Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-11-18
BADGER NOTES.


West Water Street, Milwaukee, are to
be garrisoned practically by women in
the near future, of whom it is under
stood there are to be about fifteen.
Adjt. Winchell and wife are to remain
in charge.
FRED. BRoCKMANN, aged Is years, COM
mitted suicide by hanging HIMSELF at the
home of his parents on the Washington
road, in the town of Milwaukee. Brock
mann had been out delivering milk dur
ing the forenoon, and when he came
home about o'clock in the afternoon
appeared to be intoxicated. Two hours
later his mother found him hanging III
the kitchen.
A BURGLAR giving his name as Joe
Murray, of Ohio, was captured on the
night of the 18th, in the residence of &.
Peterie, at Prairie du Chen. Mrs.
Peterie discovered the man and struck
him. He jumped under bed and Mrs.
Peterie's scream brought Mr.. Peterie,
who held him until the city marshal ar
rived
SECRETARY INMATES, Of the State His
torical Society, has a photograph of
Queen Victoria, the last one for which
Her Majesty gave q sitting. Dealers in
London are 10th to sell the photographs
of Her Majesty to Americans, because,
as Mr.. Thwaites thinks, of her changed
appearance. The photograph indi-
Gates homely old woman and quite
stout.
The people of Fennimore may hold
the city of Madison accountable. for
sending a case of diphtheria to them
for treatment. It resulted in scare
and great loss to the merchants by the
partial suspension of business. The
Times, of that place, directs attention
to the state law forbidding transporta-
ton of persons who are afflicted with
contagious diseases, or even the dead
bodies of the infected,
A BANQUET was rendered the members
of Co. |, of the First Regiment, National
Guard, at Madison, IN honor Of their
victory over the other companies in
competitive examination.
Mr.. MATTIsoN, owner of a BURBERRY
tract near Eau Claire, intends to COM
mence suit against twenty prominent
Eau Claire people for picking blueber-
ries on his place.
GLENwooD has lately been improved
with water works at an expense of $10,-
600 and brick school house at the ex-
pense of $1,000.
SIXTEEN wing dams have been COM
pleted in tbs Mississippi at Prairie du
been suspended till spring.
THE net cost of the Dane County poor
house during the past fiscal year was
$5,540.9S, an average of $1.66 per week
for each person cared for in the institu
ton.
ANDREW JACKSON, of Eau Claire, has
brought suit against the Wisconsin Tele-
phone Company for $40 900 damages for
the destruction of his barn and con-
tents. a telephone wire, it is alleged,
was struck by lightning and caused the
fire.
THE opponents to the Madison Lakes
Improvement Company will organize to
fight the adherents of the scheme.
Many of the farmers who will be obliged
to pay the expenses of the drainage
commission are strongly opposed to low
ering the lakes. Attorneys will be Sc
ready stated that it will ultimately fall
through.
A TELEGRAM from Ottawa, Ont, was re-
ceived at Eau Claire, stating that ex-
Mayor Mcleod Stewart, of that city,
had failed for $780, Mr.. Stewart is
at the head of the Canadian Anthracite
Coal Company, the Office of which is at
Eau Claire. O. II. Ingham, the Eau
Claire lumberman and banker, is
treasurer.
JOHN KENNEDY died at Ashland from
an overdose of morphine. He stated
before his death that he had taken it in
mistake for a Sedlitz powder. He was
an ore trimmer, and resided at Ash
land.
THE inmates Of the Sank County poor
house cost IS cents per capita per week,
and those IN the insane asylum only
$l.09. The cost in Columbia County
this year was $1.2S per week for the
poor and S1.53 for the insane.
LOUIS THOMPSON, q slater, working on
the tower of the new city hall, at La
Crosse, fell 100 feet OIL the 11th, and was
dead when he struck the ground, the
skull having been cracked from neck to
forehead by striking on supports Of the
scaffolding. He was in the employ of q
Minneapolis firm that had the contract.
Snow made the roof slippery and dan
gerous. He had no known relatives in
this country.
W. c. MARSHALL has been engaged to
manage the Grand Opera House at Ash.
land. He formerly managed the Grand
Opera House at Minneapolis.
WORLDS FAIR COMMISSIONER PRICE has
arranged with w. B. Sutherland, of
Ashland, to exhibit a cork pine log
"A feet long and scaling $500 feet.
Mrs. PETER MCCAIN, who was recent
~ separated from her husband, who
lives at Altoona City, came from Sioux
City, Ia, and, in McCann's absence,
took her boy and girl and brought them
to Eau Claire. AS she was about to
board the train for st. Paul Mccain ar
rived, and engaged in scuffie with her
for the children. The bystanders
helped the woman, and she got away
with her children.
A DISPUTE has arisen in Ashland in.
yolving strip of land valued at So, 900.
Owing to q mistake in surveying and
plating what is known as Old Ashland,
record was never made of title to
anyone. The strip is several rods in
width and dozen blocks in length. 1t
is valued at $50 900, and the value of the
buildings which have been erected up
on it will not be far from $4,000.
A PECULIAR accident occurred in the
town of Utica, near Prairie du Chen,
recently, whereby E. .. Edwards lost
three head of cattle. There had been
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