Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-21
BADGER NOTES.


secretary.
RICHARD H. PoHL. whose shoe store
on Juneau Avenue, Milwaukee, was
damaged by fire, has been arrested on
the charge of arson. He claims to be
alb to prove an alibi.
The jury In the suit of Chris Helms
against SanbOrn < Halster and Arm
strong Bros, at Milwaukee, awarded
the plaintiff IS, 620.00 damages. Helms
GAINED that the defendants agreed to
Guy 5000 tons of ice from him, and that
after be had put up that amount of Ice
at Cecil, Wis, the defendants TOOK only
about 1000 tons, leaving 1900 tons on
his hands.
THE Eau Claire mill men are still
holding out for eleven hours, and work
has been partially resumed on that basis
in one of the mills. With the Roadway
which has been made toward the ten
hour day the probabilities are entirely
in favor of the dav being uniformly
made ten hours in the saW-mills next
spring.
ISAAC STEPHENSON, of Marinette, has
sold q tract Of about 100000 feet of
standing pine on the 500 road, about
twelve miles from Escanaba, on White
fish Bay, to the Garth Lumber Com
pany, of Garth, Wis.
THE apple crop in Door County is
overwhelming, and the fruit can be
bought for little or nothing. Hundreds
Of bushels are now being shipped daily.
NEGOTIATIONS which have been pend
ing for some months between the South
Milwaukee Company and an envelope
manufacturing company in Massachu
sets have been closed. Two buildings,
each so by 200 feet, will be erected, and
200 hands employed.
AT meeting held at the Pabst Hotel
Milwaukee, the preliminary arrange
ments were made for the Columbian
celebration, which will be held in that
city October 81.
JOSEPH WENCK, an Austrian by birth,
WAS murdered near Horseshoe Bay.
Wenck was engaged in hewing timber
for a new house. He was found lying
with his face in the earth and his skull
smashed IN several places. An exam
anation showed that he had been
robbed of his watch and pocketbook
and other valuabIes. Wenck leaves a
wife and children whom he had recent
ly sent for to come from Austria.
MADISON papers report that the new
pleasure drive around MENDOZA will be
completed in two or three weeks.
WILLIAM SCHIMERHoRN, one of the
eaders in the Marinette strike, has
been bound over to the circuit court in
$1,000 bonds on charge of riotlng.
GEORGE B. DRIEsBoCK, of Wisconsin,
who was drawing g salary of $500 year
as tTanscriber of records and plates,
at Washington, has been promoted to
the grade Of copyist at $500 a year, in
the general land office.
JOHN BULANDER a switchman en-
ployed by the st. Paul road, was run
over while coupling cars in the
Milwaukee yards on the 10Th. Both of
his legs were cut off near the body.
Bulander died en- route to the hospital.
He was married.
HERMAN RALE, of Poygan, formerly of
Oak Creek, Milwaukee County, has sew
eral Lady Elgin relics that he found on
the beach at the time of the disaster-a
black shawl, potato masher and nine
grain sacks, the latter bearing the
steamers name.
SENSATION was caused at Ashland
10y an answer filed in the civil suit for
5000 commenced against j. ii. Rogers
to recover payment of a prOmissoIy
note given by him. Rogers in his an
sWer alleges that the note was given on
q wager lost in game of poker, and
that 1t is therefore worthless. Rogers
was president of the Superior Brown
SIOhC SUu1pdu IdSG ear duu Is pTOull-
nently connected IN Milwaukee, where
he now resides.
OVER $4,000 people visited the state
fair at Milwaukee on the 10Th.
THE Northwest German conference
Op Goodsell presiding. The conference
organized with Prof. Schmitt, secretary;
the Rev. W. II. Rolling, statistical sec
rotary, each with two assistants, and
Prof. SchWab, treasurer.
AT the reunion of the Third Regi-
ment, Wisconsin Volunteers, at Madi-
son, officers were elected as follows:
PRESIDENT, w. c. Meffert; vice-presi-
dent, c. L. Boring; secretary, W. f.
Goodhue; treasurer, j. W. Hinkley;
executive committee, W. T. Goodhue,
David Smith and Carl Rolhagen, of Mil
waukee. The association was pre-
scented with an India ink portrait of
Col. William Hawley, deceased, by
Lieut.. Lucius Colby, of Norfeld, Miss,
a highly esteemed comrade of the regi-
ment.
THE widow of Nick Marks, of Menom-
once Falls, has brought suit agoinst the
Mace Lime Company to recover Sl0,-
900 damages for her husbands death.
Marks fell into a limekiln and burned
to death.
THE Western Union Telegraph Com
pany will have a damage suit on it's
hands at Ashland, which promises to be
contested to the very end. r. E. Cline.
who paid the company $50 for bulletin
reports of the three recent prize ring
contests at New Orleans, is the plaintiff.
He sues for $1,000 damages. Cline
alleges in his complaint that the West
ern Union did not give him exclusive
reports, as agreed. Reports OF the fight
we're received at several other places in
Ashland at the same time and even be-
fore he received them.
THE Dane County Prohibition conven:
ton nominated the following ticket;
For sheriff, L. NJ. Ames, of Brooklyn
for treasurer, John Ward, Of Black
Earth for county clerk, Charles John
son, OF Stoughton; for register Of deeds,
w. w. Bewick, of Windsor; for cIerk of
court, W. A. Short, of Albion; for cor
oner. Aaron Meyers, OF Verona; for
district attorney, J. B. Smith, of Madi-
son; for county uperintendent, First
District, Otto Anderson, Of Madison;
Second District Edgar Patterson of