Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-02-11
BADGER NOTES.

+. B. Bowen, dealer in farm ma
chinery at Albany, failed with liabilities
ranging from $40, 900 to $12 900.
THE Loyal Legion of Wisconsin will
meet at Madison on the first Wednes-
day in March.
LA CROSSE will endeavor by act OF
Legislature to get control of the County
Board. 1t is proposed to add enough
wards to give the city majority in the
Board.
EAU CLAIRE burglars went through
the Y. M. c. A. rooms at that place, get
ting $lS, two Bibles and an axe.
The Prairie du Chen Common Coun-
Gil has appropriated 81 500 as bonus to
the Waukau Wooden Company, which
is to locate there and be in operation by
the 1st of July. The company will be
known as the Prairie du Chen Wooden
$50 900.
CONRAD KREz was elected president OF
the Jackson Club, of Milwaukee.
EMIL BIRKENwALD died at Milwaukee
on the eth from injuries received in a
runaway.
SUPr. ANDERSON, of Milwaukee, will
read paper before the National Edu-
cational Convention in Philadelphia.
81 IOCdl StOCkIlOluGIB, PACGDU IlGuTN
c. Payne, have retired from the Edison
Illuminating Company of Milwaukee.
THE printing outfit that first saw SER
vice in Marinette in publishing the
Daily Times, afterwards the Weekly In
dependent, then weekly at Iron
Mountain, under several different pro-
prietcTs, is now being used at Ishpe
ming, Mich. in the publication ufthe new
daily in that city, until their new outfit
is received.
OVER 500 squatters Of land in the Vi
cinity of Ashland have formed an or
ganization with the object of fighting
their claims to their settlements.
JonN E. HEUsNER and T. Z. Edwards
will divide the Ashland Press SIS prize
for the best original poem on "Beauti-
Jul Snow"
THE Milwaukee evening schools have
closed for this season. In former years
they have remained open until the end
of February, but lack of funds and poor
attendance FASTENED their closing this
year.
NJ. E. MosHER's stock barn at La
Crosse was burned on the 9th, with
three thoroughbred horses, one valued
at 81 $50 and the other two at 81 500
each. Five were saved. The barn was
a large and well constructed building.
The loss is 81 900 with TO insurance.
HARRY HUBBARD, the young man who
lately stabbed his friend With n Jack
knife, at La Crosse, pleaded guilty on
the 9th, and was sentenced 10 one year
st Waupun. He is the son of prominent
and respectable people.
JOHN MCEwAN, Ashland's ex-chief OF
police, is supposed to have persisted in
the woods of North Dakota during the
recent cold snap. While visiting
brother he became insane, and was un-
der surveillance for a time. While
waiting for a west-bOund train during
the temporary absence of his brother,
ho escaped, and no trace of him can be
found.
TIE Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing
Company has decided not TO move its
plant from Madison.
Fire in the West Book and Stationery
Company's store in the New Insurance
Building on Broadway, at Milwaukee,
on the 9th, caused a loss of about S25,-
600, which is covered by insurance. 1t
was caused by an electric light wire,
which, as an investigation proved, had
ionited the wood work near the vault.
The blaze demonstrated the TACT that
building is nreproof. The loss to the
costly stock was by heat and smoke
alone.
THE Wisconsin Shorthorn Breeders
Association elected officers tonight as
follows: President, George Wylie,
Whitewater; secretary, Ii. B. Drake,
Beaver Dam; additional members ex-
ecutive board, l.. {. Sloan, GAINESVILLE;
A. A. Arnold, Galesville.
Gov. PECK appointed Jere Dobbs labor
commissioner and A. n. Kersten state
oil inspector.
JOHN j. HUNTER, the alleged robber,
has been brought back to Milwaukee.
STATE institutions will get 1851 600 this
year.
THE Lawyers Club has prepared a
bill to create new court in Milwaukee
County.
THE Wisconsin Jersey Breeders Asso-
citation elected the following officers:
President, Geo. E. Bryant, Madison:
e-president, H. D. Hit, Oakfeld:
secretary, T. L. Hacker, Madison; di-
rectors, Fl. C. Adams, j. NJ Smith, S. J.
Phillips; state tester, Ii. G. Taylor. Il
was decided that if the State Agricultu-
raj Society offered special premiums for
dairy tests for all breeds, Jerseys should
compete for the premium. n. M. Palm
CT. OF Rosebud, was chosen to judge
Jersey cattle at the next state fair.
A LA CROSSE minister has been arrest
ed charged with attempting to criminal,
~ assault the feeble-minded daughter
of a brother divine.
MILWAUKEE stands fifth in the list OF
lake ports as lar as receipts Of grain are
concerned.
Work on Milwaukee's new post-office
will be begun in the spring.
JOHN E. BURTON, of Milwaukee, the
ex-iron king, is charged with fraud in
concealing property.
AID. FRANK BECKER, of La Crosse,
dealer in dry goods, assigned on the Sd
to E. ]. Kelly, who gives bond of Sl5,-
600. Becker's creditors are mostly in
Milwaukee and Chicago.
FIRE in the warehouse of the National
Distilling Company on Erie Street, Mil
Waukee, on The night of the Sd, caused
loss Of perhaps $4,000 or more. The
origin of the fire is unknown. 1t prob
ably started from the furnace.
WILLIAM MORTON, an Ashland Gland
cruiser" is under arrest at Ashland
Peter CorcOran wanted homestead