Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-08-08

Mrs. Hugh III. Joyce fell on q loose
board in q sidewalk at GAINESVILLE. She
sustained internal injuries of a serious
nature.
George Rich, travelling hardware
salesman, and Hugh Schulz of Marinette
have applied for Il patent on what may
prove Il valuable device for protecting
pneumatic tires from puncture. The de
vice consists of Il simple strip of fine,
hard steel as thin as paper, rolled so as
TO fit in a tire. Sample protectors are
now hninc made and will soon be tnstoI
The protector will be very light and will
add no appreciable weight to a wheel.
Charles Matthews, Patrick Barry,
Charles Robertson and Vincent Murray,
four Chicago boys, were taken to Racine
on a charge of robbing Richard Cushman,
an old soldier of Milwaukee. Cushman
was sleeping in an open field when the
Boys went through his pockets and got Il
dollar. Robertson was sent to Jail for
sixty days and the others were dis
charged, there being no evidence against
them.
"A canal is to be dug through the
Portage marsh large enough to drain the
whole marsh and reclaim something like
5000 acres of land. The canal will be
p feet wide at the top, 10 feet deep
and II feet wide at the bottom. The sur
veys have been made recently, and a
steam dredge is expected to be put to
work before long.
Bert Crawford, son of a weIl-todo
farmer living near Evansville is missing.
Search has been made everywhere for
him, but without avail. A Madison clair
voyant has comforted the distracted par
ents with the statement that the boy is
in GAINESVILLE and will soon return home.
Mrs. Margaret e. Bennett, who has
held the principalship of Grafton hall at
left for New York. She will be joined
in that city by her sister and they to-
gether will sail for Paris where it is
their intention to open a school fo" girls
John II. Faringer, aged 50 years,
died at his home in Madison from trouble
growing out of injuries he sustained in
an accident three years ago. He came to
Wisconsin in 1853 and to Madison in
1864. He was a manufacturer of sash,
doors and blinds.
Charles f. Dana, a well-known resi-
dent of Duluth, was drowned in Lake
Superior while on a pleasure trip to Port
Arthur, Canada. Mr.. Dana was born and
raised in Portage. He was 36 years of
age
Over 35,OO00OO feet of standing pine
timber. owned by Stinchfeld & Whitney,
was destroyed by forest fires in Florence
county during the past week. The timber
is located near the Power dam on the
Pine river. The partially burned pine will
have to be cut the coming winter or it
will be unfit for use.
Edgar Pennoyer for thirty-seven
years Il resident of Kenosha, died from
structure of the bowels Mr.. Pennoyer
was % years of age, native of New
York and for many years had been con-
nected with the sanitarium at Kenosha
Which bears his name.
The hotel keepers in GAINESVILLE, on
complaint of Assistant Dairy and Food
Commissioner West, paid a fine of $50
each for using butterine on their tables
without having signs in their dining
rooms to notify people what they were
eating.
Theodore w. Sanger, a well-known
resident Of Beloit. died of sunstroke. He
had been dead only a few minutes when
a child was born to his wife
Henry NJ. Scholler, one of the Oldest
residents of Menasha, died of general
debility, aged 60 years. He leaves u wife
and one daughter