Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-06
BADGER NOTES.

STATE SUPT. WELLS has issued large
quarto pamphlet containing matter that
may be used on Arbor Day by the
officers, teachers and children of Wis
consin schools. 1t also embraces pro-
gramme for district schools, and the
scheme of the proposed plant distribu-
ton by the State Horticultural Socie-
ty.
The union carpenters of La Crosse
struck on the 1st inst. They demand
reduction of the working-day to nine
hours, an increase in pay OF 5 cents per
hour and the employment of union men
only. The bosses offer the concession
asked to frst-class workmen, but not to
poor workmen; and utterly refuse to
recognize the union, claiming there are
more good carpenters out of the union
than In it. About 200 are in the strike.
Work is slack, owing to an expectation
OF labor troubles, and contractors say 1t
is q poor time for the men to 60 out.
THE Ashland News reports that the
Sand River Land Company let q contract
to the G. c. Thompson Lumber Company
at Washburn to cut 100000 feet Of
lumber for them the coming summer.
The Saud River Company banked that
amount of logs the past season at Sand
River and SlskiWit and Squaw Bays.
The Thompson Company will begin
cutting the lumber May 1, and will
manufacture about 100000 feet a
month.
ALL the lumber mills on Chequamegon
Bay nave been fitted up for an extraor-
binary seasons work. That of the
South Shore Company, at Washburn,
has thawed out its logs by steam and is
running to its full capacity. Last year
this mill cut 35, 900, 600 feet. The Ash
land News further states that over 900
cars of logs were brought in over the
Northern Pacific Railroad during
March, marked increase over any pre-
ceding month.
AT Eau Claire, on the 3lst, the jury in
the case of Dugan VS.. the Omaha Rail
way Company came in with verdict of
| IS, 5S3 for plaintiff. Plaintiff was an
employee Of defendant and was injured
at the depot in the city.
Ex-CONGREssMAN MCCORD saws the
Marinette Abbotsford Railway is a sure
thing. The company will first build
from Merrill southwest to Rietbrock's
road, which they will purchase. They
will next build east to Amigo.
THE South Milwaukee Park Company
IS new corporation with a tract OF 2lO
| acres in the Oak Greek district west of
the NOrth-W estern Railroad. It's pre-
pairing to plat some of its territory, and
proposes to put some manufactures on
a part of 1t to give impetus to the sale OF
lots. A contract may be closed for
big factory on their land before May.
An explosion of varnish in the base
ment of the Berger Bedding Company
at 529-53l Market Street, Milwaukee, on
the 30th, caused loss by fire of about
$50, GOO, and will probably result IN the
death of Frank Knuth, l6-year-old
employee of the firm, who was
seriously burned about the body.
The fire spread with such rapidity,
and the entire building was so
quickly filed with sitting smoke,
that the forty-tive employees had scarce
ly time to save themselves by climbing
down the fire escape. The fire was one
of the most difficult to subdue the de-
partment has had to cope with during
the last two or three years, and only
alter two hours of hard work was it
| finally gotten under control. The in
surance aggregates about $50, 900.
TIE district Christian EndeavOr con-
ventiOn for Western Wisconsin was
held at West Salem on the 30th. TWen-
ty-fve local societies were represented
by about sixty delegates. Officers elect
ed were: President, A. E. Howard,
sparta; Flce-DrGSlQent, +, II. OOlDurn,
Black River Falls; secretary, Miss
LOOMS, La Crosse; delegate to the Ma
tional society, l.. r. Dudley, West Sa-
lem. The next place Of meeting is
Trempealeau.
THE Indians on the Bad River reser-
vation have made over twenty tons of
maple sugar, and are getting good
| prices. Several harvesters and other
| farming machinery have gone to Odonah
| this spring. They claim they will have
the best farms in Northern Wisconsin in
a few years.
FRANK ALLAY, a Minneapolis barber,
created a disturbance at the funeral of
his mother, in Ashland. On learning
that he could not command the attend
ance of a Catholic priest because his
mother had killed herself, he drove out
the German Methodist minister and
ordered the burial without services of
any kind