Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-06-15
BADGER NOTES.


Green Lake, Green and Columbia.
Prosecutions will be commenced against
them as soon as it is possible for the
commissioner to dispose of other work
that is pressing him.
OLE 0. MEEN and Otto H. Witte, two
young men of Augusta. Eau Claire
County, were arrested at Eau Claire,
charged with the murder of August
Stevens. On June 5 the body Of
Stevens was found in the barn Of Mr.
Brown, farmer living near Augusta, in
a terribly disfgured condition. Two
brothers of the dead man from Mime
sofa have been at the scene of the muir
der making investigations, the above
arrests being result Of their work.
THE earnings of the ST. Paul Rail-
road for the first week in June were
1896, 943, against $S1, 227 for the CORE
spending week last year. The Milwau-
kee & Northern earned $32, 1882, an in
crease of 81, 476.
ABOUT l 80 o'clock on the morning of
the 9th fire broke out in barn in the
rear Of Ole klandrud's hotel at Onalas-
ka, and In few minutes spread to the
hotel and adjoining buildings, which
were soon burned to the ground. The
buildings destroyed were two hotels
know n respectively as the Union House
and Englestadt's Hotel, together with
barns and other out-houses. The ORR
gin Of the fire is unknown. Loss, over
$4,000.
THEODORE FMEDLANDER, who estab-
lished the first German newspaper in
the Chippewa Valley, the Chippewa
Anzeiger, died at the Sisters Hospital
in Eau Claire. Before coming to this
country he held the chair OF history in
bn ~ L. all L
city charge at the time Of his death.
THE Wisconsin building on the
Worlds Fair grounds will attract more
attention than most of the others which
are erected in the manner known rs
'staH work" Contractor Eoule reports
that the walls will consist of various
kinds of building stone found in Wis
consin and that the interior will be
finished in various Wisconsin woods.
Much of the material has been fur
nished gratuitously.
At Madison a 15-month-o old son of
George Albright fell dead of paralysis
while playing with his sister.
Ex-CHIEF OF POLICE J. d. HAYES, Of
Ashland, was granted $500. damages
against Sheriff Halioran, Of bayfield,
County. The plaintiff sued Halloran
for $1,000 for alleged false imprison
ment.
A YOUNG woman named Miss Ander-
son, Of La Crosse, while visiting rela-
tives in Minneapolis, was assaulted by
an unknown young man and badly
beaten.
AID. NEUMEIsTER, Of La Crosse, Great
ed sensation in the Common Council
by charging B. E. Edwards, president
OF the La Crosse Street Railway Com
pany, with having offered Neumeister
s., 900 worth of stock in the company
providing an ordinance was passed Civ
ing the company an exclusive franchise
for the term of fifty years. Mr.. Ed
wards was taken before the Council and
testified that the charge was false, that
he had only offered to sell out to Neu-
melster at 70 cents on the dollar. a
committee has been appointed to in
vestigate the matter.
AN accident occurred at F. S. Soper's
carriage works, at Ashland, which came
near resulting fatally to three men.
Some men were working at the bottom
of the elevator when it gave way and
went crashing through the floor with
terrific force. The men were just leav
ing the place when the elevator fell.
Mr.. Soper was severely injured on the
back, but will recover. Two employees
may terminate fatally.
The jury in the case of Rudolph Hatf
against the Columbus & Hooking Coal
Company, at Eau Claire, rendered a
verdict of $4,000 for the plaintiff, who
fell off derrick at Ashland. The case
was taken from Ashland County to Eau
Clare, the defendants attorney claim
ing that the judge at Ashland was pre- iu-
diced against the defendant.
ANDREW FREDERICK KRUGER, who
died IN Chicago few days ago, was
pioneer Of Wisconsin and was nearly
100 years old at the time Of his death.
Mr.. Kruger settled in Portage in 1917,
where he engaged in farming and in
trading with the Indians, having emf
grated to this country from Germany.
THE Montreal River Improvement
Company, Of Ashland, has been organ
lied with a capital stock of 100000.
The Wisconsin improvement Company,
another Ashland enterprise, has also
been organized, with $1,000 capital
stock.
THE Electric Light Company's plant
at Madison will be greatly enlarged this
summer. Work has been commenced
on new building with 70-foot front
and 14O feet deep. Two new engines
will also be put In.
AN insane man was found in the
woods near New Brighton, MINI, raw
ing and bowling like wild beast. He
was captured by three farmers and
taken to St. Paul, where he was placed
in the county Jail. The man became
partly calm for a while and said his
home was in Wisconsin, but he had no
recollection of the name of the place or
| his own name. He was apparently 40
years old and Scandinavian
| THE committee on buildings of the
| Wisconsin Agricultural Society has
awarded the contract for the construc-
ton of the main buildings to Ferge &
| Keipper for $26, 1000 w. H. Wilson, OF
Wausau, will build the poultry building
for $500. The contracts call for The
erection of the buildings by August 20.
| A CONTRACT has been let by Chief En-
gineer Whittemore, of the St. Ianl
Railroad, for building an extension fifty
miles long, to connect the Ontonagon
| branch with the main line of the Mil
waukee q Northern, making a new
through line TO Lake Superior.
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