Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-08-10
BADGER NOTES.

So named James Mcclure. He is a
man of some means and has boarded at
the Ulreit home for some time. Indi-
cations are that while the girls mother
was visiting q married daughter Nc
CURE had his and the girls trunks tax
en- to one of the depots and that they
left, but in what direction they went no
one knows.
PROF. E. J. MACEwAN, editor of the
Madison Times, has severed his con-
nection with that paper, having been
only temporarily engaged in that posi-
ton. He will leave for Logan, Utah. to
take the position of professor of mod
ern languages in the University Of
Utah.
LA CROSSE contractors will erect at
Babcock this season a hotel and five
cottages for J. w. Babcock. The hotel
is to cost SIS ,29S, and the cottages So, 648.
THE Marinette Eagle reports a de-
mand for lumber never before expert
enced. 1t says all the stocks piled
along the Menominee River may be
practically considered as sold or being
contracted for. Prices have advanced,
and a block Of lumber to-day is more
valuable than prospective gold or sill
yer mine and growing more SO daily.
PROF. E. A. BIRGE and Prof S. A.
Forbes, the state entomologist of Illi-
nois, have started to explore the in
land lakes in Northern Wisconsin.
They will spend some time at Lake
Winnebago. Prof. Forbes has COM
mission as United States entomologist
to study the fish of the inland lakes.
JOHN U. CAMPBELL, an old resident OF
Humbird, died suddenly at an adj
vanced age.
Work has commenced on the new
German Catholic Church at La Crosse.
A NEW opera house is to be erected at
Rice Lake to cost $50, 900.
THREE valiant knights of the Salvation
Army spent an afternoon in a cell at
the Milwaukee police station. They
wanted to convert the commission men
on West Water Street. The commits
sion men said the peach season kept
them busy, and complained that the
Salvationists were interfering with their
business. The police then interfered.
A 2-wEEKs-oLD child was found on the
doorstep of William Becker, at Madison.
JOHN LEATHEM, of Sturgeon Bay, has
sold Chambers Island, located near
Green Bay, to the Manitowoc Seating
Company for $4,000. The island con-
tains 1920 acres of fine timber land.
A STRIKE of union printers took place
ID the office of the Milwaukee Evening
Journal on the Sd, but the cases were
Immediately filed.
GEN. SIMEON MILLS, of Madison, has
issued little book to prove that water
itself is an element, and is not composed
of the two gases, hydrogen and oxygen.
He has invented an apparatus by which
be makes hydrogen and oxygen gases
by electricity out of separate tubes Of
water, having no connection with each
other.
II. W. FREEMAN, a State University
graduate Of '92, will soon leave for Ger
many to enter the gymnasium at Held
elberg.
A CREAMERY is soon to be built at
Rockland. La Crosse County.
THE house and barn of LOUIS Post,
three miles west of Madison, on the
Sank Road, were destroyed by fire with
nearly all of his farm machinery. Mr..
Post had insurance of 81 900, which is
small part of the loss.
A CLAIM for $1,000 has been filed
against Ashland County. It was disaI-
lowed and an appeal will be taken. In
1856 pool composed of Senator Win
dom, Messrs. Greeney and Churchill,
of Minneapolis, and Field, Of St. Paul,
and Others, bought up certain lands in
Ashland County. Window put 81 900
into this pool, other parties Interested
putting IN the balance, making 81 900.
This was used in purchasing 600 acres
Of tax deed lands in Ashland County.
The state supreme court decided that
the Ashland County clerk failed to col
lect enough money within 1925 for
the whole deal, and declared the deed
void, hence the claim for reimburse
ment.
T. L. ANEY, popular young railroad
er, of North La Crosse, died suddenly
at White Bear Lake, MINI. While
bathing there he was paralvzed by
heart disease and expired in few min
utes after being carried to the shore.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL earn
ings for the fourth week of July were
$500, SOB, an increase of S4, 20G. Mil
vaukee d Northern earnings were $40
liz, a decrease of So, $40.
HE July receipts at the Milwaukee
internal revenue office were S415, 81. ST,
an increase of so, 569.9S over the cor
responding month last year. The rev.
enue collections on beer alone last
month aggregated $202, 1882
ACTION has been brought by Mary
Hughes, of Madison, to garnishee the
$50, 900 bond OF the defunct St. Paul
German Insurance Company. The
bond is in the hands of the state treas
NIO1, c11u was dc BGCuI1IG 1OT
Wisconsin policyholders.
ALL differences at Ashland between
the coal-heayers of the Northweste IN
Fuel Company's dock and the company
are settled and the men have begun
work again. There were POO among the
strikers. They quit work because the
company cut down the number of men
stationed on each hatchway of the yes
sci unloading from six to four. There
was no reduction of wages or increase of
hours, but the company has promised
to keep six men on each hatchWay.
The schooner San Diego and steamer
Pelican were detained in unloading sew
eEal hours as a result of the strike.
Mrs. i. O. MADISON, wealthy widow
of Evanston, H., is travelling through
the towns of Northern Wisconsin, look
ing for her daughter, who ran off with
a theatrical company that has dis
banded.
The report that DR.. W. 2. Morton, of
La Crosse, who left the city week ago,
had committed suicide was unfounded.