Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-02-24

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| county officers. DR.. Edwin Ellis pre-
! sided, and William Window acted as
| secretary. NJ. r. Hunt presented reso-
| iutloro demanding that Judge Parish
summon the grand jury at once. Fer
! v1d speeches denouncing boodlers and
! endorsing resolutions were made by
| eX-Mavor Wilma, ex-senator Merrill.
| ). }. Miles, District Attorney Sleight
and l.. J. Dockery. The resolutions
! were adopted unanimously.
A MYSTERIOUS shooting affair occurred
! ID the Third Ward, Milwaukee. on the
night Of the Goth Otto Willart, aged
IS years, was shot in the neck and prob
ably fatally wounded -Four Italians
were arrested OF suspicion of being i'm
| phcated in the case.
The finishers in all the tanneries in
the city affected by the strike in Nil"
| Waukee, went out on the Goth. This &C
! ton was the result of q discussion which
! has been pending for some time, and is
! practically a move in support of the
| whiteners, who have been on a strike
| for some weeks.
The members Of the Board Of Re-
! gents Of the state normal schools, who
| have been investigating the charges pre-
! terred by students against President
! Mapel, of the State Normal School IN
Grated him.
Mrs. PHOEBE A. WHITNEY, mother of
Mrs. Julius Wechselberg, Mrs. William
| Phlpps and Mrs. Frances Jones, of Mil
waukee, died at the residence Of J. V.
| '. Plato, 143 Eighth Street. She was
| II years old.
The National Butter and Cheese con-
ventlOn closed lis session at Madison on
the 18th.
Tile secretary Of state has issued q
! pamphlet containing the laws of 1891 re-
lating to elections for city, village, town
and judicial officers. A new compila-
! ton of the entire registry and election
| laws of the state applicable to all cleo
tons, together with the rulings of the
| courts on the various sections thereof,
! is now In press and Will be ready for
| distribution soon.
| WISCONSIN IN January, 1892. according
| to the agricultural bureaus report, had
| 463,7S3 horses, valued at $34 AL $40;
mules, 5,342, valued at $43S, S19; COWS,
! 701 IA, valued at $l4, Al ,43S; oxen, $780,
| 975, valued at $l3, 749, 322; sheep, 907, 70S,
| valued at s.. 6SS $50; hogs, l 100 $50, val
ued at 50, 925, 5S4.
| UNITED STATES MARSHAL OAKLEY and
Assistant Marshal Main arrested Chris
tan Huebner and c. w. Sommermeyer,
two of the principal owners Of the Eau
! Claire pearl button factory, and took
! them before Gen. Griffith, United
| States circuit court commissioner, on
| the charge OF violating the federal con-
| tract labor law
! Work is progressing satisfactorily on
! the new viaduct across the Menomonee
! Valley, from Wells Street to its continu-
alton west of the Milwaukee River and
| the prospects are that the new rapid
! transit line from Milwaukee to Wauwa-
tosa and the fair grounds will be built
IN time for the state fair.
Mrs. ELIZABETH RUSSELL, Of Eau
Claire, charged with the murder of
Bertha Ericsson, gave bail to the amount
of $1,000, with William Carson and Ar
thur Smith as her bondsmen.
At recent meeting of the Weyer-
hauser syndicate, st Eau Claire, 1t has
! leaked out, proposition was consid-
cred which conIempiates the building
| OF a line of railroad from Chippewa
Falls to Superior by way of Hayward,
thus giving those two places direct
route TO the head of the lakes, and in
surfing lower rates for the CARRYING of
! lumber. Chippewa Falls is on the
| line of the Wisconsin Central. which is
now in the hands Of the Northern Pa
cifc, and by the building of this line the
| latter would have direct line between
Chicago and the head of the great lakes.
The fact that a representative Of the
| Northern Pacific attended the meeting
! is evidence that this company IS behind
| this proposed railway.
THE Republicans Of Milwaukee, in
! convention assembled, have nominated
the following city ticket: Mayor, Paul
Bechtner; comptroller, John Il. Kelly;
city attorney, William H. Austin; city
treasurer, Fred. Heiden; clerk mum
cipal court, Frank Z. Woller.
AN Eau Claire Salvationist captain
saves souls and catches pennies by
preaching the gospel standing on his
| head. He is supported IN this painful
position by holding his feet.
! GEORGE GILLIs, an old citizen Of Madi-
son and for many years an employe at
the state capitol, died of congestion Of
the lungs, aged 81.
Mrs. CLARA B. NAZRo, the widow Of
John Nazro, Of Milwaukee, died at Pas
adena, Cal. She was a daughter of the
late DIR. A. Blanchard, and sister of Mrs.
! William Pitt Lynde.
! THE remains of Warren F. Houghton,
who died in California, were brought to
| Milwaukee and were placed in the
vault at Forest Home Cemetery.
The improvements in the interior of
| the Plankinton House, Milwaukee,
winch have been in progress for several
months, have been about completed at
an expense Of 100000. A private din
ing nail has been added.
ADOLPn Won BRANDS, an eccentric
| German ex-soldier who claimed to have
| invented an air ship, has been adjudged
insane by Judge Mann, at Milwaukee,
and taken to the asylum. The failure
OF his device and the fact that he could
not interest other people in it, though
he himself firmly believed in the eff
cacy of the air ship, finally unsettled
his mind
TIE Northwestern Lumber Company
has undertaken a new system for run
ming its saw-mlll at Stanley this winter.
A hot water pond is formed by dam
ming and running in the exhaust steam
from the engine. The logs are hauled
from the woods and dumped direct into
the pond. The logs, by the time they
strike the saw, have had the frost thor
oughly boiled out of them. N. G. Fos-
ter invented the process at Fairchild.
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