Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-05-06
MILWAUKEE MATTERS,

| Twenty-Five school children were
knocked down by a runaway hack team
on Mitchell street on Tuesday. and seven
of them received serious injuries, two
being hurt so badly that their recovery
is doubtful,
The children were all pupils of ST..
Anthony's Catholic parochial school, To-
Gated on the corner of Fourth avenue
and Mitchell street Those most severe
ly hurt are all between and s years of
age and belonged to the lower grades of
the school, the members of which march
out from their schoolroom at noon and
night mig IN line, two by two; Most of the
children IN these grades had gotten out
of the building and the sidewalk
was crowded with the little folk for some
distance, when the maddened horses
came rushing in among them, dragging
heavy closed carriage. The injured are:
FRANK SCHUDIE, 627 First avenue, leg
broken at thigh and injured internally; re-
cOVery doubtful.
ANNIE holden, southeast corner Sec
ond avenue and Maple street, three ribs
cover.
MAGGIE Brooke, 429 Maple street,
bruised.
EMIL NAU, 344 Orchard street, arm in
jured.
JULIUS KAFKE, 673 Hanover street,
shoulder dislOcated and badly bruised.
JOSEPH FISCHER, 74S Windake ave-
nue., several ribs broken and injured inter
nally.
JOSEPH KRESS, 72O Third avenue.
shoulder dislocated and colarbone probably
broken.
w. II. Thompson, or blank" Thomp-
son. as he was Familiarity called, at one
time a well-known engineer on the
Northern division of the st. Paul rail-
way, died at 11:30 o'clock Sunday night
from the effects of morphine. 1t was re-
ported that he attempted to take his life
by shooting, but his wife CHANGED to
discover him in time to secure the re-
volver. Along in the afternoon he OBJ
tanned dose of morphine, and mixing
it with some whisky, swallowed the
poison. Again Mrs Thompson discov-
cred her husbands condition and inn
mediately called Drs. Washburn and
McGoyern, but it was apparently too
late, for he gradually grew worse.
He is survived by his wife and several
grown children.
At O'Clock Monday morning II. Elem
ming discovered the dead body of George
Giles, night Waterman at the plant of the
Milwaukee Boot and Shoe company. at
Thirtieth street and North avenue. Giles
was lying on the floor of the office. An
investigation showed that he had turned
off a gas jet leading to a small heater,
in order to shut off the flame. At the
same time the StOpcock, which was loose,
slipped back, permitting The gas to es-
cape. The suppOsition is that Giles sat
down in a chair to rest and went to
sleep and, being overcome by the eScap-
ing gas, fell TO the floor. He was 20
years of age. veteran OF the war and
boarded at n" corner of FOrtieth street
and Mt. Vernon avenue.
dered against the city of Milwaukee was
entered on the 23d by Commissioner Ry-
an in deciding the suit of the executors
of the estate of George Burnham, who
sued to recover claims for extras grow
ing out of the building of the big Menom-
once sewer tunnel. The commissioner
awards the estate damages in the sum
of $32,171.74 and interest from March
u, 1888. The interest, computed to
April i, 1886, swells the sum total of the
judgment to $66,259.S3.
Henry A. Brookins one of the veGaran
dentists of the city, died Tuesday night at
the family residence, is Western avenue.
DR.. Brookins had been in poor heaItl. for
some time, having had an attack of the
grippe some weeks ago, from the effects
of which he did not recover. For many
years he had an office at 81 Wisconsin
street. He is survived by his wife and
one CuIICl. Il uduSul6E. L lie uduSJI|.:E,
Miss Julia Brookins. is now in ali
fornia. where two sisters of Mrs Brook
ms, Mrs. Chase and Mrs. Medora Clark
Adam, reside.
Henry Kilipski, aged 40 years, was killed
Tuesday night while at work in the fac
tory of the Falk Manufacturing compal.1
at the west end of Pierce street. he
was a blacksmith and was cutting a bar
of iron, when the handle of the cutter
which he was holding was violently
struck and hit him in the abdomen, caus-
ing instant death. The body was re-
moved to the morgue. kilipski is sur
vived b. a wife and four small children,
who reside on Lincoln avenue, near
Tenth avenue.
Mrs Joseph Lohmeier, aged 10 years.
committed suicide Wednesday at her
home in the rear of 1916 Sixth street. She
took dose of strychnine. No cause can
be assigned for the act. Mrs Lohmeier
came to this city from Germany about
six months ago with her husband 1t is
believed that she brought the poison
with her from the old country, as she
worked in drug store there. She leaves
husband and one child, months old
When it was discovered that she had
taken the poison two physicians were
summoned, but they could do nothing for
her.