Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-28
BADGER NOTES.

anu T6dl, IL SOL0, OoJ, Ill as against 9OJZ,-
| 800, 719 in 1890. The grand total of tax
and special charges for 1891 is ST, $780,
1886, as against ST III ,54039 last year.
| OF this amount Milwaukee County will
bear SIT 1920, while in 1890 it was
taxed S13S, 1882. The total valuation
| of the property of Milwaukee by the
board was Sill 100000.
EVAN LEWIS, the wrestler, met with a
runaway accident at his home in the viii
| lage of Barneveld which compelled
him to cancel several dates for exhibit
ton matches. One knee was so badly
injured that he has been confined to
| house.
MEssRs. Jackson and Graham, editors
| OF the Angl O-American of Mexico, have
| been sued for criminal libel by United
States Consul General Guenther for
having published letter from a Mr..
Matthews against Guenther concerning
some mining claims.
FIRE has DESTROYED over SO, 900 tons of
marsh hay on the river bottoms near
Mazomanie. This is heavy loss to the
farmers in that vicinity, who have put
up the hay IN large quantities for feed
ing stock during the winter.
TONER WOLF, a loborer, aged 80 years,
was fatally injured in the freight yard of
the ST. Paul road at Milwaukee. He at
| tempted to pass through train which
was being made>up, when he was caught
| between the cars and crushed in a
| frlghtful manner.
The Empire Lumber Company and
the Valley Lumber Company, of Eau
| Claire, have purchased $500 acres of
pine land in Ashland, Bayfield, and
| Chippewa counties.
Mr.. INMATES, of the State Historical
| Society, will exhibit at the Worlds Fair
collection of stone arrow heads, about
5000 in number.
| A 1O-YEAR-oLD son of an employee at
the state fish hatchery at Madison,
named Breese, was fatally kicked in the
head by a horse.
MICHAEL SPLENTER was sentenced to
Six months imprisonment by Judge
Keyes at Madison, for robbing tie
store of Russell Chase last week.
The paper mills IN the Fox River Val
ley will do but little business this win
ter, owing to the low stage Of water
CARL BILLET, a 5-year-old Eau Claire
| boy, had his foot cut off while attempt
Ing to board a moving freight train.
One of the Worlds Fair exhibits sug-
gested by Mr.. Thwaites, of the State
Historical Society, is a display of Wis
| consln antiquities, such as copper and
stone implements in great variety, and
carefully selected collection of stone
arrow-heads, some 5000 or 6 200 in num-
Der.
j. n. Ross, of Ashland, was arrested
on warrant sworn out by Miss Ada
White, charging him with assault. He
was placed under $500 bonds.
LIEUT.. HENRY MARKS, veteran of the
Twelfth Wisconsin Light Battery, died
at the Northern Insane Asylum, where
he had been under treatment since
February Is.
The Chicago & North Western Rail-
way Company has issued an order that
any garnishee brought against any en-
glneer or fireman would result in his
discharge.
The bridge war at Ashland between
the city and the Omaha Railroad peo-
pie has come to an end. An agreement
has been reached whereby the bridge
will be completed.
The exodus toward the woods has be-
gun in earnest at Eau Claire. Large
numbers of men are leaving daily.
FRED. W. PRAEL, who graduated from
the State University at Madison with
the class of 81, coming from Astoria,
Ore, now holds the important position
OF assistant manager of the Risdon Iron
and Locomotive Works at San Fran
cisco, at salary Of So 900. While in the
university Mr.. Prael was best known as
"half BACK in the foot ball eleven.
Two tramps, named John Doyle and
Mike Mcdonnell, after being released
from the lookup at Eau Claire, went to
Altoona City, got drunk, and fought
each other IN vacant lot. Doyle drew
a razor and cut out McDonnell's right
eye. and slashed him terribly about the
neck and breast. Mcdonnell nearly
bled to death before help reached him,
and he will probably die DOYLE has
not been captured.
GEORGE ALLENDoRF, of La Crosse, had
rifle ball removed from his neck that
he had received accidentally week
ago.
JAMES O'BRIEN, chief Justice of New
Mexico, recently visited Judge Gamer
on, of La Crosse. Mr.. O'Brien is a
fluent speaker of seven languages.
The 4-year-old daughter of Albert
Schwann, of Eau Claire, had a shoe
button removed from her left nostril
that had been there for two years.
DISAPPOINTMENT in failing to secure pu-
pills IN music is the cause given for tho
suicide of Leopold Alfred Meier, In
North Greenfield, Milwaukee County.
SEVERAL farmers near Prairie du CHEN
have been victimized by an alleged doc
tor, who agreed to cure Brlght's disease
within a year. Many farmers signed
notes for as much as 500, but the man
has disappeared.
W. J. SHIvERs pleaded guilty at La
Crosse to obtaining money under false
pretenses, and was sentenced to two
years at Waupun.
The West Side Railway Company, of
Milwaukee, amended its articles of in
corporation, reducing the capital stock
from 100000 to $4,000
THE jury in the suit of David Drum
mond aga. nst the city of Eau Claire. for
damages in the sum of 81 800 claimed to
have been incurred to plaintiffs prop
erty by change of grade, rendered
verdict for the defendant, finding no
cause for action.
FREDERICK HAUsER, a well-to-do farm
er living in the town of Campbell, La
Crosse County, committed suicide bv
hanging.
THE residence of Theodore Scbeemap