Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-20
BADGER NOTES.

PlanklntOn."
JAMES BEACH, will build summer
hotel on the west shore of Lake Sha-
wanO, opposite Gum3r's.
THE Rev. S. E. Vance, Of the Eau
Claire Second Presbyterian Church, re-
signed on account of ill-health.
TWENTY THOUSAND brook trout
have been deposited IN the head waters
of the Mishicott River.
THE La Crosse Presbytery will hold
its spring meeting at Galesville, begin
ming on Thursday and extending
through Sunday.
AT the West Wisconsin conference of
the Methodist Church about seven
churches were recommended to receive
aid and appropriations of from 81 900 to
ST, 200 were made. The conference has
at its disposal about S., 900 semi-annual-
ly to appropriate as it may see fit to
ewly-organiZed churches and those
needing pecuniarY assistance.
THE will of S. r. barrow, Of the town
of Bloomfield, Walworth County, is to
be contested. He left the major part of
an estate of some SIS 600 to his wife and
two of his children, cutting off another
son, J. q. DarroW, of Leroy, Mimi, with
$500. This son contests the will, claim
ing that his father was unduly in
fuenced, etc.
THE jury in the Dane County circuit
court brought in verdict, on the 18th,
in the case of Ryan VS.. Cowel, giving
judgment tor the defendant for 81 1862.
The suit was brought by Dennis Ryan,
OF Green County, on 8 note for $50, and
the Judgment against him was a surprise
to him and his friends.
ONE of the worst wrecks in the his
tory of the Penokee branch of the Wis
consin Central Railroad occurred at
Epson on the 10Th. Owing to the fail
ure of the brakes to act two sections of
string of ore cars collided at the
switch Of the Trezona spur, smashing
and piling up cars to the depth of forty
feet. No lives were lost.
THE Milwaukee Casket Company has
increased its capital stock from $50, 900
TO 100000 by amending its articles OF
incorporation.
THE Wisconsin branch of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union will hold
Its annual convention at Madison on
June and S. 1t is expected that about
500 delegates from various parts Of the
state will be present, and elaborate ar
rangements will be made to entertain
them.
MAYOR URE, of Eau Claire, has ar
ranged the sale to the state Of $50, 900
refunding bonds at face value, with ac-
crued interest from January l. The
new bonds draw A. per cent. interest.
The old drew 7.
JONES and Henry, supposed to be I'M
plicated In the Barber murder case, at
Marinette, have been arrested at Den
Yer, Col, and the sheriff has gone to
bring them back for trial.
THE tailors of Menominee and Mari
nette, about 100 in number, are on a
strike Tor a uniform scale Of union
prices.
JOSEPH Armstrong, of Howe, is in Gus
tody at Appleton charged with illegally
trading horses with Indians on the Me-
nominee reservation.
OVER $4,000 barrels of flour are under
sheds at Superior awaiting Shipment.
Present receipts-about 5000 barrels a
day-are side-tracked.
THE report of the Ashland grand
jury has been made public, at least, in
part. The attempt to keep all the facts
secret proved unsuccessful, and it is
known that seven persons had been in
dlcted, eight indictments being re-
turned. One person was indicted on
two charges. Those indicted are:
County Clerk Edward Fennellv, Super
~
ert Cunningham and u. r. Friesenberg,
city of Ashland Charles f. LeClair,
Hurley; Daniel Richie and Lottie Mer-
Ger.
AT the session of the Grand Council,
Royal Arcanum, held at Milwaukee on
the 18th. the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: Grand
regent, E. G. Deane, Racine; grand vice
regent, E. A. Dow, Plymouth; grand
orator, E. S. Mason, Beaver Dam grand
past regent, O. w. Carlson, Milwaukee;
grand secretary, c. D. Simcnds, Mil
waukee; grand treasurer, r. w. Dun
lop, Milwaukee; grand guide: S. A.
Eckstein. Milwaukee grand chaplain, H.
p. Alling, Fort Howard; :, and warden,
+. c. Arnold, Oshkosh; grand sentry,
F F. Turner, Monroe; Representatives
to supreme council, Elihu Colman, Fond
du Lac; w. j. Abrams, Green Bay;
trustees, q. T. II. Barbour, Waukesha;
S. c. Burnham, GAINESVILLE; A. f. War
den, Plymouth
TRUMAN BARBER, a young man, wa
struck down N Marinette saloon re
Gently, and very seriously injured. He
refused to make any complaint against
the parties SO that warrant might be
issued, saying that when he got we'll he
would settle it with them himself, and
hot w law. LII d lew udyS LIE Ul0u, ana
warrants were issued upon the com
plant of his friends, but the guilty
parties fled the city.
LIE labor organizations of La Crosse
are to have weekly paper, Mr.. Frye,
the agitatOr, having secured the mate
rial OF the old Daily Times for that pur-
pose.
TIE report of Milwaukee's city treas
urer, for the year ending April 2, shows
that the cash on hand and in banks was
81 ,649, 1920. The amount paid out on
city orders was 81, 513, 05S. "A; for school
orders, $440, S14.27, and for the city pay
roll, 81 OH, 1873. The amount received
from the municipal court was $31 1854 "a.
The funds of the city earned SIS. 1853 SO
interest III Six months.
IRON RIVER, the new town in Bayfield,
County which is now having a boom,
has no existence in law, it has just been
discovered. The facts are that the
original resolution creating the town
has never been published. An election
is soon to be held to vote bonds in
aid Of a railroad from Bayfield, to
connect with the Northern Pacific,
in the sum of $50, 600. 1t is said that
with the territory taken from Bayfield,