Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-21
WISCONSIN NEWS.

field. lie had been suffering with
typhoid fever and was at boarding
house in Washburn. The proprietor
evidently did not care to keep him and
had him put aboard train by two men
The conductor supposed it was lame
by the train hands until the train
started. His wife lives at Bayfield, and
has been trying to get divorce from
him.
BURGLARS entered the residence of
Herman Specht at Prairie du Chen and
stole Sll0 III cash and three gold watches.
The thieves evidently made their es-
cape in a yaWl down the Mississippi
River, as a boat near the Specht resi-
dence was also stolen.
THE stock of the demoralized Lappen
Furniture Company, Milwaukee, ap-
praised at something ike $55, 900, was
purchased at sheriff. sale by Gimbel
Bros, of that city, for $45, 725.
Mrs. JOANNA WIN, of Madison, was
struck by a runaway horse and SO badly
hurt that she died in a few hours.
THE 16-year-old son of n. G. Strout,
La Crosse merchant, was drowned while
bathing near that city. The boy could
not swim and was taken with cramps.
1t was the boys birthday.
THIEVES entered Oscar Linberg's
shooting gallery at La Crosse and stole
S25. Two young men named Patrick
kerrigan and Samuel Vanderbilt have
been arrested on suspicion.
Mrs. J. n. KELLOGG, a La Crosse
woman, while attending a wedding re-
ception, fell down a stairway and was
seriously injured internally.
FRED. TELLMAN, a well-known La
Crosse business man, expired suddenly
at his home, aged 56 years. He had
been about town as usual and was APP
parently well man. The heat at that
place was intense and it is thought he
suffered a partial sunstroke He was
we'll known in Western Wisconsin hav-
ing held number of public Offices.
THE following were elected orators in
the senior contest to be held next year
to determine the Wisconsin UNIVERSITIES
representative in the Northern inter
collegiate oratorical contest to be held
at Madison in May: NJ. K. Reilly, r. n.
RienoW, Helen Kellogg, Winnifred Case,
L. kaunberg, I'll. r. Dockery and A. *.
Smith
WORD has been received at Marinette
that Charles Johnson, a Swede, died at
Beaverton, Ore, recently and left $1,000
to his daughter, Frieda Charlotte John
son He stated before he died that
they had formerly lived at Marinette,
ago and had lost all trace Of his daugh-
ter,
THE strike of carpenters at Ashland
Tor the eight-hour day has been aban-
doned. The men will return to work
under the ten-hour system.
A YOUNG man giving his name as r. J.
f q fnlA a,4aroI 4hc ,>ol;oo
Minneapolis and gave himself up, saw
ing that last fall he robbed his room
mate in the Wilbur House in that city.
Cole says his companion had $685. which
he carried IN his trousers pockets. One
night Cole got up and took $50 of this
sum. The roommate did not miss it,
and after staying with him for two days
Cole left him and went to Phillips, Wis,
where he lived since that time, spend
ING portion of the winter in the woods
Conscience troubled him, and at last, he
says, he had to confess his guilt.
JOHN DAWSON, of La Crosse, has filed
an application for the position of col
lector of internal revenue for the West
err District of Wisconsin
THE report sent out from Eau Claire
that the pearl button industry of that
place was killed was without founda-
ton. The report gained ground from
the fact that the Eau Claire Pearl But
ton Company was absorbed by the
Badger Pearl Button Company, of Eau
Claire, the original enterprise, which |
intends to enlarge its plant and employ
an additional fifty Workmen.
Attachments aggregating over $40, 900
have been served on A. c. Probert, pro-
prietOr of the Bank of Washburn, which |
closed its doors last week.
The United States district court at
Madison has opened the June term. /
Several important criminal cases are to |
be disposed of, among them that against
a. A. CadaWallader, the Superior bank |
er. charged with enlightenment. who fed /
&c South America after his Indictment,
but was recaptured. A new trial will
since and M0neypenny, accused of the |
murder at Boneash and his squaw, Bes-
segishigokwe, on the Bad River res
ervation, the jury having disagreed at
the previous trial The first case taken
up will be that Of Taylor Gordon, in
,dIcted for assault with intent to kill
Regis Belle on the Lac Court d.
0reilles reservation last summer. Both
parties are half-breed Indians
! JOSEPH RUPP, Madison youth, has
been sentenced to the reform school at
NaukeSha on charge or securing a
suit Of clothes under false pretenses.
IoG-DRIvING on the Wisconsin River
is practically finished, and owing to the
high stage of the water clean drive is
reported to have been made.
CLARENCE, the 17-year-old son of Mrs.
J. S. Sniyely, of Hayward, was drowned
III a pond at that place. The body was
recovered.
THE jury in the case of Shepard,
Sterling and McMowray charged with
robbing Steward Freedom, Of the steam
CT Kirby, at Ashland. returned a YER
dict Of guilty. They have not yet been
sentenced.
THERE are 2OO,0OO,0OO feet of logs at
the upper gap at Marinette ready to be
sorted.
HENRY BARTHELD, of La Crosse, has a
freak in the shape of a four-legged
chicken.
MORTIMER WHITEHEAD, lecturer of the
National Grange, gave a public lecture
at Reedsburg during which he made
the statement that more inferior butter
was made in the city of Chicago in one
wear than on all dairy farms in WiScOn-