Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-28
WISCONSIN NEWS.

IHE haUkauna SulpD1to GlDer CON-
pany's mill at Kaukauna, owned princi-
pally by n. B. Brokaw, caught fire in
the wOOdrOom on the afternoon of the
23d inst, and was destroyed. There
was great apprehension at first that the
digester had not been blown off and
there were fears of an explosion like
that at Menasha a number Of years ago.
lnabOut half an hour, however, the gases
were heard to escape and everyone
was relic Ved. A large amount of pulp
wood around the mill was saved. The
loss is estimated at from SIS, 900 to $780,
900 with $37 500inSurance. tits thought
the Mill will be rebuilt The origin of
the fire is unknown but it is supposed
to have caught from some sulphur.
THE annual encampment of the Sons
OF Veterans came to successful close
at Ashland on June %. The most i'm
portant recommendation was by the
ritual committee to the effect that the
delegates to the next Grand Ercamp-
ment urge the adoption of three-de-
gree ritual. Following the report came
the election of officers. which resulted:
w. G. Winters, of La Crosse, command
er; II. Wood, Superior, second vice
commander; P. S. Moore, Kewaunee,
Junior vice commander; William La
meyers, New London, G. III. Quayle,
Bayfield,, and G. w. Hoaglin, Oshkosh,
district council; Joe M. Chapple, Ash
land, delegate at-large to National En-
campment; C. B. Parkhill, ThOrp, dele
gate. The next encampment will be
held at Eau Claire.
THE special election to fill vacancy in
the office of mayor of Milwaukee caused
by the election of 2. j. Somers to Con-
gress resulted in victory for John G.
Koch, the Republicacan candidate, over
Garrett DunCk, Democrat.
MAYOR IVES, of Marinette, has de-
clared that he would approve no saloon
license unless the applicant had paid
$500 therefor. The saloon men have
taken legal counsel and have been adj
vised that they will be subject to arrest
at any time unless possessed of q license,
and the most of them have decided to
pay the amount, secure their license,
and then sue for the $500 which they
think they should not pay.
AN apple tree on the premises Of S.
H. Johnson, Of Marinette, is an object
of curiosity this season. About three
feet from the ground a short branch
three inches long has grown out, upon
which is cluster of three apples equal
in size to any of those upon the tree.
JAMES KAP1NosE has brought suit
against the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul Company for S25, 900, a "hving-
switch" having mutilated his left arm
and fractured his collar bone at a cross
ing near his home in MazOmanie.
DURING the recent forest fires in
Northern Wisconsin twenty box cars
and seventy-five cars of cedar belong
ing to the South Shore road were
burned at Sanborn.
OWING to the erection of their new
academy, the customary commence
ment exercises of Edgewood Villa,
Madison, have been omitted this year
Miss Rosa PAULY, an Eau Claire girl
was riding a bicycle when she collided
with a street car and received a few
painful bruises.
THE annual Methodist Episcopal camp
meeting Of the Ashland district is in
session at York Center.
THE body of the man Leonard, who
suicided at La Crosse by jumping off a
steamer, was found by Nelson Breed,
farmer residing near that place. The
discovery of the body was made in
peculiar manner, and, Mr.. Breed says,
was the result of dream. After retir-
ing a few evenings ago Mr.. Breed says
he fell into heavy sleep and dreamed
that he stood on the Homer trestle
watching a steamer come down stream.
AS the boat came nearly opposite him
he saw an object wash up to the surface
of the river which he at once recOg-
nized as the body of drowned man and
intuitively knew that it was the man
Leonard who had leaped from the
steamer Daisy. In the morning Mr..
Breed secured a boat and roweG to the
point seen in his dream. He had no
sooner reached the place than the body
Il 4ln IL
fast he towed it ashore.
THE Sturgeon Bay Advocate is author
ity for the statement that Mr.. Decker
will surely complete the railroad
through that vicinity which was recent
~ commenced. Operations have been
suspended on account of the stringency
of the money market.
THE State University alumni has de-
cided to establish a $500 scholarship.
S. S. Gregory, of Chicago, was elected
president of the Alumni Association; L.
NJ. Hanks, of Madison, secretary, and
Harriet Remington, of Madison, treas
urer.
GEORGE TREUwIT, La Crosse commits
sion man, fell off a pile of boxes and
broke his right arm. He also received
serious internal injuries.
A FATAL fire occurred at the residence
of A Van Dusen, of Madison, resulting
in the death of one child and the prob
able fatal burning of a servant girl and
a child. The blaze is supposed to have
been started by the explosion OF can
of kerosene, with which Theresa Renk,
the domestic, was attempting to light a
fire in the kitchen stove. George Hy-
land. young man who was passing the
house at the time, was the first to
notice the flames and he rushed into
the kitchen, seized a little girl who was
enyeloped in flames and carried her
into the yard where he rolled her in the
grass, at the same time tearing off her
burning clothes. She was badly burned,
but will undoubtedly recover. The
servant girl rushed into the yard where
she was seized and the flames extin-
guished as quickly as possible: She
was terribly burned about the body and
it is doubtful if she will survive. After
the fire had been put out the fremen
entered the kitchen and were Mortified
to discover the charred remains of the
2-year-old boy in the high chair where
| he had evidently been sitting when