Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-24

THE Marinette High school has been
placed upon the University accredited
list.
IT is rumored that Frank A. Flower
and Geo. H. league, will soon obtain
control of the Daily Superior Leader.
Mrs. Cora ERICKSON, wife of farmer
living near Eau Claire, disappeared. A
few days afterward her husband found
her living at a hotel in that city with
James Mcbride. The woman and Nc
Bride were arrested and lodged in the
county Jail.
LOCAL capitalists are to start pearl
button factory at Eau Claire, to be in
operation before fall.
In the superior court Fred Weber,
clerk, was given a verdict of $76 in his
suit against John Baldwin, at Milwau-
kee. Weber was riding on his bicycle
on Mason Street when one Of Baldwin's
teams forced him into a sprinkling cart,
wrecking his machine and badly injuring
him. The suit raised the question as to
bicycler's right to the use of thor
oughfare.
THE Rocklard, La Crosse County,
branch of the Farmers Alliance num-
bers 100 members, making it the second
largest branch in the state, although
Rockland is small place in point of
population.
THE people Of the town of Marietta,
Crawford County, are still specializing as
to the probable fate of young James
Dawson, who disappeared on the first
of the month, while returning from Bos-
cobel, where he had sold two hogs. The
bridgeman at Boscobel remembers that
the bridge. The horses came home
next morning, and the wagon with the
harness and the articles purchased in
town, with the exception of keg of
beer, were found by the roadside about
half a mile above the bridge. There is
no suspicion thai Dawson was intoxlcat-
ed, as he never drank to excess. Foul
play is suspected.
May TEMPLEToN, the woman charged
with the abduction of Jennie Bradshaw
to Minneapolis for immoral purposes,
waived examination at Eau Claire, and
was bound over for trial, bonds being
fixed at $500.
THE Eau Claire Free Press says the
transformation of the Eastern Alaska
Mining Company, of that place, result
ed from the impression among heavy
stockholders that the sum of $4,000
had not been placed where it would do
the most good, and that the old officers
may be sued for the amount, which is
said to have been used for the purchase
of new mine.
HUMANE AGENT ARTHUR A. MEGGETT
instituted the first case the Humane So
ciety has had at La Crosse since it was
organized. Mrs. Ellen u. Keller was
arrested for cruel treatment of an
adopted baby boy less than 2 years old.
1t is alleged she picked the child up,
and in a fit of passion, dashed him
down on the porch and otherwise NAL
treated him.
THE Eau Claire Linen Company has
received a carload of spinning ma
chinery from Dundee, Scotland A car
! load of flax was also received from st.
Mary's, Ont.
AT the alumni exercises of the Uni
versity, at Madison, Howard L. Smith,
of the class of 1881, delivered an Grafton
on "The Limitations of Civilization"
He argued that mans intellectual pos
sibility was limited by his physical
capability.
AN oil portrait of the late Geo. H.
Paul, of Milwaukee, has been hung III
the Office of the regents of the State
University.
AT meeting of Ashland lumbermen
on the 18th steps were taken for the
| purchase of a fire tug to protect the
lumber and dock interests on Che
quaInegon Bay. The docks alone are
valued at So, 900, 900, and tug is essen
tlal to their proper protection.
| EX-Gov. HARRISON LUDINGToN died at
| his residence in Milwaukee on the 18th,
after an illness dating back to June s.
On that date he suffered partial stroke
of paralysis, and this, acting upon sys-
tenn that was run down and worn out
| b.o f.
minated in his death.
THE Rev. DR.. Isaac L. Nicholson, Of
Philadelphia, was elected bishop of the
Milwaukee diocese of the Episcopal
Church on the 18th by majority of
two clerical and one lay vote. Eleven
ballots were taken, the same number as
had been necessary in the selection of
the late Bishop Knight three years be-
fore.
FoRTY-Two societies, located in differ
ent parts Of Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa
and Minnesota, will participate in the
coming saengerfest at Milwaukee.
JOHN RAGAN, employed at the West
Milwaukee shops, was overcome by
heat on the 10Th, while at work. He
was carried to the Emergency Hospital,
where he died. He was % years old.
THE city of La Crosse sold $4,000
school bonds to Jacob Tell, an Eastern
man, at premium of $952.53.
The will of Mrs Ellen NJ. Blake, filed
in the probate court of Milwaukee, dis
poses Of 5000 worth of personal proper
ty and $4,000 worth of real estate. 1t
bequeaths to the husband of the testator,
who, it states, left her twenty years ago,
the sum of $40.
GEORGE RoLoFF, of 1907 Cherry Street,
was killed by the bursting of an emery
wheel at which he was working IN the
Moore Manufacturing company factory
at the corner of ST. Paul Avenue and
Nineteenth Street, Milwaukee. A piece
of the wheel crushed his skull and he
died before an ambulance arrived. The
deceased leaves wife and three chill
dren.
Gov. PECK has appointed Col. John
w. Bashford as member Of the Board
of University Regents for the Tenth
Congressional District. Col. Bashford
is an alumnus of the University.
JOE KENNEDY has been appointed and
confirmed chief of police at Ashland,
and the complications in the police de-