Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-02-14


to the Midwinter Fair.
A CHICAGO & NoRrH-W WESTERN freight
conductor was fined $40 and costs Tor
holding q train on a crossing fifteen
minutes at Appleton.
THE plant of the GAINESVILLE Hay Tool
COMPANY was dama"ed by fire tD the
extent Of 81 900. The loss is covered
by insurance.
THE Racine Business Mems Associa-
ton, which has been practically dead
for the past year, is to be revived.
A BOY named Frank Chapman has
been arrested at Racine on charge of
committing several petty thefts.
GEORGE LAIRD residence at Fond du
Lac was partly destroyed by fire. Loss
$500. The blaze was caused by the ex-
plosion of kerosene lamp.
THE town hall at Washburn will be
used as school room owing to the
burning of the public school building at
that place
Two sons, aged u and - years, of
Herman Luepke, a Nekimi, Winnebago
County farmer, undertook to extermi-
nate litter of pups the other day and
thought it good opportunity to use a
revolver which recently became their
property. One of them, who was to
have the first shot, gathered up the
puppies IN his arms and went out into
the yard. He threw one of them down
before him, holding the resti in one arm
while he took aim with the other hand
He fired, but instead of hitting the dog
he struck his brother in the leg. The
boys decided to keep the pups and
bury the gun.
A YOUNG son of William Kuhn, of
Evansville, Rock County, was being
EnH saade BY afd hG tfa e boy ran
his head against the teachers lead pen
Gil which entered his right eye. He
will probably lose the sight of the in
iured optic.
CHARLES FAHRNKRUG was run over by
a wagon in the yards of the Menasha
Wooden Ware Company at Menasha
and had one leg quite badly smashed.
Amputation may be necessary.
THE annual reunion Of the Twenty
first Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer
Infantry, is to be held in Fond du Lac
some time during the early summer.
MARIE A. SCHROEDER, 4 La Crosse
young woman, died at Sioux City, Ia,
where she was visiting. The remains
were taken to La Crosse for burial.
THIEVES entered the residence of the
Rev. John L. Chaplin, OF Neenah, but
secured only a small amount in cash.
HARRY DAVIS and Cal Rhodes, two
Oshkosh youths, were arrested at that
place on a charge of having robbed
Quinn & Rogge's store.
THE Dane County Agricultural Society
has decided to hold the fair this year at
old Camp Randall. A date has not yet
been decided upon.
INFORMATION has been received at
Ashland which blasts the hopes of the
Indian land "rushers. In an official
letter to the land office at Ashland Com
missioner Lamoreux says: you are in
structed by Acting Secretary of the In
terror Sims to prevent any lands re-
served for the Indians in Wisconsin or
from settlement by the au-
thority of the Land Department. for the
occupation Of Indians, being entered
by whites"
JOHN MURRAY was arrested at
Menasha and sentenced to thirty days
in the county Jail for peddling without a
license.
Mrs. w. F. Curtis, of Racine, re-
ceived word from Chicago that her IA
Their drew $500 from a bank and then
Later his body was found
on the tracks of a railroad and the
money was gone. 1t is believed that he
was murdered. His name was Smell.
THE farm residence of Edward Muir
ply, in the town Of Cross Plains, Dane
County, was destroyed by fire. The oc-
had q narrow escape, as the fire
occurred about l o'clock in the morn
ing. Loss, $4,000; insurance, 81 500.
EVANSVILLE will shortly be lighted
with electric arc lights. The Common
Council is considering several offers
from electric light companies. The
city at present pays 81 900 a year for 500
gas and oil lamps.
THE Rev. Joseph Bren, pastor OF the
Bohemian Church of Racine, has re-
ceiyed a call to accept the pastorate OF
the Baltimore Presbyterian Church.
He has not yet decided whether he will
accept
JOHN ANDERSON died in a hospital at
the result Of injuries re-
ceiyed in q logging camp. He was a
years OF age and without relatives.
THIRTY feet of the steel intake pipe at
the Neenah water works was displaced
a few days ago. 1t is supposed to have
been done by ice.
THE authorities Of Hanover, Rock
County, intend to arrest one of the
liquor dealers at that place to test the
license question.
Mss FLORA SWIFT, the 16-year-old
daughter of T. B. Swift, a wealthy
Altonville, Lafayette County, farmer,
recently met John Dunn, aged IS years,
a student at one of the schools in that
vicinity. 1t was a case of love at first
sight. The girls papa objected to their
marrying, but the young couple went to
and were married Now the
father has been asked to forgive them
TIE Minneapolis, st. Paul & Sault Ste
Marie Railway Company has settled
with the state of Wisconsin the claim
for taxes without going into the courts.
by paying the states claim of $50, 94S.9
and interest at s per cent. from August
10, 1892, which amounts to $500. SO, max
ing total Of S24 ,63948 The attorney
general had begun suit to compel the
to pay.
THE title Of ten Appleton men to Co.
600 acres Of pine lands in Florida was
secured to them by recent decision Of
the supreme court of that state.
MARY FIPE was awarded $500 in her
suit against the city of Oshkosh. She
sued tor S., 900 damages for injuries re-
ceiyed upon slippery walk.
JOSEPH LACHNER, JR., young Racine
m, ..bi ,;ct 6iod OF tho Con,,+u