Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-31


| tary. The old debt was wiped out.
james Buchanan, one of the best
known Iumbermen in Northern Wiscon-
SIM died at his home in Cartwright. Mr.
Buchanan was 80 years of age and death
was practically the result of old age. He
had lived in Chippewa county for thirty
five years and was quite wealthy.
August Lade, who is charged with
having set fire to the residence which he
occupied in the southern part Of West
| Bend, was given Il hearing before Justice
Haase. The defendant was bound over
to the circuit court in $500 bail.
The city officers of Superior have
! been served with Il temporary injunction
restraining the issuance of bonds in pay
| ment Tor harbor improvements now III
progress by Capt. Barker. Oh what is
known as the neutral strip, in HOward's
pocket, involving $4,000. The lnJunc-
| ton IS accompanied by an order for the
| city officials to appear in the circuit cour-
| October u to show cause why q 9erma-
nent injunction should not be issued.
Miss Grimm and Herman Bruemmer
of Ahnapee narrowly escaped death by
aSphyXiatiOn. The young man called on
! Miss Grimm in the evening, and they
were sitting in the parlor chatting. The
! deadly fumes of gas from a coal stove
were escaping and the young people were
| finally overcome They were found the
next morning in an unconscious condition.
| 1GOnlpC nleuiCtl dlloHudlce S'lN Su lilt'lI
lives, although The young man IS still III
| q precarOuS condition.
f. w. Bartz, mailing clerk III the
state treasurer's office at Madison, is
mysteriously missing. About three weeks
ago Mr.. Bartz, who had been indisposed
| for some time, left on u short vacation
to visit his home at Fall Greek. The
change greatly benefited him. and he left
for Madison Monday, October Is, to re-
sumo his duties at the capitol. Since
that time nothing has been heard of his
whereabouts and his friends have be-
come very anxious.
Miss Margaret A. Cadwallader was
married to Bert Van Syckel of James
/ vile at Madison. The bride is a sister
of A. A. Cadwallader, held in the Dane
| county jail to await Il second trial on
a charge of embezzling as an officer
from the National bank of Superior. He
was allowed to witness the wedding. The
young couple will reside at GAINESVILLE.
Bert l.. Davis, aged % years, commit
ted suicide at New Richmond, shooting
himself through the heart with Il revolver.
His body was discovered in a barn in
the rear of his fathers residence On the
wan was written Poor health principally
cause of act
Probably no efforts will be made to
capture the thieves who robbed A. NJ.
Smith in the woods near New Lisbon,
as he is partially blind, and thinks he
cannot identify them if captured.
Mrs John CARRIER. who wandered
away from her home III Berlin, was found
hiding in Il haystack Il few miles from
the town. She suffered greatly from eX-
posture. but Will recover.
Prof. Marsh of Ripon college is MAX
ing experiments in sounding the bottom
of Green lake. He has anchored a buoy
i'll pos feet of water about onethird of
the distance from Sandstone bluff to
! Sherwood forest and with graDnelS and
miniature dredges is bringing up ore from
| the bottom of the lake. 1t is reported
that he has found some ore that is valu-
able
The famous Brigham & Mussell-
! Thompson referee case at Ashland has
| been settled out of court. In the be-
! ginning Brigham Il Mussell sued for
| SO, 900 on Il logging contract. ThOmp-
| son claimed the contract had not been
! lived up to and put in counter claim of
/ between $4,000 and $4,000 BY the
! terms of settlement Thompson pays $10,-
! 900.
! The cornerstone of the Northwestern
university's new building was laid at
! Waterfowl with appropriate exercises
/ Among the participants We're the Rev. 2.
Won Rohr OF Winona. Mimi, president of
! the Lutheran synod Profs. Ernst, Notz
and Gamm of the faculty, and the Rev
j. Broclmann Of WATERFOWL.
C. A. Wheeler. the Racine young man
! who was arrested on Il charge OF stealing
J
| his trial at Kalamazoo. Mich, and was
! found guilty.
John Koch, young stockman from
! Montana, was killed at Western Union
| junction While en- route to Chicago with
| several carloads of stock He fell be-
! tween the cars and was ground to pieces
! He was 80 years Of age
! John Fitzgerald of Appleton attempt
! ed to drive across the NOrth-Western
t track in front Of an approaching, train;
{ -CDt .hA rl,t 1iClp II
! tossed it into the ditch. Mr. Fitzgerald
| escaped without injury.
! The city council of Kaukauna Gid not
act on the franchise for the interurban
railroad. The matter was laid over for
q few days in order that proper route
through the city might be agreed upon.
"A O-year-old son of John Peterson,
| farmer living hve miles north of SPARTA
was run over by 4 traction engine hauling
! threshing machine and killed.
| John Lynn and a man named Ander-
! son have been arrested at Racine on sus-
picion of being connected with the robbery
| of q hotel near KenOSha.
-SOme unknown person broke one of
| the most valuable memorial windows in
| st. JCseph's church at Fond du Lac by
George Rutherford, the Waupaca
young man who accidentally shot himself
while handling a shotgun, died of his
wound.
hfS. Anne AefflSan was thrown from
carriage at Neenah and received serious
| internal injuries besides a broken wrist
Fire in the B. Wild factory of the
American Biscuit and Manufacturing
company at Fond du Lac, which started
and was later supposed to be under CON
troll, broke out afresh and the entire
plant was consumed. The factory was
one of the finest, and best equipped of
those owned by the syndicate The loss
is 100000, with insurance of 100000,
which is placed entirely with Chicago
agencies The residence of John Heath,
an officer of the company, which adjoins
the plant, was partially destroyed
Charles Emery and w. III. Lord who
have been on trial at Grand Rapids the
past two weeks for the murder of Peter
Houston, were convicted of that crime
the jury returning verdict of guilty of
murder in the first degree. The murder
OF Houston was a cold-blooded affair.
On June 2 last while he was sitting
within his house playing upon an ac-
cordeon, some one fired upon him through
a window With a shotgun loaded with
buckshot. He was struck by nine bull
lets, six entering his head and three his