Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-02-04
BADGER NOTES.

BRICKLAYERs and stone masons of half
| a dozen Wisconsin towns have formed
kind of general union.
MINING men outside of the Schles-
niger syndicate talk of building another
railroad on the Menominee range.
Col. KING was elected president of
| the National Guard Institution of Mill
waukee.
DR.. MARKS, of Milwaukee, has been
reelected president of the State Board
of Health.
EDWARD DENNY aged IS, fell heavily
on the sidewalk at Eau Claire. He Will
die.
ELMER GRAHAM and William Lenz,
young men of Eau Claire, were arrest
ed on a warrant charging them with
having failed to provide for their fam
lilies. They pleaded not guilty and the
cases were adjourned.
TIE La Crosse Kirmess is to take place
in April, under the direction of lady
whose extensive knowledge OF spectac-
ular and realistic beauty is said to excel.
f. r. KIRKLAND, representing Mil
waukee syndicate, yesterday bought
tract of land IN the mining region OF the
state of San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
Mrs. JOHN BLACK, of Milwaukee, died
very suddenly from heart failure on the
3Oth.
THE E. P. Allis Company, of Milwau-
kee. has secured a contract to recon-
struct the east side of the Washburn
':A' -four mill at Minneapolis. 1t is in
tended to increase its capacity from
800 to $500 barrels. The contract
amounts to about $125, 600. The Allls
company recently completed $4,000
contract at the Columbia mill in Mime
apolis.
"JACK THE RIPPER" La Crosses ia
NOUS fighting cock, was killed In bat
tie the other day with Minnesota bird:
"Jack's" head was pierced by the stee!
gaffs of his opponent, and quite sum OF
money went with the result.
HARRY HUBBARD and Albert Hansen
had a row in a La Crosse saloon, and
Hansen felt two or three inches OF cold
steel in his ribs. Hubbard is under $500
bonds and Hansen is in the hospital.
DIR. ADAMS, of Johns Hopkins, deliv-
! cred the biennial address to the state
| Horticultural Society.
EAU CLAIRE RIVER loggers will bank
100000 feet Of logs if they get enough
snow.
DIpHTHERIA caused the closing of the
Winona, Mimi, schools, and La Crosse
is in fear of the contagion.
THE Fuller & Warren Stove Company
will begin operations lin Milwaukee
March l.
SALooNKEEpERs Of Milwaukee have
formed protective association.
ST. MARYs hospital, Milwaukee, has
received supply of lymph direct from
Berlin.
A HEAVY snow fall is reported from
several points in Northern Wisconsin.
LA CROSSE newspapers state, in view
of the arrest of Mrs. Wllletts, that
dance house dives flourish in Northern
Wisconsin as lawlessly as ever. busl-
ness man of the city Is quoted as toll
| lows: 'You need not tell me there are
no such places in Northern Wisconsin,
for | have seen them. Just outside OF
M errill, about two miles from the town,
are three or four of these places, and
they are all Of them surrounded with
tight board fences higher than the fence
around the fair grounds in this city, and
then there are gates fastened with locks,
and the places are regular prisons.
RUBLEE A. COLE, the Ashland criminal
lawyer, has gone to Washington to argue
the Graham habeas corpus case before
the supreme court.
PRESIDENT SMITH, of the Milwaukee d
Bee Line road, says the line can be
built from Superior to Milwaukee at q
cost of So, 100000.
| MINDoRo, La Crosse County, has a
branch Of the Farmers Alliance, with
FL. B. Fuller as president. There are
twenty-six members.
IT is reported that Kieckhefer Bros.
& Co. will build an establishment for
the manufacture Of tin plate at Milwau-
kee.
CHARLES LAzERLERE, treasurer of
Langlade County, is $4,000 short and
missing.
The Rev. E. w. White, of Jackson,
Mich, has received a call to the Mil
waukee Baptist Tabernacle Church.
WILLIAM K1RscHNER, wealthy Gran
Vile farmer, was killed by an engine.
OPPONENTS of the bill annexing GER
tain territory to the city of Milwaukee
claim half the local delegation to Madi-
son.
MEMBERS of the Council and city off,
Gals declare that they will compel the
ST. Paul Railway to pay half the cost of
the erection of the Sixteenth Street
viaduct.
RICHARD RoGGE performed something
new in the swlndiing line at La Crosse.
Royce went to half dozen hotels and
made contracts for fifty people belong
ing to "Vienna Ladies' Orchestra" on
the strength of which he borrowed
pretty penny. He will plead guilty be-
fore the county judge.
MILWAUKEE curriers' were beaten by
Cambria, Wis, men at st. Paul.
THE barbed wire manufacturers will
buy the Washburn Moen patents.
HANDSOME new cars are being built
for the Cream City Railway Company.
MEMBERS of the Milwaukee Common
Council signed petition to Secretary
Window urging the immediate begin
ming of work on the federal building.
FRED HACKFoRTH and August Prieve,
! two boys, were held over fire by four
men at Milwaukee, On the night of the
25th, and roasted till thew tainted away.
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