Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-07-15
MILWAUKEE MATTERS,

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years, whose home is in the rear of 800
| Walnut street, was found floating in
| the Menomonee river at Z o'clock a. m.
on the Sd near Elevator A. Vogel was
a machinist by occupation. He leaves
q wife and eight children, four boys and
| four girls.
Ida MOser, whose clothing caught fire
while she was carrying a candle in a
house at 5SS River street died on
the Sd at the Wisconsin General hos
pital, where she was taken for treat
ment after being burned.
Alfred r. Bechler, aged % years,
draughtsman employed in the city en-
gineers office, jumped into the lake at
the foot of Juneau avenue early Sunday
evening and his dead body was recovered
at 4:45 o'clock Monday morning. John AL
lie. member of the lifesaving crew. was
patrolling the beach at that hour Monday
morning when he discovered the body
and notified the coroner's office. The
lifeSavlng boat took the body down the
lake as far as the North Western depot,
where it was taken charge of by Deputy
Coroner Van Lare and removed to the
morgue. Later it was taken 10 the
home Of the young mans parents, 1913
Jackson street.
Early Sunday evening Bechler returned
home with a broken bicycle after having
been out riding during the afternoon.
He appeared very Respondent and soon
left the house. Proceeding TO the beach
he attempted suicide by cutting his
throat, presumably with a razor The
wound was a slight one and finding that
it was not fatal, it is supposed that he
jumped into the water. Just what caused
the young man to take his life is not
known. He was nervous and subject to
fits of melancholy. Some of his friends
believe that the breaking of his bicycle
affected him to such an extent as to
cause temporary insanity.
John Trampala, aged % years, a labor
er who lived with his wife and three
children at 4S9 Bartlett street, went
down to the pier on Il fishing expedition
late on Saturday night. Frank w
Dawszki of 343 Summit avenue went
with him. Both fell asleep on the pier,
and when Dawszki awoke his companion
was missing. Later the body of Tram
pala was found in the lake. The sup
position is that while asleep he rolled
over into the water and was drowned.
Shortly before Z o'clock on the morning
of the Fourth the fire department was
called to the residence of Fred Kendrick
at 1913 Greenbush street, where the sery-
ant girl, Amelia Killen, had tried to
fill the reservoir of an oil stove while
the stove was lighted. There was an ex-
plOsion and she was burned so severely
about her body and arms that she died
four hours later 1T the Emergency hos
pital. The girl was 20 years of age.
The loss on the furniture and the build
ing amounts to about $40.
At 2 o'clock Monday afternoon the body
of n III m in,
the river at the foot of Erie street by
Capt. Boutin of the life-saving crew
The corOner's Office was notified and the
body was removed to the morgue. There
was nothing found in the mans pockets
which would tend 10 establish his iden-
tity. From appearances the body had
been in the water possibly a week. The
clothing indicated that the man was not
very well-to-dO, probably a laborer. He
wore a dark suit and dark flannel shirt
feet inches TALL weight about 100
pounds. He had no teeth. He wore
side whiskers of a sandy color.
John S. Stewart, who died in the town
of Milwaukee of heart failure Monday
afternoon, at the age of 66, came to
Milwaukee county in 1884 and has lived
on his farm, where he died, since 1854
the year of his marriage to Miss Mary
Hetherington. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Stew
art came to Wisconsin from Virginia
Mr.. Stewart is survived by his wife
There were no children. The deceased
was a member of the Old Settlers club.
His Silver Spring farm is located two
and one-half miles north of the city.
The deceased left a fortune of some
thing like $25O,OOO. Mrs John J.
Kempf, wife of the register of deeds. is
a niece of the deceased and was brought
up in his family.
Carl H. Dobrinz, known as ''Dobrinz.
the hatter," shot himself just below the
heart at O'Clock Tuesday night in one of
the dressing rooms at Whittaker's swim
ming school near North avenue bridge
He died at 3:15 o'clock Wednesday
morning at the Emergency hospital
The cause of the suicide is supposed to
have been a business transaction with
a real estate firm, in which Dobrinz fig
ured and which from circumstances now
made public appears to have been de-
cidedly irregular.
Dobrinz was born in Germany and
was 36 years of age He had been in
the hat and cap business in this city for
many years. He is survived by his wife
and three children, Richard, Ella and
Arthur, aged 8, 6 and years respec-
lively. In his pockets was found a bust
Good bye, dear Anna, and good bye,
my darlings. Yours in love, Father.
G. II. d.
Joseph Lusinski, aged 20 years, whose
home is at 9SS Eighth avenue. was run
down by North Western freight train.
near the Kinnickinnic bridge, at 7:2O
o'clock Wednesday morning and had his
right foot so badly crushed that it was
amputated at the Emergency hospital.
About dusk last Monday evening Mrs.
John T. Jansen, wife of Chief of Police
Jansen. and her daughter were return
ing to their home at 376 Twenty-second
street when they encountered two I'M
couth-looking individuals standing ON the
doorsteps. Mrs. Jansen inquired their
business there and one OF them replied
that they were peddlers and had pota-
toes to sell. Their manner was not re-
assuring and she entered the house to
find that it had been quite thoroughly
ransacked during her absence.
An investigation showed that jewelry.
diamonds, ETC., to the value of some $500 |
were missing. The manner in which the
men secured an entrance to the house
was presumably by the use of skeleton