Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-06-07
WISCONSIN NEWS.

OtheTNISe injured IN Qo1onOanC mlH.
He never could tell exactly how it hap
pened, and the whole question was on
the condition of the machinery as to the
safety to the operator. An appeal will
be taken.
An old well used by Father Galthieur,
who died years ago, was discovered re-
Gently just north of st. Gabriels Church,
Prairie du CHEN. This we'll will be re-
stored to good conditions and preserved
as an object of interest by the Catholic
people Of that city.
THE Madison Woman's Club at an in
formal meeting discussed with much
favor the project of establishing $3.50
scholarship in economics for the State
University. The matter will be def
nitely decided at the regular June
meeting.
CHIEF OF Police SCHWARTZ, Of Ash
3and, has commenced a crusade against
the many crap joints" at that place.
THE seminary collection for 1892 in the
diocese of La Crosse amounted to
s., 96307.
MARIE SWEENEY, who has a mania for
smashing store windows, surprised the
residents of Highbridge, Ashland
County, q few days ago, by wrecking the
big front window of McGeehan's store
u,
be at Highbridge and placed her under
arrest and took her to Ashland. She
is known throughout Northern Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota and has been in jail
score of times for similar offenseS.
THE Belt Line Association, of Ash
land, at a recent meeting elected the
following officers: j. w. Cochran, presi-
dent; Thomas Bardon, president;
r.. c. Heydlauf, secretary and treas
urer. Directors: John II. Knight, DIR.
T.. Ellis, D. W. MoWatt, C. F. Latimer.
The officers will also serve as directors.
THE carpenters strike at Madison is
badly muddled. Part of the men have
returned to work, claiming that the
strike was ordered without a general
vote of the members of the union.
The Plankinton Bank, Milwaukee, is
closed and it will go into liquidation.
There is every reason to believe that
the depositors will be paid in full, but
80 many of them the necessary delay
will prove a great inconvenience and
hardship. The capital stock of the bank
is 100000 and the stockholders are liza
bile for twice that amount. They are
abundantly able to supply it if the other
assets of the bank are insufficient to
meet all obligations.
THE election of officers by the Grand
lodge Knights of Pvthias resulted as
follows: Frank B. Heskins, Fond du
Lac, supreme representative; Charles
Il. kimball, Green Bay, grand chan
c6llor; 7. H. Crahen, Beloit, grand vice
chancellor; II. B. Haywood, Marsh
field, grand prelate; Frank Barry, Mil
waukee, grand keeper of records and
seal; Fred. Krause, Milwaukee, grand
master of the exchequer; George r.
Baily, Milwaukee, grand master-at-
arms; Con. Feige, Eau Claire, grand in
side guard; Capt. E. W. Ford, La Crosse,
grand outside guard
IT is stated by those protesting to
know that after the Board of Regents
have visited the twenty places desired,
that they will from this number select
four or five that stand superior to the
rest and then make another visit to each
nof this number and give them closer in
spection, the first being only prelimi-
nary and that it will not be settled until
the middle Of July.
An insane MN, giving his name as
Maurice Barbeau, was found wandering
about the streets at Ashland and was
locked up. He had arrived directly
from San Francisco by air ship, being
two and One-half hours on the trip, SO
he said. He was pronounced insane by
q 8SSSiNA VI pIIN 6ICIdIlS dI1u VIII pIODdDiA
be sent to the Northern Hospital at
Oshkosh.
THE Board of Control has audited bills
for state institutions for the current
month as follows: State Hospital for the
Insane, S., 717.0 3; Northern Insane Asy-
Jun, IS, 727 As; Asylum for the Blind,
s., 519.21; Deaf and Dumb Asylum, ST.
,569.73; Industrial School for Boys, So
23I. Al; State Prison, s., 01S. IS; State
Public School for Dependent Children,
SIS, 1914
CHARLES DUNCAN, a fireman on the
Wisconsin Central road, was held up by
two men at Ashland. The higbwaymen
secured only few cents in change.
THE State Board of Control has not
taken action on the plans submitted to
them for the Bayfield, County Jail, to be
erected at Washburn. The members of
the County Board are indignant at the
sslowness of the State Board.
AS DR.. T. W. Evans, of Madison. was
driving across the electric car line a
motor car struck his buggy, smashing
it. The doctor escaped with slight
bruises.
J. {. SPOONER and R. NJ. Bashford, of
Madison, have gone to Chicago to argue
the case Of the Land & River Improve
ment Company, of Superior, VS.: Holt
day before Judge Willetts in the United
States district court. The case was ar
gued by Mr.. Bashford and Judge Pin
ney before Judge Gresham in January
last, but the promotion of the latter
to the cabinet before decision was
reached necessitates a new argument,
Mr. Spooner taking Judge Pinney's
place.
THE Stitt & Cartier Logging Company,
of Ashland, has transferred all its inter
ests on Chequamegon Bay to the Che
equamegon Bay Logging Company, a new
corporation formed to assume the Stltt
& Cartier contracts, and Differed by
George w. Johnson, president; G. l..
Latimer, vice-president and treasurer;
Il. A. Shores, Jr., secretary. The trans
fer takes effect June l.
THE decomposed body of man about
IS years of age, stout and well-dressed,
was found floating near the Lake Shore
docks at Ashland. There was nothing
by which he might be identified.
MR LoVEJoY, La Crosse man, has