Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-09-02
BADGER NOTES.


denied, as it was impossible to secure
sufficient quantity for the demand.
FREE mail delivery service at Mari
nette will begin on or about October l.
THE fast Wisconsin mare. Flossie g.,
has been cured of her lameness.
GLENwooD now has bank. The Hon.
James Johnston is its president.
The water supply for the new insane
asylum building at Menomonie is to be
stored on Billiard Hill, where reservoir
that will hold 1000 barrels has been cut
deep in solid rock.
The Wisconsin Central Railway Com
pany claims that it is over-assessed at
Ashland. If the assessment is not re-
duced the taxes will not be paid, in or
der that the difference may be settled in
the courts.
THE new La Crosse city directory con-
tains IL, 53S names, against 8,S06 in the
one before, published two years ago.
This indicates a population of 81 ,345.
The recent government census made 1t
25, 900.
REUBEN 6. INMATES, secretary of the
State Historical Society, will return
from his European tour the Fl rst week
IN October, having signifed his inten-
ton of sailing from Liverpool on Sep
TENDER "a.
THE Dunlap House at Marinette has
been purchased by Joseph Leroy for
$4,000.
A BAND of Indians went into a yard
at La Crosse and camped there. They
stayed for some time and finally made
a raid on a big pile of water-melons that
were displayed in front of a grocery
store. They did not stop to cut the
fruit. but broke them open and ate the
best portion, tearing them like wild
animals. Women and children in the
neighborhood were frightened and
kept close to their homes.
Mrs. PLINY F. SMITH, of La Crosse, is
about to go to Philadelphia with the
purpose of entertaining the Episcopal
Church Order of Deaconesses.
PLANS of the University dairy build
ing show that it will be very commodi-
Gus and costly structure.
a. c. LARSON, county Judge of Eau
Claire, has filed his decision in the Wat
son will case. The judge sustains the
will Of the late Alexander Watson,
which was attacked on the grounds of
the alleged mental unsonndness and
outside influence, and decides against
Mrs. Clara Morton, the contestant who
endeavored to establish a claim as the
widow of Watson by alleging written
contract of marriage which she claimed
to tave lost.
II. n. n. Parsons was arrested at La
Crosse by a officer from Washington,
Ind, on charge of misappropriating
property valued at So, 800 belonging to
his son. The story of the officer is that
Parsons wife died several years ago,
leaving by will valuable iewelry and
diamonds to her child. The box con-
tanning them was deposited in bank
vault. Recently the box was opened by
the order of the court and found to con-
tain three small Jumps Of coal.
Mrs. PLINY T. SMITH, of La Crosse. is
about to go to Philadelphia with the
purpose of entering the Episcopal
Church order Of deaconesses.
GEN. B. S. KICKS, an ex-Confeder
who served on the staff of Gen. Hood,
was among recent arrivals at Madison.
EAU CLAIRE business men are organ
Izing a club.
JENNIE BRENNAN, the Eau Claire girl
who was reported lost, is again at home,
and says she was not lost at all.
On the 9th a 4-year-old boy at
sShawtown, a son of laborer, sprang
from his mothers arms and ran
an front of an old rattletrap switch-en-
gIne which was moving rapidly down
the track. The engine knocked the bov
down and passed completely over him.
AS the child disappeared under the
wheel cry of horror rose from the
spectators, but after the engine had
passed the child lay on the track abso-
1utely uninjured, and when his mother
picked him up he laughed.
ELLA HAND is in Jail at Barron on a
charge OF bigamy She married Ed
Y ward Duval in 1890, and August Is last
was welded to Caspar Keller in Chippe-
IVA County.
ASHLAND is discussing the startling
question whether or no COWS shall be
allowed to run at large on the street.
AMONG the attractions of the Clark
County fair on the opening day is bar
hecue and saloon ascension.
Louis CHAPUT's entire family, living
near Eau Claire, were rendered insen-
sihle by stroke of lightning. All have
axecovered, however.
DIR. LYMAN c.. DRAPER, the noted
Western historian, died on the 26th.
HE suffered a stroke of paralysis week
previous. He passed away quietly,
without becoming conscious. In his
will DR.. Draper made Secretary
Thwaites, VINO is now in England, trust
zee of his literary works, and makes
him executor of his estate.
THE Lincoln County fair this year
promises to be the best ever given by
the society.
SECRETARY TRUE says that the stallion
Nelson has been secured to trot at the
state fair.
ABOUT 120 acres are used for the Mari
nette encampment, including the rifle
range.
CHARLES VoLSER, Of La Crosse. who
spent several winters at Madison as
c.erlr of the judiciary committee, assist
ant sergeant and assistant post
master, is dead, after a lingering Ill
ness.
THERE is a very severe drouth pre-
vailing in the counties of Polk and Bar
ron. Crops are suffering severely. Po-
9atoes will only make one-fourth- of
crop, and corn will lie total failure.
Small grain made an average crop, and
hay about one-half.
The Ashland Rifles, which National
41nard ComnanV does not belong to any