Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-01-27
BADGER NOTES.

Street. When found Mrs. Bark had
some mending work In her hands. Her
death is believed to have been caused
by heart disease. She lived alone in
front room of the house, and it is sup
posed she has been dead three days.
She was 20 years of age.
1N curling match between Chicago
and Milwaukee curriers', held at the for
mef city on the 23d, Milwaukee was
victorious by score of 81 to so.
STURGEON BAY has pettioned the post
master-general to send mail matter over
the ice from Marinette during the time
that the winter stage line is in opera
ton.
JOHN A. ANDERSON, who is under ar
rest at Cleveland, O., for having too
many weddings and too few divorces,
dates one of his matrimonial escapades
at Madison, January 81, 1888. At that
time he appeared before the Rev. S. f.
Holt, Baptist minister, and was
handsome young widow. He gave
his name, however, as Luther Ii.
Mead, and said that he resided
at Gallup, n. NJ, for which place he os-
tensibly departed a few weeks later and
never returned. The Rev. Mr.. Holt,
before performing the ceremony, OBJ
tanned the signature of the prospective
was no legal impeachment to the mar
riage. No divorce or annulment of the
marriage was procured by the bride in
the circuit court for Dane County.
THE Very Rev. Anthony NJ. Anderle-
dy, general Ofthe Society OF Jesus, whose
death occurred few days ago in Rome,
was well known among the older priests
IN Wisconsin, where he was at one time
missionary. He was born in 1919,
and entered the Jesuit order in 1888.
Ten years later he was ordained a
priest by Archbishop Kenrick in st.
Louis. In 1919 he was sent to this state
and lived for several years in Green
Bay. Early in the ffties he returned to
Germany, where his promotion was ra-
pid.
AsHLAND's telephone exchange has
2S5 subscribers.
ASHLAND'S street repairs during the
past year cost about SIS, GOO.
THE CongregatIonalsts of La Crosse
celebrated their fortieth anniversary on
the 22d.
REV. FATHER WHITE, of Hammond, is
now at the head OF his new charge in
La Crosse.
Dir. FRANK DECKER, of Seneca, who
was once a resident OF La Crosse, died in
Kansas.
Fire broke out in the town of Arena,
six miles west of Mazomanie, on the
Goth, and destroyed saloon owned by
Larry O'Brien, the town hall and a
large machine shed. Loss, about s. 900;
insurance, 1923. Next morning O'Brien
was fined 500 and sent to the county
jail for three months. for selling liquor
without license.
Messrs. Melheim & Peterson, on trial
at Madison, charged with arson, were
acquitted by a jury in the circuit court.
They were alleged to have set fire to the
Chicago restaurant in that city June 9
Of last year.
THE Eau Claire Free Press saws the
lumberman is right in the swim. Prices
Of $3.50 per thousand are being offered
for logs and refused. Piece stuff is
worth a dollar thousand more than it
was year ago.
BERT. SMITH, a "homesteader," was
killed by falling tree near Mellen.
A 13-YEAR-oLD boy named Hart, son of
W. II. Hart. fell under a Wells Street
electric car in Milwaukee, on the 2lst,
and the wheels passed over his fore
arm, crushing and mangling it so
that amputation was necessary
Young Hart was on his way to school,
IN company with group of
others, and they jumped on the
front end of the car as it turned on to
Eleventh Street, to get free ride for
block. The conductor, as the car
neared Wells Street, started for the for
ward end Of the car to be ready to
change the switch, and the boys,
thinking he was coming to chase
them, got of, with the result detailed.
The case of Warden VS.. Knight in the
county treasury matter at Bayfield, has
taken another turn, by Knight giving up
the office to Warden. This was done in
conformity with a recent decision Of the
supreme court, that the office belonged to
Warden during the pending of the ap-
peal. Warden was elected in the fall of
1891, but the County Board did not
deem his bond sufficient, and refused
to approve it. Thereupon knight re-
fused to surrender the Office. The case
is pending in the supreme court.
The Dane County board is discussing
novel method of making it interesting
for the army Of tramps that are coming
this way. The board has reason to be-
Heve that a large tread-mill may be
built at small expense, and upon this
the tramps will be put to work as soon
as they arrive. There is reason to sup
pose that as the greatest enemy OF the
tramp is labor they will fight shy of
Dane County.
THE La Crosse charity ball netted
S555.77
SECRETARY INMATES, Of the State His
torical Society, has set apart room es-
peclally Tor the manuscripts and prop
erty left the society by the late DR..
Draper. The collection has been rear
ranged and put in excellent shape
Some of the manuscripts are very valu-
able.
SEVERAL of the heaviest taxpayers at
Ashland will refuse to pay their taxes,
claiming that 20 legal assessment has
been made.
A SPECIAL freight train ran into load
of logs at a crossing near Washburn, de-
molishing the engine and smashing the
sleigh and logs to splinters. The fire.
man had an arm broken, the engineers
head was badly bruised and the brake
mans ankle was broken.
E. A. SHORES of Ashland, has bought
100000 feet of logs of Dolby & Co., at
White River. The logs will be shipped
TO Ashland by rail, and it will take 1000