Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-01-07
BADGER NOTES.

BADGER NOTES.
CUTTING of ice ON the Milwaukee
River above the dam has been begun.
| The Milwaukee park commissioners
will ask the Legislature for 500, 600 worth
Of bonds.
! PREPARATIONS are being made for the
winter meeting of the State Press Asso-
citation.
THE report that Fred Schlesinger has
sold his railroad is denied.
MILWAUKEE ranks fifth city in the
ownership of lake tonnage.
The Rev. George S. Todd. of Chicago,
formerly connected with All Saints
Cathedral, Milwaukee, has been ap-
pointed chaplain of Kemper Hall, Keno
sha, succeeding the Rev. Mr.. Van Deer
lin, who has become archdeacon of
Middle Tennessee, with headquarters
at GalIatin, Tenn.
THE chaplaincy of the Oneida Indian
reservation has been offered to the Rev.
5. S. Burleson, of Sussex.
RAILROAD Commissioner Peterson has
completed his annual report.
THE new parsonage put up at La
Crosse by the Rev. Henry Faville cost
IS 900.
The Rev. J. c. Caldwell, Presbyteri-
an clergyman, died at La Crosse.
A MAN who escaped from the Kalama-
zoo Jail was arrested in Milwaukee.
THE missing son of VIM. Korn, of Eau
Claire, is said to be living at Galena,
/ ILL.,, under an assumed name.
THE new steel door and vest;bule to
the state treasury vault weighs over 12,-
800 pounds.
THE armory of the Light Guards, at
Eau Claire, with arms and equipments,
burned with loss of $1,000.
CRY TREASURER MACKMILLER, of Ash
land, was fined $40 and costs for abusive
language used to Aunie Milbauer.
BURGLARS at Eau Claire cut panel
out of the back door of Holm & Thorn
sons dry goods store. and carried off
goods valued at ST, 700.
The Milwaukee Street Railway Conn
pany, which now owns the Milwaukee
City and Cream City lines and the Bad
ger-Edison plants, executed mortgage
Wednesday on all its properties to the
Central Trust Company, of New York.
The mortgage was filed with the regis
ter OF deeds 1t was for an indefinite
sum, which, however, must not exceed
$lO,0O0,0O0.
THE armory of the Eau Claire Light
Guards Company, Third Infantry,
burned ON the night of the 31st with all
it's contents, including arms and equip
ments. The loss is about $1,000; small
| insurance.
LOUIS SCHNEIDER, saloonkeer at the
corner Of Thirty fourth AID Vliet
streets, Milwaukee, committed suicide
on the 31st by drowning in an old els
| tern on his lot. He was known to have
been mentally deranged for some time
past.
HUGO DUMsTREY, employed in Mil
| Waukee tannery, committed suicide on
the 3Oth by cutting his throat with a
razor and shooting himself through the
head. He was 80 years old, and had no
family.
THE directors of the Millers' Mutual
Company found it's condition satisfac-
tory.
THERE is more talk of state base ball
league.
| A. n. GRAHAM, merchant at Arm
strong Corners, assigned with assets of
ST 0C0 and liabilities of $1,000. The
principal creditors reside in Milwaukee
HUGO CAMERON, of Eau Claire, who
was badly hurt in the Oregon railroad
wreck of November 80 is home.
The faith cure physician has arrived
at Badger Mills, Eau Claire County, and
is doing more business than the man
with hot rolls on shipwrecked vessel.
Stories are told of wonderful cures,
among them the removal of a tumor as
big as bucket from mans neck.
ROLAND BRANDos, a Belgian miner
working near Florence, quarreled with
five dagoes One of them whipped out
knife and stabbed him in the left
groin. Brandos will die. The Identity
of the murderer is unknown.
THE Eau Claire Linen Mill Company
is about to order several thousand dol
lars worth of machinery from England.
The company now operates fifty looms
but. hereafter, will spin its own yarn,
thus making good market for flax
growers.
RICHARD L. FARR, well-known pine
land man, died at Eau Claire of infam-
nation of the bowels, after an illness of
three days, aged 80. He leaves an estate
of about 100000
THE story from Rice Lake that John
McMannis, who was found dead in the
woods north of Barron, with a large
hole in his head, had been murdered,
was without foundation. McMannis
and a companion went to Barron, got
intoxicated and started for home. They
became separated, McMannis lying
down by the road with his face on the
ground, and smothered to death It
was found that the hole in the back of
his head had oeen caused by rats and
McMannis companion, who was held,
has been released