Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-07-26

embeZZlement, claims that the action o.
the company was too hasty. He says
that he sold $500 worth of mileage
books on credit, and his cash was there
fore that much short. He will sue the
company unless publicly indicated.
JOHN P. FAzENI, farmer living about
one and one-half miles east of Genoa,
brought to La Crosse specimens of ore
taken from a bluff near his home.
Most of the pieces were iron writes,
but one of them bore several crystals OF
galena and gave strong evidence of sill
yer. The latter stone was a composite
and strongly resembled specimens from
the famous silver mines from Nevada
DETECTIVE SHEEHAN arrested two boys
at st. Paul in q freight car and locked
them up. They were sent to the work
house TOR sixty days. They are william
Hughes, of Nortonville, Wis, and
George Hess, of Chicago. They started
for home from San Francisco on Sun
day, July 8, and paid their fare part
way home, when they reached the con-
clusion they would beat their way
on freight trains. They crept into
car and hid themselves among
a lot of green bananas. To their horror
the car was sealed up a few minutes
after they entered it, and they had no
escape. Becoming hungry they ate q
lot of the bananas, which made them
sick, and induced awful thirst. Upon
arrival in st. Paul they were in thor
oughly miserable condition. They were
convicted on the charge of larceny and
carving concealed weapons. each of
them having pistol and mask IN his
possession. They also had about SD.
G.. f. BLUNIE, ar Ashland confectioner,
has made an assignment. The assets
are placed at s. 600 The liabilities are
not known.
In the case of Mrs. Barron against
the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis x
Omaha Company, tried at Eau Claire,
the jury rendered q verdict the exact
purport of which, by reason of the
manner in which some of the questions
were answered, was dubious. Nomin-
ally the verdict gave the plaintiff s., 230
damages if she was entitled to anything
at all. Plaintiff having moved for
Judgment and the motion having been
argued before Judge Bailey. the Judge
filed an order deciding the matter
against Mrs. Barron and in favor OF the
railroad company.
THE filing of claims under the law
passed last winter repeating the law OF
1889 known as the Dane County drainage
| law is complete These claims aggre-
gate So, $50 So. These claims will be
passed upon by the Judge of the circuit
court and, as allowed, must be paid by
general taxation of the people living in
the district which was to have been
drained, but which has not been.
The appeal from Judge Larson's re-
fusal to appoint an administrator in the
Qyale matter was heard at Eau Claire by
Judge Bailey He issued letters of ad.
40 l. JJo1-h1rry-
whose appointment had been asked for,
thus overruing Judge Larson.
WILLIAM BURLINGTON, 4 farm hand on
the farm of John Brande nstein, in the
town Of Bristol, Dane County, had a
narrow escape from death a few days
ago. While driving some cattle he was
attacked by a bull and knocked sense
less The enraged animal butted him,
bat the fact that the bull had been de-
horned saved his life He was rescued
from his perilous position by Mr..
Brandenstein and a couple of dogs. 1t
is thought his injuries will not prove
fatal.
MATTHIAS Roth, a resident of Port
/ land, Dodge County, committed suicide
| by hanging in a very deliberate manner.
! He used his suspenders for Il rope and
| slowly stranglesl to death, being Obliged
| to raise his feet off the floor of the
granary. He was SO years Of age.
THE fight between the saloon-keepers
of Bayfield, and the Town Board has re-
suited in a victory for the latter, the sa-
loon men paying S400 for licenses, the
amount originally demanded.
EN-CHIEF OF Police JOHN l.. LEWIS
/ of Madison, is dangerously i'll at his
| home in that city with cancer of the
stomach and his death is expected a
| any moment.