was badly burned and may
die.
| THoMAL PURCELL, who was convicted
| of burglary in Madison last May, has
been transferred to the Mendoza Hos
| pital for the Insane. His sentence will
not expire until November, but Gov
| Peck, at the request of Judge keyes and
several doctors, permitted his removal
to the insane asylum.
Indian Prince in Exile.
CALCUTTA Aug 22-The Jubrai or