Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-11-13
MILWAUKEE, MATTESR.

l uOl1S Is Ou IL AOWcI avenue ROAD III
the town of Lake, died on the I'd at
1870 o'clock at the home of Joseph
Grass, near the crossing of the North
Western railway at st. Francis, as a re-
suit of injuries received a week pre-
viOus by being run down by a freight
train. At the time of the accident Cal
| teux was driving a horse and wagon.
The vehicle was completely demolished
and the horse so badly injured that if
will nave to be shot. Calteux was in
jured about the spine. He was removed
| to the residence of Grass, where he
fingered until this morning. Calteux was
an old resident of the town of Lake and
was well known. He leaves a widow.
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William Casper, aged 10 years, who
lived with his parents at 2009 Galena
street. died very suddenly while in the
dental chair in the Office of Drs. w. d.
and S.. Z. Bevier at the corner of Elev-
enth and Vliet streets. He called there
about II O'Clock Sunday morning to
have q hollow tooth filled with cement
William Hurry, a dental student, was
in the office and offered to do the work
if Casper did not care about taking any
opiateS. The young man consented and
after examining the tooth and deciding
that it would have to be extracted, Hur-
ty was Just in the act of drawing it
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ting faint and that his face had turned
quite pale. He tried to raise Casper
in the chair and then discovered that
he was unconscious. Hurry Immediately
sent for DR.. Kauwertz, but when the
physician arrived a few minutes later
Casper was dead.
Mrs. Mary E. Keehn. wife of Francis
| Keehn, for years one of the t%ypefound-
ers in Milwaukee, died Sunday at the
family residence, 128 Second street, aged
"a years. The deceased vas the mother
of Officer Koehn of the police force.
Washington O. Stillman, a well-known
old-time liveryman, died at the Ricketson
house early Monday morning after a long
illness. For many years Mr.. Stillman
was the leading iyeryman of the city
and was afterwards well known on
change. He was born at Homer, Court
land county, New York, OIL October p,
1919, and came to Wisconsin in 1850,
Milwaukee to become proprietor of the
Plankinton house livery which he con
tinued to run until 1875. He owned a
beautiful farm in what is now North
Greenfield and lived there most of the
time. He was a member of the chamber
| of and after he went out of the
livery business he spent most Of his time
dealing in wheat. Ee had been in i'll
health for a year or two and his death
was caused by q cancerOus affection OF
the throat. He is survived by two grown
children, George w. Stillman, manager
of the Hotel Wellington, n Miss DalSle
Stillman.
John Roberts, a pioneer mason and
contractor who settled in Milwaukee IN
1S49, died at 1890 O'Clock Tuesday morn
ing at the family residence, 254 Pleasant
ctroaf His dnath yyaC tho result of Oon-
eral debility.
Mr.. Roberts was born in HaWaarden,
Wales, on December %, 1920, and would
have been rs years of age Y month.
When % years of age he came to Ameri-
ca and soon afterwards settled on a farm
in Green county, Wis, coming a year
later to Milwaukee, which has been his
home ever since. He worked for a time
as a journeyman ~bricklayer and in 1851
entered the business with the late Sher-
burne Bryant, but a year later the part
nership was dissolved, Mr.. Roberts car
rying on the business alone. During his
business career he built such buildings as
the chamber of commerce., the Mitchell
block, the Layton Art gallery, the Colby
Abbot building and numerous private
residences. He was highly esteemed in
the business world and enjoyed q high
reputation for integrity and honor in all
dealings. His last work was in the
building of the Home for the Aged, in
which he gave his services free. He
leaves a widow and four grown children,
Charles B.. and Edward j. Roberts, the
contractors; Miss Sarah. Roberts and
Mrs. George Watkins.
A stranger, aged about 60 years or
more, was found hanging to a tree on
Peter Weimer's place on Fond du Lac
avenue, near Thirty-second street, early
Wednesday morning 40 n ing BY L Louis @iso SRa ryel
company, while on his way to
work. The body was that of a
man 5 feet Z inches tall and
weighing 40 pounds. He was dressed
in a cheap, dark gray suit, sack
coat, and soft, black felt hat. The rope
used was one that had evidently been
taken from some picture frame. In the
pockets were found a copy of the bylaws
and constitution of the International
Union Of Coopers, also a notebook. The
book contained the words, "Notes of
Herman Otto, from Halle, Germany"
The indictments against Eugene V.
Debs, George w. Howard, l.. w. Rog-
| ers and Sylvester Keliher, the officers
of the American Railway union charged
with conspiring against the government,
were nolled by Judge Seaman in the
United States court Wednesday.
Nolles were also entered of the indict-
ments against Frank W. Archibald and
G. S. McAuliffe, the presidents of the
local lodges of the A. r. u, and Walter
l.. Dunn, William Crimmins, John G.
Callahan, D.. A. Sullivan, Charles Van
Ellis, NJ. l.. Johann, John Poulter, G. S.
McAuliffe, e. B. Dawes, William Ho-
ran, E. Zimmerman and - Sims,
whose first name the authorities never
learned.
This action was taken by direction of
the encouragement. The papers bore
the signatures of both Special Counsel
John T. Fish. who was engaged as spe-
cial assistant of the district attorney to
prosecute the cases. and District Attor-
ney Wigman.