Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-09-06
WISCONSIN NEWS.

swimming. MISS TdUUeTSOn SOG Ucy Gnu
her depth and was sinking when Miss
Hawkins went to her aid. The former
clasped the latter by the waist and both
assistance of Stanley and Arthur Midg-
ley, two boys aged IL and IA years re
spectively, who swan to the girls and res
Cued them as they were sinking the sec
ond time.
GEORGE A. MARKHAM, of Independ-
ence, nephew of Rear Admiral Mark
ham, who was in command of the Brit
ish ram Camperdown when she rammed
the battle ship Victoria off Tripoli sew
eral months ago, was in Eau Claire q
few days ago at convention of Good
Templars. Mr.. Markham said a letter
from the Rear Admiral to his brother
at independence expressed considera
BILE displeasure at the result of the
court-martial and the belief that the ad-
miralty would reverse it.
w. III. KELLEY, a member of the
Board of Public Works of Racine, has
been requested to resign by Mayor Case
and several aldermen. He is charged
with having let employees Of the city do
private work in digging his cellar and
hauling away the dirt and that the city
paid for the work.
! Four or five masked men tn rev
stones at the house of Chris. Brinkman,
a farmer,on the Hurricane tract in Grant
! County, and when he appeared pre-
scented pistols with q demand for his
money, asking where he had put the
$3.50 left him out of his fathers life in
surance. He gave them 81 and his
watch. Two arrests have been made.
MICHAEL w. DEGAN, of Madison, has
sued the Chicago & North w stern Rail-
way Company for $4,000 damages for
an injury to his foot, which was caught
under the wheels in the yards at Madi-
son the night of July u, 1889.
A RACINE woman who was in Chicago
last week claims to have seen James
| McLaren, the missing eX-clerk Of court
of Racine. McLaren disappeared from
! his home about three weeks ago and
nothing has been heard of him since.
JAMES BRENNAN was arrested at
Rhinelander and taken to Green Bay
upon charge of stealing cattle. Being
unable to furnish So, 600 bail he was re
manded to Jail to await his trial.
THE Marinette School Board has es-
tablished O. rule that a person must have
two years experience in teaching be-
fore they are qualified for position as
teacher in the Marinette public schools.
VERGo SCHoYEN, q Madison young
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! larceny. He is also accused of adultry.
He was held for trial in bonds of 81 900.
EAU CLAIRE lumbermen are having
considerable difficulty in rafting logs
down the Chippewa River owing to the
low water.
JOHN WILSON, a resident of Chippewa
Falls, committed suicide at Mime
apolis by taking a dose of poison. He
was about 90 years of age.
BURGLARS entered the iewelry and no.
/ ton store of Theodore j. Meir, of Ra-
cine, and stole 500 in cash, five gold
and silver watches and eighteen gold
rings. Entrance was gained by forcing
rear door.
Two Racine young men fought a duel
with oars in boat for Il fair damsePs
hand. One of the youths was knocked
senseless and left on the beach to re-
cover, while the other one walked off
with the girl.
Four well-known La Crosse young
people were the principals in a roman
a few days ago. They were Miss Annie
Taushe and Louis Smith and Miss Lena
Beckel and Bert jerks.
Mrs. ANNA B. orr, a physician, who
died in the Mendoza asylum last March,
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had robbed the American Express
Company's office at Madison Of SIS, 900
twenty-five years ago, for which GRIM a
man named Douglass, who was the
agent at that time, was made to suffer
disgrace. She said that she was called
to attend Douglass sick wife one night
and learned that he had received a
package containing $4,000 and was
obliged to leave it at the office as the
bank refused to accept it that night.
After leaving the sick woman Mrs. OFT
went to the express office and secured
the treasure without much difficulty.
The news Of the robbery created a
great sensation and Douglass was dis
missed from the cOmpany's employ.
His whereabouts now are not known.
Mrs. Otis husband died in Texas q few
years ago.
A LITTLE son of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Jackson, of Green Bay, died horrible
death a few days ago About three
weeks ago the little fellow was bitten by
dog. The wound was not serious and
soon healed up. A week later the child
was bitten again by the same dog, this
time quite badly. A doctor was sum-
moned and treated the boy, who APP
peared to be suffering greatly and grew
worse each day. On August % the doc
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commissions and betraying all the symp-
toms Of hydrophobia. The boy barked
and snapped, toamed at the mouth and
had commissions whenever an attempt
was made to give him water. Every
thing possible was done to give him re-
lief, but the little fellow died the fol-
lowing morning. The doctors opinion
is that the boy was suffering from an at
tack of cerebral spinal meningitis, but
that the dogs bite caused it to develop
the symptoms of hydrophobia.
DIR. AUGUSTUS H. SALISBURY, formerly
q resident of Oregon, Dane County,
died at his home in Minneapolis, aged
81 years. He was born in New York
state and settled in Oregon, Dane
County when quite young. He was a
elass-mate of ex-senator John G. Spoon
er at the State University, graduating in
1854. He graduated from the Bellevue
Hospital Medical College, New York, in
1867. He returned to Wisconsin and
for number of years practiced his pro-
fession at Oregon, moving to Minneapo-