Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-09-23
BADGER NOTES.

out Wisconsin, died at Portland, Ore,
from injuries received while he was
driving to church, his team having
thrown him from his carriage.
OVER 5 per cent. premium was bid by
6 Chicago banking house for the last
batch Of city bonds issued by Milwau-
kee.
THE shooting at Trempealeau of Louis
Donald by James Decker WIS, it seems,
owing to the fact that number of boys
have been depredating on Decker's
yard Decker fired. Donald lost his arm.
A FARMER in Door County has linn
on crab apple tree two feet long con-
tanning ninety eight apples.
A CONVENTION of butter and cheese
men will be held at Madison next Feb
ruarv. Arrangements for the meeting
will be made in Chicago October 2.
JOSEPH ZEHNTER, Madison grocer,
was obliged to make an assignment for
the benefit of his creditors His assets
bilities will amount to $1,000. The as
signment was necessitated by an attach
ment levied on the stock by Reed, Muir
dock & Co., a Chicago wholesale house,
for 81 200.
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Editorial Association met at Milwaukee
on the 18th to perfect arrangements for
the contemplated Southern excursion.
An invitation asking the editors to ex-
tend their journey to Montgomery, was
read, and will be complied with if pos
sible. The excursion will leave October
IA.
The commissioner of pensions has an
nOunced the appointment of DR.. M. r.
Hewitt as member of the Pension Ex-
aiming Board in Milwaukee.
THE State Agricultural Society closed
it's annual exhibit at Milwaukee on the
18th, after the most successful fair in it's
history. The attendance on the fourth
day was estimated at over 10000.
GAME WARDEN FERNANDEZ says that
hunters throughout the state are not
doing the usual amount of shooting
The fact that no dogs can be used in
chasing the game interferes with the
thorough enjoyment Of the sport.
PETITIONS will be sent to Washington
by settlers near Iron River to have
man detailed by the Interior Depart
ment to investigate the matter of .000,-
600 feet of white pine felled by the re
cent cyclone, and to arrange some way
that it can be utilized before it is de-
large pine trees are piled twenty feet
high in places, and as settlers have no
right to cut the timber it will have to
lie there until some action is taken by
the department. 1t is estimated that at
least $50, GOO worth of pine was cut
down.
THE bids on the dairy building were
opened by the Board of Regents at Mad
ison. The lowest bidder was L. G. Nc
Carthy, of this city, who offered to erect
the building for $23, S75. Several bids
for the law building were also entered
below the minimum limit set aside for
this purpose, which was 100000. No
bids were accepted, owing to TECHNICAL
ties
A La CROSSE man saw Alpheus Foote,
"Brick" Pomeroy's old partner, who
went to states prison from La Crosse,
in Chicago restaurant, the other even
ing. Foote looks gray, but otherwise
looked prosperous.
THE Dane County jail has been con-
demned by the State Board of Control.
ASHLAND ore shipments for the season
amount to 968, 726 tons.
LA CROSSE has reorganized the indoor
base ball league.
THE Crawford County Agricultural So
ciety holds it's annual fair September Is,
II and Is.
A 10-YEAR-oLD son of Jacob Rabichaud,
of Florence, broke his thigh while play
ing loot ball.
IT is believed the boy who wrote from
Oregon to Sheriff Fleming, of Eau
home and taken to that state when
mere youth, is son of Mrs. Anna
Harold, of Hinckly, Mimi. It is also
thought that he may be the son of G.
w. Smith, of Eau Claire.
T. W. DEWART, of Boston. member
of the Harvard class of 1890, has been
spending some time in the vicinity of
Barron, looking for specimens of micro
scOpic botany for use IN Harvard Col
lege.
SMALL fruits are successfully grown at
Ashland. There are several varieties
of plums, that do exceedingly we'll.
Percy Beaser has in his garden several
bearing trees which yield a large crop
this year.
THE Northwestern Lumber Company's
shingle mill at Porterville, Eau Claire
County, burned with a loss of $4,000,
fully insured.
ASHLAND papers report that Jacob P.
Haynes and James c. Boyce sold to the
Montreal Lumber Company about Il, 900
acres in Ashland County and 1000 acres
in Michigan for a consideration of $780,
900.
Rev. DR.. w. S. HoRNER, of the King
Street Methodist Church at La Crosse,
will accept call to the Second Method
list Church of Detroit.
THE Ashland pulp mill Isl to be re-
built. About 100000 will be invested
in the new enterprise.
WHILE special train on the North
western road was passing through
Verona, an old man was struck and
almost instantly killed. His name was
Keller, and he was IS years old.
A HEAVY rain and hail storm fe II at
Ashland on the 18th. 1t is estim ated
thousands of dollars of damage has
been done to crops throughout the dis
trict. A heavy wind prevailed and sew
eral boats on the bay were capsized.
No lives were lost. A special from Iron
River says a cyclone ragged there at 3
o'clock. A number of trees were torn
up by the roots, and the roof of Pet
tingilPs hotel was smashed in by falling
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