Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-03
WISCONSIN NEWS.

ern railway, composed of j. Il. BALDWIN
of Cincinnati, Col w. L. Barnum, DR..
r.. S. Talbot Charles e. Nixon, Charles
Baldwin and Dr. O. w. Nixon Of Chi
cago, had rare sport. In six days fishing
they captured 100 muskallonge and TWEEN
ty-four wall-eyed pike Having no ice,
they sent a boatlOad Of fish to the nearest
town, twenty-five miles away, and gave
them to the natives. They also supplied
an Indian camp with fish. They brought
hcme about fifty Of the catch of the last
two days fishing. The largest We're two
eighteen-pounde and one seventeen
FOUNDER. The orders were that all fish
of less than four pounds be returned to
the water to grow up with the country.
One of the eighteen-pOund fish caught by
Dr. Nixon was marked on his Snout
50" His head is being prepared, and
If any sportsman lost such Il fish and
marked him in the Manitowish waters
that year, he will perhaps recognize his
groWn-up friend. The fish were very
gamey. A ten-pound muskallonge rushed
from his hiding place and seized the end
Of the oar of DIR. IalbOts boat, and a
moment later seized his hook and was
landed in the boat.
The contractor who is grading at
Twin Lake, Kenosha county, has struck
what appears to be bottOmleSS marsh.
The engineer estimated that 5000 cubic
yards of dirt would fill it. but 10000
only effect is that the surface is two feet
lower than it was before the dirt was
put in.
Burglars are making life burden for
merchants in small towns around James
vile. Last Saturday they raided q hard
ware store at Milton. taking 800 worth
OF cutlery. The same night Bakers hard
ware store at Evansville was robbed of
$500 worth of cutlery c.. F. Drake &
Co.'S store at Clinton was next entered
and q shotgun, two revOlvers and twenty
nve dozen pocket knives were stolen.
Later they looted the store of Terry Bros
at Orfordville, taking twenty-five suits
or clothing and a quantity of neckwear
and gents furnishing goods. Altogether
the amount of goods stolen is over $1,000.
1t is supposed to be the work of the same
gang of thieves.
William st. George. who miraculously
escaped death in Il fall from a derrick at
Marlnette, is getting along very well at
the hospital. st. George dropped sixty
i've feet. but while falling grasped n
rope which retarded the momentum of
the drop somewhat. His lighting place
was a pile of rocks. Coming down feet
foremost saved him. AS it was his left
leg above the ankle was shattered badly.
hrs. j. Dankwart of the town of Lima
) seriously i'll from the effects of q shock
received by the presence of burglars in
her house.
A petition is being circulated among
the members of the Ashland county board
for the purpose of putting to work as
many of the burned-oUt hOmesteaders as
need work and money to live on through
the winter. The promoters of this petit
ton claim that the county roads need
much Improvement and no better time
could be taken than right now when
so Many willing workers are in need.
There are in Marinette only sixteen
firms whose personal assessments run
over $4,000. The II. Witbeck company
heads the list with S1SS,00O and the \.
Iudington company is second with over
$127, 900
stroyed by fire. 1t was the only insti-
tuition left at that Inflated town by the
recent forest fires. Railroad trains were
delayed in coming through on their trip
north.
Philip Deitz is under arrest at Me-
nasla on a charge of being one of party
who assaulted Frank PoqOlski few days
ago. He was held in bonds of $500. His
case will come up October ,.
"A stock company with 100000 is be-
ing organized at Marinette for the pur-
pose of building Il frst-class hotel Op-
tions have been secured upon the most
desirable sites in the city.
Theodore Larson, a 14-year-old boy,
while oiling Il windmill on Il farm near
Baldwin, accidentally fell to the ground,
a distance of forty feet He died from
the injuries.
Prof Henry of the agricultural de-
p-.tment Of the State university is per-
f1rJnIng an experiment which, if success
fuI, will mean thousands of additional
arabic acres to Dane county. He says
there are $4,000 acres in Dane county
aloAe which can be reclaimed if he can
prove conclusively to Wisconsin farmers
hogv cheaply and how easily it can be
7ne. Southeast from the university
farm, on the marshes by the side of Lake
MENDOZA, he has diked off about eleven
acres, which before was under water the
year round. This area is to be drained
by ,3-inch tile, laid from three and one
half to four feet deep and all leading to
q, reservoir, 60X40 feet and four and one
half feet deep.
Louis Bretzke, formerly a drug clerk
in the employ of John e. Bull of Chicago,
was arrested at Portage charged with
completely IN removing nearly $1,000
worth Of goods on which Peter Vanshaack
& Sons, wholesale druggists, held mort
gage.
Mrs. Margaret Clune of Wrights-
town. Brown county, who has been con-
fined in the county insane asylum for
some time past, was taken before Judge
Huntington for examination. She was
adjudged sane and her release ordered.
r. Staubish attempted suicide at Ash
land by shooting himself through the
heart He missed the mark about two
inches and is still alive.
The death of Mis-. Sophia Gates oc-
CURED in the town Of Oakfeld, Fond
da Lac county. She celebrated her S5th
birthday d few weeks ago.
R. @. Ross, a banker of Scottsboro
Ala, who was murdered at Stevenson
Ala, by the four Shelton brothers, was
formerly a resident of Neillsville, Wis
Ross was fred on from ambush by the
four brothers as he was waiting for 8
train at the depot at Stevenson. The
cause of the murder was the belief on the
part of the Shelton brothers that Ross
had wronged their sister, Annie Shelton
the belle of Scottsboro. The Skeletons
are a wealthy and aristocratic family
The trial of the Shelton brothers for th'
murder is now in progress at Scottsboro
Eoss left a widow and FIVE children, tn
last child born five days before the trag
edy. Ross father was at one time on
of the weaIthiest lumbermen in Wiscon
sin, and owned a great deal OF pine OF
the Chippewa river.
An interesting will contest has bee
conn mga7,rad at Janesyille Mr. CheSbrC