Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07

Of Chicago, 100000 feet of standing
pine on the Upper Menominee; also
his two mills located at the mouth of
tie river. which were built two years
ago, and have been operated by f. SEQ
field & Co.
A BURGLARY was committed at Eureka
the other night in which the dwelling
OF Mrs. G.. Fishbeck was entered by
breaking in q door after she had been
chlorotormed through an open window
near the head of her bed. But $l6 in
money was obtained, though more was
overlooked.
THE German Methodist Conference,
which has been in session the past week
at Charles City, Ia, made the following
appointments for La Crosse: South
Side, Louis j. Bremen: North Side,
William Henry Schmidt The Rev. J.
II. Klause goes to Freeport, ILL.,, and
the Rev. A. M. Bremen. of the North
Side, becomes the successor Of his son,
Louis, at Platteville, Wis.
ELwIN r. HEIBERG, of La Crosse, was
appointed to cadetship at West Point
from the Seventh Congressional Dis
trict. There were eight applicants.
AT Eau Claire a dozen committees,
representing five churches, began prep
Young Peoples Society of Christian En-
deavor, to be held there October % to
25 in the First Congregational Church.
At least 500 delegates will be present.
A feature will be banquetin the Griffin
Rifles armory, for which 600 covers will
be laid. A contract has been made for
extensive decorations at the church
where the sessions will be held, includ-
ing sixty colored incandescent lamps to
be arched in front.
A LAD of Is, giving his name as August
Weybradt, was brought to the Emergen-
cy Hospital, Milwaukee, on the 2Sth.
The boy contained a charge Of buckshot,
which had taken effect in his head,
back, hand and legs, but none of the
wounds are considered serious. He says
he was crossing farmers land south of
the city when the owner, supDoslng he
was gathering hickory nuts, opened fire
on him with the result mentioned.
ANDREW KHAN IL years of age, whose
parents reside at III Jefferson Street,
Milwaukee, was killed by falling
through an elevator shaft from the third
floor at P. Fl. Sercombe's bicycle estab-
lishment, on East Water Street. The
young man, who was employed In the
establishment, stepped into the elevator
shaft to go from the third to the first
floor, but, the elevator being at the foot
of the shaft, he fell and struck on his
head, death resulting instantly.
w. H. MYERS secured divorce from
Isadora Myers at Ashland.
A PAYING lead vein is said to have
been discovered near Day, Marathon
County.
THE Ashland Lime, Salt & Cement
Company has just completed a new kiln
at cost of $15, 900.
Of
the wells on the state camp grounds are
being analyzed at Madison in conse-
quence Of the newspaper discussions Of
the sanitary conditions there.
THE Mississippi Logging Company
stopped saving lumber for the season,
the log supply having given out. The
Northwestern Lumber Company shut
down its mills for the same reason.
This leaves only one saw mill running
out of ten at Eau Claire. The recent
rain was general, but gives little en-
enlargement as to the movement of
logs, for which a vast quantity of rain
would be needed.
JOHN CARNEY, of Freedom, the father
of eleven daughters, was so delighted at
the birth of son that he broke his Jaw
bone in fit of hearty laughter.
ST. PAUL's EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Milwau-
kee, is now oct of debt, and Bishop
Nicholson, on assuming his diocesan
work, Will consecrate it. The rules of
the church do not permit Of the conse-
Grafton Of church until it is freed Of all
debt. st. Paul's cost $500, 000
THE body of James Downes, drowned
three weeks ago, was recovered at Bay
field.
THE Sturgeon Bay Advocate gives the
history of the hairless horse, claiming
that it lost its hair from a disease con-
tracted by being kept in very poor quar-
ters while colt, and soon stter it's hair
came off and never grew again, and the
owner was disguised with it and sold it
for tritie. 1t was owned by a Bohe-
milan farmer in Door County.