Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-21
BADGER NOTES.
THE assessed valuation of Ashland's
real estate is over S., 1000, 900.

Waukee q st. Paul road. lie had an
arm smashed in Milwaukee some time
age, and had been ailing since.
The earnings of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee q ST. Paul Railroad Company dur
ing the second week of October were
$745, 100, an increase of 49,, POS over the
corresponding week one year ago. The
earnings Of the Milwaukee & Northern
for the same week were $40, 766, an in
crease Of SIS, 941.
EXACTLY $1,274, 96804 is the amount
paid to pensioners by United States
Pension Agent Pond, at Milwaukee,
from October to October II. During
this period, twelve working days, about
$4,000 pensioners were paid, and the
week ending Saturday, October IL, may
be regarded as an important one In the
annals of the pension office, as the rec
ord made has never been eQualed here
tofore at the Milwaukee agency.
Mrs. RUSSELL. who was gored by
bull several days ago, died Of her in
juries at Eau Claire on the 18th. She
was the mother Of Miss Lois Russell,
state organizer of the w. G. L. L.
On the afternoon of October Annie
Kodatz, aged 10 years, disappeared
from her home on the Hopkins road,
about half mile north of the city linn
..
on the night of the 18th, under the
floor of barn on her fathers preml-
SEES, covered with manure. Subsequent
ly Albert Kohls, aged Ii, employed on
| the farm, confessed that he had killed
the girl with hammer.
JULIA BROOKS, aged Is. committed
suicide at Ashland by taking laudanum.
A quarrel with her lover was the cause.
The Ashland Water Company has
raised its capital stock to $500, 900.
A STORE owned by Axle Appel, of
Jacksonport, burned to the ground early
on the morning of the 10Th, with all the
! contents The insurance on the build
ing and merchandise is about $1,000,
and the loss will exceed this sum con-
siderably. The origin Of the fire is not
known.
A PRACTICAL joker at Ashland caused
a sensation by procuring a basket Of
sandwiches and taking his stand in front
of the land Office window. A report
that the Omaha grants had been thrown
open to settlers was circulated, and
scores of land-seekers from all direc-
tons hurried to the spot. The line
quickly formed and all one night the
men stood at their posts. One man re-
fused $500 for his position. The next
dav the Joke was told and the disguised
victims Of the affair went home.
MABEL KELLY, the 16-year-old daugh-
ter of Joseph Kelly, of La Crosse, il
missing. 1t is believed by her friends
that she eloped with a young man and
went to Hurley.
FoRGER ANDERSON, who had just
served a term in the penitentiary, was
sentenced at La Crosse to another term
for forging a check on the Adams Ex-
press Company one year ago.
FRANK KEIzE was arrested at Is
Crosse, charged with having robbed the
residence of Mrs. Hubbard at that
place. He secured S. in cash.
EMIL KAHLA, of La Crosse, was ar
, rested by the sheriff Of Red Wing
} Mimi, on warrant sworn out by /
J young girl of that city:
A FEW days ago n. II. Andrew, o
! Eau Claire, received word that hi
! brother had been murdered in Seattle
+ Wash. He has heard from the chief o
police there that no such person ha
been killed at that place. Andrew says
his brother has friends on the polio
force in Seattle, and if he had beel
killed he would have known it. He ha
! not heard from his brother, however
IN two years, and does not know wher'
he is.
Ex-ALD. GILBERT P. WINDEN, on,
of Madison's prominent business men
f suddenly expired on the 10Th, of pneu
monia Mr. Winden attended tn
Y opening of the new hotel few days be
S fore, and while coming down stairs fel
! and broke his arm at the elbow n
Y sooner had the patient been take
. home than other complications, an
: finally pneumonia, set in, from which
, he died. Wr. Winden was one of tn
y most prominent Norwegian settlers i
. this portion Of the state. He came t
q Madison over thirty years ago, and ha
: been in the clothing business eve
q since. He left four daughters, the ED
n est. of whom, Miss Clara, is a well
h known singer.
q SEVEN miles of water main were pu
+ in at Ashland this season. Ten thous
n and dollars Of the $50, 900 expended wa
paid to the laborers employed.
d E. X. TARBELL, formerly of La Crosse
e is defendant in q suit for Sc, 900 damage
O at Winona, Mimi, for non-fulfllment c
o contract regarding the use of hotel reg
!. listers.
# JOHN RIEDEsELL, a plaster contractor
: 40 years old, living under the Gran
: Avenue viaduct, Milwaukee, committe
s suicide by hanging. He secured
n piece of rope, tied it to ioist in tn
/. basement of his house. put the othe
!. and round his neck and swung int
q eternity without leaving any explains
F. ton of his act. 1t is supposed that b
q was laboring under an hallucination
: some sort. He leaves wife and fv
children.
' THE two burglars who robbed Johnso
& Van Buren's store, at Lancaster,
:, month ago, broke jail at that place o
q" the night of the 18th. Their names o
the court calendar for trial are Jane
Morris and John Miller. They save
off steel bar which was against the loo
II of their cell door. This let them OF
If to the inside corridor, and gave thel
It steel lever, the one the
d sawed off, two and a half feet Ion,
(, They sawed another bolt an inch and
" half in thickness and with their leve
l. easily worked through to the outsid
e corridor. They then took out bricl
9 and made hole through the wall an
Il let themselves down with their blanke
V made into a rope.
Fx-ALD. G. P. WINDEN. of Madison