Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-11-06
MILW MATTERS

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railroad at the College avenue station,
between Cudahy and South Milwaukee.
just about dusk Sunday night. They were
about to board a passenger train, when
the engine whizzed by and both were
hurled high into the air. The man was
instantly killed, his scalp being torn
from his head and his skull fractured.
His right arm was broken and a deep
cash over the right eye extended into
the skull. The woman lived q few min
utes after being picked up. Her neck
was broken and her right arm fractured.
On the right hip a deep wound, over
two inches in length, caused her to
bleed p%rofuSely.
The victims were Andreas Bauer, aged
81, of Cudahy, and Maggie Fischer,
aged p, of this city. One of the pas
sengers on the train which the unfortun-
ate couple were about to board states
that the train had just pulled into the
station when the two crossed over the
track along which the wild engine passed.
Passengers shouted at them, but they
saw their peril too late. Both were
hurled into the air, the Woman's body
falling under the passenger train and
the mans alongside of the track, fifty
feet from where the accident occurred.
Thomas Nelson Of this city, who wit
messed the accident, says that no signals
were given by the enginemen.
Bauer was employed at Cudahy's pack
ing plant. He vas unmarried. The
woman came here about two weeks ago
from Mendoza, ILL.,, where she has two
brothers residing. She was employed as
a domestic at 226 Mason street. Her
parents reside in the old country. On
Sunday Bauer called upon her and they
took the train to Cudahy for the pur-
pose of viewing the plant. 1t was their
intention to take the $50 O'Clock train
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were about to do so when the accident
happened.
Mrs. John P. Hawkins, wife of one
of the oldest, and at one time a leading
photographer in Milwaukee, died on the
10Th at an early hour at the family
residence, 422 Van Buren, street, at All
advanced age. Mrs. Hawkins came to
Milwaukee with her husband thirty or
forty years ago, he establishing himself
in the photograph business some years
later.
The many Milwaukee friends of the
Rev. Olin A. Curtis, for three years pas
tor of Summerfield M. e. church, pre-
ceding the Rev. E. G. Updyke, regret
to learn of the death of his wife, Mrs.
Scotland On Saturday. Mrs. Curtis was
the daughter of c.. A. Hunt of GAINESVILLE
and was a lady we'll known there. She
was married to Mr.. Curtis after ne left
Milwaukee, but visited here with him
several times. She leaves an infant two
months old. The Rev. and Mrs. Curtis
were visiting in Scotland at the time of
her death.
The Waukesha Spring Brewing COM
pany, whose plant is located in Wau-
kesha, went into the hands of a receiver
in the United States court on Tuesday
Judge Seaman appointing Frederick II.
Marx of Chicago receiver and fixing the
bono at 100000. Mr.. Marx was the
treasurer of the concern.
AS the result of the accidental dis
charge of the battery of large pistols
used at the Bijou theater during the
third act of Captain Paul." which is
at present playing there. Sol. De LiSSer
met his death Tuesday night. The accident
occurred at 7:45 o'clock and two hours
later De Lisser died at the Emergency
hospital. 1t appears that he was ar
ranging the battery of pistols prepara-
tory to their use during the scene of
carnage in the third act.
De listers real name was Matthew
S. D. Davis. He was a cousin of Horace
De Lisser, author of the play. The re-
mains were shipped to New York, where
De listers widowed mother resides,
of whom he was the sole support. De
LisSer had been with the play since it
was put on the road two years ago and
had fired the pistols hundreds of times.
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The death of Edward Donaldson, for
years a member of the chamber of COM
merce. was announced on change at
noon Wednesday. Mr.. Donaldson's death
occurred at his home in the south side
Tuesday evening For a number of
years he was a prominent -four COM
mission merchant.
Thomas Kelly, a veteran of the United
States navy, made a most vicious assault
upon Patrick Coghlan at the Soldiers
home Tuesday night about $50 o'clock.
stabbing Coghlan with a long-bladed
pocket knife. Before the enraged
his victim he had inflicted seven
teen knife wounds, the most seri-
Gus one of which is in the alb
domen. When Coghlan was finally re-
leased from his assailant and taken to
the hospital it was found that his in
juries were such that recovery would be
little short of a miracle.
Coghlan was a member of the Sec
Ond New York Heavy artillery and is
90 years of age. He has been an in
mate of the home since 1893, going there
from the L~eavenworth branch. He has
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Kelly, the assailant, was admitted to
the home last July from the Hampton,
Va, branch. He had served in the Unit
ed States navy since 1864 and was re-
tired, at the expiration of twenty years
of service, ON a pension. His only rela-
tive is his mother, who resides in New
Orleans. His admission papers TO the
home give his age as Ga years, though
he looks much younger.
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Milwaukee was shaken by an earth
quake early Thursday morning, a real
earthquake whose genuineness is attested
by reports from many other cities where
the shocks were also felt. There were two
shocks, the first one occurring at a few
minutes after 5 o'clock and being fol-
lowed by the second after IN interval Of
three or four minutes. The area dis
turbed was very large and the shocks
were the most severe that nave been ex-
perienced in this country since the
Charleston earthquake.
FIRST DEER ACCIDENT.