Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-11-15
WISCONSIN NEWS.

pointed by the different literary socie-
ties of the State University to promote
the plans for an intercollegiate debate
with the University of Michigan, }. j.
Blake was elected chairman, and COM
mlttee consisting of one member from
each society was elected to draft chat
ienge and prepare set of rules govern
ing the debate. This challenge with
rules, are to be presented to the mem
bers of the Michigan societies for con-
sideration. The debate will be on about
the same plan as last year, and will prob
ably take place at Madison.
THE three sawmills at Stevens Point
will be closed down next week. The
Week Lumber Gompany's mill has al
ready closed, after So wing 9,250,0OO feet
of logs the past summer. The BosWorth
4 Reilly mill will shut down in day or
two, with cut of 9,000,0 900 feet to it's
credit The Wallace & Karner mill will
be the last of the lot to close. 1t is eX-
pected that all the mills will be running
again next season.
OSHKOSH fishermen say the past sea-
son has been dull one in their bust
ness. They expect that next season
there will be an abundance of fish, as
every other year is unusually good.
JEWELER SCHERzINGER, of Fond du Lac,
will place in the National Museum at
Washington, the old watches he had on
exhibition at the Worlds Fair.
Mrs. F. w. HoUGHToN, Miss Cora
Sigler and Mrs. Frank Sigler were serl-
iously injured in a runaway accident at
Oshkosh. They will all recover.
A NEW bank is to be established in Ra-
cine by ex-Mayor NJ. NJ. Secor. It will
be known as the First National Bohe
milan Bank of America.
Miss CELIA A. BEACH was united in
marriage to tie Rev. A. J. Buxton, pat
tor of the NJ. +. Church at Marion, at
the home Of her sister, IIrs. Paul Quit
mann, of Brillion.
TIE November term of the Rock
County court opened with forty-three
cases on the calendar. The Stone muir
der case is one of the most important on
the calendar.
Mrs. n. O. CLARK, aged SIS years, died
at her home in GAINESVILLE. Deceased
was a cousin of the late Senator Car
penter.
II. c. HART a former Racine business
man, recently convicted of adultery at
Sioux City, Ia, and sent to prison for
eighteen months, has been released on
$1,000 bonds, pending a hearing for a
new trial before the supreme court.
MICHAEL SHEEHAN, a resident of Osh-
kosh will have his Thanksgiving dinner
in the Winnebago County Jail. He was
sent up for sixty days on a charge Of
stealing lap robe.
ROBERT MCARTHUR and Andrew Grady
were arrested at Oshkosh on a charge of
robbing a man named Smaller. They
were placed in jail in default of bail to
await hearing.
WORK has begun on the neN Normal
School building at Stevens Point. Tie
foundation will be built this fall and the
building will be completed by August l,
1894
BURGLARS broke into Kemmerer's
meat market at GAINESVILLE and got away
with two suits of clothes, gold watch
and about s. IL cash.
SOMETIME ago Mayor Case and Messrs.
Holmes and Shewman Of the Belle City
Street Railway Company, of Racine, Sc
cured a franchise to build a street rail
way at Green BAY. Contracts were let
but on account of the hard times COM
ing on the work was stopped. Now the
contractors have begun action against
the proprietors.
THE City Council at Racine has at last
adopted the plans of J. 6. Chandler for
a new High School building to cost $50
600. The amount must be raised by the
sale of bonds. The erection of the
building will probably be deferred until
next spring.
The board of directors of Monona
Lake Assembly held its annual meet
ing at Madison and the old officers were
reelected. The time for holding the
assembly of 1894 was fixed for August
a to September inclusive.
THE Rev. Simon Crutcher, a colored
preacher of Minneapolis, was refused
shave in a barber shop at Eau Claire.
He says ne will bring an action for
damages.
IT is reported that the prosecutions
against Banker A. G. Probert at Shell
Lake will be dropped and that the bank
will resume business.
Mrs. NELSON CAssETT, of Washburn,
was awarded S., 500 damages against DR..
j. E. n. BOhlrner on a charge of NAL
practice.
j. j. CAMERON, a well-known Oshkosh
lumberman, died at his home in that
city, aged 20 years.
TIMOTHY O'BRIEN was fined $50 and
costs at La Crosse for conducting gam
bing-house.
Ar Black River Falls the lumber sea-
son has already opened, at least a month
earlier than is usual in that region.
The camps are all in order, anG large
amount of cutting and skidding will be
done at once and the hauling will be
rushed when snow comes. Many mill
ions of feet will be cut that would have
remained standing, as t trees have
been killed by the fire dung the sum-
mer and they must be cut this winter or
be a total loss. The cut Will probably
be the largest ever known on Black
River and its tributaries. Temporary
saw mills will be put up in many places
TO cut the logs as rapidly as possible.
CHIEF OF POLICE ACuEsoN and Patrol
man Hogan, of GAINESVILLE, played the
role Of incendiaries few evenings ago.
They We're after a party Of boys who
pass their Sundays in caves and desert
ed shanties in debauches. The boys
had constructed a good-sized shanty on
an island near the Northwestern
bridge at Spring Brook, and were gath
ering furnishings for a regular time.
Officers Acheson and Hogan captured
the whole outfit and set fire to the