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


ltshows gross earnings of 81, 097 ,547, an
| increase as compared with the same
month last year of $97 ,293, and net earn
| ings $552, 453, an increase of $57 ,921.
MIKE LooNEY, a miner, fell 200 feet
down shaft at Ryan option, near Hur-
| ley, and was instantly killed. Another
fatal accident occurred at the Ashland
mine, Gus Johnson, a Swede, being
struck on the head by falling timber.
ROYAL AVER, one of the oldest settlers
| in Sank County, died from the effects of
fall upon a hay-Iake.
! Mrs. J. M. FLOWER, formerly of Madi-
| son, has been appointed member of
the Chicago Board of Education.
THE Florence News reports that hum
! dreds of trout are WantOnly destroyed
in the Pine and Brule rivers by blast
| ing.
TREASURER SAVAGE, of the Wisconsin
| Fair Commission, has made arrange
ment5 for plat for the Wisconsin build
| ing. He says: "Immediately on the
| west of the park entrance is located the
| Wisconsin site, a plat consisting of 225
| feet front by 10 feet deep, faciDga small
| lnclosed lake, and separated from the
| lake by boulevard"
HORSESHOE ISLAND, near Eau Claire, is
offered by the Daniel Shaw Lumber
| Company as site for the new normal
| school.
WILLIAM SMELL was struck by wild
| freight on the c.. B. & n early on the
morning of the goth in the suburbs of
Prairie du CHEN, sustaining badly
fractured skull, internal injuries and
| confusion Of the body that will undoubt-
edly prove fatal.
Mrs. Cora EDRINGToN the Eau Claire
r.
with James Mcbride, is in jail at Eau
Claire unable to get bail. She begged
her husband, on her knees to take her
back but he refused.
SECRETARY OF STATE CUNNINGHAM has
published the fish and game laws in
pamphlet form.
FRANK CLAUDE, of La Crosse, is abed
from the effects of spider bite The
| poisonous insect stung him under the
knee and caused his leg to swell nearly
double the size.
THE partlv-completed new armory of
the Eau Claire Light Guards, Co. I,
Third Infantry, which is to cost $l5, 900
when finished, was opened on the night
Of the 25th with great eclat. AGjt.Gen,
Doe, Mayor John IRE, Gen. Griffin and
others delivered addresses. and after
wards there was a bail and supper.
Mayor IRE has presented hand
some flag, which floats over the summit
of the tower, 100 feet from the ground.
OK the forenoon of the 18th, at Christ
Church, La Crosse, the Rev. Bishop
Whipple, of Minnesota ordained to the
diaconate George Herbert Ten Brock,
son of the Rev. w. p. Ten Brock, of
La Crosse. The church was crowded
with friends of the young man, who is
fine scholar and has promising career
in his chosen profession. reception
given Bishop Whipple in the evening
was very largely attended.
AN envious Milwaukee paper says:
''Burdocks feet high are cut in the
streets of Madison"
A coRoNER's jury found that Patrick
| Mclaughlin, who was killed while
| crawling across a trestle near Hubbard,
| Columbia County, came to his death
| through his own fault.
SECRETARY REEVE, of the State Board
of Health, has issued the thirteenth an
nual report of that board. 1t contains,
besides the regular features of the re-
port, several interesting papers on sani-
tary subjects prepared by prominent
sanltarlans.
GERTIE KENNEDY, a 16-year-old Ash
land girl, was arrested as she was about
i L.
brother of Murderer French.
A FREIGHT train was wrecked Tues
day morning on the La Crosse Division
of the ST. Paul Road, at Duplainville,
where the st. Paul and Wisconsin Cen
trail tracks cross. 1t was a regular
freight, No. IS, southbound, and the
locomotive and eighteen of the thirty
six cars composing the train went into
the ditch.
THE recently organized La Crosse
Lancers is the only company of its kind
in the state, with one exception, the
Milwaukee Light Horse Squadron. 1t
is proposed to make the organization
permanent, and about twenty-five have
consented to remain IN it.
RICHARD FIELDING, st. Louis travel
ing man, was taken suddenly Ill at
Wallis pawn shop, on West Water
Emergency Hospital it was found that
two of Fielding's ribs were broken, the
result of fall Sunday night.
CHARLES CARTER, a 15-year-old negro
boy, who followed Forepaugh's circus
from Chicago, went to sleep under a
box car in the North Western Third
Ward wards, Milwaukee, When the
train started off both of his feet We're
cut off,
DIR. WITHRow jumped from second
story window of the Powell Hospital at
La Crosse, while tenn porarily insane.
Mrs. HARVEY CHEIsJoHN, of La
Crosse, says the millennium will be
ushered in next year.
AT O'Clock on the afternoon of the
22d VIM. Lovejoy. employed In the
Davidson planning mill at La Crosse,
while at work tightening a belt, was
caught in the gearing and his leg torn
from his body so it hung by few shreds
of flesh. The doctors think he may
live.
THE Monona Lake Assembly opens
July p. Among the attractions will be
lectures and sermons by I. De Witt
Tallmage and the Rev. Russell II. Con-
we'll, ID. ID. Gen. George A. Sheridan
and Senator Ingalls,, of Kansas, will
speak, as we'll as Dir. Grandson, the
great colored orator from North Caro-
lima. Grand Army Day will be an at
tractive one, DIR. A. j. Palmer giving his
wonderful address entitled go. d, the