Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-03-18
MILWAUKEE MATTERS,

dead in M. Mehigan's saloon at 81 West
Water street while standing at the bar
at o'clock on the 18th. He leaves
Il family of five children. The body
was taken in charge by the assistant
| coroner and removed to the home of
| the deceaseds siSter-in-laW at So Sec
ond street. Hopkins had been employed
as labOrer about the docks.
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John Murray aged 76 years. was found
dead in his bed on the 18th at the
south side branch of the Y NJ. G.. A.,
where he had rOOmed for some time past.
He had been undergoing treatment for
Bright's disease, and this is supposed to
have caused his death. He had been
| employed as a Waterman by the Chicago
u North w eStern railway.
At s p. IN. on the 9th Jerome w.
Harper, aged 20 years. fell down a flight
! of stairs at the Grand avenue viaduct
! saloon, where he had been boarding
lie was Immediately cared for and Il
| physician summoned. but he died at 3
| o'clock next morning as the result of his
injuries. lie was a veteran of the late
war and Coroner Winkenwerder ordered
the body to be removed to the Soldiers
home.
Washington J. Arnstein, q stamper en-
ployed in the south side postal station,
was arrested on the 9th by Inspector
| Mayer for robbing the mails. When con-
fronted with the evidence against MIN
Arnstein broke down and made Il COM
plete confession. He was taken before
! Commissioner Bloodgood and held under
$4,000 bonds to await the action of the
! grand jury.
Ingar Olson, the life-saver who won
medal while member of the Milwaukee
| hvr1 N,,1r-
| yivOr of the crib disaster has been
| formally notified of his appointment as
captain in charge of the station at Plum
island, where he has been for some time
Mrs Rebecca Snow, widow of Jona-
than Snow, an early settler in Milwaukee
county, died Tuesday morning at the
home of her son, Rev. Mr.. Snow at S63
Fifth street, at the advanced age of 81
| years. Mrs. Snow came to this county
with her husband in 1915. In 1856 they
removed to Monroe, where they made
their home until the death of Mr. Snow,
when the widow returned to Milwaukee,
At 3:15 clock Tuesday morning a man
supposed to be Joseph Ngotta, an Ital-
ian living on Oregon street was struck
by a train at the foot of Washington
street, in the Chicago & North Western
railway yards, and instantly killed
Ngotta was employed as a section hand
and at the time of his death he was
engaged in scraping snow from the
tracks. He was struck by one train
coming into the depot and thrown in
front of another one just departing and
by the latter one hurled into the air.
alighting 4 considerable distance from
the track.
The Kirby house property has been
sold
Pabst had a 99-year lease of the proper
erty at $4,000 a year. The Kirby house
has a frontage of 100 feet on East Wa
ter street and 120 feet on Mason street.
The hotel will continue to be operated as
usual, but it is expected that Capt. Pabst
will build on the site in few years.
Capt. Pabst now owns vast amount of
property in the vicinity of the city hall.
The complete list of officers elected by
the Wisconsin Press association is as
follows: President, G. W. Bowron, Osh-
kosh; secretary, O. T. Roessler. Jetfer-
son; assistant secretary, Mrs. Julia L.
G. Osborne, La Crosse; treasurer Mrs.
Flora Ginty, Chippewa Falls; vice-presi
dents, W. w. Clark, Milton; H. t. Hoard,
Ft. Atkinson; A. S. Hearny D0dgeville;
John G.. Gregory, Milwaukee; e. Hurl-
but, Oconomowoc; G. J. Augustine. Me
nasha; w. ]. Showers, Onalaska; III. W.
Meyer, Appleton; Z. 7. Wheelock- Wau-
sau; J. E. Jones, Shell Lake. Executive
Committee-John Hicks, Oshkosh; John
Nagle, Manitowoc; Andrew Ryan, Shell
Lake; w. L. Osborne, La Crosse; H. d.
Hanson, Oregon.
Frederick w. Inbusch. one of the best
llonwn young German business men in the
city, died suddenly Wednesday evening of
heart disease at his home, $40 VAN
Buren, street. Mr.. Inbusch was attend
ing to business at the Office of the Mil
waulxee Mirror and Art Glass works, Of
which he was one of the prOprietoEs4
I'D to Saturday last. On Monday he
was not well and remained at home.
His condition grew worse, and shortly
before 8 o'clock last evening he sudden
| " began to sink rapidly and his physi-
elan and two sons, the latter having
gone to one of the theaters, were hastily
summoned. Before either of them ar
rived the end had come
Mr.. Inbusch was born in Milwaukee
on June %, 1856 and after graduating
/ from military academy at Poughkeep-
| sic, n. Y, he entered the Milwaukee,
National bank, taking a responsible po-
J sition. He then engaged in the whole
| sale tobacco business for himself and
/ later went into the wholesale grocery
| business with his father. About two
/ years ago he entered the Milwaukee
/ Mirror and Art Glass works company
as Il partner in the business. His wife
| is daughter of i. p. Kissinger.
INSTRUCTION FOR CHILDREN.
Matter Discussed at a ssMother's" Meet