Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-06-10
BADGER NOTES.

Vie uLlFeTSlIlSS. Lie ulSlduCo WAS one
and half the Turner's making it in
1880 while Case and Boardman came
in five seconds later. Case claims that
he was fouled, Turner's boat colliding
with his when the distance was about
half made.
BISHOP KNIGHT, of the Milwaukee
Diocese, sustained a stroke Of paralysis
on the 9th inst, his entire right side
being affected.
THE plant of the Island Sash and door
Company, at Milwaukee, was almost
entirely destroyed by fire on the morn
ing of the 9th. Loss $50, 900, covered
by Insurance.
| DIR. FREDERICK BRENDECKE, the oldest
| German physician in Milwaukee, died
| on the 9th.
| ID. j. KLUMB, of Milwaukee, On engi-
neer on the ST. Paul Railroad, was
fatally injured at Chicago by being
| struck by an engine.
| AT the junior exhibition held at the
| University on the evening of the 9th.
| Miss Julia Armstrong, of Portage, won
the first prize. She represented the
Laurean Literary Society, and the sub
Ject Of her Grafton was, "The Great
Problem of Dealing With the Evils of
Foreign Immigration and the Labor
Problem
CHRISTIAN HOFFMAN, an inmate of the
Soldiers Home at Milwaukee, was run
over and instantly killed by the cars at
North Greenfield on the 9TH.
The wooden mill at Superior will be in
operation in less than sixty days. 1t
will employ from 100 to $50 Lands.
DIR. WILLIS. DANFoRTH died at Milwau-
kee on the evening Of the 9TH inst.
CLARENCE HoRNING, of Wauwatosa
was struck by an engine while attempt
ing to cross the railroad track at that.
place, and it is thought received fatal
injuries.
ONE who has watched the growth of
La Crosse predicts that the city Will
have population of $4,000 within ten
or twelve years.
In the United States circuit court at
Eau Claire the jury rendered verdict
in the case of George Beauvin VS.. the
Penokee Lumber Company, awarding
plaintiff damages in the sum Of $4,000
A motion was made for new trial. The
defendant is New York corporation.
Plaintiff had a foot and an arm cut off in
defendants sawmill in Ashland County.
He was an employe in the mills.
A FINAL decree has been made by
Judge Holgate, at Marinette, upon the
estate Of A. G. Brown, in the probate
court, and an assignment made Of the
property, which is valued at about
81 100000. The family consists Of a.
widow and four children.
THE State Medical Society elected the
following officers for the ensuing year,
President, q. F. Witter, Of Grand Rap
ids; vice-presidents, John Binney, of
Poynette, and J. a. Bach, of Milwau-
kee; secretary, c. S. Sheldon, of Madi-
son; assistant secretary, H. Wenzel, of
Milwaukee; treasurer, Sidney 5. Hall, of
Ripon; censor, II. 3. Faville, of Madi-
son.
AsAHEL M. HANCHETT, who died at
Milwaukee on the Sd inst, was the
founder of Hanchettville, in Dane Coun-
ty, this state, now called Marshall. He
was born in Suffield, Hartford County,
Ct, and came to Milwaukee early in the
'4Os, engaging in the mercantile bust
ness.
MADISON business men are making
arrangements to entertain the editors,
en- route to the National Editorial Con-
vention at St. Paul in July.
THE Eau Claire Free Press reports
that the widow of G. P. r. James, the
once-popular novelist, is very sick at
her home in that city. She has long
been confined to the house, and now
seems to be failing rapidly. She is fire.
quentIy unconscious and fails to recog
nize her friends Mrs James was go
years old September IA last.
Z. B. FINNEY, of Eau Claire, veteran
of the Eighth Wisconsin Volunteers.
and member of the Masonic fraternity.
died at Atlanta, Ga.
WILLIAM MORAN, under arrest at Mil
waukee on the charge of having COM
mitted burglary, disappeared from the
municipal court room on the Sd wilhelm
charge of deputy sherifts.
LA CROSSE is preparing for grand
time on the Fourth. The new bridge is
to be dedicated by the governors Of
Wisconsin and Minnesota, and among
other features will be a military display
by six companies and brigade of
wheelmen, lancers and cavalry. A re-
gatta will take place in the afternoon,
and in the evening ST 900 worth of fire.
works will be set off from barge on the
Mississi ppi.
THE school district of Eau Claire has
voted in favor of borrowing $40, 900 from
the state to build high school and
manual training school.
STURGEON BAY folks are debating the
question whether the band shall be al
lowed to play on Sundays.
CHICAGO capitalists may buy the Tony
dNdCIld IOlol, near hduiSOu, anu re-
open the resort without the sale of
liquor.
THE annual election of the Kickapoo
Valley Railway Company has been held,
but no report was given out for publica-
ton. The Prairie du Chen Courier
says that w S. Manning, of Muscoda-
who has been in New York for several
weeks endeavoring to negotiate the
bonds of the railroad, has returned,
and reports that he has strong hopes
that they will succeed and that the road
will be built.
THE saddest accident that has occurred
in Madison for a long time happened on
the evening of the 1st inst. The girls of
the Kappa Alpha Theta Society of the
University went out to the ball game
between the Evanston and Wisconsin
universities in livery rigs. When they
the horses hitched to one Of
the barouches became frightened and
ran away and Miss Bessie Pinney, the
adopted child of Justice S. U. Pinney,
elected to the Wisconsin SUI
preme bench, was killed