Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-01

and is only "A years of age, while her
departed spouse was over 70, is given
the ma or portion of the estate, valued
at $50, 900. She previously had been
given deed of a homestead worth S30,-
600. DR.. Brown alleges undue infu-
ence on the part of Mrs. Brown and
claims the instrument produced in.
court is not his iather's
THE state treasury received another
draft for money to be applied on the
Judgment against ex-Treasurer Guen-
Their and his bondsmen. The draft
came from Philetus Sawyer and calls for
the payment to the clerk of the circuit
court Of Dane County of $17 900. The
total amount now paid into the treasury
on judgments against state treasurers is
00,094.57.
FRED MURPHY and Otto Laust, two
GAINESVILLE youths, have been arrested
On a charge of stealing q horse.
L. q. LOGAN, OF Chicago, a trustee of
the BelOit College, has donated to that
institution the Rust archaeological col
lection, the finest of it's kind in exist
ence, and worth $4,000. 1t includes
some 800 specimens of arrow heads,
pottery, mortars, ETC., illustrating the
history and developments of the Amer
lean aboriginees. The collection was
recently purchased from Maj. Rust by
Mr.. Logan.
Mrs. SARAH f. RICHARDSON died at her
home in Madison, aged 81 years. She
had been resident of Dane County for
the past forty years.
A WOMAN who registered as Mrs. Pc
dersOn, of BelOit, has been causing the
authorities at Indianapolis, Ind, some
anxiety. She claims to have dreamed
that Harrison was to be the next Presi-
dent but that evil forces are at work to
defeat that end, and she averred that
she had been sent there to warn Harri-
son. Having related her warning to the
eX-President's private secretary she at
once took a train for home.
A MAN giving his name as J. T. Haley
was arrested at Ashland on charge of
entering the residence of J. G.. Mastin
at that place.
BURGLARS entered O. A. La Budde's
hardware store at EIkhart and stole
about 500 worth of goods.
FRANK WALL, an old resident of Madi-
son, has been adjudged insane. He will
be taken to the Mendoza Asylum.
Mrs. A. HoKE, of La Crosse, lost or was
robbed of $3.50 at Burlington, La. She
was on her way to Denver, Col.
WILLIAM CARSON and T. X. Long, of
Eau Claire, have purchased an interest
in the Red Cross Lumber Mill Com
pany and the California & Northwestern
Railway Company. The property CON
sists OF two saw-mills, planning mills,
railroad, the town site Of Castle Crag,
lands. The railroad opens up the
largest body of sugar pine lands in the
Golden state and is destined, according
to the report of the company, to be the
largest numbering enterprise in the
state.
THE Ashland monolith which was to
have been exhibited at the Worlds Fair
and was afterward talked of as a monu-
ment for Milwaukee, is now being cut
up into building stone. The total cost
Of quarrying the shaft was $1,000. 1t
was 1l5 feet long, 10 feet square at the
base, tapered to feet square at the top,
and was the largest shaft ever quarried.
The crowd of tramps who have made
life burden to many residents of Be-
lott have been driven away from that
place by the Illinois and Wisconsin Off
GERS. The tramps used to camp Oh the
state line and after committing depre-
datiOns in Wisconsin they would 90 into
Illinois territory. The tramps were
notified not to return.
JAMES MCNEEsE, a GAINESVILLE young
man, was stabbed in a frightful manner
at that place. He was conveyed to the
hospital in a dying condition. Jacob
Bender, who was arrested shortly after
wards, stated that he had stabbed an
unknown person, who attacked him for
the purpose Of robbery.
The coroner's jury in the case of Hen
ry Peerenboom, the S-year-old boy who
was killed by being run over by an
electric street car at Appleton, returned
a verdict of accidental death and exon
Grated the motorman.
THIEVES have been making raids on
everything they can lay their hands on
in the vicinity of Oshkosh. A few
nights ago John McKone had twenty
tur keys stolen from his barn and Will
lam Bedient, neighbor, had eighteen
stolen the same evening. William
Rick, a farmer living on the outskirts
of the town, had an acre of potatoes
and about two wagon loads of cabbages
carted off.
IT is reported that several large farm
ers in Winnebago County have had
such bad luck with strawberries the past
three or four years that they have de-
cided to pillow up the beds.
MRS. DANIEL PIERCE, of Albion Prai-
RE, Rock County, tripped over a roll of
oil-cloth in a store and fell in such a
way as to fracture her hip.