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

h1SHOllIuee uuiIuS ii UCdNy Sed 1 uS
majority of them were very sick. Off
North Point huge wave struck the stern
of the vessel, and some passengers were
thrown down, Il table was wrecked and
water pitchers in staterooms overturned
A panic enSued, and the Rev. J. e.
Farmer of the First NJ &. church made
a speech and quoted the frightened
crowd.
Eddie Wieckert, aged y years, who
lives at Neenah with his parents, was ac-
Cidentally shot and the wound may prove
fatal. A young friend woke Eddie at 4
O'Clock in the morning and pointed a re-
volver at him to brighten the boy. The
weapon was accidentally discharged, and
the bullet penetrated the boys left lung.
The 4-year-old daughter OF Almond
Cook of Stockbridge strayed away from
the house and was gone one night and Il
day. A searching party found the child
sitting near a spring about four miles
from home.
Casper Zwickey a soap manufacture
er, died suddenly yesterday at his home
in Springfield, ILL.,, Of paralysis He for
merry resided at Madison.
A T-year-old son of Nels Johnson of
Stockbridge was attacked by dog and
terribly lacerated about the arms and
breast.
The Stone estate, over which there
has been much trouble in Rock coun-
ty, which now inventories at $4,000,
has been settled at last and the vast eS-
tate will probably be distributed among
the benehciarieS by Christmas time. I'm
til that time, or until the assembling of
the county court on the first Tuesday in
December next, Administrator Sylvester
Morgan will hold possession OF all the
property. The decision agreed upon is
said to be as follows: Mrs Ashton is the
first to receive securities amounting to
q
who are to get $4,000 in securities.
There is to be $500 endorsement on Mr..
Carpenters note, originally S043O, but
now $4,000. The balance of the estate
is to be transferred to Fethers, ,Jeffrs,
Eifeld & Matheson, they to make the
division among the other heirs.
DR. E. T. Woods and wife were
picked out of the debris of wrecked
buggy at GAINESVILLE Mrs. Woods was
partly unconscious and her husband had
an ugly cash over the right eye. Mrs.
Woods received a very bad scalp wound,
the greater part of the scalp on the left
side being torn loose, and besides this she
received internal injuries.
While on their way to the Pacific
coast the Rev. and Mrs. Updike of Mad
tSon were obliged to ride a distance of
some 600 miles in stage on account of
the greet strike.
Patrick Tierney died suddenly at his
He was a brakeman on the North West
ern road.
The death of Mrs. James Nash oc-
CURED at her home in Eldorado, Fond
du Lac county. Deceased was 70 years
of age.
"A franchise has been granted to the
Citizens Electric Light and Power COM
pany at Appleton.
Warren Parker, an old resident of
Roll 1aI o. Il,
aged SO years.
Herman Kaiser fell off a scaffolding
at Prairie du Chen and broke his thigh
bone
Josiah Hoover. charged with the muir
der of his cousin, Elias Hoover, at Rock
falls, Dunn county, on May Is, 1898. was
brought before Judge Bundy at MenOmO-
ME He pleaded guilty to the crime of
manslaughter in the first degree, and was
sentenced to five years at WaUpun. Sew
eral of his old neighbors were present
and testified to his previous good char
acter and to the bad reputation of the
murdered man. After the murder Josiah
fed and remained in Northern Wisconsin
and Michigan until last April, when he
returned to Dunn county and surrendered
TO Sheriff Miller.
The state executive committee Of the
Christian EndeavOr met at Oshkosh to
make arrangements for the state conven-
tober 1914 inclusive. President w. o.
Carrier of Wausau, Secretary ". D. Glib
son Of Appleton and Miss Minnie Z. Ohm
sted of Green Bay were among those
present. A three days programme was
mapped out, and the following speakers
decided upon: The Rev H. c.. Farrar,
Albany, n. Y. Methodist; the Rev.
Thomas Dixon, New York, or his brother,
baptist; the Rev. William PattisOn. To-
ronto, Presbyterian; DR.. Hills of Evan
III,
perance orator; John G. Jones, the Welsh
preacher from Chicago; Dr.. Thomas Mar
shall, Presbyterian missionary.
C. III. Holmes, president and treas
Nrer of the Belle City Street Railway
company, has transferred all his interest
in the road to Mayor Jackson [. Case
and Mr.. Case in turn transferred all of
his interest in the Green Bay electric
road to Mr.. Holmes. The latter will 90
to Green Bay and manage the road. The
value of the Racine road is $250,O00 and
the Green Bay road $150,000.
The fathers and shinglers went on a
strike at Oshkosh. They objected to a
recent cut in wages. The trouble Will be
adjusted amicably in q day or two.
The residents of Racine are kicking
about putting up $101 for special police
men during the troublesome times in that
city when the Dehs strike was on.
"A number of intoxicated tramps ter
rorized the residents of South Oshkosh
Eighteen were arrested.
The residence of Max Friedrich at
Oshkosh was damaged by fire to the ex-
tent Of $500.
Fire destroyed a number of buildings
and stacks the farm Of Wenzel Her
iifzIe, near La Crosse. The loss will
he several thousand dollars
The continuous drouth is growing
alarming in Racine county. Not only
are the crops being burned up. but field
after field of grass and hay is being con
sugncd The grass caught fire in the
fifads at Western Union Junction and the
flames spread with lightning rapidity.
Fences were burned and it took 100 men
TO stop il from burning barns and farm
houses At the farm Of John Schutten
hay, oats and grass were burned. Grass
caught fire adjoining the sauerkraut fac
tory, and the immense buildings We're
only saved by the prompt action of the
people living near by. Plowed ground
was al that saved number Of homes.
The twelfth annual convention of the
Wisconsin German Press association Will
be held at La Crosse August II, is and
re- Preparations are already under way