Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-17
BADGER NOTES.

Ills EN- DiOyor, JODn ElSuCT, duu SIlOOI-
ing at him with Winchester rife at a
distance of twenty feet.
AT La Crosse on the night of the 18th
three prisoners escaped from jail. They
were Joe Rock, the man convicted of
stealing $40, two gold watches and d
ring from st. Mary's. and the two river
men, Harrigan and Younglohue, arrest
ed for stealing brass from A. A. Free
mans mill store house.
AT Johns Hopkins University COM
mencement the degree of Bachelor of
Arts was conferred on the following
Wisconsin students: William f. Rittler,
Charles j. Search, Alfred Shriver,
James L. Smiley, Samuel K. Smith,
Daniel G.. Stevens, Jr., Charles NJ. S.
Symington, Jr.. Matthew NJ. j. Yea.
The failure of Charles Haight & Co.,
of New York, in which A. A. Freeman,
the La Crosse miller, was interested,
has caused the latter to make an assign
ment of his individual assets to L, A.
Dyson, who furnishes bond in the
sum of $4,000. There will not, how
ever, be any alteration of the plans of
the Freeman Milling Company, recent
ly organized at Superior.
d. P. SIMoNs will give $4,000 toward
the erection of q Y. NJ. &. A. building at
Cdu NldlIG Oh COuUlJlOu bldJ DdI1utS
Breese will donate an equal sum.
AN authenticated copy of the will of
the late William E. Dodge, of New
York City, was admitted to probate be-
fore Judge Ellis at Ashland. Requests
in the will probably aggregate $1,000, 900.
The deceased wills property in six
states to his wife and seven sons. The
total property is $50, 100000.
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yates at the commencement exercises
held on the 10th. They were Ernest
Dekoven Leffingweil, of Knoxville, ILL.,. +;
Wallace King Coyne, Of Chicago; Obie
Sands, Jr., of Omaha; Harry E. Holli-
day, of Cairo, H., and Edward Willes
Burleson, of Nashotah, Wis.
THE body of Andrew Connell was
found in a boom at Paul's mill at La
Crosse on the 18th. He left home Sun
day, but it was supposed he went out
to farm about fifteen miles distant.
Death was probably the result of an
accident, but nothing is known.
An old man committed suicide at
Mineral Lake, near Ashland on the
10th. He arrived on tie train in the
evening and went Immediately to the
house of Max Drusher, his son, and,
drawing a revolver, attempted to shoot
his wife, who had been stopping there.
She escaped to neighbours house for
help, but when posse of men returned
the old man was found dead OH the
floor, having taken poison.
THE funeral of the late Mrs. Harriet
M. Fox, daughter of Solomon juneau,
took place at Milwaukee on the 18th.
Mrs. Fox was 81 years old, and the sec
ond daughter of Solomon Juneau.
WHILE wheeling coal in Eastman's
coal yard at Milwaukee on the 10th,
Pat Ryan fell off trestle. distance of
eighteen feet. He was at once taken to
the Emergency Hospital, where he
died at o'clock on the morning Of the
18th. Ryan was single man and
boarded on the South Side.
JoHN KRUGER, of the town Of Lud-
ipgton, WAS held for trial at Eau Claire
on the 10th, after preliminary exarnlna-
ton on the charge of arson. His neigh
Dor, Herman Grayson, thinks his saw
mill was set fire to by defendant
Kruger is well-to-do farmer and the
trouble results from neighborhood
feud.
THE essay contest Of the Sophomore
class in the University took place at
Madison on the 10th. The following
were the contestants and their subjects:
1.-THE University Of Work." Ma
RE Benton, The Three Sisters" John
Moss, of Milwaukee, "Monuments;"
Jennie Maxon, of Walworth, "a Bond
of Sympathy Miss Julia Murphy, Of
Madison, ''1he Past and the Present."
Anna Ellsworth, of Oregon, "Pets;" c.
c.. Case, of La Crosse, "Sketches Of
Three Seasons on the Mississippi"
The prizes were given to Miss Maxon
first and Miss Ellsworth second.
FRED EGGERT, 50 years old, the father
in-law Of Fred Bark, Of 39l Nineteenth
Street, Milwaukee, with whom he lived,
was found dead IN his bed on the morn
ing of the 10th. He had been asphyx-
lated by gas from the burner in his
room. He had turned it off properly
but accidentally turned it on again by
placing his hat against the stop cock,
which moves very easily.
A BIG freight wreck occurred in the
eastern yards at Eau Claire on the 10th,
caused by tail-end collision between
the regular light freight from st. Paul
and an extra standing on side track.
The engine of the regular freight was
badly demolished and thirteen loaded
cars were derailed and piled up in all
sorts of positions. The accident was the
result of misplaced switch. No one
was injured.
AT the commencement exercises at
Princeton, n. j., on the 10th, Albert c.
Eycleshvmer, of Wisconsin, was awarded
the class of 1877 university fellowship in
biology.
Mrs. FRANCES JAMES, widow of the
late George Payne Rainsford James, the
English novelist and historian, died at
Eau Claire on the 9th, aged 90 Her
distinguished husband died at Venice
thlrty-one years ago the 9th.
THE jury in the French case at Ash
land came in at 9:30 on the night Of the
9th with verdict Of murder in the first
degree. The verdict gives general sat
isfaction.
THE boiler in III. Fl. Remington's saw
mill, one mile south of Babcock, ex-
ploded on the 9th. killing viii Hines,
aged Is years, grandson of II. H.
Remington, and injuring two others.
The saWmill is q total wreck.
WHITE bass are being Matched by
Supt. Nevins at Madison. The lakes
and streams of the state will be plenti-