Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-01-21
BADGER NOTES.

10th complaining of pain Ill his side.
His wife awoke in the night and found
him dead. The neighbors thought he
was in trance, but physicians called
applied powerful battery without Ell
feet. Heart disease was probably the
cause. Deceased was son-in-law of
John Jackson, of Eau Claire.
MILWAUKEE curriers' won the Raffin
medal at Chicago.
FIVE boys broke through the ice at
North Avenue bridge, Milwaukee, but
were rescued.
PETER FLANAGAN was killed at the
Milwaukee flushing tunnel.
ASHLAND will put good ball team into
the Northwestern League.
THE Rev. John Ralph, a pioneer in
Wisconsin Congregationalism, died at
Rochester, Wis.
THE Schlesinger syndicate has secured
all the money needed to carry on all It's
enterprises.
THE State Horticultural Society meets
at Madison February 2.
THE lifeiess body of Walter Patterson,
aged %, a well-connected young man,
who has been wild in his habits, was
found in the hallway of an Eau Claire
clearinghouse on the night of the 18th.
There was bad bruise on his forehead.
1t is not known whether he fell down
stairs or was the victim OF foul play.
THE La Crosse city council has voted
to issue bonds to the amount of 100000
for new city hall, thirty to be OF 81 900
each, and twenty of $500 each.
EcKE BROS. general store, at Hilbert,
was robbed of razors, knives, silver
ware and fine revolvers.
THE scheme to take land from Wood,
Clark and Marathon counties and form
a new county is being agitated.
Gov. PECK appointed his son George
an aide-de-camp on his staff.
WISCONSIN people in Washington are
very active socially.
LA Crosse COUNTY authorizes are drill
ing for an artesiap well at the insane asy
lum, and will 60 down 500 feet.
CHARLES ARMSTRONG caused the arrest,
at Ashland, of man named John A.
Armstrong, no relation, for running
away with his wife.
CHIEF OF PoLICE BYRNE, of La Crosse,
has piece of continental paper money
made at Annapolis, Md, in 1770. 1t has
| the inscription on the back, ut is death
| to counterfeit"
THOMAS BAPDoN, in the circuit court at
Ashland, recovered against John f..
| $S7, 79S.07 and certain property, includ-
! ing the Burton House at Hurley, was
ordered sold to satisfy the judgment.
THE Paint River Iron Mining Com
| pany aAat at Ashland and elected j. III.
| Stack president.
EDWARD EMERSON ran his arm against
| planer in an Eau Claire mill and may
| lose it.
WAUzEKA, Grant County, is big enough
| to be village, and will be incorporated
as such.
| Ten of the seventy county school SUI
| perintendents of this state are ladies.
| the highest salary paid is ST 200. Only
| five counties in the state pay that much,
viz : Columbia, Manitowoc, Marathon,
Vernon and Milwaukee.
GEORGE HILEs has associated himself
| with some Chicago capitalists for the
purpose OF operating line OF car
| cites" in Milwaukee over Grand Ave-
nue., East Water Street and Farwell,
and possibly some South Side streets.
| The cars, which are step between a
| street car and an omnibus, will be fur
| nished with conductors, and charge a
| fare Of cents. Having wheels like an
| omnibus, they will run independently
! of car tracks, and stop wherever hailed.
THE Painters and Plumbers Unions
| of Milwaukee will demand the adoption
| of the eight hour day May l. The Ma
| sons and Bricklayers' Union will, Oh
| April l, ask that their minimum wages
| be fixed at IS cents an hour. The Hold
| carriers Union will demand an increase
| from ~ to q cents an hour, beginning
April /.
Two men who committed a burglary
f, at the residence of Max Well. Cass
Il of
| four hours.
i IT is predicted that the session of the
| Legislature will belong
IT has been discovered that the track
| at Schlitz Park was not five miles long.
| Neil Munroe is not the champion OF
Wisconsin.
| The pearls gathered from the Wiscon-
sin rivers attracted much attention at
| the Paris Exposition, and an ex-
pert who writes Tor the Chicago
Tribune claims to have handled $S1 ,000
worth of them during the past three
years.
The Association for the Advancement
of Milwaukee held it's annual meeting
on the 14th, to receive the reports OF
the secretary and treasurer for the past
year and elect officers for the coming
year. The association elected the fol-
lowing board of directors: VIM. Plan
kinton, B. b. Hopkins. c. G. Rogers,
John E. Hansen, Gustav Pabst A. L.
Smith, A. w. Rich, T. L. Kelly, B. M.
We'll. c. NJ. Cottrill, Emil DUR. The
board Of directors, in accordance with
the provisions of the Eew constitution
of the Association, elected the following
officers: President, G. G. Rogers; first
vice president b. b. Hopkins; second
vice president, John +. Hansen; treas
urer, VIM. Plankinton; secretary, Gus
tav Pabst.
Mrs. MELVIN A. WHITE, wife of farm
er Of the town Of Wheaton, Chippewa
County, haze been asleep for three
weeks, and all efforts To awaken her
have been unsuccessful. She had been
suffering from nervous prostration.
THE lake reservoir at Prairie du Chen
is now an immense skating rink over
mile in extent. Over 500 persons were
counted upon the ice at one time.
GEORGE GERNoN, a prominent citizen