Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-08-23
WISCONSIN NEWS.

descent current With cry of pain he
fell and hung by one foot to the wires,
apparently corpse. Two fellow work
men ran up the poles and tried to lower
him with a rope, but he fell, striking on
the curbstone Life was extinct. There
is considerable agitation over the affair
and the City Council has appointed
committee to investigate the street rail
road and electric light system in rela-
ton to public safety. Hantzch is the
second victim of the deadly.current at
Eau Claire within week.
J. s. Brown, charged with illegally
marrying William Wallace to Mrs. Ida
A. Clark, had a preliminary examination
at Racine. From the testimony it APP
peared that the ceremony used was
similar to that of all ministers. Mrs.
Clark thought it was all in fun and
Brown was of the same opinion.
He was held to the circuit court for
trial
A LIVE white sturgeon has been added
to the attractions at Washington Park,
Green Bay. The rare one is forty
inches in length, pure white in color,
and with eyes of deep indigo blue.
Fishermen who have been in the bust
ness forty years say it is the first time a
fish of that kind has been taken from
the Waters of Lake Superior.
TIE directors of the Union National
Bank at Racine, which suspended few
days ago, have decided to 90 into liquid
alton and appoint a receiver to wind up
the affairs of the bank. The bank has
sufficient amount of securities to pay
depositors dollar for dollar.
CHARLES SPIITBERGER, Of Cottage
Grove. Dane County, pleaded guilty to
the charge of assault with intent to do
great bodily harm to John Allerton, of
Deerfeld, at a country dance, and was
sentenced to eight months imprison-
ment.
FRED. J. SoMERFIELD, of Iron River,
has commenced suit against the West
ern Union Telegraph Company for
81 goo damages for the non-delivery of
message.
THE ex-convict impersonating the
Rev. [. J. Brown, OF Waupaun, when
arrested for burglary at st. Joseph, Mo-,
is Frank Bender, as surmised by Mr..
Brown when he read the report of the
arrest. In response to Mr.. Browns
Telegram the chief of police of st.
Joseph had Benders photograph taken
and it was forwarded to Mr.. Brown,
who recognized it at glance.
THE Commercial Bank, of Eau Claire,
which closed recently, will be reorgan-
ZeQ anu FeOpeueu Inc schedule,
which is nearly completed, will show
liabilities about $15fO0O with assets
about $4,000 more than that. While
the assets comprise not over $4,000
cash. Receiver Bufting believes all liza
Utilities will be paid in full.
/ STATE VETERINARIAN T. J. TOUssAINT
made trip through the Northwestern
counties recently finding many horses
suffering with CHAMBERS. Horses belong
ing to Frank Bolivar, Of Somerset, st.
Croix County; Arthur Wilson, Of Can
ton, Barron County, and Sam Wright,
of Flambeau, Chippewa County, were
ordered killed. Mr.. Wright lost
horse with the same disease last winter.
WILLIAM WALLACE SACKET, who par
tlclpated in an illegal marriage with
Sarah A. Clark, at Racine, and who is in
GAL, is DESTROYS of pleading guilty, but
Judge Fish is absent from the city, and
he must wait until September Is.
/. HERMAN PoEHLING was arrested at La
Crosse on charge of grand larceny.
He was bound over to the next term of |
the circuit court.
i IT is now certain that Mrs. Charles |
iUTWln, of Chicago, who was supposed |
to have been drowned in Lake Mendo- |
ia at Madison, committed suicide. A
letter addressed to her husband was
Ill
hotel where she was stopping stating
that she was tired Of life and that when
he received it she would be at the bot
tom of the lake. The police have not
yet succeeded in finding the body.
All the claims against the Wisconsin |
Marine and Fire Insurance Company
Bank and against its stockholders upon |
their individual liability are to be ad-
!usted in one equity suit. Actions at
law will not hold and all those who |
have already begun such suits will have
to discontinue them.
COMPTROLLER ECKELs has. appointed
Nv. T. Filter, general book-keeper Of |
the Milwaukee National Bank, a bank
examiner, and instructed him to go to
Racine and take charge of the Union
National Bank, under the direction Of |
Bank Examiner Lynch.
The Wisconsin conference trustees of |
the Methodist Church have opposed the |
admission to probate of the Will of the |
late Maj. E. II. Paine, of Oshkosh. The |
objection is that the testament bearing
the date of May 3, 1892, is not the last
will Of the deceased.
ELI DANKs, an old resident of the
town of Dale, Outagamie County, died |
at the age of 20 years.
(. Mrs. HANDY, formerly resident Of |
Neosho, died at her home in Colby, aged |
SO years:
Gov. PECK has granted pardons to
Daniel Hanley, who was sentenced by !
the circuit court oil Green Lake County, |
June, 1886, for a term of fifteen years, |
and John w. Hart, sentenced on Feb
ruary 26, 1886, for fifteen years for MUIR
der in the second degree. Hanley has
always been a faithful worker and had |
an excellent record for good behavior. |
Recently he saved the life of prison
official, who had been attacked by one
of the convicts with large knife: In |
referring to Harris behavior Gov; Peck
said: For the past five years he has !
filed the position of engineer and fire
man. AS such he has faithfully cared
for the machinery and property Of the
state. In addition to this when on sew
eraI occasions the buildings have been
on fire, he has rendered very valuable
services to the state. The term for
which he was sentenced will expire No
yember "a, 1894 AS reward for the 4