Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-05-13
BADGER NOTES.

Two HUNDRED citizens OF La Crosse, IN
Guiding the city officers and the Board
of Trade, Will visit Green Bay during
the month of June.
DICK COLLINS, of Superior, who was
sent to prison for five years for shooting
and wounding his wife, has been par
-doned. He had been incarcerated since
August 10, 1888.
THE ladies Of Florence have resolved
themselves into a Public Library Asso-
citation, with the following as their Off
GERS: President, Mrs. II. D. Fisher;
ice-president, Mrs. Peter McGovern;
secretary, Mrs. S. t. Beattie; treasurer,
Mrs. G. G. Ohm.
THE body Of Henry Aulfuss, crippled
veteran who had been an inmate Of the
National Soldiers Home for several
years, was found on the 10th submerged
in the water Of Honey Creek, near
Spring Meadow station on the st. Paul
road, q few miles east of Elm Grove.
His skull had apparently been hacked
to pieces by Ratchet, and with hands
and feet tied together, the body had
been thrown into the creek, where it
was found. The authorities at the
Home were notified, and at once took
charge of it. The crime is involved in
a good deal of mystery, but some clues
were obtained which may lead to the
detection of the murderer.
DELEGATES from nearly all the singing
societies which will take part in the
coming Saengerfest of the Northwestern
Sengerbund arrived in Milwaukee on
the 9th, to look over the quarters and
select such for the societies they repre-
sent. They were received by Messrs.
w. j. Beers and j. GOrney. A COM
mers, participated in by all the mem
No bn h
mittees. was given in their honor in the
evening. The chairman of the eNecu-
tive committee, Mr.. Herring, acted as
toast master. President Charles Mayer
made a short address, and was followed
by number of other gentlemen. A
dispatch from Max Hirschfeld, of Min
neapolis, the president of the bund,
was read and loudly applauded. The
delegates and visitors later on were
.serenaded by the Liederkranz.
TIRE on the night of the Sth destroyed
the tinWaie mandatory of Z. A. Walsh
< Co., at the corner of St. Paul Avenue
and Thirteenth Street. The loss is es-
timated at So, 600.
REV JACOB PosT, one of the oldest
resident ministers in Milwaukee. died
on the Sth, at the age of 80 years. He
had been pastor of Perseverance Pres
byterian Church for twenty. one sue
cesslve years, prior to April /. 1890,
when he resigned his position on ac-
count Of i'll health.
THE first fifty copies Of the Blue Book
have been Issued.
AUGUST MEIER of Madison. recovered
Judgment for $500 against Hoven, Nor
gan & Co., for injuries sustained by the
fall of an icehouse wall.
EUGENE NICHOLS, formerly superin-
Iendent of the Madison water works.
has been made roadmaster on the Hi
nois Central from Kankakee to Cairo,
H.
THE crystal and cut glass chandelier
purchased by Ole Bull in Europe, and
placed In his residence at Madison, now
the executive mansion, and which has
been an attraction of the north parlor,
has been removed by order Of Gov.
Peck and hung in the State Historical
rooms.
The State Board of Deposits Of Public
Moneys met on the Sth and organized
as provided by the law passed by the
last Legislature. Gov. Peck was elected
president; Secretary of STATE Cunning
ham secretary. The other members of
the board are the attOrney-genera and
the state treasurer. A meeting will be
held soon TO designate repositories
EX-SENATOR INGALLS, has been engaged
to speak at the Lakeside assembly on
the last day of the encampment.
WISCONSIN will be we'll represented at
the National Editorial Convention at St.
Paul, July Il, Is, Is and Il.
Mr.. Stout. of the Knapp, Stout & Co..
SAYS the report of the sale of their lum-
Der interests is premature.
& no
ed next season at lower Quinnesec Falls
i Isl 4""''l'''' anu -NeH0r''''e0 'api'A'-
Gov. PECK has made the following APP
pointments: DR.. J. P. Carmichael, of
Milwaukee, as a member of the State
Board Of Dental Examiners; A Y. H
Carpenter, of Milwaukee, and Philo
Dunning, of Madison, asluembers of the
State Fish Commission
EAU CLAIRE's physical culture school
is patronized by twenty-five of the lead
ing ladies of the place.
A NEW paper is to be issued at Ash
land-the Lake Superior Trades Union
ist. j. W Close is to be the editor and
A. W. Bowron publisher.
W. r. SUTHERLaND's planning mill at
Ashland was DESTROYED by fire on the
9Th. A number of freight cars side
extent. The loss will reach SD, 900.
THE Office of the Marinette Iron
Works Company was entered from
rear window on the night of the 9Th,
and the vault broken open. About
81 900 in money was stolen. This mon
-ey mostly belonged to few of the en-
ployes, and $500 of it was the money of
the wife Of one of the members of the
firm.
MILWAUKEE is fast taking on the airs
of a metropolis. Z one day recently
Sour violent deaths were reported with
in tWenty-tour hours.
Mrs. KATE PIER, of Milwaukee. has
been appointed to the office of circuit
court commissioner. probably the first
case of the kind in the country.
STATE SUPT. WELLS is making prepare
tons for an exhibit at the meeting Of
the National Educational Association to
be held at Toronto this summer. His
purpose is to get collection of school
literature, including catalogues, reports
and other printed documents that will