Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-10-18
WISCONSIN NEWS.


tom of well twenty-eight feet deep
the drill disappeared A plummet has
been let down 100 feet without touching
bottom, and stones dropped into the
yaWnlng hole fail to send up any sound
of striking any bottom.
THE report that premiums had been
awarded 10 Wisconsin fruit growers at
the Worlds Fair exhibit is denied by
B. S. Hoxie, secretary of the Wisconsin
State horticultural Society. Mr.. HoNie
says the judges have made no report
yet, as the entries do not close until
October Is.
4 CLAIM for S34, 900 in favor of the Cas-
par Automatic Gate Company, of New
Orleans, has been filed against the Ra-
cine Hardware Manufacturing Com
panv, which recently assigned.
WILLIAM MURRAY and James Brady
two Duluth young men, were found
guilty of q charge of burglary at Ash
land and were sentenced to two and q
half years each at Waupun.
MIR AND Mrs. JOACHIM BossER, pio-
neer residents of Appleton, celebrated
the fftjeth anniversary of their we'd
ding at their home in that city.
WELEIAM Brown, a Racine boy, fell
distance of twenty-five feet and sus-
tanned q fracture of the shoulder and
conclusion OF the BRAIN.
BUBGLARS entered the Chicago &
Northwestern depot at Alton and blew
open the safe. They found a 2-cent
stamp for their labor.
CHARLES SPENCER, an old colored resi-
dent of Racine, died in his home in
that city, aged So years.
DIR, CLINTON HELM, Of Rockford, H.,
won the medal in the shooting tourna-
ment at Beloit.
THE Rev. k w. Jackson, formerly a
resident of Racine, died at Hinsdale,
Mich
An interesting fight for possession of
<he GAINESVILLE Wooden Mills is in prog
Fess. Jonathan Ellis, who bought the
property from the GAINESVILLE Wooden
Mills Company, has failed, it is claimed,
60 make the annual payments as re-
CURED. He has left GAINESVILLE not to
return, and several liens on the prop
erty have been filed. To head these
off, Ruger & Norcross, representing the
GAINESVILLE Wooden Mills, have begun
IS against Jonathan Ellis, the Rock
County National Bank, the Standard
Oil Company, W. IL. II. MacLeon, A.
H and e :, Sheldon as co-partners,
Joseph u. BasSett and George NJ Bas-
set, co-paTtners, and j. s. Bear. All OF
these but Ellis and Sheriff Bear have at
tachments on the property.
HENRY ROMAN, who is serving q life
sentence IN the penitentiary at Waupun
for q murder committed in Oshkosh
over twenty years ago. has been par
dOned by GOV. Peck. Roman was con-
VIcted of murder in the first degree for
the death Of a man with whom he had
trouble over the purchase of real estate.
The npfIfy0n for J-Cl011 CiUDpI F,x-
the court officers and attorneys who as
sisted III his conviction.
Two little boys living in the town Of
Freedom, Outagamie County, one a son
of William Delroy, aged about years,
and the other q son of William Van
Rlxel. aged 4 years, were playing with
a gun, when it accidentally DISCHARGED,
Instantly killing the little Van Rixel
boy
4 A. VIM, who was serving a seven
years sentence at Waupun for shooting
an Amigo man, has been pardoned by
Gov. Peck. Mr.. VIM has gone to his
former home in Poynette.
IRON River is said to be badly aff1ict-
ed with diphtheria. Over 80 cases are
reported In that town. The schools have
been closed and a number of people
have left the place.
THE financial affairs of Ashland are in
a muddled state. The money in the
general fund is exhausted and Mayor
O'keefe ordered other funds to be used
and the city to issue certificates of in
jebtedness to the amount of 5000 to
complete work under way. The city
treasurer refused to turn over the
hydrant rental money on the ground
shat it would be illegal to do SO, and
the Mayor threatens suit for embez-
element.
AN effort is being made to pay off the
debt upon Lawrence University and in
crease the present endowment of $3.50, 900
30 500, 900 and thus place the institution
upon sound basis. The bishops Of the
M E. Church of Wisconsin, will make
special efforts to accomplish this result.
THE Northwestern car shops at Osh-
kosh have started up with small crew.
They will run night and day. It lad
been claimed that the institution was
not bona fde, and merely a game to
capture So, 900 bonus
GEoRssE MURRAY was arrested at Mad
dson and sent to the county jail for sixty
days He belonged to the army of I'M
employed
PReF 4. J. Wells, of Fond du Lac,
who was recently arrested in Dodge
County on a charge of being demented,
was examined by medical board, APP
pointed by the county judge. He was
declared to be insane by the board and
mas been committed to the Northern
Insane Asylum.
SINCLAIR w BoTKIN, formerly we'll
known resident of Madison, died at
Minneapolis. He served in the TWen
ty-hEst Wisconsin Regiment during the
war, and fer several years was deputy
clerk Of the Wisconsin supreme court.
He was one Of Madison's pioneers.
THE Rev. Edward Woehler and wife
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of
their weddinga at their home in Appleton
a,eoently Ygre Rev. Mr.. Woehler was
pIoueer preacher in Outagamie County
AND Eabored about twenty-five years IN
the town of Dale.
4 TRAMP entered the residence of
William Pelton at Appleton a few
nights ago and after partaking OF
hearty meal took his departure. Moth
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