Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-10-26
BADGER NOTES
STEPHEN MARsrEN, of Eau Claire, vas
recently left $4,000 by the death of lis
brother James, at Pennington, Me.

come CD6m1CalS winch ne WAS pTOphr-
ing exploded in his hands, burning
them terribly, and causing him such
pain that he tainted away.
THE library of the State University
School of Economics, at Madison, has
received several important private do
nations in the form of good number of
works on economics. The gifts have
been made principally by Profs. a. A..
knowlton, r. L. Ely and T. j. Turner.
A LARGE spotted adder was killed on
the stock farm of a. O. Fox, near Oregon,
Dane County, few days ago. The farm
is an extensive sheep ranch. One of the
shepherds named John Burke discover
ed snake among the sheep. He i'm
medlately gave battle, and after q furious
fight he slew the reptile. When stretch
ed out it measured 4 feet II inches from
tip to tip. 1t was spotted adder, quite
rare in that section now, although once
more numerous.
Two German farmers came to death
and one was hurt while they were going
home from La Crosse. They were Fred
X. Zimmerman, an old man, his son,
aged about 20, and Lorenz Strittner, So
years old. They tried to cross the
track in front of Burlington train going
north and miscalculated the distance.
The engine struck the wagon just back
of the horses. Young Zimmerma n
rolled out behind and escaped injury
the others were tossed in the air and fell
dead. The younger of the two was
badly mangled. The crossing is the full
width of the road with clear track.
NINETEEN checks we're stolen from the
office of A. Z. Shores, president of the
Shores Lumber Company, at Ashland.
He had commenced signing the pay
roll of checks, and lett them in his
desk. During the night an entrance
was made through q side window, and
all the checks taken. John Kemmler,
aged 10 years, was arrested in the act
of passing one of these checks, which
was endorsed on the back.
The Finney family, residing near Eau
Claire, have Eheen sadly afflicted by
diphtheria. Two children have died of
the disease within the past month, an d
the mother and one of the remaining
children are down with it.
WORD has been received at Madison
that John Payton, BUSINESS man of
that city, had been stabbed and robbed
at Chicago, and lies IN precarious con-
dition. Mrs. Payton has gone to Chica-
60 to attend her husband.
A NEW bridge will be built over the
DldCh hlh0T dI LII NIOSSSs l6dUluR W
French Island. 1t will cost S., 3331.
STATE GAME WARDEN FERNANDEZ states
that he intends to commence crusade
against the fishermen around Lake
Wlnnebago who make a practice of
hunting ducks with sail boats and snar-
ing them. There Is a heavy fine Tor
violating the game law.
A SERIOUS calamity was averted by the
timely arrival Of Mrs. George II. Cor
don at her home in La Crosse. Mrs.
Gordon had been to party. The serv-
ant girl had put the children to bed and
left the lamp burning near one of the
windo VS.. When Mrs. Gordon reached
the house the room where the children
and the servant girl were asleep was all
ablaze. She gave the alarm and then
rushed in the room and carried the lit
tie ones out. The fire was eXtinguished
with little damage. The curtains be-
came ignited from the lamp.
Mrs. ERICKSON, q Norwegian milk ped
dler, aged 90 years, was driving on
dark street in La Crosse in heavy rain
and got on the street car track. AS
car approached she drove off except one
hind wheel, which chung to the rail.
The car struck the wagon, overturning
it. The woman said she was all right,
except her back. She went home and
died at o'clock next morning.
THE second drive Of logs down the
Menominee River has reached the
booms above Marinette, having been
foated from Grand Rapids. There are
so, 900, 900 feet Of logs in the drive.
BUSINESS circles throughout the state
will be interested in the announcement
that G. D. Nash, of Milwaukee, has re-
signed from the presidency OF the Ma
tional Exchange Bank, and has also re-
signed his trust as treasurer of the
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Company, of that city.
WILLIAM SCHIMERHoRN, one of the
Marinette strikers, has been declared
not guilty Of rioting by a jury. A nolle
has been entered in the case against
Glib Schimerhorn, and A. d. Colburn
has been discharged without trial.
None Of the rioting strikers have re-
ceived any punishment. All that were
arrested are now free.
around Eau Claire.
l.. G. WILMARTH, of Ashland, has by
careful experiments demonstrated that
the soil there is we'll adapted to garden
ing.
the state and United States authorities
the two Indians held for the murder of
Boneash and wife at Odanah some time
since. There are two warrants out for
their arrest, one sworn out by the dis
trict attorney to the sheriff of Ashland
County, the other sworn out by United
States District Attorney Harper to Unit
ed States Marshal Oakley. Harper
claims Jurisdiction in the case from the
fact that the bank of the river where
the crime was committed, while the
property of boom and logging COM
pany, is still within the bounds Of the
reservation, which fact leaves the case
in the jurisdiction Of the United States
court over the state circuit court. The
matter will be left with Judge Parish,
whose decision will be final.
THE jury in the Lipke poisoning case
at Ashland returned verdict of not
guilty a-ainst Mrs. Llpke. The jury
was out all night. After the jury re-
turned the verdict District Attorney
Sleight moved for the dismissal of
Lipke on the grounds thatif Mrs. Lipke,
as principal, could not be convicted
then he, as an accessory, could not be
on the same evidence. The motion
was granted and both were dismissed.
HENRY LA PoINTE was found dead in