Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-07
BADGER NOTES.


having been secured. The building will
cost, when completed, $l25, GOO.
II. NIEDECKEN & Co., of Milwaukee,
furnishing the state with paper the en-
suing Two years by the state printing
commission.
CAPT. WILLIAM WILSON, a pioneer
lumberman Of the Chippewa Valley,
and one of the founders of the Knapp,
Stout & Co. Company, died at his home
III MenomOnee at the advanced age of
50 years.
FRANK PICKARD has resigned the city
attorneyship at Marinette to engage in
business at Chicago.
WAsHBURN has accepted plans for
new library building.
The new Madison directory, just is
sued, contain $3.50 rames, and on this
basis the population is estimated TO ex-
coed 10000.
A BOARD fence ten feet in height is
being erected around the new federal
building site at Milwaukee, which will
cost 81, :O0. Col. Watrous has received
notice hat the fence cannot be used for
advertising purposes.
A COMPLETE train of fifteen freight
cars loaded with Milwaukee beer and
decorated with red. white and blue,
Grand Army banners, etc, lett Milwau-
kee on the night of the 1st for Wash
ington to supply the wants of the thou
sands who will attend the Grand Army
encampment there.
THE Rev. w. P. Ten Brock, of La
Crosse, now in England, has received a
sender OF a professorship at the Fari-
bault seminary to teach ecclesiastical
history. 1t is position we'll suited to
the taste of Mr.. Ten Brock, and he may
decide to accept, although he dislikes 10
leave his parish.
ALEX. MALCOLM, prominent logging
contractor, died at Eau Claire after
period of illness.
A HEAVY white frost fell in the vicin-
ity of Marshfeld on the night of the
night Of the 31st, causing considerable
damage to root and corn crops.
FIRE destroyed the office, pattern
room and all the patterns and brass
castings of the Novelty Iron Works st
Ashland. The. loss is estimated at fully
$4,000. No insurance.
{, w. HOPKINS, city assessor at Ash
land. was arrested at Duluth in COM
paDy with Mrs. Williams, who formerly
lived at Ashland. Hopkins is 81 years
old, and las family there. The arrest
Ten years ago Milwaukee barely sup
ported TWO inferior theaters. To-day
the city has one of the finest houses in
the country, and three others equal to
any of those Of decade ago. In addi-
ton to all this, number of Milwaukee
capitalists have inauguarated as
supplement- to the indoor
amusements presentation of an out
door spectacle of the Last Days OF
Pompeii," in which the lie, manners
and customs of the ancient city are
portrayed by means of pageants
scenery. fireworks, etc. The stage in
cludes a miniature lake, and the am
phltheater will seat 10000 spectators.
The performances, which close with
eruption Of Nesuvius and the destruc-
ton of the city, began on the LIST inst,
and will continue until the close of the
state fair.
DANIEL STEELE DURR1E, librarian of the
State Historical Society, died unexpe
edly on the 3lst, although he has been
quite feeble Tor some months. He was
born at Albany, n. Y, IN 1919.
Nor a dollar of Indebtedness hangs
over the Monona Lake Assembly
grounds. The Hon. WIlIett S. Main
was reelected president.
MILWAUKEE coal deal ers have given
retail price another notch. The fol-
lowing item, tro II Milwaukee paper,
shows the result: "The cedar blocks
used by the city in paving Fond du Lac
Avenue are so nice and clean that some
OF the people living on that street con-
cluded TO use them for kindling wood
When the men who are doing the paw
ing came to work yesterday morning
there weren't enough blocks lett to
play ninepins with. The contractor ap-
pealed to Commissioner Dunck, who
communicated wi th the police depart
ment, and IN few minutes a SQUAD of
policemen and two patrol wagons
started for Fond du Lac Avenue. A
call was made upon number of citi-
zens. and they promptly produced the
blocks when they saw the officers. In
an hour enough blocks had been recov-
cred to allow the work OF paving to be
resumed"
GEORGE LENDERBAK, q carpenter about
% years of age, dropped dead on the
side walk at Eau Claire, while on his
way to Doctors office to have his eyes
treated. He leaves a wife and three
caused his death.
THD amount of lumber shipped from
the port of Marinette this season has
logs sorted by the boom company dur
ing the same time. No other lumber
district IN the country shows ship
anent Of nearly 100000 00Q feet of lum-
Der for the same period.
THE statement IS made that Menomi-
nee has received an offer from n. w.
Harris q Co. of $l1 100 Tor the $4,000
street Improvement bonds issued by the
city. Menominee's credi: is not to be
sneeZed at.
THE Catholic Church at Prairie du
Chen was entered by burglars and the
gold vestry service, valued at $500,
stolen. The Council Bluffs & Northern
Railway depot, short distance from
the church, was also broken into and
some money 'ld two grips stolen. A
tramp nam.d James Morgan, of Chica-
go, was arres ed on euGpicion Of having
broken into The station Glid bound over
10 the circuit court
MARINETTE is experiencing quite a
building boom. Ten new residences
are being erected al an average cost of
$4,000.
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