Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-05-25
BADGER NOTES.

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American Library Association, to sue
coed K. A. Linderfelt, of Milwaukee.
] EN-. LAWRENCE, who shot George
! Lloyd at Ashland, has been declared
insane by jury.
| NEWS has been received Of the acci-
dental death in Texas of w. L. Crosby,
a well-known lawyer of La Crosse.
WHILE Tommy Burke, boy of about
II years of age, was watching the build
| ing of a barbwire fence near the village
of Clifton. Dane County, the horse used
| to stretch the wire ran away and caused
the wire to break. One Of the broken
ends struck Tommy Burke on the arm
and neck and cut the jugular vein. The
boy started for home, but after walking
about six rods fell dead.
THE steamer Emerald has left Ash
land for Thunder Bay, when another
attempt will be made to secure the val
liable cargo of the sunken steamer Pc
wabic, which lies in 126 feet of water
near Alpena, Mich. The Emerald has
been thoroughly fitted out with diving
and wrecking appliances.
The teachers examinations for state
certificates will be held August at Eau
Claire and Oshkosh, as we'll as at Madi-
son. There are three members of the
examining board, and heretofore the
three together conducted the one eX-
animation held at Madison. Now the y
will separately conduct the examina-
tons at the places named.
! THERE is on exhibition at Prairie du
| Chen one of the short ribs of q mastO
don--4 feet 4 inches long-part of the
remains found last year in the town OF
Freeman, Crawford County.
WILL MORTON, a 12-year-old school
| boy of La Prairie, turned upon his
teacher, Miss Luella Woodman, when
she was about to punish him, and beat
| her until she tainted. She took the
matter into court, where Willie was
fined $40 and costs. Miss Woodman is
but II years old.
JOHN GRIMM and wife, who keep
secondhand store at Madison, have
been arrested for receiving stolen prop
erty. The goods were taken from the
house of J. S. Richards, the wealthy
lumberman, while he and his family
were absent in Florida. They were
found in the possess sion of the prison
erS.
A CHICAGO passenger on the North
Western Road struck couple of tramps
at Bay View on the goth and threw one
of them fifty feet, but, strange to says
did not Kill him.
IT is announced on excellent author
tv that President 7. c. Cham be Rim has
decided to sever his connection with
the University of Wisconsin and accept
q position at the head of the geological
department of the Chicago University,
at salary OF s. 900 per annum.
IT is reported from Irma that an
Eastern prospecting party accompanied
by experts pronounced the Grand
| father power the best they had seen
in the West, and the power at Grand
mother better, and could be put in
working order cheaper than many of
the so-called great Eastern water pow
ers.
Four lumbermen, walking on the rail-
road track from Chicago Junction to
Shell Lake, discovered two iron straps
fastened securely Oh the track at
a curve, so that it was almost i'm
possible to remove them. This was
twenty minutes before the passenger
trains time, and was apparently done
with miscellaneous intent. Other imped-
iments were discovered later.
SUIT is now before the circuit court
at Marineute of the Menominee River
Sash and Door Company ct. al. vs.. the
Milwaukee & Northern Railway, claim
ing damages resulting from the burning
of their lumber last year caused by
sparks from the engine.
FIRE destroyed the barn on John
Gautche's farm near La Crosse. Two
horses, cow and considerable farm
machinery were also burned. The loss
will reach about 81 800.
A NEW catalogue of the state law IL
brary has just been published. The Il
brary now contains $4,000 volumes, ex
elusive Of duplicates, of which there
are several thousand. In it are to be
| W Of hn re Of
last resort of all the United States and
of all the countries which adhere to
the English common law system of jur-
isprudence, as well as the statutes and
digests Of the several states and coun-
| tries.
ST. PAUL earnings for the second
week of May were $524,371. An in
crease of S47 ,22l. Milwaukee & North
ern earnings were 0,346, an increase
of 81, 2S3.
THE dam at Ironton, about eight miles
west of Reedsburg, went out on the
night of the 10Th. and let vast amount
Of water into the river bottoms. Much
damage was done to the mill at that
place and the river is the highest it has
!, been for years.
CARL KNUTEsoN, station agent at
Dane, while jumping from a freight car
at that station slipped and fell under
the wheels. He was seriously cut on
the head and shoulders, and the ampu-
tation of both feet was rendered neces-
sary.
THE revenue cutter Andy Johnson
has again been placed in commission,
with headquarters at Milwaukee.
IT is authoritatively reported that
corps Of Chicago, Burlington q North
ern Railroad surveyors will locate line
between Prairie du CHEN and Wauzeka
at once, to connect with the Kickapoo
Valley Railroad. Work on the kicka-
poo Valley line has been commenced
and will be showed with ali possible
speed.
FRANK A. FLOWER, the well-known
ex-state labor commissioner, now en-
gagged in the newspaper business at Su-
perior. figures as one Of the contracting
parties IN a somewhat romantic mar
| rage at Milwaukee, on the 18th
PROF. A. B. De GUERvILLE, formerly
| with the Mil Waukea COllaOa now traV-