Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-30
BADGER NOTES.

while Prof. Bull viii make a tour
through Germany, Switzerland and
France, joining his family in Norway in
about two months. They will return
about September1.
A DEED has been fled in the registers
office at Ashland transferring II 200
acres from P. S. Davidson, of La Crosse,
to the Davidson Lumber Compay, of
the same place, for q consideration of
B49,0 600. Most of the IL 200 sold IS sit
uated in Sawyer County, /, 40 acres be-
ing in Ashland County, and 760 acres in
Price.
NEARLY 500 ,000, 900 feet Of lumber will
be manufactured in the Ashland dis
trict this season. Last years work
amounted to 40, 100000 feet.
LIEUT.. CARL JUNGEN, of La Crosse, re-
Celved orders to report at San Francisco
for service in BehrIng Sea.
The Catholic Church and parochial
school situated near Delwiche's farm,
in the town of Union, Door County,
was totally destroyed by fire. School
children had piled wood too near
stove.
THE German Verein of La Crosse has
sold it's property for $4,000. This
amount, with an additional $4,000, will
be expended the coming summer to
erect handsome building, including
gymnasium, theater and card parlor.
MARINETTE is to experience busy
season. The construction of the Mari
nette q Western railway, the erection
Of handsome ST., 900 7. M. G. A. build
ing, new Baptist church, and the
probable erection Of new edifce for
the Pioneer Presbyterian Society, and
public building for the city of Mari
nette, mean summer of great activity.
THE Fifth Wisconsin Battery associa-
ton has deferred it's reunion until 1893.
JUDGE PINNEY and A. L. Sanborn
think of building large frst-class hotel
at Madison.
Rev. Henry Doty Mason now adorns
the Young Mems club-room in the Me-
nomonie Memorial building.
ISAAC NEWTON, a well-known lumber
man, has purchased the sawmill known
as the Weed Mill, at Ashland, the prop
| erty being in the hands of receiver.
| 1t is said that the consideration was
| $4,000 The mill is com paratively new,
| having been built only three years ago
at cost of $4,000. Extensive repairs
and large cut of pine will be made.
KATE WILLMAN, aged IS, whose par
ents live at Eau Claire, died at Charles
| Oakley's house at Neillsville, it was
said, Of black diphtheria, but an inves-
| tigation shows it was from injuries re-
ceived in a fight. An investigation is
| demanded.
| Mrs. FERDINAND LANCE committed
suicide at Ashland by hanging. Do
nestle troubles are supposed to have
been the cause Of the act.
OWING to tue overcrowded condition
S~l1
Grams who are not physically disabled
are being discharged. NeW-coming vet
srans who were in sore need Of shelter
have been applying for admission but
have been turned away for lack of
room. The number of veterans dis
charged is 1872.
A LITTER has been received from the
alleged defaulting county clerk, A. G.
| Williams, of Bayfield, county, dated at
Central America.
| HOWARD, the 7-year-old son Of State
Supt. 0. E. Wells, was drowned in Lake
| Mendoza at 5 o'clock on the evening of
| the 23d. The little fellow was out skat-
| ing with a neighbours boy, and went on
to thin film of ice barely frozen over,
where men had been cutting ice. He
had not proceeded far, before he broke
| through and went down. He was OBJ
served by number of students, who
ran to the rescue, and they threw rope
out to the boy, but he was unconscious,
and sank to the bottom. After an
| hours search the body was found and
| taken to the home.
| A LARGE watch manufacturing COM
pany has been incorporated at Ashland.
| They will manufacture cheap watches to
retail at 81, to be sold as Worlds Fair
souvenirs. Several prominent Walt
ham, Mass, gentlemen are Interested in
the enterprise.
sentatives of Touring mills who have
had occasion to converse with the farm.
ers Of that and adjoining counties, say
the outlook for winter wheat is decid-
eddy bad. The late very dry, cold
weather caused damage.
THE police authorities of cities in
Southern Wisconsin for years have been
sending the Misunderstanding Mary Rix
from town to town. Just now they are
chuckling over the merry war she is
| causing IN the northern part of the
state.
THE Rev. George H. Trevor, formerly
of this state. has been nominated by
the Boston University School of Theolo-
this year. DR.. Trover is at present in
London pursuing special work in the
philosophy of religion. and will 90 from
there for a years residence in Berlin.
THE Democrats of Ashland have nom
mated Col. John Fl. Knight for mayor.
AT Darlington, on the 2lst, it took the
jury trying the lynchers but an hour
and half to find that all seven of the
defendants were insane when Anton
Sieboldt was lynched, September p
last, and that four of them are now
sane.
AT Ashland on the Dist, seven divorce
cases were disposed of at one sitting Of
court.
THE 10-year-old son of Thomas Regain,
of Madison, was discovered by a COM
panion on Lake Monona in an insensi-
BILE condition and badly frozen The
little fellow had been sailing an ice boat
and in turning was thrown off and
stunned.
THE case of Frank Wilbur, a Trempea-
leau boy, against the Wisconsin Central
Railroad Company, at Menom once,
was decided in favor of the plaintiff the
jury awarding him Sc, go damages.
Wilbur sued for the loss of an arm.