Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-12-02
BADGER NOTES.

LuCI tuC UOOm.
G. c. CHILDs, one of the pioneers of
Bayfield,, died at Higganum, Conn.
LARGE numbers of men have left Au
gusta for the lumber camps near the
Eau Claire River for the winter. The
prospects for large output of logs are
reported to be excellent.
A HOUSE OF ill-repute on the Peshtigo
Road, near Marinette, was destroyed by
fire. The inmates barely escaped with
their lives.
Mr.. PRIDEAUx, superintendent of the
county schools of Sawyer County, has
been requested by the school board to
resign.
FIRE on the 2Sth near the Eddy mill,
Eau Claire, destroyed dwelling, barn
and three sheds, the property of the
Empire Lumber Company. Loss about
So, 500; insured.
A LOGGER employed near Ashland re-
Gently met with a peculiar accident.
He fell, and in striking the ground
piece of stick entered his mouth and
broke off in such way as not to be no.
ticeable. One OF his companions no.
tIced the man lying on the ground. and
discovered there was something in his
mouth. 1t seemed the stick closed the
air passage, and but for the timely aid
Gated.
J. D. BELL, chief Of police of Mari
nette, has commenced an action for IL
bel against the Eagle Printing Com
pany on account of an article that APP
peared in the Eagle October 10, re-
specting the condition of Marinette
Avenue, which he alleges damaged his
character and reputation to the extent
of S., 900.
AN unknown man was struck by
Burlington engine near La Crosse and
Instantly killed.
1GNATZ WRGssLER, of Sun Prairie, was
found wandering about in a demented
condition. He was conveyed to the
Mendoza Insane Asylum.
A STATEMENT of the earnings and ex-
penses of the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST.
Paul road for October shows that the
gross earnings were SIS, Az, 600, an in
crease of 500, $50 as compared with the
corresponding month of 1890. The OPP
Grating expenses were 81 ,904 $3.50, an in
crease of STA. So, and the net earnings
were 81 ,512, 004, an increase of 1885,,
O33. For the four months ending Octo-
Der 81 the gross earnings amounted to
ST., 246, 1913.
EDWARD MUNsKI, a butcher, and an
old resident of Menomonee, committed
suicide on the Goth, by placing Win
chester rifle in his mouth and blowing
the top of his head off. Financial and
domestic trouble brought on intemper-
ance, and this is the supposed cause.
His wife was compelled to leave him
some time ago. He leaves a family of
eight children IN poor circumstances.
He was a member of the Odd Fellows
and Sons of Herman.
THE directors of the Menomonee
Falls & Western Railway Company are
asking the towns along the proposed
extension for assistance. They con-
template pushing the road as far as
Beaver Dam the coming summer,
and possibly as far as Montello, and
eventually as far as Superior CITY; and
the road, when completed, will be
eighty-tWo miles shorter between Mil
waukee and Superior than any road
now in operation.
The Grand Division of Sons of Tenn
perance elected d. E. Gilman, of Eure-
ka, as their worthy patriarch.
JAMES RoRR, of Linden, Iowa County,
was found dead in the road, he having
fallen while returning home on foot
from Mineral Point.
A GYMNASIUM class has been started in
the Y. NJ. c. A. at Ashland. William
Sloan, the secretary of the organization,
is the instructor.
SPECIAL United States land agents have
been in Ashland since the opening of
the Omaha indemnity district, doing
detective work among those who have
field on the land. Startling develop
ments are promised, among which will
be the arrest of a prominent lumber
man, who has stationed settlers on some
of the choicest of the lands, with view
to obtaining final possession.
The Byrnes diggings, near Cuba City,
are driving out large quantities of pure
lead ore. These mines have been
worked for several years, and are as
good if not better than ever.
THE pre- partitions for logging in North
ern Michigan and Wisconsin are. as a
rule, on an enlarged scale. Another
indication of an increased cut is the fact
that the note OF curtailment. which is
usually sounded very loudly about this
time, Is not heard at all this fall.
JOHN PHILLIPS, a mouider in the en-
ploy of William Bayley & Sons, Milwau-
kee, wasskilled on the 23d, by heavy
casting falling upon him at the foundry
on Chicago Street. He died in tie po-
lice ambulance before it reached the
Emergency Hospital.
A QUEER case against a dentist is on
trial at La Crosse The plaintiff, Matt
Erickson, went to DIR. Foster and had
several teeth pulled. Afterwards he
had trouble with his lungs, could not
work, was confined to the bed, had
nurses and doctors and was unable to
work at all until the following season.
He now alleges that number of weeks
after visiting the doctor, he coughed up
tooth, after which he recovered slowly.
For the suffering, expenses, loss of time,
ETC., resulting from the doctors drop
ping a tooth into into his windpipe,
plaintiff asks damages.
THE 4-year-old son of farmer named
Williams, of Porterville, near Eau
Claire, was missed from his home. The
neighboring farmers assembled and
search party was organized. The little
fellow was found in the woods next
morning, four miles from his home,
none the worse for his long exposure.
The Board of Supervisors of Door
County refused to appropriate 81 900
for the projected road from Sturgeon
Bay to the canal.
WHILE Daniel T. Chandler and wife,
of Eau Claire, was driving the horse
ran away, upsetting the buggy. Mr..
Chandler had his knee cap dislocated